Our speakers

Ankit Bhatnagar, Head of Product, Mswipe

Ankit has over 15 years of experience in BFSI and specialises in Banking Technology Management. He has worked across Banking and Fintech Industry in several roles across Business, Product Development and Project Management. He co-founded Payso, a Payments Fintech Company specializing in QR Payments which was acqui-hired by Mwipe. He also led the Product and Innovation, Transaction Banking Group at Kotak Mahindra Bank as the Vice President.

Ankit Kejriwal, Partner-Corporate, Trilegal

Ankit Kejriwal is part of the corporate practice group specialising in private equity transactions as well as public mergers and acquisitions. He has advised on some of the largest and most complex mergers and acquisitions in India, including several takeover offers, mergers/demergers/slump sales involving listed companies and private equity investments.

Ankit has extensive experience in advising private equity funds and strategic investors on foreign investment regulations in India, their entry and exit strategies and concerns that characterise deal-making and negotiating with Indian promoters/sellers.

Education: National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University, Hyderabad
Admissions: Bar Council of Assam

Ankit Khanna, Sr.Vice President- Product, Snapdeal.com

Ankit Khanna is the Senior Vice President - Product Management at Snapdeal.com. He has been an integral part of Snapdeal ever since its inception and was responsible for developing the ‘product’ as a whole. He is now leading their payment product among others. Prior to joining Snapdeal, Ankit co-founded itasveer.com, an online photo printing and personalized merchandise service based in India. An IIT Delhi graduate, Ankit has also worked in the corporate sector for two years and dabbled in software engineering before moving on to the online space. 

In his new role, Ankit is the Chief Product Officer of FreeCharge and laying the foundation for No1 payments company in the country. He is leading various consumer and merchant initiatives at FreeCharge. 

Ankit Kumar, Founder & CEO, Skye Air Mobility

Ankit Maheshwari, Founding Team Member & CTO, Innovacer

Ankit Moorjani, Associate, Investment Operations, Lightbox

An avid risk taker, Ankit has an eclectic background across technology, finance and entrepreneurship.

Ankit graduated with a degree in electronics engineering from the University of Mumbai and has cleared all 3 levels of the CFA. After graduating from college he was recruited at Deloitte Consulting where he had his first encounter with technology. Having implemented multiple tech solutions & ERPs across Fortune 500 financial institutions, he was naturally drawn to the field of finance and found his way into equity research at JP Morgan covering insurance and healthcare sectors for the APAC region. Always a problem solver and entrepreneur at heart, Ankit finally took the plunge in 2015 and co-founded his first venture, Grabstr Technologies. Grabstr was an app-based local discovery platform that helped local businesses market their services and users find new opportunities around them. Ankit headed business development and finance at Grabstr and learnt the art of sales the good old fashioned way – knocking from door-to-door.

After Grabstr ran its course, he took the skills he learnt and went on to co-found The Superfood Co., retailing healthy snacks. Ankit helped scale the business for 1.5 years heading sales and business development with reach all across Mumbai and parts of Western India. After exiting the company in 2018, he drew on his entrepreneurial experience and passion for investing and landed in the VC world. Drawing from his background and experience, Ankit loves spending time around new ideas and passionate entrepreneurs. His day is split between working with portfolio companies, discovering new ideas and financially analysing prospective startups. In his free time, Ankit loves swimming, politics and stand-up comedy. His love for adventure sports has currently drawn him to scuba diving, where he is looking to complete his advanced certification.

Ankit Nagori, Founder, Curefoods

Ankit Oberoi, Co-founder & CEO, AdPushup

"Ankit is a co-founder and CEO at AdPushup, a product which helps web publishers - test and optimize their online ad revenues.

Previously, he dropped out of college and co-founded Innobuzz, an Information Security training company. Apart from work, he loves to travel in the mountains and is obsessed with learning new languages."

Ankit Prasad, CEO & Co-Founder, Bobble App / Touchtalent

Ankit Prasad studied Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He dropped out in the final year to pursue his interest at Touchtalent. He swiped almost all major student awards during his stay at IIT Delhi including Best Fresher Award, Best Hostel Representative Award, Best Chief Editor Award, Cumulative contribution to Board for Student Publication award etc. Apart from these awards, he has many more awards to his credit; He was finalist at TiE International Business Plan Competition representing Touchtalent, Kairos Fellow for the year 2012-2013 and Global Student Entrepreneurship Award, South Asia 2013. He is also an official TEDx youth speaker.

Ankit was always interested in Technology; He wrote his first program at the age of 6 and got appreciation from the district collector. Incorporated and made his first technology company profitable at the age of 16. During his stay at IIT Delhi, he was associated with number of technology start-ups.

At Touchtalent, Ankit is responsible for product and engineering. He along with his team is working on the most modern technology to create unique user experience. Some of the technology initiatives taken by Ankit at Touchtalent are one of its kind in India, never tried and experimented before.

Through technology Ankit wants to democratize high quality content creation and address the most complex problems of content creators. Bobble App is yet another step taken by Ankit in this direction.

In his free time Ankit loves to create short videos. He has to his credits many viral videos that have been appreciated by global media.

Ankit Pruthi, Founder & CEO, Unicommerce

Ankit Pruthi, CEO of Unicommerce, is a graduate from IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad. He has over 10 years of work experience in Finance, Product and Technology. Prior to Unicommerce, he was associated with Estee advisors and Goldman Sachs in field of Finance and Technology. Before his MBA, Ankit worked with Qwest Communications (a US telecom giant) in product and technology team developing order management system for ecommerce arm. His entrepreneurial tilt and technology interests motivated him to start Unicommerce with his IIT batch-mates in 2012.