Speakers | IIMnetWORK Conferences & Seminars

G R K Reddy, Chairman MARG

MR.GRK.Reddy established MARG in 1994 and headquartered in Chennai. The company’s business roadmap encompasses development and construction of Ports, Logistics Parks, SEZs, Townships, Apartments, Malls,

Nithyananda

Nithyananda K V is an Assistant Professor in the area of Legal Systems and Finance. He completed his doctoral research in the area of Strategic Intellectual Property Management from National Law School of India University, Bangalore in the year 2011

Srinivas Krishnaswamy

Mr. Srinivas KrishnaSwamy Co-Founder & CEO, Krya Consumer Products IIT-M & IIM B (Alumnus)

Govind Dhananjayan

G. Dhananjayan also known as GD or DJ, is a South Indian film producer, columnist and writer. He was instrumental in producing a number of films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi languages.

PadmiShri Arunachalam Muruganantham

He is also known as Social Entrepreneur, Menstrual Man & Inventor. In 2014, TIME Magazine featured him in the list of 100 most influential people in World

Lakshmy Ramakrishnan

Film Maker, Actor & Fashion Designer Lakshmy Ramakrishnan is an Indian actress and director. She made her debut in the Malayalam film

Ramasubramaniam Srinivasan

Ramasubramaniam has over 12 years of experience in consulting predominantly in Education, Financial services, and Process Improvement.

Narasimham Jammi

Dr. Narasimham Jammi, Director, has a Ph.D in Biological Chemistry from University of Utah and Post Doctoral training in Molecular Pharmacology from Stanford University.

Gobinath Pathmanathan

Mr. Gobinath Pathmanathan is a Senior Vice President with Citibank and drives the bank’s SME banking program for the southern region.

Rachit Gupta

Digital India IPL was formed with a vision of “Filling The Gaps” in untapped/ underdeveloped segments keeping in mind three great vision of our Hon`ble PM : Digital India, Make In India and Skill India.

Balaji Muralidharan

Balaji is currently driving IBMs marketing outreach to the larger technology ecosystem of Start-ups, Developers, ISVs and partners . As part of this role he is responsible for market segment management

Sumit Jain

CEO, Commonfloor.com | Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007.

Dr. Vikram Venkateswaran

Dr Vikram Venkateswaran is a marketing leader with focus on brand building, demand generation, digital transformation and communication. He has previously led marketing

Mr. Ganesh V

‘Head-Marketing Communication, Janaagraha and author of the book ‘The Underage CEOs’.’ A specialist in Marketing Communications, with fourteen years of work experience. Have done a lot of strategic, brand-related work. A keen knowledge of different industries and consumers sets. Strong leadership, analytical and communication skills.

Mr. S R Patil

Shivanagowda Rudragowda Patil (born 31 August 1948 in Badagondi, Bilgi, Bagalkot) is the minister for Infrastructure, information technology, biotechnology, science and technology, planning and statistics in the Government of Karnataka.

Koushalendra Kumar

Kaushalendra Kumar, an IIM-A alumnus is currently doing some pioneering work in the field of vegetable retail. He is an alumnus and topper from IIM- Ahmedabad.

Srijan Pal Singh

Indian author, Former Advisor to Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam & a Gold Medalist from IIMA. He is also a public speaker and social entrepreneur. He was born and raised in Lucknow,

Nithin Gadkari

Nitin Jayram Gadkari is an Indian politician and the current Transport minister under the BJP central cabinet in the 16th Loksabha. Mr Gadkari was appointed to head BJP in December 2009 after the party suffered a defeat in the general elections earlier that year.

Sameer Wadhwa

Sameer Wadhwa is Head of Digital Consulting at Brillio. He is taking forward Brillio Imagine initiative – a new breed of consulting leveraging Social, Mobility and Cloud platforms where in the output of engagement is a live working app

Sudhakar Nukala

Mr. Sudhakar Nukala is a Management grad. from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1984 Batch) and has over 30 years of Leadership experience spread across Industry Verticals of Telecom, Healthcare & Consumer Durables

Praveen Gupta

Praveen leads Koolkutir and provides strategic direction to the company while also managing sales and customer support operations in India. Before starting off on his entrepreneurial journey with Koolkutir

Mohan Gandhi

Mohan Gandhi, Founder and CEO at entersoft.co.in, oversees Product Management, Sales activities at an award winning offensive security company, Entersoft. Entersoft has secured over 180 clients across the globe

Gopal Shrikanth

Gopal “GD” Shrikanth is a Founder at www.GD360.Net, which has a Global Network of 1000+ Experts in 50+ Countries. He served as a Board-Advisor for Wharton Fellows, Member of AESC, AMA, CB, GLG, IMC, RI, SIL and FT Non Executive Directors Club(UK).

Rajendran Dandapani

After (un)graduating out of IIT-Madras as an Engineer in Electronics and Electrical Communication, Rajendran dove headlong into the World Wide Web, and has, happily, never come up for air since then.

