Our speakers

Santosh Singh, Sr. VP & Global Head Marketing, Business Excellence & Innovation, Tata Technologies

Santosh Singh is the Global Head of Marketing, Business Excellence, & Innovation, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) at Tata Technologies – one of the leading global product engineering and digital services companies in the world. Santosh is an organizational transformation specialist, innovator, six sigma master black belt, project management professional (PMP), and TBEM team leader with seven external assessments under his belt. Santosh has been recognized by leading media outlets like Economic Times and B2BMX for the best B2B Tech Marketer award as well as has won the Tata InnoVista Regional Innovation award witing Tata Group for breakthrough innovations.

Santosh has total work experience of 20 years out of which 17 years have been with Tata Group working across several Tata Companies, including Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors Finance,  and Tata Technologies, and various functions - Marketing, Quality, Customer Service, New product development, Innovation and Business Excellence. Before joining Tata Group, Santosh worked with Bharti Airtel and Park group after completing his graduation. Santosh is a science graduate from Calcutta University and completed his MBA in CRM through ABMS.

Santosh is passionate about innovation, and newer technologies like Artificial Intelligence. He facilitates several discussion forums on Deep Learning and other technologies that are driving innovation in the digital age. Santosh follows Formula 1 races very closely and supports several orphanages in their community development.

Saranya Gopinath, Director, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Razorpay

Saranya Gopinath is the Director, Government Affairs & Public Policy at Razorpay. In previous roles, she led policy for Google Pay and fintech for Google in India and was the co-founder of DICE, an industry body focused on Digital Payments. A lawyer by education, she has spent more than a decade in fintech and has worn different hats as legal counsel, policy lead and product lead & evangelist

Sarthak Mishra, Investment Director, Softbank

Sashind Ningthoukhongjam, Correspondent, Mint (Moderator)

Sasikumar Gendham, Managing Director, Salcomp Manufacturing India Private Limited

Mr. Sasikumar is the Managing Director of Salcomp India. Salcomp is world’s largest manufacturer of power supplies for smart phones and other electronic devices with to Top OEMs as its major customers. Salcomp was established in India during 2007 as the 1st global charger manufacturer and currently has six manufacturing factories in India employing a total of over 12000 people at 2 sites, Chennai and Noida, of whom more than 80% are women. 

Mr. Sasikumar is associated with the company since its inception in India and has been instrumental for Salcomp’s massive expansion in India in support of “Make in India” initiatives announced by Government of India. He is also an active member of various state and national level forums to enhance Electronics manufacturing in India. He is the Vice President at ELCINA, the oldest and largest industry association of Electronics Industry in India established in 1967. 

He holds a M. Tech in Manufacturing Management from BITS Pilani, an Executive Master Degree in Business Administration from Aalto University Finland, and is currently a Research Scholar at SRM Institute of Science and Technology Chennai in the area of Management Studies. He is also an alumnus of IMD Switzerland.
 

Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners

Sateesh Andra loves entrepreneurs with grit, clarity, and focus on execution. Technology start-ups with clear value proposition drive Sateesh. His investing, co-founding, leadership and engineering experience, for the past twenty-plus years in U.S/India, all veer around technology.

As the Managing Director at Endiya Partners, Sateesh serves on boards of AlphaICs, Darwinbox, and Kissht. Some of his past investments include Seclore, Little Eye Labs (Facebook) and mGinger (ValueFirst). Prior to Endiya, he was a Partner at Ventureast and DFJ.

Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was Founder/CEO of Euclid (Synnex), a Silicon Valley start-up, in the IT Management Software space and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), besides acquiring and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Synaptics), LSI Logic (Broadcom), and VLSI Technology (NXP).

Besides helping evolve ideas into real businesses, Sateesh is involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports and promoting awareness of chronic diseases in the corporate world. Sateesh was a top-ranked Table Tennis player representing A.P State in Nationals.

Sateesh holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Sathyan S, Head of Data Science/ AI, Thoughtworks India

Satish Chander, Partner, True North

Satish Shukla, Co-Founder, Addverb

Satish, co-founder of Addverb, is a proud alum of TISS-Mumbai, a non-practicing engineer and has 20+ years of experience in the Technology industry. He is a Technology “evangelist,” and continues to hone his skill set by conceptualizing the finer aspects of Human-Robot collaboration. His strong background in sustainability initiatives and reducing Cycle Time helps Addverb deliver unique automation solutions.

Saugata Gupta, MD & CEO, Marico