Our speakers

Arvind Jhamb, CEO - Overseas Agriculture Projects, Ruchi Soya Industries Limited

A Hard Core Leader with 30 years of experience in the Government as a part of Civil Services, in Public Sector Undertakings and Private Sector.  Responsible for providing strategic leadership and management direction to support the functioning of the organization. Have had wide experience covering General Administration, Project Planning and Implementation, Disaster Management, HR Management, Petroleum and Food Grain Sectors, Vigilance, Intelligence, Investigations, Multi-model Logistics, Banking etc. while working in the Government.  

Tenure in the Private Sector has encompassed Creation of Agri Business Hubs, setting up of largest Cool Chain for fruits and vegetables in India right from the conceptual planning to the operationalization, covering the whole gamut of activities like mapping of the operational areas, man-power development, market studies, development of R & D protocols, SOPs, Planning & Construction of physical infrastructure.

Another key highlight has been the establishment of a Commercial Farming Project in Ethiopia from ground ‘Zero’. The Project involves production of field crops for the first time in a new area, and their value-addition through processing.

Arvind Kodikal, Sr. Investment Officer, Triodos Investment Management BV

Arvind Kodikal joined the Emerging Markets investment team at Triodos Investment Management in March 2013 as an Investment Officer for Asia (South and South East Asia) and became a Senior Investment Officer in January 2016. Currently, Arvind is Senior Investment Officer – Private Equity – with a focus on direct and fund investments in global emerging markets within financial inclusion and fintech space. He also sits on the board of Intellegrow (A SME venture debt finance company) in India. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Bangalore University, Arvind worked for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in India for three years. He also holds a Master of Financial Management from the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Arvind Kumar, CEO & MD, ATTUNE Technologies

Arvind, Founding Member of Attune Technologies, has around 10 years of experience in areas of Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Technology Architecture Management, Pre-Sales and Client Management across different International Geographies. Having done BE and MS in Software Systems, Arvind was closely associated with providing IT Solutions to the global healthcare market. As a Technology Specialist at Philips Medical Systems, he was responsible for the design and development of the state of the art Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) product. During his stint in iSoft, Arvind managed software architecture for the world’s largest civilian IT project - Connecting For Health (CFH), National Health Service, UK.

While evolving IT Solutions for global healthcare market, Arvind was perplexed with the low levels of IT penetration in domestic healthcare market. He immediately saw a huge gap in the market and market in the gap. Having made up his mind to launch his own venture, Arvind enrolled himself for an MBA program in IIM Calcutta to equip himself with tools required to establish and run a business entity. He simultaneously started identifying individuals for his start-up team and launched Attune Technologies in the year 2008. Arvind is currently providing the leadership and handling operational & strategic initiatives at Attune.

Besides Attune, Arvind is the Founding and Management Committee member of Gnyan Prabodh, an NGO working towards eliminating illiteracy in India. He was one of the founding members of the trust with a modest sponsorship of 3 students in year 1999 and grew the trust to sponsor 313 students in the year 2007. In total, 700 students with the sponsorship amount of Rs. 17 Lakhs has been disbursed by the trust. Arvind is also a Professional cricketer and has represented his district and state in various tournaments.

Arvind Mathur, Ex, ADB Venture Capital

Arvind P. Mathur, CFA, FRM, has held a variety of positions, including Head, Capital Markets at the Asian Development Bank and Senior Adviser, Citi. Arvind is Chairman, Private Equity Pro Ltd. a new venture that he has recently begun.

Arvind experience encompasses both fund and direct investing in the emerging markets of Asia. He has helped structure, and invested in, over 30 private equity funds, including 5 infrastructure funds and a number of General Partnerships. He has been a member of Investment Committees and fund boards. The funds have targeted investments in India and China besides several other emerging markets of Asia.

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Chief Information Officer, Apollo Hospitals

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India and is based out Chennai, India. He is responsible for the IT strategy and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise wide applications. He also leads the digital transformation initiatives at the Apollo Hospitals Groups.

He has led Apollo Hospitals in achieving the prestigious HIMSS Level 6 Health care IT maturity model certification  in 2013 which is a rare maturity level attained in Asia Pacific Arvind has lead the Apollo team to be recognized with the HiMSS- Elsevier award (2013 , 2016, 2018) for outstanding use of IT in patient care delivery in Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, Apollo Hospitals was awarded the Microsoft Health Innovation award in 2016 for the use of effective big data analytics using Microsoft solution in Infection control surveillance in health systems.

His experience in the domain of health care IT has spanned geographies across the world. Prior to his current assignment, Arvind was with the Healthcare Practice of Computer Sciences Corporation, in Michigan USA.

Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO. He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India.  He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine.  In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO&Leader for Exemplary Leadership , Professional excellence and Community contribution.

Apart from ICT solutions in the Healthcare domain, Arvind has keen interest in IT solutions that aid Quality and Service excellence in service industries.  
Arvind lives in Chennai with his family and is a very keen Carnatic music enthusiast.

