B.D.Khurana

Mr. Khurana, is currently managing Newgen Holdings and Group companies; Newgen Communications, Newgen IteS and Newgen Media Division. Mr. Khurana is also director on the Boards of Hits Telecom Holding KCO, Microqual Techno Ltd., Insight Alpha Pvt. Ltd. and DragonWave HFCL India Private Limited.

He has previously held leadership positions as: Group President & CEO of Reliance Infocomm Limited (later Reliance Communications Limited) and Vice Chairman, Reliance Telecom Limited. Spearheaded RCom operations and initiatives including those of subsidiaries and associate companies such as Flag Telecom, UK; Wordtel, Sweden, Warf Telecom, Maldives etc. Mr. Khurana held senior management positions at Bharti Televentures Limited (Airtel) as President – Networks Business Group; DSC Communications A/S, Denmark as Director - Asia Pacific and Aabha Management Systems Pvt. Ltd. as Chairman and Managing Director.

Mr. Khurana, B. Tech of IITD, has 44 years of experience of setting up and successfully operating information, communications and entertainment enterprises in public and private sector. He was the founder CEO and Managing Director of Punjab Wireless Systems Ltd. at the age of 32 years, Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation Limited at 41, founder Chairman & Managing Director of Optel Telecommunications Limited at 44. Mr. Khurana was awarded the Indian industry recognition ‘Udhyog Ratna’ in 1996 for his contributions in creating “Institutions of Excellence”.

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala

Dr.Jhunjhunwala received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras, where he leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT). This group works with industry in the development of technologies relevant to India. It has incubated over 35 companies in the last twenty years. He chairs Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) at IIT Madras and Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI).

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala has been awarded Padma Shri in the year 2002. He has been  awarded  Shanti  Swarup  Bhatnagar  Award in 1998, Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research  Award  for  the  year  1997,  Millennium  Medal at Indian Science Congress  in  the  year 2000 and H. K. Firodia for "Excellence in Science & Technology"  for the year 2002, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award for Science  &  Technology  for  the  year 2004, Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary  Lecture  Award  by  INSA  for  the year 2006, IBM Innovation and Leadership Forum Award by IBM for the year 2006, awarded Bernard Low Humanitarian Award in 2009, awarded “Bharat Asmita Vigyaan –Tantragyaan  Shresththa  Award”  for  the best use of Science & Technology through  Innovation in 2010  and awarded Honorary Doctorates by  the Institute of Blekinge Institute of Technology,  Sweden in 2008 and University of Maine, USA in 2010. In 2010, he was also awarded JC Bose Fellowship in 2010 by DST, Government of India. He is a Fellow of World Wireless  Research  forum,  IEEE  and Indian academies including INAE, IAS, INSA and NAS.
Dr.  Jhunjhunwala is a Director in the Board of TTML, Polaris, 3i  Infotech,  Sasken,  Tejas, Tata Communications and Exicom. He is member of Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Committee.

Rajan S. Mathews
Director General of the industry association body – Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) representing the GSM-based service providers in India.

Mathews brings along a rich knowledge of finance and administration along with his extensive experience in the Indian telecom industry. He has been associated with various telecom firms in India as well as abroad.

Most recently Mathews was the COO of US operations and Corporate CFO and V.P. of Telargo, where he oversaw the company's US operations and financial, accounting, treasury, tax, administrative and HR functions. He has also served as President of Telephone Systems International and V.P. and CFO of Call Sciences Inc and held various senior executive positions with AT&T wireless. Earlier, he also had a stint with the research firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a senior consultant

Mahesh Vaidya

Mahesh Vaidya is a Director of Intel Capital India. His investment focus includes Technology, Media and Telecom.

