Nisary Mahesh is a former banker turned writer and entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience. Nisary is the Managing partner atHubwords Media LLP,a boutique creative shop with experience in content services, PR, digital marketing, and online branding. She is also a founder at hermoneytalks.com, a digital finance platform for women (a venture of Hubwords Media).

Nisary also has 7+ years of corporate experience in banking, customer service, credit appraisal, branch operations, training and team management at ICICI Bank, HDFC Ltd and Reliance General Insurance.

Nisary has 10+ years of experience in communications, branding and new media strategy profession as founder of Hubwords Media. She has been working as a Consultant, trainer and mentor for budding writers, online branding, creative communications, personal branding and new media strategy.

Nisary is a mentor at various women and Start-up platforms. She is passionate about empowering women financially. Nisary has also managed over 80 professional projects involving creative content, editorial management, marketing communication, and online branding.

Event Schedule:
10 February 2020 at 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM : Webinar on Content Marketing

LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nisary/

Kunal Karani is the co-founder and COO of Ledger Blocks a blockchain-based fin-tech start-up. Before Ledger Blocks he used to serve as the CEO of Turing Labs, a boutique blockchain consulting firm working with major governmental and private organizations. He was responsible for building new blockchain solutions aimed at enhancing various industries – healthcare, supply chain, e-identity (KYC).

His focus has been new-age technologies that are causing a paradigm shift in the way the world does business. He has proactively contributed to digital transformation by driving the mass adoption of blockchain technology.

Kunal is a 3-time entrepreneur with a deep understanding of several industries. He worked with Toyota Tsusho where he was managing the supply chain process for a range of stainless steel products. A Purdue University alumnus, Kunal brings to the table extensive international experience after spending a good part of his life in the US and Japan.

Event Schedule:
03:00 P.M – 04:30 P.M. :  Session on Demystifying Blockchain.

LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalkarani/

Mr.Amit heads Workplace Solutions for the Corporate Services segment with Sodexo India. With a career spanning 15 years within Global Consulting and Strategy roles with Global organizations, Amit as delivered end-to-end Strategic Transformation of the India/Global CRE organization of a Global IT giant. He brings rich experience in CRE Transformation, Workplace Strategy & Change, and Workplace Technology within Indian and Global landscape. He is passionate about helping clients create Intelligent Workplaces that augment Quality of Life of the occupants and create engaging & purposeful Consumer Experiences based on a solid foundation of Workplace Strategy, Design and Technology.

He holds the MRICS designation from RICS and is currently enrolled for the MCR.w program with CoreNet Global. He also holds multiple industry certifications with Project Management, Business Analysis and Change Management.

Event Schedule:
12:00 PM – 01:30 PM :  Session on Value Proposition Design

LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitlall14/

Current Role: Technical Program Manager at Facebook, MenloPark California

Previous Stints: 

1. Centurylink – Decision Science Analyst (NewYork)
2. Musigma – Senior Decision Scientist
3. Stanford University – Data Mining & Statistics – PostGraduate
4. RGPV Bhopal – Graduation

Event Schedule:
01:00 PM – 02:30 PM :  Product Strategy & Execution

Mr. Ankur Rajput is an assistant professor of Mobile Wireless & cloud Computing Security at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. He received his Master’s in cyber law and Information Security from NLIU Bhopal and his B.E in Computer Science from Acropolis Institute of Technology, Bhopal. He started his career as Senior Security Analyst from Price water house Coopers (PWC) Mumbai and worked in designing secure network architecture of financial bank. He also served Infosys Ltd, Bangalore for short span of time as Security Consultant in privacy domain and performed privacy impact assessments for many of their subsidiaries.
He has done online certification in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing from University of Maryland, college park, ‘Number Theory & Cryptography’ offered by University Of California San Diego and ‘Cryptography and Information Theory’ from University of Colorado System by Coursera Platform. His Research Area includes Cryptography and Network Security, Web Application Security and Information Technology Auditing. Currently he is working on a research project of Crypto Assets and its inclusion in Indian Economy.

