Our speakers

Vishal Laheri, Advisor -M&A & Strategy, Reliance Capital Ltd | @RelianceCapital

Vishal Laheri has over 14 years of experience in Strategy, M&A and transactions advisory across Financial Services, Technology Media & Telecom and Infrastructure & Power sectors. He has worked on some of the largest and most complex transactions in India and has developed vital relationships with several renowned promoters, foreign and India institutions, funds and C-Level executives.

Between 2005-2015, Vishal worked with the promoter team (reporting directly to the Group Managing Directors) of Reliance Group (India’s leading business conglomerate), across all the businesses of the Group, specifically working on M&A, taxation and accounting matters. He also assisted the promoter team in their representations with several industry forums including FICCI, CII, IMC, India US CEO forum, etc.

Over the past 4 years, Vishal was responsible for the M&A & Strategy function, reporting to the Group CEO at Reliance Capital Limited (RCAP), the holding company of Reliance Group’s financial businesses. In this role, amongst several other transactions, he was instrumental in the Group’s key partnerships with Nippon Life Insurance (Japan) for the life insurance and asset management businesses, and with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust and Bank (Japan) for the proposed banking license and strategic partnership. During this period, Vishal has closed transactions aggregating to ~USD 1.5 bn. He continues to advise RCAP on its ongoing transactions.

Prior to joining Reliance Group, Vishal was part of the Transaction Advisory Services at Ambit RSM (now part of PwC India) for about 4 years, and worked on a wide range of sector-agnostic M&A and restructuring transactions, for leading Indian as well as MNC clients.

Vishal is a Fellow of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of India and a Company Secretary by qualification, and has graduated from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai, with state government open merit scholarship.

Vishal Lal, Co-Founder, Ultracash Technologies | @UltraCash

Vishal is an entrepreneur and a Product innovator – who believes in solving large and complex real world problems using technology and deep consumer insights .

Alumnus of IT-BHU with over 17 years of experience, Vishal has been at the heart of startup ecosystem spearheading Technology, Product, Business Development, and managed Customer engagements across US, UK, Asia and Latin America.

He has Co-founded two Product Companies in domain of Mobile Payments, Security and Pattern Recognition around Innovative technologies driving adoption of large scale consumer services. In the past he has also been a Principle architect at  multiple startups and has led through the entire life cycle of companies and products including go- to-market strategies and managing customer engagements. He holds multiple patents in the area of system architecture and security.

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Vishal Mahadevia, Managing Director, Head of India, Warburg Pincus

Vishal Mahadevia is a Managing Director, Head of India and member of the Executive Management Group at Warburg Pincus. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2006, he worked with Private Equity funds, Greenbriar Equity Group and Three Cities Research. He also worked as a Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Mahadevia is also a Director of IDFC First Bank Limited and Apollo Tyres Limited. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association, The International Advisory Board of Center for the Advanced Study of India and the India Regional Board of Room to Read. He received a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Vishal Mahajan, President - Investment Banking, YES Securities

Vishal has over 18 years of experience in origination and execution of investment banking transactions. He has successfully closed several ‘first of its kind’ transactions in India across domestic/cross-border M&A and fund raising mandates.

Vishal leads the Investment Banking practice for Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT), Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) and FMCG sectors.

Vishal joined YES Bank in May 2006. Prior to joining YES BANK, Vishal was with Marsh & McLennan, a Fortune 100 financial institution and with Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services. Vishal is a BE (Electronics) from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Vishal Maheshwari, Country Manager, Vuclip India

Vishal brings with him over fifteen years of leadership experience in the telecom and mobile internet space with organizations such as Yahoo! India and BPL Mobile, and ten years of product and brand management experience at Parle, Warner Lambert and SBI Cards. Appointed in January 2016 as Vuclip’s Country Manager for India, Vishal’s core responsibilities include driving consumer adoption, engagement and monetisation for its OTT video on demand (VOD) services in India through strategic partnerships, service innovation and consumer insights.

Vishal is a founder partner at Serendipity Investments since the year 2013. His advisory experience to start ups in the consumer internet space will help Vuclip enhance their portfolio in India.

Vishal Mehta, Co-founder & Managing Director, Lok Capital

Vishal is co-founder of Lok Capital that started its impact investment operations in India in late 2004. Since then he has played the lead role in building Lok Capital as a premier venture capital fund focused on impact investing.  Lok Capital is one of the first India focused impact investor, backed by institutional investors. Lok is raising its 3rd fund and has so far invested over $85M in India and has fully liquidated its first fund.

Prior to Lok, Vishal worked for about a decade in marketing and business development in the financial services and telecom sector, both in developed as well as developing economies. Vishal holds an Engineering degree from Delhi University and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Vishal Mehta, Founder & CEO, Infibeam.com

Vishal Mehta is the founder, CEO of Infibeam.com. With a stellar academic record, he entered Cornell University where he studied Operations Research & Management. After graduating with honours, he joined Dell to gain some real world industry experience and then pursued management studies at MIT. In the post Internet-bubble burst era where raising capital became difficult and the future of ecommerce was doubtful, he joined Amazon. He worked at Amazon for several years in technology, finance and corporate development roles.

In persue to build his dream technology company, he moved back to India in 2007, and incorporated Infibeam. After more than ten years of his life in the US, he winded up his assets to venture out in India. Today, InfiBeam has more than one crore retail products and 50 lakh visits per month by Indians online who buy everything from books to music to mobiles.

Infibeam has also opened up its technology platform under the URL www.buildabazaar.com where any store owner without any technology know-how and software training can open an online store of their own in easy 5 steps within ten minutes. More than 15 thousand retailers in India today use buildabazaar to create and run their online stores including TheMobileStore, Crossword, VIP bags, Airtel and many more.

Vishal Mirchandani, CEO- Retail & Commercial, Brigade Enterprises Limited

Vishal Mirchandani is the CEO of Retail and Commercial Space, spear-heading the Brigade Group’s ambitious plans of substantial growth in the development and management of premium Commercial and Retail space.

Under his leadership, Orion Mall has become one of the leading malls in the country and has won several awards and accolades. It is one of the best managed malls of the country and city and continues to grow in terms of popularity with the consumers for its iconic status and international experience. He has played a pivotal role in scaling up the Commercial business of Brigade Group and has also led it into new geographies like Kochi in south and Ahmedabad in west. During his earlier stints at various lifestyle and retail organizations, he has successfully taken companies to new heights of growth and awards!
 
Vishal was a student of commerce, economics and marketing and alumni of H.R. College of Commerce & Economics and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. He has been a leader from early stages of his career. Over the years, he has held prolific management positions in leading organizations of the country including Shoppers Stop, Aditya Birla Group, Prozone Capital Shopping Centres and now with the Brigade Group. He is a winner of many industry awards.
 
He has multifaceted interests outside work including travel, reading, films - especially world cinema, music and sports.

Vishal Nevatia, Managing Partner, True North

Vishal Sagar, Partner, Trilegal