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MEET GFF2022 SPEAKERS
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
Honorable Minister Of Finance And Corporate Affairs, Government Of India
Government of India
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
Honorable Minister of Railways; Communications; and Electronics and Information
Technology
Government of India
Shri Shaktikanta Das
Governor
Reserve Bank of India
Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
Minister of State, Ministry of Finance
Government of India
Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Honorable Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship
Government of India
Shri Jayant Sinha
Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and Chairman
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance
Dr R S Sharma
Chief Executive Officer
National Health Authority, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India
Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran
Chief Economic Advisor
Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Mr. Dilip Asbe
MD & CEO
National Payments Corporation of India
T Koshy
CEO
ONDC
Shri Vivek Deep
Executive Director
Reserve Bank of India
Shri. P. Vasudevan
Chief General Manager
Reserve Bank of India
Shri Ajay K Choudhary
Executive Director
Reserve Bank of India
Dr. Saurabh Garg
Chief Executive Officer
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Madhabi Puri Buch
Chairperson
Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
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Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan
Chair - GFF2022
Chairman Axilor Ventures, Co-founder Infosys
Shri Injeti Srinivas
Chairperson
International Financial Services Centres Authority
Anil Kumar Gupta
Partner
MSC
Dr. Ruth Goodwin-Groen
Managing Director
Better Than Cash Alliance
Rakiya Mohammed
Director, Information Technology
Central Bank of Nigeria
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Founder & CEO
Paytm
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Shri Rajesh Bansal
Chief Executive Officer
Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
Alkesh Wadhwani
Director - Poverty Alleviation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Sopnendu Mohanty
Chief Fintech Officer
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Gopal Srinivasan
Founder, Chairman and Managing Director
TVS Capital Funds
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Alderman Vincent Keaveny
The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor
City of London
Nithin Kamath
Founder & CE0
Zerodha
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Camilla Bullock
CEO
Emerging Payments Association Asia
Tesfaye Hailemichael
Member of Capital Markets Development Consultative Group
National Bank of Ethiopia
Fabio Araujo
Economist
Central Bank of Brazil
Mahendra Nerurkar
VP & CEO
Amazon Pay India
Ms. Praveena Rai
Chief Operating Officer
National Payments Corporation of India
Sivasubramanian Ramann
Chairman & Managing Director
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
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Varun Sridhar
CEO
Paytm Money
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Diedrah Kelly
Consul General of Canada in Mumbai
Canada
Mike Ogbalu III
CEO - Pan African Payment Settlement System
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)
Amitabh Chaudhry
CEO
Axis Bank
Prashant Kumar
Managing Director & CEO
Yes Bank
Navin Surya
Chairman
Fintech Convergence Council
Abhijit Bose
Head of India
WhatsApp
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Adeeb Ahamed
Managing Director
Lulu Financial Group
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Shergeran Naidoo
Head -Stakeholder Engagements
BankservAfrica
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Dr. Kasturi Dadhe
Director India & UK
FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH
José Manuel Marqués Sevillano
Head of the Financial Innovation Division
Bank of Spain
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Enrico Lodi
Managing Director
CRIF
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Dr. K V Subramanian
Ex-Chief Economic Adviser, Govt of India and Professor of Finance
Indian School of Business
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Kunal Shah
CEO
CRED
Harshil Mathur
CEO & Co-Founder
Razorpay
Charu Mathur
Chief Digital Officer and Head - Business Strategy & New Initiatives
IndusInd Bank
Dipu KV
Senior President
Bajaj Allianz GIC
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Masakazu Osawa
Managing Executive Officer, Group Head, Digital Service Business Group and Group
Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDTO)
MUFG Bank
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Mike Ogbalu III
CEO, Pan African Payment Settlement System (PAPSS)
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)
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Barbara Dreyer
Director, National Payment System
Bank of Namibia
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Dr. Adi Budiarso
Head of Fiscal Policy Agency
Government of Indonesia
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Dr. Robert Ochola
Chief Executive Officer
AfricaNenda
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Paolo Sironi
Global Research Leader, Banking and Financial Markets
IBM Institute for Business Value
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Ajay Singh
Senior Vice President
Paytm
Ajay Setia
Founder and CEO
Truegy: Emptra
Ian Schnoor
Executive Director
Financial Modeling Institute (FMI)
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Badal Malick
Co-Founder
KarmaLifeAI
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Sagrika Shah
Co-Founder
Connexdoor
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Scott Hendry
Senior Special Director
Bank of Canada
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Sabine Mensah
Deputy CEO
AfricaNenda
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Susanne Chishti
CEO
FINTECH Circle
Amrish Rau
CEO
Pinelabs
Prashant Shah
MD - Regional Head, Banks & Broker Dealers, South Asia & Country Head, Financial
Institutions, India
Standard Chartered Bank
Sanjeev Mehta
Managing Director, Head Transaction BKG Sales-Corporate, Commercial&
Institutional BKG-South Asia
Standard Chartered Bank
Nitendra Rajput
Senior Vice President (AI Products)
Mastercard
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Ajay Upadhyay
Co-Founder & COO
InstantPay
Shashwat Sharma
Senior Partner and Financial Services Leader
AT Kearney Consulting
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Ritesh Pai
President
Terrapay
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Shashank Joshi
Head of Global Corporate Banking - India, MUFG Bank
Deputy CEO, MUFG India
Willy Lim
Global Advisory and Solutions lead - Digital Currencies, Payments and Capital
Markets
R3
Nitin Chugh
Deputy Managing Director and Head of Digital Banking and Transformation
State Bank of India
Nishant Kumar
CEO
Lakshya
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Sanjay Doshi
Partner, Head – Financial Services Advisory
KPMG
Mohit Gopal
Chief Operating Officer
PayU
Muzaffer Hamid
Chief Executive Officer
Mercury
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Sashank Rishyasringa
Co-Founder & MD
Axio
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Seema Chaturvedi
Founder and Managing Partner
AWE (Achieving Women Equity) Funds
Simmi Sareen
Director
Unitus Capital
Shinjini Kumar
Co-Founder
SALT
Céline Soubranne
Group Chief Sustainability Officer
AXA
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Inez Murray
CEO
Financial Alliance for Women
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Gurjodhpal Singh
Chief Executive Officer
Tide
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Jitendra Gupta
Founder & CEO
Jupiter Money
Vipul Sharma
Founder & CEO
Chqbook
Anushree Bakliwal
Head - Fintech Business
IDEMIA
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Professor
IIIT- Hyderabad
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Vijay Rajagopal
Head of Sales & Business Development
Amazon Pay India
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Mohit Sahney
Managing Director & Chief Executive
Finova Capital
Barbara Biro
Head of Digital Banking Ecosystem
RAKBANK
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Komal Sahu
Chief of Sustainable Finance
AVPN
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Sugandhi Matta
Chief Impact Officer
abc IMPACT
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Sohini Rajola
Regional Head for Asia Pacific and the Middle East
Western
Shruti Chandra
Senior Assistant Vice President
Invest India
Cecilia Tamez
Chief Strategy Officer
Euronet
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Rashmi Satpute
India Country Manager
Wise Ltd
Meghna Suryakumar
Founder& CEO
Crediwatch
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Anubhav Jain
Co-Founder
Rupif
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Arundhati Ramanathan
Deputy editor
The Ken
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Dr. Jasmine B Gupta
Co-founder and CEO
LXME
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Asim Parashar
Executive Director
PwC
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Naveen Bindal
Founder
EnKash
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Sugandh Saxena
CEO
Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment
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Sameer Singh Jaini
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
The Digital Fifth
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Mathan Pallikkarakaran
Brillio
Bengaluru
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Pratik Daudkhane
Co-Founder
Decentro
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Nick Cook
Head of Global Strategy & Partnerships
Alliance for Innovative Regulation
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Sandeep Kakar
Chief Business Officer
Veefin
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Shruti Kharbanda
COO
Pay10
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Rajeev Agrawal
Founder & CEO
Innoviti Payment Solutions
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Ameya Bhagwat
Senior Vice President
Tech5.ai
Ashutosh Meher
Sr. Developer Evangelist
R3
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Vivek Belgavi
Partner
PwC India
Matthias Kroner
Founder & Managing Director
Tradelite Solutions
Chiranth Patil
Co-founder & Director
Riskcovry
Patsian Low
Vice President, Inclusive Impact & Sustainability for Asia Pacific
Visa
Benjamin Fernandes
Founder & CEO
NALA
Jay Dembani
Head of Product
Head of Product
Swati Chowdhary
Director - Network Development and Advocacy, India
Women’s World Banking
Prof. (Dr.) N Krishna Kumar
Dean
State Bank Institute of Leadership (SBIL)
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Praphul Chandra
Founder
KoineArth
Sucharita Mukherjee
Co-Founder & CEO
Kaleidofin
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Navas Ebin
MENA Investment Director
Mars Growth Capital
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Kunal Nandwani
Co-Founder
uTrade Solutions
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Hemant Vishnoi
Founder
EnKash
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Prerna Saxena
Senior Digital Payments Expert
Better Than Cash Alliance
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Shobhit Mohan
VP, Brand and Marketing
PayU
Neel Tamrakar
Director
GPS
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Suresh Sethi
Managing Director & CEO
Protean eGov Technologies
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Souvik Sengupta
CEO
Hella Infra Market
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Yadvendra Tyagi
Founder
EnKash
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Bhavin Patel
Co-Founder
LenDenClub
Sohini Sen
Head, Priority Sector Lending and Financial Inclusion
Axis Bank
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Prabhu Rangarajan
Co-founder
M2P Fintech
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Ankita D
Chief Executive Officer
Bullsmart
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Nitin Gupta
Founder and CEO
Uni
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Shivashish Chatterjee
Co-Founder/Joint Managing Director
DMI Finance Private Limited
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Anil K Pinapala
Founder & CEO
FlexPay by Vivifi India Finance
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Deepak Shenoy
Founder and CEO
Capitalmind
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Mohit Goel
Co Founder and CEO
Chqbook
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Gaurav Malik
VP - International Expansion
UrbanPiper
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Nitin Mathur
Director
Tavaga
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Moreno González Othón Martino,
Director - Policy and Research, Payment Systems Division
Bank of Mexico
Leandro Vilain
Director - Innovation, Products, & Services
Brazilian Banking Association
Angelo Duarte
Head - Competition and Financial Market Structure Department
Central Bank of Brazil
Alexandre Tombini
Head BIS Americas Office
BIS Innovation Hub
Sanjib Jha
CEO & Executive Director
Coverfox Insurance
Anu Tiwari
Partner
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Parijat Garg
Digital Lending Expert
Daniel Vaverka
Product Director
Trusting Social
Shubhanga Prasad
Founder
The 1st Principle
Navin Chandani
Regional Managing Director, India & South Asia
CRIF
Nitya Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO
Simpl
Satish Gidugu
CEO
Medi Assist
Francis Souza
Director Partnerships
ACI Worldwide
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Deepak Jain
Co-Founder
FlexiLoans.com
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Ram Kewalramani
Co-Founder & COO
CredAble
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Gagandeep Bakshi
Director & Head PE and M&A - Investment Banking
Intellecap
Priyadarshini D.
Associate Fellow
Carnegie India
Abinav Varma Kalidindi
Founder & CEO
Ikonzclub
Ruby Jain
Co-founder & CBO
PayGlocal
Ali Saberi
Chief Executive Officer
Tilli Software
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Bhavik Vasa
Founder & CEO
GetVantage
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Sumit Gwalani
Co-founder
FI
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Theodora (Theo) Lau
Founder
Unconventional Ventures
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Ned Phillips
Founder and CEO
Bambu
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Miten Mehta
Founder
Fractal.ai
Nirav Choksi
Co-Founder and CEO
CredAble
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Reeju Datta
Co-founder
Cashfree Payments
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Akash Sinha
Co-founder and CEO
Cashfree Payments
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Steffanie Yuen
Managing Director, Head of Hong Kong
Endowus
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Vignesh Krishnakumar
Co-founder and CTO
HyperVerge
Avinash Godkhindi
MD & CEO
Zaggle
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Dewang Neralla
Chief Executive Officer
NTT DATA Payment Services Limited
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Camilo Téllez
Deputy Managing Director
Better Than Cash Alliance
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Sarbvir Singh
CEO
Policybazaar
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Arijit Chakraborty
Managing Director, SEA & India
Cover Genius
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Vivek Tiwari
MD ,CEO & Chief Information Officer(CIO)
SATYA MicroCapital Ltd
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Takeshi Kito
Vice-Chair
Fintech Association of Japan
Vishrut B
Co-founder
77 Capital
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Martin Barrios Cuellar
Managing Director - Global Transaction Services Country Head
Bank of America Mexico
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S Anand
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
PaySprint Private Limited
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Prannay Batra
Director - Head of General Insurance
PhonePe
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Arun Tikoo
Senior Vice President
Cashfree Payments
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Sumit Agarwal
Founder
Vyapar
Gustaf Agartson
Founder & CEO
Milvik (Bima)
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Rajat Gandhi
Founder & CEO
Faircent
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Gaurav Rastogi
Founder & CEO
Kuvera.in
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Atul Shinghal
Founder & CEO
Scripbox
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Daniel Adereti
Frontier Market Private Credit Investment Manager
Pezesha
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Prasanna Lohar
CEO
Block Stack
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Hilal Ali Al-Kuwari
Incubation Specialist
Qatar Development Bank
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Sushant Shetty
Senior Vice President
DBS Bank
Aparajit Bhandarkar
Partner
Varanium Advisory Private Limited
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Parul Seth Khanna
Director
PinBox Solutions
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Abhijeet Gaur
Product Lead
Bureau
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Devender Maggo
Head Of Retail Banking
ICICI Bank Germany
Anup Singh
Partner and Regional Head
MSC
Kannan Rasappan
CEO
Banfico
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Anil Kuril
Chief Technology Officer
Union Bank of India
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Neeraj Dhawan
Country Manager
Experian India
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Arturo Gonzalez Mac Dowell
Chair
Asociación Española de Fintech e Insurtech
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Souparno Bagchi
Chief Operating Officer
Truebalance
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Rajesh Sreenivasan
Head, Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Partner
Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
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Vivekdeep Gupta
Head of Tech Sales, APAC
R3
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Dr. Sebastian Schaefer
Managing Director & Co-founder
TechQuartier
Guhaprasath Rajagopal
Managing Director and Head of Payments
JP Morgan
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Aaditya Rathod
Co-founder & CCO
The Canny Co
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Rishi Patel
Founder & CEO
Interpolitan Money
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Manish Kumar Agrawal
Executive Vice President & Head - Credit Intelligence & Control
HDFC Bank
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Rajat Sharma
Chief Revenue Officer
InsureMO
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Ashesh Jani
Co-founder and CEO
United Kingdom
Sameer Shetty
Head, Digital Business And Transformation (DBAT) at Axis Bank
Axis Bank
John Meyers
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
X-Systems and X-Alert
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Ramesh Narasimhan
Chief Executive Officer - India
Worldline Merchant Services
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Adrian Ang
Partner
Allen & Gledhill LLP
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Dhyanesh Bhatt
Co-Founder & Group CEO
Gramcover
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Dr. Emil Ruban J
MD & Country Manager - India
Ria Financial
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Nitish Gopalani
Co-Founder
Fonada
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Jawahar Govindaraj
CTO / Head of DeFi and Blockchain Tech
The Ideation Works (UK)
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Arpit Gupta
CTO
MLAI Digital Pvt Ltd
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Jithesh P V
Heads Fintech Partnerships
Fedreal Bank
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Jaideep Pawar
CEO & Director
Pay10 and GRAMePAY
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Salil Ravindran
Vice President, Strategy & Growth
Open Financial Technologies
Sundeep Mohindru
Founder Director
M1xchange
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Mandar Kagade
Founder & Principal
Black Dot Public Policy Advisors
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Nitin Agrawal
Co-Founder & CEO
Navadhan Capital
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Pierpaolo Barbieri
Founder & CEO
Uala
Mohammed Riaz
Founder
Xtracap Fintech India Pvt Ltd
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Srikanth Bureddy
Founder
Valueleaf
Saurabh Dayal
Associate Vice President
Paytm Payments Services
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Harsh Bisht
Partner
EY
Vikram Babbar
Partner & Lead Financial Services, Forensic & Integrity Services | FinCrime
Compliance Lead - AML CoE
EY India LLP
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Mahesh Prajapati
Founder , Product Head & CEO
InstaCiti
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Rohan Juneja
Managing Director & CEO
TruCap Finance
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Sneha Damle
Developer Evangelist
R3
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Priyanka Kanwar
Co-Founder
Falcon
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Shreeraj Deshpande
Head – Health Businesses
SBI General Insurance
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Subhrajit Mukhopadhyay
Executive Director
Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance
Balkrishna Pangam Dinesh
Chief Executive Officer
Aurionpro Payment Solutions
Ramana Kumar
CEO
Magnati
Anataria (Alexia) Uwamariya
Director: Business Competitiveness
TradeMark East Africa
Sanjay Seshamani
Sr. Executive Vice President & National Head - Retail Assets Strategy, Digital
and Xsell
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Rajesh Shet
CEO & Co-Founder
SahiBandhu
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Nikhil Sahni
Division President, South Asia & Country Corporate Officer, India
Mastercard
Rajat Mehta
Senior Director, Head of Savings and Consumer Business
OakNorth Bank
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Pramey Jain
CEO & Co-Founder
Tartan
Shaul David
Head of Bank Partnerships
Railsr
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Nitin Bhatnagar
Associate Director
PCI Security Standards Council
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Nidhi Gupta
Founder
Loan2Grow
Visa Kannan
Partner
Saison Capital
Bhuvan Rustagi
Co Founder & COO
Lendbox
Vinay Mathews
Founder & COO
Faircent
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Tahem Veer Verma
Co-Founder
Mesha
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Prashant Muddu
Managing Director and CEO
Jocata
Rohan Bagai
Partner
AZB & Partners
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Bhakti Zaveri
Director - AuroPay Payments
Aurionpro Solutions
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Snehal Pandit
Head - Supply Chain Management
Aurionpro Solutions
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Raunak Kapoor
Senior Manager, MSC’s Country Program Development Domain, Indonesia
MicroSave Consulting
Abhishek Anand
Partner & Lead - Inclusive Banking & Enterprise Development Vertical - Asia
MicroSave Consulting
Smitha Hari
Senior Vice President
AuctusESG
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Saurabh Puri
Chief Business Officer Credit Cards
Zaggle
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Wriju Ray
Chief Business Officer
IDfy (Baldor Technologies)
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Jay Dembani
Head of Product (Digital Identity)
HyperVerge
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Sandeep Koujalgi
Senior Vice President, Programs
CIIE.CO
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Vaanathi Mohanakrishnan
Business Head - MENA
M2P Solutions
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Anand Kumar Bajaj
Founder, MD & CEO
PayNearby
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Naby Mariyam
Founder & CEO
Coverhero & Hustlecover
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Pushkar Mukewar
CEO & Co-Founder
Drip Capital
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Ravi Ravulaparthi
CEO & Co-Founder
Qapita
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Shanti Mohan
Co-Founder and CEO
LetsVenture
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Varun Mittal
Chief Growth Officer
SingLife
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Venkatram Jayanthy
MD & CEO
India Post Payments Banks
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Ankit Ratan
CEO & Director
Signzy
Deepti Sanghi
CEO & Founder
Kodo
Shadab Taiyabi
President
Singapore FinTech Association
Benjamin Fernandes
Founder & CEO
NALA
Utsav Somani
Partner
Angel List India
Anuj Khosla
CEO - Digital Business
Hitachi Payment Services
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Swapnil Jambhale
Co-founder & COO
Safexpay
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Ishita Verma
Co-founder & COO
Klub
Khalil Alami
Founder and CEO
Telr
Ravi Srivastava
Partner
Leo Capital
Carla Venter
Head of Investments
aperture.co
Debbie Watkins
CEO and Co-Founder
Lucy
Kumar Mayank
CEO & Co-founder
Zimyo
Lishia Erza
Deputy Head - Permanent Committee for International Industry Access (KPAII)
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN)
Zeus Dhanbhura
Founder & CEO
BridgeUp
Tiffany Tong
Co-Founder & CEO
Aloi
Sonia Bashir Kabir
Founder & Managing Partner
SBK Tech Ventures & SBK Foundation
Dylan Bourguignon
CEO
SO-SURE
Iwan Juwono
Head of Insurance
Grab
Peter Schravemade
Managing Partner
REACH Australia and Southeast Asia
Edward Obiko
Specialist - Financial Inclusion Consulting
MSC
Juliet Ongwae
Specialist - Digital Financial Services
MSC
Amerson Lin
CEO & Co-founder
Gigacover
Prachi Dharani
Co-Founder and CEO
PayGlocal
Sandeep Deshmukh
Co-Founder & CEO
Elasticrun
Sagar Agarvwal
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Beams Fintech Fund
Madhusudanan R
Co founder
M2P Fintech
Dr. Vibhor Gupta
Director and Founder
PangaeaData.AI
Smita Aggarwal
Global Investments Advisor
Flourish Ventures
Lorien Gamaroff
CEO
Centbee
Pedro De Garay
CEO
GBM
Aiswarya Ravi
Chief Financial Officer
Kinara Capital
Anubhutie Singh
Policy Analyst
Dvara Research
Aishwarya Jaishankar
Co-founder and COO
Hyperface Technologies
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Manan Dixit
CEO
Jambopay Express (FidyPay)
Deepti George
Deputy ED & Head of Strategy
Dvara Research
Huy Nguyen Trieu
Ex-MD at Citi, and Co-creator, Oxford Fintech Programme and Co-founder
CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Keith Lee
Sustainable Finance engagement Manager
WWF Singapore
Kanishk Swarup
Partner - Financial Planner & Wealth Adviser
St. James’s Place Wealth Management
Peter Kwadwo Asare Nyarko
Executive Director
Centre for Financial Literacy Education Africa
Praveen Dhabhai
COO & Director
Payworld
Mayada El-Zoghbi
Managing Director
Center for Financial Inclusion
Mridul Upreti
Sector Lead - Retail, Tourism & Real Estate
IFC - International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Dr. Oriol Caudevilla
FinTech and Blockchain Advisor, Influencer, Speaker, and Host of “A Digital
Tomorrow” Podcast
Global Impact FinTech (GIFT) Forum
Shinichiro Nishikawa
Head of Global Payment and Services Division
NTT DATA Corporation
Ramanathan RV
Co-Founder and CEO
Hyperface
Srikara Prasad
Research Associate
Dvara Research
Shyam Menon
Co-founder
Bharat Innovation Fund
Sandeep C Patil
Partner - Head of Asia
QED Investors
Elijah Deas
Head of Product
CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Beni Chugh
Research Manager
Dvara Research
Tarana Lalwani
Founding Partner
InnoVen Triple Blue Capital Advisors LLP
Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia
Fintech Partner
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Marianne Haahr
Executive Director
Green Digital Finance Alliance
Vera Neugebauer
Research Associate
Cenfri
Maneesha Chaddha
Executive Director, Global Philanthropy
JP Mogran
Ronit Ghose
Head - Fintech & Digital Assets Research
Citi
Amnah Ajmal
Group Executive - Merchants, Acceptance & Digital Partnerships
Mastercard
Susanne Chishti
CEO
FINTECH Circle & Co-Editor The FINTECH Book Series
Syed Musheer Ahmed
Founder & Managing Director
Finstep Asia
Devie Mohan
Co-founder and CEO
Burnmark
Lars Markull
DACH Market Development Director
Weavr.io
Amol Dethe
Editor
ETBFSI.com & ETCFO.com
Lizzie Chapman
Co-Founder & CEO
ZestMoney
Amit Goel
Country Head - India & Vice President
Prove
Miguel Diaz
Head - Toronto Centre
BIS Innovation Hub
Ajay Rajan
Senior Group President, Head of Transaction Banking Group
Yes Bank
Vaibhav Domkundwar
CEO & Founder
Better
Alok Mittal
Managing Director
Indifi Technologies
Anilkumar SG
Founder & CEO
Sammunati
Dr. Emil Ruban
MD & Country Manager - India
Ria Financial , A Euronet Worldwide Company
Dwijaraj Bhattacharya
Research Manager, Financial Systems Design Initiative
Dvara Research
Hansi Mehrotra
Founder & Editor
Money Management India
Henrique Dubugras
Founder & Co-CEO
Brex
Javier Mancilla Montero
Quantum Business Advisor
SATT CONECTUS
Manish Sharma
Head of India
ESG Book
Shri M R Rangaswami
Founder & Chairman of the Board
Indiaspora
Pallavi Shrivastava
Co-Founder & Director
Progcap
Sanjib Subba
Chief Executive Officer
Nepal Electronic Payment System
Sharat Chandra
VP-Research & Strategy
EarthID
Dr. Hari K Nagarajan
Professor and Infosys Chair for Societal Development
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Rahul Rishi
Leader- Social Sector Practice
Nishith Desai Associates
Dr. Supriya Sharma
Partner - Insights
CIIE. CO
Dr. Pawan Bakhshi
India Lead, Financial Services for the Poor
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Yuko Kawai
Director, Fintech Association of Japan and CEO
Japan Digital Design, Inc.
