Nandan M. Nilekani

Co-founder and Chairman of the Board

Nandan Nilekani is the Co-founder and Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner centric, technology based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children. He was most recently the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Nandan Nilekani was previously the Co-chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited, which he co-founded in 1981.

Born in Bengaluru, Nilekani received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT, Bombay. Fortune magazine conferred him with “Asia’s Businessman of the Year 2003”. In 2005, he received the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He was also named Businessman of the Year by Forbes Asia. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 and 2009. Foreign Policy magazine listed him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010. He won The Economist Social and Economic Innovation Award for his leadership of India’s Unique Identification initiative (Aadhaar). In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from E&Y. CNBC-TV 18 conferred India Business Leader award for outstanding contribution to the Indian economy in 2017 and he also received the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic and Business Innovation, 2017.

Nandan Nilekani is the author of “Imagining India” and co-authored his second book with Viral Shah, “Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations”.

Salil Parekh

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Salil Parekh, as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, sets and evolves the strategic direction for the company and its portfolio of offerings, while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive its execution. Salil has nearly three decades of global experience in the IT services industry with a strong track record of driving digital transformation for enterprises, executing business turnarounds and managing successful acquisitions. He is a member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Earlier, Salil was a member of the Group Executive Board at Capgemini, where he held several leadership positions for 25 years. He was responsible for overseeing a business cluster comprising Application Services (North America, UK, Asia), Cloud Infrastructure Services, and Sogeti (Technology & Engineering Services Division). He was responsible for the strategy and execution of these businesses - setting direction and enabling rapid client adoption. He was also the Chairman of Capgemini’s North America Executive Council. He was the architect of the North America growth and turnaround strategy, and was instrumental in setting up their offshoring capabilities.

Salil was also Partner at Ernst & Young and widely credited for bringing scale and value to the Indian operations of the consultancy firm.

He holds Master of Engineering degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Mohit Joshi

President

Mohit Joshi is a President of the company. He is responsible for the Financial Services & Healthcare/Life Sciences businesses at Infosys. In addition, as Chairman of Edgeverve Systems Ltd, he leads our software business which includes Finacle, our Global banking platform. He leads Sales Operations and Effectiveness for Infosys and has executive responsibility for Large deals across the firm.

Mohit joined Infosys in 2000 and has since worked in different capacities for the firm. In his previous role, he was responsible for leading the Financial Services business in Europe. In 2007, Mohit was appointed as CEO of Infosys Mexico and was instrumental in setting up the first subsidiary in Latin America.

He is also a Non-Executive Director at Aviva Plc. He is a member of the Risk & Governance and Nomination committees.

Mohit was also invited to join the Global Young Leader program at the World Economic Forum in 2014. He is the Vice Chair of the Economic Growth Board of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and is a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization).

Mohit has previously worked with ABN AMRO and ANZ Grindlays in their Corporate and Investment bank. He holds a M.B.A from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University and a Bachelor’s degree in history from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Samad Masood

Head of Europe and Industries, London

Samad is the European head of the Infosys Knowledge Institute and leads the Industry research output for the practice. He has spent the past 20 years as a technology journalist, researcher, thought leader and innovator.

Most recently he developed Accenture’s start-up innovation practice in the UK, first setting up and running a series of start-up accelerators in the Fintech, Retail, and Health sectors, and then leading the company’s Open Innovation group in the UK, while also selling digital strategy services to clients. Before this he was that firm’s Technology research lead, having been a researcher a principle research analyst at firms such as Computerwire, Datamonitor and Ovum, and a writer for magazines including Risk, Information Age and Computer Business Review.

Karmesh Vaswani

EVP and Global Head Retail, Consumer Goods & Logistics, Infosys

Karmesh Vaswani leads the Consumer Goods & Tech, Retail and Logistics Global Business Unit of Infosys.

