Our speakers

Deepak Sharma, President & CDO, Kotak Mahindra Group

Deepak Sharma heads Kotak Mahindra Bank’s digital initiatives where he drives digital transformation, business model innovation and future ready initiatives of the bank. He is responsible for efficiency, productivity, customer experience and growth of the business through digital intervention across digital channels, lending, payments, investments, insurance, trade & forex, for the Retail, SME, Private Wealth and Institutional Banking segments. Deepak also leads Digital IT & Product Engineering, Innovation Lab, Design Studio, Fintech partnerships and the Start-up ecosystem participation for the bank.

Under his leadership, Kotak has launched several innovative and global first products such as 811, Jifi, Hashtag Banking, KayMall, WhatsApp Banking & Kaypay, apart from new initiatives like API, Open & Connected Banking, Conversational Banking Bot ’Keya’, BYOD Biometric Banking, Cross- border remittances on Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Robotic Process Automation. Deepak believes in constant innovation and focuses on building business models & platforms which are customer centric, value accretive and disruptive.

Deepak has worked across various international markets and brings a global perspective to the business. In his previous role, he was responsible for setting up the Bank’s highly successful Non Resident Indian (NRI) & International Remittances business. Deepak also played a key role in launching the Bank’s affluent banking programme - Privy League.

With over 27 years of experience, Deepak’s professional tenure spans across the banking, telecom and consumer services verticals. Prior to joining Kotak, he was part of the leadership team of Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered from 2003 to 2008. Thereafter, as National Head for Corporate Business at Standard Chartered, he was responsible for building the corporate payroll and Wealth Management business.

Deepak has completed an advanced programme in Strategy from IIM Calcutta as well as the Stanford LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation. He is a member of Airtel Customer Advisory Board, Member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Digital Transformation Committee, FICCI National Committee on Fintech & a number of Startup-Industry Forums, in addition to participating at various trade & Government initiatives on the Digital India Roadmap. He mentors fintech and start-up ecosystems on an ongoing basis.

Deepak Srinath, Director, Viedea Capital advisor

Deepak Srinath has operating and management experience in Mobile VAS, IT services and business services prior to co-founding Viedea. Before founding Viedea, he was at July Systems, a mobile VAS infrastructure provider funded by Motorola Ventures, Sequoia Capital, etc. His roles included product management of July's flagship Mobile Marketplace platform and business development for the EMEA region.

Prior to this he was a part of the start-up management team for the UK operations of Apar Infotech (later Ness Technologies), where he helped the company grow from zero to over GBP 5 million revenue. Deepak also started and successfully exited a Bangalore based IT recruitment company, focused on turnkey staffing solutions for the high-tech sector. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and a BE in Computer Science from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore.

Deepali Naair, Chief Marketing Officer, Mahindra Holidays & Resort India Limited

Deepali Naair's 20 years’ experience, is in the area of Marketing, Brand Management, Product Development & Digital Marketing.
She began her career with Tata Motors, then a stint at BPL Mobile, when the 1st mobile phone was launched in India. She worked at Draft FCB-Ulka, then at Marico as Marketing Manager for Saffola and Mediker. From 2006 she was with HSBC Global Asset Management India as VP & Head of Marketing. Apart from successfully managing marketing for India operations, she led the Communication for the Global relaunch of HSBC Global Asset Management Brand, which used to be HSBC Investments.

In 2009, she joined L&T as part of the start up team as Country Head for Brand & Corporate Communications. She has been instrumental in designing the brand strategy & digital strategy for L&T Insurance, as she also heads the e-commerce channel for L&T Insurance. She also looked after customer service there. She has recently joined Club Mahindra as their Chief Marketing Officer in October 2013.

She gets invited regularly to speak on ‘Digital Media’ at various Seminars and Conferences. In April 2011, she was invited to USA, for a presentation on “Social Media in India”. She was a panelist at the Roundtable for India Insure Summit, June 2011 on “Digital Branding”. In April 2012, she was a speaker at the 1st Asian ‘conference on social media & mobile marketing for insurance’ hosted by Asia insurance Review in Singapore.