Mahesh joined Intel Capital in 2008. Prior to Intel Capital, he was Vice President at GF Private Equity Group, based in Durango, Colorado, USA. His responsibilities included basic technology investment research, venture capital fund analysis, and direct private equity investments in a variety of high-tech portfolio companies. Mahesh was also a member of GF Private Equity Group's Investment Committee. He served on the boards of Redline Communications, Venda, Ltd., NOVX Systems, Veralight, Inc. and PRISMedical Corporation, and was a board observer at Packethop, Inc.Mahesh began his career as a software engineer with Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd. in India, and has wide-ranging experience in the IT Services industry. He has worked for companies in the financial services and enterprise software sectors in India, Japan, Singapore, and the United States. He began his investment career as an Intern in the International Finance Corporation's Internet Development Unit.

Mahesh received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has a Masters in Nuclear Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India.For more information on Intel Capital, please visit www.intelcapital.com

Houman Mehdyzadeh

Head of Innovation - Revolve Technologies.

Originally hailing from the United Kingdom with key experience in ICT projects within Africa, he is playing a key role in furthering the innovation and entrepreneurial ethos within the fast emerging African ICT landscape. With a focus on creating sustainable infrastructure and enabling environments for the rapidly developing Africa ICT industry, his work includes the strategizing of key alliances within the backbone connectivity, telecommunications and governmental sectors.

He is currently working with Nigerian I.T firm Revolve Technologies, with a focus towards NFC development and other emerging technologies. 

Vijay K. Aggarwal, is currently Managing Partner, Aegis Leadcap Consulting and Research, a wing of Aegis School of Business and Telecom.  Vijay’s last assignment was Wholetime Director & CEO Reliance Infratel Ltd. from Jan ‘08 to Mar ‘11.

Vijay is a Business Leader with over 36 years of diverse experience in Telecom and Electrical Industry and has successfully led profit centre responsibilities with leading Indian Transnationals Reliance, Bharti and L&T. Vijay has been instrumental in establishing Green Field Technology Projects viz India’s 1st CDMA Network and Basic Service Operations in MP for Bharti and NLD Network & ILD Voice Network for Reliance Communications. Reliance achieved #1 position in ILD voice and NLD under his leadership. Reliance also became a major Retail Voice player for Web based Virtual Calling Card from Global Markets like US, Canada, UK.
Vijay is well respected in Telecom industry and has contributed significantly to the evolution of Post Liberalization Indian Telecom Industry.  He was actively involved in TEMA in its formative years and served in various capacities - Executive Member, Treasurer & Secretary General. Vijay presented a number of strategic papers on Telecom industry, Telecom Regulatory Environment and opportunities for growth in India & abroad. Vijay is an Electronics & Telecommunication Engineer from Delhi College of Engg., Delhi University and holds MBA (Marketing) from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University.

S.P. Shukla-

In 2011, S.P. Shukla joined Mahindra as President—Special Group Projects. He was inducted as a Member of the Group Executive Board of Mahindra & Mahindra. In addition, he serves on the Boards of Mahindra Retail, Bristlecone (USA), and Mahindra First Choice Services. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Mahindra Partners - which steers the Group's foray into new ventures such as solar energy, logistics, and retail among others.

Shukla holds an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, where he received the Mahindra Industrial Scholarship for academic excellence in Marketing and Finance. He is also a B. Tech from IIT BHU, Varanasi.     

He has over 30 years of rich and varied experience in managing large projects and operations. Shukla is a veteran in the field of automotive tyres and telecom sectors in India. He has worked with Dunlop India, Swisscom Essar (now Vodafone Essar).  Before joining Mahindra, Mr. Shukla served as the President & CEO, Reliance Infratel Ltd (RITL), a large infrastructure company with sizeable investments in telecom towers and optic fibre.  Shukla is acknowledged as a pioneer in mobile telephony and has many industry-firsts to his credit in the areas of strategy, technology, and marketing.

