Our speakers

Venkatesh Peddi, Executive Director, Chiratae

Mr. Venkatesh Peddi is Executive Director at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. He has over 17 years of industry experience, including 11 years of venture experience.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Venkatesh was Deputy Vice President at Reliance Venture Asset Management – the corporate venture capital arm of Reliance ADA Group. He was involved in executing multiple end-to-end investments and was a board member at Gradatim IT Ventures and a board observer at Suvidhaa Infoserve and Pelago Inc. Venkatesh was earlier an Account Manager in Investment Banking division of Adventity, a leading KPO player, where he advised deal teams of leading investment banks at various deal stages. He later moved to Adventity Inc., New York, to take up roles involving close client interaction, while being promoted on a fast track basis from an Analyst to Manager within 10 months. Prior to Adventity, as Assistant Manager at Blue Star Infotech, Venkatesh helped in structuring deals and M&A.

Venkatesh is an active CFA charterholder from the CFA Institute, USA and holds a Bachelors degree in engineering from VJTI, Mumbai and a Masters degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).


Venkatesh Rajeswaran, President - Enterprise Business Group, Redington India Limited


Venkatesh Srinivasan, Managing Director, Everstone Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd

Venkatesh Srinivasan is an MD in the Private Equity team at Everstone Capital and is responsible for investments in financial services and fintech. Prior to Everstone Capital he worked at McKinsey & Co serving clients across Asia Pacific across retail and wholesale banking, asset management, life and health insurance, payments, securities and exchanges and financial tech players. With over 15 years of experience in financial services,  his work has, among other things, involved setting up greenfield businesses in banking, NBFC, exchange and insurance businesses. 


Venkatraman Narayanan, MD & CFO, Happiest Minds Technologies

Venkatraman Narayanan is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of our Company. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a bachelors’ degree in commerce and another in law. Venkat has been associated with our Company since April 2015 and has over 25 years of experience in the areas of general management, operations, finance, & law. Prior to joining us he was CFO, Sonata Software Limited, TeamLease Services Limited, Perot Systems TSI (India) Limited, Transworks Information Services Limited, MindTree Limited, Director Operations Oracle and Consultant at Arthur Andersen.  Venkat has also been on the Board of Directors of Sonata’s subsidiaries and Perot Systems.


Venkattu Srinivasan, Director, Phoenix ARC

Venkattu Srinivasan heads the Asset Reconstruction Division (ARD) at Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited.

He is part of the Bank’s Group Management Council that drives and oversees the Kotak Mahindra Bank’s growth charter.

Venkattu pioneered the business of purchasing distressed assets and Non-Performing Loans (NPL) in India and was instrumental in establishing the Asset Reconstruction Division at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

He executed the first-ever cash NPL transaction in India in 2003, and over the years has completed several restructuring initiatives to unlock value from distressed assets. His focus lies in creating new lending opportunities in the marketplace.

Venkattu has close to three decades of experience in financial services. He joined Kotak Mahindra Group in 1993, and has played a crucial role in setting up several lending businesses such as
commercial vehicle loans, tractor finance, construction equipment, farm equipment, SARAL business loans for purchase of commercial vehicles, etc.

Venkattu is on the Board of Phoenix Asset Reconstruction Company Pvt. Ltd., promoted by the Kotak Mahindra group of companies.

Venkattu is a Management Graduate from BSMED, Coimbatore and is a Cost Accountant (ICWA). He has also completed the ”Advanced Management Program” from Harvard Business School, the “Accelerated Development Program” from London Business School and the “Advanced Management Program” from Kellogg School of Management.


Venkattu Srinivasan, President - Asset Reconstruction Division, and member of Group Management Council, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Venkattu Srinivasan heads the Asset Reconstruction Division (ARD) at Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited.

He is part of the Bank’s Group Management Council that drives and oversees the Kotak Mahindra Bank’s growth charter.

Venkattu pioneered the business of purchasing distressed assets and Non-Performing Loans (NPL) in India and was instrumental in establishing the Asset Reconstruction Division at Kotak Mahindra Bank. He executed the first-ever cash NPL transaction in India in 2003, and over the years has completed several restructuring initiatives to unlock value from distressed assets. His focus lies in creating new lending opportunities in the marketplace.

Venkattu has close to three decades of experience in financial services. He joined Kotak Mahindra Group in 1993, and has played a crucial role in setting up several lending businesses such as commercial vehicle loans, tractor finance, construction equipment, farm equipment, SARAL business loans for purchase of commercial vehicles, etc.

Venkattu is on the Board of Phoenix Asset Reconstruction Company Pvt. Ltd., promoted by the Kotak Mahindra group of companies.

Venkattu is a Management Graduate from BSMED, Coimbatore and is a Cost Accountant (ICWA). He has also completed the ”Advanced Management Program” from Harvard Business School, the “Accelerated Development Program” from London Business School and the “Advanced Management Program” from Kellogg School of Management.


Venu Donepudi, Founder & Managing Director, CarZ


Vibhor Nayar, Vice President, Duff & Phelps


Vibhore Sharma, CTO, Naukri.com

Vibhore is an Internet technology Specialist with around 19 years of work experience in different fields. He has been working with Naukri.com for past 12 years in various roles. As the Chief Technology Officer of India’s biggest online recruitment portal, he has spearheaded the website’s engineering and product evolution since its initial stages. A technology enthusiast at core, his expertise encompasses creating new products, engineering for high traffic and envisaging high user - engagement interactions.


Vibhu Bhushan, Co-founder, GradeStack

Vibhu is a co-founder of GradeStack, a mobile learning platform. He is a graduate from NSIT and has worked with Yahoo, Naukri before starting his previous company in the social news aggregation space. He has strong product management skills and good understanding of building scalable systems.
He is a marathoner and loves running.