Abhinav Nayar
CEO
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Kyle Armstrong
Director of Law Enforcement Relations
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Adam Rice
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Konstantin Djelebov
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Arindam Choudhury
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Sean Ryan
Head of Financial Crime Strategy, APAC
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Subhash R. Ghosh
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Nikhil Aggarwal
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Vikram Pandya
Director Fintech
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Anshul Khurana
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Debanjan Chatterjee
Head of Decision Sciences
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Kosuke Nekoshima
Investment Manager
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Ketan Patel
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Rafe Mazer
Director, Consumer Protection Initiative
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Maninder Singh Juneja
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SMT. NIRMALA SITHARAMAN
SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW
SHRI SHAKTIKANTA DAS
DR. BHAGWAT KISHANRAO KARAD
SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR
SHRI JAYANT SINHA
DR R S SHARMA
DR. V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN
MR. DILIP ASBE
T KOSHY
SHRI VIVEK DEEP
SHRI. P. VASUDEVAN
SHRI AJAY K CHOUDHARY
DR. SAURABH GARG
MADHABI PURI BUCH
Ms. Madhabi Puri Buch assumed office as Chairperson of Securities & Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) with effect from March 2, 2022.
Ms. Buch has served as Whole Time Member, SEBI from April 2017 till October 2021
during which she handled various departments in SEBI.
Prior to that she had a career in financial markets and banking of around 3
decades. She served as Consultant to the New Development Bank in Shanghai, Head
of the Singapore office of the Private Equity Firm, Greater Pacific Capital,
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at ICICI Securities Limited and
Executive Director, on the Board of ICICI Bank. Ms. Buch also served as a
non-executive director on the Boards of various companies.
Ms. Buch holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and
is a Graduate in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi.
MR. KRIS GOPALAKRISHNAN
SHRI INJETI SRINIVAS
ANIL KUMAR GUPTA
DR. RUTH GOODWIN-GROEN
RAKIYA MOHAMMED
Rakiya is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the fields
of Information Technology, Finance, and Telecommunications and over 15 years in
top leadership roles. She is certified in IT Business Management, Information
Security, IT Governance, IT Architecture, and Accounting.
Rakiya is currently the Director of Information Technology (CIO) at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN). She is spearheading the deployment of Africa’s first
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the “eNaira”, which was unveiled on the
25th of October 2021. She has also held the positions of CIO three times, CISO
four times, and Head Strategy three times across different organizations, where
she has consistently demonstrated leadership, integrity, and professionalism,
among other qualities.
VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA
Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born July 15, 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur
who has played an instrumental role in revolutionizing the digital payments and
financial services landscape in India as the Chairman, Managing Director and CEO
of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm. Under his guidance, Paytm
is on a mission to bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy.
Vijay is a strong believer in the power of emerging technology and a true
supporter of India’s journey to becoming a fully digital economy. With this
vision, Paytm pioneered the digital payments revolution in India by taking the
QR code to every small shop in the country and is now driving financial
inclusion in India with offerings across lending, wealth, insurance and more.
He has featured in the ‘2017 Time 100’, the list of ‘hundred most influential
people in the world by Time magazine. Vijay has also been bestowed with multiple
industry honours such as the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2018 by the All
India Management Association, ’Entrepreneur of the Year’ at ET Awards for
Corporate Excellence in 2016 and ‘GQ Man of the Year’ in 2016.
SHRI RAJESH BANSAL
ALKESH WADHWANI
SOPNENDU MOHANTY
GOPAL SRINIVASAN
Gopal Srinivasan is the Chairman and Managing Director of TVS Capital Funds (P)
Ltd (TCF). TCF is one of the largest Rupee Capital funds in the world, with more
than ₹2,000 Crores of AUM across three funds, with the first launched in 2007.
TCF seeks to invest in the best ideas across stages of investments. Its diverse
portfolio companies have included Nykaa, Wonder la, RBL Bank, the National Stock
Exchange (NSE), and so on.
A third-generation member of the TVS Family, Gopal’s entrepreneurial career
spans well over three decades, in which he has founded, steered and scaled up
over 10 new ventures across diverse business verticals.
Gopal’s management of TCF has brought success both to the fund and to all
stakeholders involved. Gopal’s leadership extends far beyond managing TCF alone,
and Gopal always has his mind on society at large. Seeking to improve the
business environment for all players, Gopal has taken a keen interest in
creating positive change in Indian VC/PE policy. In this connection, Gopal has
played an active role in the growth and development of the Indian Venture
Capital Association (IVCA) and also served as its chairperson from 2015-18.
Gopal has also been a member of the SEBI’s Alternative Investment Policy
Advisory Committee, since 2016. Gopal is a Governing Council member of Reserve
Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH), which has been formed in Dec’20.
Aside from his involvement in the VC/PE sector, Gopal has always sought to
contribute to the institutions that made him who he is and is an active alumnus
and member of University of Michigan’s India Advisory Board.
Gopal’s inclination towards creating an environment of intellectual and creative
engagement in his hometown of Chennai, led him to bring together diverse groups
of people to interact within the auspices of the Chennai International Center
(CIC). As its Chairman, Gopal has sought to develop CIC into a think-tank that
brings together a cornucopia of thought leaders from the spheres of business,
the economy, policymaking, science, art, culture, and entrepreneurship.
In recognition of his standing in the community, Gopal was recently appointed as
the Honorary Consul General for the Kingdom of Netherlands in Tamil Nadu.
ALDERMAN VINCENT KEAVENY
NITHIN KAMATH
Nithin bootstrapped and founded Zerodha in 2010 to overcome the hurdles he faced
during his decade-long stint as a trader. Over the last decade, Zerodha has
changed the landscape of the Indian broking industry. With over 10 million
clients and contributing to over 18% of the exchange retail trading volumes,
Zerodha is the largest stock broker in India today.
A tech-first company now, Zerodha offers innovative trading & investing
solutions that appeal to a wide audience in a bid to reach those sections of
society that have stayed away from the capital market so far.
Nithin also started Rainmatter, an R&D fintech incubator and fund that has
partnered with some of the best investment-tech startups in India. Rainmatter is
focused on creating an ecosystem for spurring innovation in the financial
technology industry in India.
More recently, Nithin has also set up the Rainmatter Climate Foundation — an
Indian climate fund providing funding to startups and grassroots organizations
working on solutions to mitigate climate change.
Nithin is also a part of the Secondary Market Advisory Committee (SMAC) and
Market Data Advisory Committee (MDAC) with SEBI. Outside of work, Nithin enjoys
spending time with his family, playing the guitar, poker, basketball, and
swimming.
CAMILLA BULLOCK
TESFAYE HAILEMICHAEL
FABIO ARAUJO
MAHENDRA NERURKAR
MS. PRAVEENA RAI
SIVASUBRAMANIAN RAMANN
Shri S. Ramanan, belongs to the 1991 batch of Indian Audit & Accounts Service
(IA&AS). He joined as Chairman & Managing Director, Small Industries Development
Bank of India (SIDBI) on 19th April 2021. Before joining SIDBI, he was MD & CEO
of National E-Governance Services Limited (NeSL) in December 2016. Prior to
joining NeSL, Mr Ramann was the Principal Accountant General (Audit), Jharkhand,
Ranchi during 2015-2016. He worked with SEBI as CGM and later Executive Director
between 2007 & 2013.
He held various positions in the offices under the C&AG of India in various
States and also worked as Executive Secretary to the C&AG of India. He worked as
First Secretary, at the Indian High Commission, London for auditing the accounts
of various Indian Embassies in Europe. He is BA (Hons) in Economics from St
Stephens College and MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He has done M. Sc. in
Regulations from the London School of Economics and Certified Internal Auditor
from IIA Florida. He completed LLB from Mumbai University and Post Graduate
Diploma in Securities Law.
VARUN SRIDHAR
Varun Sridhar serves as a Whole-time Director & CEO of Paytm Money. Varun holds
two decades of experience, specializing in Capital markets, Retail Banking, and
Consumer Finance. During his career, he has played key roles in leading the
digital transformation journey of some of the top retail banks in India and
abroad. His passion lies in setting up and scaling businesses from the ideation
stage. At Paytm Money, Varun is responsible for driving strategy and leading the
wealth management business for Paytm. Prior to PaytmMoney, Varun was
instrumental in launching two fintech platforms – realme PaySa and OPPO Kash, as
the CEO of OPPO Financial Services. His professional experience spans
organizations such as - BNP Paribas, Value Partners Management Consulting,
Deutsche Bank, Citibank, and ConvergeLabs. Varun holds a Degree of Masters in
Business Administration from SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy and
a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Hons. from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College,
University of Delhi.
DIEDRAH KELLY
MIKE OGBALU III
AMITABH CHAUDHRY
PRASHANT KUMAR
NAVIN SURYA
ABHIJIT BOSE
Abhijit Bose is the Head for WhatsApp in India. He joined WhatsApp in early 2019
and was its first top-level executive to be hired outside of the US.
Prior to WhatsApp, Abhijit was the CEO and Co-Founder of Ezetap Mobile
Solutions, one of the pioneering fintech companies in India. Ezetap was recently
acquired by Razorpay in one of the largest fintech acquisitions in India to
date.
Abhijit has also had senior leadership roles with Siebel Systems, Intuit and
NGPay, one of India’s first mobile commerce companies. Abhijit also sits on the
Board of Navi Technologies. Abhijit holds a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell
University and an MBA from Harvard Business
School.
ADEEB AHAMED
Adeeb Ahamed is a multifaceted entrepreneur spearheading several companies in
financial services, retail, F&B and hospitality. An MBA in International
Management from the prestigious Royal Holloway, University of London, Adeeb
started his entrepreneurial journey with the founding of LuLu Financial Holdings
in 2009. Since then, he has steered the company into becoming a global financial
services conglomerate operating 246 branches, as well as various other digital
investments in 11 countries across the Middle East, Indian sub-continent, and
APAC regions.
SHERGERAN NAIDOO
Shergeran is the Head of Stakeholder Engagements at BankservAfrica. He joined
BankservAfrica in 2008 as the Compliance Officer and has served the organisation
in several capacities over the years. After completing his legal articles in
Pietermaritzburg, Shergeran relocated to Johannesburg in 2001 where he joined
Nedbank. He later joined Standard Bank in 2006 as a Corporate Governance Manager
reporting to the Group Company Secretary.
He holds a BA (LLB) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Higher Diploma in
Tax Law from the University of Johannesburg, and an MBA from the UNISA Graduate
School of Business Leadership.
DR. KASTURI DADHE
JOSÉ MANUEL MARQUÉS SEVILLANO
José Manuel Marqués Sevillano is Head of the Financial Innovation Division at
Bank of Spain (Banco de España). In this position, he focuses on studying the
main trends transforming the financial system and defining the main implications
for the central bank: Big tech and Fintech, CBDC, Use of Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning, Blockchain and DLT, Sustainable Finance and ESG factors.
Prior to this position he has been Head of the International Financial Markets
Division and held a number of different positions within the bank since joining
in 1996. Marqués has written a number of articles on financial markets and
participated on the G20 on sustainable finance and represent the Bank of Spain
in the Eurosystem Innovation Forum, the CEMLA Foro Fintech and the secretariat
of the CBDC High-Level Taskforce. Marqués has a BA in Economics and Business
from the University of Zaragoza, and an MSc from the University of Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona.
ENRICO LODI
Enrico Lodi is Managing Director at CRIF headquarters in Bologna, managing over
a worldwide number of data-driven business lines, including the ones being part
of the CRIF Digital ecosystem.
CRIF is a global company which supports and creates value for financial
institutions, businesses and consumers, all over the world with a range of
information services and solutions for credit and commercial risk management and
for marketing. Enrico Lodi was born on 30th April 1964 in Ferrara, Italy.
In 1983, he got a high school degree, specializing in classical studies. After
graduating in Economics from the University of Bologna in 1988, Enrico studied
in Milan for a Master in Advertising, and afterwards, he worked (from 1989 to
1994) for various
advertising agencies.
He started working for CRIF in 1994, initially in marketing and sales depts..
Since 1997, he has been in charge of CRIF Credit Bureau business management.
Enrico has been working with Customers and projects across the Americas, Europe,
Africa and Asia. Nowadays Enrico is developing business in US as well as
following the CRIF digital offering
DR. K V SUBRAMANIAN
Dr. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian is a Professor at the Indian School of Business.
As the youngest Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India from 2018 to
2021, Dr. Subramanian instituted policy that led to India emerging from the
once-in-a-century Covid crisis with strong macroeconomic fundamentals, unlike
the previous crisis when India joined the “Fragile Five” economies.
Acknowledging Dr. Subramanian’s contributions, the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri.
Narendra Modi noted his “academic brilliance, unique perspectives on economic
and policy matters, and reformatory zeal.” Dr. Subramanian authored
path-breaking Economic Surveys on Ethical Wealth Creation for a prosperous India
(2019-20), the Strategic Blueprint for India to become a $5 trillion economy
(2018-19), and the post-Covid economy using public capital expenditures in
infrastructure and healthcare to further counter-cyclical fiscal policy
(2020-21). India’s economic policy toward a self-reliant India and the
concomitant reforms draw on the ideas he advocated in these Surveys. His ideas
of the use of Behavioural Economics and Thalinomics captured the public
imagination.
Dr Subramanian has been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus award by his alma
maters IIT-Kanpur and IIM-Calcutta. A PhD from University of Chicago, Prof.
Subramanian’s research in banking, law and finance, innovation and economic
growth, and corporate governance has been published in the world's leading
journals.
KUNAL SHAH
HARSHIL MATHUR
CHARU MATHUR
DIPU KV
Mr K V Dipu is Senior President at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company, a
joint venture of the Bajaj group & Allianz. He drives digital transformation,
innovation, and industry leadership as the head of operations and customer
service @ the world’s #8 digital insurer. Mr Dipu leverages start-ups from
fintech/insurtech globally while leading a team of ~1600 people in 150
locations.
Many of his accomplishments have received industry awards & press coverage –
India’s Top 20 Conversational AI Leaders 2021, Global 25 CX Leaders of the Year
consecutively for 2 years (2020 and 2021), 50 Fabulous Innovative Leaders 2020,
India's Top 30 Emerging Tech Leaders 2020 et al.
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 26
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 has thrice 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. Mr Dipu is also an IvyExec mentor & a member of various global
committees such as EFMA editorial committee, UiPath Customer Advisory Board,
Pioneers of Automation Board, CII Committee on Financial Inclusion & Fintech,
Worldwide Thinktank on Advancing Practical AI et al.
A speaker on transformation & innovation at various domestic & global industry
forums, he writes a monthly column in a Mumbai based newspaper on the digital
world & articles in various publications from time to time. He has spoken to
audiences in five continents.
MASAKAZU OSAWA
Masakazu Osawa is Managing Executive Officer and Group Head of Digital Service
Business Group and Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDTO) for MUFG Bank,
Ltd, a role which he also holds for MUFG group. As CDTO, Mr. Osawa is
responsible for driving MUFG’s digital transformation to achieve sustainable
growth and enhanced shareholder value over the medium-to-long term. He also
serves as a board member in MUFG Bank.
A seasoned banker with over 30 years of experience, Mr. Osawa has held key roles
in Corporate Banking, M&A, and Retail Banking since joining the company in
1991. He was appointed as Head of Digital Transformation Division in 2017. In
2020, he was promoted to Group CDTO. And in 2021, he was appointed as Head of
Digital Service Business Group as the first group head.
Mr. Osawa holds a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School in
Illinois, USA. He also has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Faculty of Law at
the University of Tokyo, Japan.
MIKE OGBALU III
Mike Ogbalu III is an Electrical/Electronic Engineer and a Fellow of The
International Academy of Cards and Payments with an MBA from the prestigious
Lagos Business School. He has more than eight years of sound IT industry
experience in planning, deployment and management of enterprise-wide
infrastructure, as well as more than 15 years’ banking experience in Retail
Banking, Commercial Banking and E-Business. He spent the last six years in
Payments and Technology. His roles ranged from team membership to group
leadership to Chief Executive.
Mike managed the E-Business Group of Afribank (now Polaris Bank) and represented
Afribank on the boards of Valucard Nigeria (now UPSL) and ATMC. Mike was
recognised with the award of Card Personality of Year 2012 for his work at
Ecobank.
Mike joined Interswitch Group initially as Divisional CEO – Interswitch
Financial Inclusion Services where he was responsible for driving a mandate to
create the largest agent network and thereby becoming a prime facilitator of
financial inclusion in Nigeria. Later, as Chief Executive Officer of Verve
International, he was responsible for making Africa’s most successful card
scheme truly pan-African and expanding its footprint globally.
Today, as CEO of PAPSS, he is overseeing the building of a continent-wide
payment infrastructure that will help to accelerate trade on the continent. He
is currently a board member of the CBN mobile payments scheme board, an advisory
board member of the Bridge International Academies and a Grand Patron of
IAMCP-WIT Nigeria (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners –
Women In Technology).
BARBARA DREYER
I hold several academic qualifications including an MBA degree and busy
finalizing a Master’s in Global Central Banking and Financial Regulation from
the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. A seasoned Payment
Systems regulator of the National Payment System of Namibia for over 10 years.
I am currently serving as the Director: National Payment System at the Bank of
Namibia (which is the Central Bank of Namibia). I have experience in both the
banking and non-banking financial sector, having previously served in various
roles in the private sector. I also serve as the Deputy Chairperson of the SADC
Payments Systems Oversight Committee; a committee established under the
Committee of Central Bank Governors of the Southern African Development
Community (SADC) to regulate and oversee the SADC payment systems integration
agenda.
Nationally, I serve on various state-owned enterprises Boards.
DR. ADI BUDIARSO
Dr. Budiarso is the Head of the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Government of
Indonesia. Prior to serving in the Fiscal Policy Agency, he served as Head of
the Central Transformation Office (CTO) at the Secretariat General, Ministry of
Finance in 2014 – 2018. He was also the Working Secretary of the IMF-World Bank
Group National Committee for the Annual Meetings in Bali in 2018. He has also
served as the Head of the Centre for Climate Change and Multilateral Finance,
Fiscal Policy Agency. He started his career as an executor at the Finance
Education and Training Agency, Ministry of Finance, in 1990.
Dr. Budiarso is a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of
Canberra. He obtained his Masters in Accounting from the University of Southern
California.
DR. ROBERT OCHOLA
Dr. Robert Ochola is an expert in strategy and innovation within the African
banking and mobile telecommunications industry. He is responsible for
AfricaNenda’s overall strategy execution and leadership. His primary focus at
AfricaNenda is building momentum for an inclusive and interoperable approach to
digital payments across Africa.
During his career, Robert has pioneered the development of a new Pan-African
Payments and Settlement Systems (PAPSS) for driving cross-border trade, led the
development of mobile payment solutions and the expansion of its product suite,
along with overseeing the successful roll-out of solutions for ultra-low-cost
mobile devices across Africa and the Middle East. Before joining AfricaNenda, as
Chief Executive Officer, Robert served as the Director of Strategy and
Innovation at Afreximbank, as Head of Strategy with Safaricom, and was the
Director of Strategy, Research, and Innovation at the KCB Bank Group. He is an
alumnus of Imperial College London, Warwick Business School, and the University
of Cape Town.
