Our speakers

Pradyumna Sahu, Partner - ESG Strategy & Transformation (Financial Services) / Sustainability & Climate Strategy, PwC India

Pradyumna is a Partner at PwC India and leads the ESG practice for the Financial Services sector. He brings over 25 years of experience spanning Corporate Banking, Credit, IT Services & Consulting, and ESG. Pradyumna, a seasoned professional with a background in corporate banking, has led multiple transformation initiatives across areas such as trade finance, CRM, and G-Suite. 

Pradyumna specialises in delivering end-to-end ESG strategy and implementation projects, including ESG reporting. His expertise extends to ESG due diligence, portfolio reviews, sustainable finance, climate policy development and roadmaps, as well as integrating ESG principles using digital platforms. He also serves as the Relationship Partner for one of Europe’s largest banks at PwC India. 

Prajna Khanna, Global Head of Sustainability, Prosus Group

Prajna Khanna is the Global Head of Sustainability – Vice President at Prosus Group and Naspers Limited at Prosus Group. Prajna has two decades of working experience transitioning from being a development communication specialist to business sustainability. Before joining Prosus, Khanna was heading the corporate social responsibility department of Signify Foundation (formerly Philips Lighting). She also served as sustainability advisor at ING until October 2015. 

Khanna did her masters in media studies at Deakin University and is certified in executive education, leadership and transformation from Harvard Business School Executive Education.

Prakash Sankaran, Managing Director & CEO Invoicemart, A.TReDS Ltd

Pralay Mondal, MD & CEO, CSB Bank Limited

Pralay Mondal is the Managing Director & CEO of the Bank. 

Prior to joining CSB Bank, Mr. Pralay was Executive Director & Head of Retail Banking at Axis Bank and was also the Chairman at Axis Securities Limited and on Board of Axis Finance Limited. He has around 30 years of banking experience across multiple businesses and functions including retail assets, retail liabilities, business banking, products, and technology. Before joining Axis Bank, Mr. Pralay was the Senior Group President and Head of Retail and Business Banking at Yes Bank. He was instrumental in setting up the entire retail franchise in that bank in a short period of time and was on the Board of YES Securities Limited. Earlier to that he had a successful 12-year stint at HDFC Bank and was a Board Member of HDB Financial (NBFC & 100% subsidiary of HDFC Bank). Previously he was associated with Standard Chartered Bank, Wipro InfoTech, and Colgate Palmolive. 

Mr. Pralay’s achievements include pioneering efforts in doorstep banking and direct sales, creating deep geography distribution, and building and scaling up of retail businesses. He is also credited with building capital market, wealth management, private banking, NBFC, credit cards, payments, and digital businesses, from scratch. 

Mr. Pralay Mondal is an Engineer from IIT, Kharagpur and a Management graduate from IIM, Calcutta.

Pramit Jhaveri, CEO, Citibank India

Pramod Agrawal, Chairman, Coal India Ltd. (CIL)

Pramod Kumar, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Investment Banking, Barclays India

Pramod Kumar is Chief Executive Officer and Head of Investment Banking for Barclays in India, and is based in Mumbai.

Pramod has over 30 years of investment banking experience spanning across M&A, ECM and Leveraged Finance. During his long career in banking, Pramod has had the responsibility to lead several clients across multiple sectors, including Industrials, FIG, Infrastructure, Consumer/Retail/Real Estate, Metals/Mining, etc. Prior to joining Barclays in 2011, Pramod spent over 9 years with Citigroup.

Having worked on several complex transactions across a variety of sectors, Pramod has an impressive experience and knowledge across M&A and equity capital markets. Some of his notable transactions include Sale of Suven Pharma to Advent, Sale of Softbank Energy to Adani Green, Sale of stake in Quest to Carlyle, Sale of Care Hospitals to Blackstone, Sale of stake in Inventia to Platinum Equity Partners, Sale of Stake in Think Gas to a consortium of Japanese investors, Sale of Hexaware to Carlyle, Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart, Sale of logistics business in India to DP World (Dubai), Yokohama’s acquisition of Alliance Tires, Sale of Welspun Renewable to Tata Power, ADIA’s investment into a toll road platform in India, Abertis’ acquisition of toll road assets in India, Sale of Tasty Bites to Kagome, Japan, KKR’s acquisition of Alliance Tires, Advent’s acquisition of Crompton Greaves Consumer business, Carlyle’s sale of Tirumala Milk to Lactalis of France, Tata Motors' acquisition & financing of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), MSAD’s acquisition of NY Life stake in Max New York Life, Metlife’s induction of PNB into Metlife JV in India, JV Advisory for UB Group with Heineken, Sale of L&T's RMC business to Lafarge, and several equity and convertible bond raisings for clients including Tata Motors, State Bank of India, L&T, HDFC, Axis Bank, GMR, United Spirits, Ranbaxy, DLF, etc.

