Speakers

Amit Prasad
Founder, MD & CEO
SatNav Technologies





Amit Prasad, Founder, MD & CEO, the promoter of SatNav Technologies is an entrepreneur, who is a promoter of innovative concepts and has interest in various high growth potential areas like - IT Products, Primary Education and Aviation Maintenance. Amit was earlier the Founder and MD of the GIS venture of a leading IT company. He has played a key role in the company visualizing and pioneering GPS Navigation and Facilities Management related products in India. The company today owns well recognized brands as SatGuide, a-mantra, roadsofindia.com among others.



Anush Gopalan
President & CEO
Hetrogenous Inc.
India





Anush Gopalan has over 20 + years of experience in telecom, M2M, mobile computing and wireless data communication enabling "Application aware networks and Network aware Applications". At Hetrogenous Inc he is the President and CEO where he is accelerating deployments of telematic and telemetry solution, prior to that he was the VP of Business Development of Qualphone which was later acquired by Qualcomm and prior to that was also co-founder of Sonim Technologies. In all the above companies he conceived the product and developed such solutions as Location based Service platform, IMS mobile clients, end to end Push-To-Talk Solution and specifically focused on developing the eco-system for chipset and terminal partnerships interoperating with Infrastructure bundled in a wireless operators network to help enable and rapidly scale such end to end solution in large volumes.

Prior to the startups he held key business and technical management roles at Motorola, 3Com/Commworks, and Zenith Data Systems delivering end to end wireless data strategies, second-generation wireless data gateway products and developing a patent rich thin client mobile tablet using wireless LAN technologies for the enterprise. He has patent in the areas of mobile terminal technology and wireless data communication. He has an MSEE from Utah State University and BSEE from Annamalai University.



Arnout Desmet
Managing Director
South and Southeast Asia
Tele Atlas Asia-Pacific Pvt Ltd




Desmet joined Tele Atlas in 1998 as a project manager for Scandinavia and Australia, responsible for the on-going development of the company’s digital map of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland and for coordinating support for Sensis, Tele Atlas’ map partner in Australia. He was later promoted to business development manager, and managed various new coverage projects in Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong. Desmet became a director of the company in 2002, responsible for business development, operations and sales related to new coverage development in Russia, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia and Malaysia. Before his permanent assignment in Asia, he was the director of AMEA New Markets and initiated digital map coverage of Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Indonesia.

Before joining Tele Atlas, Desmet was a research associate with the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He was also a consultant with the Policy Research Corporation in Belgium and has managed agricultural development projects and programs in Zimbabwe and Uganda. Desmet holds an M.SC. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Leuven in Belgium and a Postgraduate degree in Economics from the University of Grenoble in France.



Arvinth
Managing Director
GeoEdge Technologies Pvt. Ltd
India




Arvinth is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of GeoEdge, the pioneer of Transport Automation Solutions in India and a leading provider of Telematics, Enterprise GIS, and Location Based Services. Arvinth started his career with Pinnacle Software in 1996 and later worked with Bannari Infotech, where he led the development of innovative location technology solutions and served as Vice President of Technology during Bannari's transition to GeoEdge in early 2007. Arvinth holds bachelors in Computer Science and an MBA in Information systems and has over twelve years of Product Engineering and Management Experience including 7+ years in GPS and Location technology consulting. He has designed a path-breaking Routing Algorithm to support 200+ configuration parameters for the people logistics industry which has been well acknowledged by industry experts in the logistics domain.



Ashutosh Pande
Corporate VP & MD
SiRF Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd.





Ashutosh Pande is Managing Director, SiRF India and VP Marketing at SiRF USA. Ashutosh has helped SiRF develop partnerships, product solutions and tools to allow its customers bring Wireless-GPS products to market and further the adoption and acceptance of its patented Multimode GPS solution.

Ashu has over 18 years experience in the wireless communication, data and GPS industry. Prior to joining SiRF, he was founder and CEO of MicroCom Consulting, LLC, providing consulting services in the area of GPS, Cellular Data, Traffic Telematics, E-911 and Location Management. Ashu has also worked for Intel, Japan Radio and NovAtel Communications. Ashu holds seven patents and has over 15 patents pending.



