VIP GUESTS

Shri Siddaramaiah Chief Minister of Karnataka

Mr. P.J. Thomas Ex Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India

Shri K. H. Muniyappa Union Minister of State for MSMEs

Mr. C.M. (Chand Mahal) Ibrahim Former Civil Aviation Minister and Information & Broadcasting Minister

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Founder - Art of Living

Mr. Jaffer Sharief Former Railways Minister / Former member of the INC

Mr. P. Mohamed Ali Founder and Managing Director of Galfar Engineering and Contracting Co.

Mr Sudhir Chandra Former Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.

Mr. S. Krishna Kumar Former Minister of State for Defense

Dr. Dayananda Pai Founder of Century Real Estate

His Excellency Dato Paduka Sidek Ali High Commissioner of Brunei Darussalam in India
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Dr. Prem Chand Former Commodore in the Indian Navy & Additional Director General in the Ministry of Defence

Prof. S Sundar Joint secretary of the Surface Transport Ministry

Trivikram Joshi Ex Chairman of Dr. Nanjundappa Report Implementation High Power Committee

Mr. David Keynan Vice Chairman, Federation of Indo-Israeli Chamber of Commerce (South)

Mahesh Shetty Council General - Djibouti / Director- Multiplex Biotech Pvt Ltd.,

Dr. Antose Antoney Octamec Mining Limited

Mohan Suresh Council General - Rwanda / Chairman of Federation of Indian Medium, Small, Medium Enterprises

J Alexander IAS, Former Chief Secretary and Minister, Tourism Govt. of Karnataka

Dr. C. Manohar Honorary Dean & Director - Strategy, ISBR / Former Secretary General, FKCCI

Dhanavanti Jaiin President, Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka

Rizwanullah khan Vice president Dubai Holdings

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Dr. Paritosh Basu, Director of Future Sharp Skills Ltd. / Former Group Controller of Essar Group

Dr. Paritosh Basu has served the corporate world for about thirty-four years. He was the Group Controller of Essar Group recently till June, 2013, preceded by the CFO of Reliance Communications Ltd. till August, 2008. Presently he is a full time Senior Professor of the School of Business Management, NMIMS University, Mumbai and engaged in many research and consulting activities. He holds a Master degree and was awarded Ph. D. on Transfer Pricing by the Calcutta University in 1999. He is a fellow member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. Dr. Basus experience in MNCs spans over a wide spectrum of functional areas, across continents and countries: Corporate finance, treasury, strategic planning and controlling, accounting and reporting under IGAAP and IFRS, risk management, governance, management audit, etc. in MNC and conglomerate environment, Mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, IPO and listing in overseas and domestic stock exchanges, FCCBs and other overseas loan market transactions; Extensive IT enablement of operations, accounting and reporting with multiple systems development and integration. One of his software is presently under the process of patent registration in India and the USA; Mentoring, learning management, teaching and training. He is associated with management education for about twenty-three years. He was a regular visiting faculty member of the Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Kolkata and NMIMS, Mumbai for about six years each. He has conducted numerous management training programmes for Professional Institutes, Universities, IIM, Chambers of Commerce and Corporate Houses. He has presented and publsihed score of papers, case studies and conducted workshops in national and international level summits, conferences and conventions. He has also participated in many programmes of national level electronic media. Dr, Basu has travelled widely in India and abroad. He was a member of the Research Committee of Central Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 2010-11 and 2012-13. Presently he is a member of the Advisory Boards of a Business School in Bengaluru, a monthly magazine for business professionals, published from Hyderabad and an independent director of Future Sharp Skills Ltd.

Mr. Raghu Kumar Paruchuri, Head - ERP & Head - IT at The Tata Power Company Ltd., Strategic Electronics Division Raghu Kumar Paruchuri is the Head - IT and Business Applications, Tata Power SED. Tata Power Strategic Engineering Division (Tata Power SED) designs and produces defense systems and boasts of many prestigious partnerships including ones with the Indian army and the Indian Air force. Raghu has close to 15 Years of experience in the areas of ERP Consulting & IT. Prior to joining Tata Power SED, Raghu has been with Organizations like PwC, Oracle & Capgemini, where he has worked on large scale ERP Implementation & Support assignments cutting across geographies such as India, Asia-Pacific and Europe. He is an MBA & CFA (ICFAI). He has been recipient of an award at theTop 100 CISO Awards 2011 & has been a Finalist at the Top 100 CIO Awards 2012.

