Our speakers

Ranganath Sadashiva, CTO Hybrid IT, HPE

Ranganath Sadasiva , CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Ranganath Sadasiva is the Chief Technology Officer, Hybrid IT for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India.

Ranganath is responsible for bringing in thought leadership across HPE Hybrid IT business and delivering best in class technology experience for customers. 
He works closely with the enterprise segments, understanding their business and technical needs, developing HPE’s point of view aligned to HPE Technology Vision.

With more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Ranganath is an accomplished Technologist and Management Executive across core ICT technologies working predominantly in the India and Asia Pacific & Japan region. He has done various customer centric roles across Sales, Product development and Consulting in these geographies. Before joining HPE, Ranganath served as Director, Enterprise Research for IDC India and was responsible for the overall Enterprise research in areas including Hardware - Server, Storage and Networking, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Services and emerging technologies like Cloud, IoT, AI, Big Data etc. Prior to IDC, Ranganath served as Regional Sales Director for Spectra-APJ and EMEA and earlier as Director, Product Management, Asia Pacific and Japan for HPE Storage. He has also held management roles with HCL Infosystems and CADD Centre. Widely known in the Industry for his insights on Technology and its articulation, he is a regular speaker at Customer & Industry forums. He is also a Mentor of change with Niti Aayog, Government of India.    

Ranganath Sadasiva has a Master of Business Administration Degree in Marketing from Bangalore University and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

Ranghan Venkatraman, Chairman & CEO, Azur Global

Ranjan Bose, Director, IIIT, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi

Ranjan Chopra, Managing Director, Team Computers

Ranjan Kapur, Country Manager, WPP

Ranjan Kapur is currently Country Manager - India of WPP one of the world’s largest communications group and the holding company that owns JWT, Ogilvy, Grey, Y&R and Bates, some of the largest advertising agencies worldwide and in India.

Ranjan is a veteran of the advertising business having spent 38 years with Ogilvy. He was honoured with the Industry’s Lifetime Achievement Award from AAAI in 2008. His last assignment with Ogilvy was as Chairman of Ogilvy, India from 1993 to 2003 and is largely credited with its turnaround and accelerated growth thereafter which saw it become India’s largest communications group.

He is an ex-Citibanker. Ranjan has worked in several countries with Ogilvy, including New York and in his last assignment prior to becoming Chairman of the Indian company he held a regional assignment managing Ogilvy’s worldwide clients in Asia Pacific. He was based in Singapore.

He was inducted into the Worldwide Board in 1998 and was elected Vice Chairman Asia Pacific in 2001.

Ranjan is currently on the Boards of MIRC Electronics, Pidilite Industries, Abbott India Limited, Annik Technologies, Eon Premedia, among others. He is also involved in his personal capacity in the development of technology based on-line and mobile services companies.

He is a member of the Governing Board of Bombay First, an NGO that actively works with Government & Civic bodies for the development of Mumbai into a premier global city. Ranjan is also a part of the Citizen’s Action Group, a watchdog body under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister that works directly with the Government of Maharashtra towards Mumbai’s development.

Ranjan heads the Fund-raising Committee at the Indian Cancer Society and has been instrumental in getting their logo redesigned. He has recently spearheaded the Campaign of Hope which is a special fund raising drive and an awareness programme to escalate India’s fight against cancer.

Ranjan Sarkar, CHRO, Exide Industries

Ranjani Raghavan, Associate Editor, VCCircle (Moderator)

Ranjeetha Vasudeva, Vice President, Valuation Services, Kroll (earlier known as Duff & Phelps)

Ranjit Punja, CEO & Co-founder, Creditmantri.com

Ranjit is the CEO and Co-founder at CreditMantri. He has over 25 years of experience in banking and financial services, having spent more than 23 years at Citibank, in multiple countries around the globe. Prior to CreditMantri, he had oversight for the Collections function of Citibank’s international consumer lending businesses, and also managed the U.S. Cards Collections business. Ranjit oversees Credit, Key Relationships and Corporate Strategy at CreditMantri.  He has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. In his spare time, Ranjit enjoys motorcycling, cycling, tennis and running.