Our speakers

Adarsh Prabhu, Associate Director, Technology Application Modernization, Niveus Solutions

With over 16 years in the IT Industry, Mr Adarsh heads Technology and Innovations at Niveus Solutions. He owns the Technology Solutions across Customer Engineering and Application modernization team, overseeing technology initiatives and collaborating with digital leaders to design innovative cloud solutions. Starting as a developer and advancing to the role of an architect, he has cultivated his expertise through collaboration with professionals from around the globe and learning from industry luminaries.

Adhil Shetty, CEO, BankBazaar.com

BankBazaar is an online financial marketplace focused on helping consumers access the right financial products. Adhil’s vision is to democratize finance and increase financial inclusion in India through BankBazaar by making personal finance entirely paperless and presence-less.

Under Adhil’s leadership, BankBazaar has grown to become India’s biggest online financial marketplace with 50+ integrated financial institutions and 90 Million visitors per quarter. A Fintech thought leader, Adhil is one of the most widely read experts and influencers on personal finance in India. He represents BankBazaar at FICCI and is part of the FICCI Fintech Committee, and has been part of the LinkedIn Power Profiles List for three years in running now.

Adhil has also been named as one of India's best professionals and entrepreneurs under the age of 40 by the Economic Times and Fortune India. BankBazaar has been recognised for its innovative technology by ET and Business Today among others. BankBazaar’s investors include Amazon, Experian, Fidelity Growth Partners, and Walden International.

BankBazaar is an online financial marketplace focused on helping consumers access the right financial products. Adhil’s vision is to democratize finance and increase financial inclusion in India through BankBazaar by making personal finance entirely paperless and presence-less.

Under Adhil’s leadership, BankBazaar has grown to become India’s biggest online financial marketplace with 50+ integrated financial institutions and 90 Million visitors per quarter. A Fintech thought leader, Adhil is one of the most widely read experts and influencers on personal finance in India. He represents BankBazaar at FICCI and is part of the FICCI Fintech Committee, and has been part of the LinkedIn Power Profiles List for three years in running now.

Adhil has also been named as one of India's best professionals and entrepreneurs under the age of 40 by the Economic Times and Fortune India. BankBazaar has been recognised for its innovative technology by ET and Business Today among others. BankBazaar’s investors include Amazon, Experian, Fidelity Growth Partners, and Walden International.

Adhil Shetty, CEO, Bankbazaar.com

Adil Usman, Business Head, B2B Business, iProf Learning Solutions

Adil is a seasoned professional with diverse educational industry experience ranging from core content creation, product development to business unit management.

He has worked with global leaders in the online education space and brings a new prospective towards problem solving & innovative solutioning along with creativity on the Table PC. His deep content knowledge with product development skills gives an edge in solution designing.

Adil has spearheaded multiple Government projects from the phase of tendering to final execution for wide array of requirements from various Government bodies. His understanding of the school education market helps him the right strategic planning and solution pitching for the schools.

His holistic experience in - sales, marketing, business development, P&L management etc. along with digital product and services understanding, helps him in pitching innovative solutions to B2B and Government clients which makes him a well-rounded business leader.

Aditi Avasthi, Founder and CEO, Embibe.com | @embibe

AditiAvasthi, 33, more popularly known as ‘Chief Embiber’ is the founder and CEO of Indiavidual learning – a Mumbai-based ed-tech start-up.

embibe’s evolution and growth stems from Aditi’s passion for education and her desire to guide aspirants of massively competitive complex exams (MCCE) to fulfill their dreams. The journey that led her to setting up embibe has been an enriching one. She feels that the biggest challenge in mass education today is the tendency to underperform or drop out because students are often unable to realise their true potential.

An engineer herself, Aditi also has an MBA from the prestigious Booth School of Business in Chicago. She garnered experience in diverse fields such as marketing, product innovation and mobile commerce before setting off on the path of entreprenurship. She has headed top projects with globally-renowned companies such as Siemens, TCS and Barclays. While scaling the corporate ladder quickly, Aditi secretly continued to cherish her dream of creating something revolutionary for the education sector in India. In 2012, she decided to pack her bags and come back to India and do what she truly believed in, culminating in the founding of embibe.

Aditi was recently featured in Fortune India’s “40 under 40”, March 2015, mentioned amongst the most influential young people in the country who are causing a true disruption through technology and innovation. This is a reflection of her success story and the significant contributions she will continue to make in the Indian education space.

Aditi Manchanda, Partner from the Corporate / M&A and Private Equity practice, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Aditi Manchanda is a Partner in the Mumbai Office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and has cumulative professional experience of over 10 years. Prior to joining Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in 2015, Aditi was part of PE and M&A practice at  J. Sagar Associates, Mumbai. Aditi also seconded with India offices of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where she was the in-house legal for KKR India entities.

