Our speakers

Vineetha MG, Co-Founder, Samvad Partners

Vineetha MG is one of the founding partners of Samv?d: Partners and heads the Mumbai office.
She has extensive experience in advising clients on private equity investments, cross-border and domestic M&A, and banking and financing transactions. She also regularly advises clients on issues arising out of corporate governance, domestic anti-corruption laws as well as foreign anti-corruption laws in connection with mergers and acquisitions, private equity and financing transactions.
Vineetha is also widely experienced in setting up and advising onshore and offshore funds venture capital and private equity funds which invest in several sectors.
Vineetha has a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, and an Executive Education Program – “Infrastructure in a Market Economy” from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Vineetha is recommended and ranked in Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific, Legal 500, Leaders in Law and Global Law Experts. She is included in “The A-List – India’s Top 100 Lawyers”, based on extensive research conducted by India Business Law Journal. (IBLJ 2019,2018,2017). Vineetha has been awarded the “Most Influential Woman in Private Equity Investments 2018- India” by Acquisition International. She has been recognized by Insight Success magazine as “The Top 10 Powerful Lawyers in 2018.”

Vinita Ananth, Principal, The Hive

Vinita is an entrepreneur, an angel investor and an accomplished leader in a spectrum of areas from global technology, technology - enabled business services, software-as-a-service, social media to analytics - with 15+ years of rich world-wide experience of living / working across the US and Asia (India). She brings in a proven track record of building high performance teams; leading business development; developing market differentiated customer solutions & capabilities; - that have successfully scaled businesses.

She is CEO and Founder of GitGrow, a software company simplifying web analytics; providing an all-in-one web optimization solution that improves conversions and engagement. GitGrow uniquely correlates data to derive insights and recommendations to ensure that your marketing dollars are well spent. Prior to that, Vinita was CEO and Co-Founder of CEO Council of India which aspires to be the country's largest and most influential CEO community. The CEO Council of India is a new and contemporary platform for CEO-only knowledge sharing and networking; membership is by "invite-only"

The first company that Vinita founded was Social Hues Software and Services (www.socialhues.com), a company that offers actionable insights to marketers assisting them optimize their social media campaigns & customer engagement. Social Hues delivered social media analytics and insights to 400+ top companies in India across all sectors. Social Hues partnered with India’s leading media companies like Times of India, Star Network, Zee TV, etc and enabled over 300+ sales teams to re-sell its solution.

From 2008 to 2010, Vinita Ananth was the Director of HP Software-as-a-Service responsible for Sales and Delivery in Asia Pacific and Japan. She was instrumental in the growth and success of Mercury Interactive, HP’s entrepreneurial SaaS venture making it amongst the top 10 SaaS vendors and the largest SaaS IT Management company in the world with worldwide revenues.

Vinita’s interest in angel investing began when she became steeped and deeply involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. She is actively involved in finding exceptional and talented early-stage startups that are in the forefront of technology, especially in analytics, services and applications for big data.

She holds an MBA in Marketing & Finance from Santa Clara University, California and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mysore, India. In her personal time, Vinita loves playing tennis; she has four kids - two biological and two adopted - says her place is a riot at most times!

Vinita Dawra Nangia, Associate Editor, Times of India

Ms. Vinita Dawra Nangia is an Associate Editor, Author and Columnist with The Times of India. With over two decades of experience in Lifestyle and Features Journalism, she specializes in society, relationships and life commentary. She has conceptualised and launched several products across platforms for The Times of India. Ms. Dawra’s exceedingly popular weekly column in The Times of India -- O-zone -- throws light on Contemporary Living and Relationships. She is Director of Write India, the country's biggest and first-ever platform for crowd-sourced writing -- a  project she conceptualized and launched to discover the next generation of writers. Ms. Dawra has authored three books -- 'Love is Always Right & Other Musings' , It's Your Life -- Reflections on Contemporary Living and Relationships', and a coffee table book on fashion -- 'Fashion Fair -The Journey of 13 Contemporary Designers'. She launched Page 3 and was also India's first fashion commentator and writer. Ms. Vinita Dawra is a regular Social Commentator and Motivational Speaker on talk circuits.

Vinod Bhat, Chief Information Officer, TATA SIA Airlines Ltd.

Vinod Bhat, CIO, Vistara Airlines

Vinod Bhat, Chief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Ethics Counsellor (CEC), Vistara - TATA SIA Airlines Ltd.

Vinod Giri, Director - PE, IDFC Alternatives

Vinod Kala, MD, Emergent Ventures

Vinod Kala is the founder and Managing Director of Emergent Ventures India (EVI). EVI is an Integrated Climate Change and Clean Energy Company with a unique footprint covering Climate Change Mitigation services, Sustainable Climate Advisory services, Clean Energy Development services and Clean Energy Generation Business.

EVI is engaged in more than 250 projects with GHG emission potential of 150 million T Co2e+, is present across 10+ countries, covers a wide variety of Clean Technologies in generation such as wind, bio-mass combustion, bio-mass gasification, waste to energy, solar PV, solar CSP and has its own development pipeline approaching 500 MW. EVI has also co-promoted a Hydro Aggregator and LED Chip and Appliance manufacturing business.

Vinod personally leads the introduction of new businesses for EVI. Vinod is a Mechanical Engineer with Post Graduation from IIM Ahmedabad.

Vinod Keni, Growth Partner, Artha Venture Fund

Vinod Krishnan, Head - Business Development (South India and Sri Lanka), Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd

Vinod Krishnan heads Business Development for Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd across South India and Sri Lanka where he is responsible for helping customers adopt Amazon Web Services platform as they embark on a journey that transforms the way IT is delivered and consumed world over.  

Prior to joining Amazon, he was responsible for sales and business development at VMware for their End User Computing and Advanced Technology Offerings and worked with customers across India to help them consolidate and optimize their internal IT infrastructure.  

Vinod has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and an MBA in marketing from SP Jain Institute of Marketing.