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CHANGEAGENTS100

TRANSFORMATION CATALYSTS OF

TOMORROW With IT transforming how business is done across India, these IT Heads are the new stars of Enterprises, enabling grown through technology. Owing to their importance in organizations today, we showcase the achievements, plans and personalities of 100 of the leading CIOs from across the country. .. p16

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Secondly, after completing the profile of the 100 ChangeAgentswe would be felicitated with awards during H1 this year.

This year’s budget is wonderful at least from the infrastructure point of view, which has provisioned to invest as much as Rs.3,96,135 crore in creating and upgrading infrastructure in the next financial year. Roads and highways allocation up to Rs.64,900 crore from Rs. 52,447 crore revised. Very good thing is that rural roads construction work to accelerate to 133 km/day in 201617 from 73 km/day in 2011-14. Similarly, there is a provision of 8% increase in allocation for railway expenditure to Rs. 1,31,000 crore; 3,500km of railway lines to be laid in 2017-18 against 2,800km in 2016-17.

Besides the creation of affordable housing has been given infrastructure status and tax incentives have been given, too. So, the CIOs in these related sectors would find them being over occupied for next one year or so.

The reduction in customs and excise duties on machinery, parts used to manufacture solar power project components, would certainly boost the sector. Similarly, the real industry may get fillip because of the promise of the government to create affordable housing by 2019.

So, when all these developments are going to happen, there is every chance that the bad guys would be attracted to India and would try to disturb the peace by barging into the networks. Therefore, the CIOs need to be extra cautious now towards safeguarding their organizations’ reputation and revenue. Indicators are already there that the 2017 would have more cyber-attacks on Indian economy compared to previous years. The CIOs are therefore advised by the experts that they should not take security as after though and keep on testing their networks on a regular basis.

BE A CHANGE AGENT Hello Friends You will be happy to know that this edition of the issue is dedicated to the CIOs – named as ChangeAgents100,

where we have profiled more than 30 change agents – aka - CIOs this time and subsequent two issues would have profiling of rest of the 70 people.These CIOs are the though leaders in their community and ahead of others in terms of implementing third platform including cloud computing, big data & analytics, and IOT. Therefore, they are the change agents of their respective organizations.

The reason behind bringing out editions around the ChangeAgents is that they would be exemplary for others CIOs in the country. We are covering these people’s professional performance, decision making, role in implementing SMAC technologies in the organizations. Plus, we have also covered their hobbies and indulgence in sports. Other CIOs who are hesitant about taking fruitful decision to enable their organizations due to the fear of being backfired, can now muster confidence and self-belief.

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ChangeAgents100 Vol. 2

SMART CITIES

This issue would showcase the second volume of Top CIOs and their achievements. We will delve deep into the achievements of the CIOs and honor them with mementos. The CIOs f eatured are actively involved in implementing Third Platform.

The digitization drive has gained traction with a number of smart city projects going from plan to action in 2016. The story will take a look at the deployments, talk to the stakeholders and map the progress of these initiatives.

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Opportunities in Healthcare

A number of vendors have been actively rolling out solutions in healthcare. We analyse the Indian Healthcare Market and how the sector will shape up in 2017.

Send in your inputs to sanjay@accentinfomedia.com

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Owing to their importance in organizations today, we showcase the achievements, plans and personalities of 100 of the leading CIOs from across the country.

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8.4 Billion Connected “Things” to be Active in 2017

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Gartner forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020.

Total spending on endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion in 2017.

Regionally, Greater China, North America and Western Europe are driving the use of connected things and the three regions together will represent 67 percent of the overall Internet of Things (IoT) installed base in 2017.

In addition to smart meters, applications tailored to specific industry verticals (including manufacturing field devices, process sensors for electrical generating plants and real-time location devices for healthcare) will drive the use of connected things among businesses through 2017, with 1.6 billion units deployed. However, from 2018 onwards, 6

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cross-industry devices, such as those targeted at smart buildings (including LED lighting, HVAC and physical security systems) will take the lead as connectivity is driven into higher-volume, lower cost devices. In 2020, cross-industry devices will reach 4.4 billion units, while vertical-specific devices will amount to 3.2 billion units.

While consumers purchase more devices, businesses spend more. Consumer applications will amount to $725 billion in 2017. By 2020, hardware spending from both segments will reach almost $3 trillion. “IoT services are central to the rise in IoT devices,” said Denise Rueb, research director at Gartner. Total IoT services spending (professional, consumer and connectivity services) is on pace to reach $273 billion in 2017.

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$3Mn Global Drone Shipments are predicted to cross 3 Million in 2017

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BlackBerry Enters Communications PaaS Market

HPE Optimizes IT Flexibility and Scalability for SMBs Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced server and storage innovations to help small and midsized businesses (SMB) strike the right balance of hybrid IT today and as they grow, including solutions that provide a futureproof and risk-free path from entry to private cloud.

Resource-constrained SMBs are increasingly embracing a hybrid mix of on-prem and cloud infrastructure to help provide agility and efficiency as they grow. To support the right mix, HPE is announcing enhancements to its leading HPE StoreEasy Storage family including integrated cloud backup with Microsoft Azure as well as an expansion to the award-winning HPE ProLiant Easy Connect hybrid cloud platform and HPE Flex Solutions.

In addition, new enhancements to flash-ready HPE StoreVirtual 3200 Storage give even the most budget-constrained

customers the ability to scale their storage up, out and across to meet changing business needs while also supporting a diverse set of unified file and block workloads – a first for the entry storage market.

New security features within the HPE StoreEasy Storage family harden protection from man-in-the-middle attacks while data is in flight while providing up to 2X better encryption performancefor large files. HPE ProLiant Easy Connect is ideal for small businesses, education and enterprise multi-sites such as remote offices and branches. Customers with limited on-site IT resources benefit significantly as the solution is managed remotely from the cloud by HPE partners. Pre-integrated with cloud services, WiFi connection and managed remotely from the cloud, ProLiant Easy Connect provides an agile, scalable and on-demand IT solution.

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22-24 FEB 2017

Coimbatore, India International Conference of Electrical, Computer and Communication Technology ICECCT, INDIA 2017

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BlackBerry entered the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market with the introduction of its BBM Enterprise SDK (software development kit) that will enable developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services. Available worldwide this month, the BBM Enterprise SDK allows BlackBerry to be competitive with other cloud communications platforms by presenting enterprises and developers APIs to enhance overall business processes.

“We are constantly innovating and looking for ways to leverage our legacy and expertise in secure mobility to solve real business problems,” said Marty Beard, Chief Operating Officer, BlackBerry. “We are opening up a new revenue stream for the company with a fully cloud-based communication service that is designed to help developers, ISVs, and enterprises meet the most demanding security and compliance requirements.”

With more than 80 security certifications and approvals to date – more than any other mobile vendor – BBM Enterprise SDK leverages this expertise to provide the highest-level of security for messages, voice, and video for iOS and Android.

09 MAR 2017 19 APR 2017 21–23 APR London, United New York, United 2017 Kingdom States Experienced VoIP & UC thought-leaders address communications-related dilemmas, sharing their experiences and practices

Brings together senior IT execs for engaging discussions on new approaches to managing complexities in Information Security

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EXECUTIVE ALLIANCE’S SECURITY LEADERS’ SUMMIT 2017

Praha 1, Czech Republic Discussions on applications of modern trends in artificial intelligence MACHINE LEARNING PRAGUE 2017

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Microsoft Azure IP Advantage Program Secures Cloud Innovations

S/HE SAID IT

PP CHAUDHARY,

MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND IT; LAW & JUSTICE.

“The Govt. is making concentrated efforts to ensure the last mile connectivity of broadband services across the country to make Internet available to all. Digital India will ensure that government services are available to Indian citizens at all times.”

