Harsh Manglik

Harsh Manglik is chairman and geography managing director for Accenture in India, responsible for all Accenture activities in that country and for the strategic direction, growth and development of the company’s business there. Manglik has more than 30 years of global business and consulting experience across a variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, electronics, telecommunications and IT services. Before rejoining Accenture in 2006, Manglik was a worldwide vice-president at Symantec Corp. and served in leadership roles at IBM. He served as the chairman of the Executive Council of NASSCOM for 2010-2011, and vice-chairman of NASSCOM’s Executive Council for 2009-2010.

Sri Subramonian Shankar

American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is an American hardware and software company that specializes in PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by S. Shankar. It is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, US. In 1994 Sri Shankar founded AMI Germany and AMI India which is located in Chennai. The company started as a manufacturer of complete motherboards, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer happened to be PCs Ltd, (later Dell). The company focused on the BIOS software portion of the motherboard business, at the same time diversifying towards technologically richer products such as server motherboards (1992), storage controllers (1995) and remote management cards (1998). AMI’s greatest success story came in 1996 with MegaRAID, a storage controller card.

R.K. Upadhyay

Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay joined BSNL as Chairman & MD on 30th April 2011. His career began in DoT in 1975 after his selection by UPSC for Indian Telecom Service. In DoT, he gained experience in areas of Planning, Installation and Commissioning, Commercial Administration and Operations. In October 1996, he proceeded on Deputation to TCIL, where he remained till August 1999. During his deputation, he successfully worked as Project Director in the Foreign Projects at Sana and as GM in Yemen. He took over the charge of Director (Projects), TCIL in November 2005 and was subsequently selected as Chairman & MD of TCIL. He remained at the helms of TCIL from Mar 2007 to April 2011. He has to his credit the turning around of TCIL as its CMD.

Umang Bedi

Umang Bedi is the Managing Director, Sales & Marketing for the South Asia region for Adobe Systems. In this role, Umang leads Adobe’s sales 7 marketing operations for India and the SAARC region. Working with a high-performance and rapidly –growing team of exceptional business professionals, he is responsible for driving strong growth for Adobe in key verticals including education, government , enterprise and the booming Indian creative industry. Umang is also a part of Adobe’s Asia Pacific leadership team. Prior to joining Adobe, Umang served Intuit India as its managing Director where he was responsible for leading the business and execution of the Global Business Division’s strategic plans.

Rajeev Mittal

Rajeev Mittal has been recently appointed as Managing Director of Avaya across India and SAARC. He joins Avaya at a time when companies throughout the region are looking to accelerate their businesses with the latest communications and collaborations offerings. Mittal was until recently General Manager – Small & Mid Market Solutions & Partners (SMS&P) for Microsoft India and was responsible for expanding that company’s business in the mid-market segment, along with managing the Partner Eco System. Prior to that, he worked in senior positions for companies including Oracle, IBM and Wipro Technologies – both in India and APAC leadership roles.

Dr. Alok Bharadwaj

As Sr. Vice-President at Canon India he is into Business Strategy, Brand building & Marketing, Sales force management, Distribution Channel operations, B2B sales operations, P&L management, PR, Corporate affairs, Leadership communications. Alok joined Canon in 2001 and during the last 10 years has assumed responsibilities of 9 Business Divisions. Under his leadership, Canon India recorded its best growth phase, particularly record-breaking growth of over 50% in 2010 and has emerged No. 1 in four product categories. He received the “Pride of the Industry” award and also received the prestigious award of the Best CMO by the CMO Council.

Ravi Swaminathan

As the MD and Regional VP of Sales and Marketing for AMD India, he is responsible for growing AMD India’s sales and marketing functions in the country. Ravi has extensive experience building relationships with large enterprises, government, SMB as well as consumers and his experience will be a strong asset to AMD India’s leadership team as well as to the broader Asia Pacific and worldwide sales and marketing teams. Prior to this, at HP, Ravi Swaminathan was President of the Personal Systems Group (PSG) in India, responsible for all function of that business group in the country. He has also previously held positions at Compaq India and ICI.

