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Vikram K
Senior Director, Industry Verticals, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India
Vikram K
Senior Director, Industry Verticals, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India
Vikram is the Senior Director Industry Verticals at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in India. In this role he Drives the Strategy and Sales for all Industry verticals – FSI, Telecom, MDI, Public Sector and Key Accounts for Hewlett Packard Enterprise products, i.e. Servers, Storage and DC Networking.
With 26 years of experience in IT Sales, Services and Software Business, he in the last 8 years has held strategic leadership positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise deploying key IP’s & developing human capital
In his previous roles at HPE, he was Senior Director HIT India managing the revenue, P&L, sales and presales and moves after 8 years of managing the business in its various forms– DCHC, Servers, ISS and the likes. These years had unprecedented growth and success with almost all products having the largest or second largest market share across categories.
Having been a part of HPE since the last 21 years, he specializes in Enterprise Business Services, Infrastructure Products and Software. His strengths lie in customer acquisition, P&L Management, Managing Growing Markets, Driving Revenue Growth, Heading Mergers and Aquisitions, and leading teams to greater heights.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from one of India’s renowned institute, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and MBA from Mumbai University.
Vikram Kumar Yerram
Country Sales Manager - Pointnext, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India
Vikram Kumar Yerram
Country Sales Manager - Pointnext, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India
Vikram has the charter is to grow the Pointnext business comprising of Advisory, Professional and Operational Services at business Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) India Pvt. Ltd.
Vikram is a seasoned IT professional with over 23 years of rich experience in diverse roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HCL Infosystems Ltd. He comes with a strong background in Solution Selling, Account Management, Alliances and Product Management. In his 20 years tenure at HPE, he worked in various business units in Sales, Server, Storage, Software & Services.
Vikram has done his P.G.D.M. from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and B.E. (Electronics & Communication Engineering) Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Jitesh Nair
Country Lead - Hybrid IT Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jitesh Nair
Country Lead - Hybrid IT Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Work Experience
2015 – Present: Lead, HIT Services in Advisory & Professional Service Unit
2006-2015: Various roles in HP /HPE. Last Assignment Large Deal Architect
1996-2006: Tata Telecom / Avaya Global Connect
Education
BE – Electronics & Communication
Post Graduate Dip In Management
Engagement with Customers for Identifying their Business IT Challenges/Requirements and Address the same with Right Solution Framework
Driving Business solution from Data Center Design Build to Hybrid IT
Managing the Business Unit
Abhish Kulkarni
Practice Manager - AIDET, HPE Pointnext Services
Abhish Kulkarni
Practice Manager - AIDET, HPE Pointnext Services
Abhishek Latthe founded and manages SenseGiz , which has designed a multi- functional wearable tech product with a focus on safety monitoring & notifications, fitness & sleep tracking and a visual display for phone related notifications.
He was directly involved in designing the product and developing the algorithms for its various functions--some of them are patent pending. A constant focus on innovation and delivering products which are useful in everyday life is his vision for the company. SenseGiz. SenseGiz also has a track & find tag --the FIND which can be used to prevent losing/misplacing commonly lost items
Abhish is India Geo leader for AIDET (Artificial Intelligence, Data & Emerging Technologies) practice within HPE Pointnext Services. Abhish joined HPE in 2002 and since then part of services organization. Abhish has handled various portfolios within services organization starting from Network Consulting, Datacenter Infrastructure consulting, critical facilities consulting and storage consulting. Before managing this practice, he has handled large pursuits in IT outsourcing domain.
Abhish has overall experience of more than 24 years in industry and before joining HPE has worked on multiple roles including customer support to category management.
Ed Rogers
Principal Owner, Mayjer Enterprises LLC
Ed Rogers
Principal Owner, Mayjer Enterprises LLC
Dr. Rogers, as a professor taught strategy and entrepreneurship before joining NASA in 2003. For seventeen years he served as the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland until his retirement from government service in 2020. During his tenure with the government, NASA expanded its knowledge management pro-gram across the agency based in large part upon Dr. Rogers’ successful model developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
For over ten years he has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India where he teaches a popular MBA course on Managing Complexity. Through various ISB Executive Education programs he has also taught numerous executives in India and the US practical ways to improve their decision-making ability in complex situa-tions. He has advised corporate and government leaders on how to shape their organizations for learning and uncover thinking patterns that can inhibit innovation and collaboration.
At NASA he built a set of knowledge management practices that strategically support the Agency’s missions including the simple yet effective Pause and Learn (PaL) process, which allows project teams to reflect on their experience and improve organizational learning. He developed an internal case study methodology and used it to create over 50 NASA-specific case studies for use in training sessions and workshops. He designed an internal leadership course at Goddard called the Road to Mission Success which helps employees across organi-zational boundaries better understand how the Agency works, promotes knowledge sharing and ultimately strengthens collaboration across technical disciplines.
