NASSCOM Product Conclave

With a broad range of hands-on experience founding, funding and supporting early-stage technology companies, Alok Mittal joined Canaan India in March 2006.  Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well as innovators in managed software services and other IT enabled businesses. He regularly speaks at prominent industry events such as TiE, NASSCOM, SiliconIndia, VC Circle, Microsoft BizSpark, Adtech and more.

Prior to joining the venture industry, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business, which was acquired by Monster.com, the…

I am Amit Ranjan, the Cofounder & COO of SlideShare. SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. With 32 million monthly visitors, SlideShare is amongst the top 300 most visited websites on the internet. I live in New Delhi, where I head SlideShare’s Delhi office. The last three years of my professional life have been consumed in building and scaling SlideShare into a global scale internet company. Launched in 2006, SlideShare is used by businesses, corporates, universities & individuals the world over. And it is counted amongst the leading social…

I chip in with all major HeadStart activities including raising money, creating partnerships, media & PR, content and technology.

Besides this, I am also accountable for Startup Saturdays across India. I coordinate with our City Leads across 8 Indian cities and ensure that our customers and team members are extremely satisfied with what we create and deliver. I also take care of building teams and putting processes in new city chapters.

Amit Somani is the Chief Products Officer for MakeMyTrip, heading the online product portfolio. Amit comes with over 16 years of experience. He has worked with Google and IBM where he was Head for Mobile Products for Google for Asia-Pacific and Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM based out of San Jose, California.

Amit has published several papers, holds 7 patents and is the recipient of 3 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU, India (Gold medalist) and an M.S. in Computer Science f…

Over 25 years experience in top management positions in major International and Indian IT firms. Key accomplishments include leading Wipro marketing to IT Industry leading status, building and leading IBMs business in India after their reentry into the country, and starting and leading Sun Microsystems business in India. 2009 on Bodhi Technologies 2006 to 2009 MD, MicroVentures, India 2004 to 2006 Bodhi Technologies 2002 to 2003 Managing Director,S Asia, Network Appliance 1998 to 2000 CEO, Birlasoft Ltd. 1996 to 1998 Chairman & CEO,Linc Software Systems 1995 to 1…

Anand Rajaraman is Senior Vice President at Walmart Global eCommerce, where he heads up the newly created @WalmartLabs, which focuses on the intersection of social, mobile, and retail. Anand joined Walmart when when Walmart acquired Kosmix, the startup he co-founded. He also teaches a class on web-scale data mining at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

In his VC avatar, Anand is a Founding Partner of Cambrian Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Anand's investments include Facebook (one of the earliest angel investors, in 2005); Kaltix (acquired by Googl…

Ankur Lal has more than 18 years of experience in the IT and telecom solutions industry. His expertise in designing and implementing state-of-the-art, user-friendly software solutions for Next-Gen telecom service providers empowering these companies to compete globally.

Ankur’s commitment and passion to the industry are evident from his eagerness to pursue a diverse range of projects and step into newer markets and technologies.

As a frequent speaker at global conferences on Billing and OSS-related issues and a prolific writer, he has been contributing extensively to leading In…

MD - Indian Sub Continent at Red Hat. I am a multi-disciplinary sales and operations manager with 18 years having lived and worked in all three major markets - North America, EMEA and APAC.

I've incubated businesses in markets from Central US (Chicago), Open Source/Virtualization market for Oracle. Back at Red Hat I incorporated the offices for Middle East & Africa market and now leading the change in the Indian sub-continent.

Over a decade of experience in Open Source in all 3 major geographies.

As Editor, Emerging Business, The Economic Times Archana Rai is responsible for coverage of entrepreneurial news and trends at India's largest financial daily. She leads a national team of reporters who track private equity, venture capital and start-up activity  for the paper and produce a weekly page on entrepreneurship, India Emerging, that appears every Friday. In a decade long career in business journalism which includes stints at some of India's leading media houses, Archana has written on a variety of topics ranging from entrepreneurship to personal finance, corporate analysis and the c…

Ashish Aggarwal holds a Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a specialization in digital audio signal processing. His initial work was instrumental in the development of new audio standards and was awarded the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award. Ashish started his career as an audio architect where he led a team of 8 people in algorithm and software development for iPod. He later joined Harman International as part of the Advanced Technology Group where he pioneered the development of new audio algorithms. In 2004, A…

3 successful and 1 failed technology startup; Started Snapfish from scratch and built it to a $300M revenue & profitable business spanning 22 countries, sold it to HP in 2005; Have taken a year+ off from starting/running business to volunteer my time for UIDAI Project and Social entrepreneurship in India; Professional interests are in Internet ecommerce entrepreneurship & running International businesses with focus in Europe and Asia; Personal interests include hiking, traveling, scuba diving, skiing, reading, yoga and meditation.Traveled to more than 75 countries; crossed the Sahara …

Executive with entrepreneurial, techno-business & global experience in software products & innovation leadership.