Microsoft India announced the launch of the Azure IP Advantage program – the industry’s most comprehensive protection against intellectual property (IP) risks. The program is aimed at fostering a community that values and protects innovation and investments in the cloud.

The Azure IP Advantage program will help Azure customers and developers focus on innovation, while allowing businesses and enterprises to be able to respond to the changing needs of their customers with agility, without the fear of litigation.

As the industry shifts to the cloud, it will generate more than $1 trillion in IT spending by 2020, as per Gartner estimates. Given this enormous opportunity, it is important to address the growing risk of intellectual property lawsuits in the cloud.

Microsoft Azure IP Advantage program provides customers with: Best-in-industry intellectual property protection with uncapped indemnification coverage will now also cover any open source technology that powers Microsoft Azure services, such as Hadoop used for Azure HD Insight.

The program will make available 10,000 Microsoft patents to customers that use Azure services for the sole purpose of enabling them to better defend themselves against patent lawsuits against their services that run on top of Azure. These patents are broadly representative of Microsoft’s overall patent portfolio and are the result of years of cutting-edge innovation by our best engineers around the world.

Microsoft is committed to ensure that the cloud is used for good, and it will stand with its customers to protect them against intellectual property risk.

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“(IoT) Deployments are expected to increase substantially in 2017 driven primarily by high level of adoption in traditional sectors such as manufacturing. We need

to look at incentivizing IoT to pave way for more sectors embracing IoT.” D R . R I S H I B H AT N A G A R , P R E S I D E N T , A E R I S C O M M U N I C AT I O N S , C H A I R M A N - I OT PA N E L I N D I A

NetApp Reports Q3 FY17 Results.

Net Revenues $1.40Bn; Up 5% Q-o-Q and 1% Y-o-Y. All-flash array annualized net revenue run rate $1.40Bn, up 160% Y-o-Y. Nearly 300 petabytes flash shipped. $336Mn returned to shareholders in repurchases & cash dividend.

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Huawei, Oracle Enter ‘Power IoT Ecosystem Partnership’

Hitachi Delivers Operational Intelligence for Smart Cities Hitachi Insight Group, which is responsible for driving the global unified internet of things (IoT) business and go-to-market (GTM) strategy for Hitachi unveiled new video analytics software to enhance and extend its Smart City and Public Safety solutions portfolio. Hitachi Video Analytics (HVA) combines computer vision and advanced analytics to extract rich insights and generate real-time alerts that can provide cities, airports, campuses, transportation agencies, and businesses with: Operational and business intelligence: People counting, queue detection, activity analysis, directional counting, and image enhancement deliver insights that help cities, businesses and other organizations improve operations and customer experi-

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ences. It also helps to protect individual privacy, which can help to reduce their risk and liability.

HVA brings advanced analytic methodologies and unique features to Hitachi’s comprehensive video security and monitoring stack, which improve user experience, deliver a higher quality video data for analysis and help to protect privacy. “Video is an effective tool for keeping people and property safe, but still remains a significantly underutilized source for operational, business, and public safety data today. ,” said Mark Jules, vice president, public safety and smart city solutions at Hitachi Insight Group. HVA is generally available now from Hitachi and select partners.

Huawei and Oracle officially signed a ‘Power IoT Ecosystem Partnership’ MOU recently, which will see continued cooperation around the marketing and sales of the Huawei AMI Solution with Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management (MDM), Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway (SGG) and related Oracle Utilities products.

Huawei and Oracle plan to continue cooperating around customer requirements, with the parties able to make use of Huawei’s leading-edge Information and Communication Technology products and solutions, in coordination with Oracle’s strong capability of R&D, implementation and outsourcing services in the utility industry. Huawei, a Platinum member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, delivers a powerful service package, its AMI solution. Oracle Utilities MDM provides comprehensive management of meter commands for remote switch, data and event access and meter ping. Oracle Utilities MDM and Huawei HES work together to optimize AMI scenarios.

MOVEMENT MobiKwik Appoints BikramBir Singh as Business Head Ex CRISIL Directorwill focus on accelerating MobiKwik’s growth in various geographies.

Snapdeal Hires Jason Kothari as Chief Strategy & Investment Officer Housing.com’sEx-CEO responsible for leading

TierPoint Promotes Terry Morrison to Chief Technology Officer Responsible for leading technology initiatives in support of hybrid IT solutions.

strategy; raising new capital & portfolio mgmt.

Xerox Names Steve Hoover as Chief Technology Officer Hoover will be responsible for research & product development, reporting to Jeff Jacobson.

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Telit Expands End-to-End IoT Reach with GainSpan Acquisition

Telit has agreed to acquire Silicon Valley-based GainSpan Corporation (“GainSpan”). GainSpan is a wireless connectivity solution provider that specializes in the design and development of ultra-low power Wi-Fi technology. The company manufactures and commercializes chips and modules for battery-powered devices and related intellectual property (IP) with embedded software, including network stacks and application reference designs. GainSpan has over 90 employees, mostly R&D and application and support engineers, spread across an R&D center in Bangalore, India and San Jose, California.

“As we enter an era of maturity for the IoT, we are starting to witness the appearance of spaces within it such as the Internet of Sensors, the Internet of Cars, and the Internet of Digital,” said Oozi Cats, CEO of Telit. “With few exceptions, the ability to cut the power cord is an essential growth engine for all these branches of the IoT.” The new business addition positions Telit to expand its complete end-to-end IoT solutions portfolio and address the growing market of battery-powered devices that rely on Wi-Fi and other low-power technologies. GainSpan products are situated at the intersection of several emerging segments in IoT such as healthcare, building management, cold-chain logistics, and a wide range of commercial and industrial application areas. “The acquisition of GainSpan brings to Telit a world-class portfolio and a proven track record of Wi-Fi and low-power module solutions trusted by tier-one customers,” continued Oozi Cats. “Combined with our existing portfolio of products and solutions for the IoT, this addition positions us well for future growth in our target segments, including security and surveillance, home automation, healthcare, asset management, and smart cities.”

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Tenable Redefines Vulnerability Mgmt with New SaaS Platform

Tenable Network Security made available Tenable.io the industry’s first cloud-based vulnerability management platform to secure the full range of assets in the modern elastic IT environment. “Networks, assets and threats have all changed dramatically over the last few years, but vulnerability management hasn’t kept up,” said AmitYoran, CEO, Tenable Network Security. “This innovation gap has left organizations everywhere struggling to

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answer the most basic question in security: what is my vulnerability and risk exposure?

Tenable.io represents a new, more strategic approach to vulnerability management for today’s elastic attack surface, with the capabilities and flexibility organizations need to understand and improve their cybersecurity risk posture.”

Tenable also announced immediate plans to extend Tenable.io capabilities in early 2017 new products.

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National Cyber Coordination Centre will be set up to address the issues related to #CyberSecurity.

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F5 Networks Expands Application Security to India Market NVIDIA Powers Super computing Workstations for

Design & Engineering NVIDIA introduced a range of Quadro products, all based on its Pascal architecture, that transform desktop workstations into supercomputers with breakthrough capabilities for professional workflows across many industries. Workflows in design, engineering and other areas are evolving rapidly to meet the exponential growth in data size and complexity that comes with photorealism, virtual reality and deep learning technologies. To tap into these opportunities, the new NVIDIA Quadro Pascal-based lineup provides an enterprise-grade visual computing platform that streamlines design and simulation workflows with up to twice the performance of the previous generation, and ultra-fast memory.

“Professional workflows are now infused

with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and photorealism, creating new challenges for our most demanding users,” said Bob Pette, vice president of Professional Visualization at NVIDIA. Unify simulation, HPC, rendering and design - The GP100 combines unprecedented double precision performance with 16GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) so users can conduct simulations during the design process and gather realistic multiphysics simulations faster than ever before.

Customers can combine two GP100 GPUs with NVLink technology and scale to 32GB of HBM2 to create a massive visual computing solution on a single workstation.

