Our speakers

Yashasvi Sharma, Associate Director, Financial Advisory Services, PwC India

Yashasvi is an Associate Director in Financial Advisory Services of PwC and is based in Bangalore. Of the 15 years of his professional experience, Yashasvi has spent ten years consulting large business conglomerates on deals. He has also advised both financial and strategic buyers on several public and private transactions.

Yashasvi is actively engaged in consulting clients on Mergers and Acquisitions including due diligence reviews, sell side assistance, review of business plans, purchase agreement reviews, negotiations strategy to name a few.

Prior to this he was with one of the Big Four firms in the UK where he worked on crucial telecom and technology deals. He has also worked with the Management Consultancy practice of A F Ferguson and Co. where he was involved in providing corporate advisory services.

Yashasvi is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Yashasvi has completed his B.Sc (Electronics) from the Hindu College, University of Delhi and has also pursued part-time MBA from the FMS, University of Delhi.

Yashish Dahiya, CEO, PolicyBazaar.com

Yashish Dahiya is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co - Founder at PolicyBazaar.com - the largest online insurance aggregator in the country. His long-term vision and leadership skills have turned this financial start-up into a thriving successful brand in the short span of 6 years. An expert in the field of insurance, He holds extensive knowledge on the consumer financial space in India.

Before starting his entrepreneurial journey with PolicyBazaar.com, he worked with First Europa (a Global Online Insurance Broker) as their CEO. At First Europa, he was responsible for leading its global expansion and managing the business of the company across nine geographical locations. Prior to this, Yashish has been associated with an online travel aggregator, ebookers.com, a leading pan-European online travel agency and led their business as the Managing Director.

Yashish holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad, and an MBA from INSEAD. He likes to spend his spare time outdoors with his family and is an enthusiastic swimmer.

Yashish Dahiya, CEO, Policy Bazaar

Yashodhan Sathe, Chief Investment Officer, IndiaVenture Advisors (Piramal Group)

Yashodhan is the Chief Investment Officer of IndiaVenture Advisors Pvt. Ltd. (IndiaVenture), a company sponsored by the Piramal Group. IndiaVenture is the Investment Manager for IndiaVenture Trust  Fund I, a Healthcare & Life Sciences focussed private equity fund having a corpus of US$ 100 mn.

A private equity professional with 12 years experience in the field, Yashodhan has extensive fund management expertise; including: deal sourcing, investment appraisal, analysis and structuring, fund raising and a strong exit track record. Yashodhan investment horizons have encompassed various sectors including, inter-alia, healthcare & life sciences, infrastructure, oil and gas, telecoms, textiles, logistics, retailing, IT enabled services, etc. Additionally, Yashodhan has extensive experience in investing at various stages in the life-cycle of a company viz. Start-ups, growth capital, funding for M&A, turnaround situations and buy-outs.

Prior to joining IndiaVenture, Yashodhan served as Director, WL Ross (India) Private Limited and Associate Director with IL&FS Investment Managers Limited.

Yashodhan is a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) with a post-graduate qualification in
Finance (Mumbai) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Manchester Business School, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Yashoraj Tyagi, CTO, CASHe

Yashoraj leads all aspects of the company’s technology strategy, planning, and development, working to deliver a robust and secure technology platform that underpins all aspects of its lending business. Since joining CASHe in 2017, Yashoraj has successfully created a scalable and high-impact technology solution, which he hopes will go a long way in financially empowering millions of unbanked and underbanked people in India and pave a way for their rapid financial inclusion. He leads the team that built a scalable, high-frequency loan underwriting platform capable of analyzing hundreds of data points of each applicant using data analytics and machine learning algorithms. In his expanded role as the CBO, his focus will be on bringing out innovative financial products that are inclusive and expansive and strive for technology and business alliances and partnerships that are key to CASHe’s long-term growth and success 

He strongly believes that innovation is a fundamental driver of growth and progress in any organisation. Thus, he is motivated to create, harness and manage technology such that it benefits the masses and positively affects the world in which we live today. He is passionate about solving problems, be it at any level, and motivates his team and takes the initiative to come up with long-term solutions. 

Yashoraj is UC Berkely-educated and armed with a master’s degree in financial engineering. He also holds a BE (Hons.) from Bits Pilani. 

Yashveer Yadav, Chief Business Officer, Oister Global

Yateesh Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer, Aegon Religare Life Insurance Company Limited

Mr Yateesh Srivastava is the Chief Operating Officer at AEGON Religare Life Insurance Company Limited.

Mr Srivastava has nearly twenty five years of varied experience spanning general management, marketing research, advertising, internet entrepreneurship and marketing. Prior to joining AEGON Religare Life Insurance Company Limited, he worked as the Marketing Director with Centurion Bank of Punjab and before that was the Chief Marketing Officer of YES Bank. In his advertising career, he has worked with Lintas, Ambience Publicis and Triton Communications where he handled a plethora of brands spanning FMCG, automobiles, telecom, consumer durables and financial services.

