Our speakers
Swarup Mohanty, CEO & Director, Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Swati Arora, Director, Sales, Slack India
Swati Arora is Director ,Sales at Slack India . She has over 14 years of experience working across industries - banking, corporate travel, technology in managing and building commercial business teams . Swati has extensive background in strategy & planning, general management & leadership and has spent a large part of her career driving growth and change management while scaling businesses. Before joining Slack, Swati held leadership positions at Expedia Group , Citibank and Lehman Brothers
Swati Kulkarni, Director, Fireside Ventures
Swati is a distinguished investment banking professional with over 16 years of experience specializing in the consumer and retail sectors. She has an extensive track record of advising some of the world’s most prominent consumer brands, including Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Tata Consumer, Godrej Consumer Products, and DMart, as well as emerging market leaders such as Fogg, Paperboat, iD Fresh, Epigamia, and Manyavar.
Swati's expertise encompasses a broad spectrum of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings (IPOs), capital raising, and strategic alliances. She has successfully led and executed over 30 advisory and capital market transactions across both listed and unlisted domains, with a total value exceeding US$ 10 billion.
Prior to her tenure at Fireside, Swati held the position of Director at Kotak Investment Banking and has also garnered valuable experience working with leading global firms such as KPMG and PwC. She holds an MBA in Finance from Mumbai University and has cleared CFA Level 2, further underscoring her deep expertise in financial analysis and strategic advisory.
T Adhikari, MD and CEO, LIC Housing Finance
T Koshy, CEO, ONDC
T. N. Hari, Executive Chairman, Steer World
Hari is currently the Executive Chairman of Steer World, a group of deep-tech companies in the space of advanced manufacturing, materials technologies, lifesciences, and sustainable materials.
He spent two decades as part of the leadership team at five high growth startups in domains as varied as business process outsourcing, information technology, financial services, consumer internet and e-commerce. Each of these startups (Daksh, Virtusa, Amba Research, TaxiForSure, and Bigbasket) saw a successful exit including an IPO on NASDAQ, and three of these went on to become Unicorns. At each of these startups, Hari played a key role in shaping their growth and exit.
Hari started his career at Tata Steel and played leadership roles in Engineering, Project Management, and Human Capital. He played a key role in helping restructure the company to cope with post-liberalization challenges.
Hari has also played an active role in shaping the startup ecosystem in the country and is respected as a thought leader and an influencer. He has been a prolific author and has authored 8 books so far, mostly centered around different aspects of building and scaling start-ups. Each of these books has been a category leader. His book ‘Winning Middle India’ won the Gaja Business Book Prize for 2023.His other popular books include, ‘Saying No to Jugaad – The Making of Bigbasket’, ‘From Pony to Unicorn – Scaling a Startup Sustainably’, and ‘Diversity Beyond Tokenism – Why Being Politically Correct Doesn’t Help Anyone’.
T. N. Hari, Executive Chairman, Steer World
T. R. Ramachandran, Group Conuntry Manager for India and South Asia, VIS
Tamaswati Ghosh, CEO, IITM Incubation Cell
Tanya Dubash, Chief Brand officer, Godrej Group