Our speakers
T V Raghunath, MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company
TV Raghunath is the MD & CEO of Kotak Investment Banking. Prior to this, Raghunath was Head – Group Strategy at Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Raghunath joined the Kotak Mahindra group in 1998 with the investment bank. During his decade-long tenure at Kotak Investment Banking till 2008, he was instrumental in building the M&A franchise of the firm. He has advised a number of clients including, Wal-Mart on its India entry strategy, Standard & Poor’s on its acquisition of CRISIL and Bombay Stock Exchange on its demutualization, among many others.
Whilst Raghunath has assisted several Indian and multinational corporates in their growth and restructuring plans, he is a specialist in Restructuring, Valuations, Deal structuring, Joint ventures and India Entry services. Prior to joining the Kotak Mahindra group in 1998, Raghunath was a Partner with
S.B. Billimoria & Co. which represents Deloitte in India. Raghunath brings to bear a multi-disciplinary background, being an Engineer (IIT, Madras), MBA (IIM, Bengaluru) and a FCA (Chartered Accountant), and with advisory services
experience of over 25 years in various management disciplines, especially financial advisory services.
T. R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager, India and South Asia, Visa
T.R. Ramachandran is Visa's Group Country Manager for India and South Asia. He is responsible for all strategy development and business operations of Visa in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan.
Ram is also focused on driving the company's innovation strategy which includes growing eCommerce, mobile payments, deepening the acceptance footprint, and building an electronic payments ecosystem which is secure and reliable. He will be instrumental in enhancing cashless payments and supporting financial inclusion in the region. Ram brings a wealth of knowledge to Visa with more than 25 years' experience across retail banking, payment products, wealth management and insurance.
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T. Shivaraman, Vice Chairman, Orient Green Power
Mr. T Shivaraman, aged 45 is the Managing Director & CEO of Shriram EPC Ltd., a flagship Company of the renowned SHRIRAM Group, headquartered in Chennai.
Mr Shivaraman is an under graduate in Chemical Engineering and a post
graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He started his career as a Management Trainee at ICI India Limited with its fertilizer plant in Kanpur and has 23 years of experience in plant operations and project engineering. He has been involved in engineering, procurement and construction business since 1992. He has experience in technical handling of projects, studying its viability and feasibility and overall in-charge of technology and tie up of technical collaboration with domestic and foreign parties.
T.R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager, India and South Asia, Visa
T.R. Ramachandran is Visa’s Group Country Manager for India and South Asia. He is responsible for all strategy development and business operations of Visa in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan.
Ram is also focused on driving the company’s innovation strategy which includes growing eCommerce, mobile payments, deepening the acceptance footprint, and building an electronic payments ecosystem which is secure and reliable. He will be instrumental in enhancing cashless payments and supporting financial inclusion in the region. He brings a wealth of knowledge to Visa with more than 25 years’ experience across retail banking, payment products, wealth management and insurance.
Prior to joining Visa, Ram was the Managing Director of Aviva Life Insurance in India for six years, over which time he contributed to significant organizational change which resulted in overall company growth. Before that he was with Citibank, N.A, for 19 years, serving as the Country Head of Cards and Head of Retail Banking, India. During his time there he held positions in marketing, product management, mortgages and business banking, and was part of the start-up team that launched consumer banking products.
Ram has a MBA from the Bharathidasan Institute of Management and is an alumnus of the CSEP Management Program from Columbia Business School, New York. He is an avid reader, volunteer and golfer.
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T.R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager India & South Asia, Visa
T.V. Mohandas Pai, Co-Founder & Chairperson, Aarin Capital
In a career spanning over 30 years, Mohandas Pai has served in the areas of finance, accounting, information technology, human resources, education, social impact innovation, policy formulation, heritage preservation, philanthropy, and the venture and startup ecosystem.
Mohan is currently the Chairman of Aarin Capital, Chairman of Manipal Global Education, an Advisor to the Board of Manipal Education and Medical Group, a Member of the Boards of Havells India, a Member of the Board of Ascendas Property Fund Trustee, the Trustee-Manager of Ascendas India Trust, Member of the Boards of Manipal University and the Institute of Public Enterprises, Chairman of the FICCI Skills Committee, President of the All India Management Association, Chairman of the Regulatory and Financial Technology Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”), Founder-Trustee of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, an Investment Committee Member of the SIDBI India Aspiration Fund and the India Fund of Funds, and a Member of the Board of the National Stock Exchange of India.