The new NVIDIA Quadro products will be available starting in March from OEMs.

Paladion Introduces Cybersecurity-as-a-Service for Indian Banks Paladion provides High Speed Cyber Security as a Service, powered

by Microsoft Azure, to enable banks in

India better manage their Cyber threats.

PaladionOnDemand, a unified cybersecurity management platform,

that integrates protection across endpoints, mobile devices, network, applications, data, identities & cloud; and provides

F5 Networks introduced security solutions that provide visibility, context, and control to overcome today’s evolving threats. In a digital-driven economy, applications deliver business services for a variety of access points and locations, opening up new risks and attack vectors—particularly as IT teams extend security and encryption capabilities across cloud, data center, and hybrid environments.

“Business leaders across different sectors are increasingly cognizant of how powerful applications and data assets can be in the journey to achieving agility demanded from the shift to the digital economy,” said Mohan Veloo, CTO, Asia Pacific, F5 Networks. The majority of web/ application traffic is now encrypted, meaning any attempts to address application security via traditional methods alone are severely limited.

To complement its products and services, F5 has assembled a team of security industry experts and researchers to gather global threat intelligence, analyze application threats, and publish related findings.

real-time visibility of the overall security posture of banks – all from a single source. Driven by 450+ cyber security experts from its Global Security Operation Centers hosted in secure Microsoft Azure environment, PaladionOnDemand leverages a combination of artificial intelligence,

human intelligence and automation to help banks achieve high speed cyber defense - faster detection of threats, faster response to incidents, faster remediation to close security loopholes and faster compliance with regulatory mandates like RBI CSF.

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Cisco and other industry experts anticipate large-scale deployments of 5G infrastructures to begin by 2020. Doug Webster, Vice President of Service Provider Marketing at Cisco said, “With the proliferation of IoT, live mobile video, augmented and virtual reality applications, and more innovative experiences for consumer and business users alike, 5G technology will have significant relevance not just for mobility but rather for networking as a whole.”

The Business Blockchain is an invitation for technologists to better understand the business potential of the blockchain, and for business minded people to grasp the many facets of blockchain technology.

Key Features The book charts new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before.

Matrix Advances UC Flexibility with Microsoft Outlook Integration– Office Automation Matrix Comsec enhanced its UC portfolio with Outlook Integration in VARTA WIN200 – The UC Client for seamless collaboration.

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and Conferencing, Hot Keys, Calendar Integration, Instant MessagingSagarGosalia Sr. Vice President, Sales and Marketing said, “The Integration is a progressive step towards an improved collaboration of communication solution. Matrix is looking to develop more such features, making it easy for the customers and setting new standards of business communication that will enhance user experience.”

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MANTRA

“The best buy, by way of management is brains-at any price.”

—MALCOLM FORBES, PUBLISHER, FORBES MAGAZINE. Dell EMC Accelerates PC Deployment with ProDeploy Client Suite

Dell EMC announced the launch of ProDeploy Client Suite, enabling customers to deploy PCs with greater speed, less effort and increased control. With three different service levels, training and certification, customers have the flexibility to choose the specific service to meet their needs.

Jeff Clarke, Dell vice chairman, Operations and president, Client Solutions Group said, “Our differentiated services are a big reason customers buy from Dell. ProDeploy Client Suite provides IT managers the flexibility to outsource time-consuming deployment tasks that divert IT staff from more critical initiatives. They can now focus on delivering a great end-user experience and increase productivity by putting a fullyconfigured system in their employees’ hands.”

IndrajitBelgundi, Director & General Manager, Client Solutions Group, Dell EMC said, “We live in an era where technology has to respond to business demands faster than ever before. When customers require new solutions to meet their business requirements; time, resources and effort go into planning, installation, configuration and deploying new technologies. During this process, a customer ends up losing time

which could have otherwise enabled them to optimize their IT to best meet business demands.

Our offering enables a customer to supplement capabilities by integrating new technologies in existing environments with confidence, and focus their energies in spending more time innovating for their business. We strongly believe that, through our offering, a customer will be able to maximize the value of hardware and software right from day one of the new technology deployment.”

Doug Schmitt, president, Dell EMC Services said, “Dell EMC is committed to delivering world-class services that provide customers with choice, flexibility and scale.

ProDeploy Client Suite furthers our tradition of continuous innovation by providing customers with new solutions that help them get the most value from their Dell technology. The suite’s powerful combination of expertise, automation and control empowers IT resources and gives end-users the ability to use their systems straight out of the box.”

ProDeploy Client Suite is available for Dell Latitude, OptiPlex and Precision systems across 70 countries.

Oracle Drives Cloud Innovation with Startup Accelerator Program Oracle announced the expansion of its Startup Cloud Accelerator program. The initiative will continue to fuel cloudenabled innovation around the globe by opening new centers in Bristol, Delhi– NCR, Mumbai, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore and Tel Aviv.

Run by members of the Oracle research and development team, the program provides six months of mentoring from technical and business experts, state-ofthe-art technology, a co-working space, access to Oracle customers, partners and investors, and free Oracle Cloud credits.

It also offers an ever-expanding global network of startup peers.

“After a successful launch in Bangalore, India, we’re committed to building a supportive ecosystem for startups across the globe,” said Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s president of product development. “Cloud is enabling incredible innovations across every aspect of business and across every industry. We want to support this next technology revolution powered by cloud.”

“The Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator has been—without a doubt—the greatest launch pad for us,” said AardraKannanAmbili, co-founder and CTO of healthcare IoT startup Riot Solutions, a participant in the pilot program. “Thanks to Oracle, we are now a fast-growing startup with seed investment.”

“The next five to ten years promise innovations and growth that will drive new business ideas enabled by the cloud,” said Bradford. “Oracle understands that startups are at the heart of innovation, and through this program we aim to give startups access to extensive resources and support when they need it most.”

The Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator is open to early-stage technology and technology-enabled startups.

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CHANGEAGENTS100

TRANSFORMATION CATALYSTS OF

TOMORROW

With IT transforming how business is done across India, these IT Heads are the new stars of Enterprises, enabling grown through technology. Owing to their importance in organizations today, we showcase the achievements, plans and personalities of 100 of the leading CIOs from across the country.

BY CHITRESH SEHGAL CSEHGAL@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM

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ith the race to go digital heating up, Indian enterprises have realized the importance of IT in not just having an edge against competition but even staying at pace with other organizations. Information technology has transformed the dynamics of businesses across verticals.

Today, no big Enterprise takes any boardroom decisions without the involvement of IT heads. These technology decision makers for enterprises are the go to problem solvers of the day. Known my different designations across businesses, these CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, IT Directors and Heads have been trump cards for their organizations, working as transformation catalysts in this age of information.

Owing to the importance of these technocrat CIOs which form the core readership of Enterprise IT World, we have come out with a special initiative ‘ChangeAgents100’ wherein we will be highlighting the achievements and ideologies of 100 frontrunner CIOs across the next three issues of the magazine. This issue features Volume 1 of the initiative with profiles of CIOs from different sectors ranging from Banking corporations, manufacturing domain, 16 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD 2017

FMCG, education sector, consumer technology, e-commerce and service industry. These CXOs specializing in optimizing businesses to propel them ahead of market rivals have shared immensely interesting and informative responses, some of which are indeed enlightening. The information garnered includes their own experience and expertise, highlights of the organization’s IT prowess, their success mantras, information that gives us a big picture of how they balance their personal and professional lives, as well vital advise to fellow CIOs and other stakeholders in enterprise IT. We believe the mega three volume profiling titled ‘ChangeAgents100’ will be a great experience for all our readership and different IT players and vendors associated with our publication.

2016 had been a big year of IT in Enterprise India and many in the CIO community believe that 2017 will be the year when CIOs and CTOs come to the fore in C-Suite discussions across sectors.