Avinash Agrawal
CEO
RouteGuru





Avinash is the Founding CEO of RouteGuru , an innovative startup that pioneered the concept of "Textual Landmark-based Driving Directions" in India (2007). Before co-founding RouteGuru, he served as Product Manager at an Indian start-up, leading GIS software products positioned in the telecom enterprise market (2002-2006). Prior to that, he held product engineering and consulting roles in renowned software product companies in the USA, Middle East and India (1997-2002). Avinash holds a B.Tech. degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Mumbai (1997).



Bharatendu Parekh
CEO
Romtrack
India




Bhartendu Parekh is CEO of Romtrac India. Mr. Parekh brings more than 20 years of senior global management experience in the technology industry having lived in US, Singapore and India. Prior to Romtrac India, he has been with Microsoft, Intel, Gateway, Fujitsu and Immersion in various sales, marketing and general management role. Parekh also has extensive experience with emerging product categories and markets.



Ben Semmes
Senior Vice President
Global Services
Pitney Bowes Software
USA



Ben Semmes brings twenty years of applied technology and service delivery experience to his role as senior vice president, global services. Semmes has worldwide responsibility for leading predictive analytics and consulting services, education, technical support and online applications. Semmes has established standard business practices and collaboration initiatives across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, organizational efficiency and profitability.

Prior to Pitney Bowes Software, Semmes was a senior director at Oracle for nine years with successes in leading development of new organizations, models and strategies. While living in Bangalore, India, Semmes established Oracle Consulting, North America India Operations, an organization of more than 500 employees providing new capabilities and more competitive price points for blended services to commercial, government and higher education clients in North America, Europe and South Asia. During his tenure with Oracle, Semmes held line management positions leading Enterprise Resource Planning and Technology Consulting Practices as well as staff roles focusing on consulting operations.

Semmes holds a BS in Chemistry from Virginia Military Institute and a MS Management –Information Management- from Steven’s Institute of Technology.



Bhasker Sen
Director
Visesh Infotecnics
India




Bhaskar Sen is an Electronics and Telecommunication engineering graduate with part time post-graduation in management from IIM, Calcutta.

He has long experience in the technical areas of Industrial automation, process control etc. in large International and national companies at middle and senior levels of hierarchy. His international experience and training include working with very large electro-technical companies at their international design head quarters at responsible level. He has extensive exposure in general management areas apart from technical areas and engaged in the emerging technology areas like Mobile Telematics for last several years. He is associated with very advanced telematics application development, system integration and service deliveries and is associated at present, with a number of very reputed Indian companies in front-line technology areas as solution provider and technology consultant.



Darren Fisher
SE Asia Regional Sales Manager
Spirent Communications
UK




Darren Fisher is the SE Asia Regional Sales Manager for Spirent Communications, Positioning Technologies Division. He is a GNSS test specialist and plays a key part within the Spirent Asia Pacific sales team, providing GNSS solutions within key markets throughout Asia.

Before joining Spirent, Darren held technical positions involving simulation solutions for a variety of industries including the Semiconductor industry in the UK, France and the Netherlands.

Darren studied Engineering at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.



Deepak Srinavasan
Chief Executive Officier
Mobiance
India




Deepak Srinivasan brings with him technological experience spanning 20 years in interactive marketing, VOD / broadband, home networking/appliances, and rich media consumer services. He has been involved with Mobiance since 2005 as a mentor, advisor and supporter of the company. His interests lie at the confluence of consumers, devices and interactive media.

Prior to Mobiance, Deepak was Vice President of Product Management at 24/7 Real Media (TFSM) where he was responsible for the coordination of product management, product marketing and product innovation for 24/7 Real Media worldwide. Deepak has also worked with Reliance Infocomm (India), as part of the Reliance Industries group (Fortune Global 500) and was involved in planning and engineering for a multi-million home Video-over-IP rollout.

