Our speakers

Tarun Katial, CEO, ZEE5 India

Tarun Katial is responsible for steering ZEE5, India’s largest ConTech brand, towards gaining an industry leadership position. In just over two years since inception, the platform already hosts 100+ Originals across genres and languages and has seen exponential growth with 100 mn+ downloads (Google Play Store).

Tarun has also been instrumental in conceptualizing ‘HiPi’, India’s first fully home-grown short video platform and launching kids-focused content through ZEE5 Kids in nine languages. 

Under his leadership, ZEE5 has won 60+ awards at various credible forums from ‘The Most Impactful Debut Award’ at Pitch Top 50 Brands 2019, ‘OTT Platform of the Year’ at Promax 2020 OTT Digital Marketing & Innovation Awards to ‘India's Most Desired Video Streaming Brand’ by TRA Research. 

With a rich experience of over two decades across video streaming, television and radio, Tarun has truly been instrumental in revolutionizing the media and entertainment landscape in India. He has shared impactful insights at various global media and technology forums like IBC, Content London, Paley International Council Summit, to name a few. 

Considered one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry, Katial is also a TEDx speaker, he was recently elected as the Chairman of IAMAI’s Digital Entertainment Committee and was the Chairperson for DMAsia 2019. 

Tarun has an established record of accomplishment through popular shows like - KBC - Who wants to be a Millionaire - Lets make a deal India, a slew of daily fiction content at STAR and Indian Idol | Fear Factor | Fame Academy | Ugly Betty at SET. These shows have been in perfect tune with what captivates the Indian consumer.

An MBA-graduate, Tarun began his career with Saatchi & Saatchi, Enterprise Nexus Lowe and Ogilvy & Mather. Pursuant to this, he moved to Star Network and rose to become the Head of Content and Communications across the network in India before moving to Sony Entertainment Television as Business Head. Prior to joining ZEE5, Tarun was the Founder COO-CEO at BIG FM.

He has been voted as NewsCorp Achiever for Asia and included among the best in the ‘India Today 30 on 30’ list. He was also part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes. 
 

Tarun Khanna, Partner, CX Partners

Tarun is a partner with cx partners and has been with the firm since its inception in 2009. CX partners is a growth oriented mid market focused PE fund.

Within the fund Tarun focuses on the consumer sector and has led investments in businesses like Barbeque nation, sapphire foods and Mrs Bectors foods.

Tarun Krishnamurthy, Senior Director - Engineering, Mcafee

Tarun Krishnamurthy is the Senior Director Engineering at McAfee India Center (MIC). He heads the engineering of security products in the Data Center unit focusing on optimized technology for virtual & public cloud environment. He has been instrumental in building the big data analytics solution around real-time intelligence of McAfee products, performance and usage.

He is a founding member of McAfee, India since 2002. He has been instrumental in the setup and establishment of the center, maturing it to one that innovates, engineers and supports nearly all of McAfee's products. He has pioneered several engineering and process practices to mature multiple engineering centers, built a few version 1.0 products and headed India site operations for over 3 years.

He comes with over 19 years of experience spanning areas of Enterprise software, Identity Management, Application Management, Workflow Management, B2B frameworks, Web servers. He has driven strategic programs by bringing together globally distributed, multi-functional engineering and non-engineering teams. Tarun has also led global teams for identifying centers in India, China, Vietnam, Chile, Costa Rica and Argentina. He has also set up the Mobile Engineering center in China for McAfee.

Prior to McAfee, Tarun worked in the US and Australia with Borland and in India with Aspect (I2), Aztec Software and Sun Microsystems.

He holds a B.E. from Bangalore University and an M.S. from the University of South Dakota, USA; both of them in Computer Science; and an Executive Certificate in International Management from Stanford University and National University of Singapore.

Tarun Matta, Founder & CEO, iimjobs.com and hirist.com

Tarun is the founder of Highorbit Careers that runs two specialized online recruiting platforms - iimjobs.com for mid to senior management professionals and hirist.com for software engineering professionals in India.

He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Indore

Tarun Mehta, Co-founder, Ather Energy

Tarun is a graduate of the Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras (batch of 2012). He is a co-founder and CEO of Ather Energy.

A native of Ahmedabad, Tarun was actively involved with the entrepreneurship eco-system in IIT Madras (C-TIDES) and always wanted to start-up. He loves product start-ups and has worked on over a dozen prototypes over a wide range of topics and has six co-patents (pending).

A strong believer in the superiority of the electric drive, Tarun started working on EV battery packs to solve one of the biggest pain points with EVs in India. However, realization soon dawned that the problem wasn’t limited to batteries alone and that the entire vehicle needed to be designed from ground-up to produce an intuitive and smart EV. Thus, Ather Energy was born.

Tarun Pandey, Chief Technology Officer, Aditya Birla Health Insurance

Tarun Sharma, MD, MegaDelta Capital

TC Meenakshisundaram, Founder and Vice Chairman, Chiratae Ventures

TC Meenakshisundaram is the Founder and Vice Chairman of Chiratae Ventures. He has over 38 years of industry experience, including 18+ years of venture experience. He serves on the Boards of Lenskart, AgroStar, Vayana, Kristal.ai, Metadome, HUVIAiR, and Pando amongst others.

With two decades of experience in the Indian VC/PE ecosystem TCM has led many initiatives to success in investments, exits, firm building, fundraising, finance and legal, amongst others. He has led several portfolio companies to scale, Unicorn, and IPO.

Earlier, as part of Walden International’s team, he was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet. Before Chiratae Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President – Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, India's leading payment processing company. He also spent 14 years at Wipro, where he last served as General Manager of the eCommerce Division. 

TCM Sundaram, Founder & Managing Director, IDG Ventures

Mr. TC Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is Founder & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He has over 32 years of industry experience, including 13 years of venture experience.

TCM serves on the Board of Lenskart, Zivame, Agrostar, Fintellix, e-Shakti, Creditmantri, Cloudcherry among others.

Earlier as part of Walden International’s team, TCM was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet.

Prior to IDG Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President - Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. Prior to Walden International, TCM has worked for 14 years at Wipro where he last served as General Manager - eCommerce Division.

TCM is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

Tej Kapoor, Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures