Speaker Bio:  

Sundar Balu
Director, Sales, Marketing and Service - India, Stanadyne
Sundar Balu is a seasoned global sales, marketing and operational leader who has worked in various management roles in Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations such as Honeywell, Molex, a variety of privately held firms in USA, Canada and other countries and most recently with the Amalgamations Group in India. Having been part of a wide range of markets and regions, from HVAC, automotive, transportation, industrial and process automation, he brings a diverse and broad view of the various marketing perspectives, approaches, and methodologies deployed in each of the markets and regions of the world. Sundar has relocated back to India over the last 2 years and was actively involved in developing the India market for emission control solutions for the off-road vehicle and equipment market and the power generation segments. Most recently he chaired several sessions in the Automotive Manufacturing Solutions Conference in Chennai in Dec 2010 which was participated by the top C-level leaders of the Indian Auto industry. As a former winter car rallye and slalom course race driver, Sundar has a personal love for high performance cars and motorcyles and continues to be engaged in the initiatives to bring aftermarket modification and enhancement products and services to India.
Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan
Co-founder, Magzter
Vijayakumar Radhakrishnan is the CoFounder of Magzter.He entered the dotcom world as a leader – as the Managing Director of NTS.He initiated the Mobile Application Development and Marketing wing of Dot Com Infoway,called DCI Mobile Studios. Now a leading mobile application developer in India, DCI Mobile Studios engages in the development and marketing of mobile applications in iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Nokia OVI platforms.All credits to his penchant for mobile technologies, DCI Mobile Studios has numerous successful, user-favorite apps under its belt – it has developed and marketed business utility apps, entertainment apps, gaming apps, movie-related apps, eBook apps to name a few. Vijayakumar holds an M.S. degree in Consultancy Management from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and Engineering graduation in Computer Science from PSNA, India
K V Ramesh
Head - Strategic Planning , Tata Consultancy Services
A mature, adaptive, and creative Business Manager & Architect with proven achievements in solving business & technical issues world-wide. A leader focused on results and using entrepreneurial approach to management & team building; the strengths lie in being adaptive, assertive, and results-oriented. The industry experience spans varied geographies (USA /ANZ /Singapore /India), verticals (Fortune 500 /Government /Conglomerates /Startups), and responsibilities including technical/functional, administrative, strategy, operations, and P & L management. The core strengths are Business Management, Architecture Development (IT/Management Consulting), and Business Reengineering. Recognized for outstanding performance in several assignments handled in these years. Active speaker at Business & IT forums in Industry & B-Schools (USA /India).
Jayan Narayanan
Associate Vice President & Head - Corporate Marketing & Communication , CSS CORP
Jayan has 20 years of experience in the IT Products and Services sector. His expertise ranges across Marketing, Business Development, Corporate Communications and Market Research. He has built and nurtured brands that have won consumer confidence and delivered outstanding returns. Before joining CSS CORP, he spent the last 6 years with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in India. At CSC, he led a team of Marketing and Communication experts to help the organization work through change and achieve growth across multi-locations. He was credited with innovations in marketing and brand promotion. Jayan is very versatile, with the ability to create brand-focused communications, business communication and creative campaigns. He brings with him extensive knowledge of supporting business strategies, translating company brand & values to collaterals, effective planning, development and implementation of marketing and communications strategies. He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering from BITS, Pilani. He is a motivational speaker and spends most of his weekends at colleges in and around Chennai conducting communication workshops for final year engineering students. He is a member of Toastmasters International and achieved the highest accolade - "Distinguished Toastmaster" in record time. He is passionate about long distance driving, off-roading, travelling and painting.
Dhananjayan Govind
Chief- South Film Business, UTV Motion Pictures
G. Dhananjayan is an MBA in Marketing from Mumbai University and has over two decades of professional management experience. He started his career in the paint industry in sales and marketing and then moved to telecom industry before settling in the entertainment sector. He was a part of Saregama-HMV Music Company for 2½ years handling the sales and marketing operations, which gave the exposure to the film industry. He was one of the two founding members of Moser Baer India Entertainment as their Chief Executive – Home Entertainment & Film Business and was responsible for Film Business in Hindi and Regional languages, in addition to handling the Home Entertainment business (DVDs/VCDs). He is passionate about films, music and books. He spends considerable time in watching cinema from across the World and has attended several Film Festivals (including Cannes). He writes regularly to various magazines and newspapers in India and many of his articles were selected as the best on the subject. He also teaches at Management Institutes on Marketing and at Film Schools on Film Production, Marketing and Distribution aspects.
