Speaker Bio:  

Bhavik B Dangarwala
Regional Director - Channel & Sales, Vision Solutions
Bhavik B Dangarwala has experience spanning across two decades in technology as well as business applications. An Electronics Engineer and an M.B.A. by qualification, Bhavik has the experience of leading teams, starting and growing operations and teams in existing as well as new initiative areas Bhavik’s knowledge has an understanding of the complete solution stack (Technology & Business apps) in any model organization. Starting from : - Chipset, System s/w & File systems - High availability, Disaster recovery & Security solutions - OLAP, MDDB & DW - Business Apps & Integrated transaction systems ( ERP) - Business Intelligence (BI), Business Performance Management (BPM) & Financial Consolidation systems. This has allowed addressing of the requirements from the perspective of a business user. Bhavik is currently the Regional Director with Vision Solutions Inc. the world’s leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery and data management solutions for the IBM® System i and System p markets. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Vision Solutions has a portfolio that spans the industry’s most innovative and trusted HA & DR brands including Vision’s EchoStream™/ EchoCluster™ for AIX, iTERA™, MIMIX® and ORION™ Solutions that keep business-critical information continuously protected and available. In the past Bhavik has successfully worked in different organizations like Digitial Equipment Corporation, Thirdware Solutions, Sun Microsystems and Symantec Corporation in different Sales leadership roles.
Montu Makadia
Director and Country Sales Head, EVE Design Automation
Montu Makadia (MAK) has more than 17 years of rich experience in Sales and Business Development, working very closely with Top Level EDA, Semiconductor and Embedded System Companies in India. He has contributed aggressively in setting up successful business for the products as well as Chip Design, Verification and embedded firmware development, services companies in India. He has undergone his Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, from Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal Karnataka. Presently, he is heading EVE Design Automation Pvt. Ltd as Director and Country Sales head; successfully promoting Zebu Emulation platform in India, since more than 4 years Prior to EVE, he managed sales and business development in the areas of Verification and embedded systems product development for “eInfochips” in Bangalore and Japan for more than 3 Years He also contributed in Sales activities at CoreEL (earlier CG-CoreEL). Mr. Montu began his career as Sales executive in the Field of Instrumentation offering turnkey solutions from Rockwell Automation, Fisher-Rosemount and Invensys in India
Meenakshi Sapru
Sales Manager, Hewlett-Packard India
Passionate and Dynamic Sales Professional with over 15 years of developing niche markets and selling High value solution in competitive markets. By Profession a Printing Engineer with a Management Degree from Mumbai University. Started career with India’s leading Media Company Bennett & Coleman India Ltd (Times group) in operations. Subsequently migrated to Product Management and Business Development roles. Have worked with world’s largest brands in Industry like HP, Xerox and Times of India. Indepth understanding of Digital Printing industry – with specialization in High value selling, customer retention/development and strategic business development.
Chandrasekhar Choudhury
Head - Sales & Marketing, Utssav CZ Gold Jewels
Chandra Shekar is a post garduate of Kolkata University. Started his career with HCL & worked with companies like Bata,Parle,Godrej.. He has a rich 20 yrs experience in the field of sales, he is currently responsible for distribution,branding,advertisements at Utssav CZ Gold Jewels.
Prashant Pradhan
Assistant General Manager – Training, Infomedia 18
“If it is to be, It is up to me”…A firm believer in karma...currently work for Network 18 as National Training Manager, with a profile of imparting Learning and responsible for the Development of 600 strong Workforce in 22 cities. Sales training being the main forte, also specialize in People Management and Leadership. 18 years experience in Sales, Sales Management and Training, driving and developing sales teams to achieve organizational objectives. Part of the Core team in the division, devising strategies and implementing plans for success. Exposure to various other initiatives like BTL activities, Logistics, Database Management etc…
Dhananjay Shinde
Regional Sales Manager, IBM India
Dhananjay Shinde is management graduate of Mumbai University. He started his career with a market research company, IMRB & was associated with them for 3 years while graduating in Science with specialization in Statistics & Operations Research. He is certified IBM Global Sales School and Six Sigma Green Belt professional. He is hard core sales professional with 15+ years of experience in IT & Telecom industry. He has played key leadership roles with companies like GTL Limited, Tata Teleservices, Bharti Airtel, Cisco Systems and currently work for IBM India to manage IBM Security Solutions sales in western India.