Keynote:
Richard Thomas
SVP & Chief Technology Officer,Quintiles Transnational
Global Information Technology Group
Global Information Technology Group
Richard has more than 20 years of international IT management and consulting experience in high volume and complex multi-tier systems architectures, data warehousing and systems development for mission critical/revenue generating environments. Since joining the company in September 2005, Richard has played a key role leading delivery and service improvements across Quintiles IT group.
Dave Ettle
SVP, Products & Technology
AMDOCS OSS Division
AMDOCS OSS Division
Dave Ettle leads product research, product management, development and third line support at Amdocs OSS Division. Dave happened to join Amdocs through the Cramer acquisition in 2006. Dave was the architect and manager of the first four releases of the Cramer platform, and established the development program for the award-winning Cramer release. He also established Cramer’s dedicated research team. Before joining Cramer, Dave spent 14 years in the processes and methodologies of designing and running the development of high-quality, real-time, large scale software systems, typically for applications in defense and telecommunication.
Speakers:
Naresh Chand Gupta
Sr. Vice President, Print & Publishing Business Unit
& Managing Director, Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
Naresh has been widely known as a computer science expert in the areas of shape, motion, image understanding, and AI research. He is Managing Director of Adobe’s India research and development center that he started from conception in 1997 and has since grown to be the second largest Adobe’s R&D campus worldwide. Naresh is also responsible for the Print and Publishing Business Unit at Adobe. In this role, he oversees product marketing and development for Adobe’s standalone print, web publishing and e-learning tools.
Sharad Sharma
CEO of Yahoo! India R&D
Sharad's 21 yrs experience in software & wireless sectors involves a turnaround of VERITAS India ops, a startup (now part of Cisco), and an intrapreneurial setup of AT&T/Lucent's R&D in India.Sharad examines the transformation challenges facing the industry in his blog Orbit Change Conversations (http://orbitchange.com/blog/)
Vijay Anand
Vice President, Server Technologies,ORACLE Corporation
Vijay leads the Fusion Middleware organization in India that delivers cutting-edge innovations across the Fusion Middleware stack. In addition, Vijay is also the operational head for the Server Technologies division in India that includes Database, Enterprise Manager and Fusion Middleware.
Vijay has over 20 years of software product development experience in the US and India. Prior to his tenure at Oracle
Aparna Ballakur
Director-Human Resources, India & China at Adobe
Aparna Ballakur is currently Director- Human Resources, India & China at Adobe.
In this role, Aparna is responsible for the HR function for the India & China centers. Aparna is a HR professional with education background in Engineering, and Management. Prior to Adobe, Aparna has worked in companies like McAfee Security, TriVium Systems and Sasken Communication Technologies. Aparna’s HR experience spans the gamut of HR- Talent Acquisition, Talent Development & Engagement, Total Rewards, HR operations and Organization Development. At Adobe, Aparna has provided leadership to the HR team both during the period of the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe and through the period of biggest growth in Adobe India. She is part of the India Management and Leadership teams.
In her role as the HR leader for China, Aparna has been responsible from the early stages, through fast paced growth in the last year. Prior to Adobe, Aparna worked at McAfee Security, TriVium Systems and Sasken Communication Technologies. In her various roles at these companies, Aparna has been responsible for the different functions of HR and has contributed significantly in the growth & development of these organizations.
AVK Mohan
Group President, HR at Spice Corp
In his current role, Mohan as member of the Group’s Strategic Leadership Team is responsible for ensuring profitable growth of business, expansion into new geographies both domestic and global, new business ventures and mergers and acquisitions.
Mohan has 19 years of experience and has worked with Bharti Airtel, Trilogy, Digital, Motorola and ITC. He is a graduate of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mohan has been instrumental in driving various leadership development initiatives as well as building Competency based HR processes & Employee engagement interventions enabling organizations grow significantly in managing its people. He has held various leadership roles at Motorola University, Trilogy University and PMO office for HP-Digital merger
He regularly contributes to Business World.
