Speaker Bio:  

Venkatesh Babu
President and CEO, Tiara Consulting Services
Venkatesh Possess 15+ years of Global Consulting experience in working directly with US Fortune, Europe and Asia Pacific customers. He Founded Tiara Consulting Services, Inc., a US Corporation incorporated in California and providing Specialized and IT Consulting services for US Fortune customers since 2006, with globally spread business operations in the US, India and Singapore He is specialized in Business Development, Strategic Consulting, Customer Relationship Management, Operations Research, Decision Support, Connecting Business Team with Technology, Understanding and designing Business Processes, providing Technology Solutions, understanding and designing Technology Architecture for business needs, offering IT software solutions, business data migration and execution), and Project Management (PMI Certified PMP).
Hari Devarpalli
BI Solution Architect , Tata Consultancy Services
Hari Devarapalli He is heading BIPM Service Technology Office in Tata Consultancy Services. Hari has 20 years of industry and academic experience in software engineering. His focus is in the areas relating to Databases, e-Commerce, Data warehousing and Business Intelligence in banking, pubishing, avaiation, healthcare and utilities verticals.
Chandu Mukkavalli
Director, Deloitte Consulting
Chandu Mukkavalli is a Director at Deloitte Consulting India.He has more than 13 years of IT experience, with a primary focus on information management, data management, business intelligence, and data warehousing. Chandu has developed and led the business intelligence/ data warehousing practice at large consulting organizations.
George Philip
Practice Head, Wipro Technologies
George has more than 15 years of experience in architecting, managing & delivering Business Intelligence, Information Management, Information Governance, Data Warehousing, Performance Management, Master Data Management, CDI, Data Quality and Metadata Management projects for large global clients across industries like Telecom, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Technology, Government, Education, Media, Entertainment, Manufacturing, Electronics, Services. He currently plays the role of a Practice Head at Wipro Technologies & is an invited speaker at international forums including Gartner BI Summit, Seminar on Future of BI & Information Management. George holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration & B.Tech in Computer Science.
Rajgopal Kishore
Vice President - Business Information Management, Capgemini Financial Services
Rajagopal Kishore, presently the Vice President of Business Information Management, Financial Services at Capgemini Financial Services is known in the industry for his entrepreneurial and inspirational leaership. Building businesses around early to mid stages products is his strength. Rajagopal has advised Fortune 500 clients on using technology to achieve the competitive edge.He is well versed with fields such as Business Intelligence, Advance Analytics and Social Intelligence.Rajagopal has previously worked with HCL and Infosys in crucial capacities in Social Intelligence and e-commerce respectively.
Bhavish Sood
Research Director, Gartner
Bhavish Sood is a research director with Gartners Technology and Service Provider Research which covers analytical applications worldwide and database management system markets, business intelligence and data management for the Asia/Pacific region. Bhavish is researching how business applications and business intelligence software are being consumed on smartphones and media tablets.Prior to joining Gartner,Bhavish was chief research lead at Virtusa, working with its R&D team at the Hyderabad Advanced Technology Centre. At Virtusa, he incubated and researched key business intelligence and data management technologies and solutions. Bhavish has worked for more than seven years in the enterprise software market and brings a product management and professional services background in the business intelligence and data management domains.
Muthu Ranganathan
Director - EPM, Global Center of Excellence, SAP
His experience of 16 years includes a combination of industry (as business user in finance and planning areas) and product management experience (conceptualizing application in ERP and EPM areas) working for leading multi national companies such as Pepsi, Ford, other software product companies such as Hyperion,Keane and now at SAP. Qualifications include Associate degree from Institute of chartered Accountants of India(equivalent to CPA,US), Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (equivalent of CIMA,UK) and advanced diploma in computer studies. Top contributor in Business Objects area community for 2007-2008.
