Speaker Bio:  

Sukhvinder Ahuja
Lead – Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp India
Sukhvinder Ahuja heads the Unified communication business for Microsoft India , he has a more than 15yrs of experience in the India IT industry . He has a rich experience working with some of the renounced technology companies both in the Software , Networking and Telecom which give him a rounded view of the India customer needs and the trends in the emerging verticals Sukhvinder is an enterprising, extrovert and a business focused leader with a natural ability for building relationships and forging loyalties with clients, vendors and business partners, he has a motivational management style with a proven history of building strategies for accelerated growth.
Daman Dev Sood
CIO & Head - Sustainability Practice, Continuity and Resilience
As Business Continuity Manager of the Year in BCI’s C&R Awards India 2009, and with over 26 years’ experience in the Industry, Daman is currently the CIO and Head – Sustainability Practice at Continuity and Resilience. He has earlier worked with Steria as Head Business Continuity Management (UK, India) & Head Green Activities (India). Initially he worked with TCS for over 20 years in various roles and positions. He has rich experience in Environmental Sustainability, Business Continuity Management, Business Excellence and Consulting (BCM, Green IT, Quality/ Process/ Malcolm Baldrige). He is a Technical Expert & Lead Auditor for BS 25999 (Business Continuity Management System). Daman is Accredited Tutor for BCS ISEB “Foundation Certificate in Green IT” course.
K.P.Ganesh Raj
CIO, S Tel
Dr Ganesh Raj is the Chief Information Officer at S Tel. He is in charge of infrastructure, Prepaid, SMSC, VAS system, allied application planning and execution. He is responsible for planning and building of fault tolerant Infrastructure, Billing system, VAS and allied application and execution. He is has also been instrumental in launching innovative Value added services to enhance revenue per subscriber and implement processes to have a highly secure IT Environment. In the past, he has worked with Sutherland Global Services, Bharti Cellular Limited (Chennai), Pertech Computers Limited. Mr. Ganesh has won CIO 100 Awards as one of the top 100 CIO in India along with the Dataquest Golden CIO Team award for Excellence in IT at AirTel and received the Exceptional Contributor award for the year 2002-03 and the IT Excellence award for the year 2003 for contribution to AirTel IT at a national level. Mr. Ganesh comes with a rich technical background coupled with operational experience of 23 years in managing the Telecom Operations and Projects, IT Infrastructure Setup and Support, launching value added services. He has done masters in electronics from Presidency College, Chennai. He has done his Doctorate in Science in Telecommunications from California University . His core competence is telecom operations and project management, infrastructure setup and support, value added services, billing system and technology migration projects, BPO technology strategic planning and operations and technology solution implementation. He spends his spare time in doing research on Scientific meaning behind Indian Religious rituals ,he reads and travels a lot related to these researches.
Manish Kumar Gupta
VP Finance, Travel Planners
Manish is the Vice President at Travel Planners. He is responsible for control of Operation and Sales apart from Finance & Accounts. Currently he is involved in corporate restructure, formulation of organizational set up, sales policies, process and development, team building, Business networking, opening of new branches, adding the business associates/ sub-agents, new projects etc. Manish is an aggressive, enthusiastic and result oriented Chartered Accountant who loves to take new challenges not only in the area of Finance, Accounts & Taxation, but also in the Control of Business Organization. Previously he worked in BIC Logistics as GM Finance, Regional Finance Manager - North at TNT India, Manager F&A at C & S Protection & Controls.He has done his MBA from Symbiosis institute of Management Studies and his CHA in custom laws from the Department of Custom, Govt. of India.
Gyan Prakash Agarwal
Secretary General, World Association for Small Medium Enterprises (WASME).
Gyan Prakash Agarwal, is the Secretary General of World Association for Small Medium Enterprises (WASME). Mr. Agarwal has addressed several regional, national and international conferences and other events throughout the globe on SME related issues. He has also participated as well as made statements at various meetings of UN agencies and other well-known national and international organizations. His energy is currently fully devoted to the promotion of micro, small, micro and medium enterprise (MSME) sector. He is the founder of CA Cooperative Thrift & Credit Society Ltd, Delhi. Apart from that he works in several capacities in the Council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was conferred with the Best Auditor award and Social award by the Northern India Regional Council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 1993-94 and 1994-95 respectively.
