Our speakers

Anu Acharya, CEO, Mapmygenome

Ms. Anu Acharya is co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome India, a company that pioneered the field of personalised, preventive healthcare by making personal genomics tools available to the masses. With a vision to “Touch 100 million lives”, Mapmygenome was established in 2013, heralding the advent of improved healthcare through genomics based personalised, precision medicine in India.

Ever since, she has successfully pioneered the company through growing product lines, expanding affiliate network and has received funding from stalwarts like Mr. Ratan Tata and Mr. Rajan Anandan and more. She is a distinguished alumna from IIT Kharagpur. Under her leadership, the company has gone from strength to strength, achieving several milestones, awards and honors. From the ET startup Awards to NASSCOM Emerge 50, WSJ’s Top global startups award, Red Herring Asia and Global to the recently conferred Pride of Telangana award; Mapmygenome has certainly become a force to be reckoned with.

Her entrepreneurial journey began back in 2000, when she founded Ocimum Biosolutions - a global genomics outsourcing partner for discovery, development and diagnostics. With her at the helm as CEO for 13 years, Ocimum flourished through three strategic international acquisitions, two capital raises for equity investments and launch of several innovative products, solutions and services through its proprietary platform called RaaS (Research as a Service). An entrepreneurial success
story that made its way into the Harvard Business Review as a case study.

An author of several research papers published in major journals, various articles for journals like Nature, Ms. Anu Acharya recently received early publication approval for her patent for SNaPpy - the genetic risk prediction algorithm developed in-house at Mapmygenome. A fiercely respected entrepreneur, she also serves as a governing board member for various high profile institutions such as the NIBMG,NIAB, KIIT, IvyCap Ventures, CSIR and ABLE to name a few.

Anu Sridharan, Co-founder & CEO, NextDrop | @nextdrop

Anu holds a Masters from the Civil and Environmental Engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley where her research focused on the optimization of piped networked systems in emerging economies. Anu was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List Asia in 2016, and the United States in 2012. Anu is an INK fellow, TED speaker, and also serves on the UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Counsel. NextDrop was selected as Fast Company's #5 Most Innovative Company in India, 2016.

Anu Tiwari, Partner, AZB & Partners

Anu has approx. 13 years of experience in M&A, private equity, financial services, emerging technologies (blockchain, payment systems, cryptocurrency, etc) and general corporate advisory.

Anu regularly advises banks, non-banks (NBFCs), asset managers, securities market intermediaries, global information technology (IT) and payments/ fintech players on M&A (both domestic and cross-border) and regulatory aspects.  His practice includes advising on cyber-security, financial crimes and regulatory investigations.

He has been invited for several policy initiatives, including as a Member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) – Fintech Working Group; Member of the Legal Advisory Sub-Committee, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Committee on Household Finance (2017); SEBI Working Group on amendments to the Mutual Fund Regulations (2018), etc. He has published on a broad range of topics in a number of scholarly journals in law, finance and economics.

Anu is recognized by IFLR 1000 for M&A, Financial Services (2018 & 2019) and rated by Mergermarket as top 5 (by volume) and top 10 (by value) lawyers in India per the corporate and financial services league tables, respectively, for FY 2018.

Anubhab Goel, Head Digital Transformation, HDFC Ergo General Insurance

Anubhav Kapoor, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Tata Technologies

Anubhav Kapoor is Tata Technologies’ General Counsel and Company Secretary and is based out of Pune. Anubhav is responsible for Tata Technologies’ global legal, IP, regulatory compliance and corporate governance practices and policies. Anubhav has about 24 years of experience. Before joining Tata Technologies, Anubhav has worked with Polaris Software, Domino’s Pizza, Allied Nippon to name a few in a similar role.

Anubhav has handled multifarious areas such as structuring strategic business contracts, IPR, global compliance design and audits, legal due diligence, M&A, arbitration & litigation management. Also being a corporate secretary he has also dealt with high visibility boards and handled complex matters including those related to corporate governance, sustainability, insider trading, private & public offerings. He is passionate about innovation and IPR and also heads the Corporate Sustainability and CSR practices globally.

Anubhav experience as in-house counsel spans across various industries including automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, food, banking and insurance software’s and engineering. He has helped corporates devise their IP strategy including setting up of an IP department and led IP teams in large corporates. Mr. Kapoor has also handled contracts and litigations involving complex IP issues and handled patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark infringement cases. He has also been involved with IP issues during M&A, spin-out and joint venture deals during his long career. He has spoken on several national and international forums on topics related to IP. More recently he was listed in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Strategy 300 (http://www.iam-media.com/Strategy300/) among the world’s leading IP strategist and awarded as Star General Counsel 2017 of the year by Legal Era.

Anubhav is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a Law Graduate from India. He has also done his Masters in Law from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and MBA in finance & information technology from Institute of Management Technology.

Anubhav Rajput, CIO, CTO, Digital Transformation, PNB Housing Finance Limited

Anubrata Biswas, MD & CEO, Airtel Payments Bank

Anuj Bugga, Managing Director, Global Risk and Investigations, FTI Consulting India Pvt Ltd | @FTIConsulting

Anuj Bugga is a managing director in the Global Risk and Investigations practice of FTI Consulting and he is based in Mumbai. He has extensive experience in counterparty due diligence, vendor risk management, fraud investigations, employee screening and providing strategic risk mitigation solutions on a broad spectrum of issues and events.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Bugga was vice president in Morgan Stanley for seven years as the head of Corporate Security & Investigations, West Asia and Regional Security Audit Director, Asia Pacific. Prior to joining the corporate sector, he spent 16 years in the Indian Army as a combat engineer. As an engineer planning officer and field company commander, he was in-charge of planning and implementing engineering works involving multi-million dollar budgets. During his service in the Indian Army, he conducted complex investigations relating to counterfeiting fraud and the pilferage of military supplies and equipment. Mr. Bugga also served as a field intelligence officer. 

Mr. Bugga is a Bachelor of Technology (Civil) and Bachelor of Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India

@anujbugga

Anuj Kumar, CEO, Affle

Anuj Kumar is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Affle. As a founding member, Kumar has played an extensive role in building Affle’s business globally, to countries such as Singapore, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and India, among others. Kumar is further involved in evangelising mobile media amongst leading advertising firms and telecom operators/ carriers. In his current role as business head, Kumar leads Affle’s business worldwide, continuing the success and growth of the organisation.

He has 10 years’ experience in the field of marketing and advertising and has worked with some of the leading companies such as ESPN-STAR Sports, GroupM Mindshare and JWT. Kumar has been an active speaker and participant in industry forums and conferences, sharing valuable insights on themes related to entrepreneurship, mobile advertising and technology innovation, among others.

Anuj Kumar, MD & CEO, Pepper India Advisors Pvt Ltd.

Anuj is an investment management and banking professional with over two decades of experience of investing in / resolving distressed credits and private equity investments. Before joining Pepper India to lead investments in distressed assets, he led investments and restructurings at Kotak Mahindra Bank. At ING Vysya Bank, he was responsible for managing the problem loans portfolio of the bank across retail, SME, emerging corporate and large corporate segments. Anuj managed private equity funds at Axis Private Equity and Sabre Capital and led Merrill Lynch’s proprietary investments in distressed assets in India. In the early years of his career, he was an investment banking professional, primarily with Deutsche, Singapore and Merrill, India. Anuj earned his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and qualified as a Chartered Accountant before that.