Speaker Bio:  

Vijay Rangineni
CEO, Mahindra Satyam BSG
Leveraging more than 20 years of global operations and leadership experience in the service industry, Vijay helps Mahindra Satyam BSG create compelling propositions that deliver lasting value to customers. With an equally strong belief – in Associates as key drivers of customer value – Vijay devotes substantial time on the operation floors, engaging with and motivating Associates to stay focused on deliverables. A firm believer in the language of metrics, Vijay guides teams in the creation of frameworks to evaluate their performance and undertake consistent process improvement initiatives. Prior to Mahindra Satyam BSG, Vijay worked with Fortune 100 organizations like American Express, Morgan Stanley and GE, focusing on critical assignments and turnaround stories ranging from Delivery to Technology and Business Process Reengineering. Vijay is an alumnus of Kellogg School of Management and also holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Texas. He has addressed many international industry forums and seminars on Operational Excellence.
Raj Biyani
Managing Director, Microsoft IT (India)
Raj Biyani is the Managing Director forMicrosoft IT (India) and the CIO/Product Group Strategic Initiatives organization. Raj is an intrapreneur with a string of high-impact incubations at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft IT, Raj worked in the Developer Division, Office, Windows and Online Services business groups. Raj led the envisioning and successful creation of the Windows Marketplace - an app store that enabled electronic software delivery for PC-based applications. Raj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Accounting from Goshen College, Indiana, where he serves on the President’s Advisory Council. Raj has an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago. Raj is an avid practitioner of cutting-edge business thinking reflected in his vast collection of business books, many autographed by their authors. He holds multipleEU and US patents.
Pramod Rao
Head - Microsoft Solution, Dimension Data India
Pramod has over 16 years of extensive sales experience in the Information Technology industry, having worked on both hardware and software technologies and solutions. His expertise covers from the desktops & Server Infrastructure to Cloud solutions encompassing all the components needed for a heterogeneous computing environment. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional. Prior to Dimension Data, ha has spent 9 years with Sonata Software, where he was responsible for driving Microsoft business for EPG segment pan India.
Anand Kamat
Group Program Manager, Cloud and Data Center Management division, Microsoft India
Anand Kamat is the Group Program Manager, Cloud and Data Center Management division. He has been with Microsoft for the last 7 years and is leading the development of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager product in India. He is a Computer Science Engineer from VNIT Nagpur and has been in the software industry for the last 19 years.
Venu Madduri
Group Vice President - IT, NSL Group
Venu Madduri has spent over 15 years in building award winning IT departments that are strategically aligned to the business. Prior to joining NSL Group Hyderabad, he was Director IT with Ruby Tuesday Inc in the USA for 7+ years. Ruby Tuesday has won several awards in the IT space under his stewardship and he has delivered over 500 projects in his tenure there. Prior to that he was leading an IT consulting practice and worked with such clients as GE, Sterling Commerce etc. For his accomplishments in delivering projects consistently over many years he won the Distinguished Project Award from PMI in 2008. He has been a key advocate of Project Management and has been a key presenter at many conferences in the US. Mr. Venu Madduri is a B.Tech from JNTU Kakinada, an MBA from IIM Calcutta and holds a management degree from Harvard University.
Reema Gupta
Associate Director, ISB
Reema Gupta is the Associate Director of the Srini Raju Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (SRITNE) at the Indian School of Business. She is very active in organising outreach programmes and conferences for the Centre as well as building a strong network of industry collaborators. Besides helping faculty in their research initiatives, she is actively working on building a strong portfolio of case studies from the Indian IT and ITeS industry. Prior to joining ISB, Reema worked for EMC Corporation in Massachusetts as Senior Director and led many company wide strategic initiatives. She has over 13 years of experience working in the IT related field and was recognised as the “Top 10 women to watch” in Massachusetts, for her work in Science and Technology. Gupta has also worked as Managing Director for Anokhi Aasha Society, which is an NGO working with children with various disabilities. She has an MBA from Babson College, US and an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, US.
Inderjith Davalur
CIO, Global Hospitals
Inderjith, graduated with an MBA from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore India. In 1986, he left for the US where he worked in a Boston area bank as a mortgages specialist. In 1991 he graduated from the University of Massachusetts, USA, with an MS in Healthcare Administration with distinction and was also conferred the Dean Shalloup’s Award for Academic Excellence in Health Professions for having scored the highest rank in the College of Health Professions. He started his career in health care at the New England Medical Center in Boston where he created a custom database for tracking treatment modalities for the Department of Psychiatry. In 1996, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he became a consultant for the State of Georgia Department of Health and Human Services where he served on yet another Electronic Records Committee on Patient Privacy. The work of these and similar committees gave birth to the widely known Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. He then shifted gears and worked for a software company managing projects in the health information system arena with some major hospitals on the East Coast as his customers. He later moved on to a company managing ERP solutions projects in the manufacturing sector where his clients included the Coca Cola Company, Sara Lee, International Paper, Siemens (Canada) etc. In 2008 he came to India with the aim of realizing his cherished dream of working in India. He accepted running Aosta Software Technologies as its CEO. He is currently the Group CIO of Global Hospitals Group with hospitals in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore with another one coming up in Bombay.