Deepak was founder and CEO of Enscaler Inc. a leading provider of middleware platforms, applications and services for streaming media. Besides working with Product Management teams in various companies including start-ups he has successfully launched several products into N. American retail, OEM and service provider channels. Earlier in his career Deepak also consulted in software /IT in US, Europe and India .

Mr. Srinivasan has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur and is a passionate military aviation and geopolitics buff. He counts a flight in a vintage Tiger Moth among the happiest moments.



Devashis Banerjee
Sr. Business Intelligence Officer
Micro Technologies (India) Ltd





Dr. Banerjee is working in Micro Technologies (India) Ltd. as a Sr. Business Intelligence Officer in Business Intelligence Group. He looks after the activities pertinent to Intellectual Property Right (IPR) besides, handling the business initiation in India and abroad, taking active part in R&D. Dr. Baneerjee had worked in various scientific organizations for last 15 years. His research interests are fluid dynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, plasma electrodynamics, and gravitational physics.



Kalidindi Govinda Raju
Managing Director
SreeGo Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
India




Govinda Raju pursued a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and a Master of Science degree from The University of Michigan, USA. He has been involved in a number of research activities during his college years. Raju has worked for Bluepalms Technologies, USA and was a consultant for General Motors and Ford Motors for over 4 years.

In October 2003, Raju started an IT Products and Services company by the name SreeGo Solutions Private Limited that helps organizations create dynamic and creative solutions. Now SreeGo successfully employs over 110 employees world wide with operation/support centers in Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Indonesia and US.



Magnus Nilsson
CEO
Wayfinder Systems
Sweden




Mr. Magnus Nilsson has been Chief Executive officer and a member of the Board of Wayfinder Systems AB since April 2002. Over a 15-year period, he held a variety of posts within the multinational EF Education Group, including President of EF Education, USA and President of EF Education, Europe. In 1997, Mr. Nilsson became Partner and Executive Director of the Swedish VC firm, AB Novestra, which was successfully floated on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 2000. Mr. Nilsson is also Executive Director, and one of the founders, of Nordic Wireless AB, a Swedish VC firm founded in 2000, focusing on mobile and wireless technologies.



Manish Choudhary
Managing Director
Pitney Bowes MapInfo India Private Limited
India




As the Managing Director of Pitney Bowes Mapinfo India, Manish Choudhary is responsible for establishing and managing complete range of operations and overseeing the delivery and execution of strategy for PB MapInfo India operations.

Spearheading the India operations he is responsible for setting up the India office from scratch in Noida and building cross-functional teams for engineering, data development, global services and operations to deliver full lifecycle development. After having worked at MapInfo headquarters at Troy, New York for more than eight years in various positions, Manish shifted base to India in 2006 to setup India operations.

Manish has a Masters degree from University of Akron,Ohio and a Bachelors degree in Architecture. He has attended various business management programs in US and has completed executive management program from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore focussed on developments in Asia Pacific region.
Manish is an avid painter of oil on canvas and enjoys still photography.



Manoj Misra
President of Geospatial Solutions
Genesys International





Manoj Misra is President of Geospatial Solutions business at Genesys International. He manages business development, client engagement, and overall operations. Prior to joining Genesys International he has founded a technology start-up "real estate information solutions” company (www.augtics.com). Manoj started his career with RMSI (www.RMSI.com), a Global IT services company where he played several leadership roles and was youngest member of management team and board.

Mr Misra has extensive experience of providing geospatial and IT solutions to diverse verticals like Transportation, Insurance and Real Estate across the globe. Mr Misra has a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee and holds a Masters degree in Water Resources Management from IIT Delhi. He also has undergone executive management trainings from AOTS Japan, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and Pragmatic Marketing USA.



Pramod Jajoo
MD of India Operations and
Vice President of Engineering
Xora




Pramod has more than sixteen years of experience in the software industry. He has held various technical and management positions at companies such as Sun Microsystems and Healtheon/WebMD. He is responsible for all aspects of Engineering and Product Development at Xora.

