Speaker Bio:  

Sri Ponnala Lakshmaiah
Minister for IT and Communications, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Lakshmaiah born in a remote village with no educated person in the family or relations for generations together, struggled very hard to come through Top Ranks. Took very keen and active part in all the programmes of the Congress Party.His great achievements include. Participated as a National Delegate to Asia Pacific Region Countries to study new avenues and mechanisms to establish indigenous Aquaculture and was instrumental in launching of the World Bank Aided Projects for Aqua Culture in Andhra Pradesh.
V. Srinivas
CIO, Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals
A Technocrat with over 21 years of Rich Cross Functional experience with the recent 11 Areas of Exposure in the Core IT Domain including ERP-SAP System Implementation with BPR initiatives & SAP Hands-on experience, Complete IT Infrastructure & Security Applications Management, New Generation Technology based using Web 2.0, Mobile and Mobility Solutions, GIS/GPS Solutions etc., and the rest in other functional Domains including Project Planning & Execution, Quality System & Resource Management, Marketing & Product Management, Institutional Sales, Regional Office Management & Sales, Finance, HR etc. An Ambassador of Change with the distinction of leading Successful BPR and Process oriented Initiatives with implementation of Business solutions within preset budgets and deadlines. Have been associated with the Nagarjuna Group for over 18 years working in various cross functional roles. While ensuring that the IT Strategies are aligned with the Organization’s Business Strategies, also responsible for formulation of short and long term IT Goals to meet the Corporate Strategic Initiatives and Goals.
Srinivas Peddada
Sr. VP & CIO, SKS Microfinance
Srinivas has 19+ years of success in delivering $MM high-performance Applications and IT infrastructure and also has Proven track-record of implementing complex enterprise wide solutions, saving costs, improve productivity and setting-up offshore facilities. He has extensive experience in Financial, Banking, Government, and Retail domains. He has worked for D&B TransUnion Analytic and Decision services, Dun & Bradstreet South Asia Middle East, American International Group, GE Capital and IBM. Academic background includes MBA in Information systems from a reputed school and several industry standard certifications.
Santhosh Reddy Chitla
CIO, Ramky Group
Santhosh has over a 19-year career of progressive achievements, provided solutions that consistently boosted productivity with enormous improvements in cost efficiency through enhanced and extended corporate investment in ERP/CRM systems as well as Six Sigma programs. He started the biggest IT initiative at Ramky Group, related to business transformation. He built the Competence center for Bank of America SAP group in India to support the major initiative. He increased the department size by 30% in 3 years at SGL and started the SAP team at BoA, India from scratch to 50+ resources and promoted to manage Global SAP Development team of300+ resources within 9 months and effectively established and managed IT center of excellence (CoE) to support 9 production facilities and corporate head quarters in North America.
Smit Shanker
CIO and Head - IT, Novartis Healthcare
Smit is the CIO and Head of IT for Novartis Hyderabad. He got connected to Novartis since 2007. He is Global Head IT for Drug Safety and Epidemiology, Business Intelligence, Pharma Development. He has provided operational leadership to Development Informatics & Web Service SDG teams based in Hyderabad. He is Group Head for business intelligence, responsible for setting up the offshore capability in Development. He has thirteen years of experience in fields of Information technology, Business Intelligence and analytics, Healthcare and Life sciences. He also worked as a business consultant with Tata Consultancy and has diverse International experience: India, UK, Switzerland, USA.
S. Prasad
Head - IT, GKC Projects
Prasad is an Information Technology Professional having more than 25 years’ experience. He is associated with different industries which include manufacturing, retail, banking & finance and infrastructure. His current responsibilities include guidance to Senior Management, Business Teams in the organization and Information Technology Team members. His main role is to work with Senior Management and align IT Strategy with Business Strategy, ensuring the IT resources are best utilized in the organization and ensuring cordial relationship with all the stake holders in the organization.
Venu Madduri
Group VP - IT, NSL Group
Venu has spent over 16 years in building award winning IT departments that are strategically aligned to the business. Prior to joining NSL Group Hyderabad, he was Director IT with Ruby Tuesday Inc in the USA for 7+ years. Ruby Tuesday has won several awards in the IT space under his stewardship and he has delivered over 500 projects in his tenure there. Prior to that he was leading an IT consulting practice and worked with such clients as GE, Sterling Commerce etc. For his accomplishments in delivering projects consistently over many years he won the Distinguished Project Award from PMI in 2008. He has been a key advocate of Project Management and has been a key presenter at many conferences in the US. Venu is a B.Tech from JNTU Kakinada, an MBA from IIM Calcutta and holds a management degree from Harvard University.
Kiran Karupakula
AVP - IT , Genpact
Kiran has vast years of rich experience in IT Operations; Service delivery Management, Quality, Project Management, Datacenter, Infosec & Governance, LAN, WAN. Prior to Genpact, he has also worked with Brigade, Ge and Dell. Last 6+ years for F& A domains as Buisness IT Lead for ( Healthcare; Ecommerce; Media & Entertainment; Hospitality ) managing 500+ process, 2000 employees, focusing on meeting the business objectives, with right technology solutions/ strategy. Executing technology strategy and in solving business problems using innovative Tools & Technology solutions. Kiran has persuaded B.Tech (Electrical ) from NIT Kurukshetra, SMP from IIM Calcutta. His key strengths are that he performed in a global work environment and executed projects for reputed organizations across the globe.
Ananth STP
Head - IT, Rain CII Carbon (Vizag)
Ananth is a Head of IT department for the worlds largest manufacturer of Calcined Petroleum Coke. He is responsible for all strategic and key IT initiatives of the group companies. In his previous jobs, he has worked with Ernst & Young and TCS as a senior IT consultant. Was part of numerous IT consulting assignments in many industry segments including oil & gas, infrastructure, real estate, textiles, logistics, FMCG and IT/ITES.
Gaurav Mohan
VP Channels & Head - Mumbai Region, Huawei India
Gaurav is an Engineer, MBA with 19 years of extensive industry experience spanning Sales & Marketing in organizations like Microsoft, IBM, Motorola, Ericsson – contributing to growth of industry driving profitable revenue and business models. Having led sales of IT systems & solutions, Consulting and Telecom Infrastructure, Gaurav specializes in Indian IT & Telecom space. In his current role as VP – Channels & Head of Mumbai Region, he leads Huawei’s channels & regional sales team. Gaurav & his team focus on strengthening channel business, expanding reach, introducing Huawei products and technologies and enabling new marketing initiatives.
Mitesh Bharwada
Head - Fixed Line Products , Vodafone Business Services
Mitesh is an Engineer MBA with over 14 years of rich experience in Product Management & Sales; across the Consumer Durables and Telecommunications sectors. In the years gone by, he has directly managed almost all the aspects of Sales and Marketing from Business Planning, Brand Creation, Product Development, Product Management, Advertising, Pricing, Promotions, Sales and Distribution. He has been in the Telecom sector since over 7 years. In his current role, Mitesh leads the Fixed Line and Hosted Services portfolio for Vodafone Business Services focusing on bringing to life Vodafone’s Total Communications Strategy in the Enterprise domain.
Sunil Sharma
VP Operations, Cyberoam
Sunil Sharma is currently working as Vice President – Cyberoam India & SAARC Sales Operation. Sunil has an extensive experience of 19 years in the IT industry in the field of computers, Storage & Security. He has worked with almost all possible sales channels – SI, VAR, ISP, Resellers, Dealers, Retail, OEM. His end customer experience has also been across all segments – Enterprise , SME, SMB, SOHO. Sunil has done his Master’s in Business Management with specialization in Marketing and B.Tech from Delhi University .