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Srinivas Padmanabharao, Director - Product Marketing, Akamai Technologies | @akamai

Srinivas Padmanabharao is the Director for Product Marketing, based in Akamai’s Bangalore office. He is an experienced industry professional with 18 years experience in the IT and Telecom industries working across Australia, USA, Canada, UK and India.

As the Director of Product Marketing, he focuses on helping customers understand the role of Akamai solutions in leveraging the power of the Internet to achieve business success.

Before joining Akamai, Srinivas worked with Oracle, IBM and Deloitte and he has a graduate degree in Engineering from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Srinivasan Vishwanathan, Founder and CTO, Datagres

As founder of Datagres, Srinivasan brings more than 20 years of experience in system architecture, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing solutions to the Datagres team. With over 28 awarded patents in storage and system technology, Srinivasan has served on the Board of Directors for SNIA (Storage Network Industry Association) and the Unix POSIX Committee. As a lead technologist at Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) and Network Appliance, Srinivasan specialized in next generation RAID, Cluster File Systems, and Data Management. Srinivasan holds a ME in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Srinivasan served as CEO of Datagres till 2015 and currently serves as Chairman of the board.

Srinivasu M N, Co- Founder & Director, BillDesk

Mr. M N Srinivasu is the Director and Co-Founder of BillDesk, a payment and remittance service providing venture of IndiaIdeas.com Ltd. Established in early 2000, BillDesk delivers and manages electronic payments and remittance solutions for various vertical markets, such as banking, telecom, insurance, utilities and financial services.

Prior to founding BillDesk, Vasu worked with Business Consulting unit of Arthur Andersen in India and before that, for over 9 years, with ITC Limited across their various businesses. Vasu completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1990 and Bachelors degree in Commerce from Madras University in 1988.

Srinivasu M N(Vasu), Co-Founder & Director, BillDesk

Srinivasu M.N (Vasu), Co-Founder & Director, Billdesk

Vasu is a Director and a co-founder of BillDesk, India's largest Electronic Payments Service Platform.

Established in early 2000, BillDesk delivers and manages a range of specialized electronic payments, remittance and gateway solutions for various verticals markets such as banking, telecom, insurance, utilities financial services and e-commerce businesses.  

Today, BillDesk is the Trusted Partner of India’s largest institutions, and it extensive processing network is today used by over 60 of India’s largest banks and many large organizations across diverse industry segments. The BillDesk platform processes a dominant share of the online transactions that are conducted through aggregator platforms, in India.

Vasu holds a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad.  Prior to founding BillDesk, Vasu worked with ITC Limited and Arthur Andersen.

Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasu

Srinivasu MN, Cofounder, BillDesk

Sriram Kannan, Founder & CEO, Nivaata Systems Pvt. Ltd

Sriram Kannan is the founder & CEO at Nivaata Systems. Nivaata’s innovative technology solutions help organizations to automate and optimize key business areas such as distribution & planning, transportation, asset monitoring, logistics & sales force effectiveness, and realize real top line and bottom line growth.

Prior to Nevaata Sriram was the Chief Innovation Officer at i2i TeleSolutions, Lead Engineer - OMAP software solutions delivery at WTBU Japan and Senior Software Engineer - OMAP Software R&D at Texas Instruments India.

Sriram is a MS, Computer Science from India Institute of Science and B.Sc Physics from Madras University.

Sriram V Iyer, Co-Founder, United Mobile Apps

Sriram V Iyer, Co-Founder, United Mobile Apps (UMA) is also the Technology Editor of YourStory.in. His interests are Mobile / Wireless technologies (esp LTE) , Mobile Operating Systems and Cloud Computing.  He has a special liking for dynamic programming languages (esp Python) and dabbles in Ruby, F# and Lisp occasionally.

Sriram was part of the team that had a vision of integrating Mobile and the Cloud as early as 2009. UMA was one of the early adopters of Azure, with their solution (www.usyncworld.com) going live in 2010. It was a unique blend of Open Source Technologies (Glassfish, Java EE) on Microsoft Azure.

Sriram is also the author of ‘Embedded Realtime Systems Programming’ for Tata McGrawHill and has a couple of patents (pending) in the domain of Wireless Schedulability, Dynamic Programming languages.

Srishti Ojha, Founding Partner, Verist Law

Srishti Ojha is the founding partner of Verist Law. Srishti graduated in 2002 from National Law ?School of India University, Bangalore,? with a B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) and a gold medal in international law and holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law?.

Srishti has several years of ?advisory and ?transactional experience ? ?including listed buy-outs, securities laws, regulatory and advisory including exchange control regulations and ongoing corporate compliance.

Srivatsa Krishna, Secretary, Dept. of IT, BT and S&T - Government of Karnataka

Srivatsa Krishna, topped India in the National Civil Services Examination in 1994, was awarded President of India's Gold Medal and joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), India's top management government cadre. He was part of the leadership team, which pioneered E-governance in India, and created one of Asia’s largest IT and investment clusters, Cyberabad. This  team  was  instrumental in bringing in several Fortune  500 companies such as Microsoft, HSBC, General Electric, Google, IBM, and Oracle etc. to invest in Hyderabad, valued today at $5.2b by a recent Goldman Sachs BRICS report.

He went on to become the first serving IAS officer to complete the MBA Program at Harvard  Business  School and is  an  alumnus of Oxford University as well. World Economic Forum at Davos honored him as one of its Top 100 Global Leaders  for Tomorrow in Davos in 2003. Thinkers 50, has recognized him as  one of top 50 thinkers from India in 2013.

In 2008-09 he led a study commissioned by the highest levels of the Government of India on PPPs and private equity regulation and policy for the country on behalf of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), The World Bank Group. Srivatsa served in the Strategy, Finance and Risk Management Vice Presidency at the World Bank in Washington D.C.

Srivatsa writes regularly for Times of India, Wall Street Journal, Business Today, Financial Times, etc and is a prominent commentator on prime time national television on BBC, CNN, Times Now and BBC. He is currently completing his PhD at IIT.