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	Whizible User & Partner Summit 2007 >> Guest Speakers >> Profile
	Achyut Godbole Industry Veteran , thinker and writer	Mr. Achyut Godbole, has 30+ years of software development experience in India, USA and UK in companies like IBM, Hindustan Lever, Systime (UK), Syntel, L&T Infotech, Apar Technologies and Disha Technologies etc. He has been awarded 3 times by IBM World Trade Corporation for performance excellence. He was instrumental in designing an ERP package in the UK and implementing it in many companies in Holland, UK and Germany. He was awarded "Udyogratna" by Indian Economic Council for his contribution to Information Technology Industry and twice by the prime minister for excellent performance of his company in Software Exports. Apart from Information Technology,he has keen interest in Music, Economics and Literature.He has been awarded " Kumar Gandharva Award" by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi for his contribution to music & computers. He has authored 3 books in Marathi. His "Sanganakyug"(on computers), "Boardroom" (on Management) and "Nadvedh" (on Music) have been immensely popular. Currently, he is the Managing Director of "Softexcel Consultancy Services" advising global companies about strategies of growth and setting up of delivery organizations and processes for offshore centers for excellent performance.
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	Anand Karwa CFO, Opus Software Solutions	Currently the Chief Financial Officer of Opus Software Solutions, Mr. Anand Karwa is responsible for all of Opus' financial matters including funding and financial planning. Additionally he heads the Commercial, Facilities and Administration functions at Opus. Anand Karwa brings aa varied experience of about 14 years in the Finance field. He has had the opportunity of working with some of the best names such as Infosys as Manager - Accounts and Administration for the Pune Delivery Centre and the Tata's (Tata AutoComp Systems – Interior Plastics Division) as Dy. Manager Finance and Information Systems. Functionally, costing and cost management are his forte and he has carried out a number of varied assignments. He was a certified TBEM (MBNQA Model) External assessor in the Tata Group. And certified auditor for quality standards like ISO 9001, QS 9000, TS 16949. Anand Karwa has a strong academic background with merit awards in the State Boards Exams and national merit rank in the ICWAI exam. He is a Commerce graduate and a Cost Accountant and is actively involved in SEAP activities. Passionate fan of Cricket, he enjoys socializing, trekking and sports.

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	Baskaran Krishnamoorthy Regional Vice President of ACS Systech Integrators Pvt. Ltd.	Mr. Baskaran Krishnamoorthy is the Regional Vice President of ACS Systech Integrators Pvt. Ltd., India. ACS Systech is a Premier Partner of SAP America and the Mid Market Leader for SAP Solutions in the U.S.. Baskaran is responsible for the overall Delivery and Operations of ACS Systech in India. He focuses on Business Strategy, Strategic Alliances, Quality, Brand Building, and Infrastructure Management; apart from ensuring successful delivery to global customers. Baskaran is a Certified Accountant with certifications on varied ERP Systems. He has over 25 years of experience in the Financial and Software Services industries having worked with IT majors like Keane, TCS, Satyam etc., and enjoys rich experience of having implemented ERP solutions across the globe.
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	Cornelius Kluthe	Mr. Cornelius Kluthe, Head of IDN QBS (International Delivery Network Quality Business Services), is now working for more than ten years for T-Systems ES GmbH. After completion of his degree as information scientist he worked for various IT companies. Currently within the international Systems Integration departement he is responsible for process & quality management. He is in charge of the global process rollout as well as for the project- and risk management for business critical projects and services.
	Head of IDN QBS, T-Systems ES GmbH
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	Deepak Ghaisas Vice-Chairman, i-flex solutions	Mr. Deepak Ghaisas is Vice-Chairman, i-flex solutions, and a part of the leadership team of Oracle's newly formed Financial Services Global Business Unit (FSGBU). In his new role, he will provide the unit with his in-depth knowledge, commitment, and experience. Deepak's expertise spans areas such as business management and management accounting; techno-legal-commercial areas of information technology, risk management, corporate governance, legal affairs, and contract negotiations. Deepak's ability, which transformed and shaped i-flex's successful financial performance, will now guide the FSGBU to a high level of growth and recognition. As Chief Executive Officer (India operations) and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to April, 2007, Deepak was credited for playing a large role in creating, selling, and driving the organization's strategy. As a spokesperson for the organization in its early years, Deepak demonstrated a deep confidence in i-flex's potential for the global market, and provided the organization with a focus and clarity of direction that it needed. Recently, Deepak was elected for the third time to the executive council of NASSCOM. He is also the chairman of the IT committee of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); and, a member of the committee of the Indian Institute of Bankers - constituted for the purpose of drafting the curriculum for Information System Audit course for bankers. Another measure of his visionary strategy and evangelistic style is showcased in his role as Vice-President of the Maharashtra Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), a governing body which actively participates in the decision-making process for the economic development of Maharashtra, India. He is also a member of the Internet Banking Committee of the Reserve Bank of India - the body that formulated guidelines on Internet banking and security in India.

