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Mr. Prahlad Kakkar

Chairman, India SME Forum

Prahlad Kakar started his career in advertising in 1970 in ASP Delhi. He is the Founder and Director of Genesis Film Production Pvt. Ltd., one of the leading production houses in India. Prahlad virtually invented a genre of television advertising in the years that followed. He has ruled the advertising world with his brand of irreverent humor, memorable brand building campaigns and has created Award winning commercials for the most reputed Corporates and agencies in India and the Asia Pacific region. “To tell a story in 30 secs in the most engaging way possible” remains Prahlad’s raison d’être for his continued passion for ad filmmaking, even 38 years later. Known as the “Ad guru” he has been instrumental in changing the face of advertising in our country bringing in the appropriate “regional Indianness” and values into an urban context through his films, creative workshops, articles and interviews. Today the innovative corporate, Ad guru, Branding Strategist, Chief Mentor and Board member of India SME Forum is involved in providing innovative 360 degree solutions consulting with Small and Medium Companies and brand building various products and services. Creative workshops, Motivational, Marketing, Branding and Leadership interactive sessions for Entrepreneurs, middle management and top management executives in providing marketing solutions and focusing on the Company’s growth story apart from consulting with various government agencies and institutions to strategize and deal with current issues and future challenges. His newest venture PKSBE (Prahlad Kakar School of Branding and Entrepreneurship) in which he is spearheading the organization of innovative education in the field of entrepreneurship, Media, and film making. This program encourages students to overcome fear and free their minds to develop creative strategies and perform to their optimum, embracing risk as an integral part of doing Business. A unique syllabus explored by none other in the field of education and entrepreneurship .He is the driving force behind single handedly creating focused, imaginative, successful professionals over the last 3 decades .Today he brings all his 38 years of experience and enthusiasm under one roof at PKSBE.

Mr. Vinod Kumar

Senior Partner & Country Manager India & Middle East SDRC

Starting his career in international collaborations and projects, in 1989, saw Vinod at the nerve centre of various successful Joint Ventures and Collaborations in Electronics & ; Telecom, Media & ; Publishing, Industrial & ; Consumer Electronics, Hospitality and Finance, with Multinational corporations entering India through the FDI route. Vinod started out as a technology entrepreneur to lead the development & ; successful sale of an indigenous developed navigation and geographic information system, based tracking patent and business, to a Russian Space and GIS Conglomerate. As an Investor he presently invests in profitable, innovative, Small and Medium Companies. Vinod leads his investor group in Risk Profiling, Assessing Growth Potential and deciding on Investment for Seed and Venture Financing to MSMEs in innovative and disruptive technologies, apart from day to day overseeing and leading extensive research and analysis of linkages, growth potential and market factors of SMEs involved in over 29 clusters across 11 Sectors including Food Processing, Dairy, Leather, Pharma, Engineering and Automotive in over 19 states of India. As an investor and mentor, with a passion for growing innovative and disruptive brick and mortar, Small and Medium companies with a high growth trajectory, Vinod, supervises and mentors investments of over 135 m $ apart from mentoring over two hundred Entrepreneurs, across various sectors under the India SME Forum’s Mentor 4 Entrepreneur Program along with Ad Guru Prahlad Kakar. Vinod’s experience in startups, seed, equity & development financing and capacity building of MSMEs has successfully lead to innovative strategies in equity & ; growth capital investments in SMEs apart from the development of successful strategies for a nationwide Capacity Building Framework at the India SME Forum. Vinod passionately addresses and conducts workshops, motivational seminars and leadership sessions for Small and Medium Entrepreneurs and currently serves as the Honorary President at the India SME Forum, apart from advising various government agencies and institutions to strategize and deal with current issues and future challenges. Vinod is member of the Board of World Union of SMEs headquartered in San Marino, nominated as a Member of India’s Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of India& ;s Standing Advisory Committee on Flow of Institutional Credit to MSME Sector under the Financial Inclusion Development Department and is also a nominated member on the High Powered Monitoring Committee under National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Hub under StandUp India of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Government of India. Vinod has a Graduate Engineering Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication & a Masters in Business Administration.

Mr. Ravinder Bhan

Member of the Board, India SME Forum

Internationally experienced Business Leader and Consultant having contributed to Growth and Value at businesses from India, Europe and Middle East, For over two decades, Ravinder, contributed at several companies in the region to grow and deliver real business results year after year. This included small, medium and large organization spread over 25 years, be it big giants like Crompton Greaves, Larsen & Toubro, Schneider or GE; medium sized manufacturers like Jyoti Ltd. Voltamp Switchgear, or small organizations like Delta Engineering, Uptime Engineers, High Volt Electricals & Hirect Engg. Extensively experienced in Strategic Marketing, Change Management, Human Capital, Finance, Supply Chain, Project Management and Manufacturing processes, Ravinder is an Effective Team Builder, Trainer and mentor with a passion to bring out the best out of People. A top level professional net-worker-linked personally with over a thousand top notch professionals from across the globe. Aggressive Initiative leader for making quick, visible and yet seamless transformation from 'business as usual' to "businesses that matter" even in a Not for Profit Organization/ Industry Association bringing enhanced value to all stake holders.

Dr. J.S. Juneja,

Vice Chairman, India SME Forum

Dr. J S Juneja has a unique experience in the public & private sector managements and worked diligently for the SME development, policy formulation & advocacy, institutional capacity building & restructuring, entrepreneurship development for over three decades. Promoting investments and joint ventures from India to other countries of Asia and Africa especially to Mauritius and Botswana. Provided management consultancy to the Governments of Egypt, UAE (Dubai), Kenya, Sri Lanka and several other countries of Asia & Africa, United Nations organizations, Commonwealth Secretariat etc. He is Vice President of WUSME, Chairman of SME Committee & ; Past President of AIMA and former Chairman of NSIC. An MBA from University of Oregon, USA and Doctoral Degree in Applied Economics from the University of Bombay. He has been Visiting Professor to the University of Rhode Island, USA and IIT, New Delhi. Dr Juneja has written extensively and recently authored &;SMEs in Asian Region- Harnessing the Growth Potential & and Policy Guidebook for SME Development in Asia and the Pacific & edited and published by United Nation ESCAP.

Mr. Manohar Hotchandani

Director - Business Development, Microsoft

Manohar Hotchandani is the Director - Business Development of Microsoft. He has a 20-year long working experience in software, networking, start-up distribution and channels. For the past 13 years, he has been associated with Microsoft performing various roles like managing teams and P/L for specific businesses. Qualified computer engineer by profession, he has extensive experience of managing complex businesses, forming and running teams and developing and managing relationship with customers and partner. He believes that if India has to succeed, then SMBs will play the biggest role in that success. He is also interested in mentoring companies in the SMB space specifically those which from environment and healthcare sectors.

Mr. Nitin Wali

Head Business Development - Asia Pacific Verisign Services India Pvt. Ltd.

With over 17 years in the technology industry, Nitin has worked with leading multi national organizations such as IBM, Intel and Oracle where he has held various roles across Marketing, Project Management, Sales and Alliances. In his present role at Verisign, Nitin is responsible for business development to drive mobile internet growth in the Asia Pacific region. His key focus has been on identifying innovative technology solutions and business models which could enhance the end user Internet experience. Nitin has been leveraging his strong network in the Asia Pacific region which includes telecom carriers, e/m-commerce companies, technology leaders, digital media, PR, industry associations and governments to pilot out services, build new revenue streams and chart out a sustainable strategic road map for growth in the region.Entrepreneurial and passionate in spirit, he is keen to talk to anyone with a good business idea and is also a pro bono advisor to technology start ups.

Mr. G. Venkataramani

Director, 4S ADVISORY

Mr. G.Venkataramani, M.Sc., Physics(Delhi), MBA(IIM, Ahmedabad). Director at 4SADVISORY, which provides advisory services for both Public and Private Markets, he was till recently Executive Director at SMC Capitals. In Private markets Advisory, he is working as an Advisor to SME enterprises in the areas of education, healthcare, clean-tech, water and sanitation. He currently consults actively with Parietal Innovative Solutions, a start-up Digital Media Agency and Expense-on-Demand a leading London, UK based Expense Management Company.

Mr. V K Agarwal

Ex-President, FISME and CMD, Shashi Cables Ltd.