Karmesh partners strategically with the Executive Board leadership teams of Enterprise clients to help strategise, plan and implement next generation business, digital and technology capabilities. He has extensive cross industry expertise in the areas of Global supply chain management, Logistics Transformations, Sales & Marketing, Finance & HR Transformations and setting up Global Shared Enterprise Services. He has led a number of initiatives to carve out new sources of competitive advantage in the Consumer, Retail and Logistics industry, delivering tangible improvements in free cash flow for the Enterprise clients. He is very actively involved in shaping new ecosystems with innovative startups, select cloud providers and the business technology services of Infosys to shape new business models Enterprise Clients.

A passionate advocate of Diversity at the workplace, Karmesh leads the global diversity programme at Infosys and also helps clients cultivate diversity in their Technology and Business services groups. Karmesh represents Infosys at the World Economic Forum and is involved Global Taskforces focused on China and India markets.

Prior to joining Infosys in 2003, he was a senior executive with Accenture for 10 years, and specialized in leading large business and technology transformation programmes in Asia Pacific region in the Manufacturing, Logistics and Consumer industries. He has received a Bachelors with Honors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from VJTI, University of Mumbai (India) and also Executive Global Leadership Development Programme at Stanford University (USA). Karmesh is based in London, UK.

Tom Daley

British double world champion diver, Four-time Olympic Gold and Bronze medallist

Tom Daley is one of the biggest names in world diving and one of the most popular sportsmen in Great Britain, having won medals at every level of the sport, including Gold and Bronze at this year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Gold at three World Championships - in 2009, 2015 and 2017 - and Bronze at both the London and Rio Olympics.

This is thanks, in part, to the incredible achievements he made as such a young competitor, 27 year old Tom Daley first made a name for himself when he won the European 10m platform gold as a 13 year old in 2008; reaching the Olympic final at 2008’s Beijing Summer Olympics, to become Britain’s second youngest male Olympian of all time.

Dr. Leda Glyptis

Chief Client Officer, 10x Banking

As Chief Client Officer, Leda focuses on driving delivery and client success for existing 10x clients as well as managing business development, partnership and marketing functions.

Leda is a former banker, technology executive, speaker and author. She was the founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry and Chief Innovation Officer at Qatar National Bank, the largest bank in the Middle East and North Africa. Before QNB, Leda served as a Director at Sapient, and led EMEA innovation at BNY Mellon. Prior to that Leda held operations and tech transformation roles within BNY Mellon, as well as serving as the head of services development for fintech start-up Great East London Software.

Leda holds an MA from King’s College, Cambridge, and an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a regular contributor to Fintech Futures under #LedaWrites.

Diana Kennedy

Chief Technology Officer, Bupa

Diana joined Bupa in January 2021 as Chief Technology Officer. This was following ten years at BP, where after her initial appointment as Chief Infrastructure Architect she held several IT leadership roles, until February 2017 when she was appointed Vice President, Strategy, Architecture and Planning for BP.

Prior to BP, Diana was Head of Architecture and Technology for British Gas, part of the Centrica group, where she led the solutions team for the retail transformation of British Gas. Diana started her career in consulting, firstly with Boston Consulting Group and subsequently PwC, where she held senior design and architecture roles, predominantly in the financial services and insurance sector.

Diana holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a post-graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of London and an MBA from Henley Business School. She has three children and competes for Great Britain in Masters Athletics in her spare time.

Peter Flavel

Chief Executive Officer, Coutts

Peter joined Coutts as Chief Executive in March 2016 and, under his leadership, the iconic private bank has undergone a significant transformation across all of the Bank’s key performance targets: Return on Equity has grown from 4% to over 16% in less than 4 years and his focus on simplification has seen a 20% improvement in the cost to income ratio of the 327 year old business. In addition, Peter’s passion for innovation across banking, lending and wealth management and raising the bar on service standards has led to a market-leading net promoter score from Coutts’ clients. He has revived Coutts’ branding and image to be more warm and modern, whilst taking pride in its history, encouraging clients to recognise that Coutts is ‘more than a bank’.