V. Srinivas
CIO, Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals
Srinivas is a technocrat with over 19 years of rich cross functional experience. His areas of strength are in the areas of Project Planning & Execution including IT functionality, ERP-SAP System Implementation including SAP Hands-on experience, Complete IT Infrastructure Management, New Gen Technology based initiatives using Web 2.0, Mobile and Mobility Solutions, GIS Solutions etc., Quality System Management & Resource Management and Sales & Marketing. He is an ambassador of Change with the distinction of leading successful business process re-structuring initiatives and implementation of business solutions within preset budgets and deadlines and has been associated with the Nagarjuna Group for over 17 years working in various cross functional roles. While ensuring that the IT Strategies are in line with the Organization’s Business Strategies, Mr Srinivas is also responsible for formulation of short and long term IT strategies to accomplish Corporate Strategic Initiatives and Goals. Mr Srinivas holds an Engineering Degree and an MBA Post Graduate Degree. Mr Srinivas has been bestowed with the honour of being among India’s top 100 CIO’s by “CIO Decisions”, a magazine published by Indian Express, India and CIO Decisions Inc, USA in 2008. In addition, he has been honoured with the CIO 100 Award by IDG India in 2009 and 2010 years respectively. Of late, he has had the privilege of being honoured with the Express Technology Innovation Award 2011 by Indian Express Group. All these awards have been the result of the work put in by his team and a small portion of it can be attributed to his Leadership and Strategic Direction.
Jitendra Singh
CIO, Hyderabad Industries
Jitendra is a Seasoned IT professional, with 20+ years of IT experience in management of Information Technology for Manufacturing Industries including Pharmaceutical, Retail, Automotive, Sugar, Building Material, Chemical and Power. Experience and exposure includes Creating and Implementing Strategic Roadmap for the organization, Project Management, Multi-location Software deployment and Validation, SAP implementation and support, IT Infrastructure Design and Implementation, Change Management, Process improvement, best practices, & continuous improvements in business using IT. A student of XLRI Jamshedpur, ITIL certified, trained Oracle DBA and PMP, a bronze level member of ISACA (Information System Audits and Controls Association). has been visiting faculty to various Institutions in Delhi, NCR area. Worked with organization like Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd., Triveni Engineering & Industries, LPS India, BCM. Currently working with Hyderabad Industries Ltd. (a CK Birla Group Company), As CIO. The present role requires regular interaction with CEOs and Other Top Management Executives for enabling the business with IT initiative to drive better results. The current projects in progress include Optimization of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Sales & Operations Planning, BI Implementation, automation at production level."
Hemant K Singh
CIO, Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills
Hemant is Post Graduate having specialization in Computer Science & Operations Research from IIT Kharagpur & PGDBM from PTU with overall 22+ years of experience including 14 years of extensive IT Infrastructure services experience in setting up and heading Techno-functional Operations, contemporary IT Infrastructure Management, Resource Planning & managing IT Projects in various manufacturing sectors in India. He has ability to oversee multiple complex projects concurrently with knowledge and experience of technologies such as ERP/Data Warehousing, Project management & Application Development using Microsoft Technologies, Lotus Notes, E-Commerce, Intranet services and participated in launching web portals. SAP R/3 4.7C/ECC 5.0 Administration, business process improvement and performance management. Executed several SAP projects successfully includes implementation of SD/PP/QM/MM/FI/CO/PM. Significant experience working with steering committees and other project managers like Six Sigma, World Class manufacturing, Inventory Control, Computerized Plant Maintenance system, E-commerce, Theory of Constraints (TOC), Balance Score Card (BSC) etc. He has participated in publishing IT and security policy and implementation of ISO 27001-security framework and certification of ISO-27001.
Atanu Roy
Vice President & CIO, Dr.Reddys Laboratories
Atanu Roy is currently Vice President & Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Dr.Reddy&rsquot;s Laboratories. He is responsible for IT and Business Process Excellence across Dr.Reddy&rsquot;s globally. He is an Engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Atanu has deep subject matter expertise in Manufacturing, Consumer, Pharmaceutical and related Industries, all aspects of IT and Enterprise Applications covering the complete organizational value chain, has profound understanding of the emerging trends in the industry as well as technology and has the flair for conceptualizing and architecting innovative solutions integrating industry knowledge, best practices with appropriate information technology. He has over 18 years of rich experience in Business Process Improvement, IT consulting, supply chain, conceptualization and implementation of innovative technology & Enterprise Solutions addressing critical organizational needs and creating sustainable competitive advantages.