Our speakers

Deepika Warrier, Chief Marketing Officer, DIAGEO India

Devam Sardana, Head of Business, Lemonn

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.
 

Dhirendra Kumar, Founder & CEO, Value Research

Dhirendra Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Value Research, India's leading independent mutual fund information and research provider. Since founding the company in 1990, Mr. Kumar has been guiding Indian investors, leveraging his unique insights gained from observing the evolution of India’s mutual fund industry and assisting thousands of investors. He is the Editor of Value Research's popular website, valueresearchonline.com, and its two monthly magazines, Mutual Fund Insight and Wealth Insight. Additionally, he is a well-regarded columnist and commentator in print and electronic media and serves on advisory committees for SEBI, PFRDA, and IEPF of MCA.

Diane Von Furstenberg, Fashion Designer (Owner), OVF

Dileep Mangsuli, ED & Head of Development Centre, Siemens Healthineers

Dileep is the Executive Director of Siemens Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and heads the Siemens Healthineers Development Center (DC), which is engaged in creating cutting-edge technology for precision health solutions. DC has operations in India and Slovakia, and DC India is the largest technology center of Siemens Healthineers outside Germany.

Dileep is a strategic and decisive technology leader who has built global engineering teams across India, the US, Europe, and China and has launched new products worldwide. He is passionate about customers, technology, and innovation with a strong focus on improving customer impact and business outcomes. He has been involved in multiple innovations and has three US patents. His customer-centricity, empowering leadership style, and deep understanding of business processes has helped him transform organizations.

Dileep was the CTO for Wipro-GE Healthcare South Asia, delivering cutting edge technology and product solutions to global and local markets. He also had P&L responsibility for GE Industrial Solutions business in India and was a board member of GE legal entities in India.

He has over 25 years of professional experience in product design and engineering, and business solutions. He has performed roles with increasing responsibilities in electrical, automation, and healthcare organizations across the globe.