Our speakers

Yogendra Vasupal, Co-founder & CEO, Stayzilla

Stayzilla is the brainchild of Mr.Yogendra Vasupal and was started in 2005 as Inasra Technologies and rebranded in 2010 as Stayzilla. Yogi, as he is referred to, dropped out of engineering to start a career at the age of 19 by undertaking freelancing projects to develop web-based applications and ecommerce portals. As his tryst with e-commerce grew deeper, he developed a vision to launch an ecommerce portal of his own. That vision grew into the inception of an online portal for hotel accommodations anywhere in India known as Stayzilla.

 

Stayzilla focuses on tier II towns and ensures that travellers can easily search and locate thousands of budget hotels across India, many of whom are not online. It has 3,800 hotels, lodges and even boathouses in its network. It raised its first institutional round of equity funding from Matrix Partners India.

 

Yogesh Kaushik, Co-Founder, CTO, Learn India Learn (Secure Learning Pvt Ltd)

Yogesh Kumar, Head of IT - Business Application & CISO, TATA Advanced Systems Ltd

Yogesh Mahansaria, Serial Entrepreneur (Co-founder Alliance Tire Group, Mahansaria Tyres; former co-promoter Balkrishna Inds),

Yogesh Mahansaria started his career in 1993 as an industrial trainee at Balkrishna Industries Ltd. Thereafter, he was given responsibility for business development at the tire business, wherein he identified the opportunity to enter the global market for Off-Highway Tires and was then tasked with implementing this strategy.

In 2000, he was appointed CEO of the tire business, a position he held till 2006; during this time, he drove the increase in revenues for the tire business from $20 million to $125 million, and increased profitability significantly. In 2006, Yogesh and his father got together with Warburg Pincus LLC to establish Alliance Tire Group, with the acquisition of Alliance Tire Company, in Israel. This was followed by the establishment of ATC Tires Pvt. Ltd, to set up a greenfield Off Highway
tire manufacturing plant in South India, and subsequently, the Group acquired the Off-Highway Tire distribution assets and brands of GPX International Tire Co of the USA in 2009.

In a short span of time, Yogesh has been able to build the Group from an idea into one of the world leaders in Off-Highway tires, with revenues approaching $600Mn, a team of 5000 employees and network of over 2200 customer across 120 countries. On 1st July 2016, The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd, Japan, one of the world’s leading tire & rubber group acquired 100% equity of ATG from KKR, the Mahansaria Family & other shareholders.

Presently, in addition to managing his Family Office, he has also incubated a new venture – Mahansaria Tyres Private Limited (MTPL), to focus on manufacturing opportunities in tire and rubber space. He also serves as a Director on the Boards of – Avendus Capital Pvt Ltd (Leading financial services provider, focussing in areas of financial advisory, capital markets, wealth management and alternative asset management) FSN E-Commerce Ventures Pvt Ltd (Operator of online beauty & wellness store, nykaa.com) 321 Education Foundation (Philanthropic organization, focused on improving the quality of education for children of low-income communities)

Yogi Sadana, CEO, CASHe

Yogi Sadana is the Chief Executive Officer at CASHe, one of India’s leading FinTech enabled app-only lending platform to salaried millennials. As the company’s CEO, Yogi spearheads CASHe’s ambitious growth plans to become a market leader in digital lending business using transformative technologies in AI/ML to build its financial product offerings. Appointed as CEO in July 2020, he is responsible for leading a talented team of professionals to achieve the company’s vision to broad base credit to millions of young salaried professionals  who are otherwise kept out of the credit system based on archaic credit scoring systems and traditional financial institutions.

 Yogi is a CA and CPA with over 15 years of experience in finance, accounting,  strategy and business.  He has worked in leadership positions in large multinational organizations prior to joining CASHe.

Youssef Salem, CFO, ADNOC Drilling

Youssef Salem is CFO of ADX-listed ADNOC Drilling, world’s largest integrated driller. Youssef’s experience includes being CFO of AIQ, MENA’s fastest unicorn and first AI unicorn; CFO & Director at Swvl, world’s first mass transit marketplace to go public and MENA’s first unicorn to list on Nasdaq; Executive Director & Senior Advisor at Moelis with 13 years of investment banking experience, executing >$100bn of capital raises, financings, M&A, and restructurings across >60 transactions; Founder of Core71, a Hub71 backed venture investors syndicate; Entrepreneur in Residence at Hub71; Adjunct Professor of Practice at the American University in Cairo; and Board / Advisory Board Member in multiple technology companies and funds. He is a CFA Charterholder, Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, youngest CFO on both Nasdaq and ADX and was featured in Forbes Middle East 30 under 30 list.

YS Prabhakar, CEO, Sutures India

YS Prabhakar is the CEO of Sutures India group since April 2014.  He began his career with ICI India in 1988 by getting  involved in multiple businesses of ICI across India. He also worked with  Allergan Inc. for ten years besides serving seven and a half years at Danaher as Director for International Business. Prio to joining Sutures India, he was a director of Bioscience’s at Becton Dickinson India

Yudhishter Gopalkrishna, Entrepreneur and founder, Ethniceye Ventures

Yudhishter is an entrepreneur and founder of Ethniceye Ventures, currently working on a d2c sports-play product. He has 15 years of leadership and management experience and has been working for fortune 100 companies and small enterprises - driving revenue through building and managing strategic relationships worldwide. 

He until mid 2014, headed international business development for July Systems - a cloud based mobile internet platform company powering consumer facing mobile services of some of the largest brands in the world.

He served on the Advisory Board of a few start-ups and was a part of the Management team at July Systems Inc., the pioneers and leaders in Mobile technology and services, until very recently. 

He is a post graduate from the Madras Christian College, India with an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines. He also has an advanced diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Paris.

Yudhvir Mor, CPTO, HT Media

Yusuf Motiwala, Founder, TringMe

Yusuf Motiwala is the founder and CEO. He brings 14 years of data & telecom design experience to TringMe. Prior to founding TringMe in 2007, he held key architecture and management position at Aricent (then HSS), Lucent Technologies, Texas Instruments etc. He received various awards for recognition of his technical contribution at Lucent & Texas Instrument including prestigious MGTS by TI president & Best-in-class award at TI.

Yusuf has filed multiple patents in the area of IPTV and telecommunication. He is also an author of few IEEE/ACM papers and got special mention in RFC 4067 for his contribution to wireless context transfer.

He holds Masters Degree in EE from IIT, Bombay. He was also served as research engineer at Stanford University, Palo Alto for a Bell labs research project.