Speaker

Maelle Gavet

One of the tech industry’s brightest stars, Maelle Gavet has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40, one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and was fifth among Time magazine’s List of the Top 25 ‘Female Techpreneurs’. After six years as a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group she went on to become CEO of OZON.ru, Russia’s largest e-commerce site, and executive VP of operations of the Priceline Group, the largest online and travel agency in the world which includes brands like OpenTable, Kayak, and Booking.com.

Most recently Gavet was Chief Operating Officer at real estate platform Compass, valued at over $6bn. She is also on the board of Edenred as well as other private company boards. Maelle Gavet was educated at Sorbonne University Institut d’études politiques de Paris.

She has spoken regularly at the leading technology industry events and her writing has appeared in Wired, the Harvard Business Review, the World Economic Forum, Fast Company and Fortune magazine. Trampled by Unicorns is her first book.

Moderator

Chitra Nawbatt

Chitra Nawbatt is a versatile multi-industry and multidisciplinary executive with a track record of leading, innovating and collaborating to drive results in dynamic competitive environments. Ms. Nawbatt has spent most of her career as a strategic multidisciplinary growth and change agent, building collaborative teams, processes and systems to reinvent culture, go to market strategy to execution, business and risk management, brand and external relations.

Chitra was the Global Head of Market Solutions at Genpact, an artificial intelligence, digital transformation, analytics and design thinking consulting firm. In this inaugural enterprise wide function, Chitra was responsible for driving new customer acquisition, partnerships, innovation and operational improvement. Ms. Nawbatt delivered strategic solutions to clients focused on revenue discovery, and business performance and digital transformation, specializing in financial services, technology, media, hospitality, consumer / retail industries. Chitra provided thought leadership and co-created various digital transformation services such as in credit and financial crimes risk management, etc. She was also a strategic advisor to the CEO, leading several growth initiatives and external stakeholder management, to drive Genpact’s pivot to a new growth identity, service lines and markets.

Previously, Chitra was the New York based Anchor for Reuters International TV where her broadcasts were seen by millions of households across the world. Her reporting focused on companies, markets and consumers in the U.S., China, Canada, Australia, Middle East and Africa, as well as the global economy. Chitra’s coverage and reporting were differentiated, thorough and substantive due to her holistic diverse research discipline and in-depth business domain from Wall Street.

Before her media career, Chitra was a C-level executive at Deutsche Bank, as well as held leadership roles in the areas of Global Banking and Regional Management. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Ms. Nawbatt established risk management functions at CIBC, and before that started her career at EY in Advisory and Assurance. Chitra has her Certified Public Accountant designation and was educated at Harvard Business School, Harvard University and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

You can reach her on twitter @chitranawbatt.