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	Deepak Shikarpur	Mr. Deepak Shikarpur, CEO & Director, Autoline Dimensions Software Pvt. Ltd. has over 21 years of rich experience in diverse industries, mainly Manufacturing, Engineering & Retail IT Consulting. He has worked with several Global Corporate clients in the area of eBusiness, Business Process, Re-Engineering, ERP, SCM, Customer Relationship Management and Knowledge Management. His 21 years of experience has taken him across several industries in scope of direct employment, training as well as consulting. He spent over 16 years in the IT department of Telco, now Tata Motors. His professional experience includes various assignments and responsibilities undertaken from 1985 to 2004 for Tata Motors, Tata Technologies, Zensar, Persistent Systems Pvt Ltd, Satyam Computer Services and Computer Society of India.
	CEO and Director, Autoline Dimensions Software Pvt. Ltd.
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	Dilip Bhonde Dilip Bhonde, Senior Director, Symantec Corporation, India	Out of 27 years of experience, Mr. Dilip Bhonde has worked around twenty-four years in Information technology Industry. Currently he's working as Senior Director at Symantec Corp, managing IT operations. His current focus is on delivery excellence though knowledge management, metrics culture, effective software engineering practices, and use of technology for productivity. Earlier he was working as Assistant Vice President at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. At present he is the delivery head for the business unit responsible for setting Travel, Transport and Logistics vertical in Satyam. As delivery head Dilip is engaged in activities such as vision definition, competence building, business development, developing alliances, etc. As a location in charge he is responsible for managing local departments such as corporate services, finance, HR, networks and quality. At middle management level his main activities are Business Development, Budgeting, Quality Management Reviews and Implementation, Program Management, Product Conceptualization, and developing solution architectures. He is involved in various technical initiatives such as Requirement Management, Component Based Development, Intelligent applications using Business Rule approach. Handling multiple projects, such as TUXEDO based distributed computing environment system for credit card processing, Intranet work flow automation for quality management system, and Time & Metrics analyzer tool development, EAI Projects for US and Canada banks, Insurance System for Japanese client, reverse engineering for credit rating company, development of Utility billing engines. Before that for one & half year in TISL, he worked as a project manager handling marketing support, new center setup. Therehe along with his team, developed Super-Poseidon a software product for IBM Japan using SEMATECH framework. This was a distributed object oriented project using CORBA technology. Three years in senior position, developing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package. While heading design team, developed techniques for Business Objects using OO based case tool, requirement & design review. Development and implementation of ISO 9000 quality system.. Beta site management, regional customization & product support centers development and marketing support in critical areas. Also involved in HR activities such as selection, appraisal, counseling, etc. Five years in turnkey project development, marketing support, customization, implementation, of finance, material requirement planning, plant operations management & reporting, inventory, etc. systems. Package demos, user seminars & training. Involved in product maintenance, customer change request tracking, analyzing, release management. He has over four years in Banking Software design & development on Mini & Mainframe machines for a data processing center. Three years as Electrical Maintenance Engineer in a Cable Industry.

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	Kiran Karnik President, NASSCOM	As President, NASSCOM - the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce for the IT software and services industry in India- Mr. Karnik works closely with the industry, members and the Indian Central & State governments to formulate policies and strategies for the advancement of this sector locally as well as internationally. His key function is to build global brand equity for the Indian software and service industry. Mr. Karnik has been the guiding force for the Indian IT industry during the outsourcing backlash. By providing perspective and background information, Mr. Karnik has been instrumental in promoting India's technology strength to the world. To fuel growth in the domestic market, Mr. Karnik has lobbied with the government to announce tariff cuts on computer hardware. BusinessWeek recently named Mr. Karnik as one of the 'Stars of Asia.' He was also selected as Forbes magazine's 'Face of the Year 2003,' for being a driving force behind India's offshoring wave.

