Dr C V Kamath: holding BE E & C degree from NIE, Master of engineering management from JCE and Doctorate from CMR University Bangalore. He has over 34 years' experience in IT industry handling diversified, Sr Role in Computer manufacturing, Business planning, Chief Information office, Head of Strategic cost reduction consulting Practice, Global procurement and People supply chain. He is associated with NGO accelerate India foundation trust in the capacity of Executive secretary supporting various social projects. 

He is the founder and Managing Director of VNP2S Consulting LLP supporting start up from ideation to the growth face. He is also certified assessor of business excellence programs using EFQM frame work. He has published few papers on Leadership and start ups, he is also founder of walk of faith organization which conducts marathon walk to support social cause. So far he has conducted 7 walk of faith long distance walkathon covering over 1600 kms and touching life of over 2500 people.

His hobbies are  long distance walkathon, running, playing chess, learning  Bhagavad Gita, Practicing keyboard and traveling

Dr Girish Prabhu (Advisor & Uttar Kannada District Lead)

Dr Girish Prabhu has held various management positions in design and innovation (across industry and academia) spanning wide areas such as new product and business development, research, product commercialization, and product internationalization and localization. Through his 35+ years of experience, he has been instrumental in implementing human-centred design and innovation processes in multiple product areas both in industry and academia. He regularly mentors stakeholder-centred innovation projects. He specializes in design ethnography, service and UX design, new business development, and new product innovation.

Girish’s experience and expertise cover various domains such as education, healthcare, entertainment, and digital products and services. During his stints in the corporate world, he was a key player in conceptualizing three new businesses using human-centred innovation method and was in leadership teams for two of these businesses. During his stint in academia, he conceived and implemented multiple new programs at B.Des and M.Des. levels and also successfully managed industry facing design innovation lab. He has published many referred papers in international journals, holds 16 U.S. patents and is an invited speaker at both national and international conferences.

Girish holds a BE (Mechanical) degree from NIE, Mysore and M.S. & Ph.D in Human Factors Engineering from University @Buffalo.

Girish firmly believes in the quote by Albert Einstein, “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” True to that belief, he is continually involved in the process of improving methods, frameworks and approaches in stakeholder-centric innovation and experience design.

Satya Sai Kishore K. A seasoned Finance Professional, did his MBA – Finance from Sri Sathya Sai University and is an ACMA with 20 plus years of rich corporate experience.  Worked with Manufacturing, Pharma (Trans freight Group of Companies), Construction (Larsen & Toubro Limited – ECC Division) and IT Sectors (Wipro Limited) and handled diverse portfolios across the industries. Areas handled: Setting up of Bulk-drug factory and obtaining necessary Term and Working capital loans. Monthly MIS and Variance Analysis. Finalization of Books of accounts. Accounts Receivables including all Global Subsidiaries Controller of IT Subsidiaries Back-office Treasury and Investments Banking Governance Indirect Tax compliance (including SEZ / STPI) Fixed Asset Governance Cost Management Initiatives Post Corporate career, started entrepreneurial journey from April’2019 on wards.  Developed few strategies on Derivatives which can generate better than “Nifty 50” returns over a period of time.  Grooming young talent and making them to be successful in their corporate career. Writing Poems and Reading books are his hobbies. 

Chetan K Hemani 

Global Consulting experience across US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, UK, China, Singapore in varied Industries viz FMCG, Pharma, Logistics, BFSI, Knowledge Services, Heavy Engineering Equipment Manufacturing, Retail

Key skills:

Investment management and Derivatives:

1. Financial Analysis

2. Investment management

3. Derivative Trading, Technical analysis using options strategies and data analytics

4. Fund management

Business Consulting:

1. Business Consulting across multiple industries, multiple geography, multiple domains

2. Multi million dollar multi year deal structuring

3. Pre-sales to deal structuring to winning large deals

4. Delivery Management

5. Recruitment

6. Business strategy - conceptualization to execution

M R Madhusudhan has graduated BE in Electronics & Communication from UVCE and holds Diploma & Post Diploma in Computer Science and Digital communication from DRDO. He has over 30+ years’ experience working at Wipro & Amazon. He has provided leadership in IT Strategy, IT Transformation, leveraging Intellectual Property (IP) to grow revenues non-linearly, M&A IT Integration, building and Scaling IT Infrastructure, IT service management and setting up and managing Offshore/Nearshore development centers for various Clients & Industry verticals at Wipro. At Amazon, he provided IT leadership for the Ecommerce Business at Amazon fulfillment centers in South and East of India. He likes travelling, Meditation, mentoring youths and spiritual learning.

Varadhan V Vishwanath Bachelor in Electronics & Communication and Postgraduate in Management from National Institute of Engineering …

With Over 3 decades of Experience in IT and Technology  Organisations. Held Various Sr Roles like General Manager Factory, Customers Services, Mission Quality, Head Siliocon Lab, Head Development Center

In order to be in touch with academics, also associated with Jain Institute of Management, Narsee Monjee  as external faculty teaching Postgraduates and Graduates. Handled various management domains of Communication, HR, and OR. Also associated with SVYAS management studies as external faculty and Advisory member.  

