Our speakers

Atul Jain, COO, LeEco

Atul Kapur, Managing Director, Indivision Capital

Currently serving as the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Indivision Capital Management, Kapur had been with Goldman Sachs for 12 years and was appointed Managing Director in October, 2000. He was responsible for all Private Equity Investments within the Principal Strategies Group (GS proprietary capital) for Europe and Middle East in addition to the joint responsibility for all private investments in India.

Prior to this, Atul worked for 9 years in the Principal Investment Area of Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, Singapore and London deploying the GS Capital Partners family of funds.

Prior to that, Kapur worked in corporate development with Pacific Century Group and with STAR TV in Hong Kong before he joined Goldman Sachs in 1994. Kapur is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a bachelors degree in commerce from University of Delhi.

Atul Mehra, MD & Co-CEO, JM Financial

Atul Nanda, VP-India Operations & APAC Partner Management, Salesforce.com

Atul is a well-respected leader in the SaaS world, having just moved back to India after 20 years in the US.  He has been with salesforce.com for over 4 years and has been part of the amazing growth story of the Cloud, as salesforce.com has grown from 40,000 customers to over 100,000 and revenues have tripled to ~$2.5 billion since the time that he joined the company.  

Under Atul's leadership, salesforce.com defined what it means to support customers in the cloud and is seen as a pioneer in this space.  

In his new role, Atul is now leading the effort to bring Salesforce and the social enterprise to the India region as well as actively engaged in building Alliances with partners across multiple markets in APAC.  

Prior to salesforce.com, Atul has had extensive leadership experience with companies such as SAP Business Objects, ACS, and Paccar and thus has a strong grasp of the contrast between on-premise and SaaS and keen insights into what it takes to be successful on the Cloud.

Atul Phadnis, Founder & CEO, What's-On-India

Atul Phadnis is a Technology Entrepreneur and a domain expert in Digital Television. He is currently CEO of What’s-ON (a company he had founded) and GM (Asia Pacific), Gracenote.

As a start-up, Atul led What’s-ON to raise its Series-A and Series-B funding rounds from Silicon Valley funds – Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Intel Capital and successfully create a model specializing in TV Search, Recommendations and Analytics across Asia spanning 16 countries including India, Jordan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc with some of the largest Cable, Telecom and Satellite TV operators as its customers. In 2010, Forbes adjudged What's-ON to be one of the 5 hottest “New Ventures to look out for” while CNBC-TV18 named Atul as one of the Top 10 Young Turks of 2010. In 2012, he led What’s-ON to make 2 critical acquisitions including one in Jordan, Middle East.

In 2014, What’s-ON was acquired by Gracenote/ Tribune Media - who are the Global leaders in TV, Movies and Music metadata technology. Atul’s role in the merged entity is to spearhead initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.

Atul Sharma, Co-Founder & CTO, Ozonetel

Atul Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, Ozonetel

Atul Sharma, Cofounder & CTO, Ozonetel

Atul Tewari, COO, Quikr

Atul is COO at Quikr. He has over 17 years of strong operating experience in scaling organizations through talent acquisition, process & financial control and infrastructure. At Quikr, his responsibilities include Content-Operations, HR and Infrastructure. Prior to Quikr, Atul was working as CEO-India for Helix Advisors, which was acquired by BlackRock (NASDAQ BLK). As MD/COO for BlackRock, India, he was instrumental in growth of the organization from 100 to 700 people within a span of two years.  Before joining BlackRock, Atul set-up a global shared services center in India for CalibratedGroup, a private equity fund based out of Los Angeles.  The operation, scaled to 500 employees within a span of 3+years, before being acquired by one of the anchor clients. Prior to that, Atul was based in USA and worked in Sales/Business Development role in Media and Software Firms.

 

Atul has an MBA from Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve Univerity, Cleveland Ohio. He did his BTech from IIT Delhi.

Avani Davda, Managing Director, Godrej Nature's Basket

Avani Davda is the Managing Director of Godrej Nature’s Basket, India’s foremost retail destination for fine foods from across the world. She is a results driven, selfmotivated and resourceful leader. Her strengths lie in developing business strategy and ability to execute with a sharp focus on business sustainability – focusing on growth and profitability.

Avani was nominated as a Young Global Leader in 2014 by the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. Also featured in Fortune US’s annual global list of “40 under 40 leaders” in 2013 and Fortune and Food & Wine’s list of “25 Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink” in 2014 – the only Indian woman on the list. Prior to her current role, she worked as Chief Executive Officer of Tata Starbucks Private Ltd., the 50/50 joint venture between Starbucks Coffee Company and Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL). In a span of 3 years she has successfully led aggressive expansion of over 80 Starbucks stores across six key metros of India.

Before Tata Starbucks Private Ltd., she worked as Vice president in the office of Director, Tata Sons who oversaw consumer companies of the Tata Group: Tata Global Beverages, Taj Hotels, Infiniti Retail, Tata Housing and Tata Infrastructure and Realty. She worked closely on the strategic initiatives for TGBL and Infiniti Retail. She also played a pivotal role in the development of two joint ventures namely TGBL and PepsiCo India and also between Starbucks and TGBL in preparation for entry into the India market. She started her career with Tata Group as a recruit into the Group’s flagship leadership program ‘TAS’ (Tata Administrative Services). Following her training period in 2003 she joined The Indian Hotels Company Ltd (Taj Hotels), as Manager in the Business Development team. In 2006, she moved to Sales and Marketing, with the key responsibility of Taj Luxury Hotels in India and was promoted to General Manager-Marketing in 2007.

Avani holds a Masters degree in Management Studies from NMIMS and a Bachelors degree in Commerce with Honors (Advertising & Media) from H.R. College, University of Mumbai. Avani is based in Mumbai, India, and is married to Vishal Davda. They are proud parents of their nine year old son, Param. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and theatre.