These CIOs form our very own Enterprise IT World CIO community which has now emerged as a true platform for recognizing achievements, garnering information and networking with other stakeholders in the domain. With this I will leave you with the first round of CIO profiles. Hope you enjoy.

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LAVESH VERMA, HEAD-IT (AMI), JAMNA AUTO INDUSTRIES LTD.

Industry Experience: 24 years of crossfunctional experience in IT Management and Operations

transformation initiatives to implement Sales Executive Tracking System on Mobile for its AMI Business functions, also generating BIG Analytical Data to have a micro level understanding view of the Leaf Spring Market across globe which is growing CAGR 6-7% annually. To keep track on Sales executives which is more than 100+, IT have taken initiative to implement SO Tracking System which is customized as per companies requirement.

iPad. Can quickly check emails, internet and relax with the online games.

Plans for 2017: FY 2017 -18 is for CIOs. Govt. has already started so many initiatives to be enabled by CIO like GST & ZED (Zero Defect Zero Effect) under Make In India Initiatives, also focusing to implementing Mechanic schemes to boost AMI sales activities will be activated through Mobile App

Favorite holiday destination: Gangtok.

Go there every alternate year. The chilling weather,heavenly feel, clouds all around, the fantastic view of Kanchenjunga, Baba Mandir and frozen Changu lake.

Academic Excellence: IT professional graduate from Delhi University,

Mantra for Success: Be positive, having patience while achieving improvements and giving 100% with team work is my success mantra.

Highlights 2016: Taken strategic digital

Favorite piece of personal technology:

Hobbies pursued in free time: Spend time with friends and family when free.

Family: Single, not yet married.

One good book read recently:“Who Moved My Cheese. An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life

Social network most active on: Facebook Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Tangri Chicken from ‘Kake da Hotel’ in CP, New Delhi Favorite Sport: Cricket

SATISH PAPNOI, CTO, SARLA HOLDING PVT. LTD- PATHWAYS GROUP OF SCHOOLS

Enterprise Mobility- BYOD was successfully implemented and deployed, Upgraded GPS based Vehicle Tracking System.

Industry Experience: 19+ year experience in IT Academic Excellence: Master’s degree in IT. Certifications from Microsoft, CISCO and in Signaling Technology from Nippon Signal Japan.

Highlights 2016: Implemented Enterprise wide Security for the Group covering six locations, deployed CCTV Surveillance in school buses, in-house Library Management system migrated to Cloud,

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Plans for 2017: Implementation of PeopleSoft ERP for Financial Supply Chain Management, Deployment of SMART Surveillance System for all Campuses (about 3000 Cameras), Development of own (Pathways) App, Whole IT Network setup for two new school sites, setup about 150 SMART Class rooms and Up-gradation of communication system, deployment of 3D Printing.

Mantra for Success: Handling IT operations is a 24*7 stressful and thankless job’. It becomes more stressful when other passes their own failures on you. Thinking from the same perspective, will not take us anywhere because ‘Past and People’ will never be in our control. Think out of the box, convert challenges to opportunities and most importantly ‘being honest with self is key to

success of anything.’

Favorite piece of personal technology: Apple gadgets Hobbies pursued in free time: Playing with kids, cooking for family and friends and exploring new places Family: My lovely wife MeenuPapnoi. Son Snehal and daughter Sneha.

One good book read recently:The Habit of winning and 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck Favorite holiday destination: Vaishno Devi for more than 20 years now. I return back with lots of energy and creative ideas.

Social network most active on: LinkedIn Preferred Cuisine of Choice: North Indian dishes Favorite Sport: Squash

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This unique approach allows organizations to control the usage of any data on an unknown device by an unknown user in an unknown environment using any file and any application. This approach focused the security only on the data and made it independent of all other factors. This resulted in a 20-fold reduction in the cost of building a rights management product but also made it a mainstream product used by some of the largest enterprises in the world.

ABHIJITTANNU, FOUNDER AND CTO, SECLORE TECHNOLOGY

Industry Experience: 22 Years Academic Excellence: Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur Highlights 2016: At Seclore, we came up with the concept of application virtualization to achieve information-centric security.

Plans for 2017: In 2017 we move towards stronger legislation combined with securing the data at the source. These will be two imperative shifts in the fight against the litany of unceasing data breaches.

As hackers are taking a more targeted approach by exploiting higher value breaches beyond credit cards and social security numbers, no longer can we rely on just securing the infrastructure or devices.

Favorite piece of personal technology: Seclore’s own product which I use to secure all my confidential information.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Play Badminton and go for a jog.

Family: I come from a modest middle class family. My father was a government servant and mother a school teacher. My sister is a professor at SNDT University and my wife is a home maker.

One good book read recently:The Colder War by Marin Katusa Favorite holiday destination: Switzerland.

Natural beauty at its best!

Social network most active on: Facebook and LinkedIn Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Chinese

Mantra for Success: Be humble and introspect. More often the solution lies within.

Favorite Sport: Badminton

DARSHAN APPAYANNA, CHIEF INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE AND SECURITY OFFICER, HAPPIEST MINDS TECHNOLOGIES

management, PO process, employee self-service processes. The other significant area was in the mobility space. A new Happiest Minds Mobility app was released that provides leave management, approvals, timesheet management on the go.

Industry Experience: Over 20 year experience championing multi-million dollar sales growth, driving efficiencies and improving productivity Academic Excellence: Graduate from National Institute of Technology, Warangal Highlights 2016: Paperless office and digitization were big initiatives for us. We were able digitize and implement paperless workflows in the areas of travel and expense

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Further automation and introduction of Bots would be key focus areas in 2017. Building an open collaborative ecosystem using technology will be the goal.

Your success mantra: Need to be the pioneer in trying new technologies that can make work more efficient and easy for the customers. Be the change!

Your Favorite piece of personal technology: My cameras!

Meeting people, Biking, Cycling, Playing Squash, Skiing Information about your family: My wife, Deepa is an interior decorated and a fashion consultant. I have two young daughters whom I love to spend time with.

One good book read recently: I don’t read books!

Favorite holiday destination and why: Any adventurous place, most recently skiing in Gulmargand Scuba Diving in Andaman’s Social network most active on: Facebook Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Chinese and Dosas Favorite Sport: Squash

Hobbies pursued in free time: Travelling,

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Industry Experience: 16 years

One good book read recently:Heart of Sufism

Academic Excellence: Graduate Highlights 2016: Team craft transformation to harness the opportunity created by the software define everything disruption. ie Immutable infrastructure.

MOHAMMAD WASIM, DIRECTOR, SAPIENT

Favorite holiday destination: Lucknow take back in time with friends and family.

Food and “tehzeeb” Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Plans for 2017: Solution accelerators and microservices

Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Lucknawi (Awadhi)

Success mantra: Lean and agile

Favorite Sport: Golf

Favorite piece of personal technology: Configuration tool set Hobbies pursued in free time: Poem (Urdu Shayeri) and Golf About the family: Loving and caring wife and a son

MAKARAND VISHNU SAWANT, SENIOR GENERAL MANAGER IT, DEEPAK FERTILIZERS AND PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION LIMITED

Industry Experience: 18 years Academic Excellence: MDP, ITPM, MBA, BE & Professional Certifications.

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Migrated SAP ECC landscape from IBM Pseries server AIX to HP HANA certified server SUSE Linux platform.

Plans for 2017: Enhance Information Security for business critical data & IT landscape.

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Information about your family: Living with Mother, Wife & 2 kids.

One good book read recently:Swimmer among the Stars by KanishkTharoor Favorite holiday destination: GOA being a Konkani Social network most active on: Facebook

Your success mantra: Trust on your own skills, knowledge and expertise.