Dinesh H.S

Organisational Development professional with 37 years of work experience in IT industry in a Global, multicultural matrix environment in Line and Support functions. Worked in diverse areas such as Business HR, Talent Development, Customer Service, Engineering and Manufacturing. Seeks to enable business results through systemic solutions to organizational challenges of Leadership development, Culture transformation, productivity improvement and Organisational Effectiveness.

 Current focus areas:

Enabling Organisations to be effective through OD interventions through combination of facilitation/training/coaching. Coaching HR managers/business leaders to reach their potential. Enabling unemployed economically challenged youth to get jobs through effective training and coaching.

Certifications:

Have been certified as an assessor of Business Excellence by CII, HR Director certification from Cornell, 360-degree assessor from PDI and Executive Post Graduate program in Organization Development and Change management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

 A few key initiatives in OD that he has been a part of:

1. Led a global org initiative for culture transformation across different business entities in India and abroad through a series of interventions using top talent

  to role model newly defined values.

2. Have enabled more than 1000 experienced senior managers in becoming agile leaders in navigating through the current VUCA environment by driving a

  series of strategic leadership and coaching interventions

3. Facilitating the transformation of managers of an Engineering business from exclusive technical focus to embracing Business and People focus through a

  series of coaching and leadership interventions

4. Led a Top Talent Development program for senior executives using cutting edge tools like Korn Ferry assessment of leadership potential, experience              

  analysis for future roles, 360 assessments –enabling sharper definition of development areas

Lakshmi Prasad Nanduri: A software quality and project management professional with wide experience in diverse organizations like ISRO, Timken and Wipro. Provided leadership in areas like managing process quality, org level quality audits, certifications, senior management reviews and process training for various business units like Product engineering services, Semiconductors & consumer electronics, Embedded software, Technology, Manufacturing.

 Was a part of the founding team that started the in-house IT development for Timken in Bangalore. Had a major contribution in establishing the Bangalore unit as a center of excellence for web applications development based on Microsoft platform.

 Worked as Scientist in the Space Physics department of ISAC/ ISRO in the areas of instrumentation and operations of astronomy experiments flown onboard Indian satellites.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Certifications & Trainings

PMI PMP, CSQA

ITIL V3 Foundation Certification.

ISO Internal Auditor (Wipro).

Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt (Timken), Six Sigma black belt trained at Wipro.

Awards

Wipro - “Thanks a Zillion” – 2010.

Timken - “Lead to Win” (IT Best Manager of the Year for 2005)

Dr. Nakul Subramanyam is an industry professional with over three decades of experience in the Corporate World. He has qualifications in Food Technology & Management and his experience spans across diverse industries like Dairying; IT & ITES; Manufacturing and Finance. He held leadership roles as Director Facilities & Procurement with Hughes Software and Director-Operations with Adobe Systems. He also served as a Vice President with First source Solutions and Chief Administrative Officer with WNS Global. He was Head- Shared Services at GE Research and also served as an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley-India. He currently is the COO of Oxford Policy Management; India which is a UK based Social Sector Consulting organization.

Nakul has set up Operations ground up in his career and has managed large format Operations & teams nationally & also in the Philippines, U.S. & Europe. He has championed sustainability and has achieved LEED Certification and was also the industry representative for BIS in the new Chapter on Sustainability being introduced in the National Building Code. Dr. Nakul has also been active in Industry Forums and has been a speaker at CII; IFMA and NASSCOM.

Dr Anurag Srivastava

Chief Operating Officer, society for Innovation & Development, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

N Ravindra has more than 36 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has held various senior management roles for more than 20 years. He has worked in senior leadership positions in IT Infrastructure Management and Application Development & Testing Services. He has been involved in incubating new practices, managing delivery, managing operations for large business units, developing and implementing quality processes and building competency frameworks.

He started his career with Wipro Technologies and having worked in Wipro for more than 26 years across multiple business divisions and different roles moved out to pursue his dream of entrepreneurship.

In his just concluded engagement with Ahana he was responsible for building Application Development and Robotic Process Automation Practices. He has worked extensively in automating processes across Banking, Logistics and Manufacturing industries.

Ravindra is a Six Sigma Black Belt and an ITIL Foundation certified professional with a very deep experience in implementing ISO 20000 processes. He has played a very key role in getting the ISO 20000 certification for Wipro Global Support. Wipro was the first IT Services Company to get this certification.

His areas of expertise.

·         Implementing Process Automation

·         Developing and incubating new practice

·         IT Service Design and Implementation

·         ITIL Framework Implementation

·         Managing Service Delivery

Raghu Prasad has over 3 decades of experience in varied industry verticals, had a successful career as Business Development professional, highly successful in forging and nurturing key business relationships, also has built and retained talented team members to manage large global programs.