Sunil Bharti Mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian telecom mogul, philanthropist and the founder, chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honor. He was one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to identify the mobile telecom business as a major growth area. His plans were finally approved by the Government in 1994 and he launched services in Delhi in 1995, when Bharti Cellular Limited (BCL) was formed to offer cellular services under the brand name AirTel. Under his stewardship, not only has Touchtel become India’s first private sector telephone service provider to cross the 300,000-mark, Bharti is also the first telecom firm to cross the 2-million mobile subscriber mark.

Naresh Wadhwa

An industry veteran of 22 years, Naresh joined Cisco India in January 1998 as a Sales Manager, and was responsible for driving Cisco’s Enterprise, Commercial and IT services business. Naresh successfully managed and grew the business four-fold and laid strong foundation for Cisco’s success in the Indian market. Subsequently, Naresh was chartered to grow the telecom business in India where he architected some of the largest wins for Cisco globally and grew the business substantially. At present, he is the President and Country Manager for Cisco - India & SAARC.

Francisco D’Souza

Francisco D’Souza is President & Chief Executive Officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. He is also a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. As CEO, Francisco is responsible for managing Cognizant’s growth as a leading provider of global consulting, information technology, and outsourcing services. He is a Trustee at Carnegie Mellon University, a Trustee at The New York Hall of Science, and a Member at The Business Roundtable also. D’Souza was previously employed as a Product Manager by Pilot Software, Inc. and Management Associate by Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

Shantanu Prakash

He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Educomp Solutions Limited, which he founded in 1994. Shantanu’s vision has been to transform the teaching-learning process through the use of technology and best practices. Shantanu is also the Founder and Managing Trustee of the Learning Leadership Foundation (LLF), an organisation dedicated to bringing best practices in education to under-resourced schools. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of Lakshya Digital Pvt. Ltd.- a pioneering game development studio, based out of New Delhi, India. Shantanu is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), an organisation that connects entrepreneurs. He is a frequent speaker in education and business conferences worldwide.

Roopen Roy

Roopen Roy is the Managing Director of Deloitte & Touche Consulting India, which provides consulting services in the areas of strategy and operations, human capital, and technology. Globally, Deloitte has the largest and most prestigious consulting practice amongst the “Big 4” professional services firms, and all Deloitte entities together employ more than 8,000 people in India. He is also a member of Deloitte’s Global Consulting Executive Leadership Team. He has more than 30 years of experience in management consulting and has worked in India, Australia, Korea, Japan and all the South Asian countries. Prior to joining Deloitte, he had worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers as Managing Director.

Rajan Anandan

After leading Microsoft India as its MD for two years, he joined Google India as Vice-President - Sales and Operations. With Internet users growing at 50% year-on-year, a strong leadership team will ensure that Google captures this tremendous opportunity. Anandan is also an active angel investor with a focus on very early stage companies in the Internet, mobile, software and ITeS space. He has a total of 17 early stage investments in start-ups such as luxury brands, e-commerce site Exclusively.in, Hungryzone.com, Gurgaon-based Digilogue Communications and Pune-based Innovize Tech and is on the board of several of them. He is a member of the Indian Angel Network (IAN) and co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures.

Sameer Garde

Sameer Garde is President & Managing Director, for Dell India’s Commercial Business. In this role, he will lead the India sales and marketing teams that deliver innovative and practical technology solutions to consumers, small and medium businesses, public institutions and large enterprises. Prior to this he was General Manager and VP of Dell OEM Solutions based out of Dell’s headquarters in Austin, US. Sameer joined Dell in April 2004 and has held several executive roles at Dell International Services as well as in Dell APJ region. He has played a key role in shaping Dell’s relationship business and was the driving force behind our leadership in the large enterprise customer base in India.

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