Speaker Bio:  

Rajen Padukone
CEO, Manipal Health Enterprises
Rajen Padukone is the CEO of Manipal Health Enterprises, the corporate healthcare and hospitals entity of the Manipal Education & Medical Group (Manipal Group). Manipal Group’s healthcare network comprises of primary, secondary and tertiary facilities. It has 17 hospitals covering 5,700 beds, in India and overseas. This network encompasses both corporate and teaching hospitals. His varied experience of over 30 years, covers the healthcare, education, banking and financial services and manufacturing sectors. His healthcare experience includes establishing start-ups, bringing about a turnaround in operations and building & linking healthcare networks across the spectrum of primary to tertiary care. He joined the Manipal Group in 1998 and has also worked in its education vertical. Between 1985 to 1998 he worked with ANZ Grindlays Bank in the areas of investment banking, international finance and retail financial services. He has also worked with Crompton Greaves and Kirloskar Oil Engines. He is a member of the National Committees on Healthcare with CII and FICCI, respectively.
Sriram Krishnan
CIO, ING Life Insurance, India
Sriram has 20 years of experience in IT and Insurance. He is responsible for Application Delivery, Infrastructure, Network and Security at IVL across the country. Prior to joining IVL, Krishnan worked as the Head of the Insurance Practice at Wipro Technologies. During his 8 years with Wipro, he was responsible for Business relationships at various marquee names in the global insurance industry such as Aviva plc.,Prudential plc., The Hartford,Friends Provident plc. among others. His experience with the insurance industry spans various geographies such as the US, UK, Asia, Australia and Japan. In his last assignment at Wipro, he was responsible for establishing Wipro’s Business Advisory Services in APAC. Prior to Wipro, he was the Principal Consultant (Life Insurance) for Asia at Apex Systems, Singapore where he led product design, development and implementation. He also worked for a brief period with the LIC of India as a Direct Recruit Officer of Class I rank.
Ramesh C S
CIO & VP – IT & KM, Titan Industries
Ramesh is CIO & VP – IT & KM in Titan Industries, a leading organization in retailing (Including Manufacturing) in Fashion Accessories Comprising of Watches and Accessories, Jewellery and Eye Wear. His overall contributions spanning across three decades of industry experience, comprises of several sectors like Electronic Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Plantation (Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail and Export), Manufacturing of Electrical Goods. Ramesh holds a Post Graduate Degree and Master of Philosophy in Mathematics along with MBA in Production Management. Having worked on multiple ERP and Retail Systems he has wide knowledge on all Core as well as Support Processes and he leverages this and contributes for the cause of overall IT industry. He has successfully implemented multiple ERP applications for various divisions of the organization. Apart from bringing in a host of new technologies, he has also been instrumental for many accolades specific to innovative utilization of the applications. With his strong IT and business skills, he continues to build state-of-art infrastructure and bring in user friendly applications to the organization.
Arun Prakash Goyal
Sr VP - IT, MPS
Arun is a CIO with 25 years of experience in successfully leading different IT Infrastructure and software projects. Business strategist; planned and managed multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains. Over a decade of extensive technical and business setup experience with profit accountability in organizations like TCS, Birlasoft and Visual soft. Proficient in developing & streamlining software development processes with proven ability to enhance operational effectiveness and meet operational goals within specified cost, time & quality. Attainment of ISO 9001:2000 certification and CMMI level 5 maturity in the organisation .
Muralidhara H S
Head IT, TTK Prestige
Muralidhar has 32 years of experience. He has Headed Stores and Central Excise functions for 27 years. He has been heading IT & IS functions for the past 5 years. Initial exposure to managing an implementation project (SAP) was in 2006-07, was involved in implementation of SAP – MM and PP Module as a core member. Post implementation of SAP in May, 2007 was asked to Head IT & IS Functions at the Company level. They are a 12 members team and looking into Companies business requirement. Expanding of IT foot Print : SAP/ Others: They do engage service providers in our continual improvement plans and try to address business requirement in a step by step approach.
Subramanian Chittur
Head - IT, Metro Cash and Carry
Subramanian has 25 years of experience. He is expert in implementing five ERP Packages (SAP, BPCS, MFG/PRO, Fourth Shift, and Sun Systems) in different organizations, implementing a Retail application namely Retail/PRO across all showrooms and integrating the same with the ERP at the back end and also in implementing eCommerce Application namely IBM Websphere Commerce Suite for a Retail Segment.