Has 9 years of experience in Business Management, networking partner, functional operations. he started his career with Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore had worked in Datacraft India Ltd as Head Operations and Business Development has renewed 95% of contracts on time with less than 5% churn in value, implemented strategies to assist and upgrade management talent base to sustain growth, and Obtained Support through interdepartmental interface for smooth and cost-efficient workflow. In field of Business Development has Designed and implemented a business plan to position new products among enterprise segment and power utilities, maintained client relationship to explore avenues for growth.

Has worked as Visiting Faculty in Tata McGraw Hill has Co-authored the textbook, skilled in Retail Management, Sales and Distribution, B2B Management and Digital Marketing. Further, moved to Channel Enablement and has Expanded footprint and drove sales through partner networks, identified and created strategic business partners, and managed enablement programs for the partner networks, has setup the India development centre for the parent company based in santa clara, has functioned - 6 engineers designing analog chips and Started exploring IC custom design projects.

Present, he is working as a Senior Mentor in Accelerate India Foundation Trust is Mentoring economically challenged children to pursue a better career, Lead managing the project of supporting 450 covid orphans across five districts of Karnatakta Raising funds to support organization’s goals.

Mr. Pazhamalai Jayaraman (aka ‘JPM’), advising companies in Cyber security strategy and Cyber Governance, Risk management areas. He has more than 3+ decades of Industry experience in the areas of IT, and more specifically, in Information/Cyber Security risk management and Governance

domain.

He has worked in Reserve Bank Information Technology Pvt. Limited [ReBIT] as the Systems Audit Vertical head to assist Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in spearheading risk-based supervision through Security audits and incident analytics towards enhancing cyber resilience in Indian Banking sector. As a former Global Chief Information Security Officer [CISO] in Wipro Limited, he has steered Information Risk Management & policy Compliance [IRMC] group serving customers from diversified

industry verticals. Have varied industry experience with reputed organizations ReBIT, ANZ Operations and Technology, Wipro Limited, Kotak Mahindra Bank (erstwhile Vysya Bank) & National Informatics Centre, Planning Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

Mr. Pazhamalai possesses master’s degree in mathematics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science and Applications. He has also completed Post- Graduate Program in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence [PGP-BABI] jointly offered by Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai & Illinois Institute of Management, USA. He has to his credit ITIL, CISA, CISSP, CISM and SABSA credentials in Cyber Security. Mr. Pazhamalai has also completed National Cyber Security Scholar (NCSS) program being organized by Information Sharing Analysis

Center (ISAC) with knowledge partners as NCIIPC and CERT-IN.

He was invited to speak in many domestic & International conferences and bmoderated number of sessions as a chairperson. Mr. Pazhamalai has delivered number of cyber security sessions to banking industry professionals including CxO’s and board of directors through IDRBT, NIBM, CAFRAL. He was also in receipt of Top 100 CISO award for his contributions in Information Security domain.

Shiva Tripathi

Vice Chancellor at Atmiya University & India Chapter Lead, Humanistic Management Network

Dr. Suresha (Academic Advisor)

Dr. Suresha completed B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Engineering, Mysore and did his master’s in computer science and engineering at Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot and got his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum, Karnataka. He has 14 years of Industrial Experience, 24 years of Teaching Experience, 13 years of Research Experience and 9 years of Administrative Experience. He was a former Deputy director – Academics at iNurture Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd and former principal of Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore. At present he is working as a consultant and resource person for various webinars and workshops on NEP -2020, Ethics, Design Thinking, e -Governance, Cyber Security and Blockchain Technology. 

He is nominated as MARGADARSHAK by AICTE to guide NBA accreditation process in April 2021. He has been awarded as the “Principal of the year 2018” by Institute for Exploring Advances in Engineering (IEAE), “Best Director 2019” by Education Expo TV (EET) CRS, New Delhi and “Best Educator Award 2020” by Global Research Foundation, New Delhi 

He has THIRTYSIX publications in referred International Journals and Conferences and TWELVE publications in National Conferences and published FOUR book chapters. He received a grant of Rs Ten lakhs from Vision Group of Science and Technology (VGST), Govt. of Karnataka for a research project on “WSN Based smart grid for Continuous power supply” in 2016-17 and successfully completed. He has produced three Ph.D.’s. He has experience of NBA, NAAC and QS I – Guage accreditations. He has applied for three patents and signed many MOUs with reputed industries during the tenure as a principal.

He was a Resource Person for the content delivery and Development of MOOCs on e – Governance for Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Mysore, Government of Karnataka from Feb 2021. He has been identified as Subject Expert for “Information and Network Security” for Edusat Programme from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum in 2014.

Srivibhavan Balaram

Managing Director & General Manager, India Operations at Vocera Communications 

Appaji K

 Practising Chartered Accountant, in Bangalore with a total 20 years of experience, including 10 years of Industry where in I had worked with big Corporates like Reliance and wipro

Specialised in Income tax and GST

Merit student from school days and bagged national wide academic excellence scholarship at +2 and degree level

Now managing partner at Appaji&Co, Chartered Accountants, having  three offices at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Rajahmundry, with a team strength of 30 people