Asanka Rodrigo, Partner, Industrials and Financial Services, Actis

Asanka has been in the private equity and venture capital industry since 1994 and has been directly involved in more than 20 private equity and venture capital investments in the United Kingdom, South and Eastern Africa and South Asia. During his career he has led investments in the Industrials, Business Service, Financial Services and Real Estate sectors. He joined Actis in 2000 and has been involved in a number of Actis’ investments including Endurance Technologies, Asiri Hospitals, Anthelio Healthcare, Ceylon Oxygen, South Asia Gateway Terminals, Flamingo Holdings, BCR Bank and The Junction. Prior to joining Actis, Asanka worked at Ernst and Young and CBC Crosby Capital Partners.

He currently leads the Financial Services and Industrials sector for Actis for the South Asian region. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Sir John Cass Business School, London, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Aseem Chauhan, Additional President, Amity Group of Institutions

Mr. Aseem Chauhan is the Chancellor of Amity University Rajasthan, Chairman of Amity University, Lucknow Campus, and the Additional President and Board Member of the Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, the umbrella organization of the Amity institutions, which currently have over 85,000 students in 240 programs. He is also the CEO for Amity Innovation Incubator and Amity capital Ventures.

Mr. Chauhan has extensive experience in venture capital and leveraged buyouts and has made investments of over $ 1 billion globally. He was formerly with AEA Investors, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm in New York which invests funds for current and former Fortune 100 CEOs and wealthy families across the world. Prior to this he was at Philadelphia Ventures, providing early stage venture capital to biotech and hi-tech start-ups.

Mr. Chauhan holds degrees in Engineering, Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumnus of the prestigious Jerome Fisher Program in
Management & Technology.

Ash Lilani, Managing Partner & Co-founder, Saama Capital

Ash Lilani is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Saama Capital. Ash has been working with technology and venture capital globally for 25 years. He was an early pioneer of the Indian venture capital ecosystem and has been investing in India since 2003. At Saama Capital, he has led investments in companies such as Snapdeal, PayTM, Lending Kart, Chaipoint, EazyDiner, Sula Wines, Veeba Foods, Raw Pressery, Genesis Colors, SKS MicroFinance, Prizm Payments, Applabs, Shaadi.com, Vistaar Finance, Shubham Housing, Modern Family Doctor, Games2 Win and many others. Prior to Saama, Lilani served as the President of India and China markets for Silicon Valley Bank and he founded and headed SVB Global, setting the strategy and overseeing the development and operation of international subsidiaries in London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Mumbai, Beijing and Shanghai. Prior to taking on SVB's globalization efforts, Lilani served as Senior Vice President and Division Manager of SVB's largest market and was based in Silicon Valley, where he was responsible for commercial banking activity and leadership of the team closely working with leading venture capital and technology companies in the area. Ash continues to be an advisor to Silicon Valley Bank. He is also an independent board member of Innoven Capital., which is a Temasek backed company focused on venture debt in India. He also is an advisor and mentors several entrepreneurs and young companies in Silicon Valley and India. Ash Lilani is a Board member at the American Indian Foundation, a former board member of the U.S.-India Business Council, a charter member of TiE, and was a founder of the U.S.-India Venture Capital Association. Ash Lilani holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from Bangalore University and has a MBA degree from Philadelphia University.

Ash Narain, Founder, CEO & Head of Product, BankerBay

Ash conceived BankerBay late in 2012. Having had direct experience helping connect seekers and providers of capital, he was convinced there had to be better ways to compare client requirements and make introductions. Wanting to organize his own deal flow and capital sources, he set up a very basic website in November 2012 and invited clients to add their requirements, thereby hoping to organize and screen information more effectively. In this manner, BB was born to help Ash do a better job helping his clients. Within 3 weeks, 1,200 firms had posted their requirements and word spread. Overwhelmed by the response, he went back to the drawing board. The website was taken offline, a professional engineering team was assembled and development on a more robust version began.

Over the months, BB attracted senior fund managers and other supporters, who actively helped Ash & team refine the concept. Thus, with the active support of BB members, the Beta was built. BB had it's soft launch in August 2013. Ash continues to devise intelligent solutions for BB users and is the core creative and product head and watches over the BB network and engineering teams.

Asheet Makhija, Country leader - Information Management, IBM India/South Asia

Asheet Makhija leads the Information Management (IM) software business for IBM in India and South Asia. He is responsible for growing IBM India/South Asia’s fastest growing market category of Big Data technologies providing IBM’s market leading technologies to clients in India and South Asia.

Through the Information Management (IM) software portfolio of IBM, He leads a team that takes to market solutions around Big Data, Core Database, Information Integration and Information Governance offerings.

He has held various leadership roles in his over 20 years career in the IT industry. Prior to this role, Asheet led Software Services business for IBM India South Asia, while having done various other roles in IBM India prior to that. He has been with IBM for more than 9 years now.

Prior to IBM, Asheet has worked for companies like Microsoft, HCL-Perot, CMC, Veritas before IBM.

He is passionate about the transformation that data and its intelligent use is and can bring about in our personal & corporate lives.