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SP Narayanan, Head mCommerce, Idea Cellular

SP Narayanan is currently the Business Head – m-Commerce in Idea Cellular Limited managing Idea Money and business correspondent activities in partnership with Axis Bank.

Prior to this he was National Head for VAS in Idea Cellular. He had created a strong VAS ecosystem in Idea with in-house building blocks and over 200 third party content and application partners for VAS.  Narayanan has strengthened the VAS organization in Idea by introducing consumer centric organization structure across corporate and circle teams.  Prior to Idea Cellular, Narayanan has worked with Vodafone India Limited    as Country Head VAS and in Reliance Communications in VAS leadership position.

Prior to his telecom stint, Narayanan has worked with ICICI  Ventures for 2 years as Chief - Incubator Fund nurturing and funding early stage start ups .Earlier, Narayanan has worked with ICICI Limited in various positions  (Last position held : Senior Vice President ) for 10 years  handling a portfolio of  Debt and Equity funding to over 200 corporate entities in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry spread across all sectors / industries.

Narayanan is a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Varanasi (Formerly ITBHU) and a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad.

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Sreedhar Prasad, Partner, KPMG India

Sreedhar has a professional experience in Consulting - Strategy & Operations/Process advisory and Information technology with experience in serving national and multinational clients representing diverse industry segments.

Specialties: Key areas of expertise include Strategy build, Operations advisory, Mid-market promoter advisory, Cost Management, Organization design, Business Process Re-engineering/ Improvement, Outsourcing Advisory, Risk Management, Business Continuity Planning.

Possesses extensive knowledge and understanding of the business in the Ecommerce & Consumer Internet, Financial Services - NBFC, FMCG and hospitality domains.

Current responsibilities include Business Development, Practice Management & Solution building. Currently focusing on advising Indian Promoters and medium sizes companies in scaling up as well as new organization design.

Sreenivas Karanam, Founder & CEO, Cooltok

Sreenivas is the Founder, CEO of cooltok where he led the product development on technology and strategy. cooltok got acquired by Kirusa Inc, USA in May 2014.

He has over 17+ years of experience in Innovation, Product Engineering  and management across multiple technology domains.
Prior to cooltok, he worked in Broadcom as Senior Manager, WLAN System Design Team, where he led several WLAN, WLAN-BT combo chip design teams, spanning over SISO, MIMO and ensured successful high volume deployment of these chips in world’s top mobile customers like Apple, NOKIA, Samsung and retail customers like DELL, HP etc

Sreenivas has worked in Athena Semiconductors, a WLAN based startup in Bangalore, as a System Architect where he played a key role in delivering their successful Wireless LAN chip and the company was later acquired by Broadcom Corp, USA in 2005. He worked in Wipro Technologies on various audio, video  technologies  for some of the most successful start-ups like Telogy Networks, Silicon Spice etc. He also worked in Radar Division of Bharat Electronics Limited , Bangalore.

He graduated with a BE in Electronics and Power from VNIT,Nagpur (formerly VRCE, Nagpur) in 1996.

Sreeram Vanga Reddy, Founder, Cozy Games

An engineering graduate from Purdue University with an analytical bent of mind “Sreeram Vanga Reddy” has been making progress by leaps and bounds in the Gaming industry from the last 11 years. As the founder of Cozy Games in 2005, Sree has been delivering games that have been positioned to perform and achieve financial and quality goals. He started his career with an industry veteran- Party Gaming Plc where he played an instrumental role in conceptualizing and building effective Bingo and Casino brands. Sree has a proven track record of creating and implementing innovative production strategies that has enabled Cozy Games in monetizing gaming products in the online, social, and mobile media platforms.

Under his able leadership Cozy Games has won numerous awards with the latest addition being the Gaming Industry’s most coveted “ eGR’s Innovation in Bingo Award of the year 2011”. Leveraging his knowledge and experience of the Gaming industry in the European marketplace, Sree has recently ventured into the Indian marketplace and is experiencing strong growth with his flagship brand ClassicRummy.com. Sree has definitely started to redefine the online gaming space in India being totally compliant to all legal and social standards and demands.

