Speaker Bio:  

T.S. Dhanapalan
Past President, TANSTIA
Dhanapalan has got over four decades of experience in various domains of business and industry. He has seen how the market change and evolve with the implication of technology and after the Indian economy has open up its doors. He has held honorable positions like Director- TIIC, SSI Board, and TANSIDCO. Served as a Consulting General of SIDBI Southern Region, Director of Lakshmivilas Bank. Presently he heads TFSC which is an Instrumental collaboration of Friedrich Noumann Foundation of Germany for the benefit of SSI.
Naresh Kumar Satapathy
Solution Specialist, Microsoft India
Naresh has worked with large IT and Technology companies like HCL, Computer Associates, Oracle and Microsoft, with a career spanning over 13 years. He brings in experience in various technologies that have helped IT Managers in the fields of Setting up IT Infrastructure, Management of IT Infrastructure, Storage & Security; and Identity & Access Management. At Microsoft, he is focused on "People Ready" technologies like Office, SharePoint, Exchange & Lync that are immensely contributing towards personal as well as business productivity through Collaboration.
P. Murari
Advisor-President, FICCI
Mr. Murari comes with a wide range of experience in various role including the being the Secretary to the President of India, Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Industry, Dept. of Industrial Development and have also represented India On deputation from Ministry of Commerce to USA. He is currently the independent director for 14 reputed organization some to mention like Aban Offshore Limited, Bajaj Auto Limited, Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited and Idea Cellular Limited.
S Kathir Kamanathan
VP - Finance, Lanco Tanjore Power Co. Ltd.
Kathir has around 18 years of experience in Finance in the Energy/ Infrastructure sector. Have enriched experience in Accounting in Power sector, Financial Modelling, Due Diligence for acquisition, Commercial contracts like Power Purchase Agreements, Operations & Power Trading & Carbon Credit He is Master in Accounting, Finance, Commercial, Legal functions. Has shared his expertise in Power sector, project structuring, contract negotiation, contract management, clean development mechanism, power trading
G.Kanthikiran
VP & Zonal Business Head, Religare
Kanthikiran has 15 years of experience in various financial products which includes Auto loans, PL, Life Insurance, Mortgages, Housing loan, SME (Secured & Unsecured), Commercial asset. He was worked with reputed financial organizations like GE Countrywide Financial Services, HDFC Bank, Reliance Capital.
J Raman Govindarajan
Chairman, IACC
Raman is the founder and CEO of Perfsystems. He has worked for top companies like Oracle, IBM, EMC, Cray Research, AMD, Siemens etc. for more than 16 years. Some of his technical presentations and prototypes in the nineties using Clustered and Parallel architectures, are still popularly hailed as industry landmarks and among world’s firsts. He has been a member of AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce)and Governing Council member of TiE- Chennai.
G. Sankaran
President, CHEPMMA
Sankaran has been elected as a Secretary of Tamil Nadu Plastic Manufacturers Association (TAPMA) for two term which became Chennai Plastics Manufacturers & Merchants Association (CHEPMMA) in which he is holding the post of President since its inception. His knowledge of the Industry is thorough and with this he puts forth his suggestions boldly. He is presently editing one magazine titled as ‘PLASTIC TIMES” through which he is bringing out all the vital information concerning the whole Plastic Industry.
Asit Barma
VP, Hinduja Group-Defiance Technologies
In a career spanning 25 years in IT industry he has played multi - functional roles. He is engaged with Professional Bodies holding positions like Chairman- Society of Automotive Engineers (India)-Southern Section,Member –Industry Sub Committee,Manufacturing Competitiveness Council of Tamil Nadu, Convener–Manufacturing panel,FICCI Southern Section. Along with his he has a research internet in enhancing MSME Competitiveness through technology.
M Nandakumar
VP, EDAC Engineering
Nanda Kumar is the Convenor at Energy panel of FICCI, Tamil Nadu state Council and is responsible for formulating Energy policy for TN State. Nanda Kumar is also Member of Process Plant and Machinery Association of India (PPMAI) Mumbai, and Project Management Associates (PMA), Member of Institute for Lean Construction Excellence, Mumbai. He served for last 26 years in functional areas of Business Development, Estimation and Project execution & management in Power, Petrochemical and allied sectors. He is also Management
Chaitanya Ramesh
Territory sales Manager, Novell
Chaitanya has been in IT industry for 8+ years in various companies like HP, Oracle etc. handling Customer and partner business varying from SMB/tier 2 partners to large SIs/Enterprise and Govt Customers, Currently in Novell he is responsible for Distribution as well as Consulting partner business for the Country.
Sai S Madhavan
Chairman, SME Chamber of India
Sai is the Chairman of the SME Chamber of India, Southern Region. Sai is also the Partner-Director of Nishtha Technologies India Pvt Ltd. Sai has over twenty two years of IT experience and over a decade of senior leadership experience in the USA. He has contributed significantly leading IT infrastructure and automation, Application Systems, Database Management and Project Management. His contributions span various industry sectors including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Automobile, Insurance, Securities, Banking and Airlines and he has worked in various countries (India, USA, Canada, European countries and Australia)