Our speakers
Dipak Gupta, Joint Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank
Dipak Gupta is a whole-time director on the board of Kotak Mahindra Bank and is designated Joint Managing Director. He is also a part of the Group Management Council that drives Kotak Mahindra Group’s growth charter.
Dipak helms numerous functions including Compliance, Vigilance, Internal Audit, Human Resources, IT including Cyber Security, Digital Initiatives, Customer Experience, Marketing & Communications, Environment Social Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Dipak has played a key role in building various businesses for Kotak Mahindra Group. He was instrumental in forging the partnership between Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd (KMFL) and Ford Credit International. He was the first CEO of the KMFL–Ford Credit joint venture, Kotak Mahindra Primus Limited.
Dipak was appointed as Executive Director of Kotak Mahindra Finance Limited (which got the banking license in April 2003 to become Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited) in 1999. Dipak was also responsible for setting up the retail business following the conversion of KMFL into a bank.
Prior to joining Kotak in 1992, Dipak worked with the consultancy division of A.F. Ferguson.
Dipak is a graduate in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Varanasi and a post-graduate in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).
Dipak Sanghavi, MD, Nilons Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Dippak Khurana, Co-founder & CEO, Vserv
As Co-founder and CEO of Vserv, Dippak Khurana is responsible for driving the vision and strategy of the company. Dippak has been at the forefront of desktop and mobile Internet revolution for over eighteen years.
He spent the initial five years of his career in shaping the future of leading companies that were establishing themselves in the newly found Internet medium. He played a key role in setting up the online entity for India’s #1 newspaper - The Times of India and India’s 1st online ad network in 1999.
Post a successful stint in the desktop Internet industry, he moved to the mobile sector in 2001 where he spearheaded and launched multiple market first initiatives. Some of his notable contributions in the mobile domain were launching the core services for Yahoo! India and pioneering mobile Internet portals for telecom operators.
Dippak possesses a deep understanding of the mobile and Internet industry, an astute business sense and most importantly, an unquenchable ambition for growth. In 2010, he co-founded Vserv, that has grown from a four member team to a 200 member team with a global presence and offices across 11 countries. Today, Vserv is a leading mobile marketing platform across emerging markets, that delivers smart data led results to marketers, app developers, telcos and data partners.
Dippak has also been a speaker and panel host in key international forums like GMIC Beijing & Tokyo, ad:tech, amongst others.
Dipu KV, Senior President - Head Operations & Customer Service, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Mr K V Dipu is President & Head of Operations and Customer Service at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company. He has led numerous industry leadership projects as the head of operations, communities & customer service @ Asia's leading general insurance company.
Mr Dipu forefronts the digital transformation drive at Bajaj Allianz GIC, leveraging start-ups from fintech/insure tech globally, while leading a team of ~1600 people in 170 locations. A management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM Lucknow), he joined Bajaj Allianz GIC in 2016 after a stellar career of nearly 20 years with GE Capital.
During Mr Dipu’s distinguished career spanning over 24 years, his forte has been combining digital transformation with deep domain expertise & six sigma rigor to redesign the business model for operational excellence and customer delight. Bajaj Allianz GIC features in IDC’s list of top 20 insurers for 2020 in the Asia Pacific, is ranked # 7 in the list of global top 100 digital insurers and has twice been awarded “Digital Insurer of the Year” across Asia.
Mr Dipu is a certified lean six sigma black belt and a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research group of business professionals. Many of his accomplishments have received industry awards & press coverage. A speaker on transformation & innovation at various domestic & global industry forums, he is also an IvyExec mentor & a member of the Customer Advisory Board of UiPath.
He has been recognized by various industry forums for his inspirational leadership - BFSI Innovative Technology Awards 2018, BFSI Game Changer Award 2019, BFSI 100 Innovation Leadership Award 2019, Best Experience Leader B2C at the Global CX Summit 2019, BFSI Leadership Award 2020, and 50 Fabulous Innovative Leaders Award 2020 et al.
Mr KV Dipu is the #1 TripAdvisor reviewer with over 790,000 readers. He writes monthly columns in a New York based website on leadership & a Mumbai based newspaper on the digital world.
Dirk Elsen, Director, Emerging Markets, Triodos Investment Management
Dirk Elsen joined Triodos Investment Management as Director Emerging Markets in January 2012. From 2002 to 2011, he served as Chief Executive of SNV, an international development organization implementing advisory, advocacy and knowledge brokering work in 36 countries across four continents. Before that, Dirk worked at Shell, the World Bank and ABN AMRO, working as a corporate and operational lawyer on projects in Africa and Asia, structuring trade finance business and serving in various senior relationship management roles. Dirk serves on several boards in The Netherlands and beyond including the board of directors of Aavishkaar Group in India.
Divaspati Singh, Partner | Investment Funds, Private Equity, Corporate and Commercial, Khaitan & Co
Divya Garg, Head of HR, INSA, Uber
Divya Gokulnath, Co-Founder, BYJU'S
Divya Madaan, Director - Technology Management and Transformation, Sun Life Global Solutions
Divya Sehgal, Director, India Value Fund Advisors
Divya Sehgal joined IVFA in 2010 and is based in Mumbai.
Prior to IVFA, Divya was the Chief Operating Officer of Apollo Health Street (AHS), a leading healthcare outsourcing firm with worldwide operations. Divya was a founder of AHS and led it to be among the top five firms in its space globally. As COO, Divya managed a global team of executives with responsibility for business strategy, sales and marketing, organization development and service delivery.
Prior to Apollo, Divya served as a consultant at McKinsey, as an investment banker at ANZ and as an entrepreneur at Emedlife. His consulting work at McKinsey involved portfolio and business strategy, acquisition advisory and operational restructuring across a range of clients. His work in the corporate finance team at ANZ Investment bank included M&A and valuation advisory. His entrepreneurial stint involved setting up Emedlife, one of the first corporate healthcare advisory firms in India, raising capital from the Dabur group, growing it to leadership status and then eventually merging it with the Apollo group.
Divya holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.