Speaker Bio:  

Sri. S.Subrahmanya
Co Founder, Upasana Associates
Mr. S. Subrahmanya is the co founder of Upasana Associates.He has got more than ten years of experience as an advocate and specializes in Corporate and Civil Laws, Foreign Exchange Laws, Intellectual Property Laws, Property Laws, Arbitration and Conciliation matters, Information Technology Laws apart from International contracts and agreements.Subrahmanya was also visiting faculty of various law colleges and other institutions at Bangalore.
Sanjay Shukla
Business Head- Consumer Assets and Sales, ING Vysya Bank
Sanjay is having startup experience of mortgage business in 4 different organisations over last 20 years, instrumental in setting up franchise of large MNC organisation in non metro locations. He had worked with Citibank, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) and LIC Housing Finance in various capacities overseeing credit, finance, and business development operations. Shukla has been involved with setting up of new businesses. He was the first batch of officers who were recruited by LIC Housing Finance in 1991. He was one of the first employees at HomeTrust Housing Finance, a joint venture of Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) and Gujarat Ambuja Cements. HomeTrust Housing Finance was later amalgamated with HDFC.
Farooq Mohamed
Director , Cityhome
With an experience spanning over 20 years in real estate business Mr. Farooq has been instrumental in under taking and efficiently executing in-numerous deals involving MNC&rsquot;s, corporates, and individual property buyers.Besides his passion for Real Estate,Farooq has served as a F.O.M. in hotel industry and has successfully served Americans, Europeans, Middle East, Asians.
Jackbastian Nazareth
CEO, Puravankara Group
Jackbastian Nazareth holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Goa Institute of Management and a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from the Karnataka University. He has over 21 years of experience in real estate development, corporate affairs, financial management and civil engineering consultancy. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He is responsible for the day to day operations of the Company including the detailed project conceptualization, design and finance functions. He has served as an Executive Director of Sobha Developers Limited. His other major assignments include as the Director - Sales of TSI Ventures Private Limited, and subsequently as the Managing Director- Head Sales and Marketing of Tishman Speyer India Private Limited.
Sumit Jain
CEO and Co - Founder, CommonFloor
Sumit Jain is the co founder of Common Floor,the largest Apartment Portal of India, serving more than 36,000 Residential Societies across 120 cities. A Computer Science Engineer from IIT Roorkee,Sumit started his career in Oracle.Sumit has proven experience in building Consumer Internet Company in India.
Avinash Rao V
Regional Director, Knight Frank India
Avinash has 12 years of experience in the spearheading business operations encompassing revenue expansion, Operations Management, Key Account Management, Team Management & other managerial functions. A proven/ keen strategist with expertise in keeping key focus on top/ bottom line profitability by ensuring optimal utilisation of resources. Entrepreneurial leader with abilities to lead business and significantly contributed to the organic growth of the companies. A proactive planner & techno-commercial acumen with ability to build business, generate revenue and thus achieving profitability targets and organisational objectives.
George Johnson
National Director - Corporate Finance, Jones Lang Lasalle
George Johnson is qualified with a Management Development Program from IIM Calcutta and is National Director for Corporate Finance with Jones Lang LaSalle. Earlier he was Managing Director of Hyderabad office for last five years. He has total of 20 years of experience with Banking, Office Automation and Real Estate with firms like ABN AMRO Bank, ICICI Bank and Xerox.