Dilip Asbe is the MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Prior to this, he was the Chief Operating Officer of NPCI. He has played a pivotal role in designing, building, operationalisation and management of large-scale innovative payments processing platforms like Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), Aadhaar enabled Payment System (AePS), India’s homegrown card network RuPay and much acclaimed Unified Payments Interface (UPI). He holds a Master of Science Degree in Global Management from the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK and an Engineering in Electronics degree from Mumbai University.

Sumant Kathpalia is a career banker with over 30 years of experience. He started his career at Citibank while doing a stint in Bank of America and ABN AMRO where he met his mentor Romesh Sobti and moved with him to play an important role in the turnaround of IndusInd Bank. When Sumant Kathpalia became the CEO of IndusInd Bank in March 2020, the industry was caught in a perfect storm. IndusInd was particularly hit because of structural imbalances as it faced a wave of deposit outflows. More than a year after that baptism with fire, Kathpalia has managed to reverse the deposit outflow and is now looking at new areas of growth, especially in rural India. As head of the bank's consumer banking vertical, Kathpalia has not only built the bank's retail loan book from scratch but also oversaw the bank's key acquisitions. Kathpalia is a chartered accountant and graduate in B Com (Hons.) from Hindu College, Delhi University.

With over three decades of experience, Mr Ghosh is a veteran of development finance and one of the foremost proponents of microfinance in India. He founded Bandhan as a not-for-profit enterprise in 2001 that stood for financial inclusion and women empowerment through sustainable livelihood creation. Under his leadership, Bandhan grew to become India’s largest microfinance institution (MFI) and the first MFI to transform into a pan-India, universal Bank in 2015. Mr Ghosh holds an MSc degree in Statistics and has attended the HBS-ACCION program on Strategic Leadership at Harvard Business School. He was also elected Senior Ashoka Fellow in 2007 by the Ashoka Foundation.

Meena Ganesh, the co-founder of the home healthcare company Portea Medical, has nearly three decades of experience across industries. She was previously a promoter of TutorVista, which Pearson acquired for $213 million in 2013. As a partner of Growthstory.in, she is also a co-promoter of nearly a dozen start-ups, including Bigbasket.com, HomeLane, FreshMenu, and Bluestone.com. In addition, she serves on the board of Pfizer India, P&G; Limited, Manipal Cigna, and Axis Bank. She won the ET Startup Award (2016) in the Women Ahead category and was chosen as Health Entrepreneur of the Year at the India Health Summit & Awards (2016). Meena has been part of Fortune India’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business for six consecutive years (2015-2020). "

Dipak Gupta is a whole-time director on the board of Kotak Mahindra Bank and is designated Joint Managing Director. He is also a part of the Group Management Council that drives Kotak Mahindra Group’s growth charter. Dipak helms numerous functions, including Vigilance, Internal Audit, Human Resources, IT including Cyber Security, Digital Initiatives, Customer Experience, Marketing & Communications, Environment Social Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Dipak has played a key role in building various businesses for Kotak Mahindra Group. Prior to joining Kotak in 1992, Dipak worked with the consultancy division of A.F. Ferguson. Dipak is a graduate in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Varanasi and a post-graduate in Management from IIM Ahmedabad.

To simplify online payments in India, Harshil Mathur founded Razorpay with his co-founder Shashank Kumar in 2014. Razorpay has been charting exponential growth since its inception. The fintech unicorn now plans to further solidify its position as one of the largest full-stack fintech companies in the country. An IIT Roorkee alumnus, Harshil, has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia class of 2021, Fortune India's 40 Under 40 list of 2019 and Entrepreneur India's 35 Under 35 class of 2021.

Rajeev Ahuja, Executive Director at RBL Bank, brings over 32 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been an integral part of the organisation’s transformation journey and is responsible for building the overall strategy of the Bank. He is also responsible for the Bank’s capital raising, development of new businesses, partnerships, and investor relations functions. Rajeev holds a Master's in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad.

Chetna Sinha is the founder and chairperson of the Mann Deshi Mahila Bank - the first bank for and by rural women in India - and the Mann Deshi Foundation - which empowers women entrepreneurs and undertakes community development initiatives in rural Maharashtra. She has served as a co-chair of the World Economic Forum 2018 in Davos and as a co-chair of Financial Inclusion at the W20 Summit 2018 in Argentina. She is a member of the BRICS Women's Business Alliance. In 2018, she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar by the President of India. Mann Deshi has supported over half a million women and aims to reach one million women by 2024.

An IIM-A alumnus and a Chartered Accountant, Anand Kumar Bajaj is the Founder, MD & CEO of PayNearby. With over 18 years of experience in Digital Payments and Mobility, Anand holds 5 patents in banking technology and worked earlier at YES Bank, ICICI Bank, and Ernst & Young. Previously he was the President and Chief Innovation Officer at YES Bank, where he steered several high-impact programs in digital payments. Anand has actively participated in the Steering Committee of NPCI shaping the IMPS and UPI industry and has been a member of RBI’s ad-hoc committee on Mobile Payments and NUUP. At the Fintech start-up, PayNearby, Anand and his team are committed to enabling the reach of digital payments and financial services at the first mile by empowering retailers.