PAOLO SIRONI
PAOLO SIRONI is the global research leader in banking and financial markets at
IBM, the Institute for Business Value. He is a former start-up entrepreneur and
quantitative risk manager in investment banking. Paolo is the author of
literature about finance, banking, and digital innovation. Member of the IBM
Industry Academy, his latest bestseller “Banks and Fintech on Platform
Economies” explores how platform theory, born outside of financial services,
will make its way inside banking and financial markets to radically transform
the way firms do business. For more information, thePSironi.com
AJAY SINGH
AJAY SETIA
IAN SCHNOOR
Ian Schnoor is the Executive Director of the Financial Modeling Institute
(FMI). In this role, he works closely with the FMI team on the creation and
execution of FMI’s strategy.
Ian is also a Principal and Founder of The Marquee Group, a leading provider of
financial modeling training to professionals in the financial community. Ian
has built The Marquee Group into a leading provider of financial modeling
training, consulting and accreditation.
Over the years, Ian has taught thousands of business professionals and
university students in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia
and Mexico. Ian is passionate about teaching and brings a hands-on,
interactive approach to every course.
Ian teaches at Queen’s University and is a past recipient of the “Instructor of
the Year” award in the Master of Finance program at the Smith School of
Business.
BADAL MALICK
"Badal is a Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer at KarmaLife, a financial
solution for gig workers. He has 15 years of experience in financial services &
fin-tech related innovation and business transformation. Previously, he was the
Founding CEO of Catalyst, a USAID-sponsored program focused on digital financial
inclusion of MSMEs. He has held leadership roles at SnapDeal, Intuit, McKinsey &
Co. and the World Bank. Badal has an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a
Masters of Science in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and a BA in
Physics & Economics from Brandeis University. He is a 2019 Chevening Financial
Services Fellow recognized by the UK Government."
SAGRIKA SHAH
Sagrika is the co-founder at ConnexDoor, and also heads Fintech Investment
research at The Fintech Meetup/Yatra. At ConnexDoor, she's trying to build a
fintech-focused investment platform which is set to democratize the way VC
ecosystem works. While in Fintech Yatra, the team travels across India in hunt
for unique early-stage fintech startups, and provide them access to networks in
BFSI, VC and fintech space.
SCOTT HENDRY
Scott Hendry was appointed Senior Special Director of Financial Technology
(FinTech) in the Banking and Payments Department of the Bank of Canada in June
2016. In this role, he oversees the Bank’s efforts to monitor and research
developments and implications of new technologies affecting the financial
sector. This includes serving as the business lead on the Bank’s central bank
digital currency research program. He previously held the role of Director of
Research in the Funds Management and Banking Department and, before that, for
the Financial Markets Department.
Mr. Hendry’s personal research has focused on central bank digital currency,
electronic money, price discovery in the Canadian government bond market, and
central bank communication. He has a BA in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier
University and MA and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.
SABINE MENSAH
Sabine Mensah has strong leadership experience in digital payments and mobile
money across multilateral and the private sector. As the Deputy Chief Executive
Officer, Sabine oversees AfricaNenda’s capacity-building and partnership efforts
through convenings and thought leadership, with the aim of strengthening the
payments ecosystem across Africa.
Prior to joining AfricaNenda, Sabine served as the Regional Digital Hub Manager
for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), where she led the
development of inclusive digital economies to accelerate financial inclusion
across West and Central Africa.
She also successfully drove UNCDF’s global digital infrastructure workstream. As
the Regional Director responsible for domestic and international remittances at
Western Union Canada, she specialised in agent network management and remittance
product design. Sabine is a Certified Digital Finance Practitioner by Digital
Frontier Institute and an alumna of the Institut Franco-Américain de Management
in France and Central Michigan
University in the United States.
SUSANNE CHISHTI
AMRISH RAU
PRASHANT SHAH
SANJEEV MEHTA
NITENDRA RAJPUT
Nitendra works as the Senior Vice President and Head of AI Garage in
Mastercard.
He has over 20 years of experience in the area of Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning and Mobile Interactions. He has authored over 100 publications
at top international ACM and IEEE venues, owing to which he has been recognized
as an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a senior IEEE Member. He has delivered
several tutorials and conducted workshops in AI and speech areas at top ACM
venues. With over 50 granted patents to his name, Nitendra was an IBM Master
Inventor and was also an IBM Academy of Technology member. In 2012, he
coauthored a book titled "Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments" that was
published by John Wiley & Sons. In 2021, he was recognized with the Technical
Role Model in AI award at Zinnov Awards. In 2022, he has been recognized as an
ACM Distinguished Speaker and also as Top AI Leader by Analytics India Magazine
Before joining Mastercard, he spent 18 years at IBM Research, working on
different aspects of machine learning, HCI, software engineering and mobile
sensing. He then spent 2.5 years at InfoEdge as EVP and Head of Analytics from
2017 to 2019. Nitendra holds a Masters degree from IIT Bombay.
Nitendra is also an Ironman finisher, a grade-3 Trinity guitar player,
blind-folded Rubik’s cube solver and advanced meditation practitioner and
teacher.
AJAY UPADHYAY
SHASHWAT SHARMA
Shashwat Sharma has 25 years of experience in management consulting, supporting
clients on themes of strategy, digital capabilities enhancement, and operational
transformation. His work in Financial Services is across Banking, Insurance,
Payments and Asset Management, focusing equally on new-age disruptors
challenging established business models and incumbent industry leaders trying to
maintain market position. He has a passion for creating social Impact for our
communities and believes in the power of technology to drive greater inclusion
RITESH PAI
Ritesh Pai, President - Products & Solutions at TerraPay. is a commerce
graduate with masters in financial management from Mumbai University with over
25 years of banking experience in project management, system solutions, design
and implementation for Digital and Direct Banking Products and Cards catering to
assisted or self service methods of financial transactions. Ritesh has
transformed a set of subscale and substandard channels into one of the banking’s
largest digital real estate serving millions of customers. Having designed and
delivered radically simplified digital platform, he remains passionate about
creating and deepening customer value propositions that use business, technology
and design. He is actively involved in mentoring and working closely with the
start up industry and fintechs in particular and was ranked among the top 30
fintech influencers in India. He was awarded as India’s best CDO in 2017 and
BFSI game changer in 2019. He has spoken and participated as a speaker in
various domestic and international forums pertaining to digital and fintech and
has also served as a guest lecturer for various academic institutions.
SHASHANK JOSHI
WILLY LIM
NITIN CHUGH
NISHANT KUMAR
Nishant Kumar is the founder and CEO of Lakshya, a fintech company based in
India to improve Financial Health of the underserved by providing flexible,
customized financial products and digital literacy. Lakshya works primarily with
the informal segments including artisans, drivers, farmers and contractual
factory workers with a focus on micro savings and insurance. Nishant is also
associated with MSC where he leads the Financial Inclusion Lab. A part of
CIIE.CO’s Bharat Inclusion Initiative, the Financial Inclusion Lab supports
startups in the areas of Fintech, Skilling, and Livelihood working in the Bharat
Segment. Till date, more than 50 startups have been supported under the FI lab.
SANJAY DOSHI
MOHIT GOPAL
MUZAFFER HAMID
A seasoned banker, a business founder, and results-oriented professional with
over two decades of experience and deep expertise in financial services,
especially in Retail and SME banking. Proven record of accomplishment across an
entire range of Retail and Corporate banking products, processes, and
geographies including China, India, Ukraine, Asia Pacific, and CEEMEA countries.
Leader in management teams that have turned around businesses and delivered
predictable, sustained, and consistent growth trajectory of double-digit growth.
SASHANK RISHYASRINGA
With him as Managing Director, the company has pioneered technological
innovations which have altered the lending landscape in the country. Prior to
co-founding axio (formerly Capital Float), Sashank was a Senior Engagement
Manager at McKinsey & Company, where he advised several Fortune 500 companies,
national governments, and non-profits on business strategy, product innovation,
and organizational design. He possesses an extensive understanding of the global
Fintech space and has prior experience in investments, financial inclusion and
mobile technology from his time at McKinsey. Sashank holds an MBA from Stanford
University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University by
specializing in Economics and Finance.
SEEMA CHATURVEDI
SIMMI SAREEN
SHINJINI KUMAR
CÉLINE SOUBRANNE
Céline Soubranne has been AXA’s Group Chief Sustainability Officer since July
2018. After graduating in Political Science, she initially gained experience in
journalism, local policymaking, and consulting. In 2006, she joined AXA as Head
of Transformation and Communication, then became Director of Corporate
Responsibility at AXA France. She drove the first ESG integration program in
insurance products in France, with the creation of the "Citizen Insurance"
Label. In December 2014, she was awarded the Women's Citizenship Trophy at the
“Women in Insurance” Trophies. Now, she is leading an ambitious ESG and Climate
strategy at AXA, for the whole Group, in its capacity as an investor, insurer
and role model company. Since 2019, she has advocated for a better integration
of biodiversity into investment and insurance decisions notably through the
AXA-WWF report “Into the Wild”, which called for the creation of the TNFD. She
currently represents AXA within the TNFD.
INEZ MURRAY
Inez Murray is the CEO of the Financial Alliance for Women, an international
trade association of financial services providers driving women's wealth
creation worldwide. Its members—banks, insurance companies, payments companies &
fintechs—work across 180+ countries to build innovative, comprehensive programs
delivering women the tools—access to capital, information, education and
markets—they need to succeed. The Alliance provides members with a unique
platform for peer learning & networking, giving them the resources they need to
serve women customers well. The Alliance also uses its collective voice to
advocate for greater awareness of women’s vital economic role as consumers,
investors and job-creating entrepreneurs.
GURJODHPAL SINGH
Gurjodhpal Singh was appointed CEO for Tide India, in January 2021. He is an
experienced leader in the industry, with 13 years in FinTech and financial
services.
Most recently, Gurjodhpal led the SME merchant payments and credit businesses at
PayU, the leading payment service provider in India; and has extensive
experience of providing superior services to MSMEs.
He boasts considerable experience in supporting Indian SMEs over many years, and
is now at the helm of Tide in India, to establish the business in India and
scale it over the coming years. Gurjodhpal is passionate about helping SMEs
across India digitise and use intuitive technology to help them save time (and
money) on the running of their businesses.
At PayU, he was key to setting-up and scaling the SME merchant payments
business. He was instrumental in acquiring 300,000+ SME merchants over four
years through digital & non-digital channels.
With all this experience in the sector behind him, Gurjodhpal looks to create
something new for Indian SMEs that will empower them to reach their full
potential.
He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and has
been recognised as India's 100 Great People Managers by Forbes India in 2019.
JITENDRA GUPTA
VIPUL SHARMA
ANUSHREE BAKLIWAL
PROF. PONNURANGAM KUMARAGURU
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK") is a Professor of Computer Science at
IIIT-Hyderabad. He is an Associate Researcher at Robert Bosch Centre for Data
Science & AI - IIT Madras, Visiting Faculty at IIT Kanpur and an Adjunct faculty
at IIIT Delhi. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021. PK is an ACM
India Council Member, and Chair of the Research Facilitation Committee of ACM
India.
PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent Speaker. PK received
his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research contributed in creating
an award-winning startup - Wombat Security Technologies. Wombat was acquired in
March 2018 for USD 225 Million. PK was listed in the World's 2% Scientists by
Stanford University in Nov 2020. PK's research work regularly gets featured on
news media, including print, online, and TV within India and across the world;
to list a few, BBC, CBC, CBS, CNN, NBC, New Scientist, NewYorker, Reuters, USA
Today, Washington Post, and many more.
He has co-authored research papers in the field of Computational Social Science,
Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Cyber Security, Social Computing,
Data Science for Social Good, amongst others. In addition to his contributions
to academia, PK is on advisory role on various government organizations,
government committees, including a 8 member committee on Non-Personal Data by
Government of India, chaired by Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan.
VIJAY RAJAGOPAL
Vijay Rajagopal has strong leadership experience of >16 years in the financial
services / fin-tech space - across Payments, Credit, Cards, Banking
etc. Vijay's expertise is across Strategy, Business development, Enterprise
sales, Partnerships, Operations and Finance. He currently heads sales and
business development at Amazon Pay (offline). He headed Strategy and Operations
at PayPal India. He was the Founding Leader and National Head at Zeta and
Director of fin-tech strategy at Quess Corp. He has also served as a Director on
the Boards of 5 companies. He is a fintech startup mentor in platforms like
Financial Inclusion Labs (CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad), IIM Kozhikode, Atal Incubation
Centre (JV between Indian School of Business and NITI, Aayog) and Mumbai Fintech
Hub. He is also a faculty for BITS, Pilani global executive MBA program's
(fin-tech specialization) “Introduction to Fintech '' course. He has an MBA from
IIM-Ahmedabad, an Engg. Degree from BITS, Pilani and a CFA (Chartered Financial
Analyst) from the US.
MOHIT SAHNEY
BARBARA BIRO
Innovation Strategy, Fintech & Digital Transformation expert, Futurist, Speaker
with broad experience in the MENA region through working with Citibank, Mashreq,
Standard Chartered Bank and Rakbank heading the digital transformation. Advisory
board member of Surefire Capital in Canada and Strategic advisor of Housing
Finance Bank of Uganda. Publicist on the US #1 Digital Banking portal The
Financial Brand.
KOMAL SAHU
Komal Sahu serves as the Chief of Sustainable Finance at AVPN. She leads AVPN’s
engagement with family offices, HNWIs, private wealth holders, corporations and
financial institutions across Asia. In this capacity, she helps these
stakeholders achieve their objectives of investing within a framework of impact
and sustainability.
Komal brings over two decades of diverse work experience in Europe and Asia to
her role. She began her career as an investigator with the British Civil Service
and was focused on the SME sector in London. She subsequently worked for KPMG
where she specialized in the fund management industry. Komal has completed
numerous assignments at top tier banks and insurance companies. She has tax
expertise in structuring entities and funds and working with asset managers.
Over the last decade, Komal has provided support to a number of social
enterprises and charities across Asia. She is an angel investor and an LP in
early and late stage funds. Many of her investments have focused on generating
societal good. Komal has served as a mentor at a number of incubators and
accelerators and has worked with startups including at A Star, a Singapore
government led accelerator for science and technology companies that are
improving lives through innovation and discoveries.
Komal is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Accountants and a Chartered Tax
Advisor. She has an FT certification as a Non-Executive Independent Director and
is a WMI Certified Family Office Advisor. She also has a BA Honors in Economics
from Sri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.
SUGANDHI MATTA
As Chief Impact Officer, Sugandhi leads the firm’s approach towards assessing,
measuring, consolidating and driving impact outcomes across its portfolio
companies, in order to deliver measurable, positive impact alongside compelling
financial returns. She also leads investments in South and
South-Asia for the firm.
Sugandhi has over 17 years of investing experience in South and Southeast Asia.
She was previously Director of Investments at LeapFrog Investments, a
billion-dollar impact fund focused on financial inclusion. Prior to impact
investing, she focused on Southeast Asia mid-market private equity at emerging
markets investor Actis. Sugandhi began her investing journey as a member of the
Financial Services team in Temasek Holdings.
An experienced board member, Sugandhi has held board directorships in companies
operating across different countries, including India, Thailand, and Indonesia.
She currently sits on the board of Cropin, a global artificial intelligence and
data-led agri- tech organization based in India;
HealthCare At Home, an out-of-hospital care provider in India and the enterprise
board of the Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Singapore
Management University.
Sugandhi is an advocate of gender equality and actively commits time to mentor
women entrepreneurs as well as women-led ventures. She believes that access to
education, employment, and entrepreneurship is the key to elevating lives and
livelihoods.
Sugandhi holds a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore (India), and a Bachelor of Engineering from Maharaja
Sayaji Rao University, Baroda (India).
SOHINI RAJOLA
SHRUTI CHANDRA
CECILIA TAMEZ
Cecilia Tamez works as Chief Strategy Officer for Euronet’s Money Transfer
Division, facilitating business strategy and Data Science. She started as the
fifth employee at Xe almost twenty years ago and supported the growth of the
company until its acquisition by Euronet in 2015. She continues to work at
Euronet in a leadership role, expanding her remit across Xe, Ria Money Transfer,
and their most recent brand, Dandelion cross-border payments network. Cecilia is
a frequent public speaker on the importance of cross-border payments – with a
special focus on emerging markets, as well as data science innovation in the
fintech space.
RASHMI SATPUTE
MEGHNA SURYAKUMAR
Meghna Suryakumar is a lawyer turned business leader who founded Crediwatch with
the aim of providing financial access and mobility to millions of unbanked
businesses.
Her vision is to remove barriers and unlock value for businesses using
cutting-edge technology, and building a culture of trust in business. Prior to
founding Crediwatch, Meghna ran a cross-border law firm in India and the US,
where she used alternate sources of data to assess risk for target firms in M&A
deals. Meghna received her law degrees from Bangalore University and Columbia
Law School and has a certificate in entrepreneurship from Stanford University.
ANUBHAV JAIN
Anubhav is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rupifi, India's 1st B2B
Payments Fintech providing Payments and Credit layers for Marketplaces and
Brands to offer the most flexible payment options through a single API using
their B2B Checkout and Instant
Reconciliation. Prior to Rupifi, Anubhav Co-Founded Qbera, a Consumer Lending
Fintech in the Personal Loans space, acquired by Incred. Anubhav has over 13
years of experience in Risk Management and Analytics across his Start-ups,
American Express and EXL
ARUNDHATI RAMANATHAN
Arundhati Ramanthan is the Deputy Editor of The Ken--India's premier
subscription-only business publication. She also writes a weekly newsletter on
fintech called 'Ka-Ching!'
DR. JASMINE B GUPTA
Dr Jasmin B. Gupta is a FinTech expert with nearly two decades of experience and
an in-depth knowledge of digital banking and neobanking.
As Co-founder and CEO of India’s first financial platform for women, Jasmin is
spearheading LXME’s mission to become the country’s first neobank for women.
A Triple Gold Medalist in MBA and a PhD in Financial Inclusion and
Digitalisation, Jasmin has comprehensive expertise in consumer and digital
banking as well as strategic fintech alliances. Prior to LXME, she was
associated with Equitas Small Finance Bank as National Head of neobank, fintech
accelerator, and alliances and digital business, and Kotak Mahindra Bank
and HDFC Bank.
Jasmin is a top-performing banker, who has received awards and accolades for her
achievements at international conventions in Australia, Switzerland and
Thailand. She is also the National President - Financial Inclusion Council,
Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI).
A linguist by choice, Jasmin is fluent in German, French and Japanese. She is
also passionate about the fine arts and is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer.
Jasmin has participated in international folk dance competitions in France and
Spain.
ASIM PARASHAR
Mr. Asim currently serves as a Partner with the Financial Services technology
advisory practice in PwC India with over 23 years of professional experience in
Banking & Financial Services industry providing Strategy, Process and Technology
Consulting services. He has always been passionate about financial services and
has provided advisory services to multiple leading public and private sector
banks, NBFCs, Fintechs, Small Finance Banks, broking firms, AMCs and Insurance
firms.
He has extensive experience in managing large scale technology strategy
projects, business strategy, solution design and Implementation projects. He has
led multiple large-scale projects across digital lending transformation, core
banking transformation, product implementations and led program management.
He graduated with an MBA from IIM Bangalore and has a Bachelor’s degree in
Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. He has been a guest
speaker across numerous national conferences held by Corporates, Government
organizations and media firms viz. SIDBI Microfinance Congress, ETBFSI awards,
PwC’s fintech Breakfast series etc. focussing on fintech and innovations across
India’s financial services landscape.
NAVEEN BINDAL
Naveen Bindal is the Co-founder of EnKash, which is one of the country's
fastest-growing all-in-one Spends Management and Corporate Cards Companies. He
co-founded EnKash in 2018 with two other Co-founders, Hemant Vishnoi and
Yadvendra Tyagi who also come with hands-on experience in this space. Naveen is
a stalwart who comes with 20+ years of experience in the Cards and Payments
Industry.
Prior to launching EnKash, Naveen was leading the Product & Technology vertical
at CitrusPay where he was instrumental in business scaling and achieving the
highest conversion rates. He also spearheaded the acquisition of platforms with
ICICI Merchant Services and First Data Merchant Solutions, during his stint with
the organization. Before venturing into entrepreneurship, Naveen has been
associated with prestigious organizations including Citibank and DBS Bank in
Singapore, at leadership positions. He was the key mastermind behind the
implementation of end-to-end card issuing platforms for DBS Thailand, Kotak
Bank, PNB, and HDFC Bank in India.
EnKash is revolutionising the Cards and Corporate Payments industry in India by
deploying a holistic approach. Today, the Fintech company caters to the entire
spectrum of the Cards and Payments industry. On one hand, it issues Corporate
Cards to businesses for their B2B payments, on the other, it provides an API
Stack (CardX) for FIs, Fintech and Non-fintech companies to issue their own
Card/Wallet/Reward programs. The Fintech Start-up has so far raised a total of
USD 23 Million after bagging USD 20 Million in a Series B funding round in April
2022. The round was led by Ascent Capital and joined by Baring India &
Singapore-based White Ventures. It also saw participation from EnKash’s existing
investors, Mayfield India and Axilor Ventures. EnKash had raised $3 Million in a
Series A round from Mayfield India and Axilor Ventures in April 2019. The
company now plans to further scale up its ‘plug and play’ cards issuance stack,
CardX, and expand its geographical presence on the international front.
SUGANDH SAXENA
Sugandh Saxena - CEO of Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE), a
not-for-profit industry association, is committed to building a robust FinTech
ecosystem in India and aims to drive ethical lending practices in the Indian
FinTech sector.
Sugandh comes with over two decades of experience across sectors like
microfinance, social-economic development, technology and non-profit.
Sugandh has diverse, well-rounded and hands-on experience in leading
sector-building works through the industry body and the SRO. As the Head of
Self-Regulation and Compliance at MFIN, an SRO for the microfinance sector, she
played a pivotal role in shaping the microfinance industry by leading
conversations with the regulators and industry players to formulate and enforce
ethical guidelines for the industry. She has also held roles at ACTED, ITC, Self
Employed Women's Association (SEWA) Bharat,
and Bharat Electronics.
Sugandh is an electronics engineering graduate from MNNIT, Allahabad and a
postgraduate in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE). She is a recipient of the UK Government Commonwealth Scholarship
and a recent fellow at the Fletcher School Leadership Program for Financial
Inclusion at Tufts University. She has extensively educated herself in financial
inclusion issues like policy, regulation, compliance, risk management, customer
protection and financial education, including 'Strategic Leadership for
Microfinance' at Harvard Business School.
