Our speakers

Debojit Maitra, CISO, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd

Debolina Partap, General Counsel, Wockhardt Limited

Ms. Debolina Partap, General Counsel and Vice President Legal, Wockhardt, is a Gold Medalist in masters of law and has 25 years of experience in banking, finance, pharma and healthcare. She is responsible for IP and Litigation Management, legal compliance, all corporate legal work, M&As, transactions management amongst others. She advises top management on legal risks to the organization. Her main achievements come in handling complex IP cases, M&A transactions, setting up legal compliance systems, legal repository management, standardization of legal processes and documents, settling insolvency petitions and intricate derivatives suits. She is also handling legal issues pertaining to complex and composite global regulatory matters concerning Wockhardt Group. Her other focus areas have been handling legal dynamics of patient safety issues, overseeing GCP, GMP and GDP areas in pharma. She is one of the few general counsels globally who handle forensics and data analytics. She and her team have won over 80 awards from Internationally and Nationally recognized legal organizations.

Deep Agrawal, Head of Payments, PhonePe

Deep Agrawal is Director and Head of Payments at PhonePe. He oversees the entire Payments suite of offerings across the PhonePe ecosystem. He joined PhonePe two years ago.

Prior to this, Deep was Executive Vice President, Digital Banking at YES BANK where he was responsible for the YES BANK’s emerging payments area with a special focus on launching innovative products catering to various segments of customers across Corporate and Retail use cases. He was responsible for the creation of the Go-to-Market strategy and then launching and scaling products and businesses such as UPI, Bharat Bill Pay (BBPS), IMPS, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) to industry-leading positions. He has worked on innovative programs such as YES SIMsePAY and YES Money which have contributed significantly to the Financial Inclusion agenda. These businesses have received several awards from notable entities such as Nasscom, Finnoviti, SKOCH, Golden Peacock, NPCI and MasterCard. He has represented YES BANK at Steering Committees of NPCI and at other industry forums such as IBA which help shape the entire digital payment ecosystem of the country.

He holds an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology.

Deep Kalra, Founder & CEO, MakeMyTrip

The pioneer of online travel in India, Deep Kalra founded MakeMyTrip in April, 2000. Drawing on his experience from his years at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank, under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip has become the largest online travel company, as well as the largest e-commerce business in India.

Deep is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM and chairs the NASSCOM Internet Working Group. He is also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the Board of TiE, New Delhi.

Deep is also a member of CII's Tourism sub-committee and a regular speaker at numerous internet and travel conferences across the world. He currently serves as an independent Director for IndiaMart.com, a leading B2B website.He is also a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focused on the improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.

Deep holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1990), and a MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992). His interests include adventure sports, swimming, yoga, quizzing and travelling to places off the beaten path.He is an active angel investor from Indian Angel Network.

Deep Kalra, Chairman and Group CEO, MakeMyTrip

Deep is the Founder, Group Chairman and Group CEO of India’s leading online travel company, MakeMyTrip Ltd. Launched in India in 2005, MakeMyTrip is today one of the largest e-commerce business in the country. Deep steered MakeMyTrip as CEO since its inception in 2000, to a successful listing on NASDAQ in August 2010. He took on the role of Group CEO in August 2013, to focus on Strategy, M&A and international businesses. He continues to lead the Group’s strategic development and overall execution excellence.

Deep served as the President of TiE Delhi Chapter from 2013 to 2016 and continues to serve as an active board member. He is the Vice Chairman of IAMAI and a member of Nasscom’s Internet Council. Deep is also closely involved with leading industry bodies like CII and FICCI as part of their Travel & Tourism sub-committees. He is one of the founders of Ashoka University and serves on their governing body. A believer in citizens effort, he is a founding member of “I am Gurgaon” – an NGO focused on improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.

Deep has been recognized by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Transformation (2011) and as the most powerful Digital influencer in India (2012) by KPMG. TTG Asia awarded him Best Travel Entrepreneur of 2012 at the TTG Travel Awards.

Prior to his entrepreneurial venture with MakeMyTrip, Deep has had corporate stints with GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank. He holds an MBA degree from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. His interests include swimming, yoga, adventure sports quizzing and travelling.

Deep Mishra, MD, Everstone Capital Advisors

Deep Mishra is a Managing Director in the private equity team of Everstone Capital Advisors.

Prior to joining Everstone in 2009, Deep had over 13 years of experience in private and public investments, investment banking and as an entrepreneur. Deep previously worked with Och Ziff Capital Management and Ernst & Young. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from IIT Kanpur and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.

Deepa Dalal, Partner, Deloitte India

Deepak Anand, Co-founder & CEO, Housr

A dynamic and successful entrepreneur- Deepak Anand is the brain behind introducing the original co-living concept in India- Housr. As cities flourish, spaces vanish. But living in cities shouldn't always mean crunched spaces and a lower standard of living. Deepak recognized this problem and realized it could be solved via a shared economy model. Urban clusters have a high number of migrant population using rented accommodations. India, as the fastest growing economy in the world, has grabbed the attention of the world and is today on the radar of global investors, multi-national corporations, tourists, economists and more.

Moreover, India has a high population of millennials well-versed with using sharing economy on a day-to-day basis, it lays a solid ground for introducing co-living via Housr in the truest sense. Housr’s vision is to truly disrupt the way millennials live by providing high quality co-living spaces which makes their lives easier, more convenient, fulfilling and memorable.

Before founding Housr, Deepak was the Founder of Smartlease and has an extensive experience in the real estate industry. In the past, he has worked in leadership roles at Real Estate Private Equity Funds, HT Media and HSBC. Deepak is an INSEAD Alumnus and a graduate from Delhi University.

Deepak Bagla, Partner, Infrastructure, 3i Private Equity India

Deepak joined 3i in March 2007, bringing two decades of work experience starting with the World Bank in Washington DC, followed by a stint with a major Indian business conglomerate, where he was involved with corporate planning and establishing green field projects.

Deepak worked with Citigroup since 1989 in various roles including structured financial solutions for State Governments, Capital Markets, Financial Institutions and public/private Corporations. From 1996 he was involved with global equity offerings by Corporations in Europe and Asia.

Deepak was a member of the Banking & Finance Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards (ISO afiliate 2005-06). He was also a member of the committee established by the Government of India to recommend corporate governance norms for independant directors (2006).

Deepak has a Bachelors degree with honours in Economics from St Stephens College, Delhi University, and a Masters in International Trade & Finance and Diplomacy, from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Deepak Dhar, Co-founder, Nestaway