Deepti Dang, Head, Marketing – Commercial & SMB, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard India
In her present role, Deepti is responsible for the Marketing Strategy, Planning and Programmes, including Channel Marketing for Hewlett-Packard PSG’s commercial and SMB customers across India.

In terms of IT, Hewlett-Packard India is Deepti’s first playground since 2004. In her capacity of being with the marketing team, Deepti has brought in a lot of innovations in marketing and direct outreach to customers, which has been acclaimed not only by the

PSG India team but also globally. More popularly known as “Dee” or “Tiger” in the company, she has brought back home awards for Best Marketing Campaign.

Prior to her winning spree at Hewlett-Packard PSG, Deepti also handled the leading brand Coca-Cola for the entire Southern region as the Brand Director in McCann advertising agency. With a campaign that resulted in real impact on the sales, Deepti led the campaign for Nestle’s Culinary Brand Maggi to the next level of communication.

has also launched a partner portal for Channel partners, which has transformed the way business is done with dealers. The combined business information of these tools is helping to shape product and geographical strategy in the organization.

Hema Gandhi, President – Global Financial Services, Integreon
Hema Gandhi has global responsibility for sales and strategy of all Integreon services to the Financial Services market. Hema has brought Integreon tremendous growth in research and analytics services for financial services community. Her domain experience and knowledge of the way financial services firms operate helped Integreon replicate client’s environment offshore.

Hema has over thirteen years experience in managing global account relationships in the financial services sector and in

research and trading of commodities and derivatives. Initially, she worked with Wipro and SSI. Hema previously traded commodities and derivatives at Archer Daniels Midland, based out of London, Singapore and the Philippines. Hema was the founder of Brahmy Solutions prior to its acquisition by Integreon in 2005. She is one of the key members of Integreon’s executive management team which is responsible for company’s strategy and driving organizational growth.

Annette has been with Symantec for over five years. She joined Symantec in 2002 as Marketing Manager for both the Enterprise and the Consumer Business in India. Annette took on her role as manager of the consumer sales team at Symantec India in the year 2005.

Annette began her career ten years ago as a part of a very large marketing team at Sony Music Entertainment. She is now responsible for Symantec’s immensely successful consumer business in India and Sri Lanka. In this successful journey, she is appreciative of the support and accolades received from her colleagues at Symantec and the channel fraternity.

Sudha Jagadish, COO, Dax
As COO, Sudha is responsible for Procurement, Logistics, Support, Inventory and Supply Chain Management in the company and, most significantly, mentoring people. Logical analysis is her forte. She is instrumental in giving the company strategic vision and direction. Sudha has dedicated herself for the growth and progress of Dax in the networking space. She has been with Dax for over 18 years now.

She is one of the main pillars of the company. She started her career as a Systems Associate in the company and subsequently climbed up the corporate ladder handling several

challenges in various other departments such as Sales, Purchase, Credit Control and HR.

Sudha, the most brilliant COO, believes that the success of the brand “Dax” is her personal achievement. The brand equity Dax built over the years is a shining example of her efforts.

Vasantha Erraguntla, Senior Engineering Manager, Intel India
Vasantha Erraguntla leads the silicon prototyping and circuit research teams for Intel India’s Corporate Technology Group in Bangalore.

She joined Intel in Oregon in 1991. Prior to moving to Intel India, She was engaged in various departments and participated in a variety of activities such as high router technology development for the Intel Teraflop machine and later in the design and development

of various silicon prototypes to validate research in the areas of high-performance and low-power circuits and high speed signalling.

She started out her career as a component design engineer and had the opportunity to gain exposure to a wide variety of chip designs and development activities such as routers, processors with high-speed execution units, communication processors and high performance computing machines and most recently on the Terascale research chip.

Viveka Ragukumar, AVP – Program Management
Viveka Ragukumar heads the Finance Business Unit in GlobalLogic, providing product engineering services to ISV in the Banking and Finance Domain. She is responsible for the P&L of this BU. As BU Head, she takes care of Financials – Revenue, Gross Margin, Sales Target, Delivery, people management, customer management and sales support.

As the Head of Finance BU, she contributes 25 per cent to the revenue of the organization. She has handled two captive acquisitions successfully for GlobalLogic, streamlined the delivery and operations after the acquisition. She has been associated with

the IT industry for the past twenty-one years. Starting with Philip India, she moved on to work with Tata Consultancy Services, then with HCL Technologies and for the past two years has been with GlobalLogic as Head of the Finance Business Unit.

