Siddharth Mehta is currently the CEO & MD of Freecharge, an Axis Bank subsidiary. He has more than 15+ Years of experience in payment, digital and cards business. Siddharth has been a part of Axis Bank since 2015, working in various senior positions within the payment segment before moving to Freecharge in 2018. Prior to joining Axis Bank he was associated with CITI Bank and HDFC Bank. He is a Business Graduate from IMI with a degree in BE Mech from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune.

In his tenure at Infosys, which spans 24+ years, Thiru has managed many vital client relationships for the Financial Services Europe based accounts before taking on the current role of Head of Education, Training and Assessment (ETA). ETA department is one of the key business enabling departments at Infosys.

Venkataraman SV (Venky) is the Managing Director for Bengaluru Service Centre in ANZ Banking Group. In his current role, apart from leading the Service Centre operations, Venky has been very closely involved in ANZ Banking group’s successful foray into Automation starting with RPA over 5 years ago.
Further to the large scale implementation of human-action mimicking automation solutions, Venky has driven the use of emergent technologies including AI / ML and OCR to automate human judgment oriented processes in complex products of Trade Finance and Home Lending.

Ms. Rajkamal Vempati is the Head of Human Resources at Axis Bank, one of India’s largest private sector banks. In a career spanning more than 22 years, she has donned various hats successfully and carved a niche for herself in the industry. Having started her career in HR as a Consultant with Hewitt Associates, she went on to be a part of the Global HR Leadership Program at GE Capital. Prior to Axis Bank she was heading Human Resources for ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited.

She is married and has a daughter. She loves travelling and planning holidays.

Ritesh has over 18 years of professional experience in Human Resources, with a breadth of experience across all facets of the function with deep specialization in Talent Management, Learning and Development, and HR Business Partnering
In his current role as Vice President - HR for the APAC region, he works with the leadership team in CGI to help the business deliver on its people metrics across the employee life-cycle. He leads a focused, energetic, and dedicated team which has been recognized for its passion and zeal. His leadership has been instrumental in winning international awards from Brandon Hall, ATD, and CLO.
Ritesh has previously worked with organizations such as Intel, Genpact and NIS Sparta where he has built and strengthened the talent management and development functions. Ritesh is a certified practitioner of the MBTI and DISC psychometric profiling tools and is a Gallup Strengths coach

Ravi Chitloor is a Sr. Director and Sr. Distinguished Engineer in the Unstructured and Secondary Storage group of Dell, based in Bengaluru, India. He is Chief Architect for Data Protection Software (DPSW). Ravi came into Dell through the acquisition of Data Domain and EMC. Prior to joining Data Domain, he worked at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Wipro Corporation. Ravi holds an MBA degree from Santa Clara University, an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University and Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from SJCE, Mysore University.

Rohan brings in more than 21 years of well-rounded professional experience within the BFSI space having led multiple engagements across the globe representing various IT organizations including Cognizant, Infosys and Tech Mahindra prior to joining Zensar Technologies. The initial 5 years of his career were spent in a banking setup working within the Corporate and Retail Banking divisions. Being a Chartered Accountant, Rohan understands the Operations and Finances well and has worked across Accounting, Auditing and Financial Management areas.

As part of his professional journey so far, Rohan has performed numerous roles including being a Business Analyst , Product Owner/Manager , Functional Consultant, Account Manager and a Delivery / Portfolio Head.

Sachin Seth is a Partner & Digital , Fintech Practice leader with Financial Services Sector of Ernst & Young (India, Middle East and Africa). His core area of expertise is customer experience led digital transformation using deep industry domain expertise, emerging technologies and open innovation platforms along with Fintech ecosystem. Currently he is working on some of the cutting edge digital transformations in Banking , Financial services and Insurance industry with focus on business outcomes.

As a Digital Practice leader, he has conceptualized and implemented some of the key initiatives with financial services companies in creating platforms for digital banking, Insurance, digital payments ecosystem, customer experience, digital Marketing and omni channel strategies. Prior to Ernst & Young, he has worked with some of the world’s leading technology and consulting companies on large transformation initiatives.

Soummo leads the L&D Function for PwC Acceleration Center Bangalore and has close to 2 decades of professional experience in L&D, OD & Talent Management areas. In his previous role he has worked with Capgemini, Wipro and IBM to name a few - leading their Leadership Development and Talent Management practices. Majority of his work experience has been in building competency framework, leadership development, new age technology upskilling and Assessment Centers.

Mr. T.K. Srirang, Group Chief Human Resources Officer, heads Human Resources function & Infrastructure Management Services Group for ICICI Bank Limited. He also oversees the human resources function for ICICI group companies. He is a Member of the Research Advisory Council of IIT Bombay - Monash Research Academy, Member of Society of Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, Member of the Governing Body of The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), National Secretary & Board Member of National HRD Network and former Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) HR Sub Committee Western zone.

