Rajesh Lalwani
Principal & Founder, Blogworks
New Delhi
 
     
 

Rajesh is the Founder and Principal of Blogworks, a consulting firm, which provides strategic social media solutions to brands and corporates. He is also the Principal Coordinator of IndiaSocial, a knowledge focused community around social media.
A marketing and communication professional, with over 16 years of relevant experience, he has crafted marketing, public relations and digital media strategies for prominent global brands. As an observer of media and communication trends, he recognised change early and identified social media (the term did not exist back then) impact as early as 2004; he has been helping clients with blog and social media strategies since.
His views on the future of marketing and social media are regularly featured in the media and often sought by organisations like Nokia and Microsoft, among others, for their global insights programmes. Rajesh is often invited to speak at prominent national and international marketing and communication conferences. He conducts engaging workshops for professionals on subjects of social media concepts and impact, communication and branding.

 
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Vikram Tuli
CIO - Manpower Services India Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi.

 
     
 

Vikram Tuli is currently working with Manpower India, a leading HR & Staffing company as CIO in order to streamline ICT Operations,Business Processes and Customer Delivery System. Earlier, Vikram worked as Group CIO for India’s largest HR Company (Mafoi Randstad). He was responsible for setting Shared Service Centre in Chennai, delivering Online CRM, Setting IT and Compliance procedures for Staffing business in India. He was responsible for managing entire Back office operations & legal compliance along with ICT at group level.
He has contributed heavily in setting up ICT in China including ERP Implementations. Vikram worked overseas for approx. four years doing project implementations in the area of Risk Management and Energy Trading. He implemented projects at Statoil in Norway, British Gas in UK, Enel Produzione in Italy, Reliant in Netherlands and Crown Resources in London. Vikram also worked with companies like Apollo International as Head – Central Computing Services, Max India and Head IT and Indorama Synthetics in his total 20 years of Experience.

 
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Kartik Sethia
National Sales Manager
Harmin Miller

Kartik Sethia is the National Sales Manager (India) at Harmin Miller. Based out of Bangalore, he learnt he selling skills and innovative solutions from the stables of Modi Xerox.Having over 14 years experience under his belt, his specializes in the understanding of the Imported Modular Furniture Industry in India, and where the organization are headed with respect to the way people work and the designs of the workplace thereof. Kartik has also been associated as a member at Round Table India and has work at Steelcase, Ampersand Software and Magnasoft Consulting.
His dedication and passion for his work has made him one of the strongest pillars in his field, striving to always achieve and excel his goal’s.

 
     
       
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Saurabh Sinha
Director
CentruMedia

Saurabh Sinha is the Director at CentruMedia, an AdSales Representation company. CentruMedia represents premier publishers like MediaNama, Dalal Street, OnlyGizmos, GlamSham, SmasHits,etc.
A management professional with over 14 years of experience, Saurabh has worked across advertising, PR and marketing, before venturing into startups to fulfil his entrepreneurial ambitions. With an ability to align resources and people to achieve, his strong professional relationships across the industry make happen for better representation of the companies and business. He is a people's person and firm believer of investing in life long business relationships. Saurabh a product of MICA Ahmedabad,PG from Pune University and is often a guest faculty at management colleges. For him, “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”He is very fond of travelling and music.

 
     
   
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Prashant Tandon
Vice President – Partnerships & Alliances
Kotak Consumer Bank

Prashant Tandon is currently working as Vice President – Partnerships and Alliances for Kotak Consumer Bank as a whole. Prashant spearheads the strategic partnerships vertical across Kotak Credit; Kotak Debit; Kotak Auto Finance and Kotak Wealth. Prashant was part of the core team instrumental in setting up the Kotak Cards business from scratch and has been with the bank for 4 years.Prashant`s total corporate career spans nearly 15 years with a strong mix of Media; Internet business and Financial Services. Prior to being at Kotak Bank; Prashant was working as General Manager – E Commerce at Times Internet limited and was responsible for setting up and launching several eCommerce initiatives and revenue generation business models.
Prashant has also spent three years at American Express as Head of their Interactive vertical responsible for launching Amex India Website as well as setting up their eMail and Mobile channel.Prashant has done his Masters Degree from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta majoring in Marketing and Finance in 1998. He is into active sports and love to play squash and soccer regularly. His interests lies in travel and trekking and he is an active contributor to voluntary work for NGO`s and orphaned children institutions like parivaar in calcutta.

 
     
   
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Subhamoy Das
Communications professional
Hyderabad

Subhamoy Das is a former journalist, social media enthusiast, and Communications professional currently based in Hyderabad. He has over 14 years of experience in global media and Public Relations.
He worked for several years as a journalist and multimedia editor with India's leading media companies including the Hindustan Times, the India Today Group and Cybermedia Limited. Subhamoy has a Master's Degree in English Literature from the University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising and Public Relations from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi.
He has authored two books and writes a popular weekly blog for the New York Times' content Web site About.com. Subhamoy is currently employed with the world's largest professional firm as a Communications leader.

 
     
   
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Ravi Sundararajan
All marketing activities – Webaroo
Gup Shup

Ravi leads all marketing activities at Webaroo including product, channel and consumer marketing, branding and corporate communications. Prior to Webaroo, he founded a cloud analytics startup and also held various senior executive roles at Symantec including leading product management. Before that he was General Manager of Enterprise Content Delivery and Cloud Services at Akamai, Vice President at Palm-Handspring and Engagement Manager at McKinsey.
He started his career at Sun Microsystems where he was a key member of design team that built Sun's first 64-bit server system Ultra-1 for the Internet data center market. Ravi earned his MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

 
     
   
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