As a member of the general corporate practice group at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, her work involves general corporate advisory and transactional matters, which mostly include PE and M&A transactions. As part of some of her recent M&A and PE transaction experience, she has  been  actively  involved  in  regulatory  processes  and  compliance  advisory  work specifically with industry regulators such as SEBI, RBI, and FIPB/Department of Economic Affairs.

She has represented some large corporate houses, promoters, private equity funds, banks, and financial institutions in cross border M&A transactions and foreign private equity investments.

Illustratively, to name a few key transactions (announced in public domain) that she has worked on, they include:

  • Investment by Gaja Capital in Kinara Capital a non-banking finance company (NBFC) that provides loans to small to medium level enterprises engaged in the business of vehicle financing.
  • Acquisition of majority stake by Creation Investments India in Vivriti Capital, an NBFC that is engaged in lending, private and public placement of debt securities/ loans/ preference shares/ asset sales and is a technology-based marketplace for connecting institutional issuers and investors.
  • Acquisition of majority stake by True North in Shree Digvijay Cements, a listed company engaged in the business of cement manufacturing.  
  • Investment by Morgan Stanley in a subsidiary of Ashoka Buildcon which is engaged in the business of LNG distribution.
  • Represented BanyanTree Growth for its co-investment with Morgan Stanley in NSPIRA Management Services, a company engaged in education support services to K-12 schools run by Narayana Education Society.   
  • Investment by True North in Fedbank Financial Services, a subsidiary of Federal Bank and an NBFC that provides loans against property, gold loan, construction loans and structured finance loans.
  • Acquisition by the Adani Ports of the Kattupalli Port in Tamil Nadu from the L&T Group.
  • Investment  by  Warburg  Pincus  in  a  group  entity  of  Piramal  Realty  for  the development of real estate projects, both residential and commercial, in Mumbai.
  • Investment by TPG Growth and existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Evolvence in Ess Kay Fincorp, an NBFC engaged in the business of vehicle financing.
  • Sale of controlling stake by the shareholders of Home First Finance, a housing finance company to True North.
  • Investment by the Carlyle Group in Dee Development, Infrastructure Company.
  • Exit by Deutsche Bank, Singapore from the Lodha Group.
  • Investment by BanyanTree in Kanakdurga  Finance, an NBFC engaged in the business of gold loan and  vehicle financing.
  • Proposed  acquisition  by  Warburg  Pincus  and  General  Atlantic  of  Sharekhan Group.

She has worked on private equity investments and M&A transactions across sectors like financial services, ITES and e-commerce, consumer, retail, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, real estate and infrastructure.

Aditya Agarwal, Director, People Analytics, Deloitte India

Aditya Aggarwal, Managing Director - Infrastructure Private Equity Fund and Head – Renewables, IDFC Alternatives

Mr. Aggarwal is a founding member of the core investment team at IDFC Alternatives which set up IDFC’s Infrastructure Funds business currently comprising two funds with an aggregate corpus of US$ 2 billion. He is a member of the Investment Committee and represents the Funds on the Boards of various Portfolio Companies. As a part of the leadership team at IDFC Alternatives, Mr. Aggarwal primarily focuses on origination, evaluation and capital deployment across infrastructure sectors along with managing the portfolio and creating exits. Current specific responsibilities also include fund raising, LP engagement and overseeing the build out of the renewable platform. He has over 19 years of experience across banking and financial services with a focus on equity investing, project finance, fund raising and advisory services.

Previously, Mr. Aggarwal was with Infrastructure Development Finance Company (‘IDFC”) as a senior member of the project finance team and was the lead for originating, overseeing the due diligence and negotiating lending terms for a number of limited recourse financings, mezzanine financings and promoter funding with equity kickers across energy projects. Prior to IDFC, Mr. Aggarwal was with corporate banking group of Standard Chartered Bank where he primarily worked on regional structured finance and project finance transactions.

He is a Certified Treasury Manager and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management – Kolkata, India.

Aditya Bafna, Executive Director, hree Shubham Logistics

Mr. Aditya Bafna is a management graduate with over 9 years of experience in the field of Commodities business. Belonging to the promoter family, he is involved in day-to-day business activities of SSLL. He also serves as a director on the board of NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS), a wholly owned subsidiary of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). 

Aditya Bagri, VP - Marketing & Group Director, Bagrrys India Ltd

Aditya joined Bagrry's in 2011 and currently leads the Marketing & Strategy function for the organisation. Previously, he has been a part of the international organisation AIESEC, where he led the corporate team in Delhi and has also worked with Goldman Sachs in the UK. Now, he also looks into Corporate Finance and New Business Development for the Bagrry's Group. Aditya is a Statistics Graduate from Hindu College, Delhi University and received a MSc. in Management from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he graduated with Distinction.