Nitin Deshpande
President, Eclipsys India
Nitin Deshpande has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT), and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA).
Nitin joined the Eclipsys team in 2007 and is responsible for managing all day-to-day operations of Eclipsys India
Utkarsh Rai
Head of India Operations, Infinera
Utkarsh joined the Global Software Group at Motorola in Bangalore in the late 90s. This opportunity provided him with the experience in recruiting and leading large teams and handling complex people issues and also prepared him for his current role as the head of India operations for Infinera — a startup in digital optical networking — a position that he took in early 2003. His experiences triggered Utkarsh to write a book on India operations called “Offshoring Secrets”. The book was released in the US in September 2007 and is to be released in India in the summer of 2008. Utkarsh is also a charter member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneur), Bangalore chapter.
Vaibhav Parikh
Division head of the information, communications and entertainment group, Nishith Desai Associates
Vaibhav Parikh is the division head of the information, communications and entertainment group at Nishith Desai Associates. (www.nishithdesai.com)
He is an engineer and a lawyer. He has authored several papers including "Intellectual Property Protection and Security in E-commerce" for the Global Information Infrastructure Commission in 1999. He also co-authored a paper on Business Process Outsourcing (2004) Some of his lectures are: “IP Strategy and Due Diligence” at Commercialization of IPR, Informedia, Bangalore (2006); Trade Secrets law” Computer Law Associates, Bangalore (2006); Joint Ventures at Lexis Nexis Conference, Singapore (2006). He is on executive council of Franchising Association of India and a Charter Member of TiE, Bangalore Chapter. His areas of specialization are Intellectual Property Rights, Corporate Law, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, Telecommunication Law, Media and Entertainment Law.
Srikar Reddy
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Sonata Software
Srikar Reddy is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Sonata Software and is responsible for the company’s business operations worldwide. Srikar joined Sonata in 1986, and has been pivotal in building Sonata’s credibility as a trusted and reliable OPD partner for over 60+ software product companies. Srikar's philosophy of driving business transformation through focus on customer service, productivity and innovation has enabled Sonata to rapidly scale to 12 locations, 6 Global Development Centers, over $200m revenues and 2400+ people.
Ranga Raj
Chief Technology Officer
Celstream Technologies Limited
Celstream Technologies Limited
Ranga Raj has over 20 years of rich and varied experience in Design, Product Marketing and Technology Consulting in the IT, Media and the Telecom Industries. Raj consults with Celstream’s customers in the areas of technology and product roadmaps. He also focuses on building Celstream’s capability and domain focus aimed at delivering greater value to customers. Prior to Celstream, Raj has had stints in the Indian subsidiaries of Tektronix and DEC. He is also a frequent speaker at various global conferences. Raj holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Physics and an Engineering Degree from IISC Bangalore.
Anshuman Ray
Director Human Resources, Synopsys India
In his current role as Director – Human Resources at Synopsys, he is responsible for Region Engagement & Effectiveness as a member of Steering Council and accountable for Human Resources, Staffing and Facility management in the region. Anshuman has 15+ years of HR generalist experience. He started his career in Business Development and prior to Synopsys has worked with GE Healthcare and RPG Enterprises. Over the last 15 years he has significantly impacted the business through strategy, leadership, processes and results in both global and local set up. He has managed and led teams for mid and large organizations through significant change and growth.
He has also won many accolades for his contributions in the areas of Leadership development, performance improvement as well as for driving best practices in the HR function He is an active participant/ contributor to global forums.
Ravi Kyran
HR Director, Texas Instruments India
Ravi Kyran is the TI India HR Director. He has more than 13 years of experience as an HR professional of which he has spent nearly 9 years in the Information Technology sector.
Ravi started his career with Asian Paints as an HR Generalist and has worked in ANZ Grindlays Bank and Motorola in generalist as well as specialist roles in HR. He was later involved in an eLearning technology services start-up where he was exposed to managing a business portfolio and running a development center.
