Speaker Bio:  

Rajeev Seoni
CIO, Ernst & Young
Rajeev is the Chief Information Officer at Ernst & Young (India) since April 2007 and is responsible for formulating and implementing the firm’s IT strategy. With over 30 years of rich experience in technology services, Rajeev has managed the Technology function in varied industries; has expertise in IT Strategy, mission critical operations, IT Infrastructure, Applications, Information Security, Business Continuity Planning; and managing large IT and ERP implementation projects.Prior to working with Ernst & Young, Rajeev has lead the IT Function at Hughes Software Systems (now Aricent), HCL Infosystems and the Delhi Stock Exchange. He started his career with a long stint in the Indian Navy, with significant contributions in the area of warship design and software engineering. Rajeev has been invited to speak at various national and international seminars and has won several industry awards.
U C Dubey
Executive Director- IT, Iffco-Tokio General Insurance
U C Dubey has more than 38 years experience in IT. Out of this, he has served last 30 years as CIO or head of IT of a company. He joined Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative (IFFCO) Phulpur unit to head its IT organization and established a data centre at IFFCO Phulpur unit and built a team of IT professionals to design, develop, and implement various commercial applications using state of art technologies. Later, he shifted to IffcoTokio General Insurance Co.(ITGI), a joint venture between IFFCO and Tokio Marine Nichido Co. of Japan, in January 2005 as CIO and EVP - IT. Many business projects related to policy underwriting, point of sale, claim processing, B to B & B to C integration, document management, and central under writing HUB for back office processing were successfully implemented. He also has been a very active member of Computer Society of India (CSI) since 1974. He served CSI as Secretary of Rourkela Chapter, Chairman of Allahabad Chapter, Chairman of Business and Industry group at national level, and CSI&rsquot;s representative in TC-2 of International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP). He was also awarded CSI Chapter Patron award in 2007.
S. Ramasamy
Executive Director - IS , Indian Oil
Ramasamy is responsible for IT strategy at Indian Oil and his portfolio includes Business Information Management,applications development, technology infrastructure, telecommunication networks and data centre operations. He has 33 years extensive experience and expertise in Petroleum Industry especially in the specialized functions like Process Operation, Advance Controls, Optimization and Information Systems coupled with strategic planning and management. He has the consultancy experience of implementation of SAP at SriLankan National Oil Companies too. He has presented many technical papers at industry events across the region. He has also implemented one of the India’s Biggest Inter company Oil Exchange B2B project using SAP PI Platform. He is a member of the SAP Regional Services Board of Advisors too. Amongst several awards and recognitions during his distinguished career,he has led the Indian Oil team to receive the most coveted eGov award of Govt of India three times for 2009,10& 11 and SAP ACE Awards consecutively four times. Some of the recent awards to IndianOil under his leadership include CIO 100 Security award, 2010, CIO100 APC Green IT Award,eWorld Award, Check-Point Express Security Strategist Award and BCI Continuity & Resilience Award.
Dr. J S Sodhi
Head-IT & CIO, Amity Group
Dr JS Sodhi has over 20 years of Experience in Engineering and IT Project Management. He is leading a team of 150 IT professionals and responsible for the overall IT management of all Amity Institutions throughout 30 locations in India and across the globe - Dubai, US, UK, Singapore, Mauritius and all companies under AKC Group of Companies. He is the first Certified Security Compliance Specialist in India. His comprehensive Problem Solving Abilities, Team Building and Team Management skills, strong IT Strategies, IT Policies & Monitoring Process brings in the cutting edge experience and expertise. Dr JS Sodhi led his team to won many Awards like CIO 100 Honouree 2012 of top 100 Asian Companies Category by CIO-Asia, EMC Cloud Pioneer Award-2011, Go Green Innovation Award-2011 by NComputing Inc,, Best & Most Innovative IT Implementation Award-2010 by Intel, ISTE-HP People’s Choice Award-2011, Best IT Implementation Award-2009 by PCQuest, Best IT Implementation Award-2007 by PCQuest.
Jijy Oommen
EVP & Group Head -Technologies, Bajaj Capital
Jijy Oommen is the Executive Vice President & Group Head - Technologies for Bajaj Capital. In this role she is responsible for all technology initiatives in Bajaj Capital Group. She is part of the core management team of Bajaj Capital. Jijy has a rich experience of more than 15 years. She bagged many industry awards like "Leading Women Technical Officer Award", "CISO Award" and "Cloud Pioneer Award." She is an active member in many industry forums, publications and blogs.
