Our speakers

Binay Tiwari, Director - Global Marketing & Product, Vserv.mobi

Binay heads Global Marketing & Product development efforts at Vserv. Prior to this, Binay led the Vserv Marketplace and was instrumental in growing it to global scale. His passion for the Internet has been the ‘pole star’ of his career journey spanning Tata Broadband, Vodafone & InMobi.

Binil Antony, Co-Founder, Dexetra

Binil Antony, a Co-founder at Dexetra is responsible for the Business and Marketing activities of the company apart form dealing with the Finances and the Operations aspects.

Binil completed his Bachelors in Technology from M.G. University in 2007 and subsequently completed his Masters from the University of Plymouth in 2009.

Binny Bansal, COO & Co-founder, Flipkart.com

Binny Bansal, 27, from Chandigarh, is the co-founder and COO of Flipkart.com. A Computer Science Graduate from IIT Delhi(classmate of Sachin Bansal), Binny started his career at Sarnoff India as a software engineer, working on US Defence Projects. His next destination was Amazon.com, where he realized his interest in and the potential of e-commerce in the country.

In 2007, Binny along with long time friend, Sachin, launched Flipkart.com; retailing books to begin with but with dreams of dominating the Indian e-commerce market. At Flipkart, Binny is the force behind getting the customer interface and logistics right and that has been a constant challenge with Flipkart continually exploring new product categories and market segments. Binny believes that with its strong focus on technology and delivery, the Flipkart team will constantly better their services to match customer expectations and compete with the best, globally. Binny is passionate about sports and loves to travel when he has the time!

Bipin Preet Singh, Co-Founder, MD and CEO, MobiKwik

Bipin Preet Singh, Founder & CEO, MobiKwik

Bipin is the founder and CEO of the Indian Mobile Wallet Major, MobiKwik. He founded MobiKwik with the vision to transform the digital payments landscape in the country, which was close to nil when the company started operations in 2009. Under his vision, MobiKwik has grown from a recharge & bill payment platform to the largest independent mobile payments network in India, enabling 50 million users and 1.4 million business to go cashless. The company was also one of the largest contributors in facilitating digital payments during the recently executed remonetisation in the country.

In near future, MobiKwik will become the port of call for all financial services. The company’s vision is to become India’s most simple-to- use, large scale, financial distribution platform in the next 2-3 years through mobile internet technology by enabling Indians to make & collect payments, access credit, investments, insurance etc., seamlessly, instantly and at the click of a button. Thereby enabling low cost financial inclusion in India.

Bipin has worn several hats at MobiKwik, from engineering to leading the business development, marketing, and advertising teams. Bipin’s immediate focus is to enable 5 million business owners and 150 mn users in India with digital payments in 2017.

Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Bipin spent 7 years as a Platform Architect at companies such as Intel, Nvidia, and Freescale.

Bipin is an engineering graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. At the age of 29, when faced with a choice to spend his savings on an expensive B-school degree from a top university in the US or use the money to startup, Bipin chose the latter. It was a decision that saw him making a difficult shift from hardware to software, learn programming from scratch and bootstrap his way to success.  Given his success as a seasoned entrepreneur Fortune featured him under the prestigious "40 under 40" list for 2016.

Bishal Lachhiramka, CEO and Co-­founder, Ameyo | @AmeyoCIM

Mr.Bishal Lachhiramka is the CEO and co¬founder of Ameyo. He has been a driving force in achieving consistent business growth, and his business intelligence has evolved the company from a small proprietary business to a global Contact Center Software and Enterprise Communications Solutions provider. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science technology from IIT and has over 13 years of experience in VOIP, Telecom network and Enterprise Software domain.

Ameyo enjoys a widespread range of customers on a global level with over 1500+ installations across more than twelve industry verticals including BPO, E-commerce, BFSI, Telecom, Travel & Tourism, Healthcare, and Retail. Ameyo has been consistently recognised for its outstanding contribution to IP contact center technology and customer experience management, earning several awards and accolades from industry experts worldwide.

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Biswabrata Chakravorty, Head - Information Technology, IndusInd Bank

Biswa has more than two decades in technology strategy, execution and transformation roles across leading Banks and Insurance organizations such as IndusInd Bank, Barclays Bank, Bank Of America, ICICI Prudential, Cigna TTK and Reliance Life Insurance.

In his current role he is responsible for roadmap, planning and delivery of strategic capabilities for IndusInd Bank across the technology stack back to front, aligning with the firms broader strategy.

He is also accountable for governance and for security engineering to protect data centre, end points, applications and core information assets.

Driving digital transformation across customer journeys, influencing the modernisation of the application stack using cloud and containerisation and create data warehouse and analytics capability are some of his strategic priorities.

In his earlier assignments in Banking for Barclays and Bank of America he has been responsible for developing a go to market strategy for Europe markets for Barclays, a strategic benchmarking of technology competences across key dimensions for EMEA countries, driving an in house technology captive setup for BofA in India, setting up a strategy and governance unit for Barclays technology in India among others.

Bobby Pauly, Partner, Tata Capital

Mr. Bobby Pauly started his career in 1998 and has experience in consulting and private equity sectors. He has been with Tata Capital since October 2007, being one of the founding members of the private equity team at Tata Capital and has been instrumental in the design and development of the firm's private equity franchise. Mr. Pauly was assigned to the Tata Opportunities Fund in early 2010 as the first member of the Fund’s advisory team.
 
Prior to Tata Capital, Mr. Pauly spent ~7 years as a strategy consultant at Tata Strategic Management Group. In 2005-06, he helped establish the firm’s Private Equity franchise advising on over USD 450 million of private equity and M&A transactions. He started his career with the TVS Group.

 

Mr. Pauly secured his MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering program of College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. In 2000, the Confederation of Indian Industry honoured Mr. Pauly as a Young Business Leader of Tomorrow.

Brahmanand Hegde, MD & CEO, Vistaar Financial Services Pvt. Ltd

Brahmanand is one of the Founders and the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Vistaar Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. A Bangalore based NBFC focused on Small Business Lending.

Brahmanand is a 30 years veteran of rural banking and agricultural lending in India. He was director of Fullerton India’s rural banking since 2007. Prior to that, Brahmanand was part of ICICI group. During initial period he was part of project finance team responsible for implementing ACE programme funded by USAID, focused on post-harvest value addition for horticulture crops. Later, as Joint General Manager, Brahmanand ran ICICI’s rural banking group including Microfinance, Agri SME, Commodity Financing etc.

Brahmanand is a Post-Graduate with M.Sc from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and qualified CAIIB from Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai.

Brajesh Mishra, Co-founder, Varthana

Brajesh is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Varthana. He firmly believes that the bottom up approach is the only way to address the issues of education in the country and hence it is critical to empower the school owners with the best resources available – access to credit, access to solution providers, access to a global network and access to ideas. His dream is to have Varthana play a pivotal role in the transformation of affordable education in the country.

Brajesh has around two decades of experience in retail banking and financial services, having worked with one of the largest banks in the country – ICICI Bank. Before co-founding Varthana, he was a member of the founding team at another school finance company, ISFC. Outside of work, Brajesh is into long distance running, reading, music and traveling.