Prior to joining Xora, Pramod was Director of Engineering at HotDispatch, where he was responsible for delivering a highly scalable internet application geared for the technical expertise marketplace. Pramod was also Director of Engineering at Healtheon/WebMD where he was responsible for engineering at the #1 consumer healthcare portal on the Internet. He also held senior engineering and management positions at Healtheon/WebMD building server side applications using CORBA and Microsoft technologies. In addition, Pramod was a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he spent more than six years developing products such as the Sun Debugger and Java Studio and held engineering positions in Sun's programming languages and tools group.

Pramod has an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and B.S. in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.



Rajan Aiyer
India Country Manager and Director
Road Software India Pvt Ltd
India




Rajan Aiyer has over 18 years proven growth in networking and telecommunications industry. He is currently employed as India Country Manager and Director of At Road Software India Pvt. Ltd. a 100% subsidiary, Trimble Navigation Limited, California, USA.

Rajan successfully founded and managed a telecom start-up (Accordion Networks) and raised over $25M with top-tier VCs including Accel Partners, Crescendo ventures, Intel, and Bell Canada Enterprises. As Founder and VP of Marketing and Customer Services, he was responsible for all aspects of company operations. He developed and executed Accordion’s key marketing strategies, articulated competitive positioning, coordinated high-impact promotional programs and collateral, and launched new products and services that earned Accordion “Hot-Startup 2001” award at SuperComm 2001. Developed channel partnerships and direct sales of over $1M in the telecom “Perfect Storm.” He holds over a dozen patents in networking and telecommunications technologies including IP, SONET, ATM, Wi-Fi, and xDSL.

As founding member of ATM Forum and contributing member of T1S1.5, drove various ATM standards to industry adoption. He has acted as industry consultant to analyst groups such as Cahners-Instat Group, Telechoice. Marketing & Technology Advisor to many start-ups (AdventNet, Ikanos, SOSI, Actelis, SwitchOn, Radisys, Brecis, Sedona).



Rakesh Godhwani
Manager, Mobile Content & Applications
Qualcomm India & SAARC





Dr. Rakesh Godhwani is the manager for mobile content and applications at Qualcomm for India and SAARC. Rakesh works closely with leading wireless application developers across the country to encourage the adoption of BREW, a complete technical and business system for CDMA and WCDMA wireless devices. He is dedicated to the creation of a healthy ecosystem for the developer community, enabling them to be profitable through facilitating collaboration with operators worldwide. The annual BREW Developers Conference – India, driven by Rakesh and his team is an ideal platform for content providers in the country to come together and exchange ideas and showcase their latest applications.

With over ten years of experience in the industry, Rakesh has been responsible for developing technology as well as managing customers and businesses for companies such as Wipro and Intel. Rakesh joined Qualcomm in November 2006, prior to which he worked in the capacity of product marketing manager for emerging markets’ products at Intel. In this role he managed the launch, pricing, positioning and OEM/ODM relationships for Community PC/Rural PC product lines. Rakesh also developed a team of technology marketing engineers, working with Intel’s customers in APAC and Japan. As one of the youngest manager in the leadership team at Intel, Rakesh won several awards and accolades for his work with several customers including Fujitsu and Samsung.

Rakesh is a regular visiting faculty member at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, conducting regular sessions in marketing and business communication. He is also visiting faculty for an executive MBA program at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Rakesh has a degree in engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surathkal. He has a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore..



Rakesh Verma
Managing Director
CE Info Systems (P) Limited
India




Rakesh is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of CE Info Systems. In 1994, Rakesh pioneered the digital maps and GIS (geographic information systems) industry in India. And since 2004, he has revolutionized the consumer navigation market in India by releasing products and services under the brand of MapmyIndia, starting with the internet portal MapmyIndia.com, and most recently launching in-car and mobile phone GPS navigation.

In 1990, Rakesh relinquished a successful 12-year career in the US to come back to India and set up his own shop, Rashmi from scratch. In 1993, Rakesh got a chance to meet a US software company was exposed to the world of GIS and digital maps, at a time when no digital maps were available in India. He envisioned that maps would empower enterprises with improved decision making, saving substantial time and money, and would empower consumers with navigational facilities.

