Our speakers

Vivek Soni, Partner, Private Equity Group, KPMG in India

Vivek is a Partner in the Private Equity Group and works with the Deal Advisory Team. He belongs to a rare group of professionals that have experience in investing, consulting, and hands on operational track record of running and scaling up of a services business in India. He has over a decade of experience in leading Business Operations of a PE portfolio company, Real Estate Private Equity and Structured Finance products backed by Real Estate and Infrastructure Assets. Prior to that, Vivek worked with Andersen and EY for over 8 years in Transaction Advisory Services TeamsVivek leads the PE portfolio company coverage program for KPMG and advises select clients on post deal solutions including strategy, fund raise etc. Prior to joining KPMG, Vivek was Co-CEO & CFO of a PE portfolio company for over 6 years and under his stewardship, the company’s business grew significantly and successfully closed more than multiple rounds of equity and debt raise. His earlier experience includes:
  - Real Estate Private Equity with Lehman Brothers in Mumbai. Vivek was a senior Investment Professional in the team and identified and evaluated several investment opportunities in commercial and residential real estate space. Post Lehman’s bankruptcy in Sept 2008, he focused on asset management of the Funds $300mln strong India RE portfolio
  - Real Estate Structured Finance with Lehman Brothers in London, where in Vivek was involved in the structuring and syndication of CMBS bond issues and underwriting of acquisition finance to PE investors
  - Structured Finance for Infrastructure Assets at Bank of America in London. Vivek focused on underwriting, structuring and evaluating Whole Business Securitization transactions backed by Infrastructure assets like Airports, Toll Roads, Ports, Wind Farms and a Power Generation and Distribution business
  - Transaction Advisory Services with Andersen / EY:  Vivek focused on the Oil & Gas and Telecom sectors and worked on several marquee transactions in the capacity of a due diligence specialist

Vivek Srivastav, Senior Vice President - Research and Innovation, Reserve Bank Information Technology Pvt Ltd (ReBIT)

Mr. Srivastav leads the Research and Innovation vertical at ReBIT. In this Industry facing role he is responsible for delivering ReBIT's threat intelligence strategy to strengthen cybersecurity posture for the financial sector, introducing new technologies for furthering the mandate of RBI of creating safe economic environment of growth and financial inclusion and working on policy research.

Mr. Srivastav started his career at Citibank’s software subsidiary COSL in 1997 and supported their central, eastern and European branch banking solutions and interfacing systems.Later he worked at a high-tech startup company in Maryland,USA leading development of their network management software for layer-1 optical network transport solution. Subsequently he joined Cisco and worked on video control systems focusing on cloud migration and application and infrastructure security. An avid technologist he has 8 patents in the area of video systems and cloud security. He has also received excellence award for his contributions in ATIS-IPTV Interoperability standards development forum. Immediately before joining ReBIT, he lead the KYC and AML solution initiatives at Equifax for major banks in US.

Mr. Srivastav graduated from St. Stephens’ College, Delhi University in 1995 and later completed his M.Sc Biotechnology from I.I.T Bombay in 1997. He holds an MBA degree with specialization in Finance from J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia, USA.

He is also a community worker and has designed and taught science and robotics to kids for several years, worked with Bhutanese refugees in Atlanta region and currently supports several social service initiatives in Prayag. He has authored a book called “Learning Science using Robotics” for middle and high school students based on his teaching experience with the kids.

Vivek Srivastava, Co-founder & CEO, HealthCare atHOME India

Mr. Vivek Srivastava is the Co-founder & CEO of HCAH, India’s largest disease management company outside of the hospital. HCAH has investment from the Burman family (promoters of Dabur), founders of the HAH, UK, and Quadria Capital.