Sumit Sood is the Group Vice President & Head of APAC for GlobalLogic (A Hitachi Group Company) in India. Leveraging his balanced understanding of business, service delivery, and technology, Sumit is responsible for managing and growing GlobalLogic’s India center operations & broader APAC expansions.
With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, Sumit has a long history of building highly motivated and self-driven teams. He also focuses on helping organizations build and implement their digital strategies from expanding their online presence to integrating IoT enabled ecosystems. His primary master expertise lies in new country startup, executive leadership, stakeholder management, business solutions, and technical architecture.

Sunil heads the Immersive, Media and Quality Practices in NIIT’s Corporate Learning Group (CLG). He has had a diverse career spanning leadership roles across various industry domains including e-learning IT, and Engineering industry. Sunil is an MBA – Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai and Chemical Engineer from Mumbai University.

Sudeep Ralhan is the Vice President, People at Walmart Global Tech India. With deep experience across facets of HR in multiple industries, Sudeep leads the People function for the center, driving sustainable growth and building a culture of innovation and inclusion for a workforce spread across Bangalore, Gurgaon & Chennai.
After completing his post-graduation in business in 2001, Sudeep has worked across the IT, BPO & FMCG industries in a diverse set of roles, spanning multiple geographies. Prior to joining Walmart, he played strategic leadership roles with organizations such as GSK Consumer Healthcare and Accenture.

Sumit Chandna is an agile PnL leader leader with over 22 years of experience. Sumit Chandna currently works with Bata India as SVP and Head Retail Business. A graduate in Economics from Delhi University and a Marketing and Merchandising post graduate from National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, Sumit is a seasoned retail professional. Over the years he has worked in various retail functions, having worked for brands like Shoppers Stop and Hypercity. His last role was, Chief Merchandising Officer, at Aditya Birla Retail Limited. He has a deep understanding of the shopper and consumer through various product and format lenses, having worked from Hypermarkets, Department Stores to Convenience Stores and from High Fashion to Food and Grocery.

Satheesh Krishnamurthy heads the Private, Premium banking, NRI Business & third party products for Axis Bank. He joined Axis Bank in March 2014. Under his leadership, the Bank launched their most premium brand, ‘Burgundy’, a wealth management offering for Affluent clients in 2014 & “Burgundy Private”, a bespoke offering for private banking clients in Dec, 2019. The assets under management of both have now crossed USD 34 billion, making it one of the fastest growing business units within the Bank and in the industry.

Is the Co-Founder and CEO of EkStep Foundation, a philanthropic mission he co-founded in 2015 along with NandanNilekani and RohiniNilekani, to improve basic education for 200 million children in India.
He has more than 25 years of experience across corporate, entrepreneurial, nonprofit and government sectors. This allows him to bring the best of thinking from different lenses, which he has used in shaping EkStep’s mission and it's strategic choices of achieving population scale impact for learning, using technology.
Shankar is deeply passionate about data, research and leveraging technology for large scale transformation in society. He was part of the startup team at Aadhaar; he was also responsible for naming it. He also set up one of India’s first data analytics companies - Marketics. This cross-sectorial experience and interdisciplinary approach has been a driving force in pursuing scale solutions, innovations and collaborations for EkStep’s education mission.

Mr. Virendra Somwanshi is the Head of Wealth Management and looks at the overall Wealth management strategy and execution at Bank of Baroda. He has to his credit more than 24 years of rich, multi geography experience of Retail banking & Private wealth Management and has served both multinational and Indian corporates in various leadership roles and also in the capacity as a Board Member.
With over 17 years at Citi, he has worked in multiple businesses across consumer banking both assets and liabilities, wealth management, securities and investments management in India and Singapore. His last Designation with Citi was Country Head – Citi Wealth Advisors. Prior to joining Bank of Baroda, he was designated as the MD & CEO of Motilal Oswal Private Wealth management.
Mr. Virendra is a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and holds a MBA degree from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune University. He is a Sports enthusiast and an Avid Full Marathoner.

Dr. Vishnupriya Raghavan is the Head, Products and Solutions at StackRoute. She owns the suite of learning interventions, custom designed and developed for technology professionals who aspire to grow on the technical ladder. Vishnupriya is an education professional with a distinguished career in providing competency development solutions to businesses, training solutions to institutions, and career enriching interventions for individual learners.

Vishnupriya brings in 21 years of rich experience and has successfully led both B2B and B2C initiatives across various areas of IT and Management. Prior to StackRoute, she was associated with Manipal Global Education Services as Head, Enterprise Solutions and with Institute of Product Leadership as Director of Academics.

Mr Rajendra S Pawar is the Chairman and Co-Founder, NIIT Group, a global leader in skills and talent development, and founder of NIIT University. Under his leadership, NIIT has played a key role in shaping the growth of the Indian IT sector, by creating skilled manpower to drive its momentum. Having revolutionized the IT Training industry, he is now involved in establishing an innovative model in Higher Education, the not-for-profit NIIT University. Acknowledging Mr Pawar’s contribution to the IT industry in India, he has been awarded the country’s prestigious civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, by the President of India in 2011. Actively involved in India’s key Chambers of Commerce, he has also led several ICT industry initiatives including NASSCOM (2011-12) as its Chairman. Currently Mr Pawar is the Chairman of NASSCOM Cyber Security Task Force that has been set up in response to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to see India emerge as a global hub of Cyber Security products and services. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Data Security Council of India.

Sapnesh Lalla is the CEO & Executive Director of NIIT Ltd, a global leader in skills and talent development, offering broad-based education and training solutions to corporations, institutions, and individuals in over 30 countries. Prior to his appointment as the CEO, Sapnesh served as the President of NIIT’s Global Corporate Business, which constitutes nearly seventy percent of NIIT’s total business. He led critical initiatives for the expansion of the company in North America and Europe including significant acquisitions like Cognitive Arts and Element K. Under his leadership, NIIT has grown to become a leading global learning outsourcing solutions provider with its Managed Training Services offering. Sapnesh is now in his 27th year at NIIT and has served in India and USA. He started his career as a Project Lead in the Learning Content Development team in 1992. Over time, he has held various management and leadership roles in product management, customer support, channel development, sales, and support functions. In 2006, Sapnesh was appointed the President of NIIT (USA), Inc. and has since been an integral part of the CEO's leadership team.

Anil Santhapuri is a values-based and results-oriented Talent & OD professional, with 16 years of professional experience (IT and Financial Services) in the areas of talent management, learning & leadership development and consulting. In his current role at CGI, he is responsible for Learning & Development agenda for Asia Pacific Global Delivery Centre of Excellence.

Anil is a two-time “Learning in Practice award winner” from Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine USA, for 2017 and 2018 respectively. In March 2012, Anil was also recognized as one of the "Top 10 Training & OD Professional Globally" by Training Magazine. In October 2017, under his leadership, Western Union, was recognized as “#1 Organization for Learning” by ATD BEST. In January 2019. He was also recognized as Top40Under40 HR Leaders in India.

With over 20+ years of experience, Anil has managed diverse portfolios in Financial Services, Hospitality, Concept Sales in reputed brands like Taj Group, Aviva Plc, 24/7 Customer and WNS. Joined Sutherland in 2009, Anil has managed large client engagements in Technology, Telecom and Insurance.
Have led integration effort for Sutherland’s key acquisitions, launched Campus Connect Program for the Organization across the top B schools towards Leadership Development and Succession planning and been instrumental in driving Technology adoption for enhanced Employee experience at Sutherland.

Mr. Amitabh Chaudhry is currently the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Axis Bank. Under his leadership, Axis Bank is undergoing a well-outlined multi-year transformation program, which is expected to catapult the bank to a premier financial institution of the country.

Before joining the Bank, Mr. Chaudhry had a long and successful stint of nine years at HDFC Life. Under his leadership, HDFC Life emerged as the finest, most technology savvy brand in the insurance space and today, it is one of India’s largest private life insurers.

Developing his passion of being a hardcore gamer into his profession, Ankit Khetrapal works as Game Development Manager at NIIT Limited. Being in the gaming industry for 10 years now, his areas of expertise revolve around 3D simulations, AR/VR Simulations and Game Design/Development. Ankit is currently based out of India and his hobbies include Travelling, Long Drives, and he loves to try different cuisines.

Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin (Bimal) is the President of Skills and Careers Business (SNC) India Operations. He is responsible for driving NIIT’s SNC business, which focuses on providing career related learning and talent development programs to individuals and enterprises in India. Bimal has a diverse career experience of over 2 decades that spans leadership roles focused on building, scaling and transforming businesses. He is an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune and an alumnus of the University of Chicago Booth’s School of Business - Accelerated Development Program.

Chetan Garga joined Allstate in 2012, bringing an enviable combination of technology and operations leadership with deep financial service expertise.
Under his leadership, Allstate India has won the Kincentric ‘Best Employer India 2020’, The Economic Times ‘Best Workplaces for Women 2021’ and from Great Places to work Institute ‘India’s Best Leaders in Times of Crisis 2021’ awards.
He has more than thirty years of experience across Financial Services, Product Development and General Management with more than 15 years in building technology solutions for Global financial markets, as well as setting up Technology and Business operations for multinational firms in India.

Anuj is a business executive with more than 28 years of experience in IT Services and Management Consulting. He has served in markets across North America, South Asia, and ASEAN. He has deep experience in managing key client CXO Relationships and driving growth. Anuj leads IBM Practices globally across all Client Innovation Centers. His role also includes personal ownership of, and direction to, all Technology Practices and Technology Garages/Labs at the largest IBM Client Innovation Center which is in India. He is also the Operations leader for the center in India, and owns all related functions, be it Business Operations, Resource and Capacity Management, Learning and Knowledge, and Reskilling.