Our speakers

Vijay Sethi, CIO, CHRO & Head - CSR, Hero MotoCorp

Mr. Sethi is the Chief Information Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) & Head Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the company. He also leads innovation efforts in the company. He serves as a Board Member of M/s HMC MM Auto Ltd. (A joint venture of HMCL and M/s Magneti Marelli of Italy). Mr. Sethi has almost 30 years of experience in manufacturing industry and consulting environment. He joined Hero MotoCorp in 2007 and prior to that, he has worked with Ranbaxy and TCS.

Rated as India’s Best CIO, he has won several prestigious recognitions including CIO of the year, CIO Hall of Fame, Super League CIO, Champion CIO, Global CIO, Global CIO Hall of fame, Most Influential CIO, Innovative CIO, Most Respected CIO, India’s Best IT Manager, Eminent CIO of India and many others. Mr. Sethi has also featured in the CIO Power List for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Mr. Sethi has also featured in the list of World's top 50 CIOs, in the list of India's Greatest Corporate Leaders and in the compendium "The Magnificent Heros" - a Coffee Table book. He also featured in the list of India's 50 most talented CSR Leaders.

Vijay Sharma, Co-founder & CEO, Belong.co

Vijay Sharma is the CEO and Co-founder of Belong, a data - driven hiring technology startup that helps companies discover, engage and hire top, relevant talent at the right time. The company's hiring solution leverages big data and predictive analytics to help growing companies spot candidates who best fit their requirements, and engage with them through personalized interactions. Belong's customers today include some of India's most innovative and rapidly growing companies. Prior to Belong, Vijay worked with Exotel and Practo. He is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO, Paytm

Vijay Shekhar is founder & CEO of One97 / Paytm  - one of India’s largest growing mobile payment & commerce platform. An engineering graduate from Delhi University, Vijay has successfully built businesses in content, marketing, payment and online commerce in India.  Paytm is India's first and only 120 million user product and expected to launch a new age bank this year.

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Vijay Simha, CEO, OneBreath Inc

Vijay graduated in 1979 from BITS Pilani, and consciously pursued everything that had the word start in it. While in school he was obsessed by how the Universe started and won the National Science Talent scholarship to pursue that. Then he went on to start a number of exciting new stuff - new ways to analyze materials, new ways to manufacture large biomolecules, new ways to build markets and also experienced new ways to fail. He was fortunate to be a part of 3 sub industrial revolutions that happened in India; the biotech revolution, the auto components revolution and now the medical technology revolution.

He is currently evangelising medical technology as a sunrise industry that holds the key to India becoming an economic super power. He also as the CEO of OneBreath, an innovation that is being translated from the benches at Stanford University to the bedsides of millions who would die due to respiratory illness, is carefully nurturing its utility to positively impact those millions who were denied their right to life because they didn't have the money. 

He as a member of the FICCI Advisory Council on innovation and the FICCI Healthservices Committee is actively pursuing an inclusive agenda for innovation and has been conducting the FICCI Innovation sandbox that brings cutting edge scientific research to impact society by the teaming up of scientists, entrepreneurs and business professionals.

Vijay Sinha, Senior Vice President-HR, JSW Energy Ltd

A firm believer in level 5 leadership, Vijay Sinha is working presently as Senior Vice President- HR for JSW Energy Ltd. which is a   part of $12 billion JSW group. In addition to his responsibility as HR head of JSW Energy, Vijay is also setting up Shared Services Centre for JSW group and is driving this as Director of JSW GBS Ltd. Vijay also heads JSW Energy Centre of Excellence which has the distinction of being the first training Institute in the country established by a private power company to provide training on the real time PC based power plant simulator of 300 MW.

Vijay has rich & varied experience of more than 23 years in various gamut of HR across different industries ranging from Manufacturing, Hospitality, Market Research, Animation & Retail. Prior to joining JSW Energy, Vijay had a stint with HyperCITY Retail (I) Ltd. where he worked as Business Head-HR & Administration. While working at Reliance BIG Animation (I) Pvt. Ltd. as VP-HR & Trg., Vijay is credited with starting BIG AIMS, an Animation academy which is one of the leading animation institutes in the country.

