Chaitanya is Information Technology & Digital Transformation leader with close to three decades of experience. He is responsible for IT Strategy and Roadmap, Business Transformations, IT Service Delivery and Operations for JM Financial Group. Chaitanya has strong leadership skills, strategic planning ability and global vision to expand the business impact of IT. Technology, he says, is not for the sake of technology, but should have focus on Business Value Creation. He has played various value added senior management roles, partnering with CXOs in influencing overall direction of all technology functions associated within the enterprise. Chaitanya’s core strengths are to work with Passion and Commitment, Connect with People and having Clear set of Values. Chaitanya has an exceptional track record as an innovative and accomplished technologist in Financial Services industry. His enriched experience includes managing global team footprints and his prior organizations include UBS Securities, JM Morgan Stanley, DSP Merrill Lynch etc. On spiritual side, he believes in Swami Vivekananda’s Advaita Vedanta philosophy that we are spiritual souls having a human experience and our goal is to realize the divinity within. Chaitanya holds Engineering degree (B.E.) in Electronics from University of Pune. He holds many professional certifications and he speaks frequently on evolving world of IT.

Nitin Agarwal has two decades of experience in global service and IT project delivery across banking, retail and healthcare companies in APAC, Europe and USA. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he set up three companies as founding  member – BrainVisa Technologies (eLearning Platform and service for Global Fortune 500), BigShoeBazaar (Yebhi.com – eCommerce), and Incred (NBFC & Housing Finance Company). He has also been associated with and provided technology solutions for companies like UPS, Microsoft, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, among others. Nitin is a Silver Medallist from IIT Delhi. He is an avid traveller and a foodie and enjoys a game of quash.

Over 22 years growing businesses in Media, Banking, Telecom and Technology.

As CxO, led sales, marketing, product, finance, operations and IT. Currently promoting startups and new ideas in IT led businesses. Also heading the IT function, digital marketing and online sales as CIO for the largest movie exhibition company (PVR) in India.

Earlier, had led the Response-IT for the largest print company in India (BCCL/Timesgroup). Managed the systems for ads-sales, MIS, planning, scheduling and pre-press. Prior to Bennett, I had setup the technology and started the mobile payments/wallet for Airtel (Payments Bank).

I had also worked like a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in Banking at JP Morgan Services in India, centralising IT and Operations for Treasury and Securities Services (TSS). And had before that, helped Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) as their liquidity, cash and trade partner in Standard Chartered Bank.

Management expertise in:
Business and product development, program & project management, loyalty, marketing, business & IT architecture, partner governance, strategy and change management. Venture funding.

Industry expertise:
Entertainment/Retail, Print and digital media. Ecommerce. Banking – retail, wholesale and investment banking. Telecommunication (mobile, mobile money/ mobile wallet/mobile payments).
Digital transaction services (billing/ticketing/order management/STP/ecommerce). Cash & liquidity management, trade finance and mobile-commerce.

Technology expertise:
Enterprise and service oriented architectures (SOA), BPM, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile and Cloud technologies. Polyglot (multiple programming languages) architecture background. Technology environments include Java frameworks, SAP (IS-MAM), Javascript, Python, Ruby, Perl, Tensorflow, PHP, JavaEE, Scala, Microsoft .Net, Erlang, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, Docker.

Jagmal Singh is the Chief Technology Officer at Paisabazaar.com, India’s largest lending marketplace. He leads all tech functions including infrastructure, engineering, mobile and app for Paisabazaar. Jagmal is an alumni of IIT Delhi and has worked with one of the world’s top hedge funds for over 5 years. He has also been an entrepreneur, building two start-ups, one of which was acquired by Cardekho.

Vivek started his career at the Magnon group. The 300+ member Magnon group today is a part of the Fortune 500, Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC). Of its two agencies Magnon eg+ and Magnon\TBWA, Vivek leads Magnon eg+ across international markets, including North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, apart from India. Vivek was named Managing Director of Magnon eg+ in 2014, at the young age of 33. This made him perhaps the youngest ever MD of a multinational agency in India. He has been profiled as a case study in the bestseller book ‘30 Something CEO’.
Magnon eg+ is an award winning digitally-led specialist agency. Major clients include Google, Hewlett Packard, Etihad Airlines, Nissan Motors & Tata Communications. Magnon eg+ is also Omnicom’s largest digital & creative production center anywhere in the world. It works as a strategic
arm of Omnicom agencies such as TBWA, DDB and BBDO from around the world and has workedon over 100+ global brands. It. Vivek is also on the advisory board of several exciting start-ups, including Talentrack – India’s
largest hiring platform for the US$ 25 billion media & entertainment sector. Within 3 years of being set up, Talentrack today aggregates over 250,000 talent and 10000+ industry recruiters and is trul digitizing and democratizing the industry. The platform processes over a million job & audition applications for talent such as Actors, Models, Singers, Photographers, Anchors, Dancers etc. He is a regular speaker and panelist at various corporate and academic forums and is an MBA from
LBSIM, New Delhi. His interests include swimming, cycling, horse riding, tennis and is passionate about travelling the world. As of now he is worried about strands of grey hair!

Mohit is a graduate in Computer Science from MNNIT Allahabad (Class of 2006), having a total 13+ years of experience in building large scale enterprise level applications. Currently working with Chaayos as their CTO, Mohit is working on building next generation retail technologies. Passionate
about programming, he has built the world class retail tech and an ERP solution with team of 5 developers. Apart from Software, Mohit also has a team of Hardware Engineers who have built the first in the world Automated Fresh Tea Brewing Machine. Prior to Chaayos, he started his career with Globallogic India Pvt. Ltd. Which is one of the best Software Development Outsourcing Companies, as a Software Engineer for 1 year. After that, he worked at Tribal Fusion which is a technology-enabled media services company that offers Digital Marketing solutions for advertisers and publishers, he was involved with the adApp team as a Senior Software Engineer for 2 years and 5 months. He was the Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Bangalore which is a leading global investment management firm. He worked there for 5 years and 8 months.