BUSINESS COMPETENCIES
- Software Leadership: Building software from concept to launch as well as scaling globally.
- Business Strategy & Management: Developing & executing market winning strategies, packaging, positioning, messaging, branding, pricing & go-to-market strategies
- Marketing & Brand Building: Campaigns, lead generation, events, promotions, online & social media marketing; managing industry analysts, trade bodies, media & public relations
- Business Development: B…

Bharat Goenka is the managing director of Tally Solutions, India's leading company in business accounting software. Bharat Goenka is the son of Late Shyam Sunder Goenka, who ran a company that supplied raw materials and machineries to textile mills and chemical plants in the southern and eastern parts of India. Gradually when the business was becoming dull, Bharat Goenka being a mathematics graduate, had the intuition to develop accounting software. In 1984, his father bought him an IBM PC, that changed his whole phase of life. Bharat Goenka developed an accounting software called The Ac…

Founder CEO at MobiKwik.com. I currently run a startup MobiKwik which is creating a new web/mobile platform for mobile services users in India. MobiKwik aims to be the Number 1 non-carrier destination for mobile services (voice/data/apps) in India. We do not compete with carriers, rather we use technology to bring mobile services to Indian customers in a faster, cheaper and friendlier manner.

In the past, I have worked as a system architect concentrating on camera, display, multimedia acceleration and Flash technologies for handheld devices. I h…

Bob is managing director at Firebrick. Bob has over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry and specializes in the creation of break-away strategies and unblocking critical problems to build substantial market value. He has been at the vanguard of innovative positioning and sales enablement strategies for the industry and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on these topics. Bob brings a unique combination of operational experience and a strategic viewpoint, which allow him to help both emerging growth companies and global leaders on accelerating substantial revenue …

Brad Smith became Intuit's president and chief executive officer in January 2008, culminating a five-year rise through the company where he successfully led several of its major businesses. Intuit is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, financial institutions, consumers and accounting professionals, and is consistently ranked as one of the most-admired software companies and best places to work.

As the company marked its 25th anniversary in 2008, Smith celebrated the past while creating a strategic vision that recognizes …

Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik is the Chief Belief Officer of the Future Group. To know about this role and designation click here.

Trained in medicine, he spent 15 years in healthcare and pharmaceutical industries first as a freelance content provider and then in organizations such as SIRO clinical research, Goodhealthnyou, Apollo Health Street and Sanofi Aventis, before joining Ernst & Young as Business Advisor.

That is when he met Kishore Biyani of Future Group (Big Bazaar, Pantaloon, Central) who convinced him to turn his hobby into his vocation.

For over 15 years, Devdutt wrote and lectur…

Dhiraj is responsible for the organization's vision and strategic direction, building teams, aligning organizational resources to a customer centric vision and delivering profitable growth. Dhiraj has built Mu Sigma from ground up, during which time he executed activities that included raising seed and growth capital for the venture, securing key Fortune 100 customers, incubating a delivery unit and hiring key leadership members.

Before Mu Sigma, he advised senior executives across a variety of verticals as a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dinesh Prasad is Senior Director of Sales and Business Development at Qualcomm India with the key responsibility of strengthening the device ecosystem in India. He works with Global & Indian OEMs to grow Qualcomm’s chipset business in country, and has been instrumental in supporting Indian OEMs & Brands for CDMA and 3G opportunities.

Dinesh joined Qualcomm in 2004 as Senior Manager, Business Development. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was leading Service Layer Business Development with Ericsson & earlier with BPL Mobile and VSNL. Dinesh has over 17 years of experience spanning various function…

Serial Entrepreneur. Started two companies in India and two in USA. iMorph is my 4th company and has an office in Silicon Valley and in Chennai. Dorai Thodla ’s experience CTO  at   iMorph Inc., California, USA & Chennai, India Working/Currently Dorai Thodla ’s education Login to view education of Dorai Thodla Dorai Thodla ’s additional information Interests: Serial Entrepreneur in the software industry. Founder, iMorph, Inc. USA, Chief M…

Dr. Vijay Chandru (PhD, MIT 1982) is an academic entrepreneur named as the "Technology Pioneer" by World Economic Forum in 2006. Chandru is founder of Strand Life Sciences and currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Chandru's academic career has spanned over two decades at Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Science.

