Our speakers

Rachna Bahadur, Partner, Bain & Company

Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Mutual Fund

Radhika Gupta is the MD & CEO of Edelweiss Mutual Fund. Under her stewardship, the company has seen a meteoric rise in Assets Under Management (AUM), growing from over ?6,500 crore as of 31st March 2017 to more than ?1.40 Lakh crore by 31st July 2024. A graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Radhika is also a hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author. In 2022, she authored 'Limitless,' a ground-breaking guide steering the journey of self-investment towards success. Her dynamic presence in motivational sessions at corporate events and podcasts underscores her commitment to enlightening others on both fiscal understanding and mental resilience. 

Radhika has been listed by Forbes, Fortune, and Business Today among India’s ‘Most Powerful Women in Business’ and by Economic Times in their list of ‘India’s Hottest 40 Young Business Leaders.’ Further solidifying her global reputation in the finance domain, she was recognized as a Young Global Leader in 2022 by the World Economic Forum and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2023 from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology. She was also a judge on Shark Tank India (season 3) and has been named one of GQ India's 35 Most Influential Young Indians (MIYI 2024).

Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO, EDELWEISS MF and Vice Chairperson, AMFI

Author of LIMITLESS (2022) & Motivational Speaker
LinkedIn Top Voices 2020: India & Top Voices 2020: Global (Finance & Economy) | ET 40UnderFourty India’s Hottest Business Leader-2020
Featured by World Economic Forum's Young Global Leadership 2022 list of the most prominent & inspiring young leaders of the world.

A graduate from the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania (USA); with joint degrees in Economics from the Wharton School & Computer Science Engineering from the Moore School, Radhika Gupta is MD & CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management Limited, one of India’s fastest growing mutual fund companies.  She has recently been elected as Vice Chairperson at AMFI. 

Radhika is avid motivational speaker and author of the highly acclaimed book LIMITLESS (2022), in which she captures her personal experience and talks about overcoming adversity and attaining success.

Radhika started her career with McKinsey & Company, and then progressed to become a hedge fund manager with AQR Capital – one of the world’s largest hedge funds.   She then moved to India to start her own venture named – Forefront Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm, which was acquired by Edelweiss in 2014. An asset management professional with experience across asset classes and investor segments; she successfully led Edelweiss’s acquisition of JP Morgan’s Mutual Fund business and Ambit Capital’s AIF business in 2016.

A true global personality, having travelled across 4 continents, she is the founding President of the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club, a member of the Global Leadership Council of the Management and Technology Program and a Board Member of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). A keen micro-blogger on Twitter and an avid Bridge player, her unique life story narrated in the video,  ‘The Girl with a Broken Neck’, has garnered over 2 Lakh views.

Raghav Chandra, IAS, Secretary, Government of India (Retd) & Author

Raghav Gupta, Managing Director - India and APAC, Coursera

Raghav Iyengar, CBO, Axis AMC

A Chartered Accountant with over 29 years of experience in the financial industry, with specific expertise in driving sales and distribution. 

Raghav Iyengar joined the company in November 2019 as President and Chief Business Officer. He is responsible for Retail Sales, Institutional Sales, Investor Services, Digital & Marketing. 

Before joining Axis AMC, He was associated with Indiabulls AMC as a Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, he had also worked with companies like ICICI Prudential AMC, Tata AMC, JF AMC & DSP Merrill Lynch.

Raghav Narsalay, Partner & Leader, Research and Insights Hub, PwC India

Raghu Dharmaraju, CEO, ARTPARK at IISc

Raghu Dharmaraju, CEO, ARTPARK at IISc, has been building and scaling innovations and institutions for impact for over two decades. He is also a Fellow of the Lancet Commission for Reimagining India’s Health Systems. ARTPARK fosters innovations in AI & Robotics through startups, platforms, and skilling. It is helping impact-focused orgs leverage LLMs for societal good at scale in LMICs, and building DPIs (digital public infrastructure) and DPGs (digital public goods) in health, climate, and languages partnering with Office of PSA, MEITY, ICMR, NITI Aayog, and some states and cities. Along with partners ARMMAN and Belongg, it is a double winner of the Global Grand Challenge for Equitable AI.

Rahul Goswami, CIO - Fixed Income, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund

Rahul Sharma, Co-Founder, Zetwerk