Amit Khanna
Chairperson (India)
Managing Director,
Phoenix Advisers
Amit Khanna
Amit is an Accountant and Management graduate by qualification and is based in New Delhi. As the Founder and Managing Director of Phoenix Advisers, Amit oversees the two divisions of Investment Banking and Multi-Family office. Phoenix specialises in the Education and Real Estate Industry. In his previous role, as CEO of InterGlobe Real Estate Ventures, Amit set up the Real Estate division for InterGlobe Enterprises and managed assets and cash equivalent to $300m. As an avid investor, Amit has invested in various private & public companies such as Hopscotch.in (online baby clothes e-commerce site), Shantha Biotech (Biotech Company), Aro Granite (Listed granite processing company), PayTM (payments gateway), Cipher (Cancer Care), United Wind (US-based distributed wind energy company) etc.
Avinash Khater
Founder Chairman of The Real Estate Kings (TREK)
Avinash Khater
- Focuses & specializes in Luxury Residential Real Estate Development, in Posh Locations of Mumbai.
- Dealing in Apartment Sales, with a Base Unit Price of USD 2 Million (AED 8 Million.)
- Personally known to Top Real Estate :
- Architects- Interior Designers- Government Officials
- Real Estate Consultants- Realtors
- International Property Consultants
- Construction Companies & Allied Professionals / Consultants;
directly and / or indirectly related to the Real Estate Development Industry.
- Founder Chairman of The Real Estate Kings (TREK), in Mumbai, India.
- TREK is an Elite Group of 70 (Seventy) Crème-De-La-Crème Realtors.
- The Chairmanship of TREK, gives Avi, huge access to all categories of Realtors, in India.
Jitender Girdhar FRICS, FAIQS
Co-founder & Director at Qonqests Technical Solutions and VDC Technologies
Jitender Girdhar FRICS, FAIQS
Jitender Girdhar is ‘Managing Partner & Director’ at ‘Qonqests Technical Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (QTS)’, and ‘Co-founder & Director’ at VDC Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Jitender co-founded two consulting businesses in India serving International construction market in UK, Middle East, Australia & US in the field of Cost consultancy and Building Information Modelling.
His contribution to the construction sector is remarkable and counts well over 24 years of experience in the construction industry in India, Middle East, UK, US & Australia. His professional experience encompasses fields of Quantity surveying, Building Information Modelling, Cost Management, Construction auditing, Value Engineering, Risk management, Value Management, Project management, and Claims Preparation & Management.
Jitender is a Fellow of the ‘Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (FRICS) and a Fellow & Councilor of ‘Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors’ (FAIQS). He is an active Member at ‘Institution of Surveyors India’ and contributes significantly towards growth of emerging construction professionals.
Ajai A Kapoor
Chairperson (India)
CEO, 360 degrees - REAL ESTATE SERVICES
Ajai A Kapoor
An Engineer, MBA & IT professional turned Realtor, Ajai A Kapoor worked with a Singapore-based tech-focused MNC, for about 5 years, before entering the real-estate services industry in 2002. Ajai has about 18 years of in-depth experience in the Residential, Commercial & Retail sectors of real-estate industry. An approachable leader to his team at 360 degrees, Ajai is known to be a helpful person to associates, peers & colleagues from the industry. His company, 360 degrees is a leading real-estate services provider committed to provide the highest level of service to its clients - corporates as well as individuals, helping them make the right choice and decision for all their real-estate requirements.
