Speaker Bio:  

Shashikant Brahmankar
Head - Business Intelligence & Analytics, HCL
Shashikant brings in over 20+ years of diverse experience in the Data Analytics and Applied Research space with major associations with Genpact India for 5 years and NCAER (National Council of applied Economic Research), Delhi for 15 years in various capacities. He brings in E2E vision for Data Analytics, BI and application of statistics cutting across verticals. To his credit he has done significant work in Analytics spanning Health Care Insurance Fraud, Marketing & Sales, Consumer, CPG & Retail with the distinction of instituting new/best practices to achieve business excellence. Among his many credentials he has won the “Ingenix Best Innovation Award 2009” for efficient management & mentoring the development through implementation of the real time fraud detection system for United Health Care and holds a Masters in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
Rajan Gupta
Founder & Chief Practitioner, Execution MiH
Rajan Gupta is the Founder & Chief Practitioner at Execution MiH. Over the last four years, Rajan is on a mission to establish ‘Execution-Making it Happen’ as a formal management field of study & application, in its own right. His practice has helped many individuals and organizations to address their mission-critical challenges, across sectors and scales. He has over a decade of executive & multi-national experience with world-class companies like Citibank, American Express, Standard Chartered, New-York Life and Agilent Technologies. Rajan has a sterling track-record of building many start-up portfolios in India as well as managing recessionary business environments. Rajan is an Engineer and holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Venkat Iyer
Practice Lead - BIM, Capgemini India
Venkat is the practice lead for Business information Management (BIM) at Capgemini. His experience spans over 17 years in the BI and Analytics space working with customers in different geographies helping them leverage data as a corporate asset for decision making.
Girish Shivani
Principal Solutions Consultant, Teradata India
Girish Shivani has over 18 years of industry experience. He has extensively worked with cross domain clients across SEA and India in the areas of BI/DW conceptualisation, design, implementation and driving business value through the DSS infrastructure. At Teradata, he is responsible for delivering business and strategic solutions to organizations across verticals, in the area of BI/DW. Prior to joining Teradata, Girish has assumed leadership and general management positions at leading Telcos and Media houses. He has been responsible for driving and executing long term Vision, Strategy and Pricing for large organizations.
Sumit Dhar
Vice President- DA Services, EXL Service
Sumit comes with an experience of nearly 15 years across Decision Analytics and information management. He has extensive experience in customer information management; across technology, business and analytics. He has worked as a technology expert, a business consultant and a leader within CRM practice at GE Money. At GE Money Sumit was responsible for leading global roll out of analytics and technology in different GE Money Markets for enabling marketing functions.In his current role Sumit is responsible for driving out solutions for increasing Analytic competitiveness of Creditcard/ Banking clients. Sumit has driven design, development and delivery of analytic technologies such as Marketing Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Analytics Workbench, and Analytics assignments.
Vivek Bhatnagar
Country Director & Global Alliances, Actian Corporation
Vivek Bhatnagar currently holds the position of Country Director & Global Alliances for Actian Corporation (earlier known as Ingres Corporation). In this role, he is responsible for Ingres India’s domestic operations as well as global alliances with leading Indian SIs and ISVs. He has worked in the IT and management consulting industry in US and India for more than 15 years and has held various sales management, business development and consulting roles in organizations such as Informatica Corporation, Accenture, and Infosys Technologies.
Kaushik Bhatt
Vice President, Wells Fargo India Solutions
Kaushik has management experience in handling large (100+) team size on diversified technology; DW/BI and Database technology. He has onshore/offshore delivery expertise and has setup delivery team/processes, governance & framework for startups, also has strong project management skills with hands-on experience in managing varied assignments, experience in financial management, gained by handling group financials such as Budgeting and P&L. He has defined Operating and Engagement models across diverse technologies/methodologies; DBA/Application development and support. He has hands on experience in DataStage PX, Business Objects, Cognos and has played various roles, starting from Developer to Architect in DW/BI Technology. Kaushik has a diversified IT experience working with large and mid-size IT services, captive organizations at various levels, also has a diverse cultural experience, gained by working in multiple geographies like USA, UK and China.
Aasim Aleem Kidwai
AVP, HP Global Analytics
Aasim Kidwai, AVP - Business Analytics & Marketing Services, is part of Global Analytics organization at Hewlett-Packard Company. Aasim manages the relationship/ functional needs of HP’s Services Business (Outsourcing, Consulting & Support- US $ 35 Billion in revenues) and has an account management responsibility of 250+ practitioners across delivery centers in 3 countries. He partners with senior executives at HP on a wide range of strategic initiatives, business issues, including business performance management, organization strategy & planning and addressing them through deployment of business analytics solutions in various functional domains across America, EMEA and APJ regions. He holds an Executive General Management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a degree in Electronics Engineering.
Vinay Prasad
Principal Architect, Infosys Financial Services
Vinay is a principal architect with banking and capital markets practice of Infosys technologies. He has around 18 years of professional experience in financial and IT Industry, leading a number of technical projects focused on business capability development.
Amit Arora
Vice President, RBS Global Banking Markets
Amit posses around 11yrs of IT experience and has been working on Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence solutions from more than 9yrs. During this period, he has managed, delivered and implemented various projects in the roles of Project Manager, Technical Architect and Lead. Blended with technology experience, Amit has successfully build and lead teams to deliver right BI solutions and products. Currently working as VP in Risk IT division of RBS GBM and has managed, delivered various tactical and strategical solutions. He has also changed the way how projects are managed and delivered from requirement generation to system delivery.
Padmashree Shagrithaya
Corporate Vice President-Business Performance Management and Analytics, Max New York Life Insurance
Padmashree is currently involved in setting up the Enterprise Data Warehouse for Max New York Life. She heads to Enterprise Information Management Unit for MNYL. She has over 15 years of experience in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain in varied roles. Large part of her experience is in the Information Technology, focused on Designing, Evaluating and Implementing Business Applications, Business Analysis, Project & Program Management.