A natural orator, committed team player, and an excellent motivator; Sree is dedicated to add life to his conviction of taking the gaming industry to a higher level where it is reckoned for being a socially responsible and credible industry while being a highly profitable one too.

Sri Rajan, Chairman, Bain & Company India Pvt. Ltd. | @BainAlerts

Sri Rajan is the Chairman of Bain India, with over 19 years of management consulting experience in India and the US. He was one of the founders of the Indian operations of Bain & Company. He has been responsible for the creation and execution of turnaround strategies for multiple diversified firms. Sri also has significant experience working with Private Equity firms and companies across the industrial, telecom and technology sectors.

Sri has been the co-founder of a tech startup in Silicon Valley and has also been on the Board of the American operations of CRY. He is currently on the board of an e-commerce logistics startup as well as a leading foundation focused on education. He is also on the advisory Board of Bridgespan India, which is an affiliate of Bain & Company that focuses on advising foundations and non-profit organizations. He has invested in and is on the advisory board of various startups in India. He writes regularly for top-tier publications such as Mint and The Economic Times. He is a member of the Global Agenda Council on India of the World Economic Forum.

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Sridevi Raghavan, CEO, Amelio

Sridhar Hari, Smarter Commerce Leader, IBM India/SA

Sridhar is the Smarter Commerce Leader for IBM India, responsible for driving strategic business development activities and growing the Smarter Commerce solutions business which spans from marketing, sales and supply chain  functions. His domain expertise are in the areas of Cross channel commerce, BI/Analytics, CRM/Loyalty, digital marketing and web analytics.

Sridhar was previously employed at Safeway Inc, a Fortune 50 grocery retailer,  based in California as an IT/Business Program Manager responsible for the Retail Operations and Safeway.com business units.

Sridhar also spearheaded many strategic initiatives such as assisted-checkout, RFID contact less payments, electronic shelf tags (ESL) and online B2C ecommerce applications as part of the Safeway Innovation Task force.

Sridhar is currently a member of the National Committee for Retail, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Retailers' Association of India  Technology Committee (RAI) and has presented at leading conferences on the issues and challenges facing the Indian retail industry.

Sridhar holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and a Bachelors' in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, India.

Sridhar Iyer, Director - Head of Digital and Innovation, Citibank India

Sridhar Iyer is Head of Digital and Innovation at Citibank India. He is a senior banker with a wide range experience in the areas of e-Business, Digital Payments and Strategic Marketing. He was one of the key members of the team that set up Citibank India’s online banking and e-Commerce businesses in 1999.

Over the last decade, he has been responsible for growing the e-Businesses for multinational banks, including Citi and Lloyds Banking Group in the UK and in Europe. He has extensive International experience, particularly in Europe, and has undertaken a variety of strategic e-Business roles on a global mandate. He believes that for organizations the choice is pretty straight forward - digitize or die.

He holds a PGDM from IIM Bangalore and Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani.

Sridhar Pachigolla, Corporate Vice President IT, WNS Global Services Pvt. Ltd.

An astute professional with over 30+ years of experience in Heading Information Systems, Global IT Program Management, Enterprise Architecture, Implementation of ERP, CRM, HCM, BI Systems, AI/ML solutions and App modernization with reputed organisations. Having proven experience in building and deploying several cross-industry solutions for Finance, HR and Quality functions. Currently associated with WNS Global Services (www.wns.com), Mumbai as Corporate Senior Vice President -IT and supporting it's 55,000+ Global Workforce with high impact and innovative IT Solutions.

Developed IT Systems road maps for large-scale organisations and supported all-round growth in terms of revenue, margins and productivity of the organisation. Proven success in migrating business processes from legacy systems to modern ERP systems leveraging Cloud technologies. Designed and deployed complex and advanced analytics solutions.