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Chetan Maini
Founder & Chief of Strategy & Technology, Mahindra Reva
Chetan is widely regarded as the pioneer of electric cars in India. He Co-founded the REVA Electric Car Company, India's first electric car manufacturer, in 1994. Chetan has over two decades of experience in the development of solar, hybrid and electric vehicles in the U.S. and India. Prior to REVA, he worked for Amerigon Inc. (USA) and General Motors (USA). As a program manager at Amerigon, he was responsible for all electric vehicle programs and initiated the REVA project. He also serves as a member of India's National Board on Electric Mobility (NBEM) formed by the Government of India's Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises. He is also the Chairman of the Personal Transporation Council, World Economic Forum. He currently holds patents in energy management systems for electric vehicles and has presented technical and keynote papers on electric vehicles globally. His papers have been published in several international journals.
Arun Jain
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Polaris Financial Technology
Arun started Polaris in 1993 with a Dream, to create a globally respected institution out of India, focusing on High Performance and Long term relationships. As the Chief Architect, Arun's unwavering focus has been towards simplifying the complex world of Financial Technology & connect technology seamlessly to Business. Besides hands-on design of high impact solutions for the banking and insurance world, Arun has encapsulated 25 years of working with market leaders TM into a rich and practical Learning Architecture in order to institutionalize a high performance culture at Polaris. He has also been instrumental in setting up School of Financial Technology (SOFT), a learning institute based out of Hyderabad, India, to offer a comprehensive curriculum and certification programs in financial technology, at individual, expert and enterprise levels.
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Bala Parthasarathy
Managing Partner, AngelPrime
Bala is an entrepreneur turned investor with a vast two decade experience under his belt. He has built 3 successful startups including Snapfish which he co-founded in 1999 and sold it off to Hewlett-Packard in 2005. His specialties includes COO responsibilities including P&L management, Operations, R&D in internet or ecommerce businesses, International business development.
Shoaib Ahmed
President, Tally Solutions
As President at Tally Solutions, Shoaib Ahmed is primarily responsible for the Sales & Marketing. He has launched and managed Tally’s unique two tier partner network. He initiated the Large Enterprise practice at Tally Solutions, to evangelize the benefits of supply chain visibility. Besides being responsible for Marquee clients, he has also managed Alliances with Large Enterprises.
Dr. Kumar Shiralagi
Managing Director, Kalaari Capital
Dr. Kumar has been managing high-performing investments and exits in technology companies for over a decade. He has been a part of the Indian venture capital ecosystem since 2003 and has been involved with more than 25 companies — investing, helping them grow, serving on Boards and managing exits. He currently serves on ten company Boards. In 2000, Kumar co-founded Lytek Corporation, a semiconductor laser manufacturer based in Arizona, and served as COO. From 2003-07, he was Country Director of Intel Capital India, driving Intel’s investments in India with a successful portfolio of technology startups. He joined IndoUS Capital Advisors Indo-US Venture Partners in 2007 and helped spearhead support its first round of investments. He has published more than 60 papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of semiconductors, optoelectronics, and nanotechnology, and holds 23 U.S. patents.
Dr. Aloknath De
Chief Technology Officer, Samsung India
Dr. De has about twenty-five years of industrial and research experiences with Bharat Electronics, Nortel (Montreal), Hughes and recently ST-Ericsson where he was Director and Country Manager. He is a recipient of Alexander Graham Bell Prize in Canada. He has received IETE Memorial Awards in 2003 and 2008 for distinguished contributions in the fields of Electronics and Communication with emphasis on Industrial R&D and Mobile Communication, respectively. During 2005-11. He has contributed to various Telecommunication Standard Forums and has been chair for Media Processing group of International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium (IMTC), California.
Girish Ramdas
Co-founder & CEO, Magzter
Girish has more than 17 years experience in cross-platform publishing, including print, mobile, and Web development. During this period, he has co-founded and run three successful start-up businesses. He was voted the CIOL Technology Person of the Year for 2012 for his contribution to the global digital publishing business. He has deep experience in online, mobile and publishing ecosystems over the past 12 years has made him an expert in acquisition, marketing and monetizing digital content across platforms globally.