Hitender Grover
National Programme Manager- SMB, APC by Schneider Electric
Hitender Grover has 10 years experience in Sales and Distribution, Channel Sales Management and currently into Strategy and Programme Conception and execution- nationally for the SMB segment. Presently he is the National Programme Manager- SMB (Small & Medium Businesses) at APC by Schneider Electric. He has earlier worked as Regional Sales Manager- West in the same company and was Deputy Manager-Channel Sales at Tech Pacific India. He has done his MBA at K.J.Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research-Mumbai. Hitender is a keen follower of trends within the SME / SMB space.
Vineet Narang
CEO, MobiQuest Mobile Technologies
Vineet Narang is the CEO of MobiQuest Mobile Technologies as well as he is the CEO of XceedAgents and XceedLearning. MobiQuest has launched 2 most innovative mobile platforms in the country - M&rsquot;Apps and M&rsquot;Loyal. Earlier Vineet has worked as Vice President at FCS Software Solutions, Business Head (IT) at Brand Quiver,Times Group and as Project Manager (Offshore Business Development), USA at FCS Software Solutions. He has done his MBA in Finance and Systems at T.A Pai Management Institute. He has been instrumental in carrying out projects like Wonder world Loyalty Program for Gini n Jony. Recently the M’loyal platform of MobiQuest was appreciated by financial times to be the world&rsquot;s most comprehensive mobile loyalty platform.
Tarun Malik
SVP & Zonal Business Head, Religare Finvest
Tarun Malik is currently working as Senior Vice President and Head of SME Business in Religare Finvest. He is responsible for handling of products like SME Working Capital Loans (Unsecured), SME Loans for plant and machinery, loans against property, construction equipment and transport vehicles. He has been working with Religare for more than 3 years. He has earlier worked in Citigroup for 3 years. Then Taren worked with ICICI Bank with for 7 years including 3.5 years in International Banking Group with ICICI Bank Eurasia in Moscow, Russia. Tarun basically belongs to Chandigarh and he has done his entire education from Chandigarh. He has done his MBA from University Business School – Punjab University in 1998.
Apurva Shah
Alliances Manager , Novell
Apurva is the Alliances Manager at Novell and he is responsible for engaging partner community including global strategic partners, system integrators and distributors as well as incubating channel ecosystem within Indian subcontinent. He has earlier worked as Sun Business Manager at Tech Pacific and as Marketing Executive at Pertech Computers Limited. Apurva has 15 years of experience in business roles including Sales, Marketing and Distribution, Market development, Channel Incubation and Global Alliances. He has done his BE, Chemical at Maharaja Sayajirao University . He has a good understanding of IT technologies around Open Source, Infrastructure and Security.
Deepak Sharma
Founder / CEO, Intellect Assets Pvt. Ltd.
Deepak Sharma is the founder and CEO of Intellect Assets. He is also the Managing Partner at Intellect Assets Ventures (a very early stage Seed/ Angel Investment Firm).As a day job Deepak works as a Business Contingency & Continuation Strategist, Outsourcing Transition & Vendor Management Guru and serve as a special advisor to companies with their Outsourcing needs in Customer Services, Sales, Legal, Financial & Accounting verticals.He has keen interest in art & culture.
Deepak Kumar Gupta
CEO, Planners Group of companies
Deepak Kumar Gupta is currently the CEO at Cargo Planners. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of the company. Deepak is responsible for the complete operation activities, all finance verticals, new Marketing strategy, collaboration with worldwide tour operators enhancement in business turnover. He has more than 15 years of experience in the corporate industry. Earlier Deepak has worked as Manager ( F & A ) – Northern Region at Allcargo Global Logistics Ltd. , Partner and audit manager at Mehra Goel & Co.Chartered Accountants. He has done his CA from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.