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Vishwas Patel, CEO, Avenues India Pvt. Ltd

As the Founder-CEO of Avenues India Private Limited, Vishwas has guided the company to become South Asia's No. 1 eCommerce service provider. He oversees the strategic planning, execution and financial management at Avenues.

The company's first initiative, CCAvenue® was launched in September 2001 and it today provides payment gateway services to thousands of eMerchants across the world. More than 85% of India's Web Merchants are using the CCAvenue payment gateway solution. The solution is India's largest direct debit engine, which connects to more than 50+ Indian banks in real time and processes all types of Credit Cards, Debit Cards and Cash Cards. ResAvenue®, the second initiative is the fastest growing Hospitality solution in the Indian Sub-continent. Launched in 2004, more than 1500 hotel properties in Asia are using ResAvenue's state-of-the-art booking engine, distribution services and payment gateway services on their hotel websites. EventAvenue®, the third Initiative was launched in 2006 and was India's first and the industry's leading online registration and payment gateway software that is used by event organizers, corporations, schools, universities, associations, temples, non-profit and government organizations, and more, for conferences, trade shows, sporting events, class admission registrations, donation collection, webinars and other event managements. More than 600 conferences, exhibitions, webinars, class admission registrations, concerts and sporting events were powered by EventAvenue during the last calendar year making it one of the fastest growing online registration and payment gateway solution in South Asia.

He has been featured extensively in many publications and has been bestowed with many awards including the Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Award by (ISC)2 the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals, in Bangkok in 2007. Vishwas is also the Co-Chairman of the Payments Council of India as well as the Chairman of the Merchant Aggregator Committee of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and is an active speaker at many Internet related forums.

Prior to founding Avenues, he was a practicing counsel on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court. He also co-founded the SEASONS Group of Companies, which owns the fashion brand 'SEASONS' (www.seasonsIndia.com), which today is the top name in the branded Indian ethnic garments industry and is retailed at over 1500 top outlets in over a 100 cities around the globe. Vishwas is also involved in his family's construction business, which has constructed several landmark structures in India's financial capital, Mumbai. Vishwas is a Commerce graduate and holds a Degree of Law from the Mumbai University.


Vishwas Patel, Joint Managing Director, Infibeam Avenues and Chairman, Payments Council of India

Mr. Vishwas Patel is the Executive Director at Infibeam Avenues Limited and Founder & CEO of the Company’s Payments business. 

Mr. Vishwas Patel is the founder of the payment gateway brand CCAvenue, founded in the year 2001. CCAvenue is among India's top 3 online payment gateway platforms and ranks number 2 in the UAE among non-bank private digital payment companies. CCAvenue was recently honoured with the Economic Times Best BFSI Brands 2022 accolade and has been selected for the third year in a row as among India’s renowned and most trusted brands by Superbrands India. 

Under his leadership, IAL has developed a full stack payments portfolio covering Payments Acquiring, Payments Issuance, Domestic and International Remittance and Assisted Commerce in financial services. He has also expanded the payments business in international markets covering UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the USA, and plans to expand in multiple geographies in the coming years to make the payments business global. 

Mr. Patel has studied law and was a practising counsel at the Bombay High Court. 

Mr. Vishwas Patel has significantly contributed to shaping and giving direction to the digital payments industry for nearly two decades in India. 

He is currently the Chairman of the Payments Council of India, the primary industry body representing all the digital payments providers in India. PCI works closely with the regulators i.e. Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Finance Ministry and any similar government, departments, bodies or Institutions to make ‘India a less cash society’. He also serves as a member of various RBI committees to deepen digital payments in India. 

In recognition of his path-breaking accomplishments and stellar contributions as an industry leader in the Indian Fintech sector over the past two decades, he has been conferred many awards; Entrepreneur of the Year in Service Business – SaS & IT at the Entrepreneur Awards 2020, Intellectual Explorer Award 2020, Payments Entrepreneur of the Year accolade at the Payments & Cards Awards 2019, Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Award 2007. 


Vishwas Patel, Executive Director, Infibeam Avenues

Vishwas Patel is the Executive Director of Infibeam Avenues, the country’s first FinTech to be listed on the National Stock Exchange of India. He founded CCAvenue in 2001, a multi-channel payment platform that provides payment solutions to online businesses in India and now with a significant presence in the Middle East and USA as well. He has studied Law from the Mumbai University and was a practicing counsel on the original side of the Bombay High Court prior to founding CCAvenue. In recognition of his numerous and stupendous achievements as a pioneer and leader in the digital payments industry, Vishwas has been appointed Chairman of the Payments Council of India (PCI), an apex non-government body representing companies in payments and settlement system in India.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards such as Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Award by (ISC)² the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals in Bangkok (2007), Best Payments Entrepreneur Awards at the Payments & Cards Summit (2019) and Business Entrepreneur of the Year – IT & SaaS at the Entrepreneur Awards (2020) to name a few.