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Praveen Sinha
Co-founder and Managing Director, Jabong
Praveen’s sheer passion & interest in the e-retailing sector and his belief in its growth potential is one of the driving forces behind the formation of Jabong.com. Known for his passionate support of talent & commitment to inclusion, Praveen endorses a company culture that encourages personal effectiveness in individual team members and benefits the team as a whole. An accomplished management consultant and executive, Praveen has held a number of leadership roles in organizations like Mckinsey, Microsoft & Maruti Udyog. Besides this, he has extensive experience in building and leading large teams and growing businesses in global assignments. He has acted as advisory and auditor for plants in China, Thailand and Taiwan across various sectors, including cement, steel and power. Prior to Jabong, he has helped starting AquaBrim & various other startups. He is a successful turn-around specialist, specializing not only in strategizing but also implementation, improving operations, and building management systems and processes. An exceptionally dedicated individual & an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Praveen brings to the table a vast corporate experience with an uncanny knack to build a business from scratch.
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Siddhartha Jain
Co-Founder & CEO, Spice Labs
Siddhartha leads a tribe of Game Makers at Spice Labs whose games currently reach more than 5 million+ people every month. He is constantly looking to make friends & build relationships that can help Spice Labs make better games & reach a much wider audience. At Spice Labs he has created a crack creative team to drive the idea engine, an engineering team to deliver & realize these ideas backed by amazing operations group to engage & entertain millions of users daily. Before Spice Labs Siddhartha has worked with multiple technology start-ups in business, product and engineering roles. He holds an Integrated M.Tech. degree in Mathematics & Computing from IIT Delhi.
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Himanshu Chakrawarti
CEO, The Mobile Store
Himanshu is currently the CEO of The MobileStore. Prior to Mobile Store, He worked with Trent Limited for over ten years. Himanshu's last assignment was as the COO of Landmark, the largest book and music retailer in India with large stores in most major cities. Prior to joining Westside he had more than nine years of experience in sales and marketing of FMCG. An avid reader and tennis and golf player, Himanshu graduated from I.I.T. Kanpur and followed it up with a PGDM from I.I.M. Bangalore.
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Dr. Viswanath Poosala
Head - Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent
In his current role, Vishy leads a world-class team of researchers in delivering research breakthroughs and assisting Alcatel-Lucent Sales Teams in APAC. His current research areas include creating novel computing and networking technologies for emerging markets and beyond. Vishy is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. He mentors startups in Bangalore and advises Indian companies on creating a strong innovation culture. Vishy was the Founder & CTO of Geopepper, an Alcatel-Lucent venture delivering innovative location-based services. He has also started multiple websites, including alertpedia.com. Vishy is a recognized expert on the business & technical aspects of Mobile applications, Networks, Web 2.0, and Database systems. He has published over 20 technical papers, been granted over 40 patents, received the “Excellence in Innovation” award in India in 2010, and won the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award three times. Vishy received his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Madras, India, in ’92, M.S and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in ’97.
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Vivek Subramanyam
CEO, iCreate Software
Vivek has global experience working for organizations like iGATE, Cognizant, Citibank and TCS. In his previous role, Vivek was the Head of the Presales and Solutions group at iGATE and a member of iGATE’s Leadership Council. At Cognizant, his last role was as the US Head of Operations - Manufacturing, Logistics & Consumer Goods Practice . He has also managed multiple client relationships and been responsible for significant P&L management. In addition, he has driven several corporate initiatives for executive leadership at iGATE and Cognizant. He has also had stints in sales management at Citibank and as a systems analyst in TCS. Vivek is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML) and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal (formerly KREC).