A management graduate from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Vijay started his career with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). He was awarded with coveted Jawahar Award in the year 2005 in SAIL for his outstanding contributions to HR which contributed to turnaround of Rourkela Steel Plant. With a strong belief that employees constitute the most powerful force in moving the organization forward even if the organization is highly techno-centric, Vijay has been successful in recruiting more than 6000 employees in one year for RKHS, a company which was later acquired by Sodexo. During his stint at the Nielsen, Vijay implemented several Talent Management initiatives and was given “Nielsen Award” for demonstrating core values and successfully implementing several change initiatives and global business restructuring at The Nielsen, India. He has been awarded with “HR Leadership Award” during Global HR Excellence Awards 2011-12 as well as well as “Indira Super Achievers Award” in the year 2010. Also featured in the 4th edition of the book “MOST POWERFUL HR PROFESSIONALS OF INDIA” released in the year 2012 in Bangalore.

An alumnus of Hindu College, University of Delhi where he graduated in Mathematical Statistics, Vijay has been actively associated with SPIC-MACAY during his college days and now with many professional bodies. He is the life member of NIPM & NHRD network. Vijay is also a regular speaker at various B-Schools, NIPM, FICCI-Frames & NASSCOM Forums.

Vijay Thomas, Founder and CEO, Tangentia

A techie who has been honoured by the Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce with Technogy Achivement Award. Vijay founded Tangentia, a world-leading provider of digital transformation solutions  and has a dedicated team of over 150+ professionals, with offices across  USA, Canada and India. A father of two and speaks over 5 Indian Languages.

Vijay Vaishnav, CFO, Eros Now

A Chartered Accountant by a professional, Vijay Vaishnav is currently CFO for Eros Now, an global entertainment OTT platform. He has more than 15 years of experience in core finance function including cost optimization, revenue maximization, compliances, finance and business automation specializing in Media and Entertainment sector.  His experience includes Head Finance at Zee Entertainment (ZEE5), Viacom18, Moserbaer, Balaji, EY and KPMG. He is an alumni of NM college and schooling from St. Xaviers.

Vijay Vasudevan, Head of Business Solutions Group (BSG), Suryoday Bank

CIO Certified professional having 22+ years of experience across banking and driving transformations at various Banks and non-Banking financial firms in India Has strong experience in defining business & IT strategy, executing digital transformations and delivering value at several process areas across lending value chain and delivered core applications like CRM, LOS and Portfolio Management Platforms. Has expertise in various functional areas in Banking like sales & origination, fulfilment, operations, product management, customer experience, credit underwriting, risk management, collections & recoveries, analytics, business intelligence and regulatory compliance. Has proficiency in managing current state assessment, target state design, gap analysis, requirement gathering, project management and implementation of multiple Banking applications.

Vijaya Pastala, Founder & CEO, Under The Mango Tree

Vijaya's passion lies in developing community based, pro-poor approaches for environmentally sustainable economic development in India. Before establishing UTMT, she worked as a development professional with the World Bank, KFW, European Commission, DFID, and the Aga Khan Foundation primarily on livelihood and natural resource management. Vijaya's competencies include community-based livelihood and poverty analysis and enhancement programming, strategic development analysis, capacity strengthening and communication.

She has a Bachelor's in International Relations and Women's Studies from Mount Holyoke College, USA and a Masters in Regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Besides helming UTMT, Vijaya tries to be the best possible mom to her twelve-year-old and catch up on her reading. She is also a foodie and tries the local fare wherever she is.

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Vijender Singh, CEO, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd.

Mr. Vijender Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. Mr. Singh joined Metropolis Healthcare Ltd in 2016 and is responsible for driving the overall growth of the organization. His key role is to lead strategic initiatives and execution with best practices, innovation and drive the management team.

Mr. Singh kick-started his career with Blow Plast Ltd, with Leo-Mattel toys and worked there for six years in sales and distribution function and moved on to Bausch & Lomb and had a stint of almost six years in sales, customer relationship management and helped in setting up after sales service. He then ventured into the Consumer Healthcare segment with Ranbaxy. At Ranbaxy, he had set up the Sales & Development model for India and worked on product development along with marketing Team. He then moved on to Dr Lal Path Labs wherein he was instrumental in strategic initiatives and rolled out an aggressive growth path for the company and helped built a culture of Meritocracy apart from shaping careers and development plan for people. He was also responsible for Indian and International expansion and is credited with turning around the company’s top line & bottom line over a period of decade. He was also part of the team which lead the company to a successful IPO. In each of his assignment and throughout the course of his career, he has grown strength to strength as a professional and has worked his way up the corporate ladder.

A seasoned and effective communicator, Mr. Singh is driven to perform, succeed and excel. He firmly believes in adopting innovative strategies and solutions to sales and marketing challenges. A people’s leader, his expertise lies in business models, operations and P&L management.

Mr. Singh is a Science Graduate and did an Executive Education Programme from ISB. In addition, he has also completed UCLA programme for Disruptive Innovation from Haas School of Management, California, organized by AIMA.