Our speakers

Ashish Goyal, Co-Founder & CFO, Fibe

Ashish Goyal is the Co-Founder and CFO at Fibe, top consumer lending application for digital Indian in India. He oversees the overall strategic direction of the company and focuses on enhancing Fibe’s market position and growth strategy. He also focuses on building the liability side for the company.

Backed by over 22 years of experience across diverse financial services, Ashish has imparted a dynamic approach to his Fintech venture in India. Under his leadership, technology and analytics are at the forefront of consistently delivering a better customer experience while providing best-in-class risk management. He has envisaged a mission for Fibe to become the first credit choice for every digital Indian.

Previously, Ashish was associated with Bajaj Allianz Group as Chief Investment Officer — responsible for managing Assets Under Management (AUM) of $7 billion. As a veteran, he has a deep understanding of the financial markets. Ashish is a rank holder Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. When off work, he simply read.

Ashish Gupta, Senior MD, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd

Dr. Ashish Gupta is a co-founder of Helion and serves on the boards of Babyoye.com, Dhingana, InfoEdge, Jivox, Kirusa, Komli, MySmartPrice.com, Pubmatic, and SMSGupshup. He has co-founded two successful companies - Tavant Technologies and Junglee (AMZN). He has also worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM research. Some of his other investments are redBus (MIH), Mu Sigma, Daksh (IBM), Odesk, MakeMyTrip, and Merittrac (Manipal Group).

Ashish is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he was awarded the President's Gold medal. He has authored several patents, publications, and a book by MIT press.

Ashish Gupta, CEO, DocPrime

Ashish Gupta is the CEO of docprime.com  (A Policybazaar Group company)  and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Policy Bazaar.com. docprime.com is the latest healthcare venture by the  Policybazaar Group intending to transform the role digital technologies play in the discovery and delivery of healthcare services.

Ashish joined Policybazaar in 2015 and since then has been responsible for providing seamless customer experience on the website. He has been instrumental in bringing the technological innovations in the company such as India’s first AI-powered chatbot PBee to sell insurance online.  He also leads all digital marketing activities in the company and has been instrumental in driving the revenue through market research, product marketing, and content marketing.

Prior to joining Policybazaar, Ashish served as Vice-President and CTO at HealthKart and was also the founder of online coupon-search portal CouponVoodoo.com. He started as a management trainee with the automotive division of ICI Paints and juggled in cross-functional roles. When not working, he loves to unwind himself by traveling, driving or watching TV. Ashish is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Ashish Gupta, CIO, Axis Mutual Fund

Ashish Gupta , COO and Global Business Unit Head, Evalueserve Financial Services

Ashish Gupta, COO and Global Business Unit Head, Evalueserve Financial Services

Ashish Gupta is the COO and Global Business Unit Head, Financial Services of Evalueserve. He has been with Evalueserve since its inception in December 2000 and has spearheaded Evalueserve successfully to create the largest pure-play KPO Company.

Prior to joining Evalueserve, Ashish was the founder and CEO of Ties2Family, a community building portal that provided various services to Indians in India and overseas, growing the company to 25 employees and 100,000 customers. Ashish has also worked at McKinsey & Co. in Delhi as an Engagement Manager. He spent five years at McKinsey, working with clients in India, the US, Europe and China; he was a core member of the firm's ecommerce practice.

Experience as a speaker
Ashish has spoken at many events over the last few years and is regularly quoted on TV and in print media as an ITES industry specialist. An in-depth knowledge of the ITES industry and various business sectors makes Ashish a frequent invitee at various national and international conferences and Embassy meetings.

Honours and Awards
  • Evalueserve won the Award of India Business Law Journal in the category ‘Legal Process Outsourcing’ in November 2010, and in 2009.
  • Evalueserve won the‘EDGE 2010’ Award in September, for organizations that use IT for maximising business impacts.
  • Best CIO Under 40 years was presented to Sachin Jain, CIO, Evalueserve (2009) by 9dot9 Media.
  • Ashish Gupta, Global COO, Evalueserve won Best Young Entrepreneur' Award by Planman Media (2009).
  • Evalueserve has been awarded the ‘Innovation for India Award 2008’ by the Marico Innovation Foundation.
  • Evalueserve has been shortlisted as one of six finalists for the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore Award, presented by Wall Street Journal Asia and the Economic Development Board of Singapore (2007).
  • Evalueserve won the NASSCOM IT Innovation Award for its Innovative Business Model (2007).
  • Evalueserve has been recognised as one of the fastest growing technology companies in India under the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2006 and 2007 programme and as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in Asia under the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia 2006 and 2007 programme.
  • Red Herring Magazine named Evalueserve as one of its Red Herring 100 Asia for 2006.
  • Evalueserve won the HR Excellence Award by the Amity International Business School, India (2006).