Narayanan Madhavan

Madhavan, senior journalist, columnist and editor, has more than 25 years of experience in journalism. He is currently Associate Editor running the business news pages of Hindustan Times, and writes a weekly column on technology issues, called Tech-IT-Easy. He has earlier worked in various capacities for Reuters, the international news agency, including Chief Technology Correspondent for India. He earlier worked for The Economic Times and Business Standard.
Though focused mainly on business and economic journalism with a strong exposure to information technology and the Internet, he has also covered or written on other issues including politics, diplomacy, cinema, culture, cricket and social issues.
He has covered India's economic reform and the information technology boom from the frontlines in Delhi and Bangalore during their crucial years and also covered leading events including general elections, nuclear tests and India-Pakistan conflict.
Madhavan has an honours degree in economics and a master's degree in political science from the University of Delhi.

Satyen Gupta
Chief Regulatory Advisor & Director Govt. Affairs at BT Global Services, SAARC
Member, Task Force for National Vocational Education Framework for Telecom at CMAI Association of India
Memeber, Committee for IPV6 Address Allocation Policy in India at Govt. of India
Chairman Broadband Working Group,Communications Convergence Committee at ASSOCHAM

Co-Chairman National Leadership Development Council at ASSOCHAM
Member Oversight Committee to Implement National IPV6 Plan at Govt. of India
Member, Action Plan Committee, WSIS-2011 at Govt. of India
Joint Secretary at ITU-APT Foundation of India
Vice President at ISPAI - ISP Association of India
Founder President at Association of Competitive Telecom Operators
Chief Regulatory Advisor & Director Govt. Affairs at BT Global Services, SAARC
Chief Regulatory Advisor & Director Govt. Affairs at BT Global Services, MNC , ATRIPG, India and SAARC

Mr. Rajesh Chharia is President of the Internet Service Providers Association of India. He is presently also helping the association and the industry grow for ISP’s in the same post. Prior to this he has also served as the Vice President for the same organization in 2002. He has also played a major role in creating National Internet Exchange of India, presently he is one of the Director of NIXI.

Mr. Rajesh Chharia has a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Delhi University and is a post graduate in Commerce Honors. Beginning his career in his family business of Manufacturing Packaging Materials in 1974 in the capacity of CEO and helped the company in moving from strength to strength.

Apart from association he is also connected with following positions:
• Executive Council Member of ISPAI (Internet Service Providers
Association of India) since 2001
• Member of Technical Committee of ISPAI
• Member Regional Advisory Committee, RAC, Central Excise and
Service Tax Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.
• Director NIXI (National Internet Exchange India)

Anil Prakash
Chairman at India Resource Center

Has a sound back ground of 26 years work experience, in IT, Telecom and Entertainment Industries. He is an expert in telecom policy and regulatory affairs, Govt. Relations and International Business Development. He helped to found PTC India Foundation a country chapter of Pacific Telecommunications Council in India in 1994, Telecom Users Group of India in 1997 and an ITU/APT Foundation of India in 2003. He is an active member of Pacific Telecommunications Council www.ptc.org , International Telecom Users Group www.intug.net and International Engineering Consortium www.iec.org apart from being associated with number of regional and international forum.
He is currently Director in AirPhone Technologies, New Delhi a New Media consulting company comprises experts from various discipline from IT and Telecom. He is also a Secretary General of the Telecom Users Group of India and ITU-APT Foundation of India, a not to profit organization involved in high-level interaction with policy, regulatory and development framework both in India and abroad for the benefit of telecommunity.
He is been on the Panel of Judges for World Communication Award, 2008.

Baburajan Kizhakedath

Chief Editor, telecomlead.com and CEO, AB Media Ventures at www.telecomlead.com, AB Media Ventures
He was Executive Editor for Voice&Data, CyberMedia India

Anuraj Gambhir
he has worked in the mobile industry for over 20 years across many parts of the mobile value web and Devices ecosystem including leading Mobile Network Operators, Device Manufacturers, R&D Centres, International Bodies, Consultancy Firms, VAS developers/providers & wireless technology retail in Asia-Pacific, North America & Europe. He has an honours degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with specialization in Telecommunications from the University of NSW (Australia), a micro-eMBA from Oxford (UK) and recently completed a leadership excellence program from ISB (India).
                              