He is an IIT Delhi & ISB Alumnus. HCAH is the third healthcare business he has started. He has worked in Fortune 500 companies such as Indian Oil and Capital One before his MBA from ISB. Post his MBA, he started with Ambit Corporate Finance as an investment banker. During his stint with GTI Capital(a private equity fund), he started Nova’s IVF business, besides leading fundraising and M&A for Nova and Air Works (investee companies of GTI). After a brief stint of doing investment into Africa, he joined the Burman family to start the family office for Gaurav Burman. He did 6 investments for the family and represented the family on many Boards. Vivek aims to raise the quality of care and improve health outcomes for patients. He has led HCAH to become the first company in the country to be QAI accredited under their homecare standards.

His sensitivity towards Customer Delight makes HCAH a Customer-centric healthcare services delivery provider backed up by NPS ( Net Promoter Score) which has been >65% under his administration throughout.

He has also led HCAH to become Best Places to Work certified company, a testament to the people practices in the company.

In July 2018 Vivek won the prestigious, Entrepreneur of the year Award for healthcare services at the 8th Annual Entrepreneur India award. He is a fitness freak and is an avid reader too.

Vivek Subramanian, Partner, Avigo Capital Partners

Vivek was part of the founding team at Avigo and has been actively involved in all aspects of Investment Management for the last three years. Avigo is now managing its second fund. The Avigo SME Fund II, focused on investing in Industrial companies in India in the SME space. Vivek has almost 10 years of Private Equity and Business Consulting experience. During his tenure as a business consultant with Accenture, he has worked with a variety of mid-sized Indian and International firms and consistently assisted them in implementing a 5-15% cost reduction by business process re-engineering in the areas of procurement, distribution, supply chain management, and operations and worked in diverse sectors such as Cement & Construction, Engineering, Consumer products, Metals, Pharmaceuticals, and Logistics. Vivek is a Mechanical Engineer from Mumbai University and an MBA from Insead (France).

Vivek Tandon, Co-Founder, Aloe Private Equity

Dr Vivek Tandon, co-founder of Aloe Private Equity, is an experienced international executive and proven entrepreneur with an in-depth background in building technology start-up companies.

Prior to Aloe, Vivek co-founded a number of high technology companies including VICOM Group International. He has held several senior executive management positions including Viventures (a USD$700m Venture Capital Fund as UK Managing Director), CIENA, Kymata, British Telecommunications PLC and Motorola.

Vivek is vice-chairman of Allied Technology Group, a 140 person environmental engineering company, focused on waste water treatment, air pollution treatment for power plants and coal gasification with revenues of US$120m in 2006. He also sits on the boards of Maxsys, Recupyl and Greenko Group.

He has a BSc in Physics from Imperial College and a PhD from University of London (UCL). He holds several patents and has published many papers.

Vivek Tiwari, Founder and CEO, Medikabazaar

Vivek Tiwari is the Founder and CEO of Medikabazaar, India’s largest online platform for medical supplies.

He is known as an innovator, entrepreneur, and the doyen of the healthcare ecommerce business.  Vivek founded MEDIKABAZAAR as a one-stop solution for medical procurement  in cities ranging from Tier 1 to Tier 4, with the goal of revolutionising healthcare and enhancing patient care. It is because of his vision that MEDIKABAZAAR now has a presence in 20,000+ pin codes, serves 2 lac hospitals, and has 7 lac+ SKUs.

Vivek is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, he has an extensive experience in leadership roles which he was designated at prominent global conglomerates like Nestle S.A., Telenor, Maxis Telecom, and Tata Group.
 
He is a distinguished member of the consortium of ace professionals in the Global Medical Devices sector. At the same time, he is also an independent board member at a global regulatory and marketing organization for medical devices.  Starting the company in 2015, he has been able to achieve significant success in making Medikabazaar as India’s largest B2B HealthTech platform.

