Our speakers

Cyril Mohapatra, Senior VP, Yes Bank

Cyril S Shroff, Managing Partner, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co.

Cyril S Shroff, Managing Partner, has over 25 years of experience in a range of areas, including corporate laws, securities markets, banking, infrastructure and others. He is regarded and has been consistently rated as India’s top corporate, banking and project finance lawyer by several international surveys.

Mr Shroff has authored several publications on legal topics. He is a visiting lecturer at Government Law College, a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Study at Harvard Law School, and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Securities Markets.

Mr Shroff is a member of the Executive Council – Legal Practice Division and the Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific Forum of the International Bar Association. He is a member of the Media Legal Defense Initiative (MLDI) International Advisory Board. Also, a member of the Primary Markets Advisory Committee of the SEBI. He is also part of various committees of the CII.

Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Cyrus Driver, Director, Helix Investments Advisors Pvt Ltd

Cyrus Driver is a Director and India Head of Helix Investments, an India-focused PE fund. Education is a focus sector for Helix and Helix has investments in MT Educare, India’s largest chain of school tutoring centers, and LearningMate, a leading elearning solutions provider. Prior to joining Helix, Cyrus worked with J.P. Morgan Partners Advisors in Singapore and Mumbai, during which time he invested across varied sectors including manufacturing, food retail, B2B businesses and IT services. Cyrus received his Bachelor of Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.

D A Prasanna, Chairman & MD, Ecron Acunova

As a founder, he has mapped the vision and strategy for the organization. He has experience in leveraging Asian competitiveness building successful global business in medical technology for GE and software for Wipro. As Exec Chairman of the Manipal Group, his focus was on developing a research thrust for the Group. Considered a thought leader in Health care and Life Sciences, he has worked in global leadership positions in GE and was Vice Chairman of Wipro. He serves on the board of various Pharma companies and Research institutes.

Prasanna is acknowledged in the healthcare sector as the pioneer in creating a market for high tech. medical equipment and delivering clinical excellence at low patient fees in Asian Hospitals, through innovative strategies. As the startup CEO of GE Medical in India, he also developed a $330 m Global Business in healthcare for GE Medical Systems (GEMS) by leveraging India's competitiveness taking the company from no 5 to No 1. He has also been a founding member of Wipro's team that initiated the company's entry into IT and was Vice Chairman of Wipro Ltd.

He is an independent Director of Take Solutions Ltd. He serves on the Governing Council of Center for Policy Research, India's leading Think Tank and of T A Pai Management Institute, a reputed Business School. He is a Trustee on Shriram Ownership Trust, which shapes the strategy of Shriram group of companies. He has served as Chairman of GEBEL, GEMS IT Ltd and GE X-Ray(South Asia) and Director of GE Yokogawa Medical Systems Ltd, Japan and GE Samsung Ltd, Korea, Wipro GE Medical Systems Ltd, India and Shasun Chemical & Drugs Ltd India. He brings rich experience in pharma and healthcare.

Mr. Prasanna is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad & GE Global Business Leadership Program at Crotonville.

D C S Hariharan, CISO & Director, Cyber Security & IT Risk, HARMAN International

Over two decades of experience in Information Security Strategy, Cloud Security, IT -OT / ICS, IT Security Operations, Application Security Research, and development/Infrastructure Security Management, Information Risk and Governance, Threat Hunting, Cyber Strategic Consulting, SOC implementations, Program Management, IT Security Architecture, Vendor Risk Assessment, IT Security Services Consultation, and Systems Integration -AI. Proven areas of strength include infrastructure Security services, Cloud Security operations, and innovative business Security strategies. A passion for people & team development with demonstrated achievements in creating value by leveraging people, process, technology, Business Continuity, ISO 27001/ 21434,ITIL, HIPPA,Auditing & metrics to build compelling products and services with a focus on supporting business over a multiyear approach.

D K Goel, Chairman, FIITJEE

Mr. Goel is a 1986 B Tech graduate from the IIT Delhi and is a first generation entrepreneur. FIITJEE is the only truly national brand, spread across India and the Middle-East, having 67 centres across 39 cities, its distance education wing catering to students in every nook & corner of the country. Over the last 2 decades, 1 out of every 3 IITians – is a FIITJEEian. Fiitjee students get a major share of ranks in various competitive exams & bag major share of Global Olympiad gold medals. Today Fiitjee is recognised as the most powerful brand in serious education.

