Post Event Report

CFO Conclave 2017

BIG 8: Ideas that are shaping our world

An initiative to bring together the senior finance leadership

representing influential companies in India for 3 days. This
platform has actively engaged these change agents to
discuss pertinent issues, share best practices and
collectively drive the trade and business in India towards
growth working around the theme ‘BIG 8’.

However, The conclave has not been just about the Agenda
and Keynotes, but also well deserved time to unwind.
Sponsors for CFO Conclave 2017
Welcome & setting the context:

Anuradha Das Mathur

Editor- CFO India
Founder & Director
9.9 Media
 BIG I
Era of Isolationism: are strong economies rethinking globalisation?

Inaugural Address
by Chief Guest

Unfamiliar world: could this be a

new beginning?

Meera Shankar
Former Ambassador to the United
States & Germany
 Big II
India: in search of a new identity?

India’s unique position in the global

risk landscape:
insulated or at risk?

Daniel Wagner- Managing Director,

Risk Solutions, Risk Cooperative
(Washington, DC)
 Weather affects bottom line!
Himanshu Goyal, India Sales & Alliances Leader, The Weather Company, an IBM Business
 Big III
Central Banks: giving up on predictability?

The external economic and financial environment: Indian macroeconomics & finance:
What is the new normal ahead? stress and strain?
Andreas Bauer, Senior Resident Representative— Dr. Ajay Shah, Economist & Professor, NIPFP
India, Nepal, Bhutan, IMF
 BIG IV
Taxation: end of complexity or the beginning?

Taxing times:
taxation enters a new era?
V.S. Krishnan, Advisor, Tax Policy
Group, EY
Haiku JAM
Dhrupad Karwa
Day 1: Dinner & entertainment
 Big V
Disruptors & Innovators: will policy always play catch-up?

Amit Ramani Harsh Dhand Manas Datta Sindhushree Khullar Rodney D. Ryder Rajiv Kapahi
Founder & CEO Co-founder & CEO CFO Ex-CEO Partner Scriboard Sr Director- India
Awfis RentSher Wockhardt Niti Aayog Hub, Finance
Boston Scientific

Sharing economy: end of ownership? Disruptive innovation: policy playing catch-up

with business models?
Pivotal Moment in Spend Management
Ramesh Iyer, Senior Advisor, Happay
 Business transformers:
Robotic Process Automation (RPA), the new disruptor?

Kanwar Singh Giridhar Sanjeevi Ajay Kumar

Vice President-Finance CFO Director, Sales Consulting,
Oracle Indian Hotels Company ERP (India),
Oracle
 Big VI
Demonic Data: are we risking everything?

The big paradox: It’s scary!

Shivangi Nadkarni
Co-founder & CEO, Arrka Consulting &
Author at Data Security Council of India blog
 Big VII: Changing corporate equations: impossible is nothing?
Founders, executive, investors…: who is the new boss?

Nawshir H. Mirza Dr. Sankarshan Basu Praveen Sood Rishabh Kaul

Professional Associate Professor Group CFO Co-founder
Independent Director IIM-B HCC Group of Companies Belong
Big VII: Changing corporate equations: impossible is nothing?
Disrupting deals: Deals big & small that went wrong
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Anil Khandelwal Anup Vikal Sayamdeb Mukherjee

Partner CFO CFO
Lantoms Advisors Snapdeal United Breweries
Workforce cost, compliance & productivity issues?
Think workforce management
 BIG VIII
Future of work: man or machine?

Rishabh Kaul Joydeep Datta Jayant Menghani Alok Bajpai Badri Sanjeevi Nandita Gurjar
Co-founder Director- CFO Global CFO Co-Founder & Advisor
Belong Finance, DHL Netmagic CEO Startups
Sapient Mauj Mobile

Beware, the Bots are coming: On the talent hunt:

are humans at threat? hard to find, tough to keep?
 Day 2: Dinner & Entertainment
with His Highness Sri Sri Arvind Singhji Mewar
 The Future CFO

Mindful Leadership: Gender inequality: from The future of leadership:

predictive or responsive? physical to the virtual? on a new tangent?
Gagan Adlakha Nirmala Menon Santhosh Babu
Leadership Coach & Sr Partner, Founder & CEO Chairman & Founder
Vyaktitva Interweave Consulting OD Alternatives
Closing keynote – CFO@2020: Learning, unlearning, relearning