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	Mani Bhardwaj Director, Deloitte	Mr. Mani Bhardwaj has over 30 years of experience in the field of Technology & consulting. During this period, Mani has also worked with institutions like Citibank, ASEA Limited, ICICI Limited and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). His areas of specialization include developing IT strategy for companies based on their business strategy, conducting information effectiveness studies to leverage the investments in Technology, advising companies on their IT investment plans, overseeing ERP & niche software implementation projects, facilitating change management for leveraging the value from Technology, helping companies adapt to the best practices embedded in the ERP or from industry best practices and such other endeavors.
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	Maria Cristina (Beng) Coronel	Ms. Maria Cristina (Beng) Coronel is the President and CEO of Pointwest Technologies Corporation. She has over 25 years of solid experience in software service engagement management, account development and project delivery prior to co-founding Pointwest Technologies Corporation. Beng was part of the team that pioneered IT outsourcing in the Philippines and developed global delivery models for offshore services. She has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (with honors) from the University of Santo Tomas. She is a licensed Chemical Engineer. Beng is a member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Software Industry Association, chairperson in charge of the Committee for HR/Manpower Development. She has actively rallied for the cooperation between government, academe and industry in developing the Philippine software industry for academic curriculum improvements through linkage programs and IT skills upgrade programs. Pointwest Technologies Corporation is the largest 100%-Filipino-owned IT services company with a delivery center in the Philippines and clients in the US, New Zealand and UK. It provides application development, conversion, maintenance and production support, application testing and Software Quality assurance services using processes and methodologies that have been appraised at Maturity Level 3 (Defined) of CMMI-SW, V1.1. It is a Microsoft Certified Partner, an IBM Business Partner, an active member of PSIA, member of COMQUAL consortium and nominated as the Best Mid-sized BPO company in the recent ICT Awards.
	President and CEO of Pointwest Technologies Corporation
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	Moorthi Chokkanathan Head of India Delivery and Operations, Hexaware Technologies Ltd.	Mr. Moorthi Chokkanathan is the Head of India Delivery and Operations for Hexaware Technologies. He has been with Hexaware since 1998 and he along with the Management team has been instrumental in steering the growth of the company. He is responsible for projects’ delivery out of regional centers to global customers of Hexaware. Moorthi is also a member of Hexaware’s Management Council. Moorthi has a brilliant academic record with a B. Tech from IIT, Chennai and MBA from University of Madras. He has over 24 years of experience in the software services and consulting area. He is a techno-commercial manager with experience in global firms including Decision Technologies in US, GTE in Australia in senior management positions. He was instrumental in building the Enterprise Solutions and HR-IT practices at Hexaware. He conceptualized and incubated HexaLab, the Innovation center of Hexaware.
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	Dr. Narendra Jadhav Vice Chancellor, University of Pune	Dr. Narendra Jadhav is a well-known economist, public speaker and a social worker. He joined the Reserve Bank of India in 1977, served in various capacities and is presently Head of its Department of Economic Analysis & Policy. He served as Advisor to the Executive Director at the IMF during 1998-2002 and also completed an assignment for the Independent Evaluation Office at the IMF. Dr. Jadhav has in past served as Advisor to the Governor of National Bank of Ethopia and has visited several countries as part of various missions. He has been associated with a large number of committees. He was the Member Secretary of the Committee to Review the Working of the IGIDR (Chairman: Dr. I.G. Patel) Dr. Jadhav has several scholastic honours and professional distinctions to his credit. He holds a doctorate degree in Economics from Indiana University, USA, for which he won the Best International Student Award and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Economic Theory from the Indiana University, USA. His major research interests include monetary economics, public finance, international economics and econometrics. He was awarded the Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad Award for his book ‘Dr. Ambedkar: Economic Thoughts & Philosophy’. His recent novel ‘Outcast – Life and Triumphs of Untouchable Family In India’ has been published in French and is being published in English. Dr. Jadhav’s Marathi novel ‘Amcha Baap Aan Amhi’ was nominated for Sahitya Academy Award and a 52-part Hindi TV serial is currently underway on the same. His books on ‘Monetary Economics for India’, Macmillan, 1994 and his edited book ‘Challenge to Indian Banking: Competition, Globalization and Financial Markets’, Macmillan, 1996 have been popular readings on the subject.
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	Natarajan Ranganathan CFO - Investment Advisor, Helion Ventures	Natarajan (Nats) has over 18 years experience and serves on the Boards of Hurix Systems and Cambridge Technology Enterprises. Before joining Helion, Nats was Global CFO and Head of Support Services at Tavant Technologies. During his stint in Tavant he led key initiatives of strengthening and implementing several internal processes related to Finance, HR and IS; and championing organizational improvement programs. He helped Tavant grow to $60M in revenue. Prior to Tavant, Natarajan was Chief Finance Officer and Chief Information Officer at Wipro ePeripherals. He worked for about 10 years in the Wipro group of Companies, in the areas of strategic business planning, financial services accounting, marketing, HR, Information services, finance and resources management, treasury and taxation. Nats contributed significantly to the profitability through treasury management, controllership and compliances. WeP was awarded the Best IT Usage Award by NASSCOM in the ICT Category in September 2003, an initiative led by Nats as the CIO. He started his career in 1989 with SRF Limited, a manufacturing company based in Delhi. He is also on the advisory board of SCIT, (part of Symbiosis International University). He holds an accounting degree from ICWAI and ICSI and is a certified black belt in Six Sigma.