Mr. Agarwal is a Science graduate from St. Xavier College, Kolkata and has done LLB from University Law College, Kolkata. His extensive study and deep insights into financial and regulatory framework for MSMEs, have earned him the sobriquet- ‘intellectual entrepreneur’. Mr. Agarwal is known to possess a fierce reformist and a progressive attitude towards SMEs and the related regulatory and promotional environment they operate in. Having served on a number of Working/ Study Groups and Committees on SME Policies both at the level of Govt. of India and Govt. of U.P., he is currently member of National Social Security Board for Unorganised Workers under Union Ministry of Labour. Besides being associated with several businesses, he is Managing Director of Shashi Cables Ltd, manufacturer of ACSR Conductors. A well-read man, his knowledge of financial instruments is widely acknowledged in SME circles. He has been a visiting Faculty to IIM, Lucknow. He is currently the President of Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME).

Mr. Nirmesh Prakash

Co-Founder, Ambit Pragma Advisors LLP

Nirmesh has 16 years of experience in finance and marketing, having spent the last seven years focused on the private equity industry as a partner with Ambit Pragma Advisors. He was also a key member of the Times Private Treaties team. Prior to working in the private equity industry in India, Nirmesh spent nine years in operating roles in sales and marketing, with the last five years spent with Asian Paints in their International markets. His prior work with Philips gave him hands-on sales and distribution experience in rural and urban markets in India. Nirmesh is a Production Engineer from University of Mumbai and a management post-graduate from Jamnalal Bajaj, majoring in marketing.

Mr. Dushyant Singh Rathore

Partner Channel Lead, Microsoft India

Dushyant is a Post Graduate in Business Administration in Sales & Marketing. A 7 plus year veteran at Microsoft India he has handled multiple roles and managed multiple regions in the past. He believes that if India has to succeed, then SMBs will play the biggest role in that success. He is also interested in mentoring companies in the SMB space specifically those which from environment and healthcare sectors.

Mr. Vijay Sharma

Co-Founder, Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd.

Vijay is an alumnus of BITS Pilani. After he passed out of BITS, he worked for the National Entrepreneurship Network and then for Practo Technologies. The itch to build his own Company then led to Exotel.

Mr. Lakshman Gugulothu

Ex-CEO of BSE SME Exchange at BSE

Mr. LakshmanGugulothu had done B.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering) from IIT Kanpur. He is an IPS Officer from Kerala cadre. Later, he did MBA from IIM Bangalore. He has specialized in Capital Markets and done researchdissertation on Capital Market regulation and Regulatory bodies. He had previously worked as Managing Director, MATSYAFED in Kerala, before joining the BSE. At present, he is the CEO of BSE SME Exchange at BSE.

Mr. Nikhil Nehru,

Advertising and Communications Stalwart

Ad veteran, Nikhi Nehru has been in the communications industry for over 40 years . He began his career in 1968 in account management with McCann (then Clarion McCann). Mr Nikhil Nehru is an Ad Vetran who has been in the communication industry for 40 years and starting his career in 1968 with McCann (then Clarion McCann) as Acount Manager and worked for several Ad and Media companies in India & Abroad ,the prominent and leading names include the then British ad agency, Masius Wynne Williams, which is now TAPE (Television Audience Programme Evaluation), an independently owned consultancy company that has been providing specialist services for media professionals in the television and film industries since 1976.He has been instrumental in building brands like WelcomGroup Hotels, Pepsi, Hero Group, Bacardi, General Motors, Microsoft, SmithKline Beecham, ITC Foods, Unilever India, TTK, Perfetti, Nestlé, Virgin Atlantic, Maruti Suzuki, L'Oreal and Coca-Cola for whom he has has handled launches, product diversification, corporate brand building and marketing and communication programmes. After spending decades in the Media Industry he set up a consultancy firm Ontrack Corporate Services, He currently is serving on the Governing Board of Plan India (an NGO which deals with children in difficult circumstances) and is an Associate of LeaderShape (U.K.) in India . LeaderShape conducts leadership programmes which focus on emotional intelligence and behaviour change. Nikhil also coaches and mentors individuals and groups and advises start up organisations in the communications industry.

Mr.Rajive Chawla

Chairman, JaiRaj Group and Unique Mouldings, President FASIA

Mr. Chawla has served as Director on the Board of The National Small Industries Corporation Ltd.(NSIC), a Govt. of India Undertaking under the Union Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, 2010-13. He is Chairman of Integrated Association of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of India (I am SME of India), an Institution dedicated to the growth and development of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and Businesses through Credit Facilitation, Cluster Development, Networking, Training, Vocational & Skill development etc. He is the President of Faridabad Small Industries Association, one of the largest representative bodies of Small and Medium Enterprises in India. He is the Chief Patron of Haryana State Productivity Council. Govt. of Haryana has nominated Mr. Rajiv Chawla as Member of the Haryana Micro & Small Enterprises Facilitation Council to resolve the issues of delayed payments to Micro & Small enterprises located in the State of Haryana.Hon’ble Vice- President of India presented the prestigious BYST-JRD Tata Award to Mr. Rajiv Chawla in the year 2009. Mr. Chawla has served as Advisor/ Director on the Board of various Banks and Subsidiary Companies. He is on the Governing Councils of various Educational Institutions and visiting faculty to many Universities & Institutions. Mr. Rajiv Chawla has completed many Cluster Development Projects for MSMEs and Entrepreneurship Development Programmes for start-ups.

Mr. Parag Patki

CEO, SMERA Ratings Limited

Mr. Parag Patki – Chief Executive Officer has been involved with SMERA in the current position for over 4 years. Mr. Patki is a commerce graduate and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with over 25 years of experience, out of which 17 years of total work experience is in Credit Information/Credit Rating/Risk Management arenas in India and Middle East/North Africa. Mr. Patki was involved in setting up offices in Middle East and North Africa while he was working with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) – the USA based MNC. While in India he was also a part of a core group in D&B where he was instrumental in setting up offices in India.

Mr. Jagannadham Thunuguntla

CA. ICWA, Chief Strategist and Head of Research, SMC Global

Currently, Chief Strategist and Head of Research at SMC Global Securities Ltd, he used to work as a research associate at the Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley. An all India rank holder in both his CA and ICWA, JT's views on various markets developments, IPOs, M&As, Open Offers, Delistings, Private Equity are highly respected in the International and national print and TV media. He serves as Co-Chairman, Assocham National Committee on M&A and a Member, Advisory Board on the Indian Law Journal (HK). He was also awarded "India's Best Analyst" by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee at the "India's Best Equity Analyst Awards" organized by Zee Business in 2007.

Mr. Ajay Thakur

Head -BSE SME

A professional with more than 18 years of experience in Capital Market spanning India’s biggest Custodian to India’s biggest and largest Stock Exchange. Ajay has been instrumental in setting up the depository by the regional stock exchange, developing derivatives market and setting up the SME Platform. Ajay started the career way back in 1994 with Stock Holding Corporation Ltd as Senior Executive - Market operation. After working for one year joined Vadodara Stock Exchange in 1995 as Senior Management Executive looking after various departments viz Market Operations, Bad Delivery Cell and Auction. He was also assigned with the role to set up depository by VSE Ltd.He joined BSE Ltd in December, 1996 as Head – Arbitration and Business Development. He has developed the derivatives segment of BSE Ltd and also actively involved in opening of regional centers across the country. Presently as Head - BSE SME, responsible for the development of this segment of BSE Ltd. He very successfully launched the SME Platform on 13th March, 2012 and thus become the first Exchange to launch the Platform. Today BSE Ltd is the market leader in this segment with ninety percent market share. Within six months this platform has 13 companies listed and axnother 7 companies are to get listed. The success of this platform has brought a lot of enthusiasm in the market and more and more companies and market intermediaries are coming forward to get the companies listed on this platform.

Mr. Deepak Pande

C.O.O. Enterprise Business at Vodafone Essar Ltd.

Mr. Deepak Pande has been engaged full time since Jan 2012 in building the SME vertical for Vodafone India as the Executive Vice President & Head for this new vertical. Prior to this, he was responsible for starting up the Enterprise business for Vodafone in India and has over a decade of experience in the Indian telecom industry. Deepak has also spent the earlier part of his career in the FMCG industry working across various product categories such as watches, soft drinks , personal grooming among others. During his career, Deepak has been involved in various startup situations, as well as, managing large business environments. He enjoys working with large teams and turnaround situations.

