Rajiv Bajaj
Position : Managing Director
Company : Bajaj Auto
About: Rajiv Bajaj needs no introduction in Pune. He is an articulate and passionate speaker, who is known to speak his mind. When he joined his family business in the late 90s, Bajaj, India’s undisputed leader in two wheeler market was slowly losing ground to motorcycles made by international joint venture companies. Rajiv fought back by making his own motorcycles and today, Bajaj Pulsar is a sought after bike by the Indian youth. His corporate theme of ‘Profitable Growth through a cross-functional effort of Winning Products, Satisfied Customers, and Lean Operations’ has kept the Bajaj flag flying high. We look forward to hearing him @ TIECONPune 2014.
Aditya Kulkarni
Position : Co-Founder & Chief Product Ion
Company : Little Eye Labs(acquired by Facebook)
About: Acquisition of Little Eye Labs by Facebook was an Eye Popping event. Their product Little Eye is a Performance Analysis and Monitoring tool that can help identify and fix performance problems in Android Apps. In mere 18 months, the company created a huge impact and got global attention. What is the secret of their success? Is there a magic formula? According to Kumar Rangrajan, Chief Ion at Little Eye Labs, their goal is to build ‘super easy’ to use products. All of us know that’s not easy!! How did they manage it in such short time? Let’s find out answers to all these questions while we hear the exciting story from Aditya Kulkarni, who as Chief Product Ion built Little Eye. Btw what is ‘Ion’…one more question
K. Ganesh
Position: Partner
Company : Growthstory.in
About: Ganesh is a successful serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. His last venture, TutorVista was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM. He was among the top 5 nominee for the Economic Times Entrepreneur of the year 2012 award. His current venture, Portea Medical aims at providing technology led home health care services to the Indian consumer. Tagline of Growthstory is “HELPING GROW TOMORROW’S GIANTS!”and their goalis to help each and every start-up become a large growth company that generates tons of jobs and makes a difference in our lives. Let us hear K Ganesh unravel the mysteries of growth!
Devdutt Pattanaik
Position : Chief Belief Officer
Company : Future Group
About: Devdutt Pattanaik is back in TIECON Pune 2014 by popular demand. This year he has chosen the topic of “Is an Entrepreneur a Brahma?” Devdutt brings in a refreshingly new perspective on entrepreneurship and leadership. He is a mythologist by choice and draws extensively on sacred stories, symbols and rituals. This session will surely take the audience to the very core of ‘new beginning’. We can’t wait to listen to Devdutt weaving magic through mythology and its relevance in modern times, especially to the entrepreneurs.
P R Ganapathy
Position : COO
Company : Villgro Innovations
About: PR "Guns" Ganapathy is the COO at Villgro Innovations, one of India's oldest and most respected social enterprise incubators. Villgro’s mission is to “make impactful innovators succeed”, and Guns has operational and strategic responsibility for all major programs that make that vision a reality. In addition to running Villgro’s programs, Guns directly mentors several social enterprises in the Villgro portfolio, spending significant amounts of time helping entrepreneurs overcome their challenges and scale. He is also actively involved in building the social enterprise ecosystem in India, through organizations like the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, by active participation in various industry bodies and working groups, and by giving inspirational talks at Prior to Villgro, Guns co-founded a venture-funded startup and held leadership positions at small and large corporations in India and the US. He has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and an Honors degree in Mathematics from Hindu College.
Manak Singh
Position : Co-Founder
Company : ASCENT Foundation
About: Mr. Manak Singh is a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and is active on several platforms aimed at fostering a more vibrant entrepreneurial eco-system. Prior to become an evangelist for entrepreneurship, Manak held various professional roles in corporate India including at ICICI Bank, Samsung, BSE and Sony Music. He was also a part of the MphasiS Asia Pacific team based out of Singapore.
Venky Iyer
Position : CEO
Company : Goli Vada Pav
About: Deep consumer insight especially in food space. Visionary par excellence..normally sees things beyond the obvious. He is the man behind the strategy & vision and his focus has been towards the "What" and "How" of the business . Over his 15 years of experience in financial services, he has been instrumental in helping entrepreneurs translate ideas into business in the Modern Retail, Fashion & Computer education space. His ultimate dream has been of "Corporatisation" of the humble Vada Pav and to see Vada Pav as a brand amongst the Pizzas & Burgers of the world.
Milind Borate
Position : Co-Founder & CTO
Company : Druva
About: Milind co-founded Druva in 2008 and serves as the CTO for the organization. Druva provides endpoint data management solutions to more than 3000 customers globally. Prior to co-founding Druva, Milind worked at Veritas Software as Technical Director for SAN-FS and served on the board of the Veritas patent filter committee. Milind has filed over 15 patent applications (4 allotted) and co-authored "Undocumented Windows NT" in 1998. He is a strong believer in bringing technology to solutions and is passionate about building engineering teams that deliver end-to-end solutions. His favorite pass-time is philosophizing on software development.
Ravi Pandit
Position : Chairman & Group CEO
Company : KPIT
About: Ravi is a gold medalist and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an associate member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. With masters from Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, USA, Ravi has extensive experience of over three decades in the fields of Information Technology. From his accounting roots, Mr. Pandit, along with his team, has built the global IT, engineering & BPO services company KPIT, with leadership in sharply defined focus areas. Listed on the BSE and NSE, KPIT focuses on co-innovating domain intensive technology solutions for Manufacturing corporations (with special focus on Automotive, transportation & manufacturing, Energy & Utilities and defense & Government) to help its customers become efficient, integrated and innovative enterprises.
Mahesh Murthy
Position : Founder
Company : Seedfund
About: Mr. Mahesh Murthy has over 26 years of marketing and communications experience, of which 15 years are in online marketing. Mahesh returned to India to run Channel V, a rival to MTV, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in and guide startups. Mahesh writes a column in The Wall Street Journal.