At FACE, Sugandh aims to drive the Association's efforts to engage in an active
dialogue with the policymakers, regulators, digital lenders and other market
participants to build an ethical, safe lending ecosystem for consumers.
SAMEER SINGH JAINI
Sameer Singh Jaini is the Founder & CEO of The Digital Fifth. A Digital
Strategist focused on removing friction, he has over two decades of experience
spanning across Asia, Europe and America for which he is recognised amongst the
Fintech Asia Top 100 by nextmoney.org
Sameer has been a part of core teams responsible for setting up Kotak Mahindra
Bank and Bharatiya Mahila Bank, as well as leading digital initiatives for
leading banks. He has also won multiple Best CIO and Innovation Awards,
including one for the industry’s First Aadhaar Based ATM.
Building on this wealth of experience, Sameer founded The Digital Fifth, a
fintech consulting firm. He now mentors Fintechs startups on their Business
Model and collaborates with entities across the BFSI domain to drive
on-the-ground digital initiatives in key impact areas like lending, digital
banking, payments, wealth management and mobility. Sameer also strives to deepen
the Fintech ecosystem by propelling partnerships between upcoming players and
incumbent Banks & NBFCs.
Sameer envisions that Fintech in India has just started, and this is simply
Phase I of many more to come.
MATHAN PALLIKKARAKARAN
An experienced Banking consultant with 6+ years of experience working in the
financial industry across business functions from project implementation to
product strategy and management consulting. With an experience of introducing
multiple digital banking products in a new age Indian bank, I moved to
Management Consulting to help improve business drivers for clients by managing
the development and implementation of business solutions. Using my structured
critical thinking skills to identify customers' unmet needs by using established
methodologies is what I do best. Highly skilled at relationship management and
navigating complex structures,
having worked in different roles including customer management across
geographies - GCC, UK, India and in cross functional agile teams.
PRATIK DAUDKHANE
Pratik is the Co-Founder of Decentro. He's passionate about companies that
improve and enable financial services. He has previously worked on building many
investment memos & excel models. He is also an Ex-Venture Capitalist from Guild
Capital with 6+ years of experience in data analytics, finance, and investment
banking. Before jumping into the startup and fintech space, he worked as an
analyst at Tresvista, Hannam & Partners.
NICK COOK
Nick Cook is Head of Global Strategy & Partnerships at AIR. Based in London, he
was previously the Director of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)
Innovation Division, including the agency’s RegTech and TechSprint initiatives,
its data and analytics strategy, machine learning endeavours, and the “Innovate”
program (encompassing the Regulatory Sandbox, innovation and digital policy, and
industry-facing direct support services).
SANDEEP KAKAR
Sandeep comes with 25+ Years of Experience in Setting Up and Running
SCF businesses in both Banks and Fintechs. His expertise lies in Commercial
Banking, Structured Trade Finance, and Supply Chain Finance. He was instrumental
in starting & scaling SCF in Axis Bank, RBS (erstwhile ABN AMRO), and Aditya
Birla Finance. Sandeep is a post graduate in CFA Finance & Financial
Management
Services, NMIMS & has pursued a Leadership Program Management from INSEAD.
SHRUTI KHARBANDA
Shruti Kharbanda is a Women in Leadership, Woman in STEM and an Autonomous
Operations Evangelist. She is an accomplished global leader with over two
decades of experience, living in the UK, India & China, and working globally.
She specializes in structuring & solving complex & ambiguous business challenges
to drive scalable and sustainable revenue growth and operational excellence
through technological advancements.
RAJEEV AGRAWAL
As Founder & CEO of Innoviti, Rajeev leads India’s largest collaborative
commerce platform - a next generation marketing SaaS platform, that is helping
diverse businesses such as banks, product brands, and merchants, to accelerate
sales more efficiently than possible otherwise. An engineer by profession,
Rajeev believes in a strongly design centric technology approach that can solve
problems conclusively.
Innoviti started its fintech business in 2008 and quickly established itself as
a pioneer in solving real- world business problems at scale. The company has
been a pioneer in the use of technology to add intelligence to payment
transactions, helping merchants, banks and brands utilize the full power of data
and digital payments to drive business growth. The company manages purchases of
over $10B for merchants from over 2000+ cities, touching more than 90 million
consumers annually.
Bessemer Venture Partners, USA, FMO, Netherlands, Catamaran Ventures, Panthera
Growth Partners, and Alumni Ventures are investors in the company. The company
has four patents, including one US patent and is the winner of Mastercard’s
Innovation Wizards Award, Reliance’s Most Promising Growth Consumer Finance
Award and Deloitte Fastest Growing Companies in Asia award in 2020.
Prior to founding Innoviti, Rajeev was Vice President and Head of Broadband
Communications Business at Sasken, Bangalore. He has done his B.Tech and Ph.D.
from IIT, Bombay. Rajeev is a member of the FICCI National Fintech Committee
AMEYA BHAGWAT
ASHUTOSH MEHER
Ashutosh Meher is a Technology Enthusiast, Java Programmer and Blockchain
Evangelist. As part of the Developer Relations Team at R3 he works towards
driving wider adoption of Corda by the developer community worldwide.
He is a Java expert and has a background of implementing highly scalable
enterprise applications for various clients. He is particularly interested in
emerging technologies and has been working on Blockchain for the past 3 years,
particularly on platforms like Corda, Fabric and Ethereum. With an experience of
over 11 years in the industry, he has worked with companies like TCS and Sapient
prior to joining at R3.
VIVEK BELGAVI
MATTHIAS KRONER
CHIRANTH PATIL
PATSIAN LOW
BENJAMIN FERNANDES
JAY DEMBANI
SWATI CHOWDHARY
PROF. (DR.) N KRISHNA KUMAR
Prof. (Dr). N Krishna Kumar, is a bank executive turned academic and Leadership
Trainer. In his progressive banking career spanning nearly two decades he has
worked with a Foreign Bank, two nationalised Banks and a Private Bank and headed
Risk Management and Treasury functions of Banks. As an academic, he has held
academic leadership positions for more than ten years, and held Directorship /
Deanship in three different Universities/Institutions and has served as Chairman
and member of Board of Studies and Academic Councils. He has also headed the
Business incubator in a University and is a Prolific Speaker,
Consultant, Researcher and a Mentor in the BFSI eco system.
He is presently the Dean and Head of Academics at State Bank Institute of
Leadership (SBIL), Kolkata, which is an integral part of SBI and is the Apex
Training Institute of SBI, created with a Vision of contributing to BFSI
Leadership in India and beyond.
PRAPHUL CHANDRA
SUCHARITA MUKHERJEE
Sucharita is passionate about access to financial services for all, she believes
in “finance for freedom”. Sucharita is the co-founder and ceo of Kaleidofin, a
fintech platform that provides intuitive and tailored financial solutions to
underbanked customers. Prior to this, she co-founded the IFMR group and most
recently was the group CEO of IFMR Holdings. She conceptualized and founded IFMR
Capital, building capital markets access for financial inclusion and IFMR
Investments, an alternatives fund management platform focused on informal sector
finance. Sucharita was chosen as one of the “top 40 under forty” business
leaders by Economic Times in 2016 and named amongst India’s top 20 fintech
change makers in 2017. She received the IIM Ahmedabad, Young Alumni Achievers
Award in 2017. She was also named amongst India’s top twenty fintech change
makers in 2017. Prior to her move to India, Sucharita was an investment banker
at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in London, working primarily on credit
derivatives structuring and strategic structured finance opportunities. She
graduated with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and has an undergraduate degree in
economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University “
NAVAS EBIN
Navas Ebin Muhammed is the Managing Director- APAC at Liquidity Group. Prior to
his life at Liquidity, he was an Entrepreneur. He is an alumni of The University
of Glasgow.
KUNAL NANDWANI
Kunal is a serial entrepreneur and serves as the co-founder and CEO of uTrade
Solutions and Cove Identity.
Kunal also cofounded Chandigarh Angels Network and is a GP in Singapore-based
start-up fund called Super Morpheus. He has mentored 1000s of startups and has a
Portfolio of 75+ startup investments
Kunal also runs a sustainability focussed crowdsourced initiative called Earthr
Foundation
Prior to starting his own ventures, Kunal worked in investment banking with
Lehman Brothers, Nomura and BNP Paribas in London.
He has graduated from PEC (India) and MBA from ESSEC (Paris).
Kunal has published books called "Squaring the Blockchain Circle" and
“Sociopreneur: Zero to One”
HEMANT VISHNOI
Hemant Vishnoi is the Co-founder of EnKash, which is one of the fastest-growing
all-in-one Spends Management and Corporate Cards Companies in India. He
co-founded EnKash in 2018 with two other Co-founders, Naveen Bindal and
Yadvendra Tyagi who also come with hands-on experience in this space. Hemant is
a stalwart who comes with 20+ years of experience in the Cards and Payments
Industry.
Hemant also comes with more than two decades of working experience in the "cards
& payments" space, and started his career when the digital payments space was
still evolving. He was instrumental in setting & scaling up India’s 1st payment
gateway by ICICI bank. Later, he led South Asia business for MoneyGram, a global
player in cross-border payments. He also led business for CitrusPay pre & post
its acquisition by PayU. It was under his leadership that card acceptance was
enabled for full-service carriers including international airlines in India
while working in ICICI bank, and later for low-cost carriers when working with
CitrusPay.
He co-founded EnKash out of his experience that most innovations in the last one
and a half decade happened on the consumer payments side but B2B payments and
solutions lacked value creation. Today, the Fintech company caters to the entire
spectrum of the Cards and Payments industry. On one hand, it issues Corporate
Cards to businesses for their B2B payments, on the other, it provides an API
Stack (CardX) for FIs, Fintech and Non-fintech companies to issue their own
Card/BNPL/Reward programs. The Fintech Start-up has so far raised a total of USD
23 Million after bagging USD 20 Million in a Series B funding round in April
2022. The round was led by Ascent Capital and joined by Baring India &
Singapore-based White Ventures. It also saw participation from EnKash’s existing
investors, Mayfield India and Axilor Ventures. EnKash had raised $3 Million in a
Series A round from Mayfield India and Axilor Ventures in April 2019.
The company now plans to further scale up its ‘plug-and-play cards issuance
stack, CardX, and expand its geographical presence on the international front.
PRERNA SAXENA
Prerna is the India Lead for UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance and also manages
Global Learning initiatives to promote responsible and inclusive digitization of
payments through advocacy and advisory services. She was seconded by the UN to
the Ministry of Finance, Government of India to advise on matters related to G20
Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, fintech and digital economy. She is
currently engaged with various Ministries to promote digital solutions which are
inclusive and user-centric, particularly in frontier regions like the Northeast
states, Himalayan region and aspirational districts of India.
Before this, Prerna has worked across Asia with International Finance
Corporation (World Bank Group), ICICI Bank Limited and Export-Import Bank of
India. Prerna is an Agriculture Sciences Graduate and did her Post Graduation
from IRMA, Anand. She has obtained certifications in Leadership in Inclusive
Finance from Harvard Business School and Fintech from Oxford University.
SHOBHIT MOHAN
NEEL TAMRAKAR
A Social Entrepreneur with diverse experience including as a chairman of a
Regional Development Bank and looking into Digital Payment Industry as the tool
for Social transformation.
SURESH SETHI
Suresh Sethi has over three decades of diversified global experience in the
financial services industry and works extensively in the financial inclusion
space leveraging fintech and digital led innovation to make a difference. He is
currently the Managing Director & CEO of Protean eGov Technologies Ltd.
(formerly NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Ltd.). In his last role, as the
Founder CEO & MD of India Post Payments Bank, he established the largest
inter-operable banking infrastructure for public good at scale in India.
Prior to India Post Payments Bank, as the Managing Director & CEO of Vodafone
M-Pesa, he was responsible for defining and developing the M-Pesa business
strategy for India and shaping the digital and mobile payments space in the
country.
In his earlier assignments, he has worked with leading financial services
companies such as Citigroup and YES Bank across multiple geographies covering
India, Kenya, UK, Argentina and US.
He has held senior CXO and Managing Director level positions at Regional &
Global levels across business strategy, product development, sales & client
management, and operations. Suresh has been a key industry spokesperson and
closely engages with the government and regulatory institutions to aid policy
formulation in a rapidly changing industry.
For his contribution to the financial services sector, Suresh has been
recognized by The Asian Banker and is part of The Asian Banker’s "List of
Leading Practitioners". He was also recognized as the CEO of the Year (India
Post Payments Bank) at the India Banking Summit & Awards, 2019.
Suresh has a B.E. degree from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh and an MBA
from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, Delhi.
SOUVIK SENGUPTA
Souvik Sengupta is the founder of Infra.Market, a real estate and construction
materials marketplace. Souvik is a chartered accountant with over 7 years of
experience in P&L Ownership and Management. Souvik is an alumni of IIM Bangalore
and did his graduation from Sydenham College in Mumbai.
YADVENDRA TYAGI
Yadvendra Tyagi is the Co-founder of EnKash, which is one of the country's
fastest-growing all-in-one Spends Management and Corporate Cards Companies. He
co-founded EnKash in 2018 with two other Co-founders, Hemant Vishnoi and Naveen
Bindal who also come with hands-on experience in this space. Yadvendra is a
stalwart who comes with 20+ years of experience in the Cards and Payments
Industry.
Yadvendra helmed the Cards and Payments' industry and has 18+ years of
experience to his credit. He has been integral to the overall evolution and
transformation of the industry, by constantly reinventing technology and
catering to uncatered segments. Prior to starting EnKash, Yadvendra was a
founding member at CitrusPay where he was instrumental in catalysing business
growth, which led to the successful acquisition by PayU India. His previous
professional achievements include the successful launch of RuPay cards on POS
terminals while he was associated with NPCI, and becoming the Country Sales
Manager for Global Blue where he spearheaded business development for India and
the Middle East. Yadvendra has also held and excelled at leadership profiles at
HDFC Bank in the Card Acceptance vertical.
Today, EnKash caters to the entire spectrum of the Cards and Payments industry.
On one hand, it issues Corporate Cards to businesses for their B2B payments, on
the other, it provides an API Stack (CardX) for FIs, Fintech and Non-fintech
companies to issue their own Card/BNPL/Reward programs. The Fintech Start-up has
so far raised a total of USD 23 Million after bagging USD 20 Million in a Series
B funding round in April 2022. The round was led by Ascent Capital and joined by
Baring India & Singapore-based White Ventures. It also saw participation from
EnKash’s existing investors, Mayfield India and Axilor Ventures. EnKash had
raised $3 Million in a Series A round from Mayfield India and Axilor Ventures in
April 2019.
The company now plans to further scale up its ‘plug-and-play cards issuance
stack, CardX, and expand its geographical presence on the international front.
BHAVIN PATEL
SOHINI SEN
Sohini Sen is a seasoned banker, with experience across the inclusive banking,
rural, agriculture and MSME space. She has Nationally led Priority Sector
Lending, Retail Distribution and held Product leadership roles across the asset
and liabilities businesses. Digital transformation, process re-
engineering and technology innovations, have been a cornerstone of her
interventions.
She currently heads Financial Inclusion and Priority Sector Lending in the
3rd largest private sector bank in the country, Axis Bank.
PRABHU RANGARAJAN
With over 16 years of IT professional experience, M2P’s co-founder and COO,
Prabhu AKA Prabhu Rangarajan brings his operational expertise to M2P. Prabhu
leads the Infrastructure, HR, Marketing and Design at M2P. A visionary who is
breaking the workplace conventions, Prabhu is the man behind the
employee-friendly HR practices at M2P.
Prabhu worked for IT behemoths such as Cognizant, Verizon, and iGate before
co-founding M2P.
ANKITA D
A leader's job is more than innovation—it is to see the world through a
fundamentally different lens.
Ankita is a self-made woman & CEO at Bullsmart with a mission to make it India’s
number one financial services app, she has demonstrated a history of working in
the Fintech, NBFC & Financial Service Industry for over 11 years. She loves to
build connections & network for mutually productive collaborations. Her goal is
to make the end users Trust our brand and bean app that end users can rely on
without any doubt.
She is a seeker and believer who strives to be the best in productive areas
related to but not limited to Strong Business Development, Operations
Management, Risk Mitigation, Financial Planning & Technology. Also, she
encourages each and every person in the team to share their ideas, feedback, and
concerns vital to the company, which helps her build trust and strong
relationships with her employees.
Bullsmart is driven by the vision to develop an investment platform with
cutting-edge investment tools, machine learning, and smart financial &
investment technologies provider in Asia & in demand by retail investors from
the millennial circle. Coming soon!!
NITIN GUPTA
Nitin Gupta, an IIT Delhi & IIM A alumni is currently leading the team at Uni as
the Founder and CEO. Uni is a new-age fintech start-up that is creating
cutting-edge credit products, and with the help of those has raised $70mn in
series A.
He kicked off his journey as a Founder and CEO of Khojguru and then led the PayU
India team as Co-Founder and CEO. He built PayU into one of the largest payment
gateways, a $0.5B company in India; under his able leadership. In his last
stint, at Ola, he headed the Ola Financial Services as CEO and launched OlaMoney
Postpaid. Which is one of the largest BNPL businesses in the country. He also
launched a co-branded credit card with SBI cards. Apart from building
cutting-edge financial products he also invests in new and upcoming companies in
the capacity of an Angel investor.
SHIVASHISH CHATTERJEE
Shiv is the Co-Founder of DMI Group where he is the driving force behind the
group’s vision and strategy.
DMI Finance, an NBFC which is the flagship of the group, is a leading player in
consumer and SME lending through digital channels. It is a B2B platform that
partners with demand aggregators and fintech’s to provide fast and efficient
credit access to the entire spectrum of Bureau-thick, Bureau-thin and NTC. DMI
aims to be the non-bank balance sheet and credit partner of choice for the
rapidly growing ecosystem. The company aims to form symbiotic partnerships with
technology-enabled players across the entire credit chain in order to provide
the best customer experience.
A 25-year veteran of international financial markets, Shiv brings a wealth of
experience in Global Fixed-Income trading and analytics that complements and
informs DMI’s activities. He spent the vast majority of his Wall Street days at
Salomon Brothers, a storied fixed-income powerhouse that was eventually acquired
by Citigroup Inc. Shiv became Co-Head of all securitized products trading in
North America in 2004 before leaving in 2008 to start DMI.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree,
Magna Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics. Shiv is very passionate about technology
and is an active angel investor in technology start-ups.
ANIL K PINAPALA
Anil Pinapala is a FinTech entrepreneur with an experience of over 18 years in
the Micro Loans /Digital Lending Industry. For the last couple of years, he has
been working on expanding Credit Access in India with Vivifi – a FinTech NBFC –
that offers Innovative Financial Products to customers across the Credit
Spectrum with focus on the Under-Served / Unserved Customers. Vivifi’s flagship
product, FlexSalary – India’s first emergency Line of Credit, provides unsecured
personal loans to prime and non-prime salaried individuals. The business has
expanded exponentially, receives over one lakh loan requests a month and has
extended over 200 Crores to its customers. Anil’s continuing vision has now
enhanced the underlying Line of Credit by adding a payment layer to provide
customers who never had credit with a true (Digital) Credit Card experience.
Prior to this venture, Anil founded and led TekFriday – a FinTech firm in Miami
with an office in Hyderabad, that specialized in Lending Portfolio Management in
digital sub-prime lending in USA. Tekfriday was eventually acquired by a
Nashville-based Digital Lending company - Advance Financial. Anil currently sits
on the board of this USD 250+ million revenue company along with being a
minority owner of this company.
His journey in the consumer lending and Fintech world started as being a part of
the founding team and later the CEO of Virinchi where he designed and
architected the world’s truly first Web-based Loan Management System – Qfund in
early 2000s. He grew this to be the leading technology solution in USA
Short-term Small Dollar (Payday) lending with nearly 50% market share and was
recognized as a technology thought leader who understood the primacy of data and
new product innovation in this space.
DEEPAK SHENOY
Deepak Shenoy dons many hats. He is a fund manager, an entrepreneur, a techie, a
passionate blogger, a financial market expert, and an indulgent father. He
brings over two decades of experience in financial markets from stocks to bonds
to options and algorithmic trading. He was one of the first people in India to
start an algorithmic trading firm back in 2009. He co-founded two start-ups
(Agni Software and Moneyoga) before launching Capitalmind in 2010 (incorporated
as a company in 2014), a Bengaluru based wealth advisory and portfolio
management service. He has written over 5,000 articles on topics ranging from
personal finance, macroeconomy, stocks, bonds, derivatives and public policies
across his blogs. He has a B.E in Computer Science from NITK Surathkal and in
his spare time, pretends to keep in touch with programming background. He is a
regular commentator on
various media channels like CNBC TV18 and ET Now.
MOHIT GOEL
Mohit Goel is Co-founder & CMO at Chqbook, a Gurugram & Bengaluru-based startup
and India’s first neobank for small business owners. Chqbook aims to bridge the
enormous gap across lending, insurance, and banking by simplifying financial
services for the busy small business owners.
Mohit is also CEO of Chqbook Insurance, an IRDAI licensed insurance broking
business focused on simplifying and improving access to insurance for this
massively underpenetrated segment of small business owners.
With more than two decades of experience in Sales and Marketing, Mohit has
worked in leadership roles across industries, including Insurance, Mutual Funds,
and Telecom. He has worked with renowned brands, including Hutch (Vodafone),
ICICI Prudential MF, Tata AIG General, and ING Vysya Life.
GAURAV MALIK
Gaurav is Vice President - International Launch & Expansion and is leading our
expansion in the UK & Europe as his immediate priority. Gaurav was previously
the Head of Sales Strategy & Operations, APAC at Stripe. Prior to Stripe he had
served in a variety of operating and general management roles at Uber across
their ride-sharing and food delivery businesses in India. He has extensive
experience building teams, launching & scaling technology businesses and
managing PnLs. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and an MBA from INSEAD
Business School.
NITIN MATHUR
1. Nitin Mathur (CEO & Founder) - He has worked as a Research Analyst for the
past decade with Investment Banks like Jefferies, Société Générale,
Edelweiss and Lehman Brothers. Prior to that, he handled different financial
products and processes (like transaction banking, securitization and credit
cards) for ICICI Bank. He has been regularly featured on TV and the print
media. Nitin holds an MSc in Banking and International Finance from Cass
Business School, UK.
