Our speakers

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

Rahul Taneja, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Rahul Tongia, Senior Fellow, CSEP

Rahul Tongia is a Senior Fellow with CSEP in New Delhi, where his work focuses on technology and policy, especially for sustainable development. He co-leads the Energy, Natural Resources, and Sustainability group at CSEP, and is also active in broader issues of technology. Dr. Tongia’s work spans the entire gamut of energy and electricity, with focuses on supply options including renewable energy (covering finance, grid integration, etc.); smart grids, which use innovative information and communications technology to improve management of the electric utility grid; issues of access and quality; and broader issues of reforms and regulations, including electricity and energy pricing. Another thread of his work focuses on climate equity and the energy transition. His book Future of Coal in India: Smooth Transition or Bumpy Road Ahead (2020) was awarded a Top Energy Policy Book to read in 2021 by BookAuthority.

Raj Pai, Managing Partner, GEF Capital Partners

Rajah Chaudhry, Head of Strategy, APAC and India, NBA

In his current role, Rajah Chaudhry is responsible for shaping the NBA’s business across Asia-Pacific including India, Australia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea and other countries across Southeast Asia and Oceania and pursuing growth opportunities that will help expand the popularity of both the NBA and basketball across these regions. Chaudhry also oversees the league’s business development initiatives including grassroots programs for youth, elite player development, and relationships with current and prospective marketing, media, broadcast, and merchandise partners. Chaudhry reports to NBA Asia Managing Director Ramez Sheikh.

An entrepreneur and experienced business leader, Chaudhry comes with over 20 years of finance and business leadership experience. Prior to joining the NBA in 2020, he was the Head of Asia for Luxury Escapes, a luxury online travel company based in Australia. Before that, he held multiple other pivotal roles as Founder and CEO of Paycelerate, a marketplace for short-term investing and working capital, Co-Founder of ChinaScope, a financial technology company, and as an investment banker for close to 10 years, holding positions of Director at Renaissance Capital and Vice President at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and Sydney.

Chaudhry is passionate about building, financing and growing businesses and managing and motivating people to achieve collective goals.

A graduate with first class honors in chemical engineering from the University of South Wales, Chaudhry currently resides in Hong Kong

Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital