Our speakers

Abhinaav Munshi, Managing Partner, Razor Capital

Abhinav is a seasoned investor and asset manager who has raised and managed funds and portfolios of over $10bn. He has over 21 years of experience with a strong track record of building and managing scaled alternative asset management platforms across multiple emerging markets.

Abhinav is the founder and Managing Partner of Razor Capital, a GCC-based cross-border alternative investment platform specializing in growth stage investments in leading technology companies in India.

Before founding Razor, Abhinav managed the private investment portfolio of a large Dubai-based family office, with AuM of over $4 billion. Prior to this, he led the restructuring of Emaar India, a $2 billion investment subsidiary of Emaar Properties, one of the largest real estate companies in emerging markets other than China. 

Abhinav started his career as an early team member of Abraaj Capital between 2004-2014 and helped build the firm into one of the largest Emerging Market PE managers with over $12 billion of AuM. He set up the MENA Real Estate private equity business in 2009, set up and ran the India team between 2011-14 building a $600 million AuM business and established the $1billion emerging markets focused healthcare fund in 2013-14.

With deal experience spanning healthcare, education, F&B, retail & eCommerce, financial services, oil & gas, and real estate, Abhinav has full-cycle, multi-stage private capital experience – from early VC to late-stage buyouts, sourcing to exit, and financial underwriting to hands-on operational value creation and turn arounds.

Abhinav holds a M.Sc. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Stanford University and a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering and Economics from Georgia Tech awarded with highest honors.

Abhinav Grover, DGM - M&A, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

By qualification, Abhinav Grover is an engineering and management graduate. He has been working as part of the Mergers & Acquisitions team for nearly 9 years. Currently, he works as a Deputy General Manager in the M&A team at the Mahindra Group.  During this tenure he has had the privilege to be a part of over 25 successfully accomplished transactions and over 100 others. He has rich and diverse experience across the globe in sectors ranging like automotive, defence, farm equipment, auto components and information technology. Some of the key transactions include the acquisition of Ssangyong Motors in Korea, Acquisition of Punjab Tractors in India, Acquisition of Reva Electric Car Company and setting up of a joint venture with BAE Systems.

 

As part of his work Abhinav is also responsible for driving the inorganic growth strategy for Mahindra’s Automotive and Defence Sectors. Additionally from time to time he has been a regular speaker at forums like The Bombay Stock Exchange & various management institutes.

Abhinav Haldia, Country Director - India, Lenddo

Abhinav Haldia is the Country Director - India for Lenddo - the global leader in using non-traditional digital data for credit scoring & verifications with a vision of “Improved financial inclusion for at least1 billion people around the world".

Abhinav has over 13 years of experience in the Indian Financial Services Industry, with earlier stints at HSBC & CIBIL. He has been instrumental in bringing some of the largest banks in India to the non-traditional data side and mainstream the usage of these datasets for financial inclusion, enhanced risk mitigation and better understanding of customer behaviour.

Abhinav Kashyap, Head-Technology, GSK Pharmaceuticals

Abhinav Sinha, Co-Founder, Eko India Financial Services Pvt Ltd

Abhinav started with a stint at Oracle in Hyderabad as an Application Engineer for two years. Abhinav left Oracle and joined a startup, Six DEE Telecom Solutions as product manager for their Online Recharge Platform. Abhinav grew his one man online recharge team to ten people. This team developed and supported installation of the product across different operators and countries.

Abhinav graduated from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra in 2003 with a BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Abhiraj Bhal, Co-founder, UrbanClap | @urbanclap

Abhiraj is the Cofounder of UrbanClap. UrbanClap is a marketplace which helps customers hire reliable local services at the push of a button. From plumbers to wedding photographers, interior designers to yoga instructors, UrbanClap helps you hire trusted pros for all your service needs. Over the past 1.5 years, UrbanClap has scaled to 7 cities in India, built a network of 30,000+ service professionals, and caters to 5000+ customers every day.

Prior to UrbanClap, Abhiraj was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, advising Fortune 500 companies across India, Germany and South East Asia. He holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. When not busy at UrbanClap, Abhiraj enjoys immersing himself in interesting experiences, be it running marathons, sky-diving, scuba diving or cooking his wife Urvi’s favourite dish.

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Abhiram Bhalerao, Partner, V3 Ventures (Verlinvest)

Abhish Kulkarni, Practice Manager - AIDET, HPE Pointnext Services

Abhishek Latthe founded and manages SenseGiz , which has designed a multi- functional wearable tech product with a focus on safety monitoring & notifications, fitness & sleep tracking and a visual display for phone related notifications.

He was directly involved in designing the product and developing the algorithms for its various functions--some of them are patent pending. A constant focus on innovation and delivering products which are useful in everyday life is his vision for the company. SenseGiz. SenseGiz also has a track & find tag --the FIND which can be used to prevent losing/misplacing commonly lost items

Abhish is India Geo leader for AIDET (Artificial Intelligence, Data & Emerging Technologies) practice within HPE Pointnext Services. Abhish joined HPE in 2002 and since then part of services organization. Abhish has handled various portfolios within services organization starting from Network Consulting, Datacenter Infrastructure consulting, critical facilities consulting and storage consulting. Before managing this practice, he has handled large pursuits in IT outsourcing domain.

Abhish has overall experience of more than 24 years in industry and before joining HPE has worked on multiple roles including customer support to category management.

 

Abhishant Pant, Founder, Cashless Journey

Abhishek Agarwal, Co-Founder, Farmley