MORENO GONZÁLEZ OTHÓN MARTINO,
LEANDRO VILAIN
ANGELO DUARTE
ALEXANDRE TOMBINI
SANJIB JHA
ANU TIWARI
PARIJAT GARG
DANIEL VAVERKA
SHUBHANGA PRASAD
NAVIN CHANDANI
NITYA SHARMA
SATISH GIDUGU
FRANCIS SOUZA
Francis Souza is a techno-commercial professional in the electronic payments
space for over 30 years ever since ATMs were launched in India. He has worked in
6 countries promoting electronic and self-service payments.
Today, Francis specializes in Real-Time Payments and Central Bank Digital
Currency. Francis strongly believes that Central Bank Digital Currencies paired
with a Real-Time Payments infrastructure, would be the ideal runway towards
launching a strong financial inclusion program in a country.
DEEPAK JAIN
Deepak Jain is Founder of FlexiLoans.com, one of the market leaders in Digital
SME Lending. FlexiLoans is a technology-based online financing platform started
with an endeavour to solve the problems that small businesses face in accessing
quick, flexible and adequate funds for growing their businesses. FlexiLoans is a
market leader in ecosystem-based digital lending for small businesses in India.
Disbursed over 50,000 loans worth Rs. 2000 Crs to small businesses across 1,500+
cities without having a single branch! The company has raised over USD 100 Mn in
Capital since inception from an excellent pool of Investors.
Deepak’s key responsibilities at Flexiloans.com include Business Development,
Strategic Alliances, Fund Raise – Equity & Debt and Corporate Strategy. Deepak
has over 15 Years of experience across investment banking, management consulting
and corporate finance & strategy roles. Raised over USD 10 Bn across 35 deals
across sectors with over 10 deals in BFSI sector. Strong relationships with top
Indian Corporates, Private Equity and Capital Markets investors. Deepak was
chosen as 40 under 40 by Fortune India in 2022 :
https://www.fortuneindia.com/40under40?year=2022
Deepak is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in
Management Studies from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad with a
specialisation in Strategy and Finance. He is a commerce graduate from the
University of Mumbai.
Deepak is part of Executive Committee of Digital Lenders Association of India
(DLAI) and is Co-Chair for DLAI Events committee 2019-21, Charter Member & part
of Fintech SIG for Tie Mumbai and have led Finance Initiatives for Indian School
of Business, Alumni Association in the past.
Regular speaker at various conferences, Deepak have spoken on various events
including events for Tie- Con Mumbai, Nasscom Fintech Day, ISB Conclaves, DLAI
Annual Conference, Fintegrate, Conferences of leading Investment Banking firms
like CLSA, EY, Kotak etc
RAM KEWALRAMANI
In a career spanning 19 years working in leadership positions across diverse
roles, Ram comes from a background in corporate restructuring and investment
banking.
Prior to founding CredAble, Ram was the CEO of People Logistics, an employee
transportation and supply chain logistics company, which he bought along with a
private equity investor. Previously, Ram was an investment banker with Grant
Thornton and Centrum Capital. A culmination of these experiences has enabled Ram
to gain valuable insights and develop expertise in the areas of debt and equity
markets.
GAGANDEEP BAKSHI
PRIYADARSHINI D.
ABINAV VARMA KALIDINDI
RUBY JAIN
ALI SABERI
An entrepreneur at heart, since 1996 Ali Saberi has been a think tank, focused
on innovations, and on being a resultant solving critical business problems
helping various electric, gas & water utilities across the Middle East, Europe,
and North America. He aims at excellence in every regard, at home, and at work.
The initial career of Ali goes back to the life of an Indian Naval Cadet from
INS Shivaji. A serious injury during training led to his discharge on medical
grounds and he moved to the USA to gain higher education. After graduation from
Ohio University with a master’s degree in Industrial and System Engineering, he
was picked up and groomed by PWC as a management consultant. The entrepreneurial
instincts of Ali gave rise to his first start-up in the year 2000. And rest is
the history, turning him into a serial entrepreneur with several self-funded and
self-sustainable companies which have powerful impact in the world of business
systems, communication, and digital payments.
Based on his vast experience in recurring revenue businesses like the utility,
public sector, etc., he has helped Tilli architect, and design a 360° customer
communication (Nudge.PRO) and experience SaaS offering (Tilli.CX) that provides
a personalized customer payment experience (Monay) with real-time integration
capabilities to the most common ERP systems. He has been instrumental in solving
steep compliance mandates of AML, KYC , and OFAC screening for Monay.com, Global
Payment System and Wallet Systems, processing real-time payments that are fully
integrated with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamix, etc.
providing invaluable end-to-end payment reconciliation across banks, payment
gateways, and ERP systems.
BHAVIK VASA
Bhavik is an entrepreneur and business leader with 14+ years of global
experience across FinTech, eCommerce, Digital Payments, and Mobile
technologies.
He is deeply passionate about building for and empowering entrepreneurs. He
founded GetVantage as a purpose-driven company by founders for founders. He is
also an Angel Investor and on the Board of multiple startups like BnT Fintech,
Vested Finance, Blue Tokai, and LivingFood Company.
Previously, Bhavik was Chief Growth Officer at ItzCash, instrumental for its
scale as India's leading Fintech, and its exit to the Ebix group in 2017.
He has a Bachelor's degree with honors in International Business from Northwood
University, Florida, and executive training in Entrepreneurship from Stanford
University.
SUMIT GWALANI
Sumit co-founded Fi after a nine year stint at Google, where he led some of its
most successful products including Google Pay and Chrome. Sumit handles all
things product at Fi and his expertise lies in digital payments, lending,
security and infrastructure.
THEODORA (THEO) LAU
Theodora (Theo) Lau is the founder of Unconventional Ventures, a public speaker,
and an advisor. She is the co-author of Beyond Good, and host of One Vision, a
podcast on fintech and innovation. She is also a regular contributor for top
industry events and publications, including Journal of Digital Banking, Harvard
Business Review, and Nikkei Asian Review.
NED PHILLIPS
Former Managing Director and now an Entrepreneur, Ned Phillips is the Founder
and Chief Executive Officer of Bambu. Ned was one of the first online brokers
and was promoted to Managing Director at E*TRADE.
He was also part of the stock exchange transformation, where he developed two
pan-Asian exchanges, one of which is in conjunction with SCX and Chi-X. Ned had
the opportunity to experience the first dot-com boom with one of the original
FinTech companies and become appointed as a consultant to 8 Securities when they
launched the first Robo-advisor in Asia.
MITEN MEHTA
NIRAV CHOKSI
Mr. Nirav Choksi is the Co-founder and CEO of CredAble, India’s largest working
capital tech platform, with a mission of creating working capital infrastructure
for the world. CredAble, leads the working capital space enabling more than USD
3 billion annually in working capital and witnessing over 500% year-on-year
growth. As an umbrella platform for all working capital solutions, CredAble
caters to the working capital requirements of India Inc which includes large,
mid, emerging corporates, MSMEs, and financial institutions. CredAble’s platform
hosts over 75 corporate customers, over 1,50,000 small business borrowers, and
over 30 large financial institutions and banks. By leveraging their technology,
big data analytics, trade finance expertise and partnerships with capital
providers, CredAble is able to provide comprehensive working capital financing
solutions to Corporate India.
CredAble has been recently recognized as Fintech Start-Up of the Year by The
Asset Triple A Digital Awards 2022 followed by the best technology use case
award by BW Disrupt, 2022.
Nirav has been an entrepreneur for over 28 years and has incubated and scaled
businesses raised debt and equity financing, and built multi-disciplinary global
teams in the areas of technology, private equity and international commodities.
Prior to credible, Nirav co-founded and led Equentia Natural Resources Pte Ltd.,
a multi-commodity trading and structured finance company with offices in
Singapore, Jakarta, Dubai, and Mumbai. ENR is amongst the top 5 importers of
Indonesian Thermal Coal for the private sector in India with revenues in excess
of $500 Million a year and trading volumes of over 10 million MT. ENR also has a
significant structured trade finance and debt arbitrage operation. Prior to that
Nirav has founded several companies in the internet and technology space and has
had 3 successful exits.
He is an active early-stage investor in tech-enabled consumer-led ventures and
has invested in over 25 opportunities. Nirav studied computer science and
economics at the University of Michigan.
REEJU DATTA
Reeju Datta co-founded Cashfree Payments in 2015 with friend Akash Sinha with
the vision to offer a digital payments infrastructure to businesses operating in
India. Prior to starting Cashfree Payments, Reeju has worked in real estate, at
online furniture retailer FabFurnish and in analytics at consulting firm ZS
Associates.
With a focus on customer experience, marketing, finance, and hiring at Cashfree
Payments, Reeju is enthusiastic about the startup ecosystem and enjoys
interacting with businesses that offer innovative solutions.
Reeju graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT
Kharagpur).
AKASH SINHA
Akash Sinha co-founded Cashfree Payments, a leading payment and banking
technology firm in 2015 with his friend Reeju Datta, to solve the challenges
faced by businesses in bulk payments and disbursals. Before launching Cashfree
Payments, Akash worked with e-commerce giants such as Amazon and BankBazaar
where he built products as a Software Engineer.
With his experience as a programmer and product owner, Akash focuses on the
intersection of technology and business opportunities. A community builder in
the startup and entrepreneur space, he is passionate about cutting-edge tech
that can help businesses experiment, scale and innovate faster.
A graduate of International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad
(IIIT-H), Akash started his first company while still in college, and he takes
that legacy forward by building cutting-edge payment products and solutions for
businesses. His entrepreneurial journey began shortly after completing his
graduation in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT where he was selected
for the prestigious Google Summer of Code (GSoC), an international annual
program in which Google awards stipends to students who successfully complete a
free and open-source software coding project during the summer.
In early 2021, Akash was featured in the highly respected Forbes India 30 Under
30 list.
STEFFANIE YUEN
Steffanie Yuen is the Managing Director and Head of Hong Kong at Endowus, a
leading digital wealth platform in Asia. Before joining Endowus, Steffanie was
Managing Director at Value Partners and was responsible for leading the Group's
Direct Distribution, Marketing, Communications and Investor Relations functions,
as well as other key strategic growth initiatives. Prior to Value Partners, she
was the Business Development and Strategic Partnerships Director at Alibaba's
fintech affiliate Ant Group, where she was responsible for driving strategic
collaborations and partnerships with international financial institutions and
Ant's overseas e-wallet partners, which together serves over 1.2 billion annual
active users globally.
VIGNESH KRISHNAKUMAR
AVINASH GODKHINDI
Avinash Godkhindi is an International FinTech &Payments Leader with over a
decade and half years of experience in 12 countries across 5 continents. He has
worked in leadership roles in Digital Payments, FinTech and Cash Management
businesses in Product, Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Technology and Operations
roles with banks like Citibank, Barclays & ING Bank and FinTech companies like
Zaggle, Misys & NIIT Technologies.
Avinash has been the CEO of Zaggle for the past 8 years and focuses on Business
Development. Growth and new opportunities, Banking and Network partnerships, Go
to Market Strategy and Operations. Prior to Zaggle, Avinash launched and ran the
Citibank PremierMiles credit card in India as the Product Head for PremierMiles.
He has done his Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University
and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His interests
include a variety of sports, reading, music, current affairs, travelling,
running and spending time with family & friends.
DEWANG NERALLA
Mr. Neralla is the CEO of NTT DATA Payment Services Limited (erstwhile Atom
Technologies Limited), one of India’s leading payments service providers focused
on creating an end-to-end payments ecosystem over the Internet, IVR, Mobile, and
Point-of-Sale. Dewang, along with NTT DATA Payment Services’ technology team, is
constantly focused on innovations through the creation of distinctive payment
solutions and services that are modern, secure, and consumer centric.
After being in the FinTech vertical for more than two decades and having tried
his hands in building successful exchanges, he ventured into developing the
payment landscape in the country. Being a futurist, he believed that digital
payments would be the next big thing and was already thinking ahead of that
time. It is his passion for excellence that has led to NTT DATA Payment Services
being certified with ISO 9001:2008 for its operations and technology.
He is highly enthusiastic about electronic payments and their power to bring
about huge social transformation in a growing economy like India and how to
reduce the overall costs associated. He is actively involved in the payments
industry being a co-chair of the Merchant Aggregators Committee
in Payment Council of India (PCI) as well as a member of the Executive Council
of PCI.
Today, NTT DATA Payment Services has emerged as one of the largest payment
processing companies in India, processing over 100 million transactions
annually, with a transaction value of over INR 800 billion. Dewang holds a
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science and has been a featured
speaker at several national and international academic, business, and technology
forums as well as at industry events.
CAMILO TÉLLEZ
Camilo is the Deputy Managing Director at the Better Than Cash Alliance, a
UN-based partnership of over 60 governments, companies and international
organizations that accelerates the global transition from cash to digital
payments in order to drive inclusive growth and reduce poverty.
At the Better Than Cash Alliance, he oversees global innovation and thought
leadership supporting members in Asia and Latin America their efforts to build
digital economies. Prior to joining the Alliance, Camilo held positions in the
area of digital financial services for over a decade at the Consultative Group
to Assist the Poor (CGAP); the World Bank; GSMA in London; the UN Economic
Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, and at Microsoft Labs in
Bangalore.
Camilo holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), the London School of Economics and Political
Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
SARBVIR SINGH
Sarbvir Singh heads Policybazaar.com, India’s leading insurtech company. He is
responsible for the overall business performance of PolicyBazaar.
Prior to joining Policybazaar, he was a venture capitalist and also served in
senior leadership positions with digital and media companies. He was most
recently the Managing Partner of WaterBridge Ventures, a leading early-stage
venture fund.
Over his career, Sarbvir has led venture investments in industry-leading
companies like BookMyShow, Yatra, DoubtNut, ZipLoan and Webchutney. He served as
the founding Managing Director of Capital18, Network18’s venture arm and as
Regional Advisor to JP Morgan PEG for their investments in India. He also held
leadership positions with Citigroup in New York and Emerson Electric in Hong
Kong.
Sarbvir is a graduate of IIT Delhi and holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
ARIJIT CHAKRABORTY
Arijit Chakraborty is the Managing Director, APAC for Cover Genius, the
insurtech for embedded insurance that protects the global customers of the
world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings and Intuit. XCover
is also available at Amazon, eBay, and Shopee. In his role, Arijit is
responsible for leading regional teams in Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, South Korea, Japan and ANZ and continuing to
expand the company’s insurance and commercial partnerships within the region.
Prior to Cover Genius, Arijit was in senior management for leading global
insurers including Manulife, and Zurich. In recent years, he has been building
insurtech and fintech businesses in the region and has expertise across
strategy, partnerships, products, legal and governance. He is also actively
involved in the start-up ecosystem.
VIVEK TIWARI
Acquiring prolific experience of nearly two decades in the microfinance sector
to promote financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing,
Mr. Vivek Tiwari is the MD, CIO & CEO of SATYA MicroCapital Ltd - one of the
leading NBFC-MFIs across the nation. He is also the Vice Chairperson of MFIN
(Microfinance Institutions Network) - an association for the microfinance sector
in India. He is recently recognised as Promising Entrepreneurs of India 2021 on
28th September 2021 by The Economic Times.
TAKESHI KITO
VISHRUT B
Vishrut was previously an investor at Muse Capital, in Los Angeles, after which
he worked in fintech in business and product roles at Apollo Finvest and Verak
(formerly BimaPe). He is currently the co-founder of 77 Capital, where he
focuses on early-stage investments focused on financial services.
MARTIN BARRIOS CUELLAR
With over 20 years of experience in the financial industry, Barrios leads the
Bank of America Global Transactional Services team in Mexico, responsible for
Financial Institutions, Global Multinationals, Large Local Corporates, and
Commercial Banking clients. Well known and recognized as a subject matter expert
in Connectivity, Payment Systems, and Advisor for sophisticated Treasuries
managing In-House-Bank, Shared Service Centers and Payment Factories across
Latin America.
Martin holds an MBA at IPADE where he is a frequent guest speaker as well as in
Eurofinance and other Treasury/Financial forums, trainings and conferences.
S ANAND
S Anand is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PaySprint, a Fintech,
venture focused on Next Gen API Banking Solutions, offering a Unified Open API
Platform.
PaySprint works closely with various banks to bring Digital banking solutions to
the end consumer. Banks will continue to be the custodian of the customer and of
the various banking products and services, while PaySprint will create larger
consumer adoption, interface, and delight.
1. Anand is a senior Techno functional professional with over 2 decades of
diverse career chronicle working with cross-functional teams to drive
unprecedented profitability while focusing on operational excellence,
streamlining business processes, and cost.
He has extensive leadership and management experience in setting up operations
and running a business in high growth as well as transformational phases. Build
teams with capabilities to drive results in a fast-paced and continually
changing environment with a deep understanding of the global finance &
technology market and enterprises’ growing digital needs.
He has been an integral part of the top management and has a complete
understanding of critical business drivers and the skills to use business
intelligence for creating meaningful interactions with clients.
Prior to PaySprint, Anand was the Executive Vice President and Business Head, at
Eko India Financial Services Private Ltd., which is a Fintech company and he has
been instrumental in the turnaround of Eko and growth business from 200 crores
to 2200 crores per month with positive EBITDA in a short span of 36 months. He
not only transformed their business unit into a top-performer but he also
delivered multiple-digit growth of CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) and Market
Share YOY by expanding to 1000 towns & cities with 2.5 lacs merchants and 1000
API Partners (SMB’s & Entrepreneurs).
Other leadership positions also include Chief Operating Officer and Director of
Sterlite Networks Limited which grew to contribute a rollout of 5 million homes
FTTH (Fibre to Home) under his leadership. Anand has also held the position of
AVP, Regional Operations Head at Tata Teleservices where he brought significant
growth to the business, resulting in it being recognized as a major player in
the market.
Anand holds a Masters in Management Studies Marketing degree from the University
of Mumbai, India. He is an avid traveller and loves trekking. In his free time,
he also practices yoga and loves to read books on Management, History, and
Spirituality.
PRANNAY BATRA
Prannay has been building and scaling PhonePe's completely digital General
Insurance Business for the last 3 years in India. Before that, Prannay was with
the Allianz group for almost a decade in various senior distribution roles
across multiple countries in South East Asia including Singapore and Thailand.
ARUN TIKOO
Arun Tikoo is the Senior Vice President of Business and Strategy at Cashfree
Payments, a leading payments and API banking solutions company. At Cashfree, he
drives strategic expansion across products, merchants, partnerships, and
alliances. He is responsible for strengthening the existing distribution network
across industries and oversees compliance, pricing, and operational setups of
the new product launches.
He also develops and leads the execution of strategic plans to grow Cashfree’s
footprint in international markets and partnerships with banks. Arun brings over
20 years of experience in Digital Banking, Payments, Trade Forex, and Sales
Execution across Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking and Startups. Prior to
Cashfree Payments, he was associated with Yes Bank, where he was instrumental in
bringing innovation to the business line, leveraging the retail distribution
network, and growing digital products in retail, startups, and SME segments.
He also drove the first ever API integration across the industry as well as
strategic partnerships with accelerator programs such as T-hub, Springboard, and
multiple state government setups. Previously, Arun has worked with organizations
like SBI, Yes Bank, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank in various capacities.
SUMIT AGARWAL
GUSTAF AGARTSON
Gustaf founded BIMA in Ghana in 2010. He has dedicated his career to growing and
scaling BIMA from its early beginnings into a high-growth, international
business. He previously worked in management roles at the pan-European
telecommunications company Tele2. Gustaf holds a master’s from the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Bachelor's in Business Administration
from Stockholm Business School.
RAJAT GANDHI
Rajat Gandhi is the Founder & CEO of Faircent, India’s largest peer-to-peer
lending platform and first to be certified as an NBFC-P2P. He has leveraged his
experience of over 25 years in online and digital realms to pioneer the concept
of online peer-to-peer lending in India and establish Faircent as the largest
NBFC-P2P lending platform in the country.
Rajat introduced the concept of P2P lending in India when he established
Faircent.com in 2013. He has spent many years creating simple financial
offerings for consumers by leveraging technology and has worked in close
conjunction with different industry bodies, government and regulatory
authorities to establish the online lending sector in India, actively canvassing
for prudent regulations to address the country’s credit deficit with innovative
tech-led solutions. Faircent.com was the first platform in India to be certified
as an NBFC-P2P by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), underlining its position as
the industry front-runner and leader in both business practices and thought.
Through Faircent, he has been playing a critical role in extending the benefits
of financial inclusion to India’s traditionally underserved populace and
democratising debt by enabling access to cheap and fast credit for borrowers,
including the SME/MSME segment. It also provides a new age asset class to
investors looking to maximise returns on their idle funds. This focus on
offering greater value for all stakeholders in the lending value chain has been
the key driver behind Faircent’s exponential growth.
Rajat holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and in his past roles
has been involved in launching and building online portals and communities as
well as e-commerce, classifieds, and digital advertising businesses for some of
the leading organisations in the country. An ardent traveller, Rajat spends his
free time in company of family and friends.
GAURAV RASTOGI
Gaurav is the founder, CEO and Chief Evangelist at Kuvera.in. As a Portfolio
Manager with Morgan Stanley, Gaurav saw first-hand how the wealth management
industry is focused solely on the super-rich. He started Kuvera to change that
and is on a mission to make the latest investment tools available to everyone.
Kuvera is one of the fastest growing online investment communities with Rs
34,000+ crores in AUA and a community base of over 1.3 million spread across 800
cities.
Gaurav holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and a MBA in Analytic
Finance and Economics from The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
ATUL SHINGHAL
Atul started Scripbox as he felt strongly that India deserved better than what
was on offer for the common investor. Having spent over 15 years in building
businesses in South Africa, UK and India, Atul brings expertise and experience
in taking companies from 10 to 100 and beyond.
He has held leadership positions at Coats Viyella, Standard Chartered, Old
Mutual and Capital One in his corporate life. After 2 stints in building new
businesses as an Intrapreneur, he started his own entrepreneurship journey with
Probe Information Services - now the leading provider on Corporate Information
in India.
At Scripbox, Atul is in charge of growth and his mission is to help a million
families achieve financial freedom, by making Scripbox the preferred partner in
their wealth creation journey.
He is passionate about Entrepreneurship and apart from founding and scaling
two successful start-ups, Scripbox and Probe Information Services (both
well-funded by leading VCs in the world), he also actively mentors a number of
start-ups, including being involved with NSRCEL. He is also a regular speaker at
Fintech and Entrepreneurship forums.
