Our speakers

Vikram Utamsingh, Co-Head India & MD -Transactions Advisory Group, Alvarez & Marsal | @alvarezmarsal

Vikram Utamsingh is Co-Head of A&M India and a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Transactions Advisory Group in Mumbai. He brings 20 years of experience in Indian mergers and acquisitions. His primary areas of concentration are due diligence services and corporate finance services.

He has worked with clients across a range of industries, including industrial, consumer and private equity. Mr. Utamsingh’s areas of expertise are analyzing quality of earnings, evaluating cash flows in terms of key business drivers, analyzing strengths and weaknesses of balance sheets, identifying related-party and unusual transactions, accounting for mergers and acquisitions, reviewing purchase and sale agreements and assessing compliance with Indian GAAP and IFRS.

Before joining A&M, Mr. Utamsingh spent 15 years with KPMG India Private Ltd., where he held several leadership positions. He established and led the Transactions Due Diligence practice from 2004 to 2009 and the M&A Strategy practice from 2007 to 2009. Most recently, he served as the Head of Transactions and Restructuring overseeing the due diligence business, M&A strategy business, valuations business and the corporate finance business.

Key accomplishments include: achieving a leadership position in M&A transactions, working on 100 PE transactions in 2012; helping KPMG’s corporate finance business to advance in 2012 to a number-two ranking in Thomson Reuters’ Indian M&A league tables; and building the largest M&A strategy business group serving both private equity and corporate clients. In addition, he published a detailed assessment of Returns from Indian Private Equity transactions in 2011, and he has provided transaction services to more than 50 private equity clients.

Mr. Utamsingh earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce and accounting from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and is a dual Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is a member of the Institute of Directors in the U.K. and is fluent in English and Hindi.

Vikram Vaidyanathan, Managing Director, Matrix Partners

Vikram is a Managing Director at Matrix India, an early stage VC firm. He has led over 10 investments as part of the Matrix team.

He partners with founders across sectors including Mobile, Education tech, Video, Local services, SME Tech and SaaS.

He is an MBA from IIM Bangalore and an engineer trained at RVCE Bangalore. Vikram started with a background in embedded systems and wireless technology companies and worked in McKinsey across multiple sectors.

Vikram Vora, CEO, Mydentist | @mydentistindia

Vikram Vora is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mydentist, India's largest chain of dental clinics. Mydentist owns and operates 112 dental clinics across 7 Cities, which are company owned and have a centralized management/ procurement process.  With a mission of making dental treatment affordable and accessible for all, Mydentist has treated more than 600,000 patients in a span of less than five years. Mydentist has total staff strength of over 1400 people, which included over 500 dentists.

Vikram has a Bachelor’s in Production Engineering and a Masters in Management Studies both from the Mumbai University. Among his recognitions and awards, he has been recognized as one of 100 most creative people in the world by Fast Company in 2014;  awarded the TiE Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence Award 2013; awarded the VCCircle Healthcare Award in  2014  for Emerging Healthcare Company of the Year for Mydentist; featured on list of hottest young entrepreneurs by Business World in 2013 and featured on the list 11 Startups to watch for in 2012 by Forbes India.

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Vikram Vuppala, Founder & CEO, NephroPlus

Vikram Vuppala is Founder & CEO of India’s largest dialysis network - NephroPlus. After spending 10 years in the US healthcare industry, his passion to redefine healthcare delivery in India prompted him to found NephroPlus in Dec 2009. He has expanded NephroPlus to India’s largest dialysis network of 120 centers in 78 cities across 18 states. He had raised Series A Private equity investment of Rs. 25 Cr from Bessemer Venture Partners in Nov 2011, Series B investment of Rs. 60 Cr in May 2014 from IFC, a World Bank arm, and Series C investment of Rs. 100 Cr in Aug 2016 from SeaLink Capital and IFC.

Prior to NephroPlus, Vikram was a strategy consultant at McKinsey in the US. Vikram with over 15 years of global healthcare experience has helped hospitals, chain of clinics, healthcare distributors, and pharmaceutical clients on various strategic issues such as business development, growth strategy, portfolio rationalization, and M&A.

He has been a speaker at many entrepreneurial and investment conferences. Vikram did his B. Tech. from IIT-Kharagpur and a full time MBA from Chicago Booth.

Vikrant Khorana, VP and Business Head, PayU India

Vikrant Khorana is Vice President & Business Head for Non-Ecommerce Business at PayU India. He is responsible for strategic verticals like Government, Telecom, Insurance, Education, Real estate, Banking & Financial Services and Airlines. His experience includes strategic direction, product and technology solutions, restructuring, entry strategy formulation, cost management and business process reengineering.

Vikrant has global experience and has held key positions in multinational organizations. His experience spans across Telecom, Mobile & Internet and IT industry with reputed brands like Indiatimes, Wipro US, Tencent and Ibibo Group. He headed Business Development & Strategy with Tencent India, where he held a key role in building the product WeChat. Prior to this, he helped grow business for Communication, Media & Telecom vertical at Wipro for 5 years in US.

Vikrant holds an MBA degree in IS & IT from Coventry University, UK and an Engineering degree in Computer Science.

Vimal Bhandari, Managing Director and CEO, IndoStar Capital Finance Pvt Ltd

Vimal has over 25 years of experience, having previously worked as Country head of AEGON N.V in India and prior to that, he spent 17 years with IL&FS Limited; spearheading its various businesses in financial services.

He is also a member of Listing Committee and Executive Committee of the NSE and also a member of the National Council on Corporate Governance of CII and Executive Committee of FICCI.

He is a Chartered Accountant and has studied at Mumbai University. He has attended advanced management programs at International Institute of Management, Lausanne.

Vimal Sagar Tiwari, Co-Founder & COO, CoinSwitch

Vimal Srivastava, VP, Robinsons Air services

Vimal Srivastava is the Vice President of Robinsons Cargo & Logistics Pvt. Ltd. which is the leader in air, sea , customs clearance and logistics services since 1954. At Robinsons he spearheads Contract Logistics, warehousing and entire gamut of 3Pl. Vimal has about 20 years of experience in SCM, Logistics, Operations, Customer Services as well in Sales & Training. Prior to Robinsons he was the Area Head at AFL Pvt. Ltd. (2007 -2009) and Head Distribution and logistics for various companies. He has a diploma in Business Management from Narsee Monjee IMS Mumbai and CEP in SCM From IIT Delhi.

Vimish Raigagla, Director, Forensic Services, PwC India

Vinamra Srivastava, CEO, Business Parks, CapitaLand India

Mr Vinamra Srivastava is the Chief Executive Officer, Business Parks, India of CapitaLand Group.

Vinamra oversees investments, development, operations, asset management and strategic planning for CapitaLand Group’s business parks in India, and leads the expansion and enhancement of the Group’s portfolio of assets in the country.

He was previously based in Singapore heading Group Corporate Strategy & Development. He contributed to the successful Ascendas-Singbridge post-merger integration process and played a key leadership role to develop the India strategy.

Prior to joining Ascendas, Vinamra has worked with firms like Roland Berger, Arthur D Little, Cisco Systems and BCG, leading management consulting projects across Singapore, India, South East Asia, Middle East, Europe and Africa.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Pune and has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.