The summit featuring CXOs, economists, entrepreneurs and policy makers, will include speaker sessions, case competition, business quiz & expert panels 

13 September, 2022, Bengaluru: IIM Bangalore’s one-year fulltime residential MBA for Experienced Professionals, the Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), will host a business conclave on the theme: ‘Decoding India & Bharat: One Nation. Two Identities. Inclusive Growth’, on 18th September 2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The conclave will include industry speaker sessions, experts panel, a business case competition and a business quiz.

It will be streamed on: https://youtu.be/1DhfxyYAarM

The conclave aims to provide a platform for thought provoking discussions featuring CXOs, economists, entrepreneurs and policy makers. 

“India is often differentiated from Bharat – it is generally perceived that India is urban and Bharat is rural; that India is growing fast, and Bharat is trying to catch up; that India is for the rich and powerful and Bharat is for the poor and simple. Unfortunately, India and Bharat look at each other with suspicion without understanding the beautiful web of relations they have,” says a statement from the organizers of the conclave. “It is undeniable that both India and Bharat have remarkable qualities of entrepreneurship, resourcefulness, resilience, inventiveness and ingenuity. The growing reach of mass media, advertising, the exchange of goods and the spread of services have improved the strength and depth of interaction between India and Bharat. Depending on the context, India must learn from Bharat and Bharat must learn from India,” they add.

This year, the business conclave’s aim is to find ways to strengthen the bridge between India and Bharat, focussing on how to transform and boost growth for both.

Speakers

Amit Sharma – Managing Partner, Global Delivery, IBM

Amit Sharma is the Managing Partner, Global Delivery, IBM Consulting and currently leads the innovation and delivery centers comprising over 100,000 consultants in 38 countries. Prior to this, he has held a variety of IBM roles in finance and operations across the world located in Singapore, Tokyo, New York and Bangalore– COO of IBM’s Cloud Application Innovation, COO for IBM India/South Asia, CFO for IBM Global Services Delivery worldwide and CFO for IBM India. 

Since 2008, he has been a member of IBM Chairman’s senior leadership team comprising IBM’s top 300 executives globally, focused on the growth, transformation, and strategy of the company. He received the CFO of the year award in the India CFO awards 2006. 

He holds an engineering degree in computer science and an MBA in Finance and International management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

Pradeep Kashyap – Founder, MART

Pradeep Kashyap served as Marketing Advisor to the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. He has also served the Prime Minister’s Office and has been on Chief Minister Committees on rural development as well as on national committees of the Reserve Bank of India. He is a Consultant with the World Bank and United Nations as well as Fortune 500 companies. He is a regular speaker at CEO forums in India and overseas on emerging markets, BOP consumers and innovations for inclusive growth. He founded MART in 1993, a rural marketing consultancy firm. His marketing career includes stints at Exide, Bosch and Denso.

Rituparna Chakraborty – Co-founder & CEO, TeamLease Services

Rituparna Chakraborty is a business leader with an experience of around 23 years. As the Co-founder of TeamLease, she has been instrumental in making it among India’s largest people supply chain company. She has joined the Board recently as an Executive Director. She is the only person from Asia to be included in the Global Power 100 and International 50 Woman in Staffing and is the winner of the Telstra Business Woman in Asia Award. She is an AMP alumna of Columbia Business School.

Mohanraj Jagannivasan – CEO, Duroflex

An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Mohanraj Jagannivasan is known to be a change driver with exceptional leadership and team building skills. His focus includes digitization, digital transformation, building a people-first and agile organization, as well as streamlining Supply Chain and serviceability.

Prabhas Rath – General Manager and Head of Systemic Risk, Policy Research and Data Initiatives, SEBI

Prabhas Rath is currently heading Data Initiatives, Macro Surveillance and Economic & Policy Analysis at SEBI. He is also the interface for inter-regulatory and other critical policy issues under FSDC. He is a member on several committees and working groups and author of publications in national and international journals.

