Speaker Bio:  

Bhushan Akerkar
CIO, Hindalco Industries, Aditya Birla Group
Bhushan specializes in IT services and IT Infrastructure, Design and Implementation which is endorsed by the fact that he has 23 years of experience in the IT sector. He has managed IT accounts upto $ 100 million. Apart from this, his acumen in ERP SAP and Oracle EBS Deployment is well commendable. In precedence to his present position, he was the Head at Novelis ( India) Infotech, Aditya Birla Group, TCS Nielsen Relationship at Tata Consultancy Services, Executive Director (CIO) Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology at The Nielsen Company, Head - IT at L&T Infotech E&C Diviision and Sr. Software Specialists at Digital Equipment.
Rajeev Mittal
Head - IT/IS, Piaggio Vehicle
Rajeev is currently working (since 2008) with Piaggio Vehicle, Pune. Prior to this, he has also worked with Tata Yazaki Autocomp, Sterlite Industries. He has persuaded post graduate diploma in computer science and application from AMU in 1991-92 and having an overall 20 years of experience working in IT department of manufacturing sector under various industry verticals including plastics, metals and automotive industries.
Vasant Manwadkar
CIO, Cosmos Bank
Vasant is a Technocrat and a visionary professional with 22 years of extensive experience including 13 years of international experience in managing large complex Information Systems for organizations across US, Europe, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia. He is US citizen. He has worked with United Nations, US Airforce, NASA, US Federal Government. Possess expertise in IT infrastructure setup, multiple ERP implementations (Oracle Applications, CINCOM, PeopleSoft) and support. Prior to Cosmos, he has also worked with MICROTEK SYSTEMS INC Columbia, USA, Shivaji University, Walchand College of Engineering I am US citizen. Has worked with United Nations, US Airforce, NASA, US Federal Government.
Sateen Bailur
Head of IT, Global Banking & Markets, India, HSBC
Sateen is the Head of IT for HSBC; Global Banking & Markets business in India. An IT Professional with more than 23 years of global Financial IT experience, Sateen joined HSBC in London 18 years ago and has since worked in various locations such as London, Hong Kong and currently in India. He specialises in building and supporting high availability, low latency services across the investment banking spectrum from trading systems to mid/back office systems. Sateen has a Computer Science degree from University College London and a Masters in Business Management from Imperial College London.
Vijaykumar Ramchandran
AVP - IT, Praj Industries
Vijay is currently heading the Information System and Technology platform in Praj Industries, which specializes in setting up Distilleries, Breweries, Fuel Ethanol, Bio Diesel, Water Treatment Plants and supplies customized equipment for process industries. He is a PMP and has an MBA (Mtg & Leadership), and BTech in Elec.Engg. He has 21 years of work experience. 16 years of this was primarily spent in EPC, Projects, Controls and automation for process industries, offshore platforms, petroleum refineries, defense which was during his stint with L&T India and RJES, USA. Joining Praj in 2006, He started leading SAP Implementation. After this he began working in establishing better business process control system & looking into IT. Now he is responsible for delivering an Effective, Efficient and Robust Information system and Technology. This demands augmenting Praj’s business strengths & opportunities with current day IT options and IS.
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.
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 .
Balaji Ganesan
Global IT - Head, Eaton Corporation
Ganesan is currently responsible for running operations at the Eaton Information technology Center (EITC) at Pune, India. After joining Eaton, he served as the IT Business Relationship Manager for Eaton’s Vehicle Group in Asia Pacific. Prior to this assignment, Ganesan managed the Business Intelligence function for Eaton’s Automotive Group and was based at the Southfield, MI. Prior to that, he worked with the Eaton Fluid Power Group IT and prior to joining Eaton he held various position in IT and Sales in the healthcare and manufacturing industries. Ganesan holds a bachelor&rsquot;s degree in engineering from Annamalai University, India, a master&rsquot;s degree in manufacturing management from the University of Toledo and a master&rsquot;s degree in business administration from the Eli Broad School of Management, Michigan State University.
Ritesh Chaudhari
Country Manager - IT, Henkel Adhesives Technologies India
A technofunctional person who started his career as a functional banker and graduated into technology management across various domains like BFSI / FMCG / Manufacturing over a period of around 15 years. As a founder member of Bharti AXA Investment managers contributed in evolving it into a national level organization from a start-up. He partnered with business to help them launch products like daily-SIP and zero balance folios for which Bharti AXA bagged industry level awards. He is a firm believer in IT Outsourcing so that the team members can concentrate more on core business activities rather than running day to day mundane operations. After he introduced cloud based application from Bloomberg as the core application for Bharti Axa Mutual fund in India, it became the norm in the industry and almost 10 new players in the market followed suit while some old ones also migrated to this platform. Under the program of IT lead innovations, his initiative to Introduce a cost-effective Mobile Payment System for Financial Inclusion and Neighborhood-Convenience Banking through Airtel Outlets and facilitate introduction of Sache-Insurance products in the market was nominated by Bharti group for CIO award. He is currently heading the IT across the Henkel group of Companies in India and Pakistan where he has been involved in consolidating the IT function across the entities. His vision for Information Technology is to graduate it from an operating tool for business to a strategic tool.
JB Takidar
Head - IT, KSB Pumps
JB Takidar is the Head IT (Corporate) at KSB Pumps, Pune. He is responsible for all IT related requirements and IT systems of KSB manufacturing plants all over India. He is Corporate projects manager for projects like SAP implementation and support, KSB Group strategic initiatives in India. He manages, develop and guide technical teams with a view to make IT in KSB India of world class
Nitin Bhandari
Associate Vice President - 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.
Ved Prakash Singh
Head – IT & Systems, JCB India
Over 20+ years of experience in managing all aspects of IT functions especially in manufacturing domain. Worked with various organizations on System Conceptualization to Process Deployment & Optimization / Automation through multiple leading ERP Implementations & support and providing the environment along with the team for Business Growth.
Murtaza Trunkwala
Chief R&D Officer, ESDS Software Solution
Murtaza graduated from University of Pune in Commerce in the year 2003 and completed DNIIT simultaneously. Following this he also pursued his RedHat Certification for RHEL 4 in the year 2007. As the CRDO, he not only holds the responsibilities to look after the operations of the research team and focus on introducing the new technologies in ESDS but also to lead the entirely different entity of ESDS, TeamGrowth, which is the Design and Development division of ESDS. He is responsible to plan the technology strategy for the development and take decision for the implementation of internal as well as external projects.
Suman Basu
General Manager IT & Automation, Tata Blue Scope Steel
Suman has worked with Tata Steel as Technologist Process Automation and was responsible for Project implementation of different IT System. He has also worked with Larsen & Toubro, RockWell Automation. He has over 26 years of experience. He has participated three Life Cycle implementation of SAP /developed IT System for five Plants/ implemented Shop floor to top floor automation for Coated Steel Business/ received various award in Industry for innovative Automation projects