Our speakers

Venu Donepudi, Founder & Managing Director, CarZ

Vibhor Nayar, Vice President, Duff & Phelps

Vibhore Sharma, CTO, Naukri.com

Vibhore is an Internet technology Specialist with around 19 years of work experience in different fields. He has been working with Naukri.com for past 12 years in various roles. As the Chief Technology Officer of India’s biggest online recruitment portal, he has spearheaded the website’s engineering and product evolution since its initial stages. A technology enthusiast at core, his expertise encompasses creating new products, engineering for high traffic and envisaging high user - engagement interactions.

Vibhu Bhushan, Co-founder, GradeStack

Vibhu is a co-founder of GradeStack, a mobile learning platform. He is a graduate from NSIT and has worked with Yahoo, Naukri before starting his previous company in the social news aggregation space. He has strong product management skills and good understanding of building scalable systems.
He is a marathoner and loves running.

Vicky Gala, Associate Managing Director, Investigations, Diligence and Compliance, Kroll

Vicky leverages more than 15 years of forensic experience in advising clients across the globe on corporate governance, investigations, digital forensics, anti-bribery, crisis management, anti-trust and regulatory matters. He has advised clients across a range of industries, including financial services, life sciences, media and entertainment, consumer products, energy and industrial manufacturing in India, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, Africa and South Asia.

Prior to joining Kroll, Vicky served at Alvarez and Marsal, PwC, KPMG, National Stock Exchange in a similar forensic and inspection profile.

Vicky brings deep expertise in conducting proactive and reactive engagements for the board, audit committees and senior management of multinational and domestic companies. He has also led certain highly sensitive engagements that have been extensively covered in the press. These engagements include more than 80 complex and sensitive investigations involving fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of business assets. Further, he has also led a marquee corporate governance advisory project for the board of a fintech client that involved investigation and subsequently remediation through instituting controls and fraud governance framework. Vicky has also led investigations covering securities laws violations for one of the leading top five investment funds of India.

Additionally, Vicky has led digital-enabled fraud risk management projects providing actionable insights, risk monitoring and early warning signals.  Vicky was also in charge of due diligence assignments during investment transactions for clients advising them on high-priority areas such as anti-bribery, corporate governance and anti-fraud framework.

Previously, Vicky has also managed dispute advisory engagements involving quantum of damages, claim rebuttal and assisted in cross-examination. He has led multiple initiatives for strengthening corporate governance, including policy enhancements, work and ethical environment surveys for clients.

Vicky holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Additionally, he holds Valuation –Securities or Financial Assets Certification from the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India.

Vidmay Naini, Director & Business Head, eBay India

Vidmay Naini is the Director & Business Head of eBay India and heads the critical functions of Business Operations, PaisaPay and PowerShip for the company. Prior to this, Vidmay was the head of Technology Categories, Retention Marketing and Global EasyBuy at eBay India. As the head of Retention Marketing, he was responsible for devising strategies to engage customers & drive lifetime value.

At eBay, Vidmay Naini has led strategic projects such as developing eBay Philippines & Malaysia markets, launching eBay’s first Group Buying site eBay Kuponan in Philippines & eBay Global EasyBuy.

Prior to joining eBay India, Vidmay Naini was the Manager - Retail Sales, Andhra Pradesh for Reliance Mutual Funds. He is a seasoned professional with over 13 years of cross-cultural experience in ecommerce, business development, online marketing, sales, distribution and brand management functions.

Vidmay Naini is a graduate from Nizam College, Osmania University, Hyderabad and did his MBA in Marketing from Institute of Management Development & Research, Pune.

Vidmay enjoys travelling in his free time. He is an avid cricket fan & occasionally bowls with the eBay cricket team. His favourite online purchase is mobile phones & LCD TVs.

Vignesh Ananthraj, Principal Correspondent, Mosaic Digital

Vigyan Gadodia, MD & CEO, Sahaj Agro Farm

Vigyan Gadodia let his corporate job as a Corporate Banker to become a fulltime Rural Entrepreneur in 2006. Since then, Vigyan has experimented with multiple rural business models promoting grass root entrepreneurship, organic farming to improving Primary education. In 2012-13, Vigyan consolidated his learning and now the Sahaj group is working on a “Ecosystem” approach to rural Development. Our key focus is to improve farmer income through a better planned (and scaled) dairy farming operation at farmer level, and create “Clean Milk System” to produce the “Best Quality Milk in the World in India”.

At Sahaj, we treat Rural India as a “Horizontal” which merits multiple profitable interventions. Sahaj has active interest in Education, Rural Tourism, Dairy and Agri business, and is eager to enable other businesses (Healthcare, Sanitation, Water) to also come and participate in the rural growth story.

Vijay Ajmera, SVP - Finance, Snapdeal

Vijay Anand, Founder, The Startup Centre

Vijay Anand is the founder of The Startup Centre and also the spearhead behind initiatives such as In50hrs and The Goa Project. He is actively involved in engaging the Startup Community in Chennai (for the past 10 years) through Initiatives such as The Chennai Open Coffee Club meets that happen every month, The Bookclub and is also the representative for the Chennai Chapter of Pecha Kucha. Vijay was in his previous avatar the head of the Incubation Centre in IIT's Incubator RTBI and founded Proto.in