Our speakers

Vipul Roongta, MD & CEO, HDFC Capital

Mr Vipul Roongta is the Managing Director & CEO of HDFC Capital Advisors Ltd, investment manager of the largest affordable and middle-income housing fund in India. Vipul manages more than US$ 1 billion and focuses on providing long term equity and mezzanine capital to the real estate sector.

Prior to setting up a dedicated platform for investments in affordable housing, Vipul was heading the investment team at HDFC Asset Management Company Limited (HDFC AMC), where he successfully raised and deployed over US$950 million in the real estate private equity sector in India. The fund was awarded “Best Real Estate Fund” in India for 3 years in a row from 2013 to 2015 and “Real Estate Fund of the Decade” in 2016 by CNBC-Awaaz. Prior to HDFC AMC, Vipul was part of the core team that set up one of the first Indian real estate venture funds under HDFC Property Fund. 

Mr Roongta has cumulative experience of more than twenty years in the real estate sector and has managed real estate investment funds in excess of US$3 billion. Outside of work, Vipul loves to travel, is a food enthusiast and runs a food club in New Delhi.

Mr Roongta has been honored with some important awards, the leading one being the fund manager of the decade in 2016 by CNBC Awaaz.

Viraf Karanjia, Sr VP & Head Corporate Banking, HSBC Western India

Viraf has over 15 years of in-depth experience of working with very aspect of Corporate and Commercial banking. He Heads the Corporate banking team for HSBC in Western India, he has been with HSBC for over 5 years and his previous experience includes working with various local and multinational financial organizations.

Viraj Bahl, Founder & Managing Director, Veeba Food Services Pvt Ltd

Mr Viraj Bahl is the Founder & Managing Director of Veeba Food Services  Private Limited. Under the “Veeba” brand the company is one of the fastest growing FMCG companies in the country. Veeba has re-wriiten the rules of the industry with extreme focus on Research & Development. In a very short span of time under the leadership of Viraj Bahl - Veeba has already become leading supplier to all the biggest names in the QSR industry of India and has a national distribution footprint.

After completing his Industrial Engineering from Singapore, Viraj Bahl started his career at Fun Foods - Viraj Bahl was a part of the promoter family of Fun Foods, they later made a complete exit by selling their shares to a German Food Major. At Fun Foods Viraj Bahl was responsible for all  aspects of the business. He personally spear-headed the explosive expansion of that company in retail and modern trade.

Viraj Bahl in his entire career has been awarded various awards from the industry & various organisations.

Viraj Sawhney, MD, Warburg Pincus India Private Limited

Viraj Sawhney is a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd. He is based in Mumbai and joined Warburg Pincus in 2005.  He evaluates opportunities in business services sectors including logistics and IT, as well as industrials. He is a director of ECOM Express Private Limited, Embassy Industrial Parks Private Limited, Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Limited and AVTEC India Limited.

Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Sawhney was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where he spent five years serving clients in the services and industrial sectors across India, S.E. Asia and Australia.  Mr. Sawhney holds a B.A. degree in mathematics from St. Stephens College (Delhi University) and an M.B.A. from IIM Ahmedabad.

Virat Diwanji, Group President and Head - Consumer Banking, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Virat Singh Khutal, Co-Founder & CEO, Twist Mobile

Virat is Co-Founder and CEO of Twist Mobile. He has worked as game developer and game designer in Gameloft before starting Twist Mobile. He has been active participating in Twistfuture for Short Mobile Movie production in India. Entrepreneurship and Mass reach has been always focus for him. Virat graduated as an Architect from IPS Academy, India and did MCM from Pune University.

Viren Shetty, Executive Director, Narayana Hrudayalaya Pvt. Ltd

Viren Shetty is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning at Narayana Hrudayalaya Group of Hospitals and also sits on the Board of Directors. He started his career in the hospital engineering division and executed 8 projects as part of NH’s expansion strategy. He is currently working on streamlining the operating procedures for various group hospitals in order to maintain Narayana Hrudayalaya’s goal of delivering the highest quality care at the most affordable price.

Viren has a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the RV College of Engineering and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Virender Aggarwal, CEO, Ramco Systems

Disruption led innovation is the new status quo and globally new-age organizations are redefining the rules of the game. This has been the anchor for Virender Aggarwal (aka VA) who has been leading business transformations through technology for 30+ years. As CEO of Ramco Systems, he continues to drive this philosophy taking the organization forward into the frontiers of emerging digital technologies.

His leadership style thrives on building the right culture and leveraging Innovation to thrive in a fast paced world.

On the Innovation front, VA constantly scans the tech horizon and has a natural instinct to read the tea leaves ahead of others. This is why Ramco has been able to bring in new Innovation around Chatbots, Voice and now Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ahead of others in the enterprise applications arena.

Virender Bisht, Co-founder and CTO, NiYO Solutions Inc

Virender is currently the Co founder and CTO with Fintech startup in stealth mode - NIYO. NIYO solutions is disrupting the consumer banking experience at a global level with its innovative and market first solutions.

Virender is a seasoned technology professional with 16 years of experience in creating world-class software products. He has diverse experience in senior technology executive roles in startups and global organizations like MobiKwik, Makemytrip (MMYT), StudyPlaces.com, Exponential Inc, GE Medical Systems and Tata Consultancy Services. Virender is hands on technologist and has reputation for building scale-able solutions for e-commerce and payments domain. Virender is a leader experienced in managing and building high performance teams.

His specialties are Technology Executive, Mobile Apps, B2C Systems, Ecommerce, Online Payments, Online Media, Ad Serving, Java/J2EE, Open source, & Software Architecture.

Virender Bisht, Director Technology Development , MakeMyTrip.com

Virender is leading Payment system at MakeMyTrip - A leading OTA. MMT Payment systems are integrated with many Payment Gateways and Aggregator Systems in India & Abroad. He focuses on customer convenience, increasing conversions, reducing frauds.

He is also an active developer and architect with deep understanding of high transaction ecommerce sites. Besides payments, he also focuses on Mobile Apps and CMS at MMT.

You can reach him at Virender.bisht@makemytrip.com or @vsbisht