As the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Rishi led Fino Payments Bank to profitability in FY19-20 within 3 years of starting operations. Under his stewardship, the bank’s PHYGITAL model created opportunities to service customers, which proved effective during the pandemic. Rishi’s vision to make the bank a preferred choice of customers enables Fino to continue making an invaluable contribution to the national agenda of financial inclusion and universal banking access. Rishi is currently associated with one of the premier industry associations in the country, ASSOCHAM, as the Co-Chairman of the National Council on Banking and Financial Services for the year 2021.

Rajeev has over twenty-five years of experience in cards, retail banking, product development, marketing, sales, and credit across products and services in India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. He has been with Mastercard since 2005, played multiple roles within the organisation. The most recent being Regional Director, Prepaid Management Services covering Middle East & Africa based in Dubai. Prior to Mastercard, Rajeev worked in several financial institutions including NBO in Oman, National Bank of Dubai, ANZ Grindlays & Standard Chartered in UAE, Arab National Bank in Saudi Arabia, and American Express TRS in India. Rajeev moved to Mastercard South Asia based in Mumbai and is responsible for driving Mastercard’s acceptance initiatives, pricing strategies, financial inclusion, partnerships, strategic merchant engagements including co-brands, expert sales including digital products, government, and transit for South Asia.

Financial Inclusion Summit - Praveena Rai is Chief Operating Officer of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). An ex-banker, she is now responsible for running the business, including products, operational and technical delivery. Passionate about payments and technology as drivers to economic value, she helps NPCI attain its strategic objectives of offering simple, secure and seamless digital payments experience to consumers and users across the ecosystem to further the cause of rapid digitalisation of India.

Rohit leads the Risk Advisory practice, comprising of Cyber and Strategic Services, Accounting & Internal Control Services and Regulatory Compliance Services for Deloitte India. He has over 22 years of experience in advising companies across jurisdictions in India and globally (US, Europe and Asia Pacific). His experience spans across varied sectors such as Financial Services, Infrastructure, Telecom, Government, Consumer Markets and Private Equity. Prior to this role, he was the Asia Pacific (APAC) Forensic Leader representing APAC in Global Forensic EXCOM and was also the Head of Forensic practice for Deloitte India. Rohit is also the Associate Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants, India.

J Venkatramu has over 24 years of experience in various functions of banking with core competence in the areas of Business Strategy, Product Development and Digital Financial Services with a deep understanding of technology as an enabler. Prior to India Post Payments Bank, he has worked with leading banking institutions such as Bank of Baroda, Axis Bank and Equitas SFB in various roles spanning across Project Lead and Domain Expert on Payment Products and Inclusive Banking. Venkat has also been a key industry spokesperson and is closely engaged with the government and regulatory institutions in policy formulation in a rapidly evolving industry. Venkat has graduated in Mathematics and Economics from Osmania University and completed the Executive Management Programme from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata .

Abhinav, Co-founder at Eko, started Eko in 2007. Eko's mission is to empower sellers to get first-time access to credit and scale their business. Today, it enables over 300k sellers across the country and has disbursed over US$ 400 million in credit to its sellers.

Financial Inclusion Summit - HP Singh is the Chairman and Managing Director of Satin Creditcare Network Limited. A first-generation entrepreneur, Mr Singh’s passion for social engineering has guided him in building a company that offers a diversified suite of products to serve the under-privileged segments of society. Under Mr Singh’s esteemed leadership, SCNL has crossed the $1 billion AUM mark to join the Ivy League of Companies in the billion-dollar club. Mr Singh has been awarded the ‘Social Innovator’ by Global HR Excellence Awards in February 2017. He was conferred the ‘Golden Globe Tiger Awards’ at an award ceremony in Malaysia in 2020 and 2018 and was honoured with the ‘Exemplary Leader’ Award at World HRD Congress held in Mumbai in February 2020.

Vishwas Patel is the Executive Director at Infibeam Avenues, India’s first listed e-commerce entity. He founded the payment gateway platform CCAvenue in 2001. He is currently the Chairman of the Payments Council of India, the apex body representing the companies in the payments and settlement system. He also serves as a member of various RBI committees to deepen digital payments in India. He has studied law and was a practicing counsel on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court.

Kshama Fernandes is the Managing Director and CEO of Northern Arc Capital, a leading non-banking finance corporation in India that invests and connects underbanked institutions and businesses to capital markets investors. Kshama has been a member of various High Powered Committees set up by the Government of India and has worked on consulting assignments for the World Bank, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and NSEIT. Kshama has been featured by FMO as a role model in banking. She is also a recipient of Accion’s Edward W. Claugus award for leadership in financial inclusion.