Our speakers

Deepak Sharma, Tech Entrepreneur & CXO Advisor, Independent Director, Suryoday Small Finance Bank

Deepak Sharma works towards building future of financial service by creating digital platforms to serve billion users and building world class financial service platforms out of India. Currently he serves as Board Member (Independent Director) with Suryoday Small Finance Bank. He is also involved in helping few Global firms build digital product, platform & distribution capability. Deepak also works as CEO/Board Advisor on Digital led growth strategy. He is a member of Customer Advisory Board of Airtel. He is an investor & mentor to early-stage ventures.

As President & Chief Digital Officer at Kotak, he was leading digital strategy & scaling digital capabilities at Kotak for over a decade. This included driving digital channels, payments, transformation, business model innovation and future-ready initiatives of the bank. Under his leadership, Kotak had launched several innovative and global-first products such as 811 Digital Bank, Hashtag Banking, Wealth tech platform-Cherry. He had also set up two highly profitable business for Kotak- Non-Resident Global Indian business & Affluent Banking.

Deepak actively works with big techs, VCs, start-ups, policy makers & the global fintech community to bring best-in-class products and solutions in the financial service space. He focusses on confluence of deeptech, consumer insights, market trends and regulation to build scalable platform led business model. Deepak has worked across various international markets and brings a global perspective to business. During early part of his career, he was involved in setting new business with Standard Chartered Bank & Telecom majors Hutchison.

Deepali Naair, CMO, IBM India & South Asia

Deepanjan Dey, Head Data Management, SBI Mutual Fund

Deepesh Nanda, CEO, GE Gas Power South Asia

Deepika Warrier, Chief Marketing Officer, DIAGEO India

Devansh Jain, Executive Director, INOXGFL Group

Devesh Sachdev, MD & CEO, Fusion Microfinance

Devina Mehra, Founder, Chairperson & MD, First Global

Devina Mehra, Chairperson and Managing Director of First Global, is a gold medallist from IIM Ahmedabad as well as from Lucknow University, where she broke several records and got 8 Gold Medals.

She founded First Global as a securities firm almost exactly 31 years back.

She spearheaded First Global's globalisation almost 25 years ago, making First Global the first Asian (ex-Japan) firm to become a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1999 and then the NASD.

First Global, led by Ms. Mehra, is now a Global Asset Management firm managing over USD 700 million in assets in India & Globally using a unique Human + Machine model.

In the PMS space since its launch just over 4 years ago, its equity scheme has been among the best performing multicap schemes, both on the returns and risk adjusted returns basis.

She has been quoted widely on Global as well as Indian markets by global financial media like Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, CNBC, Financial Times etc.

Alan Abelson, legendary columnist of the leading publication Barron’s called First Global research "Credible...and often, much more than that".

She was featured among the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune magazine in 2022.

Ms. Mehra has been felicitated and featured as one of India's leading entrepreneurs by Outlook Business and Entrepreneur magazines.

Some of her major calls in the global markets were identifying the cashflow turnaround in Amazon at a price of $15 and highlighting the accounting shenanigans in Worldcom and Enron well ahead of the scandals. In India, her most memorable call was on HDFC Bank in 1996. She has identified many turning points in the markets in her role as Research Head & Global Strategist, including when in June 2022 she said that it was time to invest in the Indian markets...when the Nifty was below 15300. And then again in March 2023, when the Nifty was sub 17000

Dhanpal Jhaveri, Vice Chairman, Everstone Group & CEO, EverSource Capital

Dhanpal Jhaveri is Vice Chairman at Everstone Group, a premier investment group focused on India and South East Asia, with assets in excess of US$7 billion across private equity, real estate, credit, climate change & green infrastructure, and venture capital. He is also the CEO for EverSource Capital, India’s leading climate investment business.

Dhanpal is passionate about the environment and investing; he is a member of CII’s Renewable Energy Council and its National Committee on Private Equity and Venture Capital. He is also on the Finance Advisory Panel of The India Sanitation Coalition (ISC). In addition, Dhanpal is a member of the Managing Committee of the Indian Merchant’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He also mentors young business leaders and entrepreneurs ardently and is a member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Dhanpal is also a board member and Past - President of TiE, Mumbai and Board Member of Avasara Leadership Institute; an educational institution focused on accelerating academic and leadership outcomes for India’s brightest girls.

He has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College, USA.

Dharmakirti Joshi , Chief Economist, CRISIL

Dharmakirti Joshi is currently the Chief Economist at CRISIL-An S&P Global Company. With over 34 years of experience in economic research and consultancy, his career began in NCAER where he spent 11 years. 

He then moved on to senior positions in Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, New Delhi and CRISIL- An S&P Global Company. He has extensive experience in macroeconomic analysis, medium term assessment of Indian economy and forecasting as well as in public finance issues at the central and state levels. He was member of the Working Group of Savings for the 12th Five Year Plan. He was member of Working Group on Revision of Wholesale Price Index set up Government of India. 

He is the Chairman of Economic Affairs Group of FICCI and member of Economic Affairs council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He regularly writes for leading newspapers and expresses his views on the economy in the electronic media.