Ravi has a post graduate degree from XLRI.
Y. Krishnamohan
Sr. Director HR, Philips Electronics India Limited
In his current role as Current role as Sr. Director HR, Philips Electronics India Limited Krishnamohan is responsible for HR Strategy Development and Deployment, Business Support , HR Operations and planning India responsibility of People services including Staffing, C &B, People Development and HRIS Krishnamohan has 19 Years of experience in the industry. He has held multiple leadership positions at ST Microelectronics in India, France & Switzerland for over 11 years and prior to that has worked with INDAL, Rosemount, Videocon and Wockhardt.
Krishnamohan holds a B.Com degree and has done his Masters in Labour studies He is a member of industry/trade associations such as CII HR council and Conference Board HR council.
R. Vidyasagar
Senior Director, Human Resources, EMC India Center of Excellence
Vidyasagar is responsible for overseeing talent acquisition, people management practices and organization development of the EMC India Center of Excellence (COE), with particular reference to growing the leadership pipeline for the COE. Vidyasagar has more than 25 years of professional experience in HR. Prior to EMC, he was Senior Director, HR, at Philips Software Center, India. Vidyasagar also worked at Motorola India Electronics Limited., Wipro Information Technology Group and was the Global HR Head of i-flex Solutions Limited. Vidyasagar is a member of several industry and academic groups, including CII's core HR committee at the country level and SHRM, India. He is also a regular member of the Facilitators Team at the Indian School of Business (ISB) for their Senior Leadership Development Programs. Vidyasagar has a Masters Degree in Human Resources Management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Ashok Gupta
VP – Alliance Development & Relationship Management
Xerox Corporation
Ashok Gupta leads the Alliance Development & Relationship Management function for Office and Production Groups of Xerox Corporation. He holds extensive experience in working with third-party vendors across geographies and has been associated with the concept of ‘offshoring’ since its inception. As an experienced campaigner for Collaborative Development, Ashok works closely with the Senior Leadership at Xerox in formulating the strategic roadmap for global alliances and supplier management in the areas of product engineering services.
Ashok has been with Xerox since 1975 and has led several functions including Information Systems, Finance, Planning, Marketing, Strategy and General Management for the Canadian and US Operations. Ashok received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Master’s degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He holds an MBA from the University of Rochester (NY, USA) and is a recipient of the prestigious President of India Gold Medal at IIT Kharagpur.
Gajanana Hegde
SeniorDirector,
Cisco-WebEx & Head,
Connect Applications Development
Gajanana Hegde is a Senior Director with Cisco-WebEx and heads Connect Applications Development. Connect is a new, next generation, collaborative SaaS platform and ecosystem that Cisco-WebEx is building. He came to Cisco-WebEx from SpikeSource, an open source application specific stack developer where he was Vice President-Development, managing and growing the Development Center in Bangalore. Prior to SpikeSource, he built, grew, managed and led the Development Center for Interwoven in Bangalore. After 15 years in the U.S., where he spent 13 years working in different companies in Silicon Valley, he came back to India to join Yahoo! Software Development Center, India as General Manager. He was one of the founding members of the engineering team at Interwoven, a leading, publicly-traded, Enterprise Content Management Product company, which he
joined in 1996 as their 6th employee.
Cisco-WebEx & Head,
Connect Applications Development
Gajanana Hegde is a Senior Director with Cisco-WebEx and heads Connect Applications Development. Connect is a new, next generation, collaborative SaaS platform and ecosystem that Cisco-WebEx is building. He came to Cisco-WebEx from SpikeSource, an open source application specific stack developer where he was Vice President-Development, managing and growing the Development Center in Bangalore. Prior to SpikeSource, he built, grew, managed and led the Development Center for Interwoven in Bangalore. After 15 years in the U.S., where he spent 13 years working in different companies in Silicon Valley, he came back to India to join Yahoo! Software Development Center, India as General Manager. He was one of the founding members of the engineering team at Interwoven, a leading, publicly-traded, Enterprise Content Management Product company, which he
joined in 1996 as their 6th employee.