Atul is an alumnus of Mayo College, IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore.
DANIEL ADERETI
Daniel Adereti is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, USA and Lagos
Business School, Nigeria. He has six (6) years of private investment management
experience and has structured venture capital investment deals of over $25M.
Within Pezesha Africa, he is in charge of driving the corporate plan operations
and financial risk management.
PRASANNA LOHAR
I have Over 22+ Years of Industry Experience in Engineering and Development,
Product Development, Organization Strategy & Governance, Risk Audit Compliance
Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Apps,
Digital Transformation, Fintech, E-Commerce, Payments, Platform & Product
Innovation, Data Science, Automation, AR & VR, Artificial Intelligence & Machine
Learning, Open Stack, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Big Data, IOT, Blockchain,
UI-UX & Business Development.
As part of my Professional career into worked Globally for Bank, Fintech,
Micro-Finance, Engineering, and Multi-National companies for Digital &
Architecture Transformation, I am closely associated with New & latest
technology Strategy, Assimilation, Experimentation, Innovative Customer
Servicing & Engagement, Robust Architecture Implementation, Fintech & Startup
Alignment, Open Innovation practices, Collaboration with other Banks on various
initiatives.
I have done 100+ Deliveries on Digital Front for My DCB bank into Innovation,
Digital Channels e.g. ATM, Internet banking, Mobile banking, SMS Banking,
Social Command Center, Enterprise Innovation for Operational excellence,
ATMChain, Smartstart and Blockchain Initiatives, Zippi – Straight thru A/c Open
with API Banking, DCB Remit, Video KYC.
I am Part of various deliveries like India’s first Aadhaar & Biometric enabled
ATM, Paperless A/c Opening India’s first Omni-Channel Framework for Bank, KYC,
Blockchain, Mobile banking & Mobile Apps, Virtual Reality based App, Open
Banking & Internet Banking Initiative, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Bharat
Bill Payment, API Management, Blockchain, Switch & Cards relevant initiatives.
HILAL ALI AL-KUWARI
Hilal Ali Al-Kuwari is an Incubation specialist at Qatar Development Bank. In
his current role he is responsible for the strategy and day to day running of
the Qatar Fintech Hub (QFTH). In addition to this he also plays an active role
on advising other sectors across the incubation. Hilal has previously worked in
the energy sector as an investment analyst and in banking as a Treasury dealer.
Hilal holds an MSc in International Business Management and an MBA.
SUSHANT SHETTY
APARAJIT BHANDARKAR
Early in life, I understood the value of frugality. My father ran a small
business and was having trouble making ends meet. Growing up in Mumbai and
coming from a large family of chartered accountants, I made the decision to
enrol in R.A. Podar College.
I was focused on finishing my CA and going into a Big 4 because college was
tough. I completed both of those by joining KPMG and passing Intermediate and
Finals with a Merit Rank. While working at KPMG, I had the opportunity to join
Yes Bank, a newly established bank, where I was one of the first 50 employees
and heavily involved in developing the systems and procedures for credit,
investing, and financing. This was a truly excellent learning opportunity. I
made the decision to take a sabbatical from my job in 2007 to pursue my MBA at
NYU Stern, where I had the opportunity to learn finance from the best professors
in the field and make friends from all over the world.
Both chances and disadvantages came with graduating in 2009, when the crisis was
at its worst. It was enlightening for me to re-join Yes Bank to develop a
strategy for the investor relations team. This allowed me the chance to obtain a
deep understanding of the capital markets and witness the bank’s growth from
less than a USD B market value to over USD 8 B over a 5-year period. I have had
the chance to manage 4 IPOs for our clients and raise over USD 700 million for
Yes Bank. I made the audacious decision to transition to the fintech industry in
2015, heading strategy at Jio Payments Bank before switching to the investments
team at Dice Fintech.
PARUL SETH KHANNA
Parul is co-founder and director of pinBox Solutions. She also heads the micro
pension Foundation, an India-based non-profit micro-pension R&D hub. Over the
years, she has led the development and implementation of digital outreach and
distribution platforms for micro-pension and micro-insurance targeting
low-income women in developing countries. Parul is working extensively in South
Asia and Africa in assisting governments and pension regulators with designing
retirement literacy tools and strategies for expanding voluntary pension
coverage among low-income, non-salaried informal sector workers. She has
recently co-edited "Saving the Next Billion from Old Age Poverty: Global Lessons
for Local Action" with William Price and Gautam Bhardwaj. In a previous life,
Parul was a journalist in the electronic media and has worked at BBC World
Trust, CNBC and NDTV.
ABHIJEET GAUR
Abhijeet Gaur is the Product Lead at Bureau. As part of the founding team,
Abhijeet has been a part of the 0 to 1 journey of Bureau, building and scaling
key products around reducing fraud & friction. Prior to this, Abhijeet was
associated with Razorpay for three years and has worked extensively on several
product lines across core payment gateway, checkout and the fraud & risk
platform. A developer-turned-PM, Abhijeet has experience in scaling products to
massive scale and leading idea-to-GTM products, especially in fintech,
E-Commerce and payments.
DEVENDER MAGGO
ANUP SINGH
KANNAN RASAPPAN
Open Banking expert who has worked & advised leading financial institutions in
the UK - RBS, HSBC, WorldPay, Lloyds Banking Group. An active participant at
various working groups on Open Banking and speaker at various conferences.
Currently serving as Advisor to Berlin Group's NextGenPSD2 standards - EU's most
widely used API specification. CEO & Founder of Banfico, who is helping banks to
get Open Banking compliant & promoting innovation by providing consulting &
implementation services.
A strong advocate of Open Standards and an expert in identity & security. Come
from a highly technical background with 20 years of experience & is a hands-on
solution architect. Graduate in Applied Mathematics
ANIL KURIL
Shri Anil Kuril is working as Chief Technology Officer at Union Bank of India,
the 4th largest Public Sector Bank in the country. Before joining Union Bank, he
worked with Punjab National Bank and Allahabad Bank.
Shri Anil Kuril has rich experience of more than 2 decades in Information and
Digital technology which include Core IT, Assurance, Cyber Security, etc. He has
also worked in Banking Domain as Field General Manager, heading the Banking
Operation in the state of Jharkhand and Bihar.
Shri Kuril has been a member of various industry-level working
groups/committees. Most recently he has been part of IBA working group on public
cloud adoption in public sector Banks.
Shri Anil Kuril is having BE (Computer Engineering) degree along with various
Industry level certifications such as CISM, ITIL Foundation, Project Management,
Certified Information System Banker, Prevention of Cyber Crime and Fraud
Management, etc.
He is also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.
Recently, Shri Kuril headed the Banks Metaverse initiative, which was Industry
first in India.
NEERAJ DHAWAN
Neeraj Dhawan is Country Manager, Experian India. Experian is the world’s
leading global information services company. Through providing information and
analytical services, Experian helps organisations and consumers manage the risk
and reward of commercial and financial decisions.
Neeraj brings with him over 28 years of senior leadership experience in
technology, designing and executing business strategies, risk management and
debt management with multinationals and large corporations. He is highly
experienced in taking on transformation projects, leading teams to create next
generation end-to-end digitalised processes in credit underwriting and is
passionate about digitisation and Business Process Re-engineering.
In his current role, Neeraj will introduce strategies to accelerate Experian
India’s growth, enabling the team to achieve organisational goals and excellence
in operations. He will further enhance Experian’s anchor products in India by
leveraging Experian’s global strengths, and introducing innovative solutions
across Decision Analytics, Credit Services, Data Quality, and Consumer Services.
Prior to Experian, Neeraj was Chief Credit Officer at CSB Bank, focusing on
Retail, SME, and analytics. His past stints include working with renowned
companies such as GE Capital, ABN Amro Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Yes Bank
among others. He continues to play an advisory role with various advisory boards
and start-ups. He has been part of the Yes Fintech, Business Accelerator Program
for Fintech Startups as a Mentor and incubated the start-ups associated with
banking products and services.
He was part of Experian India’s Strategic Advisory Board since March 2016 and
has acted as an advisor to Creditas Solution Private Ltd (Fintech) since March
2018, and Acuradyne Medical Systems Pvt Ltd - MedTech (Part of SINE, IIT Bombay)
since June 2019.
Neeraj holds an ICWAI degree from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India,
ACA degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a degree in
CS from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
ARTURO GONZALEZ MAC DOWELL
Arturo's career has been marked by his role in the introduction of high-tech
products and services to the financial sector. His pioneering work in financial
technology has led to innovative services like electronic payments, mobile
banking and electronic invoicing. Arturo launched Eurobits, who pioneered
services now classified as Account Information Service in Europe and LATAM since
2004. Arturo went through an MBO and ultimately sold the company to Tink during
2020, which was then acquired by Visa in 2021. Arturo was a founding member of
the Future of European Fintech which campaigned for fair access under PSD2.
Arturo is also a founding member and Vice-Chairman of the European Third Party
Providers Association and represents the ETPPA at the ERPB and the EPC. Arturo
is the Chairman of AEFI, the Spanish Fintech and Insurtech Association.
SOUPARNO BAGCHI
Souparno Bagchi is the COO at Balancehero India. Through his extensive and
global experience in Banking and Financial Services, he will lead the operations
of True Balance bringing differentiated customer value and ensuring sustainable
growth. He works directly with the founder on the high performance of incumbent
businesses and on expanding the offerings and customer base.
Souparno is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. In his
career spanning over two decades, Souparno has played various leadership and
multi-functional roles at reputed companies like Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, and
Tata Consultancy Services.
Souparno is passionate about entrepreneurship and from his vantage point of
being a business leader and a technologist, deeply appreciates the convergence
of ‘Doing good and doing well...’, an opportunity further emboldened by the
Fintech revolution.
His areas of interest and advocacy include social impact, diversity & inclusion,
education & research, and the nuances of operating in a millennial & digital
world.
RAJESH SREENIVASAN
Rajesh heads the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice at Rajah & Tann
Singapore, and also the co-founder & Director of Rajah & Tann Technologies and
Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity. He has been advising clients on matters relating to
technology, cybersecurity, data protection, telecommunications, electronic
commerce, distributed ledger technology implementations, cloud computing,
artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital forensics and social media for over
twenty years. As Rajah & Tann Asia’s Technology Advisor, Rajesh played a major
role in moving the network forward in digitalisation, and as a result, garnering
the accolade of being the winner of “Law Firm Strategy” at the Financial Times
(FT) Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards 2020.
VIVEKDEEP GUPTA
Vivek is the APAC Head for Technology Business Development at R3, an Enterprise
Software company building Corda, the blockchain for business. In this role, he
is responsible for driving the business for R3 and promoting Corda and
blockchain adoption in the APAC region while building a strong capability centre
for R3 in India. Vivek’s areas of interest encompass CBDCs, Digital Assets and
Trade Finance.
Vivek is an active member of the global fintech community focused on bringing
the latest innovations to India. Prior to R3, Vivek served in multiple roles
within the private and public sector, working with organizations like Tata
Administrative Services (TAS), National Skill Development Council (NSDC) and
Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board.
He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s in Electrical
Engineering.
DR. SEBASTIAN SCHAEFER
GUHAPRASATH RAJAGOPAL
Guhaprasath Rajagopal is a Managing Director and Head of Payments business in
India for J.P. Morgan based in Mumbai. In this role, Guhaprasath is responsible
for delivering market-leading solutions to clients by leveraging J.P. Morgan’s
unique global strengths coupled with local capabilities across Treasury
Services, Trade Finance and Merchant Services.
Guhaprasath joined J.P.Morgan in 2010 and brings ~21 years of experience across
the Transaction banking spectrum. Throughout his career, Guhaprasath has held
various leadership roles in Product Management, Client origination, Service
Management and Technology.
Prior to joining J.P, Morgan, Guhaprasath was part of the Transaction Banking
division of Citibank India and with IBM India prior to that.
Guhaprasath holds a master in Management from IIM Bangalore and a bachelor's in
Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India).
AADITYA RATHOD
Aaditya is a Fintech professional with 20+ years of experience in the Banking
and Payments industry, currently a Co Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of
The Canny Technology Company Ltd (Canny), B2B global payments marketplace that
helps any Bank or Fintech, to launch cross border payments in any part of the
world. He brings a strong experience on both the business and regulatory side,
and secured licenses in multiple jurisdictions. He has been instrumental in
driving retail and SME growth for two large Indian Banks (ICICI Bank and Axis
Bank) in the UK including setting up a retail business from scratch with
complete digital offerings around Savings, Cross-border remittances and Lending
businesses. He was also head of Unimoni/UAE Exchange (FCA- CF1 role) for UK &
Europe to drive digital transformation and successfully delivered the
“Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS)” model. He earned an MBA from the Indian Institute
of Foreign Trade, India and Fintech Program Certification from Said Business
School, Oxford.
RISHI PATEL
Rishi is an innovative and versatile leader with twenty years of experience in
financial services, financial markets, and financial technology.
Prior to founding Interpolian Money PLC, Rishi was part of the founding team for
an online start-up foreign exchange business that floated on AIM, the London
Stock Exchange’s international market for growth companies. His previous career
also included positions at the investment bank Credit Suisse.
Rishi has also represented the fintech sector and the UK Government on a number
of trade missions. He has hosted meetings with senior ministers including the
former UK Prime Minister.
Recently, Rishi was invited to join the advisory board of The UK Association of
Foreign Exchange and Payment Companies.
As an experienced financial services executive, Rishi is passionate about
simplifying financial products and services.
This wealth of operational and financial experience gained across several
industry sectors means that Rishi is well placed to drive and support the
expansion strategy of Interpolitan Money.
Rishi holds a BSc (Hons) Actuarial Science degree from the Bayes Business
School, London.
MANISH KUMAR AGRAWAL
Manish K Agrawal- Executive Vice President & Head - Credit Intelligence &
Control is responsible for controlling & minimizing fraud losses across all
retail assets products, Agri lending and payment business.
Manish is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and has 22 years of total
experience out of which last 19 have been with HDFC Bank, He has managed
various assets products starting with line underwriting role for auto loan
financing and then moved to a Policy role in 2006. Till 2016, as a Product Risk
Head his portfolio and responsibility were to manage a profitable portfolio for
auto, Two Wheeler, Personal Loan, Inventory Finance and Consumer Durable Loans
books before joining Credit Intelligence & Control function in November 2016.
Under his tenure the retail books grew many folds and the assets under
management crossed 15 Billion US $.
Manish has high analytical capabilities and eye for detailing and numbers; He is
managing a team across various verticals within Credit Intelligence function and
leads the team by example. He is also known for solution oriented approach and
quick decision making. His ability to comprehend risk in transactions, process
flows coupled with macro understanding has helped the bank to maintain the
lowest fraud rate in India.
Manish is an avid cricket follower and traveler and a passionate speaker. Manish
is on the risk advisory board of Mastercard South Asia and various internal
committees. He is also the official spokesperson of the bank for creating
awareness on cyber security.
RAJAT SHARMA
Rajat Sharma, Chief Revenue Officer of InsureMO, eBaoTech.
Rajat is based in Singapore and is responsible for driving the global InsureMO
platform business.
Prior to joining eBaoTech, Rajat has been in various roles like Product
Management, M&A, Strategy and Sales for HCL Technologies managing regional
portfolios and has been with various early stage start-ups building products and
driving growth.
Rajat holds a MBA degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and
Great Lakes Institute of Management, India and a Bachelor of Technology in
Computer Science Engineering from the IP University, India.
ASHESH JANI
SAMEER SHETTY
JOHN MEYERS
I became an entrepreneur at the young age in the tech industry. Some may call me
a real "techy" because I have always had a big interest in the digital world and
the newest technology. I was immediately triggered to learn as much as I could
and create new, and as they now call it Disruptive Innovations. It has lead me
to create digital solutions for several Dutch based companies. I am now the
proud co-founder of X-Systems and X-Enterprise which specializes in developing
Secure Mobile Security Solutions and Preventative Security Technologies.
With the visionary mindset I have always aimed to look outside the box and think
of better and more creative solutions to solve a problem. This quality has
enabled me to find unique and effective solutions for the digital industry. And
with many years of experience as a entrepreneur in the digital world I can say I
understand the field like no one else. I am a hard worker and dedicated to
becoming the leading company in its field.
RAMESH NARASIMHAN
As CEO of Worldline India, Ramesh is responsible for leading the business
strategy and driving revenue growth of the company. He has over 3 decades of
experience in various roles in the Information Technology industry, having
worked with various companies like HCL and IBM - where he performed diverse
leadership roles.
ADRIAN ANG
Adrian is a Partner in the Financial Services Department and is Co-Head of both
the Firm’s FinTech Practice as well as its ESG & Public Policy Practice.
Adrian’s practice encompasses advising clients on regulatory matters affecting
the financial services industry including, licensing matters, the setting up of
payment services, the distribution of financial products, outsourcing
arrangements and conduct of business requirements.
Adrian has been active in the FinTech sphere, being involved in contributing to
policy formation and the enactment of FinTech related legislation. Adrian has
advised on a variety of FinTech models including payment systems, equity and
debt crowdfunding platforms, P2P lending platforms, online lending intermediary
based platforms, online money transfer systems, robo-advisors, virtual stored
value facility providers, initial coin offering structures, security token
exchanges, digital payment token exchanges and the sale of non-fungible tokens
(NFTs). He was also appointed as an EXCO member of the Singapore FinTech
Association (SFA), and is the only lawyer in private practice on the SFA EXCO.
In the sphere of public policy, Adrian has assisted with the consideration and
roll-out of new policies affecting the financial industry and is frequently
involved in the coordination and provision of industry views on policy and
regulatory matters in relation to both private and public consultations. Adrian
graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. (Hons) degree in 2002 and a
M.A. in 2006. He was a College Exhibitioner and a winner of multiple College
Book Prizes. In 2003, Adrian graduated top of his cohort for the Graduate
Diploma in Singapore Law course administered by the National University of
Singapore and was called to the Singapore Bar in June 2004. He is also a non-
practising solicitor of England and Wales, having been admitted to the Roll of
Solicitors of England and Wales in March 2006.
Adrian is recommended as a key practitioner in several leading publications.
DHYANESH BHATT
Dhyanesh is the Co-Founder & Group CEO at Gramcover, a rural focussed insuretech
with a motto of “De-Risking Rural India”. GramCover engages with various
insurers, reinsurers and relevant rural organizations as well as its Point of
Sale partners to co-create and distribute insurance products that are easy to
understand, easy to service and appropriately priced for the rural population.
With over decade and half of experience across corporate, rural and government
insurance programmes, Dhyanesh has worked with multiple stakeholders including
the central and various state governments, corporates, financial institutions
and technology providers to create tech enabled, scalable and sustainable
insurance solutions across sectors.
Prior to Gramcover, Dhyanesh was associated with ICICI Lombard. He is also the
alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Beyond work, Dhyanesh is
passionate about marking a difference within the rural ecosystem, healthcare and
issues of climate change.
DR. EMIL RUBAN J
Emil holds a doctorate degree in management and an MBA in marketing. Currently,
he has been associated with Ria as MD & Country Manager for India since May
2016.
Emil has 22 years of experience in varied industries like FMCG, Consumer
Electronics & Financial Services. and the last 17 years in Cross Border
Remittances. He held various senior positions in Western Union & Xpress Money
(UAE Exchange) prior to joining Ria. Emil is a veteran in the cross-border
remittances industry in India. He was instrumental in launching India’s first
mobile wallet services for cross-border remittances with the association through
PayTM. He also has in-depth understanding and hands-on experience in Prepaid
cards based cross border remittances, Bank account-based money transfers etc.
He has a strong understanding of AML, Compliance, RBI guidelines and regulatory
frameworks and has extensive knowledge of both urban and rural remittance
markets in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East Regions.
NITISH GOPALANI
Nitish Gopalani, Co-founder of Fonada - is a proactive leader with a flair for
charting out marketing strategies, market plan execution and contributing
towards enhancing business volumes/growth, and achieving profitability norms.
JAWAHAR GOVINDARAJ
24+ years of high-impact leadership & strategic experience in Software
Development and Digital Transformation with a proven track record in working
closely with the Founder/CEO. Banking and Fintech SME and Advisory.
ARPIT GUPTA
Arpit Gupta is a Pure Techie with 12 years of IT Experience. Based in Delhi, He
is the co-founder at MLAI Digital and plays the Role of a CTO.
JITHESH P V
Mr. Jithesh P V is the VP & Head of Fintech Partnerships at Federal Bank. Mr.
Jithesh has more than two decades of experience in Federal Bank and has
significantly rich experience in Branch Banking, General Banking, Information
Technology and Digital Banking. Prior to taking up this role he was heading the
Digital Banking vertical of the Bank. The Bank launched a series of innovative
products like Video based Account Opening, FedSwagat- appointment booking app,
Account Aggregator, Feddy-Bank’s AI based Personal Assistant, Tokenization, All
in one Mobile Application- FedMobile, under his leadership. In the current role,
he is spearheading Open Banking based partnerships and has partnered with top
NEO banks in the country. The Bank has created a state-of-the-art Open Banking
Platform with 13 API bundles and 100 plus APIs and Bank is working with more
than 50 partners.
JAIDEEP PAWAR
Jaideep Pawar, Founder & CEO of GRAMePAY has over 23 years of experience in
Banking Technology, Insurance, Financial Inclusion, and Digital Payments
domains. Having launched and managed Global platforms for companies like FSS,
Euronet Worldwide, RS Software & FINO; Jaideep started his Entrepreneurial
journey with GRAMePAY in October 2020 & he is also serving as Board Member/
advisor/mentor to some of the emerging Fintech's in India.
Jaideep is an Alumnus of Harvard Business School & he is also MBA from SIBM
Pune, BE from the College of Engineering Pune. MEITY, Govt of India has
appointed Jaideep as Mentor in Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion, space &
he is also volunteering as Mentor of Change for Atal Tinkering Labs which is
focused on helping and guiding students across 900+ schools to build an
entrepreneurial mindset. Recently MEDC - Maharashtra Economic Development
Council - a Think Tank for Govt of Maharashtra has appointed Jaideep as Chairman
of the Startups and Incubation Committee to promote startup ecosystems in the
state.
