Nitin Deshpande is a seasoned business and technology leader with 44 years of experience building, scaling, and leading India operations for global enterprise software and healthcare IT companies.
Lokesh is a Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce, responsible for multi-billion Analytics Cloud products. Before this he was with Intuit where he was leading Product teams as a Director of PM for Intuit Business Intelligence solutions for Mid-Market and SMBs.
Kavitha Sreejith serves as an Executive Director at a leading financial institution. She steers the build and advancement of an AI platform and its adjacent capabilities. With more than 23 years in product management and technology, Kavitha brings deep expertise spanning multiple domains.
Srinivas Sampath (Srini) is a seasoned GCC leader with close to three decades of experience in building, scaling and transforming global technology and product organizations.
Anuj Pruthi — a global technology leader with over 27 years of experience building and scaling product engineering organizations and Global Capability Centers across the US–India ecosystem.
Paddy is an alum of IIIT-Bangalore. In 2007, Paddy co-founded 8KMiles, a cloud computing pioneer incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore. Paddy later Co-founded CMPUTE.IO in 2012—an AWS cost optimisation SaaS backed by The Alchemist Accelerator in San Francisco which got acquired by Cisco in 2018.
Dr. Shailesh Kumar is currently the Chief Data Scientist (Executive Vice President) at the Centre of Excellence in AI/ML, Reliance Jio, Dean of the Jio Institute, and a Visiting faculty of Machine Learning at the Indian School of Business.
A global product and technology veteran, Abhishek Trigunait is the Cofounder and CPTO of Improzo, where he is pioneering iZO, an AI-native engine for Life Sciences.
Nayeema is a global GBS leader with over 24 years of experience across FMCG, reinsurance, IT services, and the banking industry. She has successfully built and led large-scale Global Business Services (GBS) teams and brings strong international experience, having lived and worked in Switzerland and Boston.
Dr. Geetha Manjunath is the Founder, CEO and CTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, and has led the company to develop a breakthrough AI solution for detecting early stage breast cancer in a non-invasive radiation-free manner. Geetha is a Gold Medalist and PhD holder from Indian Institute of Science with management education from Kellogg Chicago.
Prof. Rishi teaches Strategy at IIMB. He previously served as the Director of IIM Bangalore and IIM Indore. He has been listed in the Thinkers50 India list of most influential thinkers in management from India since 2013 and jointly received the special Thinkers50 India Innovation Award (2013).
Prof. S Sadagopan was Director of IIITB from 1999 to 2021. He is a graduate of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He taught for 25+ years at IIT Kanpur, IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras and IIIT Bangalore in addition to short teaching assignments at RUTGERS, USA and AIT, Bangkok.
Ramesh Venkateswaran is presently Chairman , Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad and holds additional charge as Chairman, BoG of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sricity, Chitoor. He is an Adjunct Faculty in Marketing in Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Prof Mahadeo Prasad Jaiswal is currently Director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur, India. Prior to this he was Professor of Information Systems and Dean at MDI, Gurgaon, India. His qualifications include PGPX from MIT Sloan School of Management, Bostan, USA, PhD in Computer Science from Delhi University and Sr. Fulbright Fellow from Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Indrajit is a seasoned AI thought leader, author, and innovator driving AI-led products and platform development, enhancing revenue growth and operational efficiency. He has led Multiple teams who has build various AI, ML, GenAI and Data Science solutions from scratch, Design to development.
Ram Kunchur is the Founder, CEO & CTO of Biometrik Systems, where he drives the company’s vision, innovation strategy, and end-to-end product roadmap.
