Our speakers

Arun Gupta, Co-founder, MagicTel Solutions

Mr. Arun Gupta is a technology veteran turned serial entrepreneur with 23+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit. His visionary leadership offers a business edge to the companies founded, co founded by him or wherein he is Director on board.

Mr. Arun Gupta is the Co Founder of MagicTel Solutions, a subsidiary of MoMagic Technologies. Founded in the year, 2012 MagicTel today, is #1 player in the Retail distribution space in India. Some of the top global mobile apps are part of MagicTel network and distributed through its retail channel -App Junction. MagicTel currently has acquired more than 5 million users for these global Apps through its channel.

Mr. Gupta is also the CEO and Founder of MoMagic Technologies. And Co Founder, mChamp Entertainments, a celebrity driven contest app. Also invested in education startup: EduAce. Prior to venturing on his own, Mr. Gupta has held many significant positions in the IT sector and has expansive experience and profound knowledge base in Product Development and Mobile Technology.

Mr. Gupta was also the Director at MediaTek for almost a decade and the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI. Arun holds a Master’s Degree in M-Tech from COEP Pune and Executive Management from IIM Calcutta.

Arun Kapur, Director, Vasant Valley School

Arun Kapur is presently Director of Vasant Valley School, Delhi, which is run by the India Today Group. He has over 28 years of experience in the field of education - The Doon School, Dehradun, British School, New Delhi and Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. He was responsible for setting up of Vasant Valley School. He is also the Head of Ritinjali, an NGO set up by him in 1995 for education and community development. He is the author of Transforming Schools: Empowering Children, a book that offers insights to ‘what makes a great school’.

In Dec 2001 he established Pallavan, an early childhood development programme for children between the ages of 2 and 5 years. In 2006, he established Pallavanjali, a school and resource centre offering education, therapy and life training to children and young adults with special needs between 0-24 years, in an inclusive holistic environment.

Arun Korati, Senior Managing Partner, IIML Asset Advisors Limited

Mr. Arun Prakash S. Korati is a Senior Managing Partner at IIML Asset Advisors Limited. At IIML, he advices Yatra Capital, a Euronext listed real estate fund. Prior to joining IIML, he worked as MD & CEO at Axis Private Equity, a private equity arm of Axis Bank. There he managed an Infrastructure fund.  He also worked at New Vernon as head of their Private Equity, where he invested around $ 126 mn across many asset classes using various financial instruments. He started his PE carrier in 1992 and worked at Pathfinders and Actis prior to joining New Vernon. In his private equity career spanning nearly 22 years, Arun was directly involved with 28 investments. Arun is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering (RV College of Engineering), AMIE (Civil Engineering) with Masters in Marketing (NMIMS). He is also a qualified cost accountant (ICWA)

Arun Menon, Founder and CEO, AppsDaily Solutions Pvt Ltd

Arun is an IIT Bombay alumnus with more than 15 years of entrepreneurial experience. He started his first company, Ambrosia InfoTech, right after college which he organically grew to a highly profitable business employing more than 200 engineers and delivering many hi-tech technology solutions along the way. He then started AppsDaily, a first-of-its-kind, India-wide retail distribution network to sell Mobile Apps and Services to smart phone customers. AppsDaily over the years has become one of the largest mobile applications platform in the country with a retail network spanning over 700 cities, in partnership with  more than 10,000 retail outlets and over 3 million satisfied paid-app customers.

Arun Misra, CEO and Whole Time Director, Hindustan Zinc, Vedanta

Arun Thukral, Managing Director & CEO, Axis Securities Ltd

Mr. Arun Thukral is the MD & CEO of Axis Securities Limited, a subsidiary of Axis Bank engaged in the distribution of a wide range of financial solutions and broking services to retail customers. Mr. Thukral is also the Director of Financial Planning Standards Board of India (FPSB). He is a veteran banker and has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He started his career with UTI and thereafter has been associated with Axis Bank since inception. His major stint has been with the Department of Treasury. He has worked both in Corporate Banking and Retail Banking.  

Under the leadership of Mr. Thukral, Axis Securities Limited has grown rapidly and in a short span of 6 years, it is among the top 3 brokerage houses in India in terms of customer base, with 1.5 million+ customers. It has received the 'Best Growing Equity Broker' award multiple times. Axis Direct portal has been awarded in the 'Best Website/E-commerce' category. Axis Securities has also been awarded the 'Best Research' house and has bagged multiple awards, both domestic and international on 'Marketing Innovation'.

