Our speakers

Chetan Vig, Managing Director, Head of Investment Risk and Strategy in the Financial Risk group, TIAA

Chhitiz Kumar, CEO, Philips Capital

Chhitiz Kumar has experience cutting across Healthcare industry and Financial Services. Over the last 2 decades, he has worked with Johnson & Johnson and GE Capital.

Currently as head of Philips Capital for South Asia and Middle-East & Turkey, he is responsible for debt financing and equity investments for Philips. He also leads Healthcare consulting business and Public-Private Partnership business of Philips in South Asia.

His vast experience across financial services and healthcare industry, cutting across functions, helps him bring a holistic and balanced view. He is passionate about healthcare industry and has been working with various healthcare models across geographies to achieve the goal of “Affordable, Accessible, Quality Healthcare for All”.

Chhitiz is MBA graduate from IIM, Kolkata and an alumni of INSEAD, France. He is also Institute of Director (IOD) certified “Independent Director” and a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

Chhitiz Kumar, CEO Philips Capital & Head - Govt. Affairs, PPP, Philips India Ltd.

Chhitiz Kumar has experience cutting across several industries and financial services. Over the last 2 decades, he has worked with Johnson & Johnson, GE Capital and Philips.

Currently as head of Philips Capital India, he is responsible for debt financing and equity investments for all the 3 businesses (Consumer Lifestyle, Lighting and Healthcare) of Philips in Indian Subcontinent. He also leads the Govt. Affairs and PPP function for Philips in Indian subcontinent.

In his previous role at GE Capital, Chhitiz played several roles of increasing responsibility and structured financing solutions across an array of sectors for Indian corporates & MNCs.

With his vast experience across industries and across functions, he brings in a holistic and balanced view to a business.

Chhitiz is an alumnus of IIM, Kolkata and B.Tech (Mining) from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He is a certified “Independent Director” and also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. He is also on Advisory Board of SRM University, Chennai.

Chinmay Agarwal, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Jugnoo

Chinta Bhagat, Executive Director, Khazanah Nasional Berhad

Chinta Bhagat is the country head of India and co-head of global healthcare for Khazanah Nasional, the sovereign investment holding company of the government of Malaysia. In his India role, he oversees investments across public and private markets, and across sectors like healthcare, technology, consumer products, and financial services. In his healthcare role, he oversees Khazanah’s holdings in IHH, the world’s second largest health services company by market capitalisation. Chinta is a board member at IDFC, Parkway Pantai Healthcare, and other portfolio companies. Prior to joining Khazanah, Chinta spent 14 years at McKinsey & Company in Singapore, including six years as Managing Partner for the Singapore office. Chinta was a leader in the Principal Investor practice, serving several sovereign investment firms, private equity firms, and family owned businesses; as well as a leader in the Healthcare practice, serving hospital systems across Asia. Chinta also founded and led McKinsey’s corporate governance service line. Prior to joining McKinsey, Chinta held various positions at an engineering and construction firm in India, culminating in his role as CEO. Chinta has an MBA from INSEAD Business School and is a qualified architect.

Chintan Bhuva, CISO, SwissRe

"Chintan Bhuva is an MBA graduate with a background in Information Technology. He has over 10 years of experience in Cyber Security, IT Governance, Risk, Compliance and IT Auditing. He has worked as a consultant with Deloitte and Cognizant and is currently working as the Chief Information Security Officer, South Asia region for Swiss Re. His responsibilities include securing infrastructure and ensuring regulatory compliance for Swiss Re's offices in India."

Chintan Thakkar, CFO, Info Edge

Chirag Arya, Founder, iChef.in

Chirag graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology and worked in the FMCG sector for Deloitte Consulting in the United States. Chirag was also awarded the Georgia Tech leader of the year. In India, Chirag has successful founded AP Guru, an educational institute and Wok in the Box, a popular chain of restaurants in Mumbai. He is the co-founder and currently leading iChef.

iChef is a gourmet meal kit portal that is backed by the Times of India led Springboard Group. Coming quick on the heels of the many new concepts that make up the hot-and-happening food-tech space, doorstep delivered meal-kits seem to be the latest, and iChef.in is leading from the front. Founded by Sneha Arya and Chirag Arya in 2014, iChef.in delivers pre-portioned gourmet meal-kits that make cooking fun and easy. The recipes, which are concocted and curated by master chefs, pan global palates and feature a mix of mains, salads and desserts.  Currently serving Mumbai, the brand will soon make its mark across key markets nationwide.

Chirag Desai, Associate Director, Viacom 18

Before he joined Viacom18 as Associate Director  – Digital Media, Chirag was at Playcaso as VP – Products, where he was responsible for setting up and deploying games and applications on smartphones and on online platforms.

He spent a major part of his career as Executive Producer at Jump Games, a Reliance Entertainment Ltd. Venture, where he was an integral part of the design and production of over 30+ games across the IOS, Online, PC and mobile platforms.

With over 15 years of work experience, he started his early years working as a stock broker, a network engineer, a dot com professional and has been a part of the gaming industry for over 10 years.

He has been a hardcore gamer since he started writing games in BASIC on his second-hand Apple II computer during the mid 80s.

Chirag, in his career span has led various teams across QA , Game Design and Operator relationships, though his passion and strengths have been a strong grasp of the design and production process with emphasis on game play and getting an international quality product to the consumer.

Chirag Jain, VP, Technology, MobiKwik