Mr Ajit Mehta brings with him over more than 40 years of experience across diversified industry segments including 20 years in the textiles, chemicals, building material and construction sector and more than 16 years of experience in the automobile industry. Today, under his leadership and guidance Infibeam Avenues Limited has diversified its fintech portfolio which comprises of digital payment solution and enterprise software platform in India and International. His vision is to create an Indian conglomerate offering world-class fintech solution to the merchants and government globally.

Vishal Mehta is the Managing Director of Infibeam Avenues Limited. He shoulders an imperative role in building and scaling a world-class team that designs innovative digital solutions and powers financial transactions globally under their flagship brand CCAvenue, with a vision to be a global fintech engine.

His ambition is to nurture Infibeam Avenues into a global digital payment infrastructure network, wherein as a network, its role will be to process global financial transactions; enabling smooth transactional experience for enterprises, corporates, startups, merchants, and governments globally.

Vishal holds degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, USA and management degree from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. After completion of his graduate studies, he joined Amazon headquarters where he played a key role in revitalizing technology and brought spurt in finance and corporate development.

After spending ten years of his life in the US, he returned to India in 2007 with several colleagues from Amazon and founded Infibeam, making it one of the largest fintech, software and payment infrastructure company; doing more than twenty billion dollars of transactions annually across more than a million merchants.

Mr. Vishwas Patel is the founder of the payment gateway brand, CCAvenue, founded in the year 2001. CCAvenue is among the top 3 online payment gateway platforms in India and ranks number 2 in the UAE among non-bank private digital payment companies. He has studied law and was a practicing counsel on the original side of the Bombay High Court. He is currently the Chairman of the Payments Council of India, the primary industry body representing all the digital payments providers in India. PCI works closely with the regulators i.e. Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Finance Ministry and any similar government, departments, bodies or Institution to make ‘India a less cash society’.

Mr. Keyoor Bakshi is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce and has done Bachelor of Law (LLB). He has more than 40 years of experience in the areas of corporate laws, finance and management. He also rendered professional services to various companies as a Practicing Company Secretary since 1991. His areas of expertise include Corporate Governance, Corporate and Securities Compliance Management, Due Diligence, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Public offerings of Securities and appearances before the Company Law Board, Securities Appellate Tribunal and SEBI. He is trained as a Trainer on Corporate Governance by the Global Corporate Governance Forum, a body of the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank. He also served as President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India during the year 2008 and also as the President of International Federation of Company Secretaries (which has since merged with the Corporate Secretaries International Association) during the year 2009-10.

Mr. Roopkishan Dave has done B.E. in Electronics and Communication, M.B.A., M.Sc. in Health Science and also holds Ph.D in Disaster Management. He has more than 43 years of experience includes Spectrum Management, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Automation and Control system, Climate Adaptation, and Disaster Risk Management. He represents on the Advisory committee of various institutions / Government agencies working on climate change, disaster risk mitigation, skill development and capacity building. He is also a member in the “Expert Committee” constituted by National Academies of Sciences (www.nas.edu), USA, on Future Alert and Warning System.

As a civil servant worked with Central and State Governments in various capacities. Also provided consultancy services at State, National and international levels including – National Disaster Management Authority (GoI), Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (Govt. of Gujarat), Gujarat Info Petro Limited (Govt. of Gujarat Undertaking), State Government of Karnataka, Himachal, Jharkhand, Gujarat on projects funded by ADB, UNDP, World Bank, NASA, USAID etc.

Mr. Piyushkumar Sinha holds Ph. D. in the subject of Management. He is Director, CRI Advisory and Research. He more than 40 years of Advisory, Research and Training as well as Managerial experience in marketing, sales, retailing, service and business strategy for product as well as service companies (B2Cand B2B), in the domains of Retailing and E-Commerce; Luxury and Lifestyle; Healthcare; Decision Sciences and IT. He has been involved in more than 100 advisory and training initiatives in these areas.

He was a Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India till March 2018. Before IIMA, he taught at IIM Bangalore, XIMB and was Dean at MICA. He has published articles in International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Research, Journal of Brand Management, QMR: An International Research Journal; FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [On-line Journal] and Vikalpa. He has served on the editorial board of International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences and was the Resident Editor for AMS Review. He has published several books. He is one of the few resources in qualitative research in the country.

Ms. Vijaylaxmi Sheth has done B.A. (Sanskrit & Psychology) and M.A.(Economics & History). She has Over 37 years of experience working for the Government of India in various capacities such as undersecretary in Ministry of Finance, Joint Secretary (equivalent) in Department of Space, Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. She has been featured in Coffee Table Book brought out by Women and Child Development Department, Government of Gujarat.