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Hot and Spicy Food

Your Favorite piece of personal technology: Internet & Mobile technology

Favorite Sport: Cricket

Hobbies pursued in free time: Going

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Industry Experience: 26 years

About the family: Need to give more time to them :). Office team is extended family

Academic Excellence: B.E Highlights regarding your work/ implementations in 2016: Global Outsourcing/Offshoring Contract, Launch of first mobile visa platform, large & complex M&A activities, Intercontinental DR

DHIREN SAVLA, GROUP CIO, KUONI GROUP, VFS GLOBAL

Your plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Using Analytics as product, Redesign of network connecting 10 DC covering 4 continents

One good book read recently:Alibaba - Jack Ma Autobiography Favorite holiday destination: Africa, Kerala - Nature its at best. Spain, Italy - Beauty, culture.

Social network most active on: LinkedIn Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Itaian Favorite Sport: Cricket

Success mantra: Collective leadership Favorite piece of personal technology: Apple Products Hobbies pursued in free time: Music, Reading

MANOJ KUMAR, CIO, ACME GROUP

Industry Experience: 20 years Academic Excellence: MCA Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: IOT, ROBOTICS, BIG DATA AND MOBILITY Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Analytics, IOT

Favorite holiday destination: Mayapur, West Bengal Social network most active on: LinkedIn Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Vegetarian Favorite Sport: Cricket

Your success mantra: Be Innovative Favorite piece of personal technology: Analytics Hobbies pursued in free time: Adventure Information about your family: Spiritual One good book read recently: Bhagwat Gita

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Industry Experience: 23 years Academic Excellence: Polytechnic in Electronics and telecommunication Engineering Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: SDS (Software Defined Storage) and DLP (Data Leakage protection)

CHEKURI VENKATA VAMSIDHAR, DIRECTOR IT, KONY INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

About the family: lMy family is big, I have 3 elder brothers and 2 elder sisters. I am staying in Hyderabad with my wife and son.

Wife is home maker and Son is studying in 10th standard.

One good book read recently:Technology Business Management by Todd Tucker

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) to implement BYOD and Private Cloud Implementation

Favorite holiday destination: My Village, lot of greenery and peaceful environment

Success mantra: Aligning Technology to Business and Maintanining High level Customer satisfaction

Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Apollo Fish Fry

Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Favorite Sport: N/A

Favorite piece of personal technology: N/A Hobbies pursued in free time: Social Services

KRC MURTHY, CIO, DEUTSCHE BANK

Industry Experience: 24 years Academic Excellence: Masters in Computers Applications Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Virtualization, Process efficiency, application consolidation

Hobbies pursued in free time: Networking, Jogging, Social Cause Information about your family: A happy go lucky family of 6 +1 (Parents, spouse, 2 boys) and a cute Shih Tzu puppy One good book read recently: You Can Win

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Roll out of new technologies, regulatory mandate fulfillment, competitive IT support and CTB projects

Favorite holiday destination: Goa - unwinds stress in me and gives me a chance to think ahead

Your success mantra: No shortcuts to success

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: N/A

Social network most active on: Facebook

Favorite Sport: Cricket Your Favorite piece of personal technology: iOS

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Industry Experience: 25 years

Billionaires by VinodRai

Academic Excellence: BSc.

Favorite holiday destination: Rajasthan

Highlights regarding your work/ implementations in 2016: Business solutions through Technology excellence

Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Your plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Digitization of all compliance & Executive MIS

Favorite Sport: Cricket

Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Itaian

Success mantra: Simplify Technology implementation

RAJEEV PRADHAN, VICE PRESIDENT – IT, ARSHIYA INTERNATIONAL

Favorite piece of personal technology: Toss-up between smartphone and messenger Hobbies pursued in free time: Music – Indian Classical Instruments About the family: Compact four sides kept very closely bounded. Have 2 daughters, me & strong wife.

One good book read recently: The Unusual

DR. SUNIL GUPTA, CIO, ECONOMIC RESEARCH UNIT, MINISTRY OFSTEEL

Industry Experience: 34 years Academic Excellence: MBA, Ph. D. Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Organizing workshops/ lectures for e-Gov initiatives.

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Moving to cloud cent percent, e-Gov. Your success mantra: Do your best, leave the rest Your Favorite piece of personal technology: N/A

Information about your family: RanjanaWife working as V.P. in a school; AhshitaDaughter working as Software Engineer in USA; Rachita-Daughter studing in B.Tech.

C.Sc.;Pranay-Son studying in BCA One good book read recently: Autobiography of a Yogi Favorite holiday destination and why: London, Mesmerizing Environment Social network most active on: LinkedIn Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Mediterranean Favorite Sport: Tennis

Hobbies pursued in free time: Reading, Writing and Travelling

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Industry Experience: 17 years

About the family: A sweet family with two kids.

Academic Excellence: B. Tech., PGEM One good book read recently:N/A Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Mobile App for Sales Team, Mobile App for Quality Inspection Mobile App and Portal for customers, SuccessFactors for HR.

KRISHNA KANT MISHRA, HEAD IT, EVEREST INDUSTRIES LTD.

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: SAP S/4 Implementation

Favorite holiday destination: Goa, beautiful and relaxing place Social network most active on: Facebook Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Chinese Favorite Sport: Cricket

Success mantra: Committed to work and complete the task started Favorite piece of personal technology: My iPad Hobbies pursued in free time: Book reading & Travelling

HARISH SHARMA CL, GROUP VICE PRESIDENT, TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES INDIA LIMITED

Industry Experience: 15+ years

photography

Academic Excellence: MBA (Technology Management), BE

Information about your family: Parents, Wife and a Son

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Cutting edge and cost effective DR solution, new core systems and mid-long term IT strategy

One good book read recently: Sapiens

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Digitalization of business processes and Analytics

Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Success mantra: Clear Planning, Meticulous Execution and Empowering Team members Your Favorite piece of personal technology: Smartphone Hobbies pursued in free time: Reading and

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Favorite holiday destination: Mysore, my native place

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Indian, Italian, Mexican Favorite Sport: Tennis

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Industry Experience: 14 years Academic Excellence: BE Computer Science Highlights regarding your work/ implementations in 2016: Major highlight for 2016 was to improve response time for mission critical applications by upgrading infrastructure and upgrading applications to latest version of software.

PINKESH AMBAVAT, CTO, CRIF HIGHMARK

Your plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Next year focus will be to reduce overall IT cost and Oracle License cost is big component under IT cost.

We will focus on how workload on Oracle can be reduced so that future oracle license growth can be restricted and by minimizing workload on oracle we can improve performance of mission critical application as they will have more resource available for faster response time and it will also help business to scale up.

Success mantra: Technology Driven Business Favorite piece of personal technology: Oracle Hobbies pursued in free time: Reading about upcoming Gadgets in Market About the family: Small Family of Mom, Dad, One Daughter and Wife One good book read recently: N/A Favorite holiday destination: Goa because it requires less time to travel Social network most active on: LinkedIn Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Rajasthani Favorite Sport: Cricket

ANIL SHARMA, DIRECTOR, PEPSICO INC.

period of 2 years. Scope of transformation included Americas, Europe, Asia and Middle East. I took responsibility of Asia & Middle East transformation with scope of 500 odd servers migration to three datacenters and transforming SAP platform from HPUX / Oracle to Linux / Oracle on virtual platform.

Industry Experience: 26 years Academic Excellence: M.Sc., MCA Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Carried out transformation of compute services from legacy environment to Managed services environment and consolidated all application compute platforms to 5 datacenters across the globe.

This transformation was carried out over a

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Primary objective is stabilize the environment after transformation and look out for productivity opportunities and implement them. Also review overall project delivery framework and make changes to be more agile.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Difficult to get free time but love to watch cricket and do experimental cooking.

About your family: Married and having two kids one school going and another one into college.

One good book read recently: Train to Pakistan Favorite holiday destination and why: Himachal Pradesh Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Your success mantra: Plan with perfection and then execute Your Favorite piece of personal technology: Unix

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: North Indian Food Favorite Sport: Cricket

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SURESH IYER, CIO, BLUESTAR LIMITED

Industry Experience: 27 years

Gym

Academic Excellence: BSc (Physics), BSc (Tech) - Computer Technology

About the family: Married with one wife, one son, one daughter and one mother.

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Vendor Portal, PLM, Remote Monitoring of Chillers, Mobile-enabled Remote Control for VRF, Sales Force Automation, Mobile-enabled Field Service, Analytics-driven Sales Forecasting

One good book read recently:This was a Man - Jeffrey Archer

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Digital Enterprise, Omni-channel Sales, Intelligent Factory, Intelligent Logistics, Dealer Portals Success mantra: Don’t give up.

Favorite holiday destination: My Home Simply love it.

Social network most active on: Facebook Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Food made by my Mom - Yumm Favorite Sport: Cricket

Favorite piece of personal technology: My noise-cancelling earphones Hobbies pursued in free time: Reading,

BENNO ZOLLNER, DEPUTY HEAD OF IT STRATEGIES UNIT, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE DIVISION, FUJITSU

move internal services to the Fujitsu Cloud platform K5, and supported the business on implementing the Global HR services

Industry Experience: 30 years Academic Excellence: Master of Marketing & Communication and University degree in agricultural studies.

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Set up expert support services as Shared Services for TMS Solution using Global Delivery Centers, and implemented a global IAM solution in a secured environment. Mobilized a global program to

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Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Position internal IT as business enabler being actively engaged with the business. Digitalization requires a Global IT Foundation and Enterprise Architecture with a unified technology stack to enable the Digital Transformation.

Success mantra: Trust your team, and focus on the right priorities Favorite piece of personal technology: iPhone 6+, it makes my life much easier Hobbies pursued in free time: I love outdoor sports, and sometimes only running around the hotel block

About your family: I am very proud of my family consisting of my lovely wife of 25 years, and two great children.

One good book read recently: ‘The Power to Compete: An Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy’ Favorite holiday destination: The Alps for Mountain Sport Social network most active on: Twitter Cuisine that Preferred all the time: A fusion cuisine between Japan and Spain, great combined taste, products in tapas style Favorite Sport: Adventure Sports

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MANOHAR BHOI, PRESIDENT - TECHNOLOGY, ELECTRONIC PAYMENT & SERVICES PVT. LTD.

implementations in 2016: In-house R&D to enable ATM EJ (Electronic Journal) pulling services with superior transaction uptime.

Developed EJ software solution EPSmartX for Windows OS based ATMs and went to become live with 1000 ATMs.

abreast with latest technology and in sync with the latest digital trends.

Your plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Foray into the digital payments space that aims to transforms EPS’ services portfolio as Technology Service Provider with intelligent transaction processing platforms which includes, new generation transaction switching and high performance EFT systems for ATMs, PoS, mobile payments etc. Working on various features and controls that a user can himself define for his transactions to be more secure and convenient.

About the family: Parents, wife and three children. My father is a farmer, and my wife is housewife. I have 2 daughters and a son.

Hobbies pursued in free time: I like to garden during my free time, watering my plants, and playing with my pets.

One good book read recently: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a book that I read recently.

Favorite holiday destination: I prefer Club Mahindra Holiday Resorts for holidaying as it is a favorite of all the family members.

Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Industry Experience: 23 years Academic Excellence: Electrical Engineer, and Post-Graduation in Information Technology Highlights regarding your work/

Success mantra: Work hard and love the job as there are no shortcuts to success, and experience helps deliver better results with optimized resources.

Favorite piece of personal technology: My mobile phone as it keeps me connected, and

Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Hands down, fish curry with rice prepared in Maharashtrian style.

Favorite Sport: Cricket

ANIL PORTER, A.V.P. IT & GDS SERVICES, INTERGLOBE TECHNOLOGY QUOTIENT

Industry Experience: 22 years About your family: Wife and two daughters Academic excellence: B.E. Electronics & Telecom

One good book read recently: N/A

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Won Indias Best CIOs Awards 2016 for creating an innovative rule engine in place for ITQ.

Favorite holiday destination and why: Nainital

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Congnitive learning & big data analytics.

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Yellow Dal

Social network most active on: LinkedIn

Favorite Sport: Cricket Your success mantra: Never give up Favorite piece of personal technology: Cognitive and automation Hobbies pursued in free time: Hill drive

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JYOTI CHOPRA, IT – DIRECTOR,GLAZE TRADING INDIA PVT. LTD.

Industry Experience: 2+ years in Galze, 20 yearsin total Academic Excellence: Masters in Physics, Masters in Computers, Diploma in HR Mgmt., ITILv3 Foundation, QMS Lead Auditor – ISO 9001:2015, Black Belt - Lean

Six Sigma, Google Cert. for AdWords and Analytics, Advance Diploma in Digital Marketing

to have your heart in business, and your business in heart. Dream Big. Start Small.

Act Now.

Highlights 2016: Under strategic direction from Founder Directors SanjeevChhibber and ChetanHanda and CEO AmarnathSengupta,, upgraded the IT of Glaze to the latest market benchmarks.

Deployed IT Service Mgmt. and Agile methodology, web services moved to the Cloud,Implemented Warehouse Management System, Disaster Recovery: Datacenter DR Management and MPLS Project

Favorite piece of personal technology: Digital Marketing and Cloud Computing

Plans for 2017: Implement AWS, reinforce Data Analytics, setup e-Commerce Business, drive Open Source technology for S/W Engineering Automation, Implement CMMi roadmap for internal IT, centralize and optimize the Datacenter, expand MPLS Project to the next level across all franchisees, implement digital payment module and Online Distributor enrollment using Samsung IRIS technology and Aadhaar for KYC verification through UIDAI. Success mantra: To be successful, you need

Hobbies pursued in free time: Direct short movies with my kids, volunteer for social activities, weekly Twitter chats, read motivational books and blogs Family: My dear Husband & Two amazing Kids – Son (14) Daughter (9),.

One good book read recently:‘First break all the rules’ by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Favorite holiday destination: Australia Incredibly vast, blessed with nature’s bounty Social network most active on: Twitter Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Punjabi cuisine Favorite Sport: Badminton

HEMAL SHAH, VP – E-COMMERCE AND REGIONAL CIO – APJ, DELL TECHNOLOGIES

From the sales end, we have enabled an omni-channel experience for all our customers, improved the digital processes by removing manual touch points

Industry Experience: 20 + years of experience in CRM, Enterprise Architecture and Applications Management

Plans for 2017: 2016 witnessed Dell’s acquisition of EMC to form the world’s largest privately-controlled tech company.

The combined entity brings together two technology powerhouses, underlined by our strong focus on the customer, where our combined capabilities and huge innovation engine will allow us to create technologies that drive human progress.

Academic Excellence: MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Success mantra: Work hard, Be passionate about what you are doing, Take risks and Have the best team

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: We had Americas quote to cash process on the next-gen set of applications.

Favorite piece of personal technology: My old gramophone player – simple technology, still works like a charm

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Hobbies pursued in free time: Coding and occasional golf Family: Loving wife (Monali) and 2 great kids (Saloni and Roshan).

One good book read recently: I am still on The Adventures of Tintin Favorite holiday destination: Kauai (in Hawaii) … Simple, pristine and beautiful Social network most active on: old school - WhatsApp Cuisine that you prefer all the time: after home cooked, its Thai, Lebanese and Tex-Mex Favorite Sport: Cricket as #1 and football (American) next

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‘Smart Enterprise’ to digitally transform business processes within our organization in key domains like smart campus, smart collaboration, smart business applications, smart insights, smart relationships, smart workforce and smart infrastructure; implemented ‘Systems of engagement’ for the employees to collaborate better through mobile or responsive UI applications around traditional ‘systems of records’ like ERP, CRM, etc.

MANDAR MARULKAR, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, KPIT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Industry Experience: 22+ Years Academic Excellence: Electronics Engineer, Global CIO Certification from Indian School of Business

Plans for 2017: We will be enhancing the KPIT engagement system and smart campus platform with new age cognitive technologies, conversational systems, and VPA integration. We will also focus on creating ‘Think Digital’ culture in the organization, augmenting programmability of software defined infrastructure and making ‘Infrastructure as a Code’ a reality.

Success mantra: I strongly believe in John Quincy Adams’ quote “If your dreams inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

Highlights 2016: Global initiative called

Favorite piece of personal technology: I am not a gadget freak and not very active on social media platforms.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Like to spend quality time with my family.

About the family: Manasi, very caring wife and a doting mother to my energetic daughter Aakanksha.

One good book read recently: Geoffrey Moore’s ‘Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption’ Favorite holiday destination: I love Bali for its scenic beaches, beautiful old temples and friendly people Social network most active on: LinkedIn and WhatsApp Professional Network Groups Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Spicy vegetarian food and a preference for Indian or Italian cuisine Favorite Sport: Cricket, Chess

PUNEET GUPTA, GLOBAL CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, BRILLIO

digital experiences footprint apart from having launched Brillio’s industry-first ‘IMAGINE’ model

Industry Experience: 22 years Academic excellence: Electronics and communications engineer. Accomplished technical and research publisher with over 70 granted and published patents and over 100 publications.

Highlights 2016: Headed the global digital business, global innovation labs and the Brillio Design Studio. Led bold incubations in AI, conversational interfaces, immersive experiences and global expansion of the

Plans for 2017: Pervasiveness of AI across digital systems and designing of experiences, fluid conversational interfaces which lead to new consumer touch point innovations, progressive realization of virtual reality in newer industrial context and scaling up the industrial IoT business.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Dreaming, imagining and inventing the new.

Family: 8-year old daughter, who I love getting challenged by. My wife, who is a culinary artist and parents and siblings One good book read recently: The Big Short

by Michael Lewis, Industries of the Future by Alec Ross and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling.

Success mantra: Unbridled enthusiasm and unwavering focus on ‘unconstrained imagination’ moving to ‘focused imagination’ and thenceforth to ‘industrial realization’ as a continuum. The ability to channel out exceptions and roadblocks on this journey are a key personal driver.

Favorite holiday destination and why: Prague. Because beauty need not have a why, a how, a where, a when or a who. It just encompasses you.

Favorite piece of personal technology: Conversational interfaces like Alexa.

Cuisine you prefer all the time: Fusion

Social network most active on: Most active on Twitter followed by LinkedIn

Favorite Sport: Cricket

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Industry Experience: 11 Years Academic Excellence: EPBM from IIM, Kolkatta; MBA-Finance, MCA &BTech-Mechanical Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Implementaion of SCM Modules,MRPSCP Module and ISO27001:2013 in PAVCI, implementation of finished good serial process in Oracle, implementation of e-PRO Portal for Local Suppliers and Webportal for Global Suppliers.

VINAY PRAKASH VERMA, GM-IT (IT-HEAD), PANASONIC AVC NETWORKS INDIA CO. LTD. (PAVCI)

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: PAVCI IT, Next year major Plan is to reduce the Technical Support Cost.

Success mantra: Do different, always positive, ready for adopt change always in the life, be happy and make your positive strategy for next 5 years growth.

Favorite piece of personal technology:

Oracle Applications- ERP, Oracle Field Areas to explore as Oracle Technical, Oracle Functional, Oracle SCM, Oracle Manufacturing Functional Consultant.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Doing or giving time to Society.

About the family: My father, mother, wife, Bhavanaand two sons Adhyayanand Aayu.

One good book read recently:My Journey: Transforming Dreams Into Actions by Sri APJ Kalam Favorite holiday destination: Singapore &In India - Vrindavan Social network most active on: Facebook, Twitter Preferred Cuisine of Choice: South Indian & Chinese Dishes Favorite Sport: Cricket

PRADEEP GOVINDASAMY , CTO & PRESIDENT, CIGNITI TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Industry Experience: 2 Years with Cigniti Academic Excellence: B. Tech in Chemical Engineering Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Led several initiatives such as evangelizing the leadership conference (LIQE) for clients, drove the innovation strategy transformation to a new technology platform in the DevOps world, architected the Quality Engineering, DevOps, Cloud

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and Digital Capabilities for Cigniti, setup digital labs COE at Irving, Texas, and built nearshore cloud enabled labs for several clients.

fullest extent.

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Expand our technology platform and build more cloud-enabled SaaS solutions that will bring more efficiency, cost savings and innovative operating model. In all these aspects, Quality is the key, and that is going to be transformed into Digital Assurance in protecting our customer brand, as we call ourselves the “Brand Protector”.

About your family: My wife is a homemaker and I have two daughters, a ten-yearold and a five-year-old.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Watching TV shows with my daughter.

One good book read recently: The Phoenix Project – A novel about DevOps and IT Favorite holiday destination: Costa Rica, nature-friendliness and wonderful beaches.

Social network most active on: Facebook

Your success mantra: I envision where I see myself in 2 years down the road and start preparing myself from today.

Your Favorite piece of personal technology: Connected Cars. I have been using it to the

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Pappadeaux and seafood Favorite Sport: Cricket

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in Computer Science and Applications from Jadavpur University.

Highlights regarding your work/ implementations in 2016: Lead the team to drive growth, revenue and customer satisfaction for many organizations using Qlik visual analytics platform across the country.

SOUMA DAS, MANAGING DIRECTOR, QLIK INDIA

Your plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Beside expanding our platform story, one of our key focus in 2017 is Qlik Cloud offering announcement which would make easy adoption of our visual analytics for both Enterprises and SMEs.

Industry Experience: Over two decades Academic Excellence: Post graduate in Executive Management from Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Calcutta and a Master’s degree

Success mantra: Stay focused, stay agile, create value and ensure efficient execution.

Favorite piece of personal technology: Digital SLR Camera and other imaging devices.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Travelling across the globe and Wildlife Photography About the family: My wife Sankalita who works for an NGO and 2 Children, son Subhroand my daughter Nayanika.

Favorite holiday destination and why: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee Favorite holiday destination: Europe – Love the history, heritage, culture and architecture and of course the natural beauty Social network most active on: Facebook, LinkedIn Preferred Cuisine of Choice: North West frontier cuisine and continental cuisine Favorite Sport: Cricket and Football

NIKHIL PATHAK, VP AND COUNTRY GM – IT BUSINESS, INDIA & SAARC, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDIA PVT. LTD.

collaborative and consultative approach with Enterprise Customers for Data Centre Lifecycle Services. Launched EcoStructure Architecture – Industry Leading Technology Stack for Data Centre as one of the key end market

Hobbies pursued in free time: Music

One good book read recently: N/A

Industry Experience: N/A

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Ensure we continue to enjoy preferred partner status for Data Centre critical infrastructure with top players in Telco-Colo, IT-ITES and BFSI segment.

Academic Excellence: Degree in Mechanical Engineering and MBA.

Your success mantra: “People – Together WE WIN”

Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Formation of a new partner advisory board rejuvenated Go To Market actions.

Significant mileage was derived from a true

Favorite piece of personal technology: My Ipad Mini – I can’t manage myself effectively without this”

About your family: Small family with parents, big support for my career is my wife and two sons trying to rub shoulders with me

Favorite holiday destination and why: Florence, Italy – Something in the air so captivating. Art, Cradle of Renaissance still felt so strongly. It is different every time you stand on the bridge of river Arno.

Social network most active on: Facebook Cuisine that you prefer all the time: N/A Favorite Sport: Cricket

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BANWARI LAL VERMA, IT-HEAD & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR, SRI LALBAHADURSHASTRI NATIONAL SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY

Industry Experience: 25 years in the same organization as IT Head & System Administrator.

Academic Excellence: MCA &M.Sc, Maths and PG Diploma in Management, Computer

Application and several traditional courses in Prakrit, JyotishPragya and JotishBhushan.

