Our speakers
Uday Sodhi, ,, Digital Strategy Consultant
A Digital Industry veteran and Ex-Business Head, Digital at Sony Pictures, Uday has invested in over 35 tech startups in the last 7 years. His preferred sectors are Enterprise Tech, Deep tech, SAAS, Space tech and Automation.
Uday Somayajula, Co-Founder, ePayLater
Uday believes firmly in the development and use of technology to solve real-world challenges. Aiming to help countless small businesses overcome the hurdle of access to formal credit, ePayLater strives to empower retailers with the power of technology. With over a decade of experience in multiple areas of banking, capital markets, risk consulting and credit tech with industry leaders Uday embarked on the journey of bringing BNPL to India. Prior to beginning his professional career, Uday earned an engineering degree from JNTU in Hyderabad and an MBA from the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon (MDI)
Udayant Malhoutra, MD & CEO, Dynamatic Technologies Limited
Udit Pahwa, Chief Information Officer, Blue Star Limited
Ullas Kamath, Joint Managing Director, Jyothy Laboratories Limited
Ullas Kamath has been promoted as the Joint Managing Director from January 2012. A qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary, he has topped it with a Degree in Law and has attended the Advanced Management Programme at Wharton Business School and Harvard Business School. It is under his leadership that the company has diversified and become a multi product FMCG company. He has spearheaded the successful setting up of Fabric Spa and the Henkel acquisition.
Won CA Business Achiver Award - SME category in ICAI Awards 2008 on January 25, 2009.
Uma R Krishnan, CEO, Barclays Shared Services
Prior to joining Barclays, Ms. Uma Krishnan worked in commercial roles for ANZ Grindlays Bank, HDFC Bank and more recently RBS in India and the UK. She also had a brief entrepreneurial stint as CEO of a Business Services start up for a financial services technology company. Ms. Krishnan started her professional life as a diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service. Ms. Krishnan combines strong customer and commercial skills with Operations & Technology Management. She has been a part of senior leadership teams over many years in India and the UK and has worked across functions and geographies. She holds a degree in Business Management in Finance and Marketing from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. Ms. Krishnan is engaged with and contributes to industry forums like Nasscom, Diversity & Inclusion forums. In addition to being a full time Director on the board of Barclays Shared Services India, she is an independent Director of Take Solutions Limited and Chennai Metro Rail. Ms. Uma Krishnan is a strong champion of diversity and supports initiatives to develop women in leadership.
Uma Talreja, Director Strategy, Raymond Ltd
Uma Talreja recently joined Raymond Ltd as the Head of Strategy for the lifestyle business. She also leads customer centricity initiatives for Raymond as a part of her role and is also responsible for digital transformation and e-commerce and CRM
Her passion lies in unearthing strategic customer insights and using those across functions to create sharp and relevant programs for customers. She has also managed and grown loyalty programs at each of the businesses to contribute to a large portion of the business.
As is a passionate retail and digital marketing enthusiast, she has led marketing for leading retail brands in India including Shopper’s Stop, Westside from the Tata Group and retail formats from the Aditya Birla Group, and was responsible for the launch of Burger King in India
Umang Agarwal, Principal, Eight Roads Ventures
Umang Papneja, President & Chief Investment Officer, IIFL Wealth Management Ltd.
Umang is President and Chief Investment Officer at IIFL Private Wealth. He has more than 15 years of industry experience across multiple asset classes, with his core strengths being equity research, fund selection and asset allocation. Umang is part of the Executive Committee and provides strategic guidance on asset allocation with a focus on continuous product innovation. He is also responsible for deal sourcing, client interaction, 3rd party product manufacturer relationship management and continuous support to the sales team.
Umang started his career with Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd. on the institutional sales desk, followed by HSBC in their wealth management unit and HDFC Bank where he was the Head of Equity Research in their private banking group. He was a Director and Head of Investments at Societe Generale before joining IIFL Private Wealth. Umang is an electronics engineer and holds a post graduate diploma in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Mumbai.
Umang Vohra, Managing Director & Global CEO, Cipla
Umang Vohra has been Managing Director and Global Chief Executive Officer (MD & GCEO) of Cipla since September 2016. Umang joined Cipla in October 2015 as its Global Chief Financial Officer, and from January 2016 to August 2016 was Cipla’s Global Chief Operating Officer.
After gaining degrees in engineering, marketing and finance, Umang was associated with companies such as Eicher Motors and PepsiCo. Prior to joining Cipla, Umang was Head of the North America business for Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. Through his previous roles in India and the USA, he has built a distinguished career spanning almost two decades with deep understanding and experience in various aspects of the global pharmaceutical business.
Under Umang’s leadership, Cipla has built strong momentum in its home markets, augmented its capability, strengthened its core, and shown significant improvement in its operating margin and profitability. At the helm of the Management Council of Cipla, Umang’s big-picture agenda is to define and execute Cipla’s strategic growth roadmap and geographical footprint, identify the next levers of growth, invest in innovation for the future, and build the right organisation. Recognised as an action-oriented industry leader, Umang is a firm believer in the power of agile business models, disruptive technologies, data-driven analytics and a future-ready workforce with a view to shaping the healthcare ecosystem and making a difference to the lives of patients.