Mr. Amar Mani Tripathi

Sr. Cluster Development Manager, SMERA Ratings Limited

Amar Mani Tripathi Is associated with SMERA RATINGS LIMITED since last 1.6 years as Sr. Cluster Development manager for the south Gujarat region. And before that I was with Made-from-india.com. I enjoyed my tenure for more than four years of my career in that company. I have a total experience of more than Six years and exposure in SME segment. I am Post Graduate in Management and completed MBA from Allahabad University.

Mrs. Anju Bajaj

Model Woman Entrepreneur & Technocrat

born and brought up in New Delhi, in a business family, Commerce and an MBA Degree holder has also undergone various other prestigious training courses. After working with various Import/ Export houses as a Production Manager set up her own industry . PnA Industries was the 1st of its kind in the state of Haryana and she enjoys the privilege of being the 1st women entrepreneur of the state to avail these achievements. Mrs. Bajaj is associated with various plastic manufacturing associations, chambers of commerce, industrial associations and also has the privilege to be at the helm. She is active and dynamic.

Mr. Anoop Singhal

Managing Director, Agrawal Papad Pvt. Ltd.

He is widely recognized for his role in making the company leader of the market by his innovative ideas of marketing and Research of the innovative products. Mr. Anoop Singhal began his career with Agrawal Papad Pvt. Ltd. in 1988 and was elevated to the board of directors in 1997. He took on the challenge of changing the brand image of ‘420’ from negative to positive. With strong focus on technology, innovation, process and expansion of distribution and scale, the company achieved a leadership position in this business .since the start of the business company had focused only upon giving the quality product to its consumers and it has never broke the trust of its consumers yet, Mr. Anoop singhal has maintained the same . Since starting his career with the company he is consistently doing efforts for getting groing level of the company the progress.

Mr. Ankit Patidar

irector, Shakti Pumps (I) LTD.

A management graduate from Dally College, Indore. With so much potential and business acumen he is known for his innovative ways and possess all ability of a successful entrepreneur. Roping Mr. Amitabh Bachchan as a new brand ambassador has also been a remarkable big leap under his guidance.

Mr. Ravindra Mohan Singh

Deputy General Manager,The New India Assurance Co. Ltd.

He joined the New India Assurance Co. Ltd. In 1983 as Direct Recruit Officer and had wide exposure in all areas of general Insurance Industry. During his tenure of 3 decades in New India Assurance, he has held Incharge position as Branch Manager, Divisional Manager, Chief Regional Manager and Deputy General Manager at various places with a small stint of heading the Audit Department at Corporate level. He has also worked on foreign assignment of the Company at Thailand and headed the Insurance operations of New India assurance Co. For a period of 5 years.

Mr. Raja Debnath

SME Banking Consultant for International Finance Corporation

He is a part of the World Bank group. He assists financial institutions across the world build SME banking programs to improve financial inclusion of the SMEs in those respective countries. He has spent 15 years in the consulting and banking industry and has been a part of the senior management at Ernst and Young, Kotak Mahindra Bank and GE Money. He has completed his first MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj and his second MBA from the Oxford University.

Mr. Sreenivasulu (Srini) Vudayagiri,

Director, Peepul Capital Advisors

Srini Vudayagiri is currently director at Peepul Capital which is a private equity platform with aboutUS$700 million under management. Peepul Capital is a growth-focusedprivate equity fund with investments across consumer services, consumer products, healthcare, financial services, media and entertainment and technology. Being among the early entrants into Indian private equity industry, Srini started his private equity career as part of founding team of ACTIS India (then known as Commonwealth Development Corporation). Over the last 16 years in the industry, Srini played a key role at Intel Capital (as partner of South Asian operations), Thomas Weisel International (as founding head of Indian operations) and Light speed Ventures (as founding Managing Director of Indian operations). As an active investor, Srini has been involved in investing more than $200 million across 15 companies. He was instrumental in identifying, making and managing some of the early PE investments in sectors like education, power and financial services. Srini invested and worked with managements / boards of First Leasing, Subex, Career Launcher, Nipuna Services, BPL Cellular, Accel Frontline, Lanco Power, Pramati Technologies, Netkraft among others. He played a key role in value creation in his investments by his contributions in areas of global expansion, mergers & acquisitions, senior talent recruitmentand public market listings. Srini has been actively involved in supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India as TiE Charter Member, IIMA CIIE advisor and CII-NVI steering committee member. Srini is an active mentor and angel investor in select companies across e-commerce, healthcare, education and cleantech. Srini earned MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, BS (engineering) from NIT Surathkal and is a CFA.

Mr. G.B.Kakade

GM - SME , Bank of India

A Commerce Graduate having professional qualification of CAIIB as well ACIB (London), is presently heading SME Department of Bank of India as General Manager. Shri Kakade has vast exposure of working in credit and forex in various capacities in India as well as overseas centres(Japan and U.K.). Shri Kakade worked as Zonal Manager, Hyderabad zone. He also headed Divisional Manager's office Mid Corporate(South). He has been he.ading SME Department Head Office since June 2012.

Mr.Vibhav Kant Upadhyay

Chairman, India Center Foundation

A post-graduate in Computer Sciences from the University of Allahabad, India and the University of Tokyo, Japan, he aspires to work as a CATALYST in Global partnership between India and Japan from the perspective of socio-economic development. His unique initiatives are supported and encouraged by top policy makers, business and opinion leaders from India, Japan and many countries around the world. Vibhav has envisaged a new framework where India and Japan along with their Global partners, could pool their respective strengths and contribute to progress, stability and economic vitality in a rapidly changing world.The visual manifestation of Vibhav’s thought process and leadership can be seen in the macro initiative, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC.) Vibhav is actively involved in conceptualizing, designing, evangelizing, incubating and incorporating solutions for socio-economic challenges that will help the nations be Energy efficient, Environmentally responsible and Sustainable (EES). His visionary leadership towards the Smart Knowledge and Agriculture Corridor, Trans-Asian Buddhist Circuit, Healthcare, Energy Security and empowerment of States in India are already being hailed as probable panacea for many development challenges of the region. He is the Chairman of India Center Foundation and Founder of India Japan Global Partnership Summit.

Ms. Hema Jain,

CEO, Crux Management Services Pvt. Ltd.

Hema has over the last 10 years founded and grown Crux Management Services, to one of the largest integrated Human Resources and BPO organizations nation wide with over 10000 employees and growing. She is currently the President of the Hyderabad Management Association. She has been associated with several initiatives including a member of the United Nations task force for entrepreneurship development and is a member of several Government thin tanks. She also serves other professional and social bodies like the HMA, ISTD, Rotary, OOC etc.

Ms. Roshika Singh

Finance Advisory Group, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

She focuses on financial inclusion projects and collaborates with a host of financial institutions to deepen the reach of SME finance in India. Ms. Singh started her career employing information communication technology (ICT) as a tool to increase access to information, transparency and accountability across a host of ministries and central banking systems in Georgia, Armenia, Croatia, Ukraine, Moldova and Eritrea and so forth. She led a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) effort for a freight rail management system in the SADC region and spent time in Tanzania, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. Ms. Singh has a commitment towards engendering the projects that she manages and has been credited with spearheading the effort at USAID to mainstream gender into the ICT project portfolio. While at Deloitte, Ms. Singh was a co-Fund Manager for the Business Linkages Challenge Fund (BLCF), a cost sharing competitive grant scheme aimed towards improving the ability to access markets, enabling benefits of globalization to be secured for and by the poor. Ms. Singh was the Activity Manager for the Kosovo Business Finance Fund (KBFF) that established a full-service bank, to mobilize deposits and provide other financial services to SMEs in Kosovo, with the intent to create jobs and contribute towards recovery of the economy. The bank was sold to Raiffeisen Bank of Austria as an exit strategy. Ms. Singh authored a chapter in a DFID-sponsored book “Small Customers, Big Market”, a book that examines case studies on commercial banks that lend to underserved communities. She holds a BA from the American University and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Mr. David Wittenberg

CEO -The Innovation Workgroup

An exceptionally versatile business leader with over 30 years of consulting, training, management and entrepreneurial experience, David brings world-class innovation to leading Indian and multi-national corporations including Reliance Industries, Tata and Aditya Birla. He is currently writing his sixth book, a guide to strategic planning entitled Innovating for the Future: Doing Strategy Right. Prior to establishing The Innovation Workgroup, David worked as a strategy consultant for such firms as American Express, AT&T, Kelly Services, Philip Morris, Standard& Poor’s and UPS. He also served as manager of technology planning, working in the Advanced Concepts & Technology innovation laboratory of Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 office technology company. David’s successes include formulating an innovative distribution and marketing strategy that achieved record sales for an entertainment product, turning around a consumer services company from the brink of bankruptcy, developing the most successful continuity marketing program in the history of a collectibles firm, researching and writing a best-selling guide to electronic invoicing, and increasing the client base of a business services firm by 50% in two years. In his early career, he served as marketing director of an industrial equipment company and a software firm, as a product manager at two direct-response marketing companies, and as an international trader. David earned his MBA in international management with honours from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he served as a research assistant and co-wrote three business cases. A highly-rated speaker, he was chosen to deliver a TED talk at the first ever TEDx Jaipur. He has lectured on strategy, innovation, marketing, entrepreneurship and salesmanship, and has taught business at Stratford University. In addition to his consulting work, David is a published songwriter and an inventor with two patents to his credit. He is fluent in French, can conduct business in Spanish and Portuguese and has studied four other foreign languages. David’s volunteer activities include teaching and singing at his church, serving one term as president of his state’s chapter of Mensa, and ongoing service as an alumni ambassador for Thunderbird. He resides in New Delhi.