V.S. Parthasarathy
Group CFO & Group CIO,
Mahindra and Mahindra
 Participants
First Name Last Name Designation Company
Meera Shankar Former Ambassador to the United States and Germany
Sandeep Jain CFO 9.9 Media
Bhavin Ashar Director - Finance Amcor Flexibles India Private Limited
Sanjeev Motiyani ED - Finance & Logistics Armstrong World Industries (India) Private Limited
Vikash Dugar CFO Ashiana Housing Limited
Hemant Gupta CFO Blackberrys
Chandan Goyal CEO Blue Consulting Private Limited
Aneel Gambhir CFO Blue Dart Express Limited
VN Iyer SVP - Finance and Accounts Blue Dart Express Limited
Rajiv Kapahi Senior Director - Finance Boston Scientific India Private Limited
Umesh Garg Insolvency Professional Brooklyn Fincon
Anil Sarda CFO BTB Marketing Private Limited
Kumar Nitin VP - F&A CtrlS
NK Jain CFO DCM Shriram
Anurag Bansal Group CFO DDB Mudra Private Limited
Sandip Dadkar VP - Finance & Operations Decision Minds India
Arjun Verma ED & CFO Devyani International Limited
Naresh Nagaraj VP & Head - Leisure Finance FCM Travel Solutions India Private Limited
Ajay Shah Professor NIPFP
Sindhushree Khullar Ex-CEO Niti Aayog
Santhosh Babu Chairman & Founder OD Alternatives
Vinod Agarwal CFO Guthy Renker
 Participants
First Name Last Name Designation Company
Paresh Gupta CFO GVK Bio
Nisar Ahmed CFO Hawa Valves (India) Private Limited
Arun Khodpia GM - Corporate Finance & Taxation Historic Resort Hotels Private Limited
Balveer Singh Naruka GM - Corporate Compliance Historic Resort Hotels Private Limited
Prashant Agarwal AVP - Finance & Accounts Team IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited
Surendra Singhal Director - Finance Infinera India Private Limited
Mitesh Talati Finance Controller Johnson & Johnson Private Limited
Sanjeev Jha Director - Finance Kelly Services India Private Limited
Sajal Gupta Group CFO Keystone Realtors Private Limited (Rustomjee Group)
Chetan Badal CFO Kokuyo Camlin Limited
R Anantha Raman EVP & Head - Group Internal Audit Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
Atul Banshal President - Finance & Accounts M3M India Private Limited
Jagjeet Singh CFO (DLSI) Mahindra Defence Systems India Limited
Saurabh Gupta CFO-MDNS Mahindra Defence Systems India Limited
Arun Gupta CFO Mahindra Telephonics Integrated Systems Limited
Salil Ravindran Global CFO Marlabs Inc
Dhirendra Srivastava CFO Matrix Clothing Private Limited
Surajit Chakrabartty CFO Medgenome
Sanjeev Kharbanda GM - Corporate Finance, Treasury & Taxation Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Private Limited
Vijay Govindarajan SVP Mphasis Limited
Nandita Gurjar Advisor Startups
Rodney Ryder Partner Scriboard
 Participants
First Name Last Name Designation Company
Yagnesh Sanghrajka CFO MT Educare Limited
Prakash Sharma CFO National Skill Development Corporation
Sanjeev Bhatia CFO PC Jeweller Limited
Shrikant Bhakkad CFO Pennar Engineered Building Systems Limited
Ranjit Nair Group Director - Corporate Finance Quess Corp Limited
Vivek Gupta CFO Radnik Exports
Deepak Harlalka SVP & CFO Raychem RPG Private Limited
Sushil Batra CFO Relaxo Footwears Limited
Sanjay Kumar Sood CFO Ricoh Innovations Private Limited
Rakesh Mishra AVP - Finance Sasken Technologies Limited
NK Kakani Senior Executive Director Simplex Infrastructures Limited
Sarvesh KP AVP - Business Finance SLK Software Services Private Limited
Sanjiv Nanda Director & CFO Smarthead
Rakesh Mistry Global Procurement & APAC Finance Sophos Technologies Private Limited
Srikanta Kumar Mishra CFO Tata Sponge Iron Limited
Aniruddha Bhattacharyya Head - Finance & Accounts TE Connectivity India Limited
Vinay Deshpande Head - Finance Tower Watson Insurance Brokers India Private Limited
Ajay Agrawal CFO Vipul Limited
Aninda Chatterjee ED - Finance WBEIDC
Harsh Dhand Co-founder Rentsher
Gagan Adlakha Leadership Coach Vyaktitva
Mukesh Agarwal Director - Finance, India HQ ZS Associates India Private Limited
 Participants
First Name
First Name Last Name
Last Name Designation
Designation Company
Company
Jayant Menghani CFO & CS DHL Supply Chain India Private Limited
Praveen Sood Group CFO Hindustan Construction Company Limited
Anil Khandelwal Managing Partner Lantoms Advisors LLP
Alok Bajpai Global CFO Netmagic
Kanwar Singh VP - Finance Oracle India Private Limited
Joydeep Datta Director - Finance Sapient
Anup Vikal GP General Counsel & CFO SnapDeal
Sayamdeb Mukherjee VP - Planning & Control United Breweries Limited
Manas Datta Group CFO Wockhardt
Giri Giridhar CFO & Member of the Board Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris (Indian Hotels)
VS Parthasarathy Group CFO & Group CIO & Member of Executive Board Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
Badri Sanjeevi CEO - Mauj Mobile; Group CFO - People Group People Group (Mauj Mobile)
Shivangi Nadkarni Co-founder & CEO Arrka
Amit Ramani Co-Founder & CEO Awfis
Rishabh Kaul Founder Belong.co
VS Krishnan Advisor - Tax Policy Group EY
Dhrupad Karwa Founder HaikuJAM
Sankarshan Basu Professor IIM Bangalore
Nawshir Mirza Professional independent Director
Andreas Bauer Senior Resident Representative - India, Nepal, Bhutan IMF
Nirmala Menon Founder and CEO Interweave Consulting
Thank You!