Our speakers
C S Setty, MD, SBI
C.R. Chandrasekar, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, FundsIndia.com | @FundsIndia
Chandrasekar started his career at MicroStrategy, a leading data mining and analytics firm in USA. Later, he moved on to work for Morgan Stanley and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, before starting his own retirement solutions company – ExpertPlan. Currently, ExpertPlan is the number 1 third-party online administrator for retirement solutions in USA. He returned to India in 2003 and started an off-shore software solutions firm, Arrowpoint Technologies, which specializes in financial applications for clients across the globe. After witnessing the dearth of online mutual fund investing platforms, Chandrasekar decided to establish FundsIndia with his close friend, Srikanth Meenakshi.
Chandrasekar received his Masters degree in Computer Science at the Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Through FundsIndia, he aims to educate and empower investors so that they can comprehend and execute the knowledge acquired towards making smart investments.
C.Venkat Subramanyam, Founder & Director, Veda Corp
Venkat is a co-founder of Veda and has more than 16 years of hands-on experience in the investment banking business. Venkat has been a pioneer in the investment banking space in India and has been closely associated with the growth of the Indian VC/PE industry since the mid nineties. He has an enviable track record of transaction closures in private equity as well as M&A, having crafted several defining transaction across domains such as services, infrastructure and ITeS, amongst others.
Venkat is a successful entrepreneur in his own right having co-founded Mantra Consultants in 1998 (along with Vinod Kumar), a boutique investment bank based in South India, which was subsequently acquired by Ernst & Young in 2001. He was an Associate Director at Ernst & Young before co-founding Veda in late 2003.
Venkat is an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is a regular speaker in industry forums and his views on are often quoted in the business media. He enjoys strong and long standing relationships with several leading private equity funds and their managers.
Carlton Pereira, MD, Tano Capital
Carlton is a co-founding partner of Tano Capital in India. Tano was established in February 2006. Prior to Tano, he was most recently the Managing Director and Partner in charge of Corporate Finance for KPMG in India, the Middle East and South Asia. Carlton had been an investment banker and a consultant advisor for 18 years in all, before Tano.
Carlton is a Bachelor of Commerce from the Bombay University and Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
CB Velayuthan, CEO, Digital Connexion
CB Velayuthan is the Chief Executive Officer at Digital Connexion.
A seasoned leader with over 25 years of experience working in the US, Europe, and Asia, he is a results-focused executive with passion for technology as a force for empowering people and organizations to build a better tomorrow.
Before joining Digital Connexion, CB was the Global Managing Director of Strategic Alliances at Equinix, USA, where he successfully led business with large enterprises. Prior to that, he led Global Sales for Nokia, driving significant revenue growth. During his time there, he also created a Partner Business Unit and spent many years in the India Market building nationwide Telecom networks for key operators.
CB holds an MBA in Global Business from Helsinki School of Economics and an undergraduate degree from Bharathiyar University, India. His interests include reading, golf, and long-distance running. He also serves as the President of a First Robotics team in California to support youth to learn and design robots.
Cdr. Navneet Bali, CEO, Clearmedi Healthcare
Chakradhar Gade, Co-Founder, Country Delight
Chakradhar is co-founder of Country Delight, India’s largest direct-to-home food essentials brand that uses technology to deliver pure , fresh and minimally processed food essentials directly to consumers doorstep eliminating all middlemen in between. Prior to Country Delight, he worked as a computer science engineer initially and later as a finance professional with New York based asset management company. He is an avid movie watcher and poker player.
Chakri Lokapriya, MD, TCG Asset Management
Chanchal Agarwal, CIO, Credence Family Office
Chandra Sekhar, Founder & CEO, Sports365
Sekhar is the Founder & CEO of Sports365, one of India's leading multi-channel Sports & Fitness company. Sports365 operates both in B2C (e-commerce) & B2B space and has been invested in & endorsed by India's leading sporting icons like Mahesh Bhupathi, Yuvraj Singh, Dipika Pallikal etc. Sports365 has been the fastest growing company in this space and has managed to claim leadership position in multiple business segments it operates in within the first 2 years.
Prior to starting Sports365, Sekhar had successful professional stints in companies like P&G and Mckinsey & Co for over 8 years. He is a management graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Needless to say, he is a sports addict.