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	Neelam Dhawan MD, Microsoft India	Mrs. Neelam Dhawan is the Managing Director of Microsoft India with the responsibility for leading Microsoft's Sales & Marketing operations in the country. In her role, Neelam is responsible for growing Microsoft's products and services businesses, and also drives the company's partnerships and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mrs. Dhawan was Vice President, Customer Solutions Group, Hewlett Packard India (HP) with a focus on enterprise, public sector and SMB sectors for all computing products and services. She was also responsible for strategic alliances and partner relationships. Neelam has over 22 years of IT industry experience having worked for HCL and IBM before joining HP in Dec 1999.
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	Prasad Sant	Mr. Prasad Sant is Vice President & SBU Head with EcoAxis Systems Pvt. Ltd. which focuses on creating products & solutions around Machine to Machine (M2M) Communications for Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics of capital equipment & plants. Prior to this, Prasad was Vice President & Delivery Head for the Medical Electronics Vertical in the Product Engineering Services SBU of Patni Computer Systems. Prior to this, Prasad had a long stint of 17 years with Honeywell Automation India Ltd (formerly Tata Honeywell). Prasad is a Instrumentation Engineer from L D College of Engineering, Gujarat University Ahmadabad and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Management from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
	Vice President - M2M Solutions Eco-Innovation
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	Raj Swaminathan COO & Director, R Systems International Ltd.	Mr.Raj Swaminathan is the COO and Director of R Systems International Limited. Raj Swaminathan has an MBA from Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), India. Prior to joining Indus Software, Raj was Vice President, Technology at GE-Capital and Chief Information Officer at GE-Countrywide. Raj has also headed the IT function at Standard Chartered Bank for consumer, corporate banking and treasury businesses.
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	Samir Dadia General Manager - India Operations, Saama Technologies, Inc.	Mr. Samir Dadia has over 18 years of management experience. His experience spans from handling exports for a multi-national organization to managing software start-up firms in India. He has worked for short time in U.S. and Japan to get work experience and better understand the processes worldwide. Samir was director and Chief Operating Officer at a software services start-up -Fundamental Info Tech. Samir is in-charge of Indian operations at Saama Technologies handling all different aspects of the business, with focus on program management processes. With his extensive knowledge of processes, Samir has been key in defining the processes for Saama's ISO and CMM certification. He has contributed to the development of Saama's KnowledgeTrak™ methodology and has been instrumental in it's adoption within Saama-India team.
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	Shekhar Ganapathy Managing Director - S1 Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.,	Mr.Shekhar Ganapathy, Managing Director - S1 Services (India) Pvt. Ltd., heads the dedicated delivery center of S1 Corporation, a $ 200 Million Products company in the financial services industry. The India center team of 600 represents 30% of the global S1 team and currently drives the Engineering, Professional services and Support for the company’s flagship products. Prior to joining S1, Shekhar was the co-founder & Director of Infrasoft Technologies where he spent 10 years. Infrasoft is a company focused on building products for the banking industry and also runs software services business and has current revenues of ~20 Million. He played an active role in conceptualizing and Infrasoft’s products in trade finance, Asset Liability Management, Anti money laundering etc… and also set up the services business in the US. Shekhar is also a mentor to Herald Logic, a company which is an IIT start-up in the space of Business Activity Monitoring using patent pending alert based Rules based Engines. Shekhar is a Management Graduate from IIM Calcutta and has completed his Electronics Engineering from REC Tirchy.

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	Sudipto Marjit Practice Head & Principal Consultant – FSt E (from strategy to execution)	Mr. Sudipto Marjit has more than 12 years of implementation experience in the arena of Strategy Development and Strategy Execution. His specific areas of specialization includes Balanced Scorecard, Blue Ocean Strategy, Strategy Waves. Sudipto has consulted multiple organizations in the IT Consulting, Systems Engineering, Automotive Design Houses for formulation and execution of their Strategy for setting up India based ODC for managing global customers. He also has hands on working experience in the areas of Strategy Execution and Process Management ( Six Sigma, CMMI, PCMM) for Large IT organizations in India, USA, Canada, Singapore, China, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
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	Surya Kumar AVP - Quality and IS, Sierra Atlantic Software Services Limited	Mr. Surya Kumar has over 19 years of experience in sales and delivery of cutting edge IT solutions and services, spanning US, Europe and India geographies. Over the years, he has acquired a keen understanding of CAD/CAM/CAE, Real-time Simulation and Enterprise IT application areas. This is Surya's fifth year in his second stint at Sierra Atlantic and early this year, he has transitioned from delivery to take charge of the Quality and IS functions. He is currently leading an organization-wide change initiative for upgrading Sierra Atlantic’s delivery practices from CMM Level 5 to the latest CMMI version. He is also actively involved in the planning and execution of the IS infrastructure for Sierra Atlantic’s upcoming campus at Hyderabad. His twin passions are teaching and training. When on a holiday, situation permitting, he likes to relax by swimming, snorkeling and para-sailing.

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