At AEGON Religare, Mr Srivastava is responsible for the company’s product development&management, branding &communications, new business and policy servicing operations, sales operations, underwriting & claims, infrastructure &facilities, IT & BPM and customer service.

Mr. Srivastava has a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Delhi. 

Yateesh Wahaal, Director, Nayati Healthcare & Research Pvt. Ltd.

34 year old Yateesh Wahaal, is a B.Tech in Electronics & Communications and Business Administration (Finance & Marketing). He has also done advance management programme from the NUS, Singapore & ISB Hyderabad and specialized course in Private Equity from ISB Hyderabad.

Yateesh began his professional career more than a decade ago as a Banker with the then Centurion Bank. Defying conventional thinking, Yateesh joined start-up consultancy Noesis, helping clients with important acquisitions and development in New York, India, Oman, United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Russia, and Indonesia across industries like telecom, real estate, iron ore, oil & gas and automobiles, amongst others. Yateesh set-out to establish and head Pegasus, another consulting firm out of Africa, India and South East Asia, incubating companies and guiding them for eventual listing at the bourses.

Currently, Yateesh is the Executive Director of Nayati Healthcare, pursuing its vision of offering quality healthcare to people living in tier II & III cities of India.

Yeshwanth M Kini, CEO - India, KAUP Capital

Yeshwanth M Kini has over 27 years of experience in the Indian markets. He has co-founded and led KAUP Capital, an Infrastructure Private Equity player from 2008 to date. KAUP is the exclusive advisor to the Mauritius based Manager of the Infrastructure India Holdings Fund LLC (IIHF). IIHF manages international pension and superannuation money and invests in India. The focus has been on providing growth capital to small and medium sized companies. Despite a smaller size, KAUP stands apart with the performance of its portfolio – with significantly positive returns on all of its investments, in a period when the Infra sector in India has faced tremendous headwinds. Some of the investments include Aegis Logistics, Ocean Sparkle and Gujarat Pipavav Port. Prior to this, Yeshwanth has held senior management positions in UTI Mutual Fund, SG Securities (a part of SocGen group), NatWest Markets and Morgan Stanley. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU).

Yogendra Kashyap, MD & CEO, RapiPay

A technocrat with around 30+ years of experience in technology and in nurturing new businesses. Yogendra Kashyap has brought BFSI (Banking Financial Services in India) services to over 1 million touch points throughout India. He pioneered a number of Govt. of India’s technology enabled initiatives before venturing into the Digital Wallet and Money Remittance businesses.

A crusader for bringing about e-governance in government organizations, he has worked relentlessly towards devising new solutions and technologies in the ITES sector across the length and breadth of the country, thus impacting the last mile. He has vast experience in VLSI (very large-scale integration) circuits designing and implementation thereof and has identified the product hardware for RapiPay. He has been involved in implementation and deployment of various power supplies and circuits projects, which are primarily effective to decide upon devices used for mATM and mPOS.

Mr. Kashyap possesses great understanding of India’s demographics and distribution systems. As part of designing, collection and issuance of electoral roll and electoral identity cards, he could reach out to 80 million people of the country across various districts primarily in North and West regions. He has spearheaded many successful projects like usage of smart cards in Govt. transport impacting people in 70 Districts, managing and improving the public distribution system in 5 States, implementation of Coastal ID cards in 13 states from West Bengal to Gujarat for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. With such projects, he honed his skills and gained deeper understanding of Indian demographics and issues pertaining to the lowest strata of society. His experience has been the bedrock to make RapiPay a success and innovate new products to reach out to the last mile through RapiPay. He has been able to redefine the payment systems in India through “RapiPay Saathis”, a B2B assisted model to provide basic Banking services.

In addition, Mr. Kashyap has many feathers in his cap including the use of Artificial Intelligence in KYC based processes. In 1998 he established biometric authentication for the identity business in India under the UIDAI project. In 2003, he issued the first SCOSTA (Smart Card Operating System for Transport Application) based interoperable vehicle registration cards. In 2010, issued the first Aadhar authenticated Ration card and in 2006, introduced Mobile data terminals into transport buses. Also, he has designed the system integration of MDTs (mobile data terminals) for state transport, buses including web-based bus terminal and in-bus ticketing system for various state transports including Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.

Mr. Kashyap has grown RapiPay from 500 agents to a 50,000+ agents’ network with transaction volumes which began from Rs 20 crores per month to Rs 1300 crores per month within a year’s time. Under his leadership and technical knowhow, RapiPay is set to build the best in class B2B payment services model and the largest network of “RapiPay Saathis”