Mr. Mukesh Bhargava

MD, Saam Textiles Pvt. Ltd.

First generation entrepreneur, Mr. Mukesh Bhargava is a Management Post-graduate and has worked previously with India's largest textile organizations. During his various assignments he has been posted globally in textile centre's like Prato (Italy) & Manchester (U.K). While he was associated with the Indian Textile Corporates he travelled abroad extensively and studied the International Textile Market very deeply and also understood the work-culture and business environment prevalent in various parts of the world. With his vast experience of the International Textile Trade and taking this forward into his functioning as the Managing Director of SAAM Textiles has stimulated the growth of the organization and this has reflected in the paced & continuous growth of SAAM Textiles. He has been honored as one of India's Top 100 promising SME business leaders by the India SME forum.

Mr. Shrenik Khasgiwala

Director West, Brand Capital

Shrenik completed his post-graduation in business management from IIM Bangalore. He is also a Certified Investment Manager from the Securities and Investment Institute, UK. He joined Brand Capital from Enam Securities where he was Executive Director ? Investment Banking. He also set up the first international office for Enam in the UK. Shrenik has over 16 years of experience in the areas of financial audit, management consulting, as well as Investment banking and has worked for companies like Lodha & Co., Accenture and A.T. Kearney prior to joining Enam. He has worked on several advisory mandates and has advised several clients (including the Tata Group) in Investment Banking.

Mr. Sanjay Agrawal

Mr. Sanjay Agarwal Mr. Sanjay Agrawal,

Prior to joining Yes Bank, Sanjay was Head of Risk of the SME Vertical at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). During Jan 2011, Sanjay was conferred with “Professional Achievers Award” by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for financial service sector.

Mr. C. Narambunathan

Deputy General Manager, The New India Assurance Company Ltd.

He joined the Insurance Industry in 1980 as Class 1 Officer in United India Insurance Company Limited and worked in various positions. His latest stint before coming to New India Assurance Company Limited was Chief Regional Manager, Hubli looking after the entire North Karnataka Region. Now he is posted as Deputy General Manager of New India Assurance Company Limited ,Bangalore since August 2010.The growth of Bangalore Region was not upto the mark till 2010 and the region had not shown profit for a few years. But he has shown his leadership skills resulting in a substantial growth in premium and posting of a huge profit of over Rs.97 crores in this Region during the previous year. He has the unique experience of having worked in the Insurance Industry in different parts of the country and different fields like Finance, Administration, Technical, Marketing and Reinsurance.

Mr. Jitendra Singh Yadav,

Sr. Cluster Development Manager, SMERA Ratings Limited

A skilled professional with 10 years of expertise in Sales, Marketing, Business development & Customer Servicing. Been associated with leading brands of Industry like ICICI Bank, Just Dial & Indiamart.Com for more than 10 years. Currently Associated with SMERA RATINGS LTD. Jaipur & looking after entire Rajasthan, Proficient in leading a dedicated teams for running successful business operations and business excellence. Having effective communication with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills with Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.

Mr. R. A. Shroff,

Managing Director, Om Chemicals Industries

Mr.Shroff started the first unit for manufacturing zinc sulphate in 1966 at Kolkata in name of M/s Deluxe Chemical Industries. His second unit was established in Raipur ,Chattisgarh in 1991 i. e. M/s Om Chemical Industries. His 45 years of wide experience in manufacturing zinc sulphate agriculture grade for use in crops.A Member associated with Fertlizer association of India for 30 years & member of Chemical Export Promotion Council, ISI, National Productivity Council Member of Indian lead zinc development Association New Delhi. He was given an award /honour distinguished services award during the Ilzda ?seminar on zinc in health & Agriculture? issues & concerns? held on 8th 2011 at New Delhi, Mr. R. A. Shroff, Managing Director, Om Chemicals Industries, Raipur was conferred with a ?distinguished services award? in view of his outstanding contributions during the last 40 years in creating a greater awareness on the applications of zinc sulphate as a micronutrient to overcome the zinc deficiency in Indian agriculture. Way back in 1966 Mr.Shroff appreciated the harmful effects due to zinc deficiency in the Indian agricultural soils and he began as a bare foot messenger, spreading the positive messages on zinc sulphate among the various stake holders.

Mr. P. Anbazhagan

President of COSIEMA ,CODISSIA, TANSTIA & MD , MAS Solar Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. P. Anbazhagan graduated in his Engineering in Mechanical from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore & Master?s Degree in Business Administration majoring in Human Resource from Anna University. He has industrial experience of 22 years in the field of textile & renewable energy especially solar. Mr. P. Anbazhagan is the Managing Director of MAS Solar Systems Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore and the work force is around 75 members. He is the president of COSIEMA (Coimbatore Sidco Industrial Estate Manufacturer?s Association). He is the member of Executive Committee in CODISSIA & TANSTIA (Tamil Nadu State Small & Tiny Industries Association) and active member in Tamilnadu Solar Manufacturers association. President of COSIEMA ,CODISSIA & TANSTIA & Managing Director , MAS Solar Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sandeep Agrawal

Chairman and Managing Director, Kushal Tradelink Ltd.

Mr. Sandeep Agrawal, a commerce graduate born in Ahmedabad, is the Chairman and Managing director of Kushal Tradelink Ltd., which deals in various types of papers. He has a rich experience of 30 years in the said industry and under his flagship the company has achieved a turnover of 244 crores (2012-2013), and has also diversified into manufacturing of Kraft paper. Kushal Tradelink ltd, incorporated in 2000 and a listed entity on BSE-SME platform, has successfully completed the largest IPO in India at the SME platform, and has recently incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary in Singapore by the name of Kushal Impex Pte. Ltd.

Mr. Manoj Kapoor

Zonal Manager, Bank of India

With More than 36 years of banking experience as Branch Manager in Rural, Semi Urban, Urban & Metro Branches. He was Posted in Beijing for 3 years as CR and is currently the Zonal Manager of Kerala Zone since 16.04.2012.

Mr.Rajesh Gupta

General Manager & Head of SaaS/Cloud Business, Bharti Airtel Limited

A senior leader with nearly 17 years of experience in IT industry. Presently associated with Airtel Business, as Head of SaaS-Cloud. Strength in managing multiple programs, providing strategic leadership, governance, Sound domain knowledge in Software Product Development, Hi-Tech industry, SaaS & Cloud solutions.

Mr.Najib Khan

Chief Executive Officer of Homes and Office, Bharti Airtel Limited

Mr. Najib Khan has been the Chief Executive Officer of Homes and Office at Bharti Airtel Ltd since February 2013. Mr. Khan served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Bharti Airtel Ltd. and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Telemedia West at Bharti Airtel Ltd. He served as a Technical Manager of Alcatel Business Systems. He holds B.E and MBA.