Madhav Raman
Co-Founder, Anagram Architects
Madhav Raman
Madhav is an architect and urbanist. He co-founded an architectural practice in partnership with VaibhavDimri after they graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi in 2001. Formallyestablished in 2004, Anagram Architects is internationally recognised as amongst the top emergingpractices in the world with a commitment towards delivering deeply contextual designs that encouragesustainable lifestyles.Over the years the practice has garnered much international acclaim including a nomination for the AgaKhan Award 2010 and inclusion in the Wallpaper* Magazine’s “Architects Directory 2009”. Its work hasbeen premiated at the Architectural Review’s World Emerging Architecture Awards 2007, the CityscapeArchitectural Awards 2008, 2010 & 2016, the Wienerberger Brick Awards 2010, the SAIE Bologna 2010,2011 and 2012, the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction 2011, Asia Pacific Design Awards 2012,the International Design and Architecture Awards 2013, the Institute of Indian Interior Designers AwardsNational Winner 2017 and the Indipool India's Best Design Studio Award 2017.Anagram Architects has also featured in the International Architecture Biennale 2010 in Rotterdam andBiennial of Design (BIO23) 2012 held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They have been included in theArchitectural Digest's list of the most influential South Asian designers for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,2019 and 2020.Madhav has presented talks at many prestigious forums including the Preston Thomas Memorial LectureSeries at Cornell University, Ithaca, the Spring Lecture Series at RIBA, London, the PlanningCommission's mid-term appraisal of the 11th Five Year Plan and the Urban Mobility India 2010. He hasalso conducted lectures and workshops on architecture, urbanism, sustainability, non- motorised transit(NMT), Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and information & communication technology (ICT) at theCharles Correa Foundation (Panjim), Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), Sushant School of Art &Architecture (Gurgaon), Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (Mumbai), Centre forEnvironmental Planning Technology (Ahmedabad), School of Environment and Architecture (Mumbai)and Institute of Urban Transport (Delhi).Keenly involved in academia, Madhav serves on the advisory boards of Sushant School of Art &Architecture, the Pearl Academy School of Design and on the Area Advisory Board of Amity University,NOIDA. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE);and pucca.in, which are non-governmental organisations involved in building core infrastructure forbase-of-pyramid stakeholders in urban and rural contexts respectively.Madhav moderates the annual Design X Design roundtable in Delhi which aims at building discoursearound Indian design across disciplines. He has also served as a curator at the Indian Arch Dialogue(IAD) in 2018. He writes regularly for the Architectural Digest and the Times of India in addition tobeing published in the “Bahaus” magazine, Architektur Fachmagazin, Designboom and Archdaily.
Shradha Batra Mithal
Shradha Batra Mithal
Shradha’s work experience thus far spans a corporate career of about 15 years with General Electric, Unilever, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Religare Macquarie. She has held various leadership positions in marketing and the private banking space. She also headed the fund raising arm for Pratham Education Foundation in the US and in India, raising funds to cover the costs for educational intervention programs across rural India. In 2016 she started her entrepreneurship journey with Resettle. Resettle is a European Relocation Association certified company specializing in global work force mobility. She overlooks the Immigration consulting, destination services and real estate portfolios within the company. Resettle works with various fortune 500 companies, supporting their employee moves pan-India.
Her educational background includes a Bachelor’s in Commerce from Delhi University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, specializing in Marketing and Strategy. An avid traveller and reader, Shradha supports many charitable organizations.
Mallika Desai Thakker
Co-Founder & Creative Head at Vibe Design Lab.
Mallika Desai Thakker
Mallika Desai Thakker, has a graduate degree in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture, post which she joined Arizona State University for the Masters Program in Architectural Design, along with which she also obtained her LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation. On graduating, she completed a short working stint with Todd & Associates in Phoenix, Arizona, an architectural firm specializing in Condo developments (including assisted living, student housing and luxury condominium complexes) across the South-western states in America. Upon her return to India, she worked with Kapadia Associates Pvt Limited, Mumbai as Project Architect, wherein she worked on several projects, both residential & commercial with prestigious clients such as Lodha Developers and the Piramal Group of Companies. In 2009, she Co-founded her own Boutique Design Firm, Vibe Design Lab along with her husband and fellow architect Mr. Priyal Thakker, and has been an integral part of creatively directing the residential, commercial & retail design projects handled by the firm. Vibe Design Lab has recently segregated into the field of design-build projects and is successfully associated with several large and small clients, most notable amongst which are The Phoenix Group of Companies, Dentzz Speciality Clinics across India, Vardhaman Developers in Ludhiana, Disha-Loharuka Infratech Pvt.Ltd.(DLIPL)in Pune, The Radisson Group of Hotels, Magppie Retail across India, and Bombay Stores, to name a few