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Sanjay Nayak
CEO & MD, Tejas Networks
Sanjay is a technocrat with over 25 years of experience ranging across Telecom, Networking and Electronic Design and Semiconductor industry- both in India as well as the US. Prior to founding Tejas Networks, Sanjay was Managing Director of Synopys India, a global leader in Electronic Design Automation. He received the “Technovation Sarabhai Award” in 2013 for his contribution to the Indian industry from Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the “Electronics Man of the Year 2011”, from ELCINA, and was selected as one of the “Top-20 Stars of Indian Telecom Industry” by Aegis Graham Bell Awards in 2012. He is the Regional Chairman (South) of India's Telecom Export Promotion Council (TEPC), is a member of the CII National Committee on ICTE, is a member of Karnataka ICT Group 2020 and is also a member of various Government of India committees, including the National Telecom Manufacturing council.
Edwin Kolen
COO, CtrlS Datacenters
Edwin brings close to 20 years of experience in managing IT infrastructure and services operations for offshore/ outsourcing organizations at multinational companies in India. Prior to joining CtrlS, Edwin was the managing director of Colruyt, India, where he was leading the Indian offshore development center operations. Having worked with both Indian companies and MNCs, he brings a blended experience and understands the expectations of Customers across the Globe.
K Satyanarayan
Ex Co-Founder, CricInfo
Satyanarayan was a co-founder of CricInfo, the world’s largest & most popular cricket website which was founded in 1996 and sold to the UK-based Wisden group in 2003. After exiting CricInfo, he co-founded New Horizon Media (NHM) in 2004. NHM is a publishing company with a focus on publishing books in the Indian languages, across multiple media spanning printed books and magazines, audio books and e-books. With the advent of smartphones and tablets, India is at the tipping point of the e-book revolution that is ahead of us. Satya is driving the digital initiatives at NHM to ensure everyone in India can have access to the world’s knowledge in their own native languages. Satya is an alumnus of IIT Madras and Cornell University.
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Umang Kumar
Co-Founder & CEO, Gaadi.com
Umang has a decade of experience across internet startups, leading media houses and a two year stint as a coder. He is an ardent online enthusiast and have consulted with some of the largest internet ventures in India. Umang serves at the CEO & Co-Founder of Gaadi.com, India's leading auto marketplace. In 2008 he co-founded Accentium Web with 3 batch mates and went on to establish 5 successful internet ventures including Gaadi.com, Secondshaadi.com, Sitagita.com, Taaza.com and Studynation.com.
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Jitin Narang
Co-Founder & COO, TechAhead
Jitin has 15 years of experience in IT industry. He is the man behind several of TechAhead’s mobile application deployments for global companies such as RosyBlue, RapNet, FI ESPN, Orra, Fiat, ITC & Xerox. He has helped organizations of all sizes develop and execute their mobile strategy, enabling them to reach their customers over mobile devices. Besides understanding and catering to every client’s unique business and process requirements, he works towards enhancing value and cost effectiveness by helping to cross sell clients’ products and services.
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Manish Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO, Printo.in
Manish is the cofounder and CEO of Printo, India’s first professional print chain. Manish is a serial entrepreneur who started one of the India’s earliest and largest web solutions firms in 1996. He then cofounded an AI product firm and subsequently ran the operations of a UK headquartered IT solutions firms. He has a bachelor’s degree from Bombay University and a Masters from Oxford.
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Bhavish Aggarwal
Co-Founder & CEO, Ola Cabs
Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that. He had a wonderful time there, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. But the entrepreneurial itch was too hard to resist and he decided to quit his job in August 2010 and moved to Mumbai to start Ola in December 2010. With Ola, he aims to change the way we travel in and around our cities and revolutionize the personal transportation industry.
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Karan Mohla
Vice President, IDG Ventures India
Karan focuses on the Mobile, internet, and digital consumer sectors. He serves on the Board of Vserv, FirstCry.com, Ozone Media and iViZ Techno Solutions. Prior to joining IDG Ventures India, Karan worked with QVT Finance LP, a US based hedge fund and was a founding member of their Asia-Pacific practice. Karan earlier worked in the Technology & Media investment banking group at Jefferies & Company in Silicon Valley. He helped several emerging technology companies in capital raising, M&A and strategic partnerships. Later, he helped start the India office where he advised and executed financing strategies for companies in the Technology, Media, Telecom, CleanTech and Education sectors. He has successfully completed several transactions across M&A and capital raising for corporates across India and the US. Karan graduated with a BBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and an EMBA from INSEAD, where he was the youngest graduate in the program’s history.