He has worked from hands-on technical roles to senior executive management positions and is regarded by many as an industry visionary. Companies he has worked for include: NASA/JPL, SingTel Optus, Logica/Aethos, T-Mobile, Orange, GSM Association, Sharp, Siemens, BenQ mobile, Spice Corp & now Ericsson.

Anuraj joined Ericsson mid-2008 to head up Multimedia Strategy & Innovation and is currently based in India. He has been spearheading several initiatives and projects to make Innovation a core activity for the organization globally. In Jan 2011 he was honoured with an award for excellence in innovation at the International Innovation Summit in Mumbai.

Bhoopesh Raghav
Prof. Telecom Business
Partner Aegis Research and Consulting
Currently providing consultancy support to state utility company in forays into telecom using OPGW network.  Developing network business for growing companies in India and Africa.
Earlier worked on international business in Reliance Communication, Tata Communications; developed ILD business for Idea Cellular and pan India network for Loop Telecom. He has rich experience of working in Africa and in management of submarine projects.
Past: Chief Technical Officer, Glo Gateway, Globacom, Nigeria; Head NLD/ILD at Essar/ Loop; Advisor ILD at Idea Cellular
ILD at Reliance Infocomm

Bhoopesh has an MBA from  Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, India; M.Tech (Computer Sc.), School of Computer Sc, JNU, New Delhi and B.Tech  (Electronics Engg), Institute of Tech.[IT, BHU], Varanasi, India    

Subho Ray, Ph.D
President, Internet and Mobile Association of India
As president, Subho heads the permanent secretariat of the association and is an ex-officio member of its governing council. He is currently responsible for conceptualising and implementing the association’s strategy and activities around regulatory affairs, public policy, industry standards, research, communications and promotional events.  

Established in 2004, Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI] is the only industry association in India representing the collective voice and interests of the 100+ online and mobile content and services industry.

In his current role, Subho has been instrumental in initiating some crucial steps for the development of the industry. The main among these are instituting an accreditation process for interactive agencies, a credit recovery process for online publishers, organizing and getting recognition for the mobile value added services industry, and for opening up the pre-paid instruments and mobile payment industry.

Under Subho’s leadership, IAMAI has also been in the forefront of formation of public policy and regulations relating to digital industry and taken the leadership position in all internet and mobile value added services research in India.

Before joining IAMAI, Subho was director for the ICT vertical at the Confederation of Indian Industry (India’s largest industry body) in New Delhi where he worked since 1998.

Anuj Bhargava, President of the Institute of Management Consultants of India (IMCI). He is the founder CEO of A.B. Associates a premier consulting firm. He has been a visionary and has contributed to industry utilities across continents. In India and elsewhere he has given speed to reform in the deployment of technology and business management. He has brought about a fusion in technology and business and they way both are run.

He has been active as a consultant and line manager in the IT and Management space for over 25 years. He is currently driving the set-up of a leading IT and Network Security Services Solutions provider and he remains focused on using the Mobile for Payment Applications for enterprises/Banks. He also facilitates the   restructuring of corporations which includes the financing and operations of firms.

He has had the unique distinction of leading the Finance, Marketing and Technology functions of leading organizations.

He was the CIO (Chief Information Officer) of HSBC and was responsible for the India Area Management office. He was responsible for the day to day operations of the bank pan India across all verticals, compliance, audit and regulatory deliverables, strategy formulation which included envisioning new business opportunities for the bank.  He was involved in starting key initiatives in CRM, Data Warehousing, New branch set-ups, Data centre and DR, Budgeting, Costing and Profitability Management for IT as Shared Services organization across the bank and contributed to IT Strategy for the Bank for the region on HR policies.  He also had a strong retail and service management thrust.