Daya Prakash
Head - IT, LG Electronics
Daya Prakash has over 17 years of experience in IT industry, managing IT Applications & Infrastructure. He has an in-depth knowledge related to various aspects of business. He has been at the forefront of LGEIL&rsquot;s IT operations and is responsible for implementation of latest technologies, business process innovation to enhance organizational competitiveness. He is the winner of many prestigious IT awards like CIO 100 Asia Award 2012 by Fairfax Business Media Asia, CIO 100 Creativity Award 2011 by international Data Group, “Top 100 CISO” Award by Infosecurity in 2011, “Hall of Fame” Award 2010 by international Data Group, Edge 2010 by UB Media, CIO 100 Agile Award 2010 by international Data Group, CTO of the Year 2009 award in Manufacturing (New Product Development) by D&B (Dun and Bradstreet), CIO 100 Ingenious 2009 by international Data Group, Diamond Edge 2009 by UB Media, CIOL Enterprise Connect Gold Award 2008 by Cyber Media, CIO 100 Bold Award 2008 and CIO 100 Innovation Award 2007 presented by international Data Group. His projects have won PC Quest Best IT implementation award 2008.
Parminder Singh
ex - CTO & Sr. VP, BPTP
Parminder is a senior IT Leader with over 24 years of experience in working for large and medium sized companies in India, USA & Australia. He has worked with many companies in diverse industries viz financial industry, BPO and IT services. Having good analytical, organizational and leadership skills in applying best practices for strategic planning, growth initiatives, process re-engineering, relationship management, team building and technology utilization, he is also actively involved in CIO/CTO fraternity and is a member of CIO Forum of South Asia. He was recently being conferred the 14th rank in the 2012 list of "Top 100 most respected CIOs in India".
Sunil Sharma
VP Operations, Cyberoam
Sunil is currently working as VP of Operations at Cyberoam, India & SAARC Sales Operation. He has an extensive experience of 19 years in the IT industry in the field of computers, Storage & Security. He has worked with almost all possible sales channels - SI, VAR, ISP, Resellers, Dealers, Retail, OEM. His end customer experience has also been across all segments – Enterprise , SME, SMB, SOHO.
Sudhakar S Marthi
Vice President Sales & Marketing, ZOHO
Sudhakar has got more than 25 years of Sales & Marketing experience in Products selling both Hardware and Software. At present Sudhakar is working as Vice President Sales & Marketing – APAC at ZOHO , Chennai and is in charge of Sales and Marketing for APAC region for all products of ZOHO Corporation which has three divisions namely WebNMS, ManageEngine and Zoho.com. Prior to ZOHO, he has worked as Product Manager in Toshbro and Toshniwal Bros as well as in SICO.
Farhan Khan
AVP - IT, Radico Khaitan
Farhan has 19+ years of IT experience in System Design and Development, Implementation and support. Strategically and cost effectively utilize technology in alignment with corporate goals, consistently improve delivery times and service level while reducing costs. Excel in strategic planning, building high performance team, project management and implementing the best practice methodologies and continues improvement programs. Expertise in Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Pharma, ecommerce,BPR, ERP, CRM, BI/BO, BPC, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
K. Bhaskhar
Senior Director - Office Imaging Solution Division, Canon India
With 25 years of expertise in various industries, Bhaskhar understands the market dynamics and is well equipped to bring synergies. He has taken the marketing and sales of Canon MFDs to next level by moving from just a box selling machine to a solution based approach. he has been associated with Canon for over 13 years, working at different profiles in the enterprise domain of business solutions. His key organizational strengths include formation of business strategy, people management, conceptualization and solutions oriented approach in handling problems. His expertise in sales and marketing comes from a 10 year experience in consumer durable industry.
Satya Gupta
Additional General Manager – IT & CISO, Tata Power Delhi Distribution
Satya is currently the Additional General Manager – IT and also the Chief Information Security Officer at Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, New Delhi, India. She is instrumental in implementation of various automation technologies / software applications and also in getting ISO 27001 certification. She is an M. Tech, computer science from IIT Delhi, has a rich experience of more than three decades in software projects implementation out of which more than one decade is in Power Distribution. She is also Mentor for a number of TPDDL’s APDRP Consultancy Projects for power distribution reforms in India. She is also the recipient of Top 100 CISO - 2011 & 2012 Award instituted by InfoSecurity Magazine. Due to her rich domain knowledge of power distribution, she received first runner up award for ‘Leading woman in Energy’ & ‘Leading woman owned Innovative Project’ for the year 2011 in Women Leaders in India Award Ceremony. She has also been presenting papers in various national & international forums.
M K Chaudhary
General Manager (E&T) & Head - IT, ONGC
With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Chaudhary has been instrumental in the planning, provisioning and maintenance management of comprehensive process automation for Upstream. He also looked after looked after maintenance management of Microwave and UHF communication systems as well as after Computerisation, planning and maintenance management of terrestrial communication, SCADA and Introduced ERP SAP system widely known ICE (Information Consolidation for Efficiency). In his current role, he has successfully planned and implemented Network Operating Centre(NOC), Security Operating Centre(SOC) for ONGC. He has also implemented Active Directory and Domain Service across ONGC and implemented state of the art e-Mailing System.