He has also launched other cutting-edge SaaS solutions that include ResAvenue.com, the complete hotel reservation and distribution platform and BillAvenue.com, the RBI-approved operating unit for BharatBillPay, India’s largest interoperable bill payment network.


Viswanath P, Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat


Viswanath Ramaswamy, Vice President, Technology Sales, IBM India & South Asia


Viswanathan Parameswar, Executive Director, Adveq Management

Viswanathan Parameswar (Param) is the Head of the Adveq Asia program and is responsible for all investment activities in the region including primary fund investments, secondaries and direct co-investments. Adveq is a leading asset manager investing in private equity and real asset funds globally with more than USD 5 billion in assets under management. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Adveq Secondaries platform, investing in secondary transactions worldwide. Param leverages his international experience having been actively involved in Adveq’s investment activities across the US, Europe and Asia, particularly in emerging markets.

Param holds an MBA from the HEC School of Management in France and attended the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme at Oxford University, UK.


Vivek Abrol, CEO, Maiyas Beverages and Foods Private Limited | @MaiyasFoods

Vivek has over 15 years of work experience in FMCG space. He has spent his career with ITC traversing across functions: Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain & Product Development. He is now leading Maiyas Beverages & Foods Pvt Ltd in the capacity of C.E.O & is playing an instrumental role in transforming the organisation into a large professionally driven FMCG enterprise in Packaged Foods space.


Vivek Agarwal, Co-Founder & CTO, Square Yards

Vivek Agarwal is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Square Yards – India’s largest integrated platform for Real Estate. Vivek has been instrumental in building various tech and product platforms for the company. He rich experience spanning 18+ years with some of world’s largest companies like Intel, Nokia and Accenture. Vivek is also an avid researcher and recognized in industry circles as a thought leader having published multiple point-of-views on proptech, global mega trends, value chains, business models, products & service strategy.


Vivek Agarwal, MD and CEO, LIQVID e-learning services

Vivek is the MD and CEO of Liqvid. The company derives its name from two words - ‘vid’ for ‘to know’ in Sanskrit and ‘liquidus’ for ‘fluid, flowing’ in Latin. The idea is to provide personalised learning through application of cutting edge technology.

Liqvid has developed a ‘mobile first’, digital language learning platform, and leverages it to provide cutting edge language learning and other solutions to enterprises, institutions and consumers globally. Liqvid follows a unique technology based, assissted learning methodology. It provides English learning solutions in India under the brand English Edge. This program has been deployed at over 5000 locations, delivering more than 1.5 million hours of instruction to more than 600,000 learners.

Before starting Liqvid, Vivek had co-founded egurucool, which  provided curriculum support and test prep courses for K-12 students in India. eGurucool emerged as the pioneer in the field of elearning in India, combining a unique learning methodology and a huge infrastructure of technology and content creation processes. The company raised more than $11 M from investors, which included Newscorp and IFC, Washington and was subsequently sold to NIIT, India.

Vivek has done his MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He has a passionate interest in education and is committed to exploring how technology can help reach millions of people.

@vivek_liqvid


Vivek Belgavi, Partner, Financial Services - FinTech and Technology Consulting Leader, PwC | @PwC_IN

Vivek has over sixteen years of experience of working with Banks, Insurers, and Asset Management Companies in India and globally on business transformation initiatives leveraging innovating technology solutions. He has led multiple strategy engagements in the area of digital, payments, and analytics.

As fintech leader he plays a proactive role in identifying new market propositions, team enablement and also manages key client relationships. Over the years Vivek has been instrumental in assisting NPCI in developing standards and technology platforms for BBPS, XBRL based reporting strategy for Reserve Bank of India and ADF reporting engagement projects for multiple banks. To add on this he has also assisted multiple providers with application for payment banks and developing the bank build out strategy.

An alumnus of IIMC, Vivek did his B.E Electrical Engineering from Govt College of Engineering in Pune. He is a frequent writer and speaker on emerging trends impacting the industry.

@vivekbelgavi