Chandru is the recipient of several awards and honors: Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (1996), MCIT Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in IT (2001), UGC Hari Om Trust award for "Science and Society" (2003), the President's Medal of INFO…

Gautam is the India Marketing Lead for BraveNewTalent. He specializes in the areas of HR, Organization Development and how businesses can leverage Social Media for Organizational Learning and Employee Engagement.

Earlier he was a Consultant with Social Business firm 2020 Social where he led the Talent practice, looking at how organizations can build talent pipelines and internal employee engagement and development using such tools.

Gautam's experience in the corporate world was as a HR Manager at Deloitte Consulting  and earlier in the HR and Learning & Development function in organiza…

Hanuman Tripathi is the Core Founder and Group Managing Director of Infrasoft Technologies Limited, an organization focused on providing software products, solutions and services for the BFSI sector globally. Tripathi drives the organization's business strategy including focusing on mergers & acquisitions, branding & positioning, building new markets and relationship with large customers & alliances.

With an experience of over 28 years in the banking software and telecom industry, Tripathi has worked with several global scale companies with rapid career advancement. He conce…

Harry Gould serves as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances at Informatica Corporation. Mr. Gould is focused on global growth and performance excellence. He has over 20 years of leadership experience building global sales and alliance strategy. Prior to joining Informatica, He most recently ran WW Alliances for Mercury Interactive (now part of HP Software) for 4 years. He joined Mercury in January of 2003 and grew the alliance revenue from 80M to over 300M. He signed Global relationships with the likes of SAP, Wipro, Accenture, EDS, and CSC. In addition, he built a WW Alliance P…

Hemant has been at various times in his life, student, researcher, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. After graduating from IIT-Mumbai in 1975, He worked at Tata Consultancy for sometime before going to US for higher studies. After getting MS from Case Western Reserve University and PhD in EE from Stanford University, He joined Bell Laboratories as a researcher working in the field of Computer networking and switching system.  After getting bored by the inaction of AT&T in exploiting his research work for commercial gains, He decided to go out on his own to do just th…

Early stage technology investing experience in USA, India, Israel and South East Asia
Led investments in the areas of semiconductors, biometrics, multi mode user interfaces, consumer devices and mobile social media
Entrepreneurial and professional networks across Silicon Valley, Southern California, India, Israel and South East Asia
Operational experience including running engineering organizations and product marketing roles in multiple startups
Domain expertise in semiconductors, communications, multimedia and signal processing

Narasimhan (Kishore) Mandyam is CEO of PK4. Kishore has over 24 years of experience in the software industry. As a developer at Infosys, he undertook assignments in the US designing and implementing large software systems on IBM mainframes. In 1989, Kishore co-founded a Bangalore-based software services company, Ampersand. As Managing Director, Kishore leveraged both organic growth and acquisitions to grow annual sales to over $ 8 MN. In 2005, he co-founded PK4 with the specific intent of dramatically changing the way software is developed. He believes that, like all industries, softwa…

Krishna is the co-founder of Capillary and defines the Services Matrix and the Product Vision and Strategy. Krishna has also been actively involved in sales and client relations. He is also leading the Capillary subsidiary in the Middle East.
Prior to starting Capillary, Krishna has been an outstanding member of Microsoft Research, where his contributions have led to six patents and seven international conference papers on software development, internet collaboration and data intelligence. He formed the initial six member team at Minekey Inc., a venture-backed Santa Clara-based start-up in new…

Krishnakumar (KK) has over 30 years of IT industry expertise and is a well-respected personality in the Global IT sector.  

KK’s leadership has resulted in several happy MindTree customers from the Fortune 500 to companies who aspire to reach the list. To achieve this, KK has led by example playing key roles in the organization, such as setting up the US operations, driving expansion in Europe, Asia Pacific, and transforming IT services. Today, KK’s mission, as CEO, is to lead the company to its Billion dollar dream.

KK’s philosophy of giving back to the industry has helped him being elected…

CEO at GoFrugal Technologies Pvt Ltd

M.R. co-founded Sand Hill Group LLC, and has been a strategic advisor to several fast-growing companies. He has held global VP marketing positions at Baan Company, Avalon Software, and Oracle Corporation. M.R. was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and has been named in Forbes’ “Midas 100 List” as one of the most influential investors in technology. He holds an MBA from Kent State University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Madras.