Avaneesh Dubey
SVP - Development Organization, SAP
In the early part of his rich career journey which spreads over 20 years, Avaneesh has contributed to the success stories of Citicorp (COSL) and HSBC bank. He joined SAP in 1998 and for the first 3 years, he lived and worked at the company headquarters at Walldorf, Germany. Later, he returned to India and seeded the Banking Industry development team – which built Collateral Management System - the first product developed end-to-end at SAP Labs India. In the year 2008, he took over as the head of Suite Test Centre, which is globally responsible for end-to-end testing of SAP’s flagship product – the Business Suite. In Suite Test Center, Avaneesh is instrumental in driving various test techniques like All Pairs, Exploratory test, Message class tests etc.
Anil Joshi
President, Mumbai Angels
Anil’s professional experience includes involvement in corporate management functions in medium and large organizations, Investment in startups, Project management, Joint Ventures and business development. His specialties lies into Angel Investment, setting up of new venture and scaling up. Analysing new opportunities for funding, Business Development, JV & Merger, Entry Strategy
Santanu Dutt
Solutions Architect & Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Shantanu is responsible in educating companies with the service offerings of the AWS platform, as well as helping them in their architecture with their best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud. He has also been a regular Speaker at premier industry wide conferences like Nasscomm, eTailing, Cloud Connect, Infocom, TIE among others evangelizing on technologies like Cloud Computing and Big Data. Prior to joining Amazon, he was responsible for working with large Indian enterprises and System Integratorson Infrastructure Migration, Virtualization, Consolidation and Systems Management. In the past, Santanu has also lived and worked out of the United States and the UK as part of various Services Delivery roles.
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Ramesh Radhakrishnan
Partner, Artiman Capital
Ramesh has over 20 years of operational and business experience in the high technology industry, including networking, security and wireless companies. He has been a member of the founding entrepreneurial team in three startups. Prior to Artiman, He was associated with FireEye, Airgo Networks, Cisco Systems and many more.
Rajesh Rai
CEO, India Innovation Fund
Rajesh has 15 years of global investing, corporate and entrepreneurial experience. He has invested in three companies and the fund aims to expand in 2012. His Specialities includes Early and growth stage private equity, Cross-border investing, Building companies, Sourcing, diligencing and executing deals, Co-investments, Partnerships.
Padmaja Ruparel
President, Indian Angel Network
Padmaja has established a unique model of an incubator, based on domain expertise and mentoring portfolio, which now has a portfolio of 36 incubatee companies, growing quickly to attract seed funding within 6 months of incubation. As a key player in the entrepreneurial eco system of India, she operationalised the TiE Universe’s best chapter - TiE Delhi chapter and revived the Indian Venture Capital Association, India’s oldest and largest association of VC and PE firms as CFO of the organisation.
Kumar Vembu
Founder & CEO, GoFrugal Technologies
Kumar is a veteran having two decades of experience in IT Industry. Prior to GoFrugal, He was associated with HCL Hewlett Packard, Vembu Systems, AdventNet and many more.
Umesh Kulkarni
Founder, NewsHunt
Umesh brings over 10 years of experience in systems and software development for companies like Wipro, Cisco and Nokia. Before founding Eterno, Umesh was heading a software development team at Nokia’s Bangalore development center. Umesh has rich experience in architecting and developing of datacom and telecom products for global customers. He had co-founded Curis Networks in 1999, a company specializing in software services for Networking vertical. Curis was acquired by Amber Networks Inc, a US based startup which was acquired by Nokia in 2001. Umesh continued to play a key management role in Nokia’s India development center at Bangalore.
Kishore Mandyam
CEO, PK4 Software Technologies
Kishore has over 24 years of experience in the software industry. Beginning as a developer in Infosys, Kishore has co-founded software companies in India and the US including Ampersand Software, Aprisa Inc. and, most recently, PK4. Impel CRM, PK4's flagship product, combines Cloud and Mobile technology with an accessible business model to deliver the most effective and efficient Sales, Support and Operations solution for SMEs.
