Our speakers

Arjun Nair, Co-founder & Director, Great Learning

Arjun Nair is a co-founder at Great Learning. Having launched and scaled new programs online and at centers across India, he is an ardent believer in the power of technology to consistently deliver high quality learning experiences and transform the lives.

Arjun has been part of the leadership at a number of VC funded startups in the US and India. Prior to Great Learning, he headed Strategic Initiatives at ZipDial, which was acquired by Twitter. Arjun completed his MBA from MIT Sloan where he received the prestigious Legatum Fellowship awarded to entrepreneurs from emerging markets. He received an MS from Duke University and has worked on building products and scaling operations at Siemens for a number of  years before his entrepreneurial journey. 

Arjun Pillai, Co-founder and CEO, Profoundis | @Profoundis

Arjun completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering in 2010 from Cochin University of Science and Technology. On graduation, he joined Infosys and worked as an SAP Consultant for 2 years. Pursuing his dream, along with 3 of his batchmates, he started a Data Analytics startup, Profoundis, in 2012 as the co-founder and CEO.  

Profoundis created Vibe, which is a B2B Data Intelligence Solution for Sales and Marketing. As the CEO, Arjun has raised more than 750,000 USD in 2 rounds from investors in US and India. He is also a graduate of Microsoft ventures, Startup Chile and Blackbox Silicon Valley Connect programs. Vibe has more than 100,000 users and 400 companies from 180 countries. The team has grown from 4 to 63 in less than 4 years.

Arjun is an active IEEE volunteer for the past 10 years. He has been serving on the boards of some of global engineering causes, having received international awards and recognitions for his contributions to the network.   Arjun is an avid traveler, having travelled over 15 countries in 5 continents and lived in 13 cities including some of the best startup eco systems. He is also a regular speaker, blogger, music and games lover.

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Armaan Gandhi, Co-Founder, Xyra

Arnika Dixit, Vice President-Marketing, Head of Central Marketing Organization, American Express

Arnika Dixit -Vice President-Marketing, Head of Central Marketing Organization, Ameri-can Express, India. Arnika currently leads the integrated marketing organization for American Express in India and is part of India Business Leadership Team. She leads a team of marketers working across all Lines of Business of American Express in India: Consumer Services, Global Corporate Payments, Merchant Services and Global Prepaid. Functionally, she is responsible for Customer Marketing, Brand and Marketing communi-cations, Loyalty, Digital Capabilities such as Online and Cross Border commerce, Social & events. Arnika has held multiple roles within American Express starting from Member-ship Rewards, Customer Engagement to Product Management, Lending and Insurance. Arnika  is a post graduate in Management and is a bachelor in Honors in Economics.

Arpan Sheth, Partner, Bain & Company

Arpan Sheth is a partner in Bain & Company. He leads Bain’s Asia Pacific Information Technology and Digital practice as well as Bain India’s Private Equity practice. Arpan has been a part of the leadership team in Bain’s New York, Sydney and India offices over his career at Bain. He serves as office head for the firm’s Bengaluru office.

Arpan has nearly 25 years of consulting experience in the IT industry working with both CIOs and providers of enterprise technology products and services. Arpan has led large-scale transformation efforts in the IT organizations of leading companies across financial services, technology and telecommunications. He has also led strategy and customer-focused engagements with leading tech and IT enterprises across the US and India as well as focused-growth efforts with providers of enterprise software and hardware.

Prior to joining Bain in 2003, Arpan was a vice president of a systems integrator where he led large-scale SI programs. He was also a manager in the Strategic Information Technology practice of A.T. Kearney, where he focused on IT strategy and business technology issues in financial services.

Arpan received an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.

Arpi Mehta, Co Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Toothsi

One of the leading dental experts in the country, Dr. Arpi Mehta is the Co-founder & CEO of toothsi by makeO, India’s first and largest at-home smile makeover service. At the company, she is responsible for driving the brand vision, corporate and strategic decision-making, and growth.

Dr. Mehta holds bachelors and masters degrees in dental surgery, specialising in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics, from the illustrious Nair Hospital Dental College in Mumbai. She also completed further specialisation and certification in lingual orthodontics from Paris and Geneva. Dr. Mehta has previously worked as an Assistant Professor in Government Dental College. Prior to that, for a year, she worked with Lingual Matrix (India’s first CAD-CAM-based lingual orthodontic laboratory) and Smile Aligners (Clear aligner laboratory). Dr. Mehta was running her own exclusive orthodontic clinical practice in Mumbai before establishing makeO, India’s largest home smile makeover platform that uses 3D-printed clear aligner technology, in 2018.

With a view of creating a positive impact by helping people feel good about how they look, Dr. Mehta aims to build the largest clinical cosmetology platform in India and Southeast Asia within the next five years. Through this platform, she envisions providing tech-backed, convenient, and affordable solutions to address teeth, skin, and hair concerns that affect the confidence and self-worth of millions of individuals. She also plans to scale makeO’s physical footprint to 30 cities across India and Southeast Asia, as well as develop its technological and R&D capabilities to build consumer tech that enables an end-to-end, digitised experience for everyone.

Dr. Mehta holds to the belief that employees are the foundation upon which every successful business is built, and the best of ideas cannot be scaled unless the entire team buys into the vision. Therefore, at toothsi, she encourages an entrepreneurial work culture where every individual – whether in a leadership role or an entry-level profile – has full liberty to experiment and grow. This conducive and supportive work culture is the main reason why toothsi has grown rapidly in a high-value products and services ecosystem without compromising on the quality of its customer service, support, and experience.

Holding a deep love for music, reading, and travelling, Dr. Mehta prefers to spend her leisure time bonding with her friends and family. She is also associated with the young team at Stree Style, an emerging social enterprise in the clothing and accessories space focussing on providing work and upskilling opportunities to underprivileged women across India, as a mentor. 

Arpinder Singh, Global Markets & India Leader, EY Forensic & Integrity Services

Arpinder has 25 years of experience in multi-jurisdiction investigations, forensic accounting and dispute advisory. He is the practice’s Global Managed Services Leader and a member of the Global Leadership Team. He has worked with corporates, regulators and law enforcement officials on many high profile and global investigations across sectors. Having acted as an expert forensic accountant in a number of disputes, he is consistently recognized as one of the foremost legal practitioners in the Who’s Who Legal

Arpit Agarwal, Director, Investment Team, Blume Ventures

Arpit Agrawal, Partner, Blume Ventures

Arpit Badjatya, CEO and MD, Serosoft Solutions

Arpit is an education technology thinker and innovator. He consults many leading educational institutions across India, Middle-east, Africa and APAC on using technology as a strategic tool for efficiency and success.

An ambitious edupreneur, Arpit has founded two education focussed ventures -

Serosoft Solutions: An award-winning educational technology company focussed on ERP solutions for education (Academia ERP)

CampusMall: A multi-channel brand licensing company focussed on school and college merchandise (www.campusmall.in)

He believes that the education sector in India, Middle East and APAC needs to transform to ensure big strides in overall development in these countries, and technology will prove to be the biggest enabler of such a transformation in the coming years. An avid speaker on education technology, he has also authored the ERP policy brief for Association of African Universities, which serves as a guideline for institutions to adopt automation.

Arpit is an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and holds and engineering degree from the renowned Purdue University, USA. Prior to focussing on the ed tech sector, he worked with JP Morgan London as an investment banker and at Accenture Consulting as a strategy consultant.