Pramod is a graduate in Commerce (Hons) from SRCC, and an MBA in Finance, both from Delhi University.

Pramod Mundra, EVP & CIO, Havells India

Pramod Varma, CTO EkStep Foundation, Co-Chair CDPI.dev

Dr. Pramod Varma is the former Chief Architect of Aadhaar, India's digital identity program that has successfully covered more than 1.3 billion people. He was also the chief architect for various India Stack layers such as eSign, Digital Locker, and Unified Payment Interface (UPI), and Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), and all of which are now working at population scale in India. He played an integral role in architecting India’s digital health infrastructure (ABDM), vaccination & immunization infrastructure (Co-WIN and DIVOC), and Unified Health Interface (UHI).

He is currently the CTO of EkStep Foundation, a not-for-profit creating learner-centric digital public goods under Project Sunbird (sunbird.org). These power India’s largest digital learning infrastructure called DIKSHA providing learning opportunities to 200+ million children and 10+ million teachers in India. Sunbird building blocks are used in other learning, skilling, and capacity building efforts in India and other countries. As part of this effort, he also helped design India’s digital education & skilling architecture blueprint called NDEAR.

In addition, he is the Co-Founder of FIDE.org, he is the genesis author of the open source beckn protocol (becknprotocol.io) that helps create decentralized open discovery, fulfillment, and transaction networks. Beckn protocol is the base protocol for India’s new commerce infrastructure efforts such as Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC.org), Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN), and Namma Yatri (nammayatri.in).

He is also an adjunct faculty and Co-Chair at the global Center for DPI (CDPI.dev) , a nonprofit, helping countries design and architect their own Digital Public Infrastructure systems in addition to building local capacity.

He is an advisor to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), National Payment Corporation (NPCI), Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), National Health Authority (NHA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Turing Institute Identity Initiative in the UK, and helps with many Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) initiatives in India and across the globe. He is a regular speaker and evangelist for open source efforts and actively advocates Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) investments as a means to drive inclusive and equitable economic growth.

Pramod holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science along with a second Master’s in Applied Mathematics. His interests include Internet scale distributed architectures and intelligent systems. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching.

Pranav Anam, Founder & CEO, The Gene Box

Pranav Anam is a qualified geneticist from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He has a rich exposure in Genetics and Bioinformatics spectrum including Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Biomolecules, Pharmacology and Cytogenetics. Having said that, his strategy and business acumen makes him a visionary who is able to make sense of the chaos. His greatest strength is his ability and agility in setting up and steering large global teams across diverse businesses.

He has successfully developed a unique pan-India commercial and collaborative platform to help stem cell scientists, academicians, and medical practitioners create best-in-class therapeutic products and services.

At The Gene Box: Founder/ CEO

Pranav plays a critical role of a catalyst and business accelerator. On the one hand, he spearheads the firm’s business development and strategic alliances, on the other; he actively coordinates with the product development and engineering teams towards continually enhancing TGB’s unique value proposition and expanding its wide range of offerings.

The inception of The Gene Box was serendipitous. Pranav Anam, A young, enterprising graduate in genetics, returned from Newcastle, UK in 2015. He was on the prowl for his next big adventure in life. His love for genomic science ran deep and that paved the way for what was to come. Aware of the influence of genetics on fitness and nutrition, he wanted to build a platform where he could channelizehis knowledge for the betterment of quality of life.

Pranav spent months speaking to the predictive wellness space in India. He soon realized that there was an unmet gap in genomics infrastructure in the country. A geneticist at heart, Pranav took matters to hand and decided to start The Gene Box on the principles of science. For
Pranav, science came first, selling later.

Pranav spent three years mastering the nitty-gritty of predictive testing. He built a razor-sharp algorithm that would make sense of the gigabytes of genomic data that would be generated in the years to come. Pranav invested time and effort, blood and toil to scaffold cutting edge technology platforms. Knowledge and Technology have been the cornerstones of The Gene Box since the very beginning. A person with infectious energy, passion and indepth knowledge about Genetics and Stem cell research makes Pranav a people’s person at The Gene Box which in turn helps him to effectively lead the teams across product development, engineering to business development and strategic alliances. Today, The Gene Box is a leading genetic testing
platform that focuses on science and analytics to promote healthcare solutions. TGB’s commitment to spearhead quality-driven genomic research is evident that is what makes us preferred globally.