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Binny Mathews
Co-founder, Dezyre.com
Binny is responsible for all Sales, Business Development and Course Development at Dezyre.com. Prior to Dezyre.com, he was a Sales and Business Development Manager at QuinStreet - one of the world’s leaders in online education. At QuinStreet, Binny was responsible for US$14 million in P&L and ownership over QuinStreet's primary clients. Prior to QuinStreet, Binny was a Senior Analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Credit Suisse.
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Pradeep Desai
India Head-Software Center of Excellence, GE Global Research
Pradeep works for Global Research as the Technology Leader for Software Sciences and Analytics. He is also the Head of Software Center of Excellence-India. He manages the team working in analytics & platform development for the industrial internet. He has over two decades of experience comprising of Innovation and R&D Management in the space of- systems, software solutions and services. His expertise lies into Analytics, Industrial Internet, Big data & Platform development.
Rama Bethmangalkar
Principal, Ventureast
Rama has rich operational experience in building and managing software products and businesses from the ground-up. As part of the Ventureast Proactive Fund, Rama works with early stage companies in the technology, telecommunications, outsourcing, financial services, and alternative energy sectors. His experience and professional network have been of immense value to the companies he works with. He holds two US patents for his research in the broad area of software architecture. Prior to joining Ventureast in 2007, Rama spent seven years with Sun Microsystems in California, where he played varied roles in its Systems Management and Computer Systems groups, including leadership roles in the marketing, product management, and engineering functions. Even as a student-researcher in the US, his penchant for entrepreneurial endeavor led him to be involved briefly with an IT start-up company in California.
Atul Batra
CTO, Manthan Software Services
Atul is CTO for Manthan Systems which serves as the Chief Analytics Officer for several of the fastest growing retailers around the world. Previously Atul was Sr. Director Engineering at Yahoo!, where he built a team that delivered vertical intent search products used by Yahoo!’s global user audience. Prior to Yahoo!, Atul was in the Bay Area at Good Technology Inc, a leader in multi-platform enterprise mobility with products adopted by 40 of the Fortune 100. Earlier, Atul spent nearly 11 years at Sun Microsystems where he helped build middleware products, led the open sourcing of the portal server product line, represented Sun at OASIS, led the Sun-Yahoo! alliance, and helped craft company strategy around SOA.
Manoj Khilnani
Country Manager - Enterprise Products, BlackBerry
Manoj has 13 years of experience encompassing qualitative research, project management, media planning & buying and channel development.
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Apoorv Ranjan Sharma
Executive Vice President, VentureNursery
Apoorv leads the core team at VentureNursery as Executive Vice President. In his previous roles in other firms, he has established many incubators and, grown angel networks and has mentored over 100 start-ups on fund raising techniques, many of whom have gone on to secure angel and VC financing. He recently exited Indian Angel Network (IAN) where he led Western Region Investments and Technology Incubator. In the past, he has been responsible for establishing JSS Technology Business Incubator, JSS SEED Fund, Amity Capital Venture and Amity Innovation Incubator. Some of ventures mentored by him include Venera Technology, Apnacircle.com, CircuitSutra Technology, Netika Solution.
Shourabh Shrivastav
Founder & CEO, 3P Technologies
Shourabh is a serial entrepreneur who has been a catalyst in several startup ventures within and outside India. He has over 20 years of experience handling challenging managerial positions with organizations of international repute. Prior to founding 3P technologies, Srivastav was in charge of the Asia Pacific region of Microsoft Corporation.as their senior bussiness consultant and was based out of Singapore.
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Kiranbir Nag
Principal, Saama Capital
Kiranbir Nag is a Principal at Saama Capital India Advisors. Earlier, he was part of the founding team for SICP. Prior to joining SICP, Kiranbir was Vice President and Head of South India for Ambit Corporate Finance, a full service investment bank. Prior to Ambit, Kiranbir served as Associate Director and early team member of the ANZ Investment Banking team. Prior to ANZ, Kiranbir was a Manager and part of the Leadership Team at Arthur Andersen & Co.
