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PANEL SPEAKERS

P. N. S. V. Narasimham

Senior Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources Mr. P. N. S. V. Narasimham, also known as Nam, has been Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources of Cyient Limited since May 2016. Mr. Narasimham served as Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President at Microland Limited. Mr. Narasimham was responsible for the overall HR, Recruitment, Training and Development functions of Microland. He served as the Senior Manager HR at Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft Private Limited. He has with him 20+ years of rich experience

Dinesh Tyagi, IAS

CEO, CSC e-Goverance Services India Limited

Dr. Dinesh Tyagi belongs to Indian Administrative Services, 1981 of Manipur-Tripura Cadre. He worked in the Tripura State in various capacities as Secretary Education and Principal Secretary Finance. He has worked as Chief Executive Officer (CSC Scheme) with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited.Presently, he is working as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CSC e-Governance Sercies India Limited (a SPV promoted by Department of Electronics & Information Technology).

Nishant Pandey

Nishant is responsible for Traffic, Acquisition, Engagement, Lead Generation, Messaging & Communication, Enterprise Products, Project Management, Product Strategy, Business Profitability at Shiksha.He was previous engagement includes EVP and Head of Product Management & Analytics - Jeevansathi.com and VP/SVP, Head of Product Management - Naukri.com and RecruiterConnect. He is an Alumni of Indian School of business.

Deepa Mani

Executive Director, Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy, Associate Professor of Information Systems and ISB Research Fellow, ISB

Deepa Mani is the Executive Director, SRITNE and assistant professor in the Information Systems group and Research Fellow at the Indian School of Business. She is the faculty coordinator for the IBM Research Collaboratory in service science at ISB. Professor Mani’s research interests are at the intersection of technology, organisation, and society. She is interested in studying the impact of technology on organisation of economic activity, including firm boundary decisions, and the impact of such organisation on firm value and economic productivity. Deepa has a PhD in Information Systems from University of Texas Austin, MS from Carnegie Mellon University, MBA from Mumbai University and a Bachelors degree from St. Stephens College, New Delhi.

Rajeev Menon

Partner, Anthillventures

Rajeev has over 25 years of experience working with large corporations in manufacturing and services sectors. He has successfully set up new business lines and operations, setting up base in new geographies and with new offerings. His experience is internationally diverse and has set up operating teams across the globe.He has cross-functional experience in running operations, sales, engineering and quality. He is a certified SIx Sigma Master Black Belt from GE, and continues to consult in the areas of operational excellence and outsourcing.In his current avatar, he brings to early and growth stage start-ups, some of the rigor and process of expanding and achieving scale, preparing them for growth, and his professional network.

Santanu Paul

MD & Chief Executive Officer, TalentSprint

Dr. Santanu's guides strategy and growth at TalentSprint. Under his leadership the company has won many awards and raised venture capital from Nexus Venture Partners and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Earlier, Santanu was with Virtusa as Senior Vice President responsible for Global Delivery Operations. He also lived and worked in Boston as Chief Technology Officer for Openpages and Viveca, both venture-backed high-tech firms. His professional career began in New York at the reputed IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. He has authored 20+ research papers and is an inventor on 2 US patents. Dr. Santanu holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras.

Ganesh Natarajan

Chairman 5F World and NASSCOM Foundation

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan is a recognized business and community leader in India and is Chairman of 5F World, Skills Alpha and Global Talent Track. He has a track record of success in the corporate world and has distinctive skills in the areas of Leadership, Global Sourcing, Business and Information Strategy, Digital Transformation and the creation of digital business ventures. Ganesh has a stellar track record of success in the corporate and social sector, having built two successful listed companies, APTECH and Zensar and changed the lives of over 2,00,000 youth through provision of employment and enabling employment through training. Ganesh is a Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering from BIT (MESRA) and Post Graduate in Industrial Engineering from NITIE. He received his PhD from IIT Bombay and he has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard Business School.

Jayesh Ranjan

Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT), Government of Telangana

Mr. Jayesh Ranjan is a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the 1992 batch and working in the state of Telangana. He holds a Masters Degree in Psychology from Delhi University, a degree in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Masters in Public Management from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He has also done short courses in the University of Birmingham (on Environmental Policy Analysis), JICA training Institute, Tokyo (on lake remediation), London School of Economics (on Globalization and Leadership), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (in Public Policy), and Swedish Institute, Stockholm (on Sustainability and CSR). He is the All-India topper of his IAS batch of 1992. Jayesh Ranjan is the Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) Departments of the Telangana government.

Anil Bhansali

Anil Bhansali is the Managing Director of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd. and the General Manager of the Cloud and Enterprise engineering teams at Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC). A veteran of over 22 years at Microsoft, Anil began his career here in Redmond in 1991 as part of the Office division, where he worked on MS Excel for multiple releases. He was the Partner Development Manager in the Office Shared Services Team that worked on SharePoint Team Services V1.0 and Windows SharePoint Service version 2.0.He has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in computer science from Stony Brook University.

Amit Biswas

Executive Vice President-Integrated Product Development, Dr Reddy’s

Amit has 24 years of diverse and rich international experience, spanning academic and industrial research, product development, technical service and management of research & technology in the areas of pharmaceuticals, engineering polymers and plastics, high performance fibers and coatings, and alternate energy technologies. He worked earlier with companies like DuPont (USA), ICI India and GE Advanced Materials.Prior to joining Dr. Reddy’s, he worked with Reliance Industries as Senior Vice President, Technology Services & Emerging Technologie.