Manoj Bawa
Senior Director, McAfee India
Manoj is a Chartered Accountant with around 20 years of hands-on experience in various corporates in India and overseas. He started his career in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation looking after the Bombay-Pune Pipeline division and then moved to Nigeria, West Africa for about 5 years, where he worked in various senior roles in Finance. Since his return to India, he has headed the Finance and other support departments in a number of companies, such as ABC Engineers Ltd., VeriFone, and Talisma. His last role was as Controller/ Chief Financial Officer for India and SAARC.
D. S. Vivek
Chartered Accountant and Partner, M/s. Suresh & Co.
Vivek specialises in Domestic and International Tax Consultancy, as well as Corporate Business Consultancy. He has worked in the Tax and Business Advisory Division at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is well-versed in the applicability of Treaty Benefits in relation to International Taxation. He has presented papers on Direct Tax at various forums of ICAI / KSCAA / Public Sector Undertakings. He is a Commerce Graduate from Bangalore University, Fellow Member of ICAI, and has a Diploma in Tax Management of the ICAI.
Sanjay Swamy
Chief Executive Officer, mChek
Sanjay is responsible for the entire operations of the company and scaling mChek to support customers across the globe. Prior to mChek, Sanjay was General Manager of Ketera India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kleiner Venture backed Ketera Inc. The India operations were a setup by Sanjay from scratch and today, have a high-end team of about 100+ employees. Prior to joining Ketera, Sanjay set up and ran the India operations for mPortal, a Virginia-based startup in the Wireless Data Services arena. Sanjay has worked for 12 years in Silicon Valley, holding senior Marketing and Business
Development positions in the online/mobile content at Portal Software, Xerox PARC and in embedded systems at Integrated Systems (now Wind River). Sanjay has an MS in Aeronautics from University of Washington, Seattle, a higher studies diploma in Avionics from France's National Aerospace School (Sup-Aero), and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Muralikrishnan A.G.
Founder & Head, Ujwal Management Services Limited
Murali founded Ujwal, and pioneered the 'Accounting Outsourcing' model in India. Under this model, Ujwal took over the responsibility for running the entire Finance and Accounts functions of its clients. Under Murali's stewardship, Ujwal started providing Accounting Outsourcing Services to a number of manufacturing companies in India, before changing its focus to the IT sector, in the late nineties. One of the companies, for which Ujwal provided Accounting Outsourcing Services to, was Aztec Software and Technology Services Limited. Murali went on to become the Chief Financial Officer of Aztec. He was responsible for the successful completion of Aztec's IPO in the year 2000. After running the Finance function at Aztec for more than three years, Murali went on to head their BFSI business unit, when he was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. Even as Aztec's CFO, Murali was involved with Ujwal as its Non-Executive Director and he soon returned to Ujwal to head the company. Murali has been responsible for creating a process-driven, customer-oriented environment at Ujwal. Ujwal's clients - particularly early stage companies - benefit greatly from Murali's experience and expertise in areas like capital structuring, fund raising, formulation and implementation of control policies, taxation, etc. Under Murali's leadership, Ujwal's size of operations-measured by revenues, number of customers and number of employees-has grown at a CAGR of close to over---the past three and a half years.
Murali founded Ujwal, and pioneered the 'Accounting Outsourcing' model in India. Under this model, Ujwal took over the responsibility for running the entire Finance and Accounts functions of its clients. Under Murali's stewardship, Ujwal started providing Accounting Outsourcing Services to a number of manufacturing companies in India, before changing its focus to the IT sector, in the late nineties. One of the companies, for which Ujwal provided Accounting Outsourcing Services to, was Aztec Software and Technology Services Limited. Murali went on to become the Chief Financial Officer of Aztec. He was responsible for the successful completion of Aztec's IPO in the year 2000. After running the Finance function at Aztec for more than three years, Murali went on to head their BFSI business unit, when he was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. Even as Aztec's CFO, Murali was involved with Ujwal as its Non-Executive Director and he soon returned to Ujwal to head the company. Murali has been responsible for creating a process-driven, customer-oriented environment at Ujwal. Ujwal's clients - particularly early stage companies - benefit greatly from Murali's experience and expertise in areas like capital structuring, fund raising, formulation and implementation of control policies, taxation, etc. Under Murali's leadership, Ujwal's size of operations-measured by revenues, number of customers and number of employees-has grown at a CAGR of close to over---the past three and a half years.