SALIL RAVINDRAN
SUNDEEP MOHINDRU
Sundeep by profession is a Qualified accountant with more than 23 years of
experience in Technology, Finance and Consulting. Sundeep is the Founder and
Director of M1xchange (TReDS) and Mynd group.
M1xchange is a multi-award-winning online exchange for discounting of Trade
receivables for SME enterprises in India, called as TReDS. M1xchange has
fulfilled the objective of financial inclusion by the financing of Receivables
for SME enterprises in 1100 cities in India, worth USD 4 Billion in the last 4
years.
M1xchange is now working towards setting up of International Trade Finance
System (ITFS) for the financing of global Trade transactions from GIFT city
Gujarat.
MANDAR KAGADE
Black Dot was founded by Mandar Kagade in May, 2020. Before conceptualizing
Black Dot, Mandar Kagade was the Head, Public Policy at “CreditOn”, a B2B
Fintech firm in the credit origination space. Before that, he was heading the
public policy team at Catalyst, a start-up incubator in the digital payments
space wherein he produced several policy papers including notably one on
use-cases for the RBI regulatory sandbox. He is a recovering corporate and
financial regulatory lawyer and a graduate of Co lumbia Law School, and Govt Law
College, Mumbai respectively.
NITIN AGRAWAL
Nitin Agrawal has been at the forefront of how the under-banked consumer segment
has evolved over the last 20 years in India – with a keen votary of
digitisation. He is a tech-enthusiast with experience in ideation to execution
in multifunctional roles across financial inclusion, rural/ agri- lending,
microfinance, corporate-linked retail, channel finance, SME & mid-corporate
lending, funding start-ups with early-stage venture debt.
Nitin is currently hustling to build a fintech called Navadhan which is aimed at
creating new-wealth for the under-banked segment – with focus on
small-holder-farmers and micro-enterprises in rural/ semi urban areas. Navadhan
is building AceN, a fit-for-purpose tech platform.
Prior to that, he has served as CEO, Dy.CEO, CFO, CRO, COO and other Sr
Management positions. He worked at entities like ICICI Bank, Fullerton India,
Spandana, Aavishkaar group, The Times Group and the India Today Group.
Nitin has also served on Boards and in the Executive Council of the India Impact
Investor’s Council.
He has an MBA from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand.
PIERPAOLO BARBIERI
MOHAMMED RIAZ
Riaz is a postgraduate from the Delhi School of Economics with 30 years of
professional experience in marketing & distribution, The past 15 years have been
in leadership positions in Insurance & Micro Finance sectors. Riaz has developed
some pathbreaking business models in the past - Bancassurance with Aviva, Micro
Insurance, and Common Service Centres in the past.
Riaz promoted Xtracap Fintech India Pvt Ltd with a burning desire to find a
technology-led solution to problems of working capital and is one of the
pioneers of digital channel financing in the principle of 'Reverse Factoring'.
Xtracap is incubated under Bharat Inclusion Initiative, CIIE.CO has a 100%
digital solution for GST-registered trading firms to access working capital for
the short term. Xtracap fintech is also a part of InclusiveFintech 50 for 2021.
SRIKANTH BUREDDY
SAURABH DAYAL
Saurabh Dayal is a data driven hardcore sales guy having rich experience in
building & scaling biz multifold. He has worked extensively at grass root level,
handled large team size across India across multiple verticals. Skilled in
sales, marketing, strategy, technology, payments, franchise expansion and
retail.
He co-Founded ClearDekho.com - India's First Online Optical Marketplace &
Largest Affordable Optical Retail Chain. Built from scratch and scaled it to
100+ optical stores spanning across 20+ states & 45+ cities PAN India within 5
years. ClearDekho is a funded startup valued at 12m usd as on today. Prior to
startup had 8+ years of sales, technology & e-commerce experience at PayTM (the
largest e-wallet in India), Wipro & HCL.
Saurabh currently heads the payments business for Startups & Small Merchants
(SSM) vertical in his current role at Paytm. He is also setting up an Paytm
incubation centre (PIC) to foster potential startups and make them grow with
various Paytm solutions & services.
Recipient of multiple awards in multiple biz forums and speaker at hundreds of
events & institutions including IIT & IIMs, he has been an integral part of the
startup ecosystem.
HARSH BISHT
VIKRAM BABBAR
Vikram Babbar is a Partner & Financial Services Leader at EY Forensic &
Integrity Services. He also leads the anti-money laundering (AML) Centre of
Excellence (CoE) in India and comes with 22 years of professional experience.
Vikram has worked closely with financial services regulators across multiple
regions on cases related to fraud and financial crime compliance, sanctions, and
regulatory compliance audits. He has also delivered training programs to
regulators in the area of forensic investigation and fraud management. He has
led several engagements for various organizations around financial crime
compliance transformation, setup and implementation of fraud risk management
framework, support on the implementation of tools and technology enablers around
know your customer (KYC) due diligence and risk scoring, sanctions compliance,
AML and fraud risk transaction monitoring and detection of early warning
signals. He has also suggested innovative methodologies using robotics process
automation (RPA) and automation in the area of financial crime compliance.
MAHESH PRAJAPATI
Mahesh Prajapati is the founder of a SME Digital Transformation and Financial
Inclusion platform called InstaCiti. This is a blockchain powered ecosystem of
small businesses and freelancers.
Mahesh has clocked 15 years in Fintech. 7+ years in SME E-Commerce & Digital
Transformation. He is a Blockchain enthusiast and using this technology for SME
empowerment.
He has played key role building Fintech products for underserviced segments
(like blue collared workforce and tiny small businesses) in US, UK, UAE, Qatar,
Bahrain, Kuwait, China, and India since 2004.
His flagship product InstaCiti is an effort to marry his past experiences with
the exciting possibilities offered by today's technology to create remarkable
difference to today's small businesses and freelancers.
ROHAN JUNEJA
Mr. Juneja has been with TruCap Finance Limited (formerly known as Dhanvarsha
Finvest) since December 2019 in the capacity of Joint Managing Director until
March 2022 and Managing Director & CEO since March 2022.
Mr. Juneja is a former investment banker and hedge fund manager with over 17
years of experience in research, strategy, portfolio management, financial
analysis, and mergers & acquisitions. He started his career in 2002 as an Equity
Research Associate with Keefe Bruyette & Woods and was elevated to the position
of Assistant Vice President. He subsequently worked with FrontPoint Partners,
L.P. as Financial Analyst and Vice President from 2007 to 2011 where he
extensively worked on the analysis, research, and investment in financial
services and real estate companies in India, the USA, and China.
He was associated with Seawolf Capital LLC from 2011 to 2017 as Vice President,
responsible for investing and managing a portfolio of listed equities within
financial services companies in India and the USA. He also worked on companies
in similar sectors located in Australia, Brazil, and Canada.
SNEHA DAMLE
Sneha Damale- Developer Evangelist, R3 manages the developer relations in the
APAC region at R3 and is an R3 Corda Blockchain Consultant. Before joining R3,
Sneha worked in investment banking, primarily as a full-stack developer. She has
eight years of experience working in core technical fields and holds a Master's
degree in Computer Science.
PRIYANKA KANWAR
Priyanka is a fintech entrepreneur who is currently building Falcon, a financial
technology company that is disrupting the way you build modern fintech. No
matter what your core business, or size of operation - startups, corporates, and
even financial institutions one can use Falcon’s future-proof stack to build
bespoke payment and lending products at unreal speeds. Falcon provides
end-to-end integrations and global issuance capabilities to enable tech,
fintech, and BFSI companies like NBFCs to launch any financial product in days
and not months, and with almost no upfront cost.
Previously, Priyanka co-founded Kite – Falcon’s B2B2C commercial payments
vertical to enable entities like banks, neobanks, & vertical SaaS companies to
offer innovative commercial payments products linked to free AP automation
software to their corporate & SME clients. She is responsible for scaling this
business from zero to processing over USD 200 million in transactions.
Recognized among India’s top 5 women in Fintech and the top women to watch by
Entrepreneur Magazine, Priyanka is a Yale University graduate and a Tobin
Research Fellow at the Department of Economics. She has also founded two global
non-profits and conducted research on financial technology across Mexico, Ghana,
Honduras, Uganda, among other countries.
SHREERAJ DESHPANDE
Shreeraj Deshpande is Head of Health Business at SBI General wef 1st November,
2021. He has over 16 years of experience in the private sector including his
prior assignment as the Chief Operating Officer at Future Generali India
Insurance Co Ltd and Head of Health Insurance at Bajaj Allianz General
Insurance. He started his career with The New India Assurance Company in
December 1989 and served the public sector for nearly 14 years including two
years deputation to the National Insurance Academy as a Research Associate. He
is a recipient of C D Deshmukh Award for his PhD thesis on Health Insurance. He
has been a member of various Regulatory and Industry level committees on Health
Insurance.
SUBHRAJIT MUKHOPADHYAY
BALKRISHNA PANGAM DINESH
RAMANA KUMAR
ANATARIA (ALEXIA) UWAMARIYA
SANJAY SESHAMANI
RAJESH SHET
Rajesh Shet is the Co-Founder and CEO of SahiBandhu. With a passion for
innovation and diverse exposure in incubation, sales, networking, and
management, Rajesh has expanded SahiBandhu’s presence across India with a vision
to make SahiBandhu India’s No. 1 Gold Loan aggregator platform. Over the last 16
years, Rajesh has been instrumental in creating and building new lines of
businesses in the BFSI domain. Rajesh is a member of FICCI FinTech forum.
NIKHIL SAHNI
RAJAT MEHTA
Rajat Mehta is the Senior Director of Consumer Business at OakNorth Bank, a
leading UK based neo bank & technology company.
Rajat has two decades of rich, cross-functional leadership experience in
building & scaling profitable P&Ls across Europe and Asia. He has held various
functional head roles across consumer banking, fintech, digital and marketing.
In his current role, Rajat leads the Consumer Banking and Savings business for
OakNorth Bank. Since its launch in September 2015, OakNorth Bank has grown into
one of the most successful fintech’s in the UK, achieving performance metrics
which rank it amongst the top 1% of commercial banks globally.
Rajat is a Sloan Fellow from the London Business School. He also holds an MBA
and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
PRAMEY JAIN
SHAUL DAVID
Shaul is Global Head of Bank Partnerships at Railsr, the leading global embedded
finance experience platform. In this role Shaul is responsible for developing
the platform's network of banking partners and payment schemes and helping
Railsr and its customers reach more countries around the world.
Previously, as the UK Government's first Fintech advisor, Shaul collaborated
with governments, innovative companies and financial institutions to accelerate
innovation across industry verticals. At the Department for International
Trade, Shaul helped build the UK Fintech ecosystem, cementing its global
leadership position and supporting Fintech companies growing cross border
business.
Earlier in his career, Shaul held various roles within retail banking technology
and finance. He is also a basketball junkie.
NITIN BHATNAGAR
Mr. Bhatnagar, Associate Director, PCI Security Standards Council leads the
Council’s efforts in increasing adoption and awareness of the PCI Security
Standards in India. In this role, Mr. Bhatnagar works closely with the PCI
Council Management Team, Payment Brands, Assessors Community, Participating
Organization, Government entities and Regulators. Mr. Bhatnagar is an innovative
thinker, speaker, television personality, and technical writer and has been
often quoted in cybersecurity news stories and has been quoted by news
organizations including the BBC, ET Now, CNBC TV 18, Reuters, Economic Times and
Times of India.
Mr. Bhatnagar has been working in payment security domain for close to a decade
and half and has been recently recognized amongst “Top 50 Cyber Security
Leaders of India 2021”. He has been constantly part of Research and Development
around role of new emerging technologies i.e. artificial intelligence (AI),
machine learning (ML), in protecting Payment Infrastructure from Sophisticated
Cyber Attacks. Mr. Bhatnagar possess Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from
Bundelkhand University, Jhansi and Master's in "Cyber Law and Information
Security" from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India
NIDHI GUPTA
VISA KANNAN
BHUVAN RUSTAGI
VINAY MATHEWS
An industry veteran with 25 years of experience in scaling up operations and
delivering profitable growth for internet businesses, Vinay Mathews is the
Founder & COO at Faircent, India’s largest peer-to- peer lending platform.
Having pioneered the concept of online peer-to-peer lending in India with
Faircent, Vinay has been instrumental in the company’s growth since its
inception. His long and successful track record in driving business and revenue
growth for internet businesses has helped him establish Faircent as the largest
and also the first P2P lending platform to be certified as NBFC-P2P by the RBI.
Vinay holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Institute of
Management Studies, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya. He has held leadership
positions with several renowned organizations like The Indian Express,
Rediff.com, Sify, and Bennett, Coleman, and Co. Ltd over the course of his
career. Prior to co-founding Faircent, he was serving as National Head and
Associate Vice President – Sales & Service Delivery for TimesJobs.com.
TAHEM VEER VERMA
Tahem is the Co-Founder and CEO of mesha, the all-in-one financial stack for
web3 startups and DAOs. He received his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and
MBA at Cornell Tech. Tahem is a serial entrepreneur and previously founded the
English-learning app Enguru.
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/tahem
PRASHANT MUDDU
ROHAN BAGAI
Rohan Bagai, Partner
Rohan Bagai is a partner with AZB & Partners at its Delhi office.
With over 14 years of experience, Rohan is part of AZB’s FinTech & TMT practice.
Rohan has a wide range of technology and financial services experience with a
special focus on Payments, E-commerce and Privacy & Data Protection.
He regularly advises clients on legal, regulatory and compliance issues relating
to the launch of payment businesses in India including operation of payment
systems as payment aggregators (PAs), pre-paid payment instrument (PPI) issuers
such as gift cards & e-wallets and as bill payment service providers under the
Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS). He has also advised payment intermediaries
and digital platforms on launch of new age electronic payment methods such as
Unified Payment Interface (UPI), QR code-based payment authentication
mechanisms, recurring payments, card tokenisation and e-mandate solutions.
Rohan has considerable experience in advising clients on legal issues relating
to privacy and data protection under the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT
Act) and the Rules as well as the proposed Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018,
regulations governing online intermediaries, laws regulating online gaming and
the RBI directive relating to localization of payments data.
He has authored articles and India chapters for various esteemed publications
including Lexology Getting the Deal Through, Mondaq, Legal 500 etc. on a host of
subjects including blockchain, cybersecurity, regulations governing payment
aggregators and data privacy.
BHAKTI ZAVERI
Bhakti Zaveri, with 8+ years of experience working with AurionPro Group
businesses across various projects in USA & India; Bhakti is now serving as a
Director- Global Delivery Planning Office of CEO at Aurionpro Payments, a
subsidiary of AurionPro.
Bhakti drives the payments business and works towards forming strategic
partnerships and alliances in India for the brand AuroPay. Bhakti has completed
her Masters of Science from University of Southern California and holds a
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering.
SNEHAL PANDIT
Snehal Pandit is a senior leader in the Digital Supply chain. He is passionate
about the latest innovations and cloud technology that help organizations move
towards digital transformation. Snehal heads the Supply chain business in
Aurionpro for global operations combining the responsibility of enabling the
Business payments platform.
Over the past 2 decades, Snehal has demonstrated deep domain expertise in Supply
chain digital transformation and Financial Supply chain with strong capabilities
in Global sales, Partner synergy, and customer engagement.
RAUNAK KAPOOR
ABHISHEK ANAND
SMITHA HARI
Smitha is a finance professional with over 15 years of corporate and
entrepreneurial experience. With an MBA in Finance, she has worked across
Sustainable Finance, ESG, Impact Investing, Investment Banking and Business
Strategy in organisations like IndusInd Bank, ING, EY, Marsh & McLennan and
Spark Capital. Her expertise lies in product structuring, financial analysis and
research across financial services, clean energy, skilling, and livelihood
sectors. Smitha has also donned the entrepreneurial hat in her career, handling
assignments on Go-To market strategies, valuation, market assessments and worked
on research papers relating to impact investing, infrastructure financing,
private equity and venture capital financing. At auctusESG, Smitha takes care of
project implementation, design and development of financial products,
stakeholder management and business development across sustainable finance, ESG
and climate strategy
SAURABH PURI
Professional with verifiable year-after-year success achieving revenue, profit
and business growth objectives. Extensive experience in understanding critical
business drivers, seizing control of critical problem areas and delivering on
customer commitments. Lead a motivated team comprised of 200 employees and
managed P&L for business division exceeding 100 Cr PBT.
The area expertise include: P&L Management, Budget Planning, Business Start-ups,
Channel & Franchise Management, Staff Management, Product Development, Strategic
Planning, New Business Development, Sales Promotion
WRIJU RAY
Wriju spent more than a decade launching products and building businesses for
Fortune 500 companies across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. As Director of Life
Sciences at British Telecom, Wriju launched the industry’s first R&D cloud
service across 11 countries. At IDfy, Wriju gives business direction,
continuously aligning the company to changing market dynamics. Wriju is an
industry expert on banking regulations. and is evangelising the digitisation
of merchants across India.
JAY DEMBANI
Jay Dembani is a Product Management Professional with 16+ Years of experience in
building and managing scalable B2B SaaS Platforms & Products spanning across
multiple domains like FinTech, RegTech & EdTech. He is also a featured
speaker on the subject of Product Management at various global conferences. At
HyperVerge, he leads product management for Digital Identity.
SANDEEP KOUJALGI
Sandeep is Senior Vice President, Programs at CIIE.CO. He oversees multiple
incubation and acceleration programs for startups, including the Bharat
Inclusion Initiative which supports inclusive fintech, skilling and
livelihood-focused startups that serve the lower-income segments of India
through mentoring, market access, research, training and capital.
He has previously worked across industries in product development and management
consulting roles. Sandeep has an MBA from IIM Indore and an engineering degree
from NITK Surathkal.
VAANATHI MOHANAKRISHNAN
Vaanathi heads M2P in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. She is a
retail banking professional with 12 years of experience. As part of management,
she has managed various facets of business operation, including Sales &
Distribution management, Relationship management, Product development, and more.
She Joined M2P in 2020 and is based out of the UAE. Prior to M2P, she was
associated with UAE Exchange, heading their Cards division. In the past she has
worked with ICICI bank, Ajivasan UAE, Duniya Finance, and Citibank. She did her
masters from IIPM.
ANAND KUMAR BAJAJ
An IIM-A alumnus and a Chartered Accountant, Anand Kumar Bajaj is the Founder,
MD & CEO of PayNearby. With over 22 years of experience in Digital Payments and
Mobility, Anand holds six patents in banking technology and has worked earlier
with YES Bank, ICICI Bank, and Ernst & Young. Previously, he was the President
and Chief Innovation Officer at YES Bank, where he led several high-impact
programs in digital payments. At PayNearby, Anand steers the company’s strategic
direction and growth, and he, along with his team, is committed to enabling the
reach of digital payments and financial services at the first mile by empowering
retailers.
NABY MARIYAM
Key note speaker |Host of #hustlechat series |entrepreneur| Plug & Play
Insurtech (Batch 7) Silicon Valley|Plug & Play Finsurtech (Batch 3) Singapore
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Naby love salsa dancing, poetry and InsurTech (in that order). When she is no
not exploring her side hustles, she run Coverhero an insurtech startup focusing
on evolutioning insurance services focusing on the needs of Millenials and GenZ.
Coverhero Launched our First product Hustlecover.com to fill the gap of
financial insecurity for the growing Gig Economy and self employed generation.
Coverhero was selected to the first cohort of Qantas AVRO accelerator program
competing with 500 other startups. Coverhero was a finalist of the top 15
companies of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Australia and recently completed the
Plug and Play Insurtech program (Batch 7) in Silicon Valley. Coverhero has been
featured in Global Insurtech news, Business and technology media as an emerging
startup in fintech.
Graduating with a Masters of Philosophy in Management at the age of 22, she has
had 18 years of experience in a wide range of industries across Senior level
positions spanning across Academia ( Business studies, Research Methodology and
Design), Management Consulting, Documentary production, Travel & Destination
Marketing and Technology. Naby's Research background is in social science where
she deeply studied human behaviour in her Academic career. She is currently
taking a break from her Phd to focus on building technology driven solutions
that solve community problems. I am not a new face to the start up scene in
Australia with number of my own startups, and Business ventures working closely
with founders and catalyser of innovation in the Australian Startup Ecosystem in
the last decade . She has advised the United Nations Development Project on
building start-up ecosystems and designed accelerator programs to drive
innovation in developing Nations. I was an Australian delegate of at the G20
Young Entrepreneurs conference in Berlin in 2017. I am a Key Note speaker,
commentator, thought leader and an advocate for diversity of thought in
financial services and technology sector and Nominated fr Female fintech leader
of the year 2021 and 2022 in Australia
PUSHKAR MUKEWAR
Pushkar Mukewar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Drip Capital. In his 13-year-long
career, he has worked across various geographies and has an in-depth
understanding of the global financial services industry. Pushkar realized the
huge potential of addressing the working capital gap for small businesses in
emerging economies which became his inspiration behind starting Drip in 2016.
Drip offers a unique trade financing product targeted toward small businesses
engaged in cross-border trade by making the underwriting and financing of
international B2B transactions seamless.
In the past, Pushkar was a venture capitalist at Saama Capital and was involved
with several high-growth start-ups in India, including Paytm, Snapdeal, and
Bluestone. He has also been a Consultant with Oliver Wyman in the US, UAE, and
Switzerland, where he advised several financial services clients on strategic
and operational issues. He started his career at Capital One where he developed
credit risk analytics for the subprime consumer loans business.
Pushkar holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
and an MS degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Pushkar is
also a thought leader and influencer in the global trade finance ecosystem. His
opinions are routinely published in leading publications like Forbes, Fortune,
and Financial Express, to name a few. He has won numerous awards, including BW
40 under 40.
RAVI RAVULAPARTHI
Ravi Ravulaparthi is CEO & Co-Founder of Qapita, a digital equity management
platform. Prior to founding Qapita in 2019, Ravi was Director
at Rippledot Capital. Ravi is also a Member of the Board of Directors
at Whispir. He has previously worked in investment banking and corporate
development in Asia Pacific region for nearly 2 decades and has expertise in
capital raising, corporate finance advisory, mergers &acquisitions and principal
investments.
SHANTI MOHAN
Shanti Mohan is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-founder of LetsVenture -
India's largest online platform for startup investments - connecting investors
and founders who are looking to build disruptive companies together and bring
value-added products to the market.