Sudhakar S Marthi
Vice President Sales & Marketing - APAC, ZOHO Corp
Sudhakar S Marthi 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. WebNMS division has OEM / Telecom products. ManageEngine division has Enterprise IT Management products and Zoho.com has Business, office productivity and Collaboration applications in SaaS business model. Joining AdventNet ( now renamed as ZOHO ) as Partner Central Manager in 2000, he successfully initiated and launched the Partner Central ( PACE ) program of AdventNet in which many reseller partners and SI partners were signed up world over. He has successfully introduced AdventNet Tools, framework and Platform in Chinese market and was in charge till 2003 before AdventNet China was established. He has signed up many OEM customers for AdventNet. Now he is also assisting ZOHO China to grow the ManageEngine Enterprise products and Zoho.com services market through partners. Currently engaging himself in creating an awareness for ZOHO Corp products through participating in seminars, exhibitions and trade shows both in India and abroad.
Shivkumar Mudaliar
Business Head- Tamilnadu Circle, Uninor
Shivkumar Mudaliar is the Business Head for Tamilnadu Circle with UNINOR,a GSM telecom operator. Shivkumar is an Engineer with management background. He has handled Marketing,Sales and Distribution functions with Vodafone, CavinKare,ITC limited,Coca Cola and BlowPlast both in the Indian subcontinent and South East Asian countries.A keen follower of the Marketing trends across emerging businesses and the opportunity in developing countries. In his free time he would love to read books,listen to music and play sports.
Ramesh Kharbanda
Chief Operating Officer, TASL a TVS group
COO with TVS Automobile solutions ltd. He is responsible for the complete Operations, Marketing, Business development and supply chain for owned and franchise network for TASL. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and holds a PGCGM from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also has undergone Senior Management Program from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta subsequently and holds the distinction of being Topper in this program of 1 year duration. Ramesh has close to 25 years of professional experience in having worked for organizations like L&T, Shriram Pistons & Rings Ltd, Castrol India Ltd, Reliance Industries Ltd, Carnation Auto and currently with TVS handling various functions like Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Marketing, Marketing Services, Business development, P&L responsibilities etc.He has rich experience in building up few businesses from Start up stage & scaling them.. He has worked in varied industries viz Engineering, Auto components, Lubricants, Retailing, Financial services, Services Marketing etc and has set up new processes, new channels in some of these.
Garima Sinha
Head Corporate Marketing, Ramco Systems
Garima has over 10 years of proven brand management, business development, marketing communication and relationship building skills across Telecom, IT and Hospitality industries. As Head-Corporate Marketing at Ramco Systems, she holds the responsibility of spearheading the transformation of Ramco & one of her key objective is to build a powerful and truly global brand for Ramco Systems. Her past association with the telecom industries has been quite an interesting one. She started her career with TATA Indicom and then was associated with Bharti Airtel as Manager – Marketing & Communication, leading and implementing strategies for brand visibility and brand equity for the fixed line & broadband products.
Dr.P Ratnakar
Director- Strategy(Global Generics- India) , Dr.Reddy's
Dr.P.Ratnakar is currently heading the Strategy for India Business of Dr.Reddy Laboratories Ltd Global Generics. A PhD by qualification, he has over 15 years of experience in handling functions like Market Research, Marketing Planning, Strategic Market Intelligence and Rural Marketing. He has been a part of various successful strategic initiatives Dr.Reddys has launched over the last decade.
Kalyan V Chatrathi
Head Marketing – Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies
Kalyan is the head of the Marketing team for HCL Technologies’Engineering and R&D Services(ERS) division. He is responsible for business impact and establishing engineering leadership position for HCL Technologies.Also responsible for developing and leveraging market facing ERS positioning. As part of his role, he created a new positioning platform for ERS – Engineering out of the Box that has received analyst recognition for being a differentiated market positioning for ERS and HCL. As part of his 360O marketing efforts, he drives Internal, External and Digital marketing apart from building customer connect platforms. Under his aegis, ERS launched ERS blogs and Twitter channels to promote thought leadership content as well as engage with current and prospective customers. He has an engineering bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication from Madras University and PGDBM from XLRI, Jamshedpur and is active member in the ISA and NASSCOM ES forums.
Vikram Swaroop
AGM-Head-Dealer Marketing , Skoda Auto
He currently heads the Dealer Marketing and Digital Services at Škoda Auto India. He is responsible for the development of frameworks and concepts for Dealer Marketing,New Media & Digital Marketing and Online lead management. He has always pushed innovative ways to reach out to customers. He moved away from the traditional ways of promotions to more interactive & 360o campaigns involving integration with social media and effective PR. His experiential approach to marketing coupled with active online presence has resulted in high levels of customer involvement in the brand.