Ms.Stuti Jalan

Founder,Crosshairs Communication

An award-winning first generation woman entrepreneur, from being a transformational force in the PR and Communications industry and breaking barriers of a traditional mindset, young achiever, internationally recognized as an emerging woman leader – Stuti Jalan founded Crosshairs Communication in 2002 when she was 23 years old with no capital. The company has grown to become one of India’s niche and upcoming public relations, strategic communications, brand consultancy and social media companies. Today, Crosshairs is a recognized name in strategic and effective planning, a house of innovative ideas and unique leadership. Stuti has shared her experiences across several global forums – the Dell Women Entrepreneur Network, Fortune/US state Department Mentoring Program, as a speaker in Japan at the “International Conference for Women in Business” – Women Entrepreneurship in India and the future and how to move the world forward . Recently she spoke at Dell Women Entrepreneur Network and co presented with Ms Elizabeth Gore – Resident Entrepreneur United Nations on the theme “Pay it Forward - impacting the lives of girls” in Turkey & Tedx Tokyo. Invited for FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit that took place at Laguna Niguel, CA. Femina, a leading magazine in India, recently featured her in the Power Issue: “India’s 35 most influential women all 35 or younger. In 2011 Femina recognized her as one of the “super women” who excelled in their field of proficiency and has been featured in many other media like “India Today“ on emerging Woman leader. She writes and blogs extensively on Leadership issues and “Women Leadership” and has inspired and motivated the lives of many young women in the country and the world.

Mr. Nitin Aggarwal

Take 10 Solutions

At TAKE Solutions, Nitin is part of the team responsible for planning and setting up a new subsidiary 'TAKE10 Solutions Pvt. Ltd.' to offer cloud based solutions ( SaaS and IaaS). Nitin is now looking after Western India and Middle East for the cloud business and his responsibilities include market entry and development, sales channel setup and managing strategic alliances. Prior to TAKE Solutions, Nitin has been part of organizations Infosys Ltd and Patni computer systems and involved in account management and developing enterprise level BSpoke Solutions. Nitin is a management degree holder from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) and bachelor of engineering from Army Institute of Technology, Pune (Pune University)

Mr. N.S. Mohan

Assistant General Manager, Bank of India

Mr. Mohan is presently heading SME City Centre,which takes care of growth of SME finance.He has more than 35 Years of extensive experience in Banking & IT.He held various positions including branch head for over 10 years in different parts of the country and associated with various IT initiatives of the bank.Mr.Mohan has implemented Data ware House Project and has Overseas experience in Singapore.

Mr. Aditya Atri

Co-Founder, One Appuccino

Ex MD,Wunderman International, India, Mr. AdityaAtri is currently working as an independent advisor and mentor with start-ups to help develop their business plans, entry strategies and marketing organizations. He has held varied senior Management positions in Reliance Retail, MRM Worldwide, McCann Erickson and is a loyalty, CRM and integrated marketing professional with close to 25 years experience. As the head of the India operations at Wunderman, he led a team of 150 people across a KPO and digital / relationship marketing.

Mr. Nimesh Parikh

Head-Risk Containment Unit & Policy, Reliance Commercial & Home Finance

Mr. Agarwal is a Science graduate from St. Xavier College, Kolkata and has done LLB from University Law College, Kolkata. His extensive study and deep insights into financial and regulatory framework for MSMEs, have earned him the sobriquet- ‘intellectual entrepreneur’. Mr. Agarwal is known to possess a fierce reformist and a progressive attitude towards SMEs and the related regulatory and promotional environment they operate in. Having served on a number of Working/ Study Groups and Committees on SME Policies both at the level of Govt. of India and Govt. of U.P., he is currently member of National Social Security Board for Unorganised Workers under Union Ministry of Labour. Currently heading the Risk Containment Unit and Policy function for Reliance Commercial Finance and Home Finance. A Postgraduate in Management has more than 13 years of experience working with various Banks and NBFCs like ICICI, HSBC and Citicorp handling various functions of Risk and Operations.

Mr. Sanjay Athalye

Chief Risk Officer , Reliance Commercial and Home Finance

Sanjay is a Credit and Risk management professional, with a rich work experience of over two decades, spread over industries like Office Automation, Telecom and Retail Banking. His areas of specialization include Collections and Recoveries, Fraud Control, Credit underwriting and overall risk management for the retail banking and lending business. He takes special interest in training and is a trained trainer himself. He is also a member on the Learning Council at the Reliance Capital Group. He is known for his technology and process orientation and is an expert in project implementation. Prior to Reliance Capital, he has worked with organisation like Modi Xerox, Reliance Telecom, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank Ltd. And Centurion Bank of Punjab Ltd.

Mr. Amrish Shah

Chief Financial Officer, Reliance Commercial Finance

He has been a CA with 17 years of experience mainly in Bank/NBFC for managing the success in achieving business growth objectives, proficient in mapping business requirements with proven ability in designing & implementing systems to achieve cost control & financial discipline. He has competency in Strategic Financial Planning, Budgeting, Management reporting, Direct & Indirect tax, Finance & Accounts, Secretarial and compliance management. He has worked in Rasna Limited and Ashima Limited .He has also worked for ICICI Bank Limited for 4.5 years and been accredited with awards such as Quality Achievement Award by Mr. K.V. Kamath in 2005,“Paisa Vasool” Award for cost control initiative in 2005,Best Branch Award in 2004,OPS KA BOSS award for best initiative in India in 2004,Customer First Award by Chairman in 2004.He is now working in Reliance Capital Limited as CFO since last 6.5 years and accredited with awards such as CEO’s Quality Culture Award 2011-12,Best Collaborator Award in 2009,Best Implemented Idea Award in 2008–09.

Mr. Pratignya Ranjan Kanungo

AGM, Bank of India

Mr. Kanungo is a native of Odisha (earlier name Orissa). He has done M.Sc in Agricultural Science from Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology in the year 1982. He has also done JAIIB and CAIIB as a professional course. He joined bank on 27.07.1983 as Agriculture Officer in Kurawar Branch in Madhya Pradesh and has worked in Rural, Semi-urban, Urban and Metro branches of our bank and has got wide experience of 30 Years in the banking industry in various departments like Priority Sector Credit (SME), Advances, Deposits and Administration. He also worked in capacity of Dy. Chief Officer, Chief Manager and Dy. Zonal Manager in controlling offices. He is presently working as Asst. Gen. Manager, SME City Centre, Indore. He is hard working, innovative, pro-active, dynamic and has got team building and fast decision making abilities.

Mr. Anil Raje

Chairman Aartech Solonics LTD.

A qualified electrical engineer, technologist, R&D enthusiast and first generation entrepreneur, Mr. Anil Raje is the founder of Aartech and successfully held the helm of affairs of the company since its foundation in 1982. He possesses more than 40 years of experience in multi-dimensional aspects of business operations in the power sector. Born in May 1945, he spent his early childhood in Gwalior and later on relocated to Bhopal after state reorganization. He had a meritorious career throughout, and completed his graduation in Electrical Engineering from MACT (now MANIT) in 1966 (2nd – having stood 2nd he returned back to Bhopal to lay the foundation of Aartech Solonics. Throughout his career, he has been ably supported by his wife Smt. Chhaya Raje and colleague Sh. S.D. Kulkarni. His children are now supporting the 2nd Generation growth initiatives of the company. L&T, Powai, he started his entrepreneurial career at Mumbai in 1971. In 1982,

Mr. Puneet Gupta

MD, Kach Motors Pvt. Ltd.

Born on 23rd August, 1971. Completed BE (Mech), MBA. Present Occupation, Managing Director, Kach Motors Pvt. Ltd. Kach Motors P. Ltd Company was started by me in year 1997, for manufacturing of Steel Cold Drawn, Peeled and Ground Bars. In year 2004, we did forward integration and entered into the manufacturing of Automobile and Engineering Components. We have also been awarded the Best Ancillary 5 times from M/S VECV LTD. In the period of 8 years relation.

Mr. S. N. Kaimal

Zonal Manager, Bank of India

Born on 5th April, 1977. Worked in Maharashtra, Chandigarh, New York and Chhattisgarh. Experience of working in operation (Both Domestic & International), Credit and Forex. Prior to his posting at Raipur, was Vice President (Operations) in New York

Mr. Saif Qureshi

CEO & MD, KRYFS Power Components Ltd.

Mr. Saif Qureshi is an MBA from IIM – Bangalore, an Entrepreneur with over 25 years of valuable experience in Core Engineering Industry. His vision and strategic business Leadership are instrumental in establishing KRYFS Group at a leadership position in the Transformer Core Industry Looks after the overall business strategy & International Business Development & Expansion projects of the Company. An active Rotarian, he is also Chairman of IEEMA - Laminations division, EC member of ITMA a writer with more than 500 columns in BT.