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Mr. Rajesh Dembla, Group Vice President, Global Operations, Just Dial Ltd. Mr. Rajesh Dembla has over 19 years in the Local Search domain, and has been with Just Dial since its inception. He was instrumental in the organic growth of Just Dial and has vast levels of exposure in the domain for India, USA, Philippines, Dubai, Singapore, China & UK. He started and headed the print version of Just Dial and in a span of three years, made it Indias most successful Yellow Pages, and made it a profitable venture from the first year itself; a feat which is quite unheard of. He has been a speaker at Indias First Social Media Summit, as well as having addressed students at several B-Schools on entrepreneur skills & Global vision, as well as several conferences overseas. Just Dial Services, under the capable leadership, are also in the United States of America, and now plan to take their services to the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Eastern Eurpoe, etc.

Dr. Faraz Farishta, Consultant Physician, Sparsh Diabetes Center Faraz is trained and experienced in Diabetic Care, including a fellowship from John Hopkins University and Joslin Diabetic Center. He is an active member of several physician organizations, consultant to several diabetic centers and presents prolifically in national and international meetings and conferences.

Dr. Gautam N. Sathia, MD & CEO, BioQuest Solutions

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Mr. Kareem M. Irfan, Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel, Cranes Software International Limited With 25+ years of legal experience in managing international IP and IT initiatives, he is also the President of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago. He has been a fore runner in the leadership capacity for over 25 years with American and International projects on Inter-faith Collaboration, Public Relations, Leadership Development and Strategic Planning. He also holds the esteem post of General Counsel for a leading global company specializing in Energy Management. He makes the strategic depth, wisdom and momentum of mPower's board, and has been instrumental in defining the culture and initiating the PEP' drive across mPower. Kareem Irfan holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in Computer Science Engineering, and J.D. from DePaul University.

Mr. C.M. Faiz Ibrahim Mohamed, Director, HKBK Group of Institutions Mr. CM Faiz, son of Mr. CM Ibrahim, the former civil aviation minister of India, is a business management graduate from Manchester University, with specialization in the field of finance and international business. He had his primary education in Karnataka & later on went to the UK to pursue for his masters in management. CM Faiz worked for a couple of years in the UK before returning back to his country. He worked as the Chief Operations & Marketing Director of UK based company. A commercially savvy management professional and a successful entrepreneur in his own right, he has strong leadership qualities coupled with hands-on networking ability that has enabled him to build multiple related ventures in the field of construction, education and the software industry. As the Director of HKBK Group of Institutions, his major roles are to define and initiate projects, look after the overall activities of the Group, while working to ensure the ultimate success of the work. He is also involved actively in the all the day-to-day activities of HKBK college of Engg. which comes under the HKBK group of institutions, where another 3 institutions are functioning.

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Mr. Aravind K.S., Vice President, Tally Solutions Aravind KS is a proven veteran in the software product industry. He has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of accounting software, Tally in particular. He is one of the very few to have been mentored by Late Shri S.S.Goenka, himself, the co- founder of Tally. Aravind started his career as a software developer. He later moved on to market facing roles like software support and implementations, product management, partner sales and business development in the same industry. He has worked and led teams on all levels. His work has taken him across the globe, and he has the experience of working in diverse markets & cultures like Asia-Pacific, Middle-East, and the Sub-Saharan & West-African countries apart from many parts of India. Presently, he heads the Operations of Tally Solutions SME business in Western India. At the same time, he is a member of the Management team (Operations) and actively participates in creating Execution plans of the company. Aravind comes from an Electrical Engineering background. He is also an alumnus of IIM-A where he had undergone the Mid-Level Management Development Program at IIM Ahmedabad.

Prof. Pavan Mamidi, Associate Professor, IIM, Ahmedabad / Affiliated Faculty Member, Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School Pavan K. Mamidi, Research Fellow, MIT, USA, is specialized in dynamics of innovation management and its application to Hi-tech industries. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he has been working as a permanent faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), where he applies the disciplines of law and economics to science, technology, and innovation policy and management. In addition to teaching and research, he has been providing consultancy services to projects related to intellectual property and innovation with leading companies. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management and a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. He has also lectured at Cambridge in England. His background in philosophy, mathematics and law lends him an interest in the integration of history of ideas in science and technology with legal and policy analysis, embodied in his research in Intellectual Property and Economics of Innovation.

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