2015 SVBA PANELISTS
Our goal is to help developers, publishers, and organizations develop, adopt, and share best practices as they strive to make apps that are better, more productive and more fun for users.
Our goal is to help developers, publishers, and organizations develop, adopt, and share best practices as they strive to make apps that are better, more productive and more fun for users.
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A L Jagannath
Director Marketing at VMware India & SAARC
Jagannath has 20 plus years of well-rounded marketing experience with exposure to a wide range of market categories and customer segments. Jagannath currently leads the Marketing efforts for VMware in India and the SAARC region. He is responsible for all communication and demand generation activities. He focuses on creating mindshare for all VMware technologies and solutions for the Software Defined Enterprise. Before joining VMware, Jagannath was the Director Trade Marketing at LinkedIn India. Prior to that he has held leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, Tech Mahindra and Reliance Infocomm. Jagannath is an alumnus of MIT Sloan School of Management; where he pursued an advanced course in General Management, Leadership, Strategy and Innovation. |
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Arun Gupta
Managing Partner & Director at Ingenium Advisory
Arun is the Managing Partner & Director at Ingenium Advisory. During his 30+ years career he has served as CIO of Cipla Ltd., CTO of Shoppers Stop Ltd., Director-IT at Phillips Electronics India Ltd., Sr. Director-Business Technology in Pfizer Ltd., Vice President-IT at Hughes Telcom and Merrill Lynch.
He has also held a number of industry positions as President-The Datawarehouse Insitute(India), Technology Committee Chairman-Retailer’s Association of India, Customer Advisory Board-SAS Institute and Board of Advisors-CIO Magazine. Arun is an alumnus of the Mumbai University, NCST(Mumbai) and Indian School of Business, Dartmouth College-The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has also been honored with several industry accolades like ‘CIO of the Year 2012’ by CNBC Biztech, NASSCOM CNBC IT User Award in 2010 to name a few. |
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A S Rajgopal
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies
With over 22 years of experience in IT & Telecom industry, AS Rajgopal is currently the CEO and MD of NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies. Prior to joining NxtGen, he was the Chief Executive Officer at Tulip Datacenter, and also worked as the Vice President – Sales at Reliance Communications. He also launched Dell's Server & Storage business in India and served as the Marketing Manager for Windows at Microsoft India. Rajgopal has a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Communication) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Systems Management & Design, and is an Executive Alumni of IIM Bangalore, ISB and Kellogg School of Marketing, Chicago.
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Raghu Kolli
Global Design and Innovation Leader
Raghu Kolli is formerly the Vice President and Head of Livelabs at IMRB International. Previously, he was based in the Netherlands and was the co-founder of Meru research and an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology. He also served as Visiting Professor at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He comes with a proven track record of breakthrough product ideas and proof-of-concept prototypes highly rated by customers for usability, desirability and utility. He has extensive experience in new product development involving customer insights, design research, human-centered design process, innovation strategy, user experience, concept development, cross functional collaboration and executive communication.
He holds a Masters degree in design from IIT Bombay and was trained in management at INSEAD in France. |
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Rahul Koul
Director & Chief Strategist, Zensciences
Rahul Koul has co-founded two companies, namely Zensciences and Elanstreet. Prior to that, he worked with Wipro as Global Head of Analyst Relations and Engagement Marketing. He has also been associated with Esolutions and Power Finance Cooperation Ltd. He has studied finance and management at SCMHRD and Electronics at Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering. |
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Salil Godika
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer and Industry Group Head, Happiest Minds Technologies
Salil has 20 years of experience in the IT industry across global Product and Services companies. He has extensive work experience in new business incubation from identification to operations.
Prior to Happiest Minds, Salil was with MindTree for 4 years as the Chief Strategy Officer. Before MindTree, Salil spent 12 years in the United States working for start-ups and large technology product companies like Dassault Systems, EMC and i2 Technologies. Salil has a Bachelor's degree in Industrial engineering from IIT, Roorkee, and Masters in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University |
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Sunder Madakshira
Head of Marketing, EdgeVerve
Sunder is the Head of Marketing at EdgeVerve. Prior to EdgeVerve he has held the position of CMO at Hexaware Technologies and Vice President of Marketing at SAP. In his career, spanning over 20 years he has been associated with Infosys, Symphony Services, Wipro and Hindustan Lever(Unilever). He is a member of the Marcom Panel of NASSCOM.
He studied Marketing at T A Pai Management Institute and Graduated from the R.V. College of Engineering. |
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Vamsi comes with 15+ years’ experience in core marketing, He specializes in business planning and strategy, rural marketing, advertising, as well as online branding. He has previously worked with Wipro and HCL Technologies. He started his career with Ogilvy & Mather, he has been part of the startup team in CricInfo and managed senior responsibilities in Marketing in Cholamandalam MS General Insurance and Adrenalin eSystems Ltd. He holds a degree in Marketing from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Maharashtra, India.
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Vikram Jain
Associate Director - Flipkart
Vikram has over 10+ years experience in Consumer durables Industry in Offline & Online retail space. He has extensively worked in the Product Marketing, Business Development & Corporate Finance domains.
He currently heads the Consumer electronics business at Flipkart. Prior to Flipkart, he was briefly heading the consumer durables - retail portfolio at Auchan. Prior to Auchan, Vikram worked in Reliance Digital managing their Tablets & Audio Video Business Vikram is an IIM Kozhikode Alumnus and Graduated in Economics from Loyola College, Chennai |
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Vinay Bapna
Co-founder and CEO of Unomer
Vinay Bapna is the Co-founder and CEO of Unomer. Unomer, is a mobile app and platform provider for consumer research.
He was the Vice President of Marketing at MetricStream, a global leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) management software based in California. Vinay led marketing at MetricStream for over 10 years building a global team of 55 members across various marketing functions and disciplines. During this period, the company grew from an early-stage startup to world’s #1 GRC technology company serving over 400 top-tier global corporations. Prior to that, Vinay spent several years in Silicon Valley's hi-tech ecosystem in product strategy and marketing roles before moving to Bangalore. During his 5 years at middleware platform pioneer, Pramati Technologies, he helped the company penetrate the US market by establishing strategic technology licensing partnerships with many companies in California. Vinay also launched Catchflix.com, one of India’s first online DVD rental service in 2006. Vinay completed his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from REC Trichy and MBA from IIFT New Delhi. |