Mr. Cherian Kuruvila

CEO/Business Mentor & Leadership Coach, CNC Transcend Management Services

Cherian Kuruvila brings specific expertise over 30 years in Sales and Marketing, P&L Operations, Retail, HR, large scale Project Management and Start-up Operations. He has worked in sectors like Consumer Durables, Office Automation, Telecom, HR Consulting and Services industries, including stints as Executive Director with Modi Xerox, CEO Karnataka with Bharti Airtel, SVP with Reliance Communications and Director Operations with Manpower Inc. Cherian has been for the last 4 years, a CEO and Business Mentor, Advisory Board Member, Leadership Coach, and Strategy Consultant focussed on the Corporate sector, the SME sector, and on Entrepreneurs and Institutes to share his vast learning over the last 3 decades. CNC Transcend Management Services (CNCTMS) specializes in CEO/Business Mentoring, Strategy Development and Execution along with Leadership Coaching for Growth Phase companies facing Operational challenges.

Mr. Vasant G. Kamath

General Manager, National Banking (W), Bank of India

General Manager, NBG(West) joined Bank of India in 1974. He is M.Com. and CAIIB. He is son of soil and very practical and seasoned banker. He has worked in various capacities at Head Office right from Officer to Assistant General Manager. He has worked in Kolhapur, Raigad, Vadodara, Karnataka, Nagpur and in Chennai in various capacities viz. Officer, Branch Manager and as a Zonal Manager. He has also worked as Chief Dealer in Singapore. His style of work is expeditious disposal. During his tenure as Zonal Manager, Nagpur I, the Zone was recognised as Best Performing Zone in NBG (West). Subsequently, he was assigned the posting of Zonal Manager, Chennai Zone from April 2012 to April 2013. During his tenure, the overall performance of the Zone was appreciated by Top Executives.

Mr. Sunder Madakshira

Vice President - Marketing and Communications, SAP Labs India

Mr. Sunder Madakshira is Vice President - Marketing and Communication, SAP Labs India. His passion is generating and executing ideas which give disproportionate leverage in the market. For the past 18 years, he has worked and learnt from path-breakers and game changers in communication to customers, talent pool and other corporate stakeholders. His areas of focus at SAP are building Influencer Relations, PR, employee engagement and customer evangelism. He has held leadership roles in the sales and marketing functions in Unilever, Infosys and WIPRO before his current role. He has driven wide range of marketing functions - market research, traditional and new age advertising, competition intelligence, category management, talent branding, internal communications and marketing process administration. He has spoken at many industry and academic forums - including at CII, NASSCOM, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta on the topics of interest in Marketing. At the NASSCOM Emerge Forum in 2011 and 2012, he presented sessions on “18 Tips on Zero Cost Marketing in 36 minutes” and “Organizational Growth through Personal Branding”. These have been received well by participants. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal (TAPMI) and an Engineering Degree from the R V College of Engineering, Bangalore. He has finished top of his class throughout his academic career, winning the prestigious Agro Evo Gold Medal award to the Best Outgoing Student at TAPMI and a Gold medalist from Bangalore University. A keen carnatic music enthusiast, he is learning to play the Veena as a passionate hobby.

Mr. Harbinder Sokhi

Regional Manager, BSE SME Exchange, North Zone

Mr. Sokhi is currently with BSE North Zone. He is based out of the Delhi regional office. He has been with the BSE for the last year and a half, and is part of the Investor protection Fund Team (IPF). The core area of work of IPF is to spread financial literacy across India. Last financial yr BSE-IPF had done 1000 events. In the North of India the IPF team had done 210 seminars, out of which Harbinder has done 135 events(60 with Broker & 75 without broker). He is also responsible for promoting BSE for BSE in North. MrSokhi has an MBA in Marketing, with 14 years’ work experience (4 years in marketing, 4 in Administration & 6 in finance Industry)

Mr. Nitin Bhandari

Associate Vice President, Vodafone India Limited

In his current role, Mr. Bhandari is responsible for driving the development of new products & partnerships for the Enterprise segment. His current focus includes M2M, Cloud, mobility and hosted product ecosystems. Nitin specializes in new products conceptualization, operating models, technology trending and benchmarking paradigms. Nitin has spoken at a number of industry events across Asia, Europe and Americas. He is widely quoted in industry publications. In past, he co-authored “GB924 - Service Model Framework” published by the TeleManagement Forum. He was also the contributing editor of “Telecom Billing Dictionary” published by the Althos Publishing. Prior to Vodafone, Nitin held the position of AVP at frog design where he was responsible for managing the Innovation strategy practice for the APAC region. Earlier, he worked as Consulting Partner at Wipro Technologies where he was responsible for the Business Advisory practice for the Telecoms & Media industry vertical. Nitin holds a B.Tech (Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology-BHU

Mr.Prateek Mehta

Director Small And Medium Business, Microsoft Corporation India

His core skills are in Building scale to drive customer acquisition in Small and Medium canvas,building class A team: Picking the best talent and getting the best out of people and restructuring, revamping and improvising business, system, process and structure,he has been in Microsoft Corporation India as Strategic Alliances Manager from July 2004 to June 2008 and built the alliances ecosystem for MS,got strategic investments from the partners managed in head count resourcing on Microsoft business. reated practices of MS within large national and international organisations under partnership framework like Wipro, Dell, HP, HCL and Sonata. He has worked as Director-Partner Sales at Microsoft from September 2008 to September 2011.Presently he is the Director Small and Medium Business,South India for Microsoft for the past 2 years.As business head, his key focus is around driving scale in customer acquisition through multiple levers, engaging with all stakeholders in the SMB ecosystem (NASSCOM, CII and other industry bodies), increasing Microsoft foot prints in SME at and selling the case for 'compelling technology'.

Mr. S. Govindan

Chairman, Aqua Purification Systems

A passionate industrialist with a long track record of Successful management was born on 1959, at Sankari in Salem (TN). He is well educated, with extensive knowledge of all current economic, social and regulatory issues. In 1995, He founded Aqua Purification Systems, which is an ISO Certified company, with the vision of creating a healthy environment by enabling his clients to meet their water purification needs through high-end technology solutions. He is one of the Life Members in Indian Desalination & Water Quality Association. He became a joint secretary in Salem Productivity Council, and holds a general secretary position in Salem Small Scale & Tiny Industries Association

Mr.Nandkishore Attal

Chairman,Vaishno Devi Dairy Products Pvt. Ltd.

Mr.Nandkishore Attal-started his career in 1997 as a marketing executive in` a computer stationery firm.After two years, he started his own proprietary concern V D Marketing for trading in computer stationery & consumables. Over the years after gaining experience, Mr. Nandkishore Attalstarted M/s.Vaishno Devi Dairy Products Pvt.Ltd.on 1st-Nov.2007.The Company is currently handling about 3 lakhl Liters of milk per day and is in the process of expanding its capacity from 3 lakh to 5 lakh litresper day.

Mr.Mitrakant Parwal

Head-Corporate Sales (MPCG)Bharti Airtel Limited

He is an MBA from Wigan & Leigh (WLC),U.K. He has an overall 15 yrs experience and out of which 14 years in Telecom. He has been With Airtel for the last 10 yrs. Majorly in B2B domain and expertise in solution providing for their growing business needs and has worked in various markets/demographics.

Mr .Chandji Pandit

Deputy Zonal Manager, Bank of India

Inhis 33 years of banking his administrative experience was in Advisor Consultant for Financial Services-Sector-Companies.Senior-Level Managerial-Job-inorganization engaged in Manufacturing Trading Services.Credit Monitoring & Supervision in organization engaged Credit Appraisal Recovery.Working for Bank of India for last 33 years mostly in Credit Appraisal and Credit Monitoring.In Bank of Indiaworked as Deputy Zonal Manager in Rajkot Zone and Business Development Manager in Raipur Zone with this have worked as Branch Head in various Branches.He has worked as Veterinary Asstt. Surgeon in J&K Govt.for 4 years from 1977 to 1981.He is very versatile in nature,believes in quick decision process, believes in human values and ethics and knows English,Hindi,Kashmiri and Punjabi.

Mr. R. P Jhalani

Managing Director, Aarvee Waxpol Tools (I) Pvt Ltd.