He was awarded the Padma Shri award by the President of India in 2015 and the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2004. Mohan has helped launch over 14 different investment vehicles across private equity and venture capital which have cumulatively invested in over 250 companies with a capital base of $400+ Million. Mohan is also an Investment Committee Member of the SIDBI India Aspiration Fund and the India Fund of Funds which has a corpus of $1.8 Billion. His family office has invested in over 30 different investment vehicles to grow the startup ecosystem in the country. He is consistently named as one of India’s top angel investors.
Mohan served as a Member of the Board and CFO at Infosys, one of India’s largest software services companies. He was voted ’CFO of the Year’ multiple times - ‘CFO of the Year’ in 2001 by IMA India, the ‘Best CFO in India’ award from Finance Asia in 2002, and ‘Best Chief Financial Officer in India’ in the Best Managed Companies poll conducted by Asia Money in 2004. At Infosys, he also spearheaded the first listing of an India-registered company on NASDAQ and the first sponsored secondary offering of American Depositary Shares by an Indian company, besides leading multiple business units over 17 years.In 2000, he co-founded the Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bangalore - a mid-day meal program for school children. Today, this program feeds over 1.6 million children each day in 13,500+ government schools across twelve Indian states. Mohan also supports over a dozen other non-profit institutions and organizations in multiple impact areas in India.
Mohan holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce as a University Rank Holder from St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) from Bangalore University, and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as an All-India Rank Holder. He is based in Bangalore, India.
Tamal Bandhopadhyay, Adviser Strategy, Bandhan Bank
Tamal Bandyopadhay is a journalist and author. His weekly column `Banker's Trust' in Mint, India's second largest business daily, is widely read for its analysis and opinion on banking policies.
His three books on finance, namely `A Bank for The Buck', `Sahara: The Untold Story' and `Bandhan: The Making of a Bank' have been non-fiction best sellers.
His latest book, a Penguin publication, `From Lehman to Deomenitisation: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and False Promises' will be released in the first week of December.
Incidentally, he had to fight a Rs200 crore defamation suit that the Sahara group had slapped against him to stop the publication of the book on shadow banking in India.
He is also one of the contributors to the `Oxford Handbook on Indian Economy'. Linkedin, the global professional network, has nominated him as one of the top ten finance voices in the world for two successive years -- 2015 and 2016.
Thinkers magazine has listed him one of the top 50 influential minds that have made indeliable contributions in the field of economics and governance in India in 2017.
Bandyopadhyay is currently a consulting editor with Mint and an adviser, strategy, with Bandhan Bank Ltd
Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Advisor Strategy, Bandhan Bank
Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Adviser to Bandhan Bank Ltd, India's newest universal bank, and Consulting Editor of Mint, India’s second largest read business daily.
His weekly column “Banker’s Trust” and blog “Banker’s Trust Real Time” are widely read for incisive analysis and unerring ability to anticipate major policy moves.
He is also the author of two best selling books on finance -- ‘A Bank for the Buck’, and ‘Sahara: The Untold Story’.
Tanmai Gopal, Co-founder & CEO, Hasura
Tanmai is the CEO & co-founder of Hasura Inc - an open-source cloud infrastructure company. Hasura eliminates the data access bottleneck for developers and teams building modern applications by providing an instant API over GraphQL and reducing time to market by an order of magnitude. Before Hasura, Tanmai ran a consulting firm helping some of the largest companies in the world transition to cloud-native architectures. Tanmai comes from a computer science background from IIT Madras and is passionate about making it easy to build complex things.
Tanuj Mendiratta, Co-founder & CEO, Appiterate
Tanuj started his entrepreneurial journey by co-founding DSYN in 2010 while still studying at IIM Calcutta. Over the course of the next few years, DSYN went on to execute design-led Mobile App Development for clients such as Zomato, Sears, Groupon and delivered more than 100 projects for top brands.
In 2013, Tanuj led DSYN's pivot into a technology product company - Appiterate, which built the world'd first Visual A/B Testing platform for native mobile apps. Appiterate has raised venture funding from SAIF partners and has reputed valley angels such as Greg Badros, Prashant Malik and Amit Rathore as angels investors and advisors.