Our speakers

Vishal Jain, CEO, Zerodha AMC

Vishal Jain is currently CEO of Zerodha Asset Management Pvt Ltd and is responsible for the AMC.

He has over 25 years of experience in financial services including 20 plus years building ETFs and passive products.

He started his career in the AMC industry as part of the founding team of Benchmark AMC which launched India’s first ETF in 2001 - Nifty BeES and was designated as Fund Manager. After the acquisition of Benchmark AMC by Goldman Sachs AMC India in 2011, he was designated as Chief Investment Officer of the Passive business. In his last role, he was Head-ETF at Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd and oversaw the scale up of the ETF Business from Rs.7,500 crore to over 50,000 crores in 2022.

He has been part of various committees and groups relating to development of passive products in India. Recently, he was part of the “Working Group on Passive Funds” constituted by SEBI to recommend changes in Regulations and Market Infrastructure to foster the growth of ETFs and Index Funds.

Apart from work, he loves to play tennis, listen to music and spend quality time with family.

Vishal Kampani, Vice Chairman & MD, JM Financial

Vishal Kapoor, CEO, Bandhan AMC Ltd.

Vishal Kukreja, Head HR, RBL Bank

Vishal Mahadevia, MD & Head of Asia Private Equity, Warburg Pincus

Vishal Mahadevia is a Managing Director, Head of Asia Private Equity and Co-Head of Global Financial Services, and a member of the Executive Committee and Executive Management Group at Warburg Pincus.

Vishal is also a Director of PVR INOX Limited and Apollo Tyres Limited. He serves on the International Advisory Board of Center for the Advanced Study of India, the Board of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the India Regional Board of Room to Read. He received a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

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