Vivek has received many industry accolades, including:

  • Times Healthcare Leader Award for Excellence in HealthTech 
  • Top 30 Healthcare Marketer ADMH Healthcare Marketers Summit & Award 2021
  • Best Use of AI in Healthcare Global Artificial Intelligence Summit & Awards 2021 by AICRA
  • Iconic Personality of the Year 11th MT India Healthcare Awards 2021
  • Leading B2B E-Commerce Brand in Healthcare - Times Brand Icon 2021
  • MEDGATE Award for The Most Influential Leader In MedTech 2021
  • India’s #1 AI-ML Smart Decision Making Tool" at the 10th Healthcare Leaders Awards
  • Silver award in 'Best HealthTech Brand' category by IHW
  • BW Techtors 2020. VIZI has been selected as "Tech Companies To Watch Out For
  • CSR Health Impact Awards 2020, Award in COVID Social Impact Business Category
  • Medikabazaar wins the "Top Healthcare IT Minicorn" at the Tracxn Emerging Awards. (Jan 2020)
  • Awarded "Best Last Mile Delivery" at the Global Logistics Excellence Awards 2019
  • Awarded "Best Med Tech E-Tailing Solutions" at the Medical Technology Excellence Awards, 2018 by ASSOCHAM

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Vivek Tolat, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Family Office Investments, KCT Group Trust

Vivek Tyagi, Director - Business Development, Western Digital

Mr. Vivek Tyagi is Director - Business Development, Embedded and Enterprise, Western Digital Corporation – India and South Asia Region. His focus is building a strong team and Strong customer base for Enterprise Storage products including Devices, platforms and systems within India in various industry verticals.

Vivek has over 25 years of industry experience. Prior to Western Digital and SanDisk, Vivek has been pivotal to Sales and Business Development initiatives within India for Freescale Semiconductor, Motorola and Philips Electronics.

Vladislava Ryabota, Regional Corporate Governance Lead, South Asia, IFC

Ms. Vladislava (Slava) Ryabota, joined Mumbai office of IFC in October 2013. She is a key member of IFC’s Corporate Governance Leadership Team and the center point of contact for both investment and advisory services for IFC in South Asia. Ms. Ryabota joined IFC in 1997 and worked in a number of corporate governance advisory projects and was covering investment operations in Europe and Central Asia. Ms. Ryabota specializes in assessment of corporate governance practices, board evaluation, family business governance, governance of funds and SMEs, and has been regularly providing trainings for directors and corporate secretaries. She graduated from the Law Faculty of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University in 1993. She holds a PhD degree and is a mediator accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in UK. Ms. Vladislava Ryabota is a professional trainer and the author of a number of books and articles on corporate governance, commercial law and mediation.

VN Dalmia, Chairman, Dalmia Continental Pvt. Ltd

VN Dalmia is the Chairman of Dalmia Continental Private Limited (DCPL). DCPL, Dalmia’s flagship company, has been a pioneer in establishing the popularity and use of Olive Oil in India. DCPL’s principal product, Leonardo Olive Oil, is the leading Indian brand of Olive Oil.

 

Dalmia is the recipient of an Italian knighthood titled the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity in the rank of Commendatore (Knight Commander) in recognition of his pioneering work in promoting the use and popularity of Italian olive oil, on a commercial scale, in India.

 

Dalmia is also Chairman of Sunshine Tourism Services Private Limited (STSPL), a well-known provider of package tours in India. Previously, Dalmia was Commercial Director of Dalmia Biscuits Private Limited, and Executive Director of Dalmia Dadri Cement Limited. In community activities, Dalmia is President of the Indian Olive Association and a long standing member of the Managing Committee of the PHD Chamber of Commerce. Dalmia is the Executive Vice President of the Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation. Dalmia was previously President of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce NIC and Chairman of the India-Mexico and India-Colombia Joint Business Councils.

 

Dalmia earned an MBA from the University of Virginia’s famed Darden Business School. He is a member of the School’s Alumni Board as well as President of its India Alumni Chapter. In July 2010, he was appointed to the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees, becoming the first Indian citizen, only non-US citizen and third Asian ever to join the board.