Venkata Phani Kumar Veluri
Head-MIS & BI-EDW, IBM Global Technology Services
Venkat is currently working as Head BI-DWH & MIS for India/SA. Previously employed with HP, EDS, Teradata on Business Intelligence Solutions for South East Asia for past 15yrs and handling different domains like Banking, Telco, Logistics and FMCG with hands-on as Delivery, Presales, Bid Management, Consulting and Integration. Capable of providing customization support with specific reference Global Information Technology,SEI CMMI 5, ITIL-ITSM Service Management and MIS. Involved in various phrases of Data Warehousing projects. Represents in Orals and bids, Builds cost models that are competitive and comply with quality requirements. Efficient Consulting with customer to define the scope of an engagement and identify solution requirements. Actively involved in Business Intelligence Competency Center-BICC/BICO. Having exposure in AP & EMAE markets and handling different domains(Services Delivery, Professional Services) with techno-functional knowledge in leading Data warehousing technologies (Teradata,Neoview, Oracle Exadata). Has knowledge and ability to architect solutions by mapping common customer business problems to reusable end2end technology solutions, establish & enhance mid-level customer relationships, provide technical expertise on engagements & identify new opportunities.
Vivek Bhatnagar
Country Director & Global Alliances, Ingres Corporation
Vivek Bhatnagar currently holds the position of Country Director & Global Alliances for Ingres Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for Ingres India’s domestic operations as well as global alliances with leading Indian SIs and ISVs. He has worked in the IT and management consulting industry in US and India for more than 15 years and has held various sales management, business development and consulting roles in organizations such as Informatica Corporation, Accenture, and Infosys Technologies.
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. He then moved on to a private healthcare firm that managed Psych units at fourteen hospitals spread over four states in New England. Rewarded for creating a Treatment Outcomes database, he was promoted to running the entire IT operations of the group as its MIS Director. In that capacity, he centralized the information access to the President and CEO of the group by providing an information dashboard thereby eliminating daily reports faxed from the various hospitals. It was an innovative approach in 1993. During this phase, he was also invited to work on the Patient Privacy and Electronic Records Committee for the State of Massachusetts. 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.
Ashok Kannan
AVP - IT Head, Ashok Leyland John Deere Construction Equipment
Ashok Kannan is currently the IT Head of Ashok Leyland John Deere Construction Equipment, a 50-50 joint venture between Ashok Leyland, the flagship company of Hinduja Group and market leader in automotive industry, and John Deere, the market leader in agriculture, construction and foresty. He has 20+ years of experience in IT Leadership and Management, out of which he has 16+ years of experience in SAP Project, Program, Delivery, Practice and Bid Management. After completing BE-EEE from University of Madras, he did his masters in HR from IGNOU as well as in Engineering Business Management from University of Warwick, UK. He has worked in several reputed organizations such as Alstom, T-Systems and Xansa. He also has multifunctional experience, and has worked in parallel assignments as SBU Head, managing end-to-end organizational operations.
Sai Belaganti
Solution Architect, Dell Services
Sai is solutions-driven IT Professional with impressive 14-year career as a Senior Consultant, Data Architect and Integration Architect for several leading-edge companies including Dell, Toyota Motor Sales and Ford Motor Company. SAi has led diverse enterprise-wide projects involving multiple platforms and multi-tier architectural frameworks to support customer service, business intelligence, manufacturing, and quality management systems. He has developed and implemented enterprise strategies in the areas of Data and Integration. Sai has Authored Toyota Information Integration Patterns and Decision Matrix to aid architects in choosing between the ETL / SOA / EII patterns. Sais expertise includes data warehouses, subject area data warehouses, master data management systems, enterprise reporting solutions, and data marts. Proficient in the application of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies. Enterprise Architect Certification from TOGAF.
Prakash SM
Director- Research,Analytics and Insights, Indegene
Prakash leads Indegenes Research, Analytics, and Insights (RAI) team. He works with clients in identifying competitive trends and supports them in determining appropriate responses for the same. He, along with his team, is actively involved in supporting decision making for most of the top global pharmaceutical companies. Prakash earlier worked with Dr. Reddys Laboratories, where he was responsible for generic product portfolio management and biosimilars business development. Prior to Dr. Reddy’s, he worked with Ranbaxy, where he was the head of the R&D project management team, which helped establish project management practices for Ranbaxy’s R&D.
Srinivas Srimushnam
Consulting Practice Head, Hexaware BI&A
Srinivas has 14 years of IT services experience, 7+ years of BIDW&A consulting experience Senior Technical Business Intelligence and Performance Management Practice expert with extensive experience in BIDW Services companies and bringing to the table the Techno-Functional/Account /Program/Project Management skills acquired through years of Presales/Technical-Business Development/Solution Architecting/Consulting assignments Consulting and Architecting in the space of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Performance Management & Analytics space.