LetsVenture is backed by Accel, Chiratae Ventures, Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata,
Rishad Premji, Mohandas Pai, Sharad Sharma, Anupam Mittal.
A second time entrepreneur, Shanti is on a journey to provide a complete
marketplace for startups to make fundraising easy and transparent. With this
mission in mind, LetsVenture has established multiple brands such as trica,
which is a private platform enabling exclusive access to India's top private
companies & VC Funds, trica Equity - a SaaS tool for Cap Table & ESOP Management
with a built-in protocol for ESOP liquidity, Women Investor Network (WIN) - a
cohort-based learning program to empower women as angel investors and secure
their seat at leadership tables, and LV Fuel, a collective of ambitious founders
at LetsVenture looking to nurture and fuel the next generation of entrepreneurs
across India. Shanti is also the founding venture partner for the recently
launched RBF Fund N+1 Capital.
Over the years , Shanti has also worked with HPE in Cupertino, California, where
she was a part of the product team for 10 years. Her passion to make an impact
eventually motivativated her to became an angel investor herself.
In 2021 alone, she has made over 14 investments, including Jar, Goat brands,
Giva, Spottabl, Junio, Animall, and Bimaplan to name a few, securing her a
position as one of the top 32 angel investors in India by Inc42. This passion
has also moved her into the ranks of various regulatory committees and fintech
sandboxes run by SEBI, DPIIT and others. Her areas of expertise include consumer
internet, embedded technology, and enterprise.
VARUN MITTAL
Varun Mittal is experienced at the cross-section of digital business building
and financial services in South East Asia and global emerging markets. He has
developed and implemented strategy, technology rollout, ecosystem management,
and regulatory engagement for financial institutions as well as digital and
internet technology companies. He undertook his MBA at the National University
of Singapore and graduated with computer science engineering as his
undergraduate major. Currently he leads digital for Singlife with Aviva building
better way to achieve financial freedom. He is founder of "The Fintech Nation"
project comprising book, podcast and investment fund to support fintech
ecosystem in Singapore.
VENKATRAM JAYANTHY
With over 24 years of work experience in various functions of banking with core
competence in the areas of Business Strategy, Product Development and Digital
Financial Services with a deep understanding of technology as an enabler. Prior
to India Post Payments Bank, he has worked with leading banking institutions
such as Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank and Equitas SFB in various roles spanning
across Project Lead and Domain Expert on Payment Products and Inclusive Banking.
During his last assignment with Equitas Small Finance Bank as the Chief Digital
Officer, Venkat has been part of the founding team for the Bank and is credited
with creating a digitally enabled Banking access through multiple payment
systems and channels, thereby leading to business growth and differentiated
customer experience. Venkat has also been a key industry spokesperson and is
closely engaged with the government and regulatory institutions in policy
formulation in a rapidly evolving industry. Venkat has demonstrated his acumen
in launching new businesses, by identifying and capitalizing on business, market
and process opportunities; leveraging technology to drive revenue, streamlining
operations and improving client experience. He is skilled at driving innovation
for top and bottom line growth. Venkat has successfully led cross-functional
teams to deliver change in complex and challenging environments. He has
extensively worked in the financial inclusion space leveraging fintech and
digital led innovation to make a difference. Venkat has graduated in Mathematics
and Economics from Osmania University and completed the Executive Management
Programme from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata
ANKIT RATAN
DEEPTI SANGHI
SHADAB TAIYABI
BENJAMIN FERNANDES
UTSAV SOMANI
ANUJ KHOSLA
Anuj Khosla (Anuj) has over 20 years of experience across financial services
including Merchant Acquiring & Cards Business, Retail & Institutional Banking,
Institutional Sales & Merchant Partnerships, New Product & Market Development,
Retail Banking Strategy, Emerging Payments & Mobile Payments. At Hitachi Payment
Services, Anuj is responsible for building the Digital Business, driving digital
strategy and P&L growth.
Before joining Hitachi Payment Services, he was Chief Operating Officer
(Shareholder Nominee) at SBI Payments, a joint venture between SBI and Hitachi
Payment Services. At SBI Payments, he played a pivotal role in defining and
building the Business Development, Technology, Risk, Product Strategy, Portfolio
& Partnerships. Prior to SBI Payments, he was Country Head – India for UnionPay
International and was responsible for setting up and growing UnionPay’s business
in India. He has also held senior level positions at Visa, India & Singapore
where he was Regional Director – Acceptance, India and South Asia and was a core
member of Visa’s South Asia leadership team and at Axis Bank Ltd., where he was
Vice President & Country Head – Merchant Services. At Axis Bank he set up the
merchant acceptance business for the Bank and in a span of less than 4.5 years
built India's largest acquiring franchise. A well-known industry veteran in the
cards fraternity, Anuj has worked & delivered across diverse markets in Asia
Pacific, Middle East & North Africa and managed cross-cultural teams.
SWAPNIL JAMBHALE
Over 15 years of deep understanding in banking technology with a unique blend of
business & technology.
Ex-GM Digital Banking had been part of the launch of some of key strategic
payments initiatives of NPCI such as UPI, BBPS, RuPay JCB Global card, RuPay
Contactless card etc.
EX-Business Manager, InfrasofTech -Projects managed 100+financial institutions
Postgraduate Diploma in Digital from Emeritus in Collaboration with Columbia
Business School & MIT Management Executive Education , B.E.Information
Technology
ISHITA VERMA
KHALIL ALAMI
RAVI SRIVASTAVA
CARLA VENTER
DEBBIE WATKINS
KUMAR MAYANK
LISHIA ERZA
ZEUS DHANBHURA
TIFFANY TONG
SONIA BASHIR KABIR
DYLAN BOURGUIGNON
IWAN JUWONO
PETER SCHRAVEMADE
EDWARD OBIKO
JULIET ONGWAE
AMERSON LIN
PRACHI DHARANI
SANDEEP DESHMUKH
SAGAR AGARVWAL
MADHUSUDANAN R
DR. VIBHOR GUPTA
SMITA AGGARWAL
LORIEN GAMAROFF
PEDRO DE GARAY
AISWARYA RAVI
ANUBHUTIE SINGH
AISHWARYA JAISHANKAR
Aishwarya led the product team that developed India’s first Digital Savings
Account, Kotak 811 that doubled Kotak Mahindra Bank’s Customer base in 18 months
of launch.She also led the revamp of HSBC India Digital banking for Retail
users.
MANAN DIXIT
DEEPTI GEORGE
HUY NGUYEN TRIEU
KEITH LEE
KANISHK SWARUP
PETER KWADWO ASARE NYARKO
PRAVEEN DHABHAI
MAYADA EL-ZOGHBI
MRIDUL UPRETI
DR. ORIOL CAUDEVILLA
SHINICHIRO NISHIKAWA
RAMANATHAN RV
SRIKARA PRASAD
SHYAM MENON
SANDEEP C PATIL
ELIJAH DEAS
BENI CHUGH
TARANA LALWANI
SHILPA MANKAR AHLUWALIA
MARIANNE HAAHR
VERA NEUGEBAUER
MANEESHA CHADDHA
RONIT GHOSE
AMNAH AJMAL
SUSANNE CHISHTI
SYED MUSHEER AHMED
DEVIE MOHAN
LARS MARKULL
AMOL DETHE
LIZZIE CHAPMAN
AMIT GOEL
MIGUEL DIAZ
AJAY RAJAN
VAIBHAV DOMKUNDWAR
ALOK MITTAL
ANILKUMAR SG
DR. EMIL RUBAN
DWIJARAJ BHATTACHARYA
HANSI MEHROTRA
HENRIQUE DUBUGRAS
JAVIER MANCILLA MONTERO
MANISH SHARMA
SHRI M R RANGASWAMI
PALLAVI SHRIVASTAVA
SANJIB SUBBA
SHARAT CHANDRA
DR. HARI K NAGARAJAN
RAHUL RISHI
DR. SUPRIYA SHARMA
DR. PAWAN BAKHSHI
YUKO KAWAI
ABHINAV NAYAR
Abhinav Nayar is the CEO of Mool, a neobank working to empower India's emerging
middle class with good financial decisions and vernacular comfort. He previously
worked as a strategy consultant with Dalberg Advisors, served as a ministerial
advisor in the Government of India, and managed civic technology programs at
Facebook. Abhinav is a graduate of Yale College and the Saïd Business School at
the University of Oxford.
KYLE ARMSTRONG
Kyle C. Armstrong is the Director of Law Enforcement Relations at TRM Labs, a
blockchain intelligence company. TRM Labs identifies illicit off-chain activity,
attributes that activity to 26 blockchains, and works with government and
private customers to make the crypto economy safer for billions of people. Prior
to joining TRM Labs, Kyle was a Special Agent and supervisor with the FBI for 14
years. At the FBI, Kyle led investigations into illicit finance; including money
laundering, fraud, and terrorism finance. Kyle program managed the FBI’s virtual
currency team and then oversaw the FBI’s Terrorism Finance Unit.
TIMMANA GOUDA D
Timmana Gouda D has > 20 Years of Investment Banking, Corporate Finance,
Mortgage and Consumer Lending Experience with Weimann Homes and Axis Bank before
starting up as Fintech Entrepreneur, to Set Up WhatsLoan as Founder CEO, a B2B
Fintech company in Bangalore in Lending Space.
A thought leader in Fintech Regulation and a Key Member of Fintech Group -CoE
-Fintech (Centre of Excellence Fintech) Karnataka - as part of KDEM -Karnataka
Digital Mission.
Loves to network and contribute to Fintech esp in Lending. Quite Passionate
about working towards Financial and Wealth Inclusion in India with Financial
Identity on Blockchain.
ADAM RICE
Adam Rice is CEO and founder of Asset Direct. Over the last 18 years, he has
scaled online marketplaces around the world, across a broad spectrum of
industries; from consumer products, to real estate, and now financial services.
In 2005, at the age of 21, Adam built a wholesale marketplace that listed
clothing from over 300 factories across Asia. The platform went on to sell over
$3M worth of merchandise in the first 18 months of operations. And in the mid
2000’s, Adam launched China’s first country-wide real-estate multiple listing
service, which aggregated house listings from 100s of websites across the
country. Adam grew the platform from $0 to $100k MRR over the first 4 months of
operations.
Adam is also an expert marketer, having spent a number of years at a boutique
advertising agency. During this time, he had the opportunity to ideate and
execute marketing campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands, including
Unilever and P&G--his efforts resulted in campaigns that generated upwards of
400% increases in sales. And in 2017, Adam had the honour of being recognized as
a Top 20 Under 40 Business Leader by a leading Canadian Business Publication.
Adam holds a BA in International Studies from Huron College at Western
University and completed his undergrad certificate abroad at the University of
Hong Kong. Adam subsequently completed a graduate degree in Professional
Communication and Management at Western and an MBA in entrepreneurship from a
University in Australia.
Adam’s experience in online marketplaces, startups and advertising gave him the
wherewithal to launch Asset Direct and scale the business to where it is today
with less than $600k total investment. His full background can be found at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arice/
KONSTANTIN DJELEBOV
Co-founder and CEO of phyre - a bank-in-a-box solution enabling brands to become
fintech in weeks. Pushing fintech innovation since his early twenties, long
before “fintech” got hyped. In his first startup, he transitioned from CTO to
CEO to lead the pivoting, establish operations in the US and ultimately drive
the company to profitability.
ARINDAM CHOUDHURY
Arindam is the founder of CanPe, a next-generation SaaS platform for debt
collections driven by compassion and powered by AI. CanPe seeks to inject
substantial degrees of intelligence and technology into the hitherto low-tech
and unscalable collections process.
Arindam received his engineering degree from IIT-Kanpur, his Ph.D. in Machine
Learning (ML) from the U.K., and a post-doctoral fellowship in AI/ML at ETH,
Zurich. His research on fast machine learning algorithms for large databases has
been published in leading journals and conferences in computer science. Before
starting CanPe, he had over a decade-long stint at Symphony Technology Group and
Genpact, where he held various leadership roles in analytics R&D, big data, and
predictive sciences.
In his free time, Arindam enjoys listening to music, taking long walks, and
spending time with his family.
SEAN RYAN
Sean has over 25 years of experience in enterprise transformation, with 15 of
those focused specifically on transformation across fraud and financial crime
prevention. Previously, he held global leadership roles, with direct experience
working across EMEA, Americas, and throughout the Asia Pacific. Prior to joining
Feedzai, he provided independent advice specific to this domain, to clients
across financial services, the technology sector, and top-tier services
providers globally. He’s passionate about leveraging today's technology and data
to prevent financial crime and joined Feedzai in 2021 where he is responsible
for the growth of the business in the APAC region.
SUBHASH R. GHOSH
Subhash is a recipient of the Tech Nation Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa and he
is an Alumni as well as
an Advisor to DIT’s “Global Entrepreneur Programme” where his company Lemon
Advisors UK is
recognized as a “unique disruptive technology of exceptional global potential”.
He has over 02 decades of senior-level corporate experience and is the Founder &
MD of Lemon
(www.lemonadvisors.co.uk), a tech advisory firm and Technoplat
(www.wearetechnoplat.tech), a venture
builder firm.
Lemon, having its offices in the UK and India, helps companies to “grow and
scale” their businesses in
over 30 countries. Lemon offers Technology Transfer, Knowledge Transfer and
Business Transformation
as services and focuses on 05 sectors:
o Telecoms & Media
o FinTech
o HealthTech
o SpaceTech & Aviation
o Renewable & Sustainable Energy
In addition, Lemon offers its innovation, the Lemon “Content & IP Audit” (CIPA)
Services, which is
globally distributed through an ecosystem of partners like EY, Tech Mahindra,
Wipro, TATA
Communications UK and others. Lemon Audit is the first of its kind in the world.
Technoplat, a venture builder and a virtual incubator, having its offices in
London and Singapore.
Technoplat is a global platform established to incubate and grow tech-based
start-ups. It is focused on
Startups, Scaleups and Emerging Companies across MENA, APAC, and EU Region.
Subhash is also the President – Global Partnerships as well as on the Board of
Orbital Micro Systems
(OMS), a SpaceTech Data company, incubated out of University of Edinburgh. He is
an Ambassador of
Tech Nation UK and is also a judge at Tech Nation’s Rising Star 4.0 Programme.
• Skills
• In-depth understanding of Technology
• Wide Business relationships amongst technology professionals, corporate and
government sectors
• Investors and funding agencies
• Areas of Expertise
• “C” Level Access across Asia, Middle East & Africa, EU, and USA
• Entrepreneur, Tech Advisor, Non-Exec and Mentor.
• Mentor at Tech Nation, Level39 (https://www.level39.co/) ,NatWest Accelerator,
TechStars
NIKHIL AGGARWAL
Nikhil is the Founder and CEO of Grip, an alternative investment platform Nikhil
is the Founder and CEO of Grip, an alternative investment platform for
individual investors for individuals investors. Nikhil started this career as a
banker working for global institutions like HSBC (advising on retail mortgage
strategy) and Morgan Stanley. As Vice-President, Morgan Stanley Investment
Banking, Nikhil spent 6 years advising India's largest companies across
technology, real estate and automotive on capital raisings and M&A, executing
$5Bn+ of transactions. Following which, Nikhil co-founded Chalo, India's leading
public transport mobility company and scaled the company as COO from seed to
Series B. In less than 4 years, Chalo emerged as India's largest private
operator of city buses. Nikhil also previously served as an advisor and
consultant to the World Bank on transport policy in India.
VIKRAM PANDYA
Vikram is Director of FinTech at SP Jain School of Global Management and also
heads research at Fintech-focused VC fund Varanium NexGen. He has authored
several white papers, research reports and articles on the FinTech domain. He
has an extensive experience in banking, financial services, Fintech,
consultancy, and training domains. He is the founder and Director of the
Association for Emerging Technologies which is a not-for-profit ecosystem
initiative. He is associated as a mentor with various FinTech startups across
the globe. He is the Fintech ambassador for Maharashtra Govt.'s Uday Fintech
platform and part of the advisory Committee for Rajasthan & Karnataka
governments. He is one of the founding members of the Startup Committee at
ICAI.
He has been a successful banker for more than a decade where he has made key
contributions in Financial & Investor Strategy, Business Intelligence,
Balance-sheet Management and Business Development & Technology Solutions. He has
been a visiting faculty at various prestigious global institutes.
ANSHUL KHURANA
Anshul has been involved in building and scaling new businesses for over 10
years now. He is a Co-founder at Entitled, a fintech and wellness ecosystem
built for low-income workers. Before starting in the fintech space, he set up
and built a personnel services company with pan-India operations. He has been
involved in building new products with Housing.com and India Infrastructure in
the past. He brings in expertise around strategy, product management and
business development. Anshul is a graduate of Hindu College, Delhi University
and has an MBA degree from Indian School of Business.
DEBANJAN CHATTERJEE
Debanjan Chatterjee's Bio: Debanjan has over 17 years of experience in analysing
emerging trends in financial crime, using data science for traditional finance
and fintech. In his current role at Bureau, Debanjan leads Decision Sciences
capabilities to build products for managing fraud & compliance risk.
Prior to this, Debanjan led fraud risk management initiatives across analytics,
regulatory engagement, operations and technology verticals at PayTM. As a data
scientist at HSBC, Debanjan developed counter-fraud machine learning models
across global markets for several financial products.
Debanjan's columns have often been featured in various international fraud
risk/analytics publications. In addition to fraud risk mitigation, he is
conversant in building solutions to counter money laundering, human trafficking,
terror financing, and other financial crimes. Debanjan also contributes to the
literature on managing financial crime risk in crypto assets.
KOSUKE NEKOSHIMA
KETAN PATEL
Ketan Patel is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Mswipe Technologies Pvt.
Ltd., an independent POS merchant acquirer and network provider. Ketan brings
with him more than 20 years of entrepreneurial and corporate experience in the
FinTech, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) industry. Prior to
joining Mswipe, Ketan was the Founder and Managing Director of his own venture
Ditya Finance Pvt Ltd. Additionally, he worked as the CEO and Executive Director
of CASHe, a personal loan startup focused on salaried millennials. A seasoned
entrepreneur and leader, Ketan also worked at Kotak Mahindra Bank for over 18
years where he had an illustrious career heading some of its key portfolios
ranging from private banking, wealth management, composite business solutions
and e-commerce. He was also instrumental in setting up the private banking
business for the Kotak Group in the UK. Having a vision of democratizing finance
and expanding financial inclusion to the underserved working population, Ketan
has been extensively involved in strategy, technology, finance and risk
management to develop innovative products and solutions for a range of
customers.
RAFE MAZER
MANINDER SINGH JUNEJA
MANOJ VARMA
He is a seasoned payments domain professional with techno-functional background.
He has over 16 years of experience in payments domain with companies like
Worldline, Atom, and NPCI. As the Payment Head, Manoj Varma is responsible for
creating digital payment products and solutions for the Lyra and launching them
in the market. Manoj Varma has an expertise in creating Digital Payment products
and Machine to Machine (M2M) connectivity solutions.
A multitalented seasoned professional Manoj Varma is accredited as a payment and
fintech veteran with being skilled in various digital spheres including —
acquiring business, POS, e-commerce, MPI, switch, wallet, Internet of Things,
Machine to Machine (M2M) connectivity solutions, and others.
He has been the crusader of various pertinent projects and has many emerging
payment solutions
associated with his name, some of which include:-
— Program Lead for managing and implementation RuPay e-commerce platform in the
country.
— First Cash@POS (point of sales) implementation in the country.
— Introduced first USD 100 payment POS in the country.
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ABOUT NPCI
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) was incorporated in 2008 as an
umbrella organization for operating retail payments and settlement systems in
India. NPCI has created a robust payment and settlement infrastructure in the
country. It has changed the way payments are made in India through a bouquet of
retail payment products such as RuPay card, Immediate Payment Service (IMPS),
Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM), BHIM
Aadhaar, National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC Fastag) and Bharat BillPay.
NPCI also launched UPI 2.0 to offer more secure and comprehensive services to
consumers and merchants.
NPCI is focused on bringing innovations in the retail payment systems through
use of technology and is relentlessly working to transform India into a digital
economy. It is facilitating secure payments solutions with nationwide
accessibility at minimal cost in furtherance of India’s aspiration to be a fully
digital society.
For more information, visit: https://www.npci.org.in/
ABOUT PCI
Payments Council of India was formed in the year 2013 catering to the needs of
the digital payment industry. The Council was formed inter-alia for the purposes
of representing the various regulated non-banking payment industry players, to
address and help resolve various industry-level issues and barriers which
require discussion and action. The council works with all its members to promote
payments industry growth and to support our national goal of ‘Cash to Less Cash
Society’ and ‘Growth of Financial Inclusion’ which is also the Vision Shared by
the RBI and the Government of India. PCI works closely with the regulators i.e.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Finance Ministry, and any similar government,
departments, bodies, or institutions to make ‘India a less cash society.
For more information, visit: http://paymentscouncil.in/
ABOUT FCC
Fintech Convergence Council (FCC) after successfully hosting the largest Virtual
Fintech Conference - Global Fintech Fest in the month of July 2020, and
partnered with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as Global Satellite
Event Partner for Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF)2020 to host the India leg of
Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF). The India Leg of Singapore Fintech Fest (SFF)
was organized by FCC and UNCDF jointly.
Fintech Convergence Council (FCC) represents the Fintech industry and
traditional companies in the BFSI space. The purpose of the council is to
encourage collaboration, seek complementarities and build synergy between
leading BFSI companies and the emerging Fintech start-ups. The council has
worked towards interpreting the regulatory and legal framework, aggregating the
concerns and feedback of the various players within the larger Fintech
community, communicating it to regulators and lawmakers, and organizing events
and gatherings for the industry participants to meet, share ideas and work
together in the interest of creating a safer, more open and more collaborative
operating environment through a transparent forum. The vision of the council is
to “To proactively work towards growth of Fintech and penetration of financial
services to support our national goal of financial inclusion, moving towards a
digitally empowered country.”
It has been the endeavor of FCC to showcase India's Fintech landscape to the
world, and no better platform than the Singapore Fintech Festival. The agenda
brought together who from the Indian Financial space over the 5 day event. The
line up of events also included a curated session matching Indian start-ups with
global investors. The Deal Friday platform provided a unique opportunity to
early-stage Fintech start-ups from India to pitch and have one on one meetings
with a broad spectrum of investors looking for investment opportunities in
India.
For more information, visit: https://www.fintechcouncil.in/