Our speakers

Andrew McRobert, Commercial Banker, and a leading expert on International restructuring, and cross-border insolvency situations

Andrew McRobert is a commercial banker specializing in restructuring, insolvency and with nearly 32 years’ experience in credit, portfolio risk management, lending, and problem loans management. He has worked with some of the world's leading financial institutions including: Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), Citicorp, Jakarta Initiative Task Force (JITF), African Development Bank, Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), and Coopers & Lybrand.

Andrew is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has a demonstrable track record of identifying and implementing restructuring & recovery strategies for complex non-performing investments and loans all across Australasia, Asia and Africa; and is also experienced in conducting due diligence assignments, high-level problem resolution negotiations and team building in credit and portfolio risk management.

He is an engaging speaker and presenter and has developed and led very highly rated programs; consulted with clients across Asia Pacific, Africa, & Middle East including Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Oman. UAE, & Saudi Arabia.

He has co-authored three acclaimed texts "Corporate Collapse” (published by McGraw-Hill), “Financial Literacy for Lawyers, Investors and Lenders” (published by Thomson Reuters) and “Financial literacy - Lessons from Centro” (published by Thomson Reuters).

Andy Khanna, Sr. Director M&A Transactions, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd

Andy Khanna is an M&A Transactions Services Partner with Deloitte is based in their Gurgaon office. He has over 10 years of experience as a full-time M&A specialist and has also worked with Deloitte in UK and the US prior to transferring to India in 2008. Andy has worked on over 100 domestic and cross border transactions across North America, Europe and Asia ranging in value from $5 million to $15 billion in diverse industries such as consumer products, life sciences, media, manufacturing retail, real estate, technology and software. Andy is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Aneesh Reddy, Co-founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies

Aneesh Reddy is the Co-founder & CEO of Capillary Technologies - leading a team that helps enterprises customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time.

Aneesh is a featured expert at global retail, marketing and technology forums and  works closely with acclaimed institutions towards creating a product ecosystem in India. He is also a featured entrepreneur in leading publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review and The Economic Times.

Prior to founding Capillary, Aneesh worked with ITC Limited, invovleed in their facility management division. Aneesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Aneish Kumar, MD & Country Manager, The Bank of New York Mellon - India

Aneish Kumar is Managing Director and Country Executive of The Bank of New York Mellon’s Mumbai Representative Office in India. He has been with BNY Mellon since 1998. Based in Mumbai, Aneish leads the local liaison team which focusses on strengthening and broadening BNY Mellon’s local client relationships across all business lines.

Mr. Kumar has over 30 years of cross-functional expertise in banking and financial services. He has extensive experience in various facets of banking - from commercial, retail, corporate, International Business and Leasing. He has been a speaker at various forums, been a guest speaker at the Staff Training Colleges of Banks, Indian Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Bankers, Bankers Training College, and National Institute of Bank Management. He has written and published articles in several business and International financial publications on a variety of topics.

Mr. Kumar is also a gifted artist who enjoys painting in a realistic style in all mediums – from oil, acrylic, charcoal and water color. He enjoys listening to music and in his younger days played cricket at University and State levels.

Angad Banga, Chief Operating Officer, The Caravel Group

Mr. Angad Banga is the Chief Operating Officer of The Caravel Group.

Angad joined Caravel as an Executive Director at the Groups’ inception in 2013, before being promoted to his current role in 2016. The Caravel Group Limited, headquartered in Hong Kong, is a diversified global conglomerate primarily focused on providing leading Maritime Services (including ship management, owning and operating) in addition to Investment Management activities across all sectors (including both public and private opportunities). The Group is also engaged in the trading and logistics of industrial dry bulk raw materials.

As the COO of the Caravel Group, Angad has direct operational and managerial oversight for the Group’s Asset Management, Investment, Finance & Operations and Administrative functions. In this capacity, Angad also has responsibility for corporate planning across the firm, which includes strategic investments, balance sheet and treasury management, business development and corporate finance activities. In addition, Angad is also a key member of the Group’s Management, Investment, Risk and Credit Committees.

Angad also serves on the Board of Directors of Fleet Management Limited (a Caravel Group company), Mandarin Shipping Limited, a Hong Kong-based shipping investment company, as well as serving as a Director on several other Caravel Group’s direct private equity investments.

Prior to joining Caravel, Angad was a Principal with KKR, one of the world’s leading global investment firms across multiple alternative asset classes. Based in Hong Kong, Angad was principally focused on investing in Leveraged Buy-out (LBO) transactions across the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to this, Angad also ran the Asian Leveraged Finance business for KKR Capital Markets Asia, where he helped finance some of the largest, most complex and highly structured private equity acquisitions in Asia. Angad was a key team member of many notable investments by KKR Asia during his tenure.

Angad began his career as an Analyst in the Syndicated & Leveraged Finance team at JPMorgan in Hong Kong where he provided advice to and raised capital for Private Equity firms and high growth and leveraged companies in Asia Pacific.

Angad is a Member of the Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board (HKMPB), a Government organization established to steer the future direction of the development of the port and maritime industry in Hong Kong and both a Member of both the Promotion and External Relations and Sub-Committee and the Maritime and Port Development Committee of the HKMPB. In addition, Angad serves on the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association (HKSOA), one of the world’s largest Shipowner Associations, and as the Chairman of the Marine Sub-Committee of the HKSOA.

Angad is on the Board of Visitors of The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.

In 2015, Angad was named as the “Young Person of the Year” by Seatrade Asia.

Angad graduated with an AB with Honors in Economics from Dartmouth College, in the USA.

Angira Agarwal, Global SVP, GTM and Strategy, Exotel

Angira Agrawal, Global SVP, GTM, and Strategy, Exotel

Angira Agrawal, Vice President, Vodafone Business Services | @VodafoneIN

Angira Agrawal is the Vice President, Delhi Circle, for Vodafone Business Services. As part of this role, he is responsible for the overall business for enterprise customers across the NCR, including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Delivery and Assurance.

Prior to Vodafone, Angira ran the Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing for Accelerite, the product division at Persistent Systems. He has been the Country Manager, Cloud at NEC; General Manager, Enterprise Mobility and Cloud, Tata Communications, and Director, Asia Pacific at Unimobile.  He has also spent time at Oracle as their Regional Manager for SME, and at HCL Technologies.

Angira is passionate about technology, and has worked extensively in creating new solutions and processes to increase customer centricity. He is an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a BE from MSU Baroda.

Angshuman Bhattacharya, Managing Director, Alvarez and Marsal

Angshuman Bhattacharya is a Managing Director and leads consumer products, food and agribusiness for the strategy & diligence practice at Alvarez & Marsal, India. He has over 16 years of experience in industry and consulting, advising companies in areas spanning strategy formulation, supply chain optimization, and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised some of the largest multinational & Indian corporates and advised leading large & mid-cap Private equity funds. Angshuman has also been an active participant and speaker at CII and FICCI and has published various papers on issues related to the Food and Agribusiness sector in India.

Prior to joining A&M, Angshuman was a director at KPMG India’s global strategy group, leading consumer, food and agribusiness. Prior to that, Angshuman has worked in the food industry for Kraft Cadbury and in consulting capacity at the Tata Strategic Management Group in the consumer and retail sector. Angshuman earned an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai and has an degree in electrical engineering

Aniket Jalgaonkar, Climate Change Lead - APAC, AXA Climate