Rakesh obtained a Bachelors of Engineering (Mechanical) from BITS Pilani, India in 1972, and an MBA from Washington State, USA in 1979. He has over 30 years of wide operations and management experience in industry, 12 of which have been spent with leading companies such as General Motors.



Rishi Chadha
CEO and Co-Founder
GOGOindia
India




Rishi is the CEO and Co-Founder of GOGOindia with 10 years of international software consultancy experience, including 8 years experience working as a consultant at Intergraph's European Technology Centre, implementing geospatial projects all over Europe. Intergraph is one of the leading creators of GIS software applications. Rishi has the expertise in executing enterprise wide spatial information management systems in the following industries: government, transportation and utilities & communications. Further, he has in-depth understanding of potential impact of emerging GIS technologies on organizations and individuals.

Rishi obtained his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering degree from Coventry University in the United Kingdom.



Sanjeev Telang
Head - Product Development
TATA AutoComp Telematics





Sanjeev Telang,38 is Head of Product Development with TATA AutoComp Telematics business with more than 8 years of experience in Indian telematics industry. Post his own dotcom venture of transportation/logistics vertical, he migrated to telematics technology field and successfully managed various product development portfolio in the commercial Telematics technology space working with Tata AutoComp Systems (TACO) & Reliance. He has developed various vertical industry specific telematics products and solutions under “trako” brand in India offered by TMT. He has developed various industry specific telematics solution in the field of Fleet Management, Supply Chain/Logistics, Passenger Transportation and Aviation Remote diagnostics. He has developed a telematics industry business process automation software for providing end to end customer life cycle management. Currently he is working on developing a hardware neutral telematics infrastructure for Indian logistics industry, which will provide on road cargo visibility to all stake holders of transportation eco system irrespective of fleet ownership pattern.

Prior to his telematics exposure, He has around 10 years of experience in managing heavy engineering project & successfully executed EPC projects in Steel, Power domain while working with major corporate. Sanjeev is having a unique combination of business processes & technology domain with hands on experience in the field of Engineering, SCM, Logistics & Automotive Telematics. He is a Mechanical Engineer with Post Graduate Qualification in Project Management from NICMAR, Pune and a PMP (PMI Certified) Program Manager with six sigma exposure.



Mr.Sathiskumar Govindasamy
Managing Director
Hashprompt Logistics
India




Mr.Sathiskumar Govindasamy, the man behind the development of vTRACK is the Managing Director of Hashprompt Logistics Management India Pvt Ltd., He had his Masters in Information Technology in University of Western Sydney, Australia. A technocrat with an experience of more than 10 years in the field of Telematics, Sathiskumar preferred to come back to India, leaving behind a successful career in the United States.

In 2002 he has commenced his Indian Venture in the field of GIS/GPS with a development team to look into digital maps and to design a device for vehicle tracking. In 2003 the company rolled out its first indigenously designed Vehicle Tracking System. Many improvements were done there on and the current model adhere to global standards and is made available to Indian customers at a competitive price.

Hashprompt is a strong participator in OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT and may be one of the very few companies in India to provide end-to-end solutions in Vehicle Tracking with its own R&D division for hardware design and its own Software Division to provide WEB BASED TRACKING SOLUTIONS (GIS maps & web interface).

Hashprompt has a host of new products in the pipe-line to meet the ever-growing market demands. In India, Telematics industry is set to boom, but yet to get a lime-light. Hashprompt is building its presence in the Indian market in pace with industry's growth.