Mahesh Murthy, founder and CEO, has 24 years of marketing and communications experience – of which over 14 years are in online marketing. After dropping out of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door and then found a home in advertising with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won international notoriety as a creative director on HP, Microsoft, Unilever, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted “Asia’s best commercial of the decade”. Mahesh then moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/ CKS) as Crea…

Manav Garg is the CEO & Founder of Eka Software Solutions, a leader in Commodity Trade and Risk Management(CTRM) Software. An entrepreneur and former commodity trader, Manav is the driving force behind Eka’s innovative product portfolio and is responsible for its global business strategy and growth. Employing his in-depth knowledge of commodity markets and insights into the shortfalls of the technology that prevailed, Manav founded Eka in the year 2004. Since incorporation, Manav has worked towards his vision of creating a world-class Indian Software Product Company which provides One Solution…

Mohan brings in extensive operational, technology and investment experience, having worked at leading global organizations in various senior positions and personally investing in technology start-up companies. Mohan is based in NVP India’s Bengaluru office and serves as an advisor on investments in next-generation technologies, Healthcare and Education. Mohan advised NVP’s investment in Borqs, a leading open source mobile application software provider and integrator based out of Beijing and the U.S.. He also advised NVP's investment in Perfint Healthcare, which develops Image-guided ro…

As CEO of Jivity I am responsible for the strategy, direction and vision for company. We leverage social media to create customized merchandise experiences for brands.

I sold BuzzGain (Do it Yourself PR software company) to Meltwater in Jan of 2010.

I am a seasoned executive with experience at large companies including Cisco and Hewlett Packard. As an entrepreneur, I started and had successful exits with 3 companies before BuzzGain.

My experience spans 15 years in direct sales, marketing and product management and alliances / partnership in software and Internet industries. My vertic…

Naveen Jain is a entrepreneur, technology pioneer and philanthropist. He is the founder of Moon Express, Intelius and InfoSpace. Naveen is a Trustee of the Board at the X PRIZE Foundation and Singularity University. Naveen serves as a Director on the Board of Flow Mobile and a member of Pacific Council on International Policy. Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year", "Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, "Top 20 Entrepreneurs" by Red Herring, "Six Peopl…

Nikhil Pahwa has covered the business of digital media in India for over 4 years. Prior to founding MediaNama, he was the Editor of contentSutra (now owned by the Guardian Media Group). Over the years, he has helped bring a pan-media perspective to digital media reportage, highlighting industry issues, identifying opportunities and problems, and questioning the efficacy of decisions being made by some large media companies.

Pari has successfully led engagements for Fortune 1000 companies and helped them effectively globalize their R&D initiatives and expand their business footprint in India as well as other emerging markets. Pari continues to provide thought leadership in the areas of R&D globalization, emerging market entry and technology adoption at SMBs and consumers. By dint of his experience, Pari has outstanding expertise across industry verticals such as Internet and software, Semiconductor, Telecom, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare and Industrial domains.

Prior to co-founding Zinnov, Pari held man…

Phanindra Sama - CEO, RedBus.in was recently selected by Endeavor as a high impact entrepreneur. Also, Businessworld voted Phanindra Sama as one of the top 5 most promising entrepreneurs in India

Prasanto K Roy is president and chief editor of CyberMedia’s ICT group of ten infotech and telecom titles, including CIOL.com, India’s top tech portal.

Roy, who is part of several technology panels and juries, has been a tech journalist and analyst for two decades. A greentech evangelist, he is building India’s first green home registered with TERI’s SVAGRIHA program. Roy majored in physics at Delhi’s St Stephen’s College, after schooling at St Xavier’s, Delhi.

He lectures widely on technology and media issues, and blogs about the world’s cuisines.

Mr. Rajendra S Pawar is a member on the Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development; has served on the Prime Minister’s National Task Force (1998) commissioned to develop India into an IT Superpower; is an Advisor to the Hunan Province of China; has been an Advisor to President Mbeki of South Africa.

As President of MAIT (1990-92), he integrated MAIT activities into those of other leading industry associations. MAIT played an active role in shaping the IT policies of the Government during this formative phase.

Mr. Pawar serves on the Governing Boards of IIT Delhi, IIM …

Presently, Center Head (& Vice President- Products), Progress Software Hyderabad labs, responsible for leading product development at the Hyderabad Development center, organized in a Centers of Excellence model with each center owning a tech horizontal and working on suite of products in that competency. Responsible for providing strategic guidance to all the product teams, scale the product operations, with specific focus on cross-product considerations and Common Technology for the SOA/RPM and Data integration products.