Education
Ashish did his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. He holds a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Ashish Jadhav, Senior Vice President of Technology, Jio Platforms Limited (Reliance Industries Limited)

Ashish Jadhav is a senior technology leader with 25 years of experience in companies that thrived on technology, architecture, and solution innovations. A dynamic and innovative technology professional experienced in designing, implementing & supporting large-scale Enterprise IT projects. He has acquired broad and deep expertise in defining a technology vision, building digital platforms, defining enterprise architectures, solving IT challenges related to huge workloads, expertise in cloud-native technologies, setting the digital strategy, and manage technology roadmap and governance.

He is presently working as Senior Vice President of Technology and heading Enterprise Applications Development for (Integrated Systems Organization) with Jio Platforms Limited (Reliance Industries Limited Group Company).

Ashish Kashyap, Founder & MD, IndWealth

Ashish is a serial entrepreneur. His latest venture, INDmoney is a personal finance platform with a mission to "improve people's financial lives". INDmoney automatically organises a user's money and recommends actions to increase savings and earnings across investments, loans & expenses and taxes. Launched in 2019, INDmoney is backed by Tiger Global, Steadview & Dragoneer. Recently, CBinsights named INDmoney as one of the world's top 250 FinTech startups. Previously Founded ibibo (Goibibo & redBus), India's leading online travel group. ibibo was acquired by MMYT in October 2016, one of largest exits in the Indian internet space. Also Founded ibibo-Pay/ PayU India, leading FinTech payments platform.

Ashish is the Winner of 2017 Naspers Founder Award, Linkedin Power Profile 2017, Exhibit 100 Tech Indians, The Economic Times : Promising Entrepreneurs Of India (2015) and Top 100 powerful Digital Mavens of India 2012 & 2013.

Ashish Krishna, Group Head- Strategic Investments, National Stock Exchange

Ashish is a strategy leader with over two decades of enriched experience in corporate finance (Acquisition/ Investment/ Divestment/Fund raise/ Structuring/ Negotiation).

He presently leads strategy function at National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) (one of the largest exchange in the world) as Group Head- Strategic investments. At NSE, he is responsible for overall growth of key businesses under the group including- Exchange platform, Clearing & settlement, Technology services, Data & Analytics, Indices, Ed-Tech, besides mutiple associate business interest in various exchange platforms (Power, Gas, Commodity and Receivables), Depository, e-Governance etc.

Prior to joining NSE, Ashish spent over decade and half in Investment banking and consulting roles at various prestigious organizations including PwC, Axis Capital, ICICI Securities etc.

As investment banker, he has advised the clients in numerous acquisition/fundraise/divestment transactions across various sectors including- Technology, Fin-Tech, Payments, Ed-tech, E-commerce, Analytics, Education, etc.

He is graduate in commerce from Symbiosis College, Pune and has studied Master in Business Administration (Finance major) from Dept. of Management Sciences, Pune University.

He has been regular speaker at M&A conferences and loves interacting on corporate finance matters.

He is a voracious reader and has avid interest in the areas of behavioral science, anthropology besides others.

Ashish Kumar, Co-Founder and GP, Fundamentum Partnership

Ashish Kumar Co-founder & General Partner Fundamentum Ashish is a Founding Member of Fundamentum Advisors, the Asset Management Company that manages Fundamentum Fund(s). He has been with Fundamentum since inception and leveraging his understanding of entrepreneurial journey, he has helped the fund build a high quality portfolio with two unicorns. Ashish has over 20 years of experience as a technologist, serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist. He has multi-country exposure and has worked in varied sized companies, spanning three countries (USA, India and Singapore) and a multitude of industry segments. At Fundamentum, Ashish leads the fund raise and the investment process. He continues to lead the fund’s successful investment strategy of investing in start-ups with strong fundamentals, exceptional entrepreneurs and also spends time on identifying new investable areas and sectors for the Firm to invest into. He wants to help build businesses that have the potential to grow into behemoths. Ashish has screened over 500 deals at Fundamentum and has built a strong network within Indian start-up ecosystem. His board experience include Pharmeasy (Unicorn), Spinny (Unicorn), Fareye, TravelTriangle. He has been an active participant in business building of these companies and helped founders navigate inflection points while scaling business. With successful deployment of Fund I, delivering superior returns, Ashish has led the fund raise process for Fund II. The fund was oversubscribed and raised $227 MM. Prior to Fundamentum, Ashish used to invest his personal capital in small to mid-sized public market companies as well as promising technology start-ups in an Angel capacity. His Angel portfolio is at a 7X return currently. With his deep interest in all things digital, coupled with hands-on experience in business and finance, Ashish has founded several successful companies. As an Entrepreneur, Ashish co-founded 4 Technology / Technology-Assisted start-ups and raised money for 2 start-ups, while exiting from 2 start-ups profitably. The start-ups were of different models serving different markets – Enterprise / B2B and B2C. He became skilled at multiple stages of business - ideation, conceptualization, scaling and sustaining. As a Founder/CEO of global software services company, he grew it to a multi-million-dollar revenue organization worldwide. Ashish holds a degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.