Our speakers

Akash Saxenaa, VP, Samsung India Electronics

Akash Saxenaa is currently the VP at Samsung India Electronics, and heads the Enterprise Business for Samsung Southwest Asia. He is a multinational strategic leader with an extensive background driving revenue and profits in hardware, software, and services businesses
Akash Saxenaa’s career is hallmarked with success and key business milestones. He has held top leadership positions at industry giants like Samsung, IBM, and HP, devising unique strategies to drive revenue, P&L and new business opportunities. He is well versed in the Indian/APAC market and execute strategies to penetrate key customers in highly competitive markets.

He is an eclectic blend of an innovative, result-oriented and motivational leader, is efficient in team management and people skills, possesses a deep understanding of the technology industry and has the ability to navigate cultural barriers
 

Akhil Gupta, CEO, Shine.com

Akhil Handa, Chief Digital Officer, Bank of Baroda

Akshay Garkel, Partner & Leader, Cyber, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP

Akshay Ghulati, Co-Founder - Global expansion and Strategy, Shiprocket

Akshay Ghulati is the Co-founder, Shiprocket Global & Strategy, a leading tech-enabled e-commerce fulfilment platform in India. Akshay leads the Strategy and Global Expansion team and is responsible for managing the overall revenue functions of the business including marketing, account management and customer service. His key responsibility is to make Shiprocket the most trusted logistics and fulfilment platform for e-commerce sellers. 
 
Akshay has an exemplary academic background and extensive experience in the e-commerce industry. Having graduated from the prestigious Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BSc degree in Economics he then went on to pursue his MBA from Harvard Business School. Akshay joined Shiprocket in 2016 as the Chief Business Officer and in January 2020 he was appointed as a Co-founder.
 
Throughout the course of his career, Akshay has worked with notable organizations in senior positions. Prior to joining Shiprocket, Akshay was associated with e-commerce heavyweight Amazon in the UK where he served as a Senior Manager for the Pan-Europe FBA division. Before joining Amazon UK he worked with Smile Interactive Technologies as Director for Incubations and Investments. He was also associated with A.T. Kearney as a Senior Business Analyst at the start of his career and later with The Parthenon Group in the UK as a Principal.
 
With exceptional business acumen, Akshay’s career features several milestones. He was the youngest full-time employee for A.T. Kearney India post his bachelor’s degree at a time when the firm only hired MBA graduates. Akshay also helped set up the United Stock Exchange, which was the 4th pan India stock exchange. The organization was later acquired by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Akshay was also recognized as the top performer at Amazon and was awarded the Just Do It award.
 
Akshay plans to make Shiprocket the leading SME e-commerce fulfilment platform both in India and key international markets. Passionate about the food supply chain in India Akshay is learning more about sustainable farming. A movie buff, he loves travelling and playing poker. He also frequently works with and supports NGOs that work towards educating girls.  
 

Alan Leibman, President & MO, Atlantis the Palm

Alaric Diniz, Partner, Deloitte

Alisha Sachdev, Assistant Editor, Mint (Moderator)

Alok Kumar, Union Power Secretary,

Alok Verma, Head Corporate Strategy & ESG, Ashok Leyland

Alok leads the Corporate Strategy & ESG, and is responsible for driving growth, partnerships, sustainability and other strategic initiatives at Ashok Leyland. He brings strong expertise across corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, market entry strategy, innovation & performance improvement.

Alok is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Bangalore and has had extensive domain experience across Auto, Industrial, Technology and Analytics being based out of US, India, Europe, and APAC.

Alok works actively with Industry forums like SIAM, CII, Assocham, FICCI, ET, ACMA, IACC and other trade forums/ academia interfaces across Strategy, Sustainability and Innovation expertise areas. He has worked closely with CII National Competitiveness Council and has been a part of CII Future Business Council. Alok has been a keynote speaker at multiple events and has several publications which captures his perspective on Innovation and disruption across Industry segments.

Prior to Ashok Leyland, Alok has had leadership stints as Strategy & Operations Leader at PwC Strategy&, as well as Grant Thornton. He has worked with Global Corporate Boards, Promoters, CEO’s, PE players as part of his Strategic Advisory efforts.