Peter has over 30 years of experience in financial services across Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Coutts, Peter was the CEO of J.P. Morgan Private Wealth Management in Asia Pacific based in Singapore. Peter also spent nine years with Standard Chartered in Asia and founded their global Private Bank in 2006.

Peter is vice Chair of Trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh Commonwealth Study Conference and a member of the Philanthropy Advisory Committee of the Royal Albert Hall.

Peter was born in Australia and has degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Adelaide and initially practised law as a barrister and solicitor. He has also attended the advanced management programmes at Harvard Business School, University of Oxford and Singularity University.

Marcelo Behar

Vice President, Sustainability & Group Affairs, Natura &Co

Marcelo Behar is a sociologist and a lawyer graduated at University of São Paulo, in Brazil. He has worked in many NGOs and as a journalist on Foreign Politics at Folha de São Paulo. He served the Brazilian government in the Justice (as Chief-of-Staff and responsible for the Brazilian Disarmament Campaign) and Strategic Affairs (as Vice-Minister) Ministries from 2003 to 2009. He is an executive since 2009, worked in infra-structure and joined Natura in 2013. He is currently the Vice President of Sustainability and Group Affairs for Natura &Co, the global beauty group that comprises Avon, Natura, The Body Shop and Aesop and is committed to address the climate crises, protect the Amazon, defend Human Rights and embrace circularity, all by 2030.

Chris Lovatt

Chief Operating Officer – Energy Infrastructure Services, E.ON UK Ltd

Climate change is an existential challenge and I am passionate about driving towards a zero carbon economy. As E.on UKs Chief Operating Officer for Energy Infrastructure Services, I lead a team committed to delivering a smart, sustainable and personalised energy world, that benefits customers and improves people’s lives.

We lead the role out of smart meters, the provision of energy efficiency measures such as insulation and new low carbon heating systems. We provide district heating generation and distribution, street lighting and grid connections to Towns, Cities and Property Developers. We are at the forefront of delivering new energy solutions to customers such as heat pumps, solar and battery storage as well as electric vehicle charging systems. We have a passionate team of Engineers and Customer Service experts – with a wealth of skills, knowledge and technical expertise.

I have spent 30 years working in major operational, commercial and supply chain roles for companies including Land Rover, BMW, Boots and as a Management Consultant for Ernst & Young. I joined E.ON in 2009 and held a number of senior roles in Supply Chain, Field Operations, Customer Service and Sales, before being appointed to the UK Board in 2017 as Managing Director of Residential. In September 2020 I was privileged to take up my biggest and current challenge.

Chris Youles

Chief Information Officer, The Open University

Chris started at the Open University in May 2014 as an Assistant Director in IT. After subsequently being promoted to Director of IT, he became the Chief Information Officer in December 2016. The role was further expanded in November 2018 to the current CIO Portfolio, bringing together all the digital technology services and creating a new centre of excellence for data.

As a member of VCE, Chris’ portfolio includes Information Security, Information Technology, Digital Services and the Chief Data Office. He is the sponsor and lead for the OU digital transformation programme, which covers all aspects of the on-line student/customer experience.

In addition to this the Strategic Technology Programmes sits firmly within the CIO Portfolio. Chris is the sponsor and lead for the core systems replacement programme (ERP & student administration). This is a circa £100M programme to replace the ageing legacy estate with cloud-based SAP.

Chris is leading an operational unit of over 600 permanent and over 200 offshore staff; providing technology, data and business change services to over 10,000 office staff across the UK and world-wide and the provision of a digital on-line student experience and learning environment to over 170,000 students world-wide.

Prior to the OU, Chris spent a number of years with BT, managing major technology programme implementations for some of BT’s biggest clients, including Lloyds Banking Group and the NHS.

Tina Smith

Senior Vice President, Corporate Services, Ricoh Europe

Tina is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Services at Ricoh Europe. She is responsible for the company’s business support functions across 23 Ricoh subsidiaries in the EMEA region. Her remit includes IT, shared services, legal and procurement. She holds positions on a number of Boards across the Ricoh Group.