Pratap Premnath

Pratap Premnath is a Mechanical Engineer from CEG, Anna University and an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad by education. After working in the procurement consulting industry for 4 years

Rajesh Kumar

Founder, Focus Academy

Rajesh Kumar is an IIM-K graduate and he co-founded FACE – Focus Academy for Career Enhancement (India’s largest higher education focused skill development enterprise)

Iqbal Singh

Managing Director, IFM

An entrepreneur with rich experience of 13 years with leading Private & Foreign Banks, Mr.Iqbal Singh started the venture in 2004. He is one of the founding member of HDFC Private Banking Group. In his last assignment with CITIBANK N.A ,

Meenakshi Aggarwal Gupta

Faculty, IIM Indore

Meenakshi is a Fellow (PhD) of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an MBA (Personnel Management) from Institute of Management Studies, Devi Ahilya

Rajiv Maheshwari

CEO, Anand and Anand

Rajiv has around 20 years of experience across several knowledge industries including Management Consulting, Intellectual Property Rights and Legal Services, Information Technology, Finance and Accounting and Outsourcing.

Rahul Dash

Co-founder, Purplle.com

Rahul co-founded Purplle.com in 2012 to built an online discovery destination for beauty and grooming. In a span of 3 years Purplle has established leadership in beauty and grown to 200 people in 15 cities across India.

Hitesh Gossain

Senior Partner, Onspon

Hitesh is a graduate from Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad. He has lived and worked across Middle East, SE Asia, Europe and India – and is currently based in Mumbai, India.

Puja Mathur

Director, Oracle India Pvt Ltd.

Puja has over 16 years of Enterprise Software sales experience –both domestic and international markets. She was with Salesforce, where she was Director, Enterprise Sales.

Gaurav Rakshit

CEO, Shaadi (dot) com

Gourav has spent over 15 years developing strategy and leading operations for consumer businesses around the world. He is currently CEO of shaadi.com, the world’s most successful matchmaking service with

Dinesh Koka

Co-founder & COO, eKincare

Dinesh is co-founder and COO of eKincare. eKincare is a Hyderabad-based, VC-funded startup helping people manage their Health records and their wellness on the eKincare online Health records platform.

Sanjay Nagi

CEO, Market Insight Consultants

Sanjay Nagi started a consulting company – GN CONSULTING in 1993 which he subsequently sold off in 2002 immediately after which he started Market Insight Consultants, a niche consulting firm that is positioned as a Decision

Pankaj Kumar

Exe-Director, Boudh Distillery

Pankaj Kumar is the Executive Director of Boudh Distillery Ltd. He has an impressive 30+ year professional background marked by notable achievements as the Group Managing Director, Managing director

Ashok Lalla

Digital & Marketing Advisor

Ashok is an award-winning global and regional Digital, Brand and Social Media Marketing leader with 22 years of client and agency-side business experience across brands and industries.

Mukund B S

Founder Director, Renew IT

Mukund co-founded ReNew IT in 2009 with a “Mission to Make computers Affordable to everyone”. ReNew IT has so far sold over 10,000 computers and has won the “FKCCI Innovation Excellence Award”

Shipra Sharma

Co-founder and Director, Tattva Spa

Shipra Sharma is the Co-founder of Tattva Spa, a leading chain of 30 spas spread across 19 cities in India. Tattva offers superior quality wellness services which are a rich holistic fusion of the ancient wisdom of wellness and contemporary

Tanuj Mendiratta

Founder-CEO, Appiterate

Tanuj Mendiratta was the Founder and CEO of Appiterate, a mobile marketing automation platform, that raised venture financing in 2013 and was acquired by Flipkart in 2015. He is graduate of 2011 batch

Saif Ullah Khan

Chief Facilitator, Level4 Training

Saif is founder and chief facilitator of Level4 Training, and an alumnus of Ernst & Young, and He has an IIM MBA, and BE, and 12 international certifications, with global training experience of 19 years in India and Europe. He has been

Kamal Das

VP, Jigsaw Academy

Kamal is heading institutional liaisons at Jigsaw Academy, the top ranked online analytics training institute in India. At Jigsaw, he manages relationships with educational partners including the Indian Institute of Management

Vishal Dutta

Founder, DrumUp & Co-founder, Godotmedia

Vishal is the founder of DrumUp, a content discovery and sharing platform. He also co-founded Godot Media, a content marketing company based out of Bangalore.

Srikanth V

CEO, Fractal Analytics

Srikanth Velamakanni, is the Co-founder and CEO of Fractal Analytics, one of the world’s most respected pure play Analytics companies. Srikanth’s passion for analytics makes him a thought leader in the space

Tanuj Shori

Founder & CEO, SquareYards

TanujShori, founded and manages Square Global comprising of entities under 2 brand names – Square Yards and Square Capital. Prior to this, Tanuj has had more than 8 years of experience in Capital Markets (Equities). During his tenure

Biswaroop Padhi

Co-Founder, Square Global

BiswaroopPadhi is the Co-founder and Principal Partner of Square Global and responsible for the overall vision, strategy and execution of Marketing, Product & Research divisions of the organization.

