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Vishal Sharma, Executive Director and CEO, Godrej Industries (Chemicals)

He joined Godrej from Ecolab Inc. where his previous role was as Senior Vice President of the India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) region, based in Dubai since June 2020. Prior to this, Vishal led Ecolab’s Industrial business for Asia Pacific and was based in Singapore. He joined Ecolab in 2013 after 12 years at Diversey, Inc., where post joining as the National Sales Manager in India, he held management roles of increasing scope, the last of which was serving as Global Vice President - Hospitality, Healthcare, Commercial Laundry and Food Safety, based in Amsterdam.

Vishal sees his mission in life as “making everything I touch better, and helping people be successful and happy" and is very passionate about sustainability. He has lived and operated across five continents, in both developed and developing markets, in operational as well as strategic roles over the last 27 years. Vishal has also led start-up businesses during his career and is credited with multiple transformational and scale-up initiatives. He proudly claims to be the “chief cheerleader" for the teams that he leads.

Vishal has a Post-Graduate diploma in Management from IMDR Pune, and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from MIT Manipal in Mangalore.

Vishesh Shrivastav, MD - Investment, Temasek India

Vishesh Shrivastav is Managing Director at Temasek’s investment team based in India.

With almost 20 years of investment experience, Vishesh currently co-manages the India team’s investment activities. He has led multiple investments in the consumer and technology sectors, serving on the boards of a number of companies, including Zomato, VFS, Devyani International, Lenskart, cult.fit, Licious, and upGrad.

Prior to Temasek, Vishesh was part of the investment team at Providence Equity Partners, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Vishesh holds B. Tech and M. Tech degrees in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Bangalore.zss

Viswanath Ramaswamy, Vice President, Technology Sales, India/South Asia, IBM

Vivek Banka, Co-Founder, Goal Teller

With a career spanning over 2.5 decades in the financial services industry, Vivek has worked across diverse firms including BNP Paribas, 360 One Wealth, played a key role in building a home-grown stockbroking outfit, and led multiple entrepreneurial ventures, including the successful exit of (Altiore Capital) to IIFL Wealth Management. From global institutions to start-up success, Vivek has seen it all.

He is currently the founder at GoalTeller, a personal finance platform that arguably is the most exhaustive platform available for users. Designed to cover every aspect of financial planning.

He is also an experienced equity investor with nearly 24 years in the field and has participated in angel investments as well.

Vivek Iyer, Partner & National Leader Financial Services - Risk Advisory, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP

Vivek K Chandy, Joint Managing Partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors

Vivek Kaul, Author, Easy Money Trilogy

Vivek Kumar Dewangan, Chairman and Managing Director, REC Ltd

Vivek Sehgal, Country Head - South Asia, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, India

Vivek Sehgal has rich experience of more than 22+ Years working in the IT Industry. He currently Heads the Business & Technology Alliances For Alibaba Cloud in India, helping Alibaba Cloud Product & Services Business & growth of their Market Share in Indian market. Prior to joining Alibaba, Vivek has been associated with Market Leaders like Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, CA Technologies with various Leadership roles spanning across Business Units including Sales, Technology Consulting & Presales. Throughout the career, Vivek has been instrumental in helping Large organizations adopt Cutting Edge technologies like BigData, Automation, Cloud Solutions etc allowing them to make significant Business impact by the use of Technology.

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