Tina joined the Ricoh Group in 2006 as a lawyer before being promoted to Regional Legal Director, Group Legal Director, Vice President EMEA Legal and SVP Corporate services in 2018. Prior to Ricoh she was a commercial lawyer for British Airways.

Tina holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from King’s College, University of London and a master of laws degree (LLM) from the University of Cambridge. She currently resides in North London, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Tanya Beckett

Broadcaster, Business Journalist

Tanya Beckett is a banker turned broadcaster who has worked for the BBC presenting news and business programmes for over twenty years.

Among her ventures at the corporation, Tanya spent three years working for the BBC in New York, travelled extensively in Russia and roamed Europe reporting on the Eurozone crisis. She currently presents news and business news on BBC World News. Also writing, researching and presenting various documentaries for BBC Radio 4.

Tanya had an interesting journey reaching the point at which she now finds herself. It all started with her degree from Oxford in ‘Metallurgy and the Science of Materials’ Her first job was in research for Courtaulds and after a period of time with them she decided to make the leap from laboratory to finance when she began a stint in Investment Banking. She has worked in the past for such giants of the financial world as Citibank in London within their Credit Analysis division and with Commerzbank in Frankfurt, with the Capital Markets Division.

Journalism began to interest her and so it was only a short leap from that world into the World of TV, which Tanya made with spectacular success. In 1993 she joined NBC Europe/ CNBC Europe as a Business/ political reporter. Between 1993 – 1998 she continued to work for various Broadcasters such as CNN International, Sky News and Dubai TV, gaining valuable experience along the way.

Inevitably the BBC finally beckoned, and she became one of the regular anchors for Working Lunch on BBC 2, quickly followed by becoming one of the regulars on BBC 1’s Business Breakfast. She also became part of the business team on News 24 and BBC World.

Tanya is an experienced, competent and polished presenter/facilitator within the corporate world. She brings her wealth of business knowledge and experience to any event she is involved in.

John Winter

CEO for EMEA, MUFG Bank and Securities

John Winter is the CEO for EMEA, MUFG Bank and Securities. John has over 36 years of experience in financial services, including senior roles at four of the world’s largest banks, developing relationships with clients in a wide range of sectors, and providing strategic advice to senior executives.

Lovelda Vincenzi

MC & Host

Trusted to introduce and facilitate conversations with political figure heads, celebrities, senior executives and entrepreneurs, renowned MC, moderator and host Lovelda Vincenzi is a ‘true pro in a world where many others are mere amateurs.’

When it comes to elevating events to truly memorable and impactful experiences, her attention to detail, magnetism and infectious energy make her stand above the rest. Lovelda’s extensive experience means she understands the importance of commanding the audience’s attention right from the get-go so that they are fully engaged.

She has introduced and facilitated conversations with heavyweights including the legendary Olympian Carl Lewis, Monica Lewinsky, Kunal Nayyar (Big Bang Theory), Paul Polman (Former Unilever CEO) and Margrethe Vestagar (European Commissioner for Competition). Lovelda is also the consistent face of prominent events including the ChangeNow Summit, the world's largest conference on positive impact.

Born in the Caribbean, developed in Papua New Guinea and refined in the United Kingdom, Lovelda is a natural chameleon with a unique internationally neutral accent, and cultural adaptability that makes her perfect for multi-national audiences.

A skilled TV host, Podcaster, Presenter and Event Organiser, Lovelda enhances all event environments, whether they are live and in person, online or a hybrid.

The Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MP

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom

Nadine Dorries was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 15 September 2021, having previously served as Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care in May 2020 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the department in 2019.

The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the department including Arts and Culture, Broadcasting, Creative industries, Media ownership and mergers, Sport, Tourism and Telecommunications and online.

Nadine began her career as a nurse, then went on to set up her own business and later became a director at BUPA. She has also published a number of books. Nadine was elected as the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire in May 2005.