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PROFILE EXECUTIVE CONNECT Lakshay Jindal, Director & Chief Marketing Officer, Jindal Mechno Bricks, leads the company
INNOVATIVE LEADER

from the front and is responsible for its success. Following his father’s footsteps, Lakshay at a very
young age had been involved in business with his father. He used to be at engineering sites
doing experiments and finding new ways to solve the challenges faced in making better bricks.
Under his leadership, the company is now getting into innovative and eco-friendly products, new
innovations, and international developments. Lakshay being a core team member engages
regularly on an individual basis with his various teams, while using his entrepreneurial skills to lead
the company to success. Born and brought up in Delhi, Lakshay has done a B.Tech (CSE) from
IIIT Bangalore and completed a course on Investment banking from Harvard University, USA. He
has also completed an M.Tech (Theoretical Computer Science) from IIIT Bangalore following multiple internships. After a stint at
Harrier, he started his own venture in the field of advertising and ultimately shifted to the family business.
GAME CHANGER

Gita Balakrishnan, Founder, Ethos, in 2002 as an initiative to bridge the gap between students
and professionals from the ACED fraternity (Architecture, Construction, Engineering, and Design). It
is a platform for up-and-coming professionals to engage with each other and to empower them.
As one of the four verticals of Ethos, and an initiative under the Ethos Foundation, Gita introduced
Arcause as a platform for acknowledging, enlisting, and actualizing Social Responsibilities of
Architects, Designers, Engineers, and others associated with the ACED Fraternity.
Gita is a graduate from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She completed her
practical training at the Centre for Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, USA. Ethos and its events have enabled her to influence more than 45000
students of architecture and civil engineering and to create opportunities for them to showcase their talent. She has collaborated
with various NGOs for Financial Inclusion programs, sustainable health and sanitation projects, and inspiring talented young
professionals to act upon such vital issues.

GO-GETTER
Anil Mehra, Senior Vice President - Global Sales and Marketing, Matrix Comsec, as part of
the executive leadership and reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, will be responsible for
all activities related to the marketing and sales functions. Anil has more than 2.5 decades
of experience in General Management, Sales, Product Marketing, and Distribution. Having
worked with diverse industries like Fire, Security, Fitness and Electricals and as he has been an
entrepreneur for a few years will enhance the growth of the company.
Anil has worked for about 10 years at Honeywell, his last assignment was as Country Director for
ADI business where he led a large multifunctional team and was accountable for full P&L.
Prior to that Anil worked at Ceasefire where he held multiple sales roles, he established the Corporate Sales Division and a Training
Academy that trained people on “Selling Skills” and “Leadership Development”. He has well-rounded exposure to various business
models including SaaS, and RTMs like B2B, B2G, B2C, D2C and B2B E-commerce along with significant exposure to almost all the
industry/customer verticals. Anil brings the right mix of leadership experience and skills to take Matrix to the next level.
TECH GURUECH GURU
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Amit Goel,Chief Technology Officer, Blox, with more than a decade of experience in AI, has
worked in segments like consumer internet, payments, finance and trading which helps in
holistic designing and delivering. He has architected and implemented Semantic Search (AI)
based products from scratch for 3 years with semantic insights, creating NLP models for reading
and writing. He has worked for various startups and MNCs. At CA Tech, he scaled application
monitoring to support billions of transactions per second; processing business data, analytics and
revenue. At PayPal he contributed in developing multiple MVPs. At Roomoncall, he developed
the product from scratch to handle millions of dollar GMV at scale. While at Dhani, he handled
consumer finance and stocks, and revamped the customer onboarding experience on the
app that reduced onboarding time from days to seconds. At Blox, with additional responsibilities,
Amit will overcome the regulatory industry with RERA and other compliances which brings its own challenges to remain compliant,
Having worked across domains, companies and cities, Amit has the networking that will help Blox in team building and attracting
more talent. Amit Goel holds a MS from BITS Pilani, and an impressive educational background from many other reputed institutions
including IIM, Lucknow. Alongside his education, he also owns 3 patents, 2 patents pending in areas of Semantic Search and
Biometric Security.

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