Mr. Goel is a serial innovator around educational excellence, societal challenges, emotional maturity and wholesome development of children. His innovations have transformed educational landscape in Test Prep in the country, with several of them becoming Industry leading standards today. Mr. Goel’s focus on holistic development has led to innovation of school Integrated Programs with 83 Associate Schools globally, 6 FIITJEE Schools and 9 FIITJEE Junior Colleges. He inspired engineering graduates, especially IITians to join Fiitjee’s workforce and drive his vision of Education through Innovation & Excellence.

Mr Goel is driving innovation in education through investment & mentoring of EdTech companies. One of the investee company Edfora (empowering every child with personalised, outcome oriented, quality academic development - something good for the nation) is probably the only profitable EdTech company in the world.

D Muthukumaran, CEO, Aditya Birla Private Equity | @AdityaBirlaGrp

Until recently taking over as the CEO of the Aditya Birla Private Equity, Mr. D Muthukumaran was in Group Corporate Finance at the Aditya Birla Group for 12 years, prior to which he was in an international investment bank for a year and in a Big 4 Accounting firm for 8 years.

Muthukumaran has specialized in business strategy, portfolio management, identifying value creating opportunities, fund raising in debt and equity capital markets, structured finance, leverage buy-outs, private equity, regulatory and tax structuring and the full cycle of acquisitions. At the Group Corporate Finance at the Aditya Birla Group, Muthukumaran was driving Mergers and acquisitions and long term capital raising across the businesses, Group investors relations and Chairman MIS.

Aditya Birla Group has successfully executed over two dozen and evaluated many more acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate finance transactions in most of which Muthukumaran has played a key role. Aditya Birla Group is driven by the long term value creating strategy, presence across value chain, market leadership, cost competitiveness, innovation and free cash generation.

Both in the Investment Bank and in the Big 4 firm, he worked in the full cycle of M &A – Ideation, execution, due diligence, negotiations, financing and deal structuring. Muthukumaran holds degree as Chartered Accountant, Cost & Works Accountant and Bacherlors of Commerce from University of Madras.

D.Sundaram, Vice-Chairman & MD, TVS Capital

D.Sundaram experience spans corporate finance, business performance, operations, governance, mergers & acquisitions, talent/people management and strategy. Sundaram served in Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) as Corporate Accountant, Commercial Manager and Treasurer till 1990. He was seconded to Unilever, London as Commercial Officer for Africa and Middle East Group between 1990 and 1993. He has served in various roles, including TOMCO integration, Head of Africa & Middle East among others. In May 1999 he was promoted as Finance & IT Director of HUL.

Sundaram was elevated as Vice Chairman of HUL in April 2008. In all, He has more than 34 years of experience with Hindustan Unilever Limited. He is a two-time winner of the prestigious CFO of the Year for FMCG Sector award by CNBC TV18 (2006 and 2009). Sundaram brings deep financial expertise and significant understanding of consumer related businesses. This combination makes him a unique professional to help build TVS Capital Funds into a successful and durable institution. Sundaram expertise will guide the next-generation of entrepreneurs across India to build world class companies.

Sundaram is a Post Graduate in Management Studies (MMS), Chennai, Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and has attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme. He is also an independent director on the Board of State Bank of India, and member of the board of governors of Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai.

D.V. Manohar, Partner - M&A Tax, Deloitte.

Manohar is a partner in M&A tax practice, based in Bangalore with over 18 years of experience in advising corporates on direct tax matters. He has a wide experience in acquisition structuring, fund structuring, inbound investments, mergers and tax due diligence for various clients including listed entities.

He has advised companies involved in technology, e-commerce, power, and those in infrastructure sectors on tax structuring. Manohar has advised various private equity firms, venture capital firms on their investments in India and on exits from investments in India.

He has presented various papers in conferences/seminars both in India and abroad, and has written articles on various taxation issues in leading international taxation journals.

Manohar is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.