He has over 40 years of business experience and has been responsible for the growth of hand tool industry in India and for the growth of hand and garage tools from the country. Currently he is Chairman Taskforce on Engineering Goods of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has been the Past chairman of the EEPC India. AWARDS: PRESIDENT OF INDIA AWARD FOR PROMOTION OF ENGINEERING EXPORTS FROM INDIA 2007. ENGINERING EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL AWARD FOR THREE CONSECTIVE YEARS FOR HIGHEST EXPORT OF HAND TOOLS FROM THE COUNTRY : 1985- 1987

Mr. Karunesh Mittal

Chartered Accountant

He has a professional experience of over 15 years post qualification. Member of the Study Group for Review of Third Schedule to the Banking Regulations Act of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.Peer Reviewer with the ICAI for review of the peer Chartered Accountants and Professional in the field of audit & accounts during 2002-03 Joint Convenor of the Taxation Study Group of The Northern India Regional Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants for the year 2000-01 & 2001-02 Convenor of the Taxation Study Group of The Northern India Regional Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants for the year 2002-03. Co-authored the Manual for the Procedures of the Income Tax Settlement Commission and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal published by the Northern India Regional Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as the background material for the Seminar on Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and Income Tax Settlement Commission.

Mr. Harish Keswani

Marketing Strategist, CEO & Founder - Market Mystics

Harish Keswani is a techno-marketing expert, having developed and launched multiple products /services across IT & Telecom industries. He has worked with various brands across his 24 years of rich marketing experience including the Tata group, Zenith Computers, V2Solutions Inc. etc. Over the years Harish has driven multiple high profile launches with extensive media interactions and campaigns. He has been working smart behind the scenes, ensuring success for many companies and their products in the marketplace. Harish completed his B.E from VESIT, Mumbai University, and his technical background helps in ensuring the right positioning of products and services in the marketplace.

Mr.H.P. Yadav

President, NCR Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Mr. H.P. Yadav is President of NCR Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Chairman of Paltech Group of Companies. He is also and recipient of two National Awards for Excellence in Engineering from Hon’ble Vice President in Year 2003 and for Excellence in Quality from Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh in the Year 2004.He is also founder of Hindi News channel “Khabarain Abhi Tak.

Mr. Shashi Sinha

Senior Vice President & National Head Media Asset, Laqshya Media

Mr. Shashi Sinha has been associated with Media and Marketing for last 16 years. Though he has been exposed to a wide array of functions, at the bottom of his heart he is the master strategist at creating ‘value propositions’ which build remunerative relationships with the served customers and help in monetising all the business initiatives of the Company he works with. Having had exposure to the print and online world, his current passion is ‘understanding and contributing’ to this fast emerging new kid on the block called Out Of Home (OOH) Media. As Senior Vice-President & National Head - Revenue for Laqshya Outdoors and Laqshya Airport Media divisions, he is one of the key functionaries in India’s largest independent OOH Company - Laqshya Media Private Limited.

Mr. Sreekant Srusti

Deputy General Manager, Brand Capital

Mr.Sreekant is a graduate in Physics from Osmania University and holds a Post Graduate Degree in Mass Communication with specialization in Advertising and Brand Management from University of PoonaPune. He is a part of the Business Development team and looks after Rest of Maharashtra and Goa territory. He started his career in advertising in the Account Management function. He worked on creating communication for brands like Bajaj AutoVideocon Water Purifiers,Kenstar AppliancesKirloskar GroupKalyani Group,Zensar TechnologiesNihilent Technologiesetc. During his stint in advertising at Pratibha Quadrant Communications. Sreekant is a fitness freak and does Yoga regularly and plays Badminton. In his spare time he likes catching up with friendssolving Sudoku & crossword puzzles and enjoys reading.

Mr. Sandeep Upadhyay

Head- Marketing SMBAirtel

He went to Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology and studied at St.Joseph's Convent School.At present he has 2+ year of IT experience. In the past two years he has been mostly involved in the Web development. This involved creating challenging web application for client Microsoft. For past 5 month he was doing development in Silverlight 3.0 and WCF. The application currently he is working on is for Healthcare domain. In the process he had a chance to learn about the HL7 standards and its use in Health care domian.

Mr.Rohit Midha

National SMB Head,Airtel

Mr.Midha went to University of Mumbai-Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and KES Engg College.He completed his schooling from Jamnabai Narsee School.He was the Zonal Business Head at BPL Mobile from July 1995 to October 2003.He then became Head-Ultra Zone & Postpaid Sales till 2008.He later went on to become the Head Operations and Head - B2B and now he is the National SMB Head for the past 1 year.

Mr.D.K.Grover

Assistant General Manager, Bank of India

Mr.D.K.Grover (B.Com:M.A(eco): caiib).He joined the bank in march,1978 and was promoted to officer cadre july,1982.He worked at various position credit head for12 years and has been the Branch Head for 11 years.He has an experience of more than 20 years.

Mr.Madhup Agrawal

Head New Initiatives IndiaMART InterMESH Limited

He is at present Business Head of the New Initiatives division at IndiaMART InterMESH Limited. Acting as an Entrepreneurhe incubates new web-based businesses for IndiaMART.He is also the CEO of Hellotravel.coma platform that was built from scratch over last 3 years. At present with a revenue of over $ 2 million per annum and growingit is already the largest platform of its kind in the world .He is also actively contributing to IndiaMART's core product and have implemented several notable innovations since 2004 including - a comprehensive and arguable world's best B2B searchthe path-breaking Pay Per Lead - Model for B2B Businessa home-grown - Web-based ERP solution that has enabled IndiaMART to successfully manage its PAN India presence. He was previously CEO and Co-founder of Access Info Solutions India where he developed and implemented web-based solutions in the domain of Re-InsuranceEducation and Shipping. After completing his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Harcourt Butler Technological InstituteKanpurhe worked as software developer in early days of his career before earning his Master's Degree from IITDelhi in Systems and Management and moving into business leadership role.

Mr.Himanshu Chawla

Director-Business Development Microsoft India

He has a 20+ years of sales leadership in various roles panning into solution & relationship led information technology hardware & software sales in direct and indirect models. Domain expertise in GovernmentBanking & FinanceTelecomManufacturing & Retail verticals with a focus on S+S & cloud computing.He has been with Microsoft from January 2012 ,managing the Business Development portfolio for the Banking Financial Services Industry (BFSI) & State Owned Enterprise (SOE) vertical along with a V- team of account managers to land the strategic initiatives & revenue goals in identified accounts.He has completed Masters in Business Administration. He excels in People Management,ISV,Cloud Computing,Enterprise Software,Strategy.

Mr.Nitin Sudame

Executive Director, Spacewood Furnishers Pvt Ltd

He completed his education from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology,Nagpur.He has worked with Thermax Ltd.,Ispat Industries,Videocon VCR Ltd.,and Blow Plast Ergonomics Ltd.Mr.Nitin Sudame has been with B P Ergo Ltd. as Vice President from June 2004 to February 2010.Presently he is the executive Director of Spacewood Furnishers Pvt Ltd.Mr.Nitin Sudame's Skills & Expertise are in Negotiation,CAD,Project Planning,AutoCAD,Marketing,Product Development,New Business Development,Manufacturing,Strategic Planning,Supply Chain Management,Key Account Management,Business Strategy,Operations Management,Project Management,Sales Management,Team Building,Interior Design,Sourcing and sales.

Mr. k. Mariappan

President SADISSTIA & MDSteel Cluster Services Salem (P) Ltd.

He is presently the President of Salem District Small Scale & Tiny Industries Association,Hon.Treasurer of TANSTIA .He is the Key functionary of Salem Productivity Council as the Service Provider(Udyami Mitra) to the Ministry of MSMEGovt. of India under their Scheme "Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana" .He has played a major role in setting up the Salem Airport and taken all initiatives to form the Salem Electronics Industries Estate,played an important role to shift the Central Bus Stand of Salem City and served as the Chairman of "Save Salem Steel Plant Committee"to prevent Privatisation of Salem .He played a role in the promotion of MSME sector in Salem District.He has organised many Seminars & workshops to create Awareness to the young Entrepreneurs to promote Self-Employment by setting up of Manufacturing & Service Industries in which National Level Experts like Mr.V.PadmanandUNIDO consultantChairman & Managing Director of SIDCOCommissioner & Director of Industries & CommerceCMD of Bank of India General Manager of State Bank of IndiaDy. General Managers of many Nationalised BanksSIDBI Director of MSME-DIand other dignitaries were present.During April & October 2010 under the International Co-operation Scheme of the Ministry of Govt.of IndiaHe led a team of 20 MSME Entrepreneurs to visit China & Hongkong for 10 days for each trip.At the Invitation of the Govt. of Gujarat he took 20 Entrepreneurs from Salem District to Gujarat State and visited many SEZs Industrial EstatesClusters & Industrial Hubs to study the Industrial activities of Govt. of Gujarat.He has Implemented the "Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana" Schemes in Salem and neighboring Districts for the upgradation of Technology by installing Air Jet & Rapier Looms to weave more fabrics from Salem District. Also constituted 10 consortiums with 25 members per each with a plan to set up a cluster for the benefit of the Power loom operators.