Event Schedule:
03:00 P.M.–05:00 P.M  :  Technical & Legal Aspects of Cyber Security threats on Start-ups

Dr. Nilesh Khare is an academician, corporate trainer, CEO Coach, advisory board member, and a management consultant. Dr. Nilesh brings over 22 years of experience spanning consulting, social entrepreneurship, corporate life, and academia in India, USA and UAE. Dr. Nilesh is passionate about quality applied education, continuous improvement, institution building, critical, logical and scientific thinking, business problem solving, and teaching and training in strategy and related subjects.

Currently, he is the Dean, Executive & Distance Education, Professor of Strategy at the JLU and the Director, Jagran Lakecity Business School (JLBS), flagship business school at the university. He visits IIMs and other institutions as well. He also serves on the mentor panel of IIM Kolkata Innovation Park, as a member of investment committee for SME focused fund, and on the advisory boards of US based startup and an NGO—Muskaan Dreams, dedicated to educating shelter homes kid and digitalizing poor and rural Govt schools, and India Needs You, dedicated to building conscientious leadership capability for variety of areas in India. He is also volunteering with Govt. agencies such as MP police on police reform projects and MP planning commission.
He earned his Ph D in Strategy from Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA and taught there first as a graduate scholar and then as a faculty. He is also an MBA (Finance and Marketing), CFA(India), and BE (Electronics and Telecommunication from MNIT, Jaipur). He was awarded gold medal in CFA(India) beta group and earned national scholarships.

Dr. Nilesh has advised leading corporates in India, UAE and USA on strategy formulation, evaluation, and implementation. He conducts corporate management development programmes focused on strategic management areas. He works with a range of institutions from startups to MNCs across industries. Over the years, some of his top Indian clients include Taj Group of Hotels, VSNL, Marico Industries, Times of India group, BPCL, and DHFL. He coaches CEOs including of startups. Some of the startups he is working with are in the fields of Cloud based SaaS tools in project management and technology innovation in specialty chemical manufacturing business from the USA, and AI and machine learning in India. Earlier he worked with management consulting firms such as PwC and the Henley Center in India, and KPMG in South Africa.
He has presented his research at the most prestigious international conferences in his field such as annual conferences of SMS, ACAC, and AoM. He also serves as invited reviewer for journals such as JIBS, JMS, SEJ etc. His research in strategic management area focuses on clarifying and integrating theories that inform firms’ boundary decisions. These decisions are related to issues such as vertical integration, outsourcing, offshoring, strategic alliances and diversification. Additionally, he also conducts research examining boundary choices of public, commercial, quasicommercial, and NGO organizations in the context of poverty alleviation and public services. In particular, his work focuses on microfinance context.

Dr. Nilesh relocated to Bhopal, India, in June 2017 from the Fisher College of Business. He lives in Bhopal with his wife, kids, and parents.

LinkedIn

Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nileshkhare/

Event Schedule:
03:00 P.M.–06:00 P.M  :  Strategy & Start-up Entrepreneurship

Dr. Ankush Sharma is B.E. ( Industrial and Production) ( S.G.S.I.T.S Indore ) , Post Graduate ( Management ) Ph. D ( Management ) . Dr. Ankush has close to two decades experience in the field of Marketing and Leadership. He has worked major part of his corporate and Academic Life in Mumbai and have Leadership Roles in Various Capacities like Chief Operating Officer and Head – Management at reputed Institutes at Mumbai. He has served at IIM Ahmedabad for two years from 2005 – 2006 in the capacity of Academic Associate. He was a panel member to select students for 8 IIMs. He has conducted Leadership Training Modules at Corporates like IOCL, Indian Railways and other reputed Institute. He has a keen interest in sports and his leadership modules and Learning from sports is appreciated by various corporate houses. His Area of Interest is Marketing, Leadership and Particularly Sports Management .He is currently working at JLU, in the capacity of faculty, teaching modules on marketing and related fields.

Event Schedule:
03:00 P.M.–05:00 P.M  :  Leadership lessons for Start-ups & budding entrepreneurs