Our speakers

Angira Agrawal, Global SVP, GTM, and Strategy, Exotel

Angira Agrawal, Vice President, Vodafone Business Services | @VodafoneIN

Angira Agrawal is the Vice President, Delhi Circle, for Vodafone Business Services. As part of this role, he is responsible for the overall business for enterprise customers across the NCR, including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Delivery and Assurance.

Prior to Vodafone, Angira ran the Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing for Accelerite, the product division at Persistent Systems. He has been the Country Manager, Cloud at NEC; General Manager, Enterprise Mobility and Cloud, Tata Communications, and Director, Asia Pacific at Unimobile.  He has also spent time at Oracle as their Regional Manager for SME, and at HCL Technologies.

Angira is passionate about technology, and has worked extensively in creating new solutions and processes to increase customer centricity. He is an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a BE from MSU Baroda.

Angshuman Bhattacharya, Managing Director, Alvarez and Marsal

Angshuman Bhattacharya is a Managing Director and leads consumer products, food and agribusiness for the strategy & diligence practice at Alvarez & Marsal, India. He has over 16 years of experience in industry and consulting, advising companies in areas spanning strategy formulation, supply chain optimization, and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised some of the largest multinational & Indian corporates and advised leading large & mid-cap Private equity funds. Angshuman has also been an active participant and speaker at CII and FICCI and has published various papers on issues related to the Food and Agribusiness sector in India.

Prior to joining A&M, Angshuman was a director at KPMG India’s global strategy group, leading consumer, food and agribusiness. Prior to that, Angshuman has worked in the food industry for Kraft Cadbury and in consulting capacity at the Tata Strategic Management Group in the consumer and retail sector. Angshuman earned an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai and has an degree in electrical engineering

Aniket Jalgaonkar, Climate Change Lead - APAC, AXA Climate

Aniketh Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Infini

Aniketh Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Solutions Infini Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.,one of the largest cloud based enterprise messaging and communications companies in India. Aniketh handles the business aspects of Solutions Infini, from building strategic partnerships, liaising with network operators and regulatory authorities, spearheading marketing and driving sales to brainstorming and inventing new products, he does it all with élan.

He setup Solutions Infini along with Ashish Agarwal in 2009, soon after graduating in Computer Applications. His business acumen accompanies by Ashish’s technical prowess has helped Solutions Infini metamorphose radically from being a 5-member team to a 100-member, competitive enterprise communications company in a short span of 5 years. His forte lies in business administration, strategic leadership, interpersonal and communication skills and his technical knowledge.

He has taken part in a number of panel discussions, especially at events conducted by IAMAI and JITO. Aniketh was also a keynote speaker at the recently held JITO Connect 2014 and JITO Coimbatore 2014 events. Aniketh has also been on several delegations conducted by NASSCOM to Africa and was also a key part of the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona this year.

He is an active member of 'TIE' - The Indus Entrepreneur, Bangalore Chapter. He is a theatre enthusiast, likes to travel and cook and enjoys sporting activities.

Anil Goel, Chief Technology Officer, Oyo

Anil Goel is the Chief Technology Officer at OYO, South Asia’s largest, and world’s fastest growing chain of hotels, homes and quality spaces. With his current role at OYO, he is responsible to provide strategic direction and strengthen the technology infrastructure powering the Company’s business operations.

A seasoned tech professional, Anil has nearly 20 years of experience in building complex software applications & systems, technology infrastructure and businesses to drive revenue growth, expand customer base and boost profitability. Prior to this he has worked in various technology development and leadership roles at companies like Amazon.com, Hike Messenger, RealNetworks, Capgemini and HyperQuality.

Anil Joshi, Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures Advisors LLP

Anil Joshi, Founder and Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures

Anil is Founder and Managing Partner at Unicorn India Ventures an leading Venture Capital Fund focusing on early stage investments in tech focused companies. He has been one of the pioneers of angel investments in India as head of operations and President at Mumbai Angels and Bangalore Angels, leading Angel Investment forums in India. Anil’s experience includes corporate management functions in medium and large organizations, early stage investment in start-ups, project management, joint ventures and business development.

Anil has helped close over 100 venture-financing deals. Anil serves on the Board of 5 companies and is involved with various incubation centres as mentor in India as well as internationally. He is very well respected and valued in the start-up fraternity and is drawn upon by entrepreneurs for advice and strategic direction. Mentoring start-ups is his passion and he advices Governmental and industrial bodies on the same. Apart from investments, Anil is very active participant in start-up events as speaker or panellist, both in domestic and international circuit. Prior to joining Mumbai Angels, he headed new projects and investment in start-ups with Artheon Group, a Telecom, IT & Energy group. His early career started with heading a branch office at Century Rayon, an leading Indian textile conglomerate, after which he moved to Business Access India Pvt. Ltd. providing consulting services to Scandinavian companies from diverse sectors establishing their presence in the Asian markets. Then he moved to Transasia Biomedical Ltd., India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of bio-medical equipment. Anil graduated in Engineering and Post-Graduation in Management (Marketing) and PGDBM in Strategic Finance and Control.

Anil K Choudhary, MD & CEO, National Bulk Handling Corporation Pvt. Ltd

Mr. Anil Choudhary as the founder Managing Director and CEO of National Bulk Handling Corporation Pvt. Ltd. (NBHC), is credited with setting up NBHC from almost its inception. He is credited with envisioning its mission, spearheaded its strategy and driven its growth, eventually positioning it as a unique solutions provider for risk identification, measurement and mitigation for the entire agri commodity eco-system participants. NBHC today has emerged as the leading Warehouse Service Provider and Collateral Manager in the Agri Commodity ecosystem.

Prior to joining NBHC in 2006, he was on deputation from SBI to MCX overseeing banking & collateral lending. During the 24 years in SBI, he has handled a diverse portfolio including credit, domestic  branch banking - rural & semi-urban locations, farm & SME credit  and international banking culminating with his heading the SBI-San Jose (California)  and Fresno office of California. As member of the CII - National Council on Agriculture, he led the CII delegation before the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution during discussions and presentations on the Warehousing (Development & Regulation) Bill, 2005. He is also a member of FICCI’s National Committee on Agriculture.

Anil Khandelwal, President - Investment Banking, SPA Capital Advisors Ltd

Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India and Associate member of Certified Internal Auditors; overall 29 + years of experience. Currently working in the role of President- Investment Banking at SPA Capital, involved primarily with startups (fundraising and investing) in the healthcare, technology and nutritional foods segment. Immediate prior to this, worked for LT Foods as Director - Finance & Strategy (2012-2015), Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (2009 - 2010) as Director & Head - Mergers & Acquisitions (currently part of Sun Pharma); first inning was during 2004-2007. Prior to Ranbaxy, worked for two years with Havells-Sylvania as President & CFO, was based at Frankfurt, Germany, a company acquired by Havells India Limited.

Extensively travelled world-wide; good understanding of market dynamics and opportunities particularly in emerging markets viz. BRIC - MT, CIS, APAC, MENA, Latin America, and African markets.Excellent networking with some of the world renowned Investment Bankers, PEs and Banking community. Affiliated to several professional, industry and social forums; have been actively participating as a speaker, moderator at national and international symposium and as facilitator, moderator. My work style: attention to details, passion for profitable growth, focus on execution with excellence, managing team work with high-quality leadership, religious by nature and great confidence in achieving excellence.