Mr. Thukral believes that investor psychology plays a key role to be successful at investing. He is a keen observer of Yoga philosophy and uses various Yogic concepts to explain investor psychology and how one can use them effectively to create wealth. Mr. Thukral believes that the next decade belongs to India. He advocates customers to participate in the India growth story by targeting equity as an investment focus. He actively contributes to leading business channels & newspapers on varied subjects including investments and is also a regular visiting faculty in leading B-Schools.

Arunima Patel, Founder and MD, iGenetic Diagnostics

After completing her engineering degree in Electronics & Communications, Ms. Patel did MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).

She started her career with multinationals like Prudential Insurance and IBM. She then joined the healthcare investment team of private equity firm Actis where she was instrumental in Actis’s investment into Sterling Hospitals.

It was her stint at Actis that she realized the need and scope of molecular testing service, an activity that were at nascent stages in India then.

She then started iGenetic from scratch with a committed to provide quality diagnostics in Tier II and III cities and rural areas at affordable prices. She was instrumental in attracting investment from marquee investors such as Manipal Education & Medical Group and CDC which is UK Government’s private equity arm. Before MEMG and CDC, she raised Rs 6.5 crore from high net worth individuals.

Ms. Patel has been rightly selected by Forbes India to be one of the women power trailblazers for the year 2018.

In Near future, she plans to take iGenetic to greater heights and the company will continue setting new benchmarks in diagnosis of serious issues such as critical care infections, cancer, infertility, neurology and others. iGenetic is already earned the stature of being the only diagnostics company in India to that can deliver a septicemia (infection of the blood) test report within 24 hours. With a mission to touch a billion lives through the services of her company, Ms. Patel plans to take iGenetic’s presence to Sri Lanka, Middle East and other neighboring countries.

She is socially inclined and is personally contributing to several NGOs. Education in the country and skills are areas dear to her and she is involved with two foundations – Skills Foundation which is building and managing schools for remote areas in Bihar and Adharshilla which funds and manages schools in Madhya Pradesh.

When she is not working, she is globe-trotting being an avid traveler. She is also passionate about health and runs and cycles every day in her free time.

Arunima Patel, Founder & Managing Director, iGenetic Diagnostics

Arunima Patel is the founder of iGenetic Diagnostics. She has over a decade of experience in healthcare investing, strategy and marketing. Her prior work experience includes 7 years stint at Actis Private Equity focusing on healthcare investing where she has evaluated and managed investments across healthcare delivery business across Asia. Prior to Actis, Arunima has worked at Prudential at UK and IBM.

During her stint at Actis PE she managed a US$50m investment in Sterling Hospitals, the largest tertiary care hospital chain in Gujarat. As the lead investment manager, Arunima was a key part of the team in driving growth and margin improvement at the chain.

Apart from iGenetic, Arunima has also founded the leading dental chain in Delhi called My Family Dentist.

She holds a post graduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and a degree in Electronics & Communications engineering from National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (NIT, Bhopal).

ArunKumar Pillai, COO, IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd

Arunkumar Pillai is the Chief Operating Officer, IL&FS Skills Development Corporation (IL&FS Skills). IL&FS Skills is promoted by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. (IL&FS), and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Arunkumar has been with the IL&FS Group since 2009 working on school education and skills training projects. He has played a key role in establishing the joint venture with NSDC. He leads the effort in establishment of the network of IL&FS Institute of Skills (IIS) across the country with an objective to train a million youth annually. IL&FS Skills has 37 IIS across the country today and has trained close to 3 lakh persons.

Before joining IL&FS, Arunkumar has worked in a number of education projects including the establishment and operation of medical colleges, engineering colleges and schools. He has been working in the field of education for the last 10 years. Prior to his foray into education, he worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their strategy consulting practice in Mumbai.

He brings to the Group his expertise in strategy formulation and execution and domain knowledge and experience of education sector

Arunkumar holds a MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore and is an electrical engineer from Government College of Engineering, Pune.

Arushee Aggarwal, Head, Coursera for Business India