Anand Nandkumar

Associate Professor, ISB

Dr. Anand Nandkumar is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Indian School of Business. Anand explores industry and firm level phenomena that influence innovation - the generation and distribution of new "ideas" and, entrepreneurship - the process by which, new ideas are commercialized and brought to the market. His research focuses on high technology industries such as pharmaceuticals, bio-technology and software industries, and his research falls in between industrial organization (IO), economics of technological change and strategy. Anand's current work examines the effect of patent reforms on R&D productivity of Indian firms and foreign captives in India, the influence of incentives on the generation of innovation, the influence of technology markets on firm performance and the role of opportunity costs on entrepreneurial performance. Prof. Anand holds a Ph D (Public Policy and Management and Strategy and entrepreneurship), Carnegie Mellon University.

S Arunachalam

Assistant Professor, Marketing area, ISB

Dr. Arunachalam current research focuses on the interface between the firm’s marketing capabilities and innovation outcomes. His research explores questions like: What is the role of marketing in how firms profit from innovation? How do top management’s actions and behaviour affect marketing and innovation capabilities of the firm? In order to investigate these research questions, he integrates perceptual data from CEOs and CMOs (Chief Marketing Officers) on firm capabilities and strategies with objective innovation and performance indicators. Prior to his PhD in Marketing from Iowa State University, he worked in industry in different capacities as COO, EA to the MD and software engineer.

Dr. Subodh Deshmukh

Head, Global Development, Novartis India

Dr. Subodh is a seasoned executive with expertise in improving R&D and business productivity. He has an excellent track record of delivering ROI through creation of products with $2B+ sales and has helped launched over 50 new products with impeccable quality and speed to market. He is one of the most trusted people leader and change agent with experience in building and enhancing effectiveness of technology teams in US, Asia and Europe. Dr. Subodh holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Vasudeva Varma

Professor & Dean (Research), IIIT Hyderabad

Dr. Vasu's research Interests are in the broad areas of Information Retrieval, Extraction and Access. More specifically: social media analysis, cross language information access, summarization and semantic search. He also works in the areas of Cloud Computing and Reuse in Software Engineering. He is also the CEO of IIIT Hyderabad Foundation, which runs one of the largest technology incubators in India. The Foundation manages IIIT-H’s IP and technology transfers. He is also the co-founder of SETU Software Systems Pvt Ltd. Prof. Vasu holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad.

Saswata Shankar De

Lead Operations, SquadRun, Inc Saswata has previously worked with Blue Star and co-founded 2 startups. His first startup - ngoFuel - got him nominated as one of India's top 30 student entrepreneurs (by NEN, 2010-11) and his latest startup - The First Meal - was acquired in a mid $ 6-figures deal by Sri Capital led Hello Curry in early 2016. Currently, he Leads supply-side Operations at Squad - an AI + HI platform that's re-imagining how work gets done. Squad is building an AI-powered SaaS platform that provides all the tools an operations team needs to automate their business

Ramnath K. Chellappa

Associate Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management area, Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Dr. Ramnath Chellappa is currently an Associate Professor and Caldwell Research Fellow in the Information Systems & Operations Management area at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University. He was formerly a faculty member at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (1997 - 2005), and also served as the Director of ebizlab (Electronic Economy Research Lab). He is also affiliated with the Center for Telecom Management at USC and the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (formerly known as CISM) at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in Management (Information, Risk, and Operations Management) from the business school (now the McCombs School of Business) at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997-98. He has a background in engineering (Mining Engineering (1987-91) Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India) and Petroleum Engineering (1991-93), University of Texas, Austin) and has worked as a Unix and networks administrator.

Sripad Devalkar

Assistant Professor, Operations Management, Indian School of Business

Sripad Devalkar is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. His primary research interests are in the area of operations and finance, supply chain management, and non-profit operations. Professor Sripad holds a PhD in Operations and Management Science from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and BTech from IIT Madras.

Tarun Jain

Assistant Professor, Economics and Public Policy, ISB

Tarun Jain is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business. His research focuses on understanding causes and consequences of human capital formation (for instance access to health and education), especially in the context of fast-growing developing countries. He holds Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia.

GT Venkateswar Rao, IRS

Mr G.T. Venkateshwar Rao is presently posted as Commissioner (Electronic Service Delivery) and Special Commissioner (e-Governance) in the Department of ITE&C, Government of Telangana. He belongs to India Revenue Service and is currently on deputation with the State Government of Telangana. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and two Post Graduate degrees in Industrial management and Computer science. He is the first officer from Income Tax Department to receive the coveted Prime Minister award for Excellence in Public Administration in April 2010 which is the highest recognition for civil servants in India for his innovative and path breaking work in data mining in Income tax department called 360 degree profiling for detecting tax evasion. This is one of the largest Data mining projects in government in the world.

Neha Patel

Neha Patel is the Head of Design at Roadzen Inc., a startup that is transforming auto insurance in India, China and the US. Previously, Neha was working for Avacara - an enterprise software and data analytics company that did product development for Fortune 500 clients. She also worked as a Design Consultant at Pittsburgh Landmarks and History Foundation in the design and operations domain. Neha has a degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh where she studied analytical design, case study analysis and strategic design concepts.

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