Raghu Kumar Paruchuri
Head - ERP & IT, Tata Power (Strategic Electronics Division)
Raghu is Head - ERP & IT at Tata Power (Strategic Electronics Division). He has over 14 Years Experience in the areas of ERP & IT Consulting with Companies like PwC, Oracle & Capgemini. He is in the current Role for around 3 Years. He is also Regular Participant at CIO Round Tables as well as CIO Leadership Summits conducted by IDG Media.
Sudhakar Bhagavatula
CIO, GE Lighting Asia
Sudhakar Bhagavatula is an Information Technology leader with 21 years of multi-culturalexperience in India, US, and UK. He is currently the Pole IT Leader (CIO)for ASPAC with GE Home and Business Solutions - Lighting business. In this role, Sudhakar strategizes and enables the Lighting business through IT solutions to provide a competitive advantage. In addition, Sudhakar is the Asia Pole Ombuds Lead for the GE Lighting and Appliances businesses. He has a very diverse experience in Services, Product Engineering, and in-house IT management. Prior to GE, he worked for different companies including Oracle Corporation in the US and UK as an Oracle technologist.
Alok Sinha
Head IT Solutions & SI Business, Huawei Enterprise Business Group
In a career spanning 22+ years in IT/Telcom industry, Alok has held several key positions in Marketing, Technology, Business management and Executive roles. He has been instrumental in institutionalizing several technical practices across various industry in India and abroad. He has also worked as Asst. Vice President, IT solutions C Responsible for a wide ranging product line. From Cloud servers, to VDI, to Servers, storage and Next Gen DC build ¨C Container, Modular, Green. He is also heading the SI Partner management for Huawei Enterprise. He is regular contributor to various IT journals/Magazines (PC Quest, Dataquest etc.) on topics such as Cloud computing, Bionics, Security. He was speaker at Technical Leadership Exchange ¨C 2007, April 2007, Annaheim, CA ¨C IBM Worldwide event, with more than 5000 delegates from across the globe.
Nitin Bhandari
AVP - New Products and Partnerships, Vodafone India
Nitin is as Associate Vice President and Head of new products and partnerships for the enterprise business at Vodafone India. In past, he was also associated with Frog design, Wipro Technologies and led the strategy, solutioning, consulting and technology blueprinting activities for Telecom organisations across the globe. He is specialized in Telecom; Business & Product Strategy; Business & Operating model innovation; TRIZ; Service Management; trendscapping & analytics; Technology evolution strategy & roadmaps; Process optimisation; Product Management.
Rajesh Nair
Principal Technology Consultant, VMware Software India
Rajesh Nair holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics and is a ISO 27001 LA , VCP 5.0, Cisco certified with 12 years of industry experience, he has been experienced in various technologies like Networking , Data and Voice Communication , Application Switching , Network Management Systems,Network Security, Identity Access Management , Data Management, Virtualization Technologies and Cloud Solutions. Currently working as a Principal Technology Consultant at VMware India. Prior to joining VMware, he was working as Brand Manager with IBM India for Tivoli Solutions and as Sr. Consultant with CA India Technologies. where he was involved in providing Identity and Access Management and Cloud Solutions.
Shashank Saxena
VP - Application Services - Global Technology, Deutsche Bank
Shashank Saxena is currently a Vice President managing Application Services for Funding, Margin and Clearing (FMC) cluster within Global Technology India organization of Deutsche Bank Group. He also has the responsibility to lead Product Reliability and Diversity Mentoring initiatives across India center. Shashank brings vast years of industry experience. He joined DB Group in 2009 as an Application Services Delivery Lead for one of the larger Product Clusters in the Capital Markets space. He was previously with MphasiS (an HP company) as a Project Manager in Application Services vertical managing software delivery for tier-1 BFSI clients.
Nirmal Puranik
Solution Specialist – Datacenter , Microsoft Corp
Nirmal has close to 14 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been involved in several solutions involving complex infrastructures - where customers have benefited from Virtualization and consolidation. He has worked on solutions for infrastructure Management and Cloud both for private clouds for customer as well as service providers building solutions for public cloud. He is now part of the Solution Specialist Team for Datacenter focused on Virtualization, Infrastructure Management and Cloud solutions from Microsoft.