Favorite piece of personal technology: Cyber library, Virtual/ Smart Class, Video Conferencing, E-learning contents.

Highlights 2016: Equipped University with latest IT-tools, own data centre, Blade Servers, UC & Citrix based technology for application and desktop virtualization.

Added more than 500 Desktops & laptops with VC, and Virtual/Smart Classrooms.

Entire campus comes under high speed Wi-Fi 1.0 GBPS Internet connectivity. Other responsible jobs also assigned were Nodal Officer – e-procurement/publish of NIC, Nodal Officer (RTI), Liasioning Officer – OBC, Experts & Members in various committee and selection committee.

Hobbies pursued in free time: Reading astrology books and watching TV

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: PAVCI IT, Next year major Plan is to reduce the Technical Support Cost.

Social network most active on: Facebook and LinkedIn

Success mantra: Be Proactive& Self decision making

About the family: Blessed with three children, two daughtersand one son. My wife is a house maker and cooks really very tasty food.

One good book read recently:Laghuparasha riSiddhant, an astrology book Favorite holiday destination: Gangtok& Shimla as it has natural nature’s beauty

Preferred Cuisine of Choice: Simple Vegetarian Food – Dal, Chapati& all Vegetable Favorite Sport: Badminton

MURARI SRIDHARAN, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, BANKBAZAAR.COM

BankBazaaar is growing – domestically and internationally – in terms of number of partners, products, and categories.

Expanded our platform internationally to Singapore, launched Mutual Fund platform.

Launched a multi-brand platform for instant paperless approval of loans.

Industry Experience: 15 years Academic Excellence: PhD in computer engineering.Published over 20 highly cited articles in peer reviewed journals and 12 patents issued by USPTO. Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: Focused on building an infrastructure that can scale up to meet the pace at which

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Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: Further develop a paperless, presence-less, cashless online ecosystem and extend it to all personal finance product purchase across loans, credit cards, and savings and investment categories.

Success mantra: Empower small teams and provide them with a clear set of measurable goals. Create a system where inefficiencies bubble up fast so they can be addressed.

The worst thing that can happen to an organization is people adjusting and working

around inefficiencies. Make time for regular discussions with ICs/skip levels so you don’t live in a bubble. Most important, constantly make execution adjustments based on real evidence even if you were wrong!

Your Favorite piece of personal technology: N/A Hobbies pursued in free time: N/A About your family: N/A One good book read recently: N/A Favorite holiday destination: N/A Social network most active on: LinkedIn Cuisine that you prefer all the time: N/A Favorite Sport: Cricket

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Industry Experience: 13 years Academic Excellence: Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras

SURESH KONDAMUDI, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, CLEVERTAP

Highlights regarding your work/ implementations in 2016: Rolled out India Datacenter (DC) in 2 weeks flat for our India based BFSI & Telco clients. The DC rollout included provisioning load balancers, servers, and storage. The DC has been operational for over 30 days now, and is part of our global footprint which includes locations in Western Europe and the SF Bay area.

Your plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: For 2017, we aim to run deployments seamlessly between multiple data centers, offer business continuity and disaster recovery to our enterprise level customers.

services. Using AWS as the infrastructure stack, we’ve been able to achieve agility, reduce costs and provision infrastructure components on-demand. This keeps our business agile, and costs under control. Why buy servers, when you can rent them by the hour!

Favorite piece of personal technology: AWS Hobbies pursued in free time: N/A About the family: N/A Favorite holiday destination and why: N/A Favorite holiday destination: N/A Social network most active on: Facebook Preferred Cuisine of Choice: N/A Favorite Sport: Cricket and Football

Success mantra: We use AWS to host our

VIRENDER JEET, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, NEWGEN SOFTWARE

Industry Experience: 25+ years Academic Excellence: B.E. Computer Science.

Highlights 2016: Product Launches and Enhancements work included OmniFlowiBPS 3.x with Case Mgmt.

Capabilities, OmniDocs 9.x with Elastic Search Capabilities, OmniOMS 7.x with Contract Mgmt. Capabilities, Retail Loan Origination & Commercial Loan

Management Solutions based on Newgen Product Stack. Technology Initiatives included mobile and Cloud enablement of Newgen Product Lines, enhancement of product capabilities based on adoption of Analytics and Content Analytics and social Channel sensing and response capabilities. POCs include Internet of Things and Complex Event Processing.

Robotics Process Automation, Methodology Initiatives, adoption of Agile / SCRUM Based Development Methodology and adoption of DevOps for Develop, Test, Deploy.

Plans for 2017: Major Product Launches will focus around Newgen Product Lines in Enterprise Content Mgmt., Business Process Mgmt., Case Mgmt. and Customer Communication Mgmt. Technology Enhancements and Adoption with Robotic Process Automation capabilities within OmniFlowiBPS and enhancement of product capabilities based on Analytics & Content Analytic, Internet of Things Capabilities and

Complex Event Processing Capabilities.

Success mantra: CIO’s must use, try, test, adopt framework for new technology initiatives. Encourage your teams to experiment and to learn from failures to achieve success Favorite piece of personal technology: N/A Hobbies pursued in free time: Regularly writes on the current trends in the industry.

About the family: N/A One good book read recently: N/A Favorite holiday destination and why: N/A Social network most active on: LinkedIn Cuisine preferred all the time: N/A Favorite Sport: N/A

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Industry Experience: 25 years Academic Excellence: Masters in Computer Application, Computer Science and Management Highlights regarding implementations in 2016: N/A

RAJENDRA CM, MANAGING DIRECTOR, TALISMA CORPORATION

Plans for 2017 from technology and projects’ point of view: The focus would be on enabling organizations successful digital transformation through an industry best digital platform. Talisma Digital Platform binds both technology and best practices into a powerful mix that not just delivers high business value but also ensures satisfied long-term customers through continuous engagement. Businesses can track and engage customers across communication channels with accuracy, measuring engagement effectiveness and collecting and acting on real-time feedback.

Success mantra: CIO’s will need to re-look at their investments and strategy when it comes to re-designing their core business and operational approach. Interesting times are ahead for the smart CIO’s and the opportunities are plenty.

Favorite piece of personal technology: ERP Hobbies pursued in free time: N/A About the family:N/A One good book read recently: N/A Favorite holiday destination: N/A Social network most active on: LinkedIn Preferred Cuisine of Choice: N/A Favorite Sport: Golf

MILIND VARERKAR, GENERAL MANAGER IT, SARASWAT CO-OPERATIVE BANK LTD.

Industry Experience: With Saraswat Bank since June 2015 Academic Excellence: B.Com. DBM. Highlights 2016: Ensured zero data loss by setting up Near DR and built fault tolerant and secured infrastructure. Launched an App aggregating all Missed call services.

Developed Lead Management System integrated with the Missed call services.

Introduced Loan Origination System.

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Plans for 2017: Will ensure that various channels such as Mobile, Net Banking, UPI, Aadhaar based Payment systems, etc. are made feature rich and robust for the customers to have a Omni Channel Digital experience.Convergence of communication channels for faster communication and reduced cost within the bank.

Standardization in operations and processes by getting quality and security certifications.

others.

Success mantra: A captain is as good as his team. Ensure that everyone in the team contributes to the common goal. Create collaborative and participative atmosphere where the decisions regarding projects and new initiatives are taken involving functional heads. .

Favorite holiday destination: Native place in Goa for the serene atmosphere, proximity to temple where I spend time meditating and ofcourse Fish.

Your Favorite piece of personal technology: Any device that can be used to access information securely and interact with

Cuisine that you prefer all the time: Fish

Hobbies pursued in free time: Reading and Travelling About your family: Wife who is homemaker and son studying gaming animation One good book read recently: Dare to Lead

by Anil Khandelwal

Social network most active on: Facebook,Whatsapp, Instagram

Favorite Sport: Tennis and Football

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