Vivek Agarwal

Co-Founder, Square Global

Vivek is a co-founder and principal partner at Square Global. He was the founder & CEO of Realizing.in, an online search and discovery platform that merged with Square Yards in June 2015. Vivek heads the product team at Square Yards and

Joyjyoti Misra

Partner, Khaitan and Co

Joyjyoti is a partner in the corporate team and specializes in private equity, venture capital, funds (both onshore as well as offshore) and M&A. He has been acting for several Indian and international clients

Aakash Choubey

Partner, Khaitan Co

Aakash is a Partner in the M&A and Private Equity Practice Group in the Mumbai office. Aakash has advised several clients on corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, private equity investments

Devaki Sahasrabudhe

Vice President, GREX

Devaki is Vice President – Market Engagement and also Heads the Product Distribution piece at GREX. Devaki’s journey started with Tata Consultancy Services

Pranay Gupta

Partner, 91Springboard

Pranay Gupta has had an opportunity to understand the Incubator Ecosystem of India deeply. He joined Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad in its early days as its Joint CEO

Ashish Chauhan

CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange

Ashish currently works as the MD and CEO of BSE, the first stock exchange of India. BSE is ranked as the largest exchange in the world in terms of number of stocks listed. Ashish has been given the Distinguished Alumnus Award for the year 2014

Nitin Seth

Chairperson, NASSCOM & MD, Fidelity

Mr. Nitin Seth is the Managing Director and Country Head for Fidelity Worldwide Investment in India. He is responsible for Fidelity’s offshore operations across India and Tunisia. In addition, he is responsible

Dr.P Agnihotri

Director, IIM Trichy

Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri holds a Master’s Degree in Management Studies (M.M.S.) and Ph.D. in International Marketing Strategy area from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He has about ten years’ experience

Chandradeep (CD) Mitra

CEO, PipalMajik & Anvetion Consulting

Chandradeep (CD) Mitra is a Strategy Coach & Mentor for Entrepreneurs, Professor of Marketing, Corporate Master Trainer, Branding &

Ajay Row

Co-Founder & CEO, Litmus

G Ajay Row is an entrepreneurial business leader with 30 years of experience in data-driven marketing, loyalty, analytics and CRM across a variety of industries and a number of countries. He is currently the CEO of Litmus,

Kunal Bajaj

CEO, Bombay Gas Telecom

Kunal Bajaj has been in the Indian Telecom, Internet & Technology space for the past 11+ years. Most recently Kunal was leading the mobile products team at Reliance Jio to define the services and feature set for launch.

Durga Prasad

Consultant, World Bank & Governing Council Member, GREX

Durga Prasad has been responsible for consulting on organisational assessment, formulation of policy initiatives and institutional changes for private and public sector corporations, government at state and national levels. He has been a consultant to the World Bank

Sachin Bansal

Co-founder, QuantamGraph

Sachin is a Co-founder of QuantumGraph, a marketing technology startup. QuantumGraph enables companies to reach users on social and mobile platforms in the most efficient and personal ways.

Chirag Mehta

Director, Clip Financial

Chirag Mehta is a Director at Clip Financial. Clip Financial is a Boutique investment bank specializing in fund raising, both debt and equity.

Manoj Agarwal

Co-Founder, Giftxoxo.com

He has worked in senior leadership positions in diverse fields like Education, IT and e-Commerce with companies like Yahoo, Manipal Education and Flipkart.

Arks Srinivas

CEO, Vistamind

Arks Srinivas is a passionate teacher. He started his career teaching as a part time faculty for MBA entrances much before he actually did his MBA from IIM Calcutta. What started off as a Pocket-money making job turned quickly into a profession post

Aditya B

CEO, eMart Solutions

Aditya co-founded eMart Solutions in 2009 with a vision to revolutionize the domain of loyalty marketing and consumer engagement. Under his leadership, eMart Solutions has

Ganesh Prasad

Partner at Khaitan & Co.

Ganesh Prasad is aPartner in the Corporate and Commercial practice group in the Bangalore office. Ganesh joined the Firm from Amarchand&Mangaldas& Suresh A. Shroff & Co, Mumbai where he was a partner

Sanjay Nishank

Co-Founder, GREX

Sanjay is one of the cofounders of GREX and is responsible for the process and IT development functions at GREX. He brings together more than 13 years of cross cultural experience in Business Consulting

Salil Agrawal

CEO, Suvitama

Salil has over 31 years of diverse experience spanning both industry and consulting in leadership roles with P&L responsibility. He brings with him an effective blend of technical and management knowledge acquired during his career

Madhurima

Director, CommonFloor.com

Madhurima is a business leader with demonstrated ability to tackle tough business and management challenges. She brings a mix of entrepreneurial, corporate, educational and consulting experience to the start-up space.

Ajay Ohri

Founder, Decision Stats

Ajay Ohri is the founder of analytics firm DecisionStats. He is the author of R for Business Analytics and R for Cloud Computing: An Approach for Data Scientists He studied at IIM Lucknow and Delhi College of Engineering.

Abhijeet Bhandari

Co-Founder & Director, GREX

Abhijeet heads Market Development at GREX. He has worked in both start-ups and large organizations. He is an active member of various start-up forums and is a guest speaker on various aspects of growing companies. He has varied experience in sales, operations and