Our speakers

Sonia Dasgupta, MD & CEO, Investment Banking, JM Financial Ltd.

Ms. Sonia Dasgupta is the Managing Director & CEO of the Investment Banking division at JM Financial. A seasoned investment banker, Ms. Dasgupta brings over 25 years of rich experience. A graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, she has held key leadership positions in JM Financial, including Head of FIG Coverage, Head of M&A Origination, and Head of Group Borrowings. During the journey, she has been at the helm of numerous landmark transactions as well as led advisory and fund- raising transactions for a large number of domestic and overseas clients.

Ms. Dasgupta's leadership experience and proven track record in structuring marquee transactions has earned her multiple recognitions. In 2023, she was named one of India's 100 Most Influential Women by Business World. Earlier, in 2019, she was honoured as one of the Top 100 Women in Finance by the Association of International Wealth Management of India(AIWMI).

Souvik Sengupta, Co-founder & CEO, Infra.market

Sreedhara Narayanaswamy, Head of Innovations Centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle

Sreedhara is the Head of Innovations centers, Center of Excellence, Cloud Engineering (OCI), Japan & Asia Pacific at Oracle. The Innovations Center is the cross-functional cloud engineering domain team focused on identifying and exploiting the latest technical trends and then designing mission critical customer accelerators & solutions for Oracle Cloud in Data Science - AI/ML, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, IoT, BlockChain, and Security. Enrichen and Inculcate the culture of innovation across the Centers of excellence, spanning Japan & Asia Pacific.

Prior roles in Oracle - Senior Director, Data Base Engineering R&D & Chief Architect India Development Center R&D.

Sreedhara has taken up several Senior Executive leadership roles at Ca Technologies (Now Broadcom), NetApp, Dell Technologies, HP Inc. & OpenText

Sreedhara has been the frontrunner and leader for a multitude of cloud based products entailing that of: development, strategy, integration, transformation, operations, conceptualizing novel designs (granted patents) & execution. He has garnered change in that of myriad areas transmuting technologies, services and offerings in the realm of cloud based platforms, of respective firms. He has 33 years of Product & Cloud services R&D experience.

He has enabled several firms to encompass and embody End2End competence, expanding their business scope, in addition to transforming their legacy based technologies & infrastructure to current generational specification requirements. On several occasions, enterprises have been able to place at the top of their respective market share, due to the impact of changes brought about by Sreedhara.

Sreedhara has done a Leadership Program from Yale University USA. He holds a MS in Computer Science & Engineering in addition to a MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix, USA. He is BE Computer Science graduate from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, India.

Sreedhara has been awarded ten US patents & currently has eleven patents pending. He has authored & developed W3C Web services Access Protocols – WS-Eventing, WS-SOAPAssertions, WS-Enumeration, WS-EventDescriptions, WS-Fragment, WSMetadataExchange & WS-Transfer. He is working group member of India AI & Global Partnership of AI (GPAI) by IT Ministry of India.

SREERAMAN THIAGARAJAN, Co-founder & CEO, aawaz.com

Sridhar Rajagopal, Head - Marketing, Strategy, Sales and M&A, Otis India

Sridhar Rajagopal is the head of Sales, Marketing, Strategy and M&A for Otis India. Sridhar has had a variety of interesting assignments in Otis.  He headed two JV companies in India and led the acquisition of service portfolio companies across India, Singapore, Philippines and Japan. Prior to his current role, he headed the Marketing, Communication and Strategy function for the Northeast Asia Region covering Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.  Prior to joining Otis, was working in the glass flacconage business for global brands like Body Shop, L’Oréal and Revlon.

Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Co-Founder, Zetwerk

Srini Nagarajan, MD & Head Asia, BII

Srini Sriniwasan, MD, Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd.

S. Sriniwasan (Srini) heads Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited (“KAAML”). He is also a part of the Group Management Council that drives Kotak Mahindra Group’s growth charter.

Srini has played a crucial role in setting up and building the different asset classes in KAAML including Real Estate, Infrastructure, Special Situations & Credit, Private Equity and Investment Advisory. Overall, KAAML has raised / advised ~ USD 8.8 billion in funds across these asset classes. As one of the earliest fund managers to raise and invest capital in India, Srini has introduced significant financing, financial structuring and negotiating skills in the alternate assets industry. Srini joined the Kotak Mahindra Group in 1993.

Prior to KAAML, he was a part of Kotak’s investment banking joint venture with Goldman Sachs from inception in 1995, and was co-head of Kotak Investment Banking until 2005. At Kotak Investment Banking, Srini advised leading domestic and international companies on capital raising, M&A and strategic divestitures.

Srini is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) subcommittee on Capital Markets. He is also a Board member of Asia Pacific Real Estate Association Limited (APREA) & Co-Chairman of the India Chapter. He is also a member of the Governing Council of Global Real Estate Institute (GRI) – India Chapter. He was a Member of the Executive Committee at the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and is a Member of the Private Credit Council at Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (“EMPEA”).

Srini holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Delhi University and an MBA from the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad.

Srinivas Jain, Executive Director and Chief of Strategy, SBI Mutual Fund

Sriram Iyer, CEO, HDFC Pension Management Co.

Mr. Sriram Iyer is the Chief Executive Officer of HDFC Pension Management Company Ltd. He carries close to 3 decades of experience in the Banking and Financial services industry having played leadership roles in areas spanning Banking and Capital markets. He has extensive experience in Financial Product distribution and has a deep understanding of a wide array of Investment products. He is passionate about spreading Financial literacy and has conducted numerous financial awareness sessions with investors and has helped them navigate through complex world of financial products by un-complicating key concepts relating to Personal Finance.

He has been covered extensively in Print and TV media and has authored numerous articles in domestic and international publications on the topic of NPS and Retirement Planning. He was recently recognized as one of the Top 20 Pension Fund executives in Asia by the Asian Investor magazine.

Sriram qualified as a Civil (Structural) Engineer and an MBA with specialization in Finance. He has also undergone various certification courses in Personal Finance and Wealth Management.