Dr. Rogers received a B.S. in Agronomy from the Ohio State University, a Master’s in Inter-national Business from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. from Cornell University focusing on game theory applications to collaboration in high tech firms. In his spare time, he enjoys singing, playing the saxophone and ballroom dancing. Dr. Rogers lives near Char-lottesville, Virginia where he continues to speak and consult on how to foster organizational learning and improve executive decision-making ability and is a frequent speaker for MBA classes, business conferences and Federal Agencies in the Washington, DC area.
Sanjay Mishra
Professor, University of Kansas
Sanjay Mishra
Professor, University of Kansas
Sanjay Mishra is Professor in Marketing at the University of Kansas, School of Business. His undergraduate degree is from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, MS in Engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and an MBA and a Ph. D in Marketing from Washington State University, Pullman.
His research interests are in Consumer Preference and Choice Modeling, Brand Extension and Alliances, Consumer Information Processing, Entrepreneurship and Fast Growth, Innovation, New Product Development Processes, and Psychometrics. He has worked on product development practices in India, South Korea and Finland. In the new product and the entrepreneurship area, he is interested in how investors (venture capitalists) make investment decisions and whether firms/entrepreneurs learn as much from failures as from successes. His work has been published in several journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Psychometrika, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Academy of Management Journal, Marketing Letters, Journal of Product Innovation and Management. Prof. Mishra has presented papers at conferences in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and North America and made invited presentations at leading universities in Mexico, South Korea and India and at National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) and National Business Incubators Association (NBIA) annual conferences in the USA. He has received research and curriculum development grants from the Marketing Science Institute, Hewlett Packard Corp, and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Dr. Mishra was a member of the team that developed and organized the “Entrepreneurial Effect”, a weeklong seminar for economic development personnel in the US. For several years, he served on the Haskell Indian Nations University's National Advisory Board in Business. He was a member of the 1996 University of Kansas Fulbright Group visit program to Mexico.
Dr. Mishra teaches courses in Innovation and New Product Management, Marketing Strategy, and Entrepreneurship. He has worked with technology related entrepreneurial businesses and assists firms in their new product development decisions. He has received several teaching awards, including being voted as the “MBA Outstanding Professor.” Dr. Mishra was consulting editor for a report to the President for the White House commission for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Dr. Mishra has arranged and led students—MBA & Undergraduate--and faculty on study tours of India, presented a course on the “Discovery and Understanding of India”, and made several India related presentations. He was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar understanding innovation and entrepreneurship in India.
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We are India’s leading credit information company with one of the largest collections of consumer information.
We aim to be more than just a credit reporting agency. We are a sophisticated, global risk information provider striving to use information for good. For consumers, we provide information and tools for gaining a clear understanding of their credit history and financial reputation, and guarding against the theft of personal information and potential fraud.
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TransUnion has been operating internationally for over 30 years in over 30 countries. We connect businesses and consumers through data, technology and analytics, to help build credit economies worldwide. We’re a leader in risk and information solutions within the markets we serve.
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True North traces its origins back to 1999, when it was originally named India Value Fund. Today is one of India’s leading home grown private equity funds, founded with a focus on investing in and transforming mid-sized profitable businesses into world-class industry leaders, built on the strong foundation of True North Values which are embodied within the principles of ‘The Right Way’.
True North has built deep knowledge and skills in the Indian markets and has successfully launched six separate investment funds with a combined corpus of over US$ 2.8 billion including co-investments. True North’s insights and understanding of India has been sharpened over the last two decades by investing in more than 40 Indian businesses. It has successfully guided these companies in making the transition into well-established and large businesses that are valuable, enduring and socially responsible.
The company has significant focus on and extensive experience of evaluating and investing in multiple businesses across a range of segments in the Indian healthcare sector having invested over US$ 520 million across 10 companies.
The True North team has been structured with a balanced mix of 13 Investment Managers and 18 Business Managers, who bring with them several hundred man-years of industry experience.
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Indium Capital is an Investment Bank focusing on Fund-Raising, Mergers & Acquisitions and Growth Strategy Advisory. We provide end-to-end services across our focus sectors: Healthcare, Consumer Brands & Technology. Indium has had significant depth of experience in these sectors, with expertise across all segments of Healthcare Delivery (hospitals, medical devices, diagnostics chains and single speciality centers), Consumer Brands (apparel, accessories, foods and other retail brands) & Technology (edu-tech, fin-tech, health-tech, etc.).
The Indium team comes from a diverse background with experience across Corporate Finance, Business Consulting & Strategy; and in the past have advised on multiple M&A and Fundraising transactions with total transaction value of over US$ 3 billion.
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AZB & Partners is one of the prominent Indian law firms in India. It was founded in 2004 with a clear purpose to provide reliable, practical and full-service advice to clients based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment within which our clients operate and a full understanding of their overall business objectives. The firm now has 6 offices across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune, with a driven team of 450+ lawyers.
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