Our speakers

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 Pai, MD, Hindalco Industries

Satish Shukla, Co-Founder, Addverb Technologies

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.

Satish V. N. Gidugu, Whole Time Director & CEO, Medi Assist Group

Saugata Gupta, MD & CEO, Marico

Saurabh Dwivedi, Partner, Human Capital Consulting, Deloitte India

Saurabh brings more than 18+ years of experience in successful implementation of complex HR Strategy, Employee Experience, and Transformation projects in an international context across multiple industries in Asia and the US. He has in-depth experience spanning Digital HR, HR Technology, HR strategy, HR process, and operating model design, shared services design and implementation as well as change and stakeholder management. Saurabh has spent a considerable amount of his professional life working with clients in the United States, Middle East, and in South East Asia. Saurabh has worked across a variety of industries including Technology, Manufacturing, Retail, Engineering Construction, and Healthcare.

Saurabh has also authored numerous papers on the trends in Human Capital and the future of work and is a regular speaker at multiple forums on the HC trends and the future of work.

Saurabh Kumar, Vice-President, India, GEAPP

Saurabh Kumar is the Vice-President-India, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP).

Saurabh is an Indian Revenue Service officer of 1992 batch. He joined Indian Revenue Service as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax and worked as Deputy Commissioner in various sensitive intelligence assignments. After IRS he joined the Union Ministry of Power, Government of India as Deputy Secretary in charge of the Budget and Finance wing with the task of appraising large power projects for government investments. He was part of the 
government structure that was responsible for taking investment decisions in large power projects.

He successfully led EESL in implementing energy efficiency projects such as UJALA, SNLP, MEEP, and AgDSM.

Saurabh has also worked in various capacities in the Income Tax Department, Ministry of Power, and Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). On the completion of the GRIPS Young Leaders Program in 2006, Saurabh was appointed as Secretary of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) during 2007-2010, the nodal central body for promoting energy efficiency in India & also the core agency for the implementation of the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency under the Ministry of Power. One of the key projects implemented under his leadership is one of the world’s largest CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) based efficient lighting projects.

An environmentalist, he has served the UN on deputation handling environmental issues in the Asia-pacific region.

Saurabh has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, and has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan