Speaker Bio:  

Manoj Agarwal
Sr VP, CIO & Head IT, SBI General Insurance
Manoj is a Senior Vice President and the CIO & Head of Information Technology of SBI General Insurance Company. In his current role, Manoj acts as a trusted advisor to the business on technology led business transformation. His current focus is on developing and implementing a customer centric IT ecosystem built on strong enterprise architecture foundation that can help the organization to become a significant player in the industry and to be the most trusted general insurer in India with fair and transparent business practices, leading the Nation’s effort in increasing insurance penetration. Prior to joining SBI General, he was the Chief Operating Officer with ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company. Over the last 27 years, he has worked in leadership roles in top global organisations like American Express Bank, GE Capital, Jardine Fleming, HDFC Chubb General Insurance
M.V.Sreeram
VP IT, Reliance Power
M V Sreeram is the vice president – IT at Reliance Power, one of the largest power generating company in India in the sectors of thermal, hydro, gas, soar and wind based projects and coal mines. He has an overall experience of 30 years in information technology, covering a portfolio of implementation and management of technology, information, and applications, which includes SAP Systems in oil & gas.
Ashish Mathur
CIO, WNS Global Services
Ashish Mathur, serves as the CIO of WNS since August 2011, wherein he is responsible for managing end-to-end Information Technology function for WNS, across the globe. Prior to joining WNS, Ashish served as Chief Technology Officer for Barclays Bank, for their Shared Services business in India. Ashish has around 22 years of work experience, including leadership roles, spanning across Banking and Financial Services, HR, FMCG, and Manufacturing industries. He has played key roles in setting up several new facilities, deploying IT applications including ERP, HRMS and CRM, running IT 24x7 as a support function, as well as an outsourced business process service for global clients. While his key area of focus has been IT Delivery and Program Management, he has also made significant contributions to organizations in the areas of Business Development, Pre-Sales, Business Process Transition, Project Management, BCM, Information Security / Risk management and Governance. Ashish is an engineering graduate from BIT, Ranchi and has done his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Joydeep Dutta
CTO, ICICI Securities
Joydeep is an accomplished CIO/CTO with over 25 years work experience in India and the United States. He has experience in multiple industries (Banking, Broking, NBFC, Manufacturing, FMCG, Pharma, IT) in both management consultancy and company executive roles. He is recipient of multiple awards and recognitions, regular panelist/speaker in industry events. His key focus areas include aligning business strategies with IT execution, leading IT enabled business transformation initiatives, and driving process excellence across the organization for improved operational efficiency and productivity. He is graduate in Electrical Engineering, with post graduate qualifications in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Meenakshi Aggarwal
VP IT, Mumbai International Airport
Meenakshi Agrawal has over 25 years experience in Information Technology, of which 19 years was with the EMIRATES GROUP in Dubai. During her tenure she was heading the Airport Vertical which worked on IT solutions for Emirates Airlines and DNATA the ground handler. Closely involved In the implementation of the new Terminal T3 at Dubai, she was a key stakeholder and spearheaded the IT needs of DNATA and Emirates. Since June 2010 , she has relocated to India and is currently working as Vice President IT with Mumbai International Airport. With her vast experience and strategic vision she has taken Mumbai Airport forward on many fronts including passenger tracking and an innovative ‘First’ for India …an application for mobiles providing real-time flight notifications. Another important ‘first’ for Airports in India … Being the ‘first’ Indian Airport to take on the Social media challenge.
Subramaniam V
Director - IT & CIO (India & Gulf Area), Otis Elevator Company
Subramaniam has over 23 years of experience. He is winner and recipient of awards for pioneering Business IT Integration - Five Times Winner of CIO 100 from CIO-IDG Media) and CIO Hall Of Fame. CIO Master & CIO Grand Master (Data Centre) from BizTech2. He was Visiting Faculty - Guest Lectures (12+ years) on Leadership, Business - IT Integration Strategy in leading B-Schools (Mumbai & Pune). Leadership in Project Management for MDP at IIMA & PMI (Pune). Previously he has also worked with Marico.
Prasad Dhumal
Sr Director IT, DHL Express
Prasad has more than 16 years of experience. He is heading overall IT function for seven South Asian countries namely India, Pakistan,Bangledesh, Srilanka, Nepal, Maldives & Bhutan. He is responsible for managing complete IT operations, cost management,service delivery, IT strategy & planning, resourcing, vendor management & alignment of IT road map with business for all seven countries as an integral part of South Asia Management Board.
Suresh A. Shan
Head - Business IT Solutions, Mahindra & Mahindra FS
Suresh is with Mahindra Group for the past 14 years. He is also the Member of 1st Shadow Board of Mahindra Finance instituted by the corporate company. Currently he is part of Operations committee. He is having overall 21 years of IT/IS experience. SAS believes in innovation often sparks brightest in tough times. He has created the Difference in to provide high quality deliverable at affordable time that aims to “enhance the competitiveness unique at rural India.”
Mohar Tiwari
VP- IT, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Mohar has around 14+ Years of extensive experience in various aspects of enterprise vide I.T. He has worked at Larsen & Toubro, Wilson Logistics, Metropolis Health Services. He was Chief Executive for the IT Start-up in Healthcare/Biotechnology Solutions including Healthcare/Biothechnology KPO
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.
Sachin Sancheti
Principal Architect – Windows Azure, Aditi Technologies
Sachin is Microsoft Certified Azure Cloud principal architect at Aditi Technologies. He is die–hard fanatic when it comes to Azure Cloud application development. During his 12+ years of journey focused on Microsoft Technologies including 3 years focused on Cloud Computing and Windows Azure, customer delight via design solution has always been his focus. His responsibilities include implementing optimum cloud solutions on Windows Azure for customers, ISVs and enterprises to bring effective value of Cloud Computing for them. Prior to Aditi (Cumulux), Sachin worked with organizations like Infosys and Microsoft. Sachin is a regular blogger and speaker in technical community evangelizing cloud and Windows Azure.
Alexander Zarovsky
Chief Business Development Officer , InfoWatch
Alexander Zarovsky graduated from Moscow State Technical University in 1999, specializing in Cybernetics. Alexander holds an MBA degree from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation.Alexander started his career in 1997 as a programmer.His previous experience includes initiating and managing Moscow branches of several companies, such as Vested Development Inc. (USA), CMA Small Systems AB (Sweden) and UralSibBank - Finacle Implementation Project (Infosys, India). Since 2010 Alexander has been developing international business for InfoWatch. Under his management the company has significantly expanded its regional partner network and achieved first success on the global market.
Pranav Bhayani
Technical Support Manager, Kaspersky Lab - South Asia
As Technical Support Manager, Kaspersky Lab - South Asia, Pranav Bhayani is responsible for managing the technical services, including technical support functions for B2B and B2C, presales, etc., in the region. He works closely with channel sales, partners and marketing towards the business objectives through developing and maintaining the comprehensive range and quality of services to channel partners and customers. Pranav has 14+ years of experience in presales, technical support management and partner enablement. His core strengths are his expert knowledge in varied domains of Information Security. Some of his past assignments include Dimension Data India, MIEL eSecurity and Stonesoft.