Our speakers

Abhijit Saha, Co-founder, Director & Chef, Caperberry & Fava

Abhijit Saha is the Founding Director and Chef of Avant Garde Hospitality Pvt. Ltd., which currently owns and operates two critically acclaimed award winning restaurants, Caperberry and Fava in Bangalore. In June 2014 Chef Saha opened his Signature Indian restaurant, Saha in Singapore’s Duxton Hill (RAS Epicurean Star Award for Best New Restaurant, 2014). He was awarded the ‘Best Chef of India’ at the Indian Restaurant Congress and Awards, 2013.

With twenty four year of varied experiences, Chef Saha is an expert in Classical and Modern European & Regional Indian cuisines. He has been invited by the Culinary Institute of America as a Guest Chef and Speaker at ‘The World of Flavours Conference‘- 2004, 2005 and 2007. He is a member of the elite team of chefs who contributed to the ‘World Culinary Arts’ DVD which has won the ‘James Beard Foundation’ Award in 2007. In the past he has also won the ‘IFCA Entrepreneur Chef of the Year’ Award 2008-2009 and the SICA ‘Golden Hat’ Award 2010 for outstanding contribution to the culinary field.

Abhijit Saha has studied Hotel Management from IHM Pusa New Delhi; Food Service Technology/ Design and Enology in Johnson and Wales University, Providence, USA. He has enjoys F1 Racing, fine wines, travel, photography, architecture and design.

Abhijit Sen, Partner, Deloitte India

Abhijit leads the TMT sector for Deloitte India -Financial Advisory practice and has 20 years of professional experience. He specially focusses on the technology sector and has been extensively working with investors and companies in both services and products segments. He has worked on large M&As and also fund raise mandates for fast growing digital and SAAS companies.  Abhijit has worked with a variety of clients including multi-nationals and large private equity houses. At a personal level Abhijit is a big foodie and avid traveler. He loves discovering new places and local cuisines. He loves planning for holidays and cooking gastronomic delights with his family.

Abhijit Shah, CTO, Nippon Asset Management India Ltd.

Abhijit Yadav, Partner, PwC

Abhilash Thirupathy, Co-founder, Goldfarm

Abhilash is Co founder at Gold Farm, an Ag Tech start up based out of Bangalore. Gold Farm is a mobile app based tractor booking platform, supported by a rural distribution network. Gold Farm is primarily trying to address the problem of rising labour costs and labour scarcity for agriculture.

Prior to co founding Gold Farm, Abhilash was co-founder at www.healthcaremagic.com He was a day zero team member, who built the entire corporate engagement platform, including engagement with the top 5 Insurance companies in India. The company has since been acquired by a NASDAQ listed firm in the year 2014.

Abhilash completed his MBA from IIM Lucknow and also holds a degree in health sciences.

Abhilash Thirupathy, Director, Gold Farm - AK Surya PowerMagic Pvt. Ltd

Abhilash Thirupathy is the Director of Gold Farm - AK Surya PowerMagic Pvt. Ltd., which provides farmers with products and services through a convenient platform ensuring a positive impact on their lives. Prior to being associated with Gold Farm, Abhilash co-founded Rx HealthcareMagic Pvt. Ltd, a cutting edge platform promoting an interface between healthcare seekers and healthcare service providers.

A dental surgeon by profession, Abhilash has always been at the forefront of creating entrepreneurial value through his innovative and out of the box ideas. He is also an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

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Abhimanyu Chopra, Partner - Dispute Resolution, AZB & Partners

Abhinav Grover, DGM - M&A, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

By qualification, Abhinav Grover is an engineering and management graduate. He has been working as part of the Mergers & Acquisitions team for nearly 9 years. Currently, he works as a Deputy General Manager in the M&A team at the Mahindra Group.  During this tenure he has had the privilege to be a part of over 25 successfully accomplished transactions and over 100 others. He has rich and diverse experience across the globe in sectors ranging like automotive, defence, farm equipment, auto components and information technology. Some of the key transactions include the acquisition of Ssangyong Motors in Korea, Acquisition of Punjab Tractors in India, Acquisition of Reva Electric Car Company and setting up of a joint venture with BAE Systems.

 

As part of his work Abhinav is also responsible for driving the inorganic growth strategy for Mahindra’s Automotive and Defence Sectors. Additionally from time to time he has been a regular speaker at forums like The Bombay Stock Exchange & various management institutes.

Abhinav Haldia, Country Director - India, Lenddo

Abhinav Haldia is the Country Director - India for Lenddo - the global leader in using non-traditional digital data for credit scoring & verifications with a vision of “Improved financial inclusion for at least1 billion people around the world".

Abhinav has over 13 years of experience in the Indian Financial Services Industry, with earlier stints at HSBC & CIBIL. He has been instrumental in bringing some of the largest banks in India to the non-traditional data side and mainstream the usage of these datasets for financial inclusion, enhanced risk mitigation and better understanding of customer behaviour.

Abhinav Kashyap, Head-Technology, GSK Pharmaceuticals