Our speakers

Anurag Malempati, Founder & Executive Director, Leap India Food & Logistics

Founder & Executive Director of Leap India food & Logistics, One of the leading developer of Agri Silos in the country.

Co-founder and Non executive Director of Nkars Online (Torquex.com) – One of India’s early automobile marketplace and led them to secure a Series – A Funding.

Over 5 Years of Experience in Agri Silos. Was instrumental in Raising the series A capital of USD 7 Million from Neev Fund And USD 20 Million Debt capital.

Co-Founder and General Secretary, Association of Silo Operators and Developers ( ASDO)

Anurag Singh, Co-founder & Executive Director, Affle - India

Anurag is the Co-founder & Executive Director at Affle - India. He started his marketing career in the UK and went to complete his MBA from Holland, dabbling with varied industries such as Tea & Banking before settling in on Mobile!

With over 8 years of experience in the domain, Anurag has been in leadership positions from a relatively young age of 26, when he took over as the Head of Operator Business for Boungiorno India. He handled a sizeable 70% of revenues, achieving a steady 3x year over year revenue growth during his tenure. His experience with Bharti Airtel established his foundations on mobile technologies & products that help immensely in driving innovations in the mobile marketing space.

He founded ad2campaign in late 2009, which went on to establish itself as a leading Mobile Marketing Agency, servicing some of India’s biggest brands, and today continues this journey with Affle.

He is a keen golfer, football & hockey player but what seems to excite him most are new brands taking on Mobile as a marketing medium. Anurag dons the hat of “Professor” when training or coaching across forums like afaqscampus.com and NIIT Imperia. A true believer in the mobile marketing movement he hopes to grow the industry to a billion dollar strength in the time to come.

Anush Prem, Principal, Inflexor Ventures

Aparna Mangla, Investments, Private Equity Funds Asia, British International Investments (BII)

Apeksha J Kukreja, Associate Partner, PwC

Apeksha Jaggi Kukreja, Associate Partner, Price Waterhouse & Co LLP

Apoorva Patni, Director, Patni Healthcare

Apoorva Patni is involved with growing & incubating different businesses across Healthcare and IT services space. He has spearheaded the launch of Currae brand in healthcare with the first 4 hospitals being commissioned in record time of 9 months. Currae is among the fastest growing healthcare brands in India lending an experience of hassle free healthcare through its hospitals. The vision is to open 20 hospitals across Ophthalmology, Woman care and Orthopedics by 2020.

Apoorva has recently launched a Healthtech fund called Currae Healthtech Fund.  With the Group’s deep experience in technology and Healthcare through its operating businesses, the Fund has been making seed/VC style investments in companies that are using technology to disrupt the healthcare space in India.  The fund has made 15 investments in the past 18 months making it one of the more active players in the health tech space.  The investments are spread across Data Analytics, Genomics, Devices, Tele-medicine, Doctor Networks and Healthcare market places.

Apoorva Patni is from the Patni Group, which was the first group to start IT Services in India pioneering the IT offshoring business model.

Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-founder, TaxiForSure

He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal.

Apurv Nagpal, MD, Saregama India Ltd

Apurv Nagpal has been appointed Managing Director of Saregama India Ltd, an RPG Group Company. Mr Nagpal, 37, an MBA from IIM-A, has national & international exposure of over 15 years across companies like P&G, BAT, Reckitt Benckiser and SABMiller. He is an avid music listener and movie buff and has been regularly reviewing films on his blog for the last 2 years.

Saregama India Ltd is rapidly transforming itself from a music company into an entertainment company. While it has been intimately associated with the development of Indian music from its very inception and has a library of over 300,000 songs, it is now an emerging player in TV software, radio content, events, digital exploitation, and has recently signed mainstream films with Abbas Tyrewala, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Apoorva Lakhia.

Apurva Jayant, Partner, L&L Law Offices

Apurva’s practice focuses primarily on rendering advice on Private Equity, M&A transactions including distressed M&A (carried out under the Indian Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code). She assists Indian and international investors as well as target companies with structuring and documenting acquisition and divestment transactions, across various sectors and in the listed as well as unlisted space.

Before joining the Firm, she has worked with various leading Indian corporate law firms in Mumbai such as AZB & Partners, Amarchand Managaldas & Suresh A. Shroff, JSA, and most recently, Samvad Partners. Apurva has over a decade of experience in executing complex acquisition transactions including PIPE deals and transactions that were governed by multi-regulatory regimes.

EXPERIENCE

An illustrative list of matters handled by Apurva includes:

Insolvency & Restructuring

  • Advising and assisting a major consortium comprising of the largest steel manufacturers globally in connection with their proposed bid for Essar Steel India Limited, a company undergoing corporate insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
  • Advising and assisting one of the largest Japanese conglomerates in connection with certain purchase of assets of Amtek Auto Limited, a company that underwent corporate insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
  • Advising and assisting TA Private Capital (a Hong Kong based debt fund) with respect to funding of the acquisition of an Indian food processing company undergoing corporate insolvency resolution process under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
  • Advising and assisting ACRE India on several transactions involving the purchase of stressed assets (under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 as well as prior to the commencement of insolvency proceedings).
  • Advising and assisting several private equity investors proposing to participate as a resolution applicant in a corporate insolvency resolution process being conducted under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 across various sectors including power, hospitality and pharmaceuticals.

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Advised Baxter Healthcare Corporation, a leading US-based pharmaceutical company in its 100% acquisition of Claris Injectables Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company manufacturing sterile injectables.
  • Advised Mylan Group in connect with an asset sale transaction involving purchase of reproductive health and fertility treatment of another global pharmaceutical company.
  • Assisted Omnicom Group on its sale of global businesses of Sellbytel Group to Webhelp.
  • Advised and assisted Henkel AG & Co. KGaA in relation to the acquisition of the Darex Packaging Technologies business, a business segment of GCP Applied Technologies.
  • Advised and assisted CMS Group in connection with their stake sale in CMS Infosystems Limited to Baring Private Equity Asia.