Speaker Bio:  

Mr. Alok Chaturvedi
COO & Publisher, SiliconIndia.com, SiliconIndia
Alok Chaturvedi, 39 years, is the Chief Operating Officer of SiliconIndia.com. He has over 15 years experience in management, sales and finance. He is having Bachelor Degree & also Degree in Chartered Accountant. Alok was country head of SiliconIndia US from 1999 to 2008 & had set up the India office and managed all operations and sales from India for US company. He also served as publisher of SmartTechie magazine for 5 years, which was one of the widest circulating magazines amongst the techies in India. Since 2008, as founding employee of SiliconIndia.com, Alok oversees the operations and finance of the company. He is also responsible for driving sales for online. His strong leadership and motivational skills in training over 150 sales people has resulted in superior individual and group performance. Under his leadership, the sales of the organization grew year-on-year revenue by 40 percent contributed by the newly introduced online products. His effort has brought the company to being profitable & cash flow positive and has made it ready for expansion. A down-to-earth person, Alok has a passion for building up teams to do all the functions of company.Alok is no doubt a people&rsquot;s manager and he believes that the team plays a crucial role in the success of an organization.
Mr.Virupakshi Pattar
VP-Sales & Marketing, SiliconIndia
A dynamic and result oriented professional with 16 years of extensive experience in sales, branding, product marketing, & marketing excellence with profit accountability. Demonstrated abilities in communication; image building; brand positioning; Demand Generation; media planning; cultivating and managing client/customer relationships. An Out-Of-The-Box thinker with skills in devising effective strategies for escalating sales turnovers in highly competitive market environments. Insightful experience across, Product Knowledge, Expertise across strong business acumen with skills to drive new business through conceptualizing Product strategies etc. Exceptionally well organized with a track record that demonstrates self motivation, creativity, and initiative to achieve both personal & corporate.
Dr. Pratap Kumar M.T
Professor and HoD-CIVIL, RNS Institute of Technology
Dr. Pratap Kumar M.T, is Head of Department (and Professor) at RNS Institute of Technology. He has over 30 years of experience in teaching. He earned Ph.D in 2010 from Bangalore University. He has published over 20 research papers in the national & international journals and conference proceedings. He has attended more than 40 seminars & conferences. Along with the teaching he has guided 2 Ph.D candidates under VTU, Belgaum who have completed successfully their comprehensive pre PhD Viva - Voce Evaluation, Currently he is guiding 5 candidates for their PhD&rsquot;s under Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belguam and 1 Candidate in REVA University, Bangalore. He is also an active life member of Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Society of Earthquake technology, Indian Society of Wind Engineering & Indian Geotechnical Society. He has also received Smt. Indira Joshi biennial Prize for the Best Paper on “Environmental Geotechnology” for the years 2012-13.
Mr. Paul Antony
Executive Director S & M at LJ Hooker India, LJ Hooker, India
Mr. Paul Antony is a veteran in the real estate market with a decade of rich experience. After completing his studies in London, he started his career in real estate in North East London’s & today, he is the executive director of LJ Hooker India. LJ Hooker is an Australian based IPC providing complete real estate solutions since 1928. LJ Hooker India was established in India in 2007 & is the nation’s only multi – faceted, transaction based real estate corporation that operates various business verticals like project marketing, corporate brokerage, property services, relocation services, franchisee network and financial services.