Our speakers

Abhishek Srivastava, Director, Endiya Partners

With his passion for building the next wave of world-class product start-ups, operational advice and strategic guidance come naturally to Abhishek Srivastava, Director, Endiya Partners.

At Endiya, Abhishek focuses on investments in technology, and comes with over a decade of experience in early-stage investing, operations and management consulting. He also sits on the Board of Hansel. Previously, he was on the Board of ShieldSquare (Radware) and Incnut (istyle). Besides that, he has played a vital role in the exit of Little Eye Labs (Facebook).

Prior to Endiya, Abhishek was a part of the investment team at Ventureast. His other experiences span CYIENT, where he was responsible for the firm’s M&As, strategy development & incubations, and PwC, where his skills were utilized at the Transaction Advisory Team. Before PwC, Abhishek worked as a consultant with the strategy and operations group at Deloitte Consulting where he advised several global clients on pre & post-merger strategies, market entry and growth expansion blueprints. He also worked with Tata Consultancy Services, as Engineer/ Account Manager, handling enterprise Product Development projects and Business Development.

Abhishek holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (Delhi University) and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. He is also a qualified CFA level 1 and has volunteered with several TiE Hyderabad initiatives. Abhishek is a member of Mensa International. Besides work, he loves unravelling puzzles, playing a racquet game & being glued to his Playstation.

Abinash Tripathy, Founder & CEO, Helpshift

Abinash Tripathy brings more than 17 years of mobile experience to Helpshift, an early stage startup that is building the world's first native customer service and support solution.

Prior to Helpshift, Abinash started the India division of Zimbra, Inc and grew it to 40 employees prior to its acquisition by Yahoo, Inc. Prior to Zimbra, Abinash was an early employee at Openwave Systems Inc., the pioneers of the Mobile Internet 1.0 (WAP), which delivered the first Internet enabled phones to the market. At Openwave, he was responsible for conceptualizing and delivering the worlds first IP based Voicemail/Unified communications, Mobile Photo Messaging (in Japan) and MMS products to the market. Abinash also contributed to the development of the VoiceXML and 3GPP MMS standards.

Abinash Verma, Director General, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA)

Abinash Verma is the Director General of Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), an apex body of private and public sectors sugar mills in India, which looks after sugar industry interests.

Mr Verma undertook post graduate studies in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A bureaucrat with the Indian Government from 1989 to 2010, he was deeply involved in sugarcane, sugar and ethanol policy making for five years before joining ISMA.

Mr Verma is the alternate Chief Executive of the Indian Sugar Exim Corporation, an organization jointly sponsored by ISMA and the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd. which is also responsible for import and export of sugar to and from the country.

Abizer Diwanji, Partner & National Leader - Financial Services and Restructuring & Turnaround Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Abraham Alapatt, Head, Marketing & Service Quality, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd

Abraham Alapatt is a Marketing & Customer Service professional with over 18 years of professional experience at senior-strategic levels spanning across: Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, an international Internet Solution Provider start-up, Reliance Capital, DCB Bank & Future Generali Life & General Insurance companies.

During this period, he has led the Advertising, Marketing, E Commerce & Customer Service teams across these enterprises.
He currently leads the Marketing and Customer Service functions of India’s largest and respected integrated travel services company – Thomas Cook (India) Limited.

Abraham’s strengths are in the areas of marketing/brand strategy formulation, implementation and management; integrated brand and corporate communication; advertising; PR/media relations; market research, customer service and customer-centric marketing from ideation to process engineering.

Abraham’s articles, opinions and interviews feature in various Brand & Marketing forums, portals and publications such as Campaign India, agencyfaqs, exchange4media, mxmindia, Brand Equity, 4Ps etc.

He was a speaker at the World Brand Congress, Mumbai in 2010 and the Great Indian Marketing Summit in 2012 and been on various Marketing and Customer Experience forums.

He has judged the “Effies” in India for 3 years in a row as well as been on the jury for Pitch Magazine’s Golden Mikes Radio Awards, Campaign India’s Digital Crest Awards 2013 and EEMA 2013 among others.
Abraham was also one of only eight “Futurist CMO” Hall of Fame inductees from across India for 2011-12 and in October 2013 was voted among the "50 Most Talented CMOs of India" by the Asian CMO Council and World Brand Congress 

Abrarali Dalal, Managing Director and CEO, Sahyadri Hospitals

Mr Abrarali Dalal is a healthcare industry veteran with an established track record. He was pivotal in building North India’s first private children hospital in his previous role as Group COO, Rainbow Children’s Hospitals. Earlier, he was Facility Director at Fortis Healthcare, New Delhi. He joined Sahyadri Hospitals as COO in December 2019, promoted as CEO in April 2021 and now is the Managing Director. The promotion was a result of navigating the group through huge challenges posted by the pandemic. Under his guidance, the Hospitals have gone digital and have also been effectively leveraging the power and reach of virtual platforms to organize ‘online clinics’ which has been a boon to many especially during the pandemic. Under his leadership, the Sahyadri group of Hospitals, which initially had 8 units, has now grown to 11. With his extensive and varied experience in healthcare operations, he successfully navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 period, collaborating closely with the local administration. Mr. Dalal completed his post-graduation in management from Pune University and has experience of 20 + years in Sales & Marketing and Operations & Administration.

Achal Ghai, Group Managing Director, Legacy Emirates Group

Legacy Emirates Group has been in business since 2003 in the UAE. The Management and Execution team at Legacy Emirates Group has extensive experience in Smart Investing & Services Businesses. At the group level, the Legacy Emirates Group has been investing and building a broad spectrum of businesses in the Services segment.

Achal is the founder and MD of Legacy Emirates Group based in Dubai, UAE which has diversified businesses including Tech Investing, HR Outsourcing and Smart Digital businesses viz., Legacy Smart Capital, Legacy Smart Employment Services, Legacy Marketing & Art as well as Venture Guardian.

Achal has business interests in the UAE, India and Canada. He brings in a lot of expertise in Deal Structuring, Financing and Complex M&A as well as JV transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.

Achal Ghai, Founder & Managing Partner, Avigo Capital Partners

Achal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Avigo Capital Partners (Avigo), a Private Equity Firm based in India. He started the firm in 2003 after having spent 20 years in Corporate & Investment Banking across India, Dubai & Canada with International banks like American Express, HSBC, SCB, EBIL and more recently six years as Director-Western Canada/USA, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, specializing in Corporate Finance, Equity Investing and Investment banking.
 
Achal serves as a director on several company boards and advises conglomerates in Canada, UK, Malaysia, Dubai & India.

He has extensive experience in structuring capital market listing & private equity transactions. He has the proven ability to add value through corporate governance & liquidity enhancing measures. His in depth involvement in PE investments beginning from deal initiation, investment (negotiation, deal structuring, term sheet, legal documentation, funding) to the IPO provides the competitive edge in terms of being the ‘PE Investor’ of choice.
 
Achal is a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA by education.

Achal Kataria, VP & Global Head of Technology, EXL Service

Achyuta Ghosh, Senior Director and Head - Insights, Nasscom