Our speakers

Dinesh Goel, Partner, Siana Capital

He is a partner with Siana Capital, a deep tech-focused early-stage venture capital firm. He is an active angel investor and mentor to deep tech/science startups: IoT, Cold chain management, AI /ML driven Fraud Detection, Deep data sciences for behavioral insights, cyber security, cyber insurance and 3D printing of human organoids. He has a rich experience of 25 years in strategic leadership and operational management.


Dinesh Goyal, Partner, Siana Capital


Dinesh Kumar, Partner Engineer & SME for Gen-AI, Google Cloud


Dinesh Nandwana, Chairman & MD, Vakrangee Softwares

Dinesh Nandwana is the Chairman & Managing Director of Vakrangee Softwares and Chartered Accountant with 21 years experience in Operations, Government Relationship Management, Finance & Corporate Affairs.

The promoter of the company, Mr. Dinesh Nandwana is a Chartered Accountant. He has nursed and nurtured the company from a humble consultancy company to a well renowned software company. His vast experience is backed by astute and dynamic leadership qualities. His forte is his ability to carry his team along and timely delivery of quality goods. His imposing and affirmative policies and hard work has helped the company in achieving its present status.


Dinesh Pillaipakkamnatt, Global Head, Central Analytics Function, Novartis Healthcare Pvt Ltd

Dinesh Pillaipakkamnatt is currently Global Head, Central Analytics Function at Novartis, Hyderabad. He leads a team that provides decision making insights, which may lead to more efficient clinical trial conduct, to the Novartis Pharma Development Clinical Program/Trial Teams. Trial and Site Risk Management solutions are amongst the current focus. Prior to this he was Global Head, Database Programming, IIS, Novartis.

He has over 20 years of experience, 13 of which are in the pharmaceutical domain. He has varied global experience having worked in USA for over 12 years.

He completed an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India and has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Bangalore University, India. He is also a Project Management Professional and a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.


Dinesh Ramamurthi, Chief Human Resources Officer, OYO


Dinesh Shahra, MD, Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd

Dinesh Shahra, a Chemical Engineer by profession and the Managing Director of Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd., has dared to dream Big, he staked the future of his Business on a Competitive, free market economic order and he has spearheaded the Soya Revolution to the recent position of India?s foremost Food Processing Company, one of the top 5 FMCG Businesses in the Country.

His innovative and analytical approach marks the emergence of market diversifications and developing brands through its varied food products. His ability to gauge the future trends and consumer requirements led to launching of variety of innovative Value added Soya products like Soya Flour, Soya chunks, Granules to cater to different strata of the society.

Under Mr. Shahra's Leadership, the company has consolidated its business under RSIL to have a distinct advantage in realizing his dreams and scaling newer heights.

He has been honoured with Globoil Man of the Decade Award, and has also bagged the prestigious, The American Express Corporate Award 2006 as the No- 1 Food Processing Company in India along with the Dun & Bradstreet Rolta Corporate Awards 2008 in the Food & Agro Processing sector.


Dinesh Tiwari, Managing Partner, Broad Peak Capital Advisors LLP


Dinesh Vaswani, Founder & MD, Acuitas Capital Advisors Private Limited

Dinesh Vaswani is the founder and Managing Director of Acuitas Capital Advisors, a multi-family investment office focused on advising families on their investment portfolios in India.

He has over twenty-five years’ experience both investing in and operating companies in India and the U.S. He was a Managing Director at Temasek Holdings, where he led investments in both private as well as public companies across a range of industries including infrastructure, real estate, hospitality and business process outsourcing.  He also
established Bessemer Venture Partners’ operations in India and led the firm’s first four investments inthe country.

Dinesh’s operating experience includes as a start-up entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, as the CEO of Blue Star Infotech’s US operations, as the founding head of IT at Blue Star and as a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).   

He has served on a number of boards of public and private companies, both promoter driven as well as professionally managed.  Companies includeFirstsource (listed BPO company), Mindtree (IT services, subsequently listed), Venture Infotech (credit card processing) and Borosil (listed glassware manufacturer).

He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BBA cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin.  He is a former Chair of the Bombay Chapter of the Young President’s Organization (YPO).


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).