Started the first team of 20 engineers building a new product f…

Sam is the Director and Founder of a number of companies and enterprises including Atlas Advisory, a boutique business accelerator and Atlas Venturez, a family office investment fund. He is the Director of Dr Mehta Hospitals – including the flagship Mehta Children’s Hospitals, general and super-specialty NABH Accredited hospitals in South India.

Sam has over 15 years in enterprise leadership, management consulting, business development, finance, investment management, strategy, operations and project management. A former management consultant with McKinsey & Company (USA), Sam has served a…

Samir became an early-stage institutional venture investor in India in 2001 following a 15 year operating career with high growth Indian companies.Industry Executive - For ten years from 1988 to 1999, Samir was part of the early team at Wipro (NYSE: WIT), one of India’s largest and most highly valued IT companies. Samir was a founding member of Wipro’s joint venture with Acer Computer in Taiwan to design, build and sell computers for the Indian market.Venture Investor - Samir became a venture capitalist in India when he joined Acer Technology Ventures in 2001- a $260 million institutional vent…

Sangeeta, an accomplished technology and business leader, has more than 25 years of experience in building, selling and deploying enterprise software. After spending 15 years in Corporate IT, she started her entrepreneurial journey in the year 2000, when she left her plum position as a Chief Information Officer of Eicher Motors, to co-found Extensio Software, Inc, a company focused on making enterprise information available on every interface and every user.

In Extensio, she has created a technology company that has built world-class enterprise software products that run in globally renowned …

Sanjiv Mital, the CEO of National Institute of Smart Government, is an IT and telecom industry veteran
with more than 30 years of experience in the industry. An engineer from I.I.T. Kanpur with a post
graduate degree in management from I.I.M. Calcutta, Sanjiv started his career in the IT industry and has
managed technical , commercial and management functions. He has worked in senior positions in
companies like IBM, Wipro, and Bharti Telesoft, both in India and in Singapore. Last year, Sanjiv took on
the challenge of furthering the cause of e‐governance in India by taking over as CEO of National …

CEO at Tenmiles Corporation. Been an entrepreneur since September 2000. With core focus in product development for Desktop and Web.

My personal mantra is to lead big and small companies through orbit change.

Most recently I was the CEO of Yahoo! India R&D and was responsible for emerging markets engineering and several key global products. My 23+ yrs of experience in internet, software and 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.

I am an evangelist for developing technology product businesses in India and participate in efforts to nurture the supporting ecosystem. I chair the NASSCOM Product Forum, acti…

An entrepreneur with demonstrated ability to tackle tough business and management challenges, he has an innate ability to inspire people, and lead through confidence, logic and fair play. 

Shoaib was Founder-Director of Vedha Automations Pvt Ltd., where he developed a rich, two-decade long experience empowering businesses via the market-leading retail business solution he created—Shoper. He was instrumental in Vedha’s merger with Tally, successfully managing the transition of the team and the domain expertise to Tally Solutions.

At Tally, as Vice President—Sales, he brought fresh impet…

Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corp. (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite of online applications. He co-founded AdventNet in 1996, and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to a be an innovative online applications provider. It has maintained growth and profitability, without needing outside capital. Prior to AdventNet, Sridhar worked as a wireless systems engineer at Qualcomm, Inc. where he was fortunate to work with some of the leading minds in wireless commun…

Sunil Singh is currently GlobalLogic’s Managing Director. Globallogic is a global provider of R&D Services helping its customers deliver winning products through great design and world-class technology execution. Sunil has played an active role in the enterprise software and consumer internet spaces—as CEO of Informance (acquired in a private equity buyout), Founder of Mokume (acquired by Versant) and Visionworks (acquired by UK-based Xansa), and as part of the core team that built the demand-supply synchronization platform UCCNet at AppNet (acquired by CommerceOne).

Sunil has also played an…

Suresh is the co-founder and CEO of Telibrahma Technologies, the company started in the year 2004 with a vision to create a consumer focused product company out of India. He ardently believes that India offers a great opportunity to create and disrupt product offerings for the global market place. Suresh manages the overall strategy and business development of the company. He has been instrumental in filing more than 5 patents in different aspects of 'Mobility' for Telibrahma. He has successfully defined and positioned several products and solutions in the mobility domain for the company.

Tarkan Maner is the President and CEO at Wyse Technology, the global leader in Cloud Client Computing. Cloud Client Computing is the ultimate client computing solution for our time, replacing the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, un-green and expensive PC. Cloud Client Computing delivers the security, reliability, scalability, flexibility, and user experience with the lowest energy usage and total cost of ownership. Cloud Client Computing simply connects all the dots: Cloud client software, hardware and services.