Our speakers

Abhishek Awadhiya, Head of Industry - Telecom and Digital Payments, Google India

Abhishek Awadhiya leads Digital Payments and Telecom business verticals for Google in India. He closely works with the largest players in the payments eco-system (telcos and wallet aggregators) in strategic engagements to leverage digital in business building, customer acquisition/retention and new product development. Prior to his current role he was leading Strategy and Sales Operations for Google in India. Before Google, he has spent 6+ years at McKinsey and Company focusing primarily in Internet, Technology and Telecom sectors. He has done his MBA from Indian School of Business Hyderabad and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.

Abhishek Bansal, Co- founder & CEO, Shadowfax

Abhishek started Shadowfax in 2015 to fulfill the belief that every customer has a birthright to deserve a pleasant shopping experience. With the vision to enable last mile delivery for merchants by pioneering a human-tech interface, Shadowfax currently delivers more than 1Mn orders a month across 11 cities in India.

Before Shadowfax Abhishek was consulting Walmart across the India and China markets while working as a consultant for Haygroup. He completed his graduation from IIT Delhi in 2012 in Production and Industrial Engineering.

Abhishek Chhajer, CFO, Highways Infra Trust

• Leads the finance vertical including Financial Reporting, Corporate Finance, Treasury Management, FP&A, Risk Management, Valuation and Taxation
• Played key role in integrating new assets, implementing capital structuring and digitization initiatives
• c.19 years of experience in finance and strategy covering diverse sectors including metals & mining and airport management
• Previously held leadership roles in Mumbai Airport (Adani Group) and Vedanta Group
• Qualified CA from ICAI

Abhishek Goenka, CEO, CoWrks

Abhishek Goenka is currently the CEO of the RMZ Family Office and the CEO at CoWrks. He is also the CIO at CoWrks Foundry. Previously, Abhishek has worked with PwC and BMR, and in both firms he has been actively engaged in advising families in setting up a governance framework and also on succession planning. He has also assisted promoters of some of the largest listed companies in Bangalore in moving to a Trust holding structure, including dealing with cross border issues. Abhishek is well versed with the various operating models of single and multi-family offices. Abhishek is also known for his domain expertise in real estate and Prop-Tech.

Abhishek is a graduate in Commerce from the University of Bangalore and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996.

Abhishek Gupta, Head - Marketing, The Mobile Store

Abhishek Gupta heads Marketing at The MobileStore (TMS).
The MobileStore (TMS) is India's largest telecom retailer, with over 900 stores, spread across over 125 cities. He leads TMS’s brand and format strategy and communication all customer touch points. He also drives the loyalty initiatives for TMS.  He has been a speaker at various seminars as well as guest faculty for management institutes. He was recentlyrecognized as one of 25 most outstanding marketing professionals of the country by World Brand Congress and CMO council of Asia.

Prior to this, he has worked with Bharti Retail Limited for five years - where he was instrumental in launching the brand Easyday in the country.  In his last assignment with Bharti Retail he was heading Store Experience.
He has also worked with Spencers Retail Limited, ICICI Bank and Shoppers Stop Limited. He started his career with Shoppers Stop Limited (SSL) as a management trainee. His last assignment at SSL was heading the marketing for the western zone.  In ICICI Bank, he has handled different roles – from Sales to Product management for the mortgages division of the Bank. He has an overall experience of more than 14 years.

Abhishek is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Pune and a management graduate from ITM Business School.

Abhishek Gupta, Partner, Trifecta Capital

Abhishek H Latthe, CEO, SenseGiz Inc

Abhishek Latthe founded and manages SenseGiz , which has designed a multi- functional wearable tech product with a focus on safety monitoring & notifications, fitness & sleep tracking and a visual display for phone related notifications.

 

He was directly involved in designing the product and developing the algorithms for its various functions--some of them are patent pending. A constant focus on innovation and delivering products which are useful in everyday life is his vision for the company. SenseGiz. SenseGiz also has a track & find tag --the FIND which can be used to prevent losing/misplacing commonly lost items

Abhishek Kabra, Managing Director, Samara Capital (Private Equity)

Abhishek Kabra, Director, Samara Capital

Abhishek is a Director at Samara Capital - Mid Market focussed Private Equity Fund. Abhishek has been with Samara Capital for over 9 years and also leads its healthcare vertical. He is on the board of 3 healthcare investments of Samara: Asian Institute of Gastroenterology - super specialty hospital focussed on medical and surgical gastroenterology Lotus Surgicals - Fast growing company in the surgical consumables and devices space SMT - Leading Indian stents company. Abhishek is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

Abhishek Kapoor, Chief Executive Officer, Regency Health

He completed his undergraduate from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver majoring in Finance and Human Resource. Post which Abhishek worked with PriceWater House Coopers, Ernst & Young, American Appraisal and Deloitte with the strategy consulting and merger and acquisition valuation practice. To hone his managerial skills, he went on to get his MBA from the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago. Post his MBA he worked at Davita, the largest Kidney dialysis chain, in the United States, before returning to Kanpur to assist Regency in expanding and achieving its vision.