Saurabh Mukherjea – Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Marcellus Investment Managers

Saurabh Mukherjea was educated at the London School of Economics where he earned a BSc and MSc in Economics. In London, Saurabh was the Co-founder of Clear Capital and in 2007 he was rated by the Extel Survey as one of the top small cap analysts in the UK. In India, Saurabh was rated as the leading equity strategist in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by the Asiamoney polls. Prior to setting up Marcellus, Saurabh was the CEO of Ambit Capital. He continues to be part of multiple SEBI working groups whose role is to review and reform the rules governing portfolio management in India.

Karthik SM – Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Biocon Biologics

Karthik is a seasoned talent acquisition professional with over two decades of progressive and comprehensive international experience in all areas of recruiting and works towards empowering recruitment with AI. Karthik holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Loyola Institute of Business Administration

Badri Beriwal – Chief Business Officer (New Business), Britannia Industries Limited

A strategic business leader with more than 18 years of experience in FMCG businesses, Badri Beriwal has managed businesses across different stages such as turnaround, acceleration and start-up situations. He has been instrumental in driving business growth by pushing the right growth levers and managing cost through efficiency programs and investing them back to fuel growth.

Rajesh Joshi – CEO, Atal Incubation Centre, Goa Institute of Management and Ex-founder, bajaao.com

Rajesh Joshi is an alumnus of SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) and Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies. He has over 20 years of experience in different new age industries and has founded six ventures with two successful exits. His start-up experience has led him to work with other entrepreneurs as Advisor, Investor and Mentor. He is currently promoting innovation culture, facilitating entrepreneurs and supporting start-ups as part of the All India Family of Atal Incubation Centre, supported by the Atal Innovation Mission, backed by NITI Aayog.

Karthik Manivannan – CXO, apna

Karthik is seasoned professional with 14yrs of experience across Consumer tech, IT, Telecom, management consulting - he has been an advisor and an operator, in both startup and at scale companies. He is currently COO at Apna, which is the largest professional networking platform for the rising workforce of India. At apna, Karthik leads product and business for the professional networking and skilling businesses. Prior to joining Apna, Karthik was at Myntra where he was the Head of Product for Customer shopping experience and monetization and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co in their London and India office, primarily focused on growth and sales acceleration in Tech-Media-Telecom sector. Karthik has an MBA from IIM Bangalore and B.E Mechanical from PSG College of Technology

Rajesh Shet – CoFounder & CEO, SahiBandhu

Rajesh Shet has been instrumental in unlocking growth & expansion opportunities for SahiBandhu since 2018. His passion for innovation and personal background in the affiliated jewellery business made him an ideal person to lead and grow SahiBandhu. With diverse exposure in incubation, sales, networking, and general management, Rajesh has expanded SahiBandhu’s presence across India. His vision is to make SahiBandhu India’s No. 1 gold loan platform.

Rajesh holds more than 26 years of experience in the ITeS, FinTech, and Financial Service Industries. He has been associated with Manipal Group for the last 16 years and has been instrumental in creating and building new lines of businesses in the BFSI domain. Rajesh was instrumental in incubating new ventures like SahiPay and SahiBandhu before taking over full-time responsibility of SahiBandhu as CEO.

Rajesh is a member of FICCI FinTech & NPCI’s Banking Card Manufacturer forum. Prior to joining MTL, he was part of Accel Frontline Ltd and Minicomp Group at various levels. Rajesh graduated in B.E. Electronics & Communication from Karnataka University. His interests include sports, travel, music, movies, and reading.

Lakshminarayan Swaminathan - CXO - Supply Growth, Meesho

Mr. Lakshminarayan Swaminathan is an IIM Bangalore alumni and has worked in AT Kearney driving multiple large scale transformation projects across industries before heading the customer experience and Growth product team at Myntra and Jabong. He is currently the Head of Supply Growth at Meesho - which has crossed 6 lakh seller registrations, 70% of them hailing from Tier 2 cities. 

Here is the conclave schedule: