Abhinav Mahajan

Abhinav is a seasoned retail industry profession with a demonstrated history of working across function in the retail industry. Skilled in Business Planning, Retail, Store Management, Business Development, and Marketing Strategy. Abhinav has graduated from University of the Arts London.

Adwaita Nayar

Adwaita Nayar is part of the founding team of Nykaa..

After completing her B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Yale University, Adwaita worked with financial services in Bain Consultancy in New York. With the launch of Nykaa in 2012, she returned to Mumbai to help with the setup of the business, playing an instrumental role in developing strategy across technology, product and marketing.

Finishing her MBA from Harvard Business School in 2017, Adwaita took on the reins to launch Nykaa into an omnichannel model as Head-Retail, taking over nykaa’s store count from 5 to 35 in 16 months

Since 2019, she heads the fashion vertical as CEO – Nykaa Fashion.

Akhil Srivastava

Akhil Srivastava is the managing Director of Parfait India, a leading size inclusive lingerie and swimwear brand. He manages a team spread across Brand & Operations, Manufacturing, Product Strategy and Brand Building across the business lines and formats.

Akhil vast experience spanning over a decade, enables him to understand the varied demographics and complex consumer behaviour. Known for his skills in the areas of retail consulting, new store planning, visual merchandising, brand promotion, SCM and Logistics and others, Akhil has assisted plethora of brands across verticals both in India and abroad.

Prior to joining Parfait India, Akhil exhibited his extraordinary excellence at major consumer brand  companies including  Walmart, Landmark, Times of India and others to name a few.

He recently got accredited by Indian Railways for his achievements.

Akhil holds MBA in Marketing Masters in Fashion Bachelor of Science in Computer Technology Fashion Retail experience and a degree from NIFT Delhi, India’s Leading Fashion Institute.  He is always interested to learn new age ways to enhance consumer experience and lead generation, while crafting brand solutions that add value to the business.  An inspiring leader, he believes in mentoring and growing the team for sustained business growth.

Anil Menon

I am an IT professional with 16 plus years of experience across Information Technology and Retail organizations. Currently moved as General Manager – IT innovation at Tata Starbucks. In my previous capacity as Head –IT, Trent Hypermarket Pvt. Ltd. I have worked extensively on the company’s transformational projects, Cloud & Mobility Platforms, Retail Analytics, Enterprise systems and Security & Information management systems.

Prior to Trent Hypermarket, I have worked with Cybage Software as a Solution Architect in the retail CoE focusing on digital and e-commerce solutions. Having worked with companies such as Future Group, Wadhwan Retail and Zensar Technologies has also given me vast techno-functional experience. In my career as a technology consultant, I feel extremely passionate about using the latest in technology to provide business solutions to accelerate growth.

The areas that challenge my interests are Artificial Intelligence, ML, Blockchain and robotics and I am always keen to enhance processes to up the customer experience in my organizations

Arun Naikar

Arun has over 2 decades of experience in varied sectors like Customer service, Corporate sales and Ecommerce with hands on expertise on growing business startups on B2B and B2C fronts. He has been on the internet and tech space since the start of his career & is hooked on to this medium that provides a potential change that it can bring in peoples’ lives.

Currently Heading E-commerce at Fabindia, he was responsible for setting up the Omni-Channel ecosystem which includes Logistics, Category, Store Integration, Customer Service & Technology,
He also spearheads Digital Marketing and drives the Omni-Channel P & L. Prior to this, he was the Business Head for e-tail in Landmark and has been associated with Sify & e-Office Planet in the past.

Bhavish Sood

Bhavish is the General Partner at Modulor Capital, a cross border fund that invests in HealthTech, and Enterprise Software sectors with a focus on IoT, Digital and AI/ML.

Prior to this, Bhavish spent more than 10 years as a Research Director with Gartner’s (NYSE: IT) with it software markets advisory service where he advised tech providers as well as large technology companies around the transformational impact of digital, analytics and data.Bhavish is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and Welcomschool, Manipal.

Jacob Singh

Jacob Singh is the CTO of Grofers – the largest online grocery retailer in India – where he heads the product & engineering team. His goal is to push innovation to the edges of the organization, where every member feels fully empowered to not just do, but think, dream, test and refine their own vision.

Some highlights of his work so far:

1. In 2 years, Scaled the tech organization from 80 to 220 people, $60MM to $500MM in GMV

2. Led agile transformation which moved the team from 2 months to 2-week releases and now into continuous deployment.

Previous to Grofers, he served as the country head of Acquia – the Drupal company – and held numerous roles across the US and India. Some of his accomplishments include:

1. Extend team of 70 members building enterprise CMS for clients such as Fox, Warner Bros, Novartis, and Pfizer.

2. Partnerships with major SIs including Wipro, Mindtree, TechM, TCS, Cognizant, Sapient Nitro

3. Keynoted all major Drupal conferences, regular speaker at eTailing and Open Source events.

Karan Primlani

Karan has around two decades of years of work experience across a diverse range of roles and profiles. He is also an alum of the graduating MBA cohort of 2006 at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He has worked with leading brands like Deloitte, Knight Frank, Maytas, etc. in areas linked to sales, marketing, operations and strategy. Within Magicbricks he is handling a diverse portfolio of departments including Owner vertical where he is handling a large team across the online, telecalling & FOS to onboard & monetise owner properties to the platform, BFSI where he is handling a national team of managers who are offering services to banks in the E-Auction category and fulfilment of Home Loans, Operations which includes both Tele-Calling and On-Ground verification of properties, Alliances where he has teams connecting with brands with whom we share similar synergies & can create products to be offered to consumers across various stages of their journey and finally Corporate where he works closely with the CEO on the strategic outlook of the organisation & interdepartmental alignment to the overall vision of the company.