Rutvik Doshi
Principal, Inventus (India) Advisors
Rutvik has participated in India's fast emerging internet ecosystem since 2007, first with Google-India where he launched several products including Voice Search, Google Mobile App, SMS Channels and managed Google News globally, and most recently as the CEO of ecommerce startup Taggle in Bangalore. Before Google he spent 6 years in the U.S. building internet management software for CA Technologies and a startup.
Arjun Ramegowda Narayanswamy
MD, Catamaran Ventures
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Ashutosh Sharma
Senior Associate, Norwest Venture Partners India
Ashutosh serves as an advisor on venture investments in Indian companies across a wide range of sectors at NVP. Before joining NVP India, Ashutosh was an investment manager at Qualcomm Ventures where he invested in companies in the mobile infrastructure, mobile apps, e-commerce and social gaming sectors. Prior to Qualcomm Ventures, Ashutosh spent several years in the mobile and wireless industry at Samsung and Motorola, where he worked in technology marketing and device development roles for handsets, personal navigation devices and other mobile products.
Prayank Swaroop
Senior Associate, Accel Partners
Prayank is a Senior Associate at Accel Partners. At Accel, Prayank focuses on internet and digital media investments. Before joining Accel, He was a product manager at Standard Chartered Bank where he worked on mobile banking and trading products. Previously, Prayank had spent several years in key engineering, evangelism and sales positions at Adobe Systems.
Navin Honagudi
Associate, Kae Capital
Navin's primary role at Kae is to identify investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, valuation analysis and evaluate their business and financial prospects. He has served on the Boards of Tessolve Services and Dhama Innovations and as Observer on Reverse Logistics, Suvidhaa Infoserve, Healthspring and Gradatim besides leading RVAM’s investment in One97 Comm.
Nishant Verman
Associate, Canaan Partners India
Nishant has close to a decade years of operational, finance and entrepreneurial experience across Asia and the US. He was co-founder of Groovebug, a personalized music platform for the iPad. Nishant was part of team since inception and focused on multiple aspects including product development, venture funding and launch. Nishant started his career in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking group in Silicon Valley, where his clients included Google, eBay and Zappos. Nishant currently serves as a Mentor for Startup Village, India's first Public Private Partnership model Technology Business Incubator.
Rohit Bhat
Associate, Sequoia Capital India
Rohit Bhat is an Associate of Sequoia Capital India. Rohit is involved in a number of Sequoia’s investments including Practo, Knowlarity, iCreate, Mu Sigma, Pine Labs, IMI Mobile and Sourcebits. Rohit was formerly with Temasek Holdings and McKinsey & Company, working with the FIG, retail and media practices. Rohit holds an MBA with Honors from Wharton and a B.Tech from IIT Madras, graduating with the Governors Gold Medal for all-round performance.
Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi
Member, India Angel Network
I.Vijaya Kumar (known as IVK) is Chief Innovation Officer of INK which is an organization focused on innovation from young economies of the world. He drives INK’s innovation and technology strategy to inspire ideas and incubate projects of both business and social nature and showcase them on a global arena. Prior to joining INK, he was CTO of Wipro’s IT businesses covering Wipro Technologies, Wipro Infotech and Wipro BPO.He has been with ICT industry for the last 24 plus years and is one of the leading experts in innovation management and advanced technologies incubation in India.
Manish Singhal
Member, Indian Angel Network
Manish is a passionate mentor, business coach and an active angel investor. He works with start-ups to help them get established and started-ups in helping them scale. As an angel investor, he also invests in innovative start-ups. He is also a member of Indian Angel Network. He has worked in the area of promoting women entrepreneurship in India by creating & running Women Entrepreneur Quest (WEQ) for ABI. This contest has helped create a platform for recognizing & rewarding women entrepreneurs in India. He serves on the board of companies ranging from Technology businesses to consumer businesses to e-commerce to employability like Freshersworld.com, Moontara Technovations, ApartmentADDA etc. He also serves on many mentoring panels like CIIE (IIM Ahemdabad), Start-up Village (Kochi) and Venture Labs (Stanford University).