Mr. Anoop G. Dwivedi

Deputy ManagerBSE SME

A graduated with B.ComM.Com and did his Diploma in Capital Markets from JBIMS. He is serving BSE since 1997. He worked with Customer support and Network team before coming to Marketing Team of BSE. He says that "I love working with BSE as the place which throws challenges all the time thereby providing adventurous path to go ahead" he also adds that "BSE is striving hard to provide good infrastructure and place for the members to trade efficiently with the fastest speed in India."

Mr. Parth Shah

Manager BSE SME

An MBA having done his majors in Financial Marketsfrom the BSE Institute Ltdhe currently works as an Assistant Manager in one of the most profound Stock exchanges of the world in the SME department. Apart from thisqualifications like CMT(USA) and a Certified Algorithmic Traderfrom ATMA have added to his laurels. He was also a Mumbai University topper during his graduation days in BMS. Of latelyhe has been a distinguished panelist in many of the SME Forums held throughout the country. Having great expertise in the field of capital marketstoday he stands to be as a backbone for the SME Platform of BSE in India.

Mr. Hasmukhlal D. Vora

DirectorAeon Formulations Pvt.ltd.

Over 40 years of experience in the Indian pharmaceutical industrywith expertise in marketing APIssourcing new ingredientsproduct lifecycle planning and contract manufacturing of finished dosage forms. I oversee operations in the group companies - HDV ChempharmPanvo Organics and Aeon Formulations. HDV Chempharm is an API marketing company - one of the leaders in South India. Panvo Organics is a manufacturer of Nutraceutical ingredientswith exciting new products and Aeon Formulations is a manufacturer of Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Formulations.

Mr. Naveen Tripathi

Founder & CEO Mercury Digital

He is the Founder and Chief Executive of MERCURYthe leading communication design company that works in the area of PrintInternetDisplay and Audio Visual design for domestic and international markets. He is India's Ambassador of the prestigious One ClubUSA Columnist and writer for national & international publications Executive Committee Member of the Jaipur Chamber of Commerce & Industry Member of the Ad Club BombayCIITiE& regular speaker on subjectsrelated to advertising and brand building. He has been the Winner of the International Rotary Youth Leadership Award. He is an avid Photographer & completed his MBAMarketing from the Mumbai University in 1997 and started his career with FCB-ULKAone of India's top Advertising Agencies.

Mr. Aravind K.SA

VP & Zonal Head?West & South IndiaTally Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Aravind K.S. is a proven veteran in the accounting software domain with an in-depth understanding of the accounting software product industryand he is a great proponent of Tally! He is one of the very few to have been mentored by Late Shri S. S. Goenkahimselfthe co- founder of Tally. Aravind started his career as a software developer. He later moved on to market facing roles like software support and implementationsproduct managementpartner sales and business development in the same industry. He has worked and led teams on all levels. His work has taken him across the globeand he has the experience of working in diverse markets & cultures like Asia-PacificMiddle-Eastand the Sub-Saharan & West-African countries apart from many parts of India. Presentlyhe heads the Operations of Tally Solution's SME business in Western India. Aravind comes from an Electrical Engineering background.

Mr.Ajay K.Shad

Director Value Education Pvt Ltd.Ahmedabad

He is the Owner of Value Education Pvt Ltd. NIS AcademyAIMA and EDI Nodal Center from the past 5 years. His Professional Goal is to be able to enthuse his students to work honestly and diligently and keep the country's interest in mind. It can never be out of fashion. Two of his students were made HEAD Gujarat in their respective companies in the 1st year of employment. He was awarded with the Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award at Constitution Club Parliament Hs Delhi. He has completed his education from Banaras Hindu University,Panjab University and Sainik School Kunjpura Karnal

Mr. Rajat Bajaj

Director Platinum Equipment P Ltd.

He is a Production Engineer from MITAurangabad having Manufacturing and Exports Experience of 9 years. He has participated in 26 Expos around the globe spanning across 4 continents and 11 countries. He has market exposure in 38 countries worldwide . ( 25- for wholesale exports 13-retail Exports)

Mr. Rahat Bhatia

Proprietor Raga Engineers

He is a graduate in mechanicalengineering from M.S.UniversityBaroda has a national/international experience of over 2 decades in manufacturing and automobile industry. He is proprietor of Raga Engineersleading company in manufacturing & supplying Systems and Parts for Die Casting Industry. He is also Director at Raga Protek PvtLtda Mold and Technology sourcing company and at Raga Technologies Taiwan Co Ltda subsidiary in Taiwan. He has an international patent for a technology product for die casting. Raga Engineers till date is the only Indian firm which exhibits in North American Die Casting Association (NADCA) Die casting congress and exhibition at USA. As Joint secretary of FSIA (Faridabad Small Industries Association) and Director of Integrated association of microsmall and medium enterprises of India (IamSMEofIndia)he takes a keen role in organizing various developmental programs. He also heads the ambitious Energy Efficiency project funded by World Bank and implemented by SIDBI and BEE. He is also executive board member of AOTS Delhi.

Mr.Mukesh Pandey

Area Head- Gujarat SMERA Ratings Limited

He has a total experience of 7.5 yrs in Sales / Marketing and Business Development Associated with SMERA Ratings Agency since 1.5 years and taking care of Gujarat and Rajasthan Stateprior to this I was associated with IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd (B2B Online Portal Industry) as Regional Manager handling Gujarat. He has joined SMERA as Area Development Manager (In charge of Gujarat) in March 2012 with a team of 5 associates & now has 18 Associates in Gujarat itself and 5 in Rajasthan. He has seen a good growth of SMERA in this tenure and it is going upward as well.

Mr.Nilesh Kuvadia

Director, ITCG Solutions Pvt.Ltd.

He is an Engineering Graduate in Electronics Engg and has 20 years of Experience in the field of Information Technology.Presently he is a Chartered Member of ISODA (Infotech Software Dealers Association)Hon. Secretory of GESIA (Vadodara Chapter),Life Member of Computer Society of India and Member of Baroda IT Association.His domain Expertise is into Information Technology Infrastructure Management Solutions as well as Security Solutions. He runs a company Named "ITCG Solutions Private Limited" head quartered out of Baroda and having their presence at AhmedabadSurat & Pune.He has won many awards such as NComputing Award of Excellence (2012)'ITPV Partner Leadership Award (2012)-Best Partner in Vadodara, ISODA-M.P. Kini National Gold Medal for Business Excellence (2013) and CRN Excellence Award 2013-Best Enterprise VAR.

Mr.Krishnan Gopala krishnan

Chartered and Cost Accountant?Reliance Commercial Finance

He is a Chartered and Cost Accountant with over 20 years experience in BFSI and manufacturing sector across functions like AccountsFinanceOperations and Risk underwriting. In the past he has been associated with ICICI BankSHV EnergyAir Liquide and Anagram Finance. In Reliance Capitalhe is heading the Credit Risk Function for products like Mortgages and Construction fundingSME lendingVehicle Finance.

Mr.Anirban Choudhury

Area Development Manager - SMERA Ratings Ltd

He has 8 years of diverse experience in the various facets financial sector like Credit RatingMSME businessBankingCorporate/Group Insurance and Equities. He is currently heading the Karnataka regionfor SMERA Ratings Ltd. SMERA is a leading full service credit rating agency promoted by SIDBID&B and leading PSU and Private banks.Commerce field. In Reliance Capitalhe is heading the Credit Risk Function for products like Mortgages and Construction fundingSME lendingVehicle Finance.

Mr.Zubeen Mehrotra

National Sales Manager,Reliance Capital

He is an MBA from Cardiff Business School with over 14 yrs of experience in BFSI Industry. Prior to joining Reliance Capitalhe was instrumental in setting up the medical equipment loans division at both ICICI Bank & HDFC Bank. He also has experience running his family business which manufactured & sold polycarbonate feeding bottles under the brand "Mothers Touch".

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