Deepali was recently recognized by Paul Writer as one of the top 50 CMOs for the prestigious Marketing & IT Recognition (M.IT.R). She is also the recipient of Indira Super Achievers Award in September 2010.
She has been a guest faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai for a decade now. She has delivered guest lectures at MICA, Ahmedabad, SIMC apart from other B Schools in India and abroad. 

Deepan Dasgupta, Partner, Deloitte

Deepan has in depth experience and expertise in providing customized solutions to private and public sector clients in the areas of organization design and change management, digital operating model design and mindset activation, workforce planning and optimization and creating a high-performance organization. Deepan has delivered more than 35 large scale assignments across India, Middle East, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, Canada and Mauritius.

Deepesh Agarwal, Co-founder, CEO, MoveInSync

He has worked for 10 years in wireless communication and ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). His last job was with Motorola, India as Engineering Manager. He was instrumental in the design of MOTODRIVE, a futuristic vehicle to infrastructure (road network) integration for US Department of Transportation. He played an important role in bringing Location Based Services on Motorola handsets in India.

Deepesh has an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), majoring in Entrepreneurship. and B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University Varanasi.

Deepesh Garg, Managing Director, o3 Capital

Deepesh Garg has over 17 years of deal-making experience. He co-founded o3 Capital in 2007 and has been a key strategic leader and financial advisor to a range of companies in the Consumer and Internet & Digital Technology practice. Deepesh is a B.S. graduate from Rajasthan University and holds an MBA degree from K.J. Somaiya. 

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Deepesh Nanda, CEO, GE Gas Power, South Asia President & CEO, GE Asia, Aero Business

Deepit Purkayastha, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Inshorts

Deepit Purkayastha is Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Inshorts, erstwhile, News in Shorts. In his capacity as Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible to oversee the business and strategic roadmap for the enterprise. In his 4th year of IIT Kharagpur, Deepit teamed up with Azhar Iqubal and Anunay Pandey to build Inshorts the pioneer of short form content in India. 

In his leisure time, Deepit is fond of playing musical instruments. 

Deepthi Reddy, Head, IFMR Ventures

Ms. Deepthi Reddy is the Head, IFMR Ventures, Asset Management Company managing its first equity fund, the Network Enterprises Fund (NEF). NEF intends making investments in the missing links identified in the Indian rural/remote supply chains. The sponsor, IFMR Trust is a private trust with a mission to ensure that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services. IFMR Trust is one of the enterprises mentored by ICICI Foundation.

She is responsible for Incubation, Fund structuring and investments into early stage, India focused private equity investments in the rural supply chain of the NEF focus sectors. Ms. Reddy has versatile operational exposure to investments and legal areas of the venture capital investment. She has been involved in screening the proposals, due diligence, investments, structuring the deal and monitoring activities of the Investee Undertakings. In addition, she has worked on legal functions of the venture capital process such as investor reports, contribution agreements, term sheets and share subscription agreements for Investee undertakings. She was instrumental in building relationships with research institutes that helped to accomplish synergistic partnerships as well as manpower for portfolio companies.

Ms. Reddy's academic background combines technology, legal and managerial subjects that have been critical in decision making and investments in VC/PE industry. She holds dual Bachelors degree in Science and Law from Osmania University, India. She is also an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in 'Intellectual property' from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University, India. She underwent a professional development programs on venture capital industry conducted by the UTI Institute of Capital Markets, IVCJ and IIM, Bangalore, India.

Deobrat Singh, Co-founder & CEO, Gazemetrix

Deobrat is the CEO and Co-founder of Gazemetrix which is disrupting the way brands interact with user generated photos in social media. Over the past several years he’s worked with startups and big corporations alike building scalable systems along the way.