Naga Prakasam
Member, Indian Angel Network
Nagaraja Prakasam holds more than 19 years of experience in the software industry including 15 years in a variety of management roles in the USA and in India at CDC Software. Naga’s expertise lies in product development, sales and managing offshore R&D, services and support operations for enterprise software companies.
P. Srikar Reddy
MD & CEO, Sonata Software
Srikar is MD & CEO, and a Member of the Board of Directors of Sonata Software Limited, Sonata Information Technology Limited and Member of the Supervisory Board of TUI InfoTec GmbH. Srikar has been with Sonata since 1986 and has been pivotal in building Sonata as a trusted and reliable IT services partner. Srikar’s vision for Sonata is based on building the organisation with empowered people and providing a differentiated value proposition to its clients.
Satish Kumar
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Glopore IMS
Satish Kumar is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of GLOPORE IMS. Satish brings a successful 18 years of professional experience that spans North America, Europe and the Indian sub-continent. He is responsible for the company&rsquot;s vision, overall business strategy execution, business units performance, leadership & partnership development and key customer, partner, investors relationship management. Prior to setting up GLOPORE IMS, Satish was with Novell Inc., (NASDAQ: NOVL) at its corporate headquarters in Waltham, MA USA. His dedication and commitment won him the Novell ONE Award. Satish started his career in Bangalore, INDIA where he worked with various reputed MNCs.
Karthik Srinivasan
Director - Emerging Markets, EMC
As Director - Emerging Markets at EMC India Center of Excellence, Karthik is responsible for driving incremental revenue influence for EMC by incubating new solutions for emerging markets, with focus on India and APAC. He is currently focused on developing turnkey solutions on cloud in multiple areas working with ecosystem partners includingISVs and Service Providers. Prior to this, Karthik worked for EMC in the areas of storage system management and disaster recovery technologies as well as solutions for the media industry. He also had a brief stint as Head of Product Management for one of India’s largest social media websites, Shaadi.com.
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Mahesh Ramakrishnan
Founder CEO & MD, Nanobi Analytics
Mahesh has over 25 years of experience in the area of Product and Process Innovation, New Product development, Product Engineering and Solution Architecture, on a range of technology platforms. He is recognized as a thought leader and pioneer in Business Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data warehousing, across the industry by peers and customers. Mahesh is Inventor, Innovator and Architect of many pioneering ideas, concepts and products in the areas of data warehousing and business analytics, some of which include Reveleus (Earlier known as FLEXCUBE Information Center) - A Top Ranked Business Analytics Product and BI Technology Platform. Contributed to the Pioneering Government of India Project for Unique Identity, as a Sabbatical Resource (Technology-Analytics) in UIDAI, designed and architected Open Source Technology based Analytics system for Reporting and Analytics. He is a progressive and non-traditional thinker and am very open and receptive to new technologies and breakthroughs and the latest discoveries in any field.
Ramkumar Narayanan
General Manager, eBay Product Development Centre, India
In his current role, Ramkumar focuses on data driven product innovation to support eBay businesses across multiple markets. Prior to joining eBay India in November 2012, Ramkumar was the Vice President of Global Product Management in Yahoo! where he was accountable for leading product strategy and management across its Software Development Center in Bangalore. He has also led a number of global product teams including Search, Commerce, Advertising, Small Business and Emerging Markets with primary focus on India &Middle East.Before working with Yahoo!, Ramkumar was associated with Microsoft in both US and India and served in many capacities.
Dr. Ishwardutt Parulkar
CTO - Service Provider Access Business Unit , Cisco
Dr. Ishwar Parulkar is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer and the CTO for Small Cell Technology Group. In this role he is responsible for architecture of products and solutions across Wi-Fi and 3G/LTE access points, access routing and mobile packet core. He is also involved in defining the technology strategy and vision for several aspects of the next generation mobile internet. Prior to joining Cisco India in 2009, Dr. Parulkar worked in Silicon Valley in USA at Apple and Sun Microsystems for several years as a product architect and senior technologist.
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