Shoummo K. Acharya
Founder, MD and CEO
VI eTrans Pvt Ltd.
India




Mr. Shoummo K Acharya, Founder, Managing Director and CEO of VI eTrans Pvt Ltd. is one of the most active leaders in the field of transportation infrastructure and logistics. A chemical engineer from Jadavpur University and alumnus of Templeton College, Oxford, Shoummo has a formidable reserve of experience in petroleum products, advertising, public relations, transportation, freight forwarding, concept creation & promotion and information technology. He started his career with Indo-Burma Petroleum in sales of petroleum product and as Head of Sales in its Head Office, worked in close collaboration with Govt and petroleum industry and initiated a number of measures for petroleum industry. Shoummo then moved to head public relation and advertising in IBP-Balmer Group. In 1985 Shoummo took over the freight forwarding division and was responsible for initiating turn-around of logistic activity of Balmer Lawrie, before he moved to United Kingdom to set up Balmer Lawrie's UK division. In 1994 he came back to the country as the Managing Director of Indian Container Leasing Co. Ltd.

Shoummo converted his dream into reality by creating VI eTrans and launched its commercial operations in mid 2002 and in a matter of little over 4 years is changing the way logistics is handled in Indian Industry. It has already enrolled blue chip companies like Maruti, Hindalco, Honda-siel, Tata Steel, Balco, Grasim, Sterlite, ITC, etc as its dedicated customer. The system envisages creation of a shared infrastructure to provide information on truck movement including in-plant delays for loading/unloading and transit period and introduction of performance enhancement and monitoring tools and a freight exchange, to improve transport efficiency.

With rich experience in transportation infrastructure and logistics, Shoummo, a charter member of TIE and the President of the Kolkata chapter, has addressed several CII sessions on the subject. He is currently a member of the Working Group of the Planning Commission of India, to consider issues relating to logistics in the 11th Plan.



Dr Srikanth Manthripragada
CTO and Business Head
ORG Telematic Ltd
India




Dr. Srikanth Manthripragada a Doctorate (PhD and DIC) in Image Processing and Remote Sensing from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK is currently the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Business head of ORG telematics of ORG Informatics LTD, His responsibilities includes investigating and visualizing the technological / business growth in GIS/GPS and convergent technologies and is involved in the Development of innovative & pioneering VTS ( GIS/GPS) solutions for various market segments in India and abroad.

Prior to joining ORG Dr. Srikanth has worked in Tata Iron and Steel Company on ore Prospecting, exploration and in Iron Ore, Manganese and Chromise Mines Underground mining feasibility for chromite Mine. He is the visiting Faculty at Administrative Staff College of India, Vasavi Engineering College, Hyderabad, India and is Project guidance for M.Tech Students at Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University..



Venugopal Sanjeevi
Founder, Chairman and Managing Director
eLogistics





Venugopal Sanjeevi is the founder Chairman of eLogistics. He is a logistics and supply chain domain expert for leading multinationals / Fortune 500 Companies. His lectures have been published as monograph by Ahmedabad Management Association.

He has been a member of Railway Consultative Committee and transport and communications committee of various chambers of commerce. He was a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad for Logistics and currently teaches at Anna University and GLIM and is outside Director in Hindustan Latex Ltd. Mini Navaratna. He has been appointed as a special task force member for Industrial Development by Tamil Nadu Govt. and as Advisor to Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

He has a total work experience of twenty eight years, including fifteen years as Director/CEO in Mafatlal / Satyam Group etc. and worked in diverse Industries such as pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and textiles. He was with Hindustan Lever for 12 years, engaged in many functions such as Production planning, Logistics and has been instrumental in new initiatives in areas such as systems, and logistics.

He is a gold medalist in Chemical Engineering and has done his Post Graduation in Industrial Engineering from NITIE. He has attended many executive Education programs in Europe and USA including two at Harvard University.



Yashwant M Jagani
Vice President
Reliance Logistics Pvt. Ltd.
India





Working as Business Head for Reliance Telematics since 2001. Has developed state of the art GIS/GPS based precision Vehicle Tracking solution for commercial vehicle. This is being marketed commercially in India. The Telematics is designed to provide end to end supply chain and fleet management. The solution and GPS devices are developed through in-house design and development efforts and found to be most competitive in terms of price point. Presently working on advanced business solution for school bus and child tracking based on GIS and GPS Technology.

Also worked in ISRO as Scientist Engineer for the development of satellite sub-system during 1973 to 1981.