Sreekumar B
Director HR, Yahoo! India
As Yahoo! India HR Director, Sreekumar is the HR Business Partner to the Head of Yahoo!'s R&D organisation in India. In his current role he is responsible for Compensation & Benefits Management, Performance Management, Organizational Development and HR Operations. Prior to Yahoo, Sreekumar has worked with Ariba Technologies, icode, Virtual Dynamics Software and Tata Donnelley. He has vast experience in the areas of Compensation & Benefits Management, Performance Management, Recruitment, Organizational Development, Employee Relations, PR etc. Sreekumar has a Masters degree in Business Administration from Goa Institute of Management.
Sridhar Parimi
Vice President, Engineering for Integration Platform, Wily Technology and Governance Divisions at CA India Technology Center,Hyderabad
Sridhar spearheaded the incubation strategy for the Office of the CTO at ITC and managed the development of CA Mobile Device Management Product from ground up which was declared GA ready last year. Sridhar has spent last 18 years working for companies like Verizon, Northrop Grumman, Oracle, LoginSoft and Mantas in varied roles mostly in product development and technical architecture. Sridhar established and managed an offshore development center at Hyderabad for LoginSoft, managing Development and Operations. Sridhar has extensive experience in delivering projects using the Global Delivery Model for industry verticals such as Telecom, Financial Services and Healthcare. He holds a B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from J.N.T.U. College of Engineering, Hyderabad and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. Sridhar plays tennis,racquetball, loves swimming and reading management books.
Dr. Ajay Kela is responsible for global operations, worldwide sales and continuing relationships with clients. In his previous leadership role with Symphony, Ajay led the company’s substantial business expansion in India growing the team from 500 employees to over 3000. Prior to joining Symphony, Ajay was Entrepreneur in Residence with NEA, a Silicon Valley VC, making investments in software and services as well as playing an operating role in the funded companies.
Previously, Ajay served as General Manager of Autodesk's AutoCAD Division, where he grew revenue from just over $400 million to more than $850 million. He also worked as a Research Scientist at GE Corporate R&D and received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Rochester, New York. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Amaresh is the head of Finance for Microsoft India R&D. In addition to finance, accounting and operations, his team is also responsible for identifying interesting technologies and software product companies in India from an M&A perspective. Amaresh' experience spans Finance, Enterprise Strategy, Business Development, Operations and Venture Funding at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Reliance Industries.
Dr. Ajay Kela
Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, Symphony Services
Dr. Ajay Kela is responsible for global operations, worldwide sales and continuing relationships with clients. In his previous leadership role with Symphony, Ajay led the company’s substantial business expansion in India growing the team from 500 employees to over 3000. Prior to joining Symphony, Ajay was Entrepreneur in Residence with NEA, a Silicon Valley VC, making investments in software and services as well as playing an operating role in the funded companies.
Previously, Ajay served as General Manager of Autodesk's AutoCAD Division, where he grew revenue from just over $400 million to more than $850 million. He also worked as a Research Scientist at GE Corporate R&D and received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Rochester, New York. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
Amaresh
Head of Finance for Microsoft India R&D
Amaresh is the head of Finance for Microsoft India R&D. In addition to finance, accounting and operations, his team is also responsible for identifying interesting technologies and software product companies in India from an M&A perspective. Amaresh' experience spans Finance, Enterprise Strategy, Business Development, Operations and Venture Funding at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Reliance Industries.
