Our speakers
Avinash Godkhindi, MD & CEO, Zaggle
Avinash Godkhindi is an International FinTech &Payments Leader with over a decade and half years of experience in 12 countries across 5 continents. Avinash has worked in leadership roles in Digital Payments, FinTech and Cash Management businesses in Product, Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Technology and Operations roles with banks like Citibank, Barclays & ING Bank and FinTech companies like Zaggle, Misys & NIIT Technologies.
Avinash has been the CEO of Zaggle for the past 8 years and focusses on Business Development. Growth and new opportunities, Banking and Network partnerships, Go to Market Strategy and Operations. Prior to Zaggle, Avinash launched and ran the Citibank PremierMiles credit card in India as the Product Head for PremierMiles.
Avinash has done his Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University and MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Avinash’s interests include a variety of sports, reading, music, current affairs, travelling, running and spending time with family & friends!
Avinash Mishra, Portfolio Manager-Education, Acumen | @Acumen
Avinash is a Portfolio Manager with Acumen India, where he leads Acumen’s investments in both the Education and Agriculture sector portfolios. He has been with Acumen for over two years and also serves as a Director on the Boards of various Acumen education investees including Ignis Careers, Vikalp and Seed Education. Over the past four years, Acumen has invested over USD 4.6 million in six innovative impact enterprises operating in the education space in India.
Avinash has over 4 years’ of hands on experience in the Indian education space and has been an active thought leader. He’s written a number of articles and spoken at numerous education conferences and summits, such as the 3rd India Education Entrepreneurship Day organized by TiE; USAID Read Connect 2015; 2015 India Education Conference; and the NSDC Bi-Annual Partner Meet.
Prior to joining Acumen, Avinash co-founded TAO Education, a Delhi-based education technology start-up that built an online learning platform for K-10 students. Earlier, he worked with the Citibank Corporate and Investment Banking team as a relationship manager for top MNC clients. Avinash holds a MBA from FMS, University of Delhi and a BE (Electronics and Communications) from NSIT, University of Delhi.
Avinash Mudaliar, Business Head, Gaana.com
Avinash has over 15 years of experience in various media. He has worked as the Cluster Programming Head for South India for Radio Mirchi and as the VP and COO of RAVE Magazine (India’s first music & arts magazine).His earlier stints in the internet includes being the founding Editor in Chief and Head of In.com - Network18 before joining TIL in 2008 as the Business Head for Indiatimes. One of his passions is Indic Language Computing where he worked closely with Microsoft on their Indic language project called BhashaIndia.
Avinash Naik , Chief Information Officer, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Avinash Naik is President and Chief Information Officer at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. A seasoned and passionate digital executive, he is responsible for driving technology strategy and execution, strengthening digital capabilities and bringing technology driven innovations to the organisation.
Avinash comes with rich experience in running large Technology operations, Digital Transformation, and Innovation programs across multiple geographies. He spent over a decade at Infosys Limited, where he played multiple leadership roles across Delivery Management, Consulting, Program Management, Enterprise Architecture etc. for Fortune 100 companies. Before joining Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, Avinash was part of the Group Corporate Strategy team at Bajaj Finserv where he was responsible for driving the Digital and Innovation agenda across Group companies.
Avinash holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from VJTI, Mumbai.
Besides work, Avinash loves travelling, reading, and playing tennis and basketball with his 11-year-old son.
Avinash Ojha, President & COO, RG Stone Hospital
15 years into Indian healthcare industry Worked with GE Healthcare, GE Capital – Healthcare Financial Services, for 10 years – was into healthcare technology, funding to healthcare set-ups.
Subsequently moved as CEO of a multi-specialty hospital before joining RG Urology and Laparoscopy Hospitals, ( a pan India chain of 15 urology and laparoscopy hospitals) as President & COO.
Avinash Saxena, Co-founder, Roposo.com & Giveter.com
Here is the actor turned director who loves some good techie talks and also has a penchant for business. He was the Chief Technical Officer at Zomato.com, and the Co-founder of HandsTalk Technologies. I am mighty glad we have an online guru helping me, it does take off quite a bit of worry.
Avinash Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, ElectricPe
Avlesh Singh, Co-founder and CEO, WebEngage | @WebEngage
Avlesh is the co-founder and CEO at WebEngage - one of the fastest growing SaaS startups in India. Avlesh plays an engineer and marketer at WebEngage. He is known for maintaining technology as company's core DNA and a self-serve platform as its product focus - which, in turn, has helped them scale to acquire thousands of customers globally. Avlesh has been helping build startups in India since 2006. Prior to WebEngage, he was building the technology and engineering stack for Burrp - the company was later sold to Infomedia18.
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Avneet S. Kochar, Former Director - Alternative Investments, AT&T Investment Management Corp.
Avneet Kochar is the former director of AT&T Investment Management Corporation (ATTIMCo -a small team managing AT&T's pension fund) covering public equities, risk budgeting, private equity and real estate. As the director of alternative assets, he started separate accounts for co-investments and secondaries and was also responsible for the pension fund's foray into Emerging Asia.
Avnish Anand, Co-founder, CaratLane.com
Avnish is a Co-founder at CaratLane and head of the online business. He is responsible for digital marketing, product management, customer service and online sales.
He also worked at Times Internet Limited where he started Code Gladiators in 2014. This coding contest has been recognized as the biggest coing event in the world by the Guiness Book of world records.
He studied at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and IIM Lucknow.