Our speakers

Nagesh Basavanhalli, Group CEO & MD, Greaves Cotton Limited

Nagesh A. Basavanhalli is currently Group CEO & MD of Greaves Cotton Ltd & Director Ampere Vehicles Private Limited. Nagesh is a Global Automotive Executive with experience of leading and transforming businesses with profitable growth. He has been instrumental in bringing higher value for the shareholders and the best technology and resources to create a winning brand.

As a Global business leader, Cleantech Enthusiast and Corporate Strategist, he is responsible for the Company’s growth strategy in India and abroad. Under his leadership, Greaves Cotton Limited has signed strategic partnerships and alliances reinforcing the company positioning as India’s leading last-mile transportation, solutions and services company. This included creating and strengthening Greaves Cotton’s presence in clean mobility solutions through Greaves Electric Mobility division. As part of Greaves Electric Mobility, he has been instrumental in developing Ampere as one of the leading E-Mobility brands in India.

Prior to his appointment at Greaves Cotton Limited, he has been associated with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for over two decades, last serving as the Managing Director and President of Fiat Group Automobiles India Pvt. Ld. He joined Chrysler in 1994 and has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, strategy & sales and product planning. He has also been associated with the ATG group (KKR Portfolio company) as the Group President for emerging markets. (Asia, Africa, South America) Nagesh has been instrumental in setting up EMO offices for Chryster in India, China and Eastern Europe for Global R&D Services, LCC Sourcing & Local JV’s.

He was awarded the Booth India Business Leader by Chicago Booth Business School in 2009 and received The Economic Times award in 2021 for his contribution towards E-Mobility in India. Nagesh holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University and a Master of Science from the University of Texas. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Business School. He is a trustee of the Breach Candy Hospital Mumbai.

Naina Lal, Kidwai Former Country Head, HSBC India

Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairperson, Rothschild India

Naina Lal Kidwai is Chairman Rothschild India, Senior Advisor Advent Private Equity and TPG Rise Climate, Advisor Lightspeed Venture Partners, India, Member on The Mission board of EQT Future Fund and a non-executive Director on the boards of Global and Indian companies and Past President of FICCI. She retired as Executive Director on the board of HSBC Asia Pacific and Chairman HSBC India.

An MBA from Harvard Business School, she is the recipient of several international and Indian awards and honours including the Padma Shri for her contribution to Trade and Industry.

She has authored 3 books including the bestsellers “30 women in Power” and “Survive Or Sink: An Action Agenda for Sanitation, Water, Pollution, and Green Finance”.
 

Nakul Zaveri, Partner, Leapfrog Investments

Nalini Venkat, President, Digit Insurance

Nandan Nilekani, Non-Excutive Chairman, Infosys

Nappinai NS, Lawyer, Supreme Court, Founder, Cyber Saathi

Ms. N. S. Nappinai, Supreme Court Advocate and founder of Cyber Saathi™, is a senior and renowned lawyer with about 32 years of experience, specializing in Constitutional, Criminal, IPR and cyberlaws. She is Amicus Curiae before Supreme Court in Prajwala vs. Union of India to formulate methodologies to remove child sexual abuse material and violent videos of offences against women from online platforms. She is Advisor - Tamil Nadu eGovernance Agency & Advisor - Maharashtra Cyber police. Ms. Nappinai represented the Govt of Kerala in the recent decision of the Kerala High Court on data protection during the covid pandemic. Nappinai founded Cyber Saathi, a non profit organisation to take forward her work on cyber laws and cyber safety.

Naveen Fernandes, Public Interest Director, BASL & cancer patient

40 years of capital market experience. Started with Rs 125 in 1981-82, while at college.

CFP, MA (Economics), MA (English) and a load of NISM certificates.

Worked in capital market as stockbroker, in sales, writing, editing, research and portfolio management (at broking firms, mutual funds and investment managers).

Learnt forex (from V Thiagarajan) and fixed income (Uma Shashikant), the best teachers possible.

Associated with the Council of Financial Planners, Bangalore, a dynamic industry body since a decade.

Naveen Munjal, Managing Director, Hero Electric Vehicles

Naveen Munjal is the Managing Director of Hero Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd., a part of The Hero Eco Group.

As an entrepreneur, having built the Hero Electric brand into a leading manufacturer and a market leader in the EV 2-wheeler market in India, he is also widely recognized in shaping the Indian Electric Two-Wheeler Industry as well as his contributions to various forums in the Electric Vehicle sphere both
in India and globally.

Hero Electric under Naveen in 2012 launched A2B in the international markets, a premium brand of Electric Bicycles, widely considered one of the pioneers in the premium EV industry globally. In 2008, Naveen was also instrumental in founding the SMEV (Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles), the only representative body of the Indian Electric Vehicle Industry in India.Consistent efforts of SMEV have resulted in the Indian Government’s push towards making EV adoption a key agenda under various policies both at the State and National level. Naveen is also on the board of LEVA (Light Electric Vehicle Association), USA.

An advocate on climate change and zero emission mobility and Naveen regularly speaks at various global forums and conferences like EVS, IDTechEx, CLSA, Bloomberg NEF, DAM Capital, Jefferies, Climate Change Summit, NASSCOM, ASSOCHAM, FICCI, CII, FADA etc sharing his vision for a greener, cleaner future.

He has participated as a speaker at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland

Naveen has also chaired the CII(Confederation of Indian Industry),NewDelhi State as its Chairman. In the past, and been a board memberin EO (Entrepreneur’s Organisation) and is currently on the board of YPO (Young Presidents Organisation), Delhi Chapter.

He regularly interacts with students at various institutions like IIM, IIT etc., and has taken on the role of teaching Post Graduate students at Masters’ Union on the Future of Mobility as of 2021.

Naveen completed his schooling from Lawrence School Sanawar, and subsequently went on to do his MBA in International Marketing from Huron University, UK and is an avid Street Photographer, an Advanced Open Water diver and adventure sports enthusiast.

Naveen Murali, VP, Head of Marketing, Pepperfry

With a career spanning over 12 years, Naveen has covered a wide spectrum of roles across marketing, sales, and product development across industries like FMCG and Technology. Naveen leads Pepperfry’s marketing and brand strategy with an aim to drive brand awareness across lucrative untapped markets as well as capture share in the furniture and home décor industry. As a new-age marketing evangelist, he works towards charting out a strategy that helps to break the barriers that consumers have towards shopping online, especially for big-ticket items. Prior to Pepperfry, Naveen worked with Asian Paints for about 10 years where he handled diverse marketing, sales, and international business responsibilities of increasing scope and complexity. For a couple of years, post his engineering, Naveen did a stint as an applications engineer at Oracle on ERP development. Naveen is a recipient of The Economic Times Young Leader award, a stellar achievement for any young professional. Naveen is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM K), and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT W)