Viveka handled two captive acquisitions for GlobalLogic successfully. She had independently set up overseas and offshore technology software delivery centre for a multinational finance giant. She has been awarded and rewarded at various occasions for her contribution to the IT services in technology management by the customer and organizations. She won various business contracts and projects for the organizations and executed them to the satisfaction of the clients within the stipulated time, budget and quality.

Rachana is a veteran in offshore software product development with a track record of over tweleve years of repeated success in managing and executing large and complex projects. She joined Impetus in 1994 as a Fresher and has grown in the ranks to be a Vice President with the company today. Rachana’s principal role includes managing new innovations and technology explorations, creating IP for Impetus, demystifying emerging technology areas, providing the direction and focus for R&D initiatives, helping new projects with consultation on optimal technology utilization, and actively supporting technical pre-sales activities.

Rachana has significantly contributed to the growth of the company’s offshore business in various capacities. She has worked with all the Impetus’ clients in a variety of domains like Financial, Healthcare, Mobile & Wireless, Web 2.0, Digital Media, Internet Advertising, Supply Chain to name a few.

Dhanalakshmi R.K., Head – ISG & Technology, Aditi Technologies
Heading the Information Systems Group at Aditi, Dhanalakshmi’s present responsibility is to focus on the organization’s Network and related infrastructure: Security related to data, hardware and software; Helpdesk requirements; and developing strategies that align the operations of the ISG department to the business needs of Aditi.

She started her stint with Aditi as a technical support engineer and gradually moved into the role of a technical consultant for Aditi’s

internal training division. In this capacity, she spearheaded the migration of Aditi Windows NT network to a secure Windows 2000 – Exchange 2000 – ISA Firewall set-up. She also executed the same activity for the first enterprise CRM product company from India that was incubated at Aditi.

She has been in the IT industry for the past 13-plus years. Her professional life started off in small-time organizations, which helped her acquire hands-on experience in different fields and across activities. Throughout her career, there are many milestones that have been her stepping stones to success. However, success for Dhanalakshmi is not limited to just her career.

Subashini Prabhakar, Chief Technology Manager, Dax
Subashini is responsible for ensuring technical success of Dax in the marketplace. She is an expert in the field of networking infrastructure. She has also played a key role in creating the largest VoIP network in the country.

She has been instrumental in consolidating Dax’s position as a leading player in the WAN market space, primarily in the routers and metro Ethernet space. Subashini has successfully convinced key telecom companies to move away from the traditional serial communication and advance to Ethernet.

Subashini has grown with Dax over the past fourteen years. Subashini started her career in Dax as a Service Engineer and today she has risen to the level of a CTM.

Subashini, as a very young CTM, evolved the “end-user focussed marketing strategy” on par with the MNC approach through establishing a”“Product Evaluation Group” to address growing enterprise networking needs and a very strong Pre-Sales Team to design and support the right products in the end-users network.

Shanthala Gokul, Managing Director, Co-Founder, Signet Computers
As Managing Director, responsible for maintaining the company’s market share in the Indian subcontinent, driving its growth and devising marketing programs, she provides the vision for the pre-determined growth of the company and for its excellence in honouring business commitments.

She is the pioneer in introducing the concept of Third Party Memory upgrades and successfully brought Dataram International products in India and eventually Signet became its authorized reseller in

India to offer server memory upgrades. She also brought the concept of consulting and advising customers on the technology front rather than just selling memory products.

Shanthala has seventeen years of industry experience and was the Finance Manager of a large multinational company before establishing Signet. At Signet, her responsibility is to identify and develop appropriate business areas, in keeping with its vision and nurture these areas.

Shanthala is in charge of the company’s sales and marketing efforts in India. She is responsible for growing Eoan Systems products and services and also plays a key role in driving the company’s partnerships and strategic alliances.

Kavita Nath, Manager, Marketing and Communication, South-East Asia and India, Logitech
Kavita Nath is Manager, Marketing and Communication, South-East Asia and India, Logitech. She has been in the industry for the last nine years now. She handles marketing and communication functions at Logitech in South-East Asia and India.

She has driven marketing and communication target towards consumers and IT channels. Kavita is part of the team that has improved Logitech’s brand awareness and profile in India and has

made the Indian subsidiary one of the best performing companies in the world.

Reema has been working in the IT industry since 1997. Prior to joining AppLabs, Reema worked for Global Marketing & Partner, Halcyon Asia Group, the American Fair Credit Association and as a Special Protocol Officer in the Public Relations Department of The United Nations (1993–1997).

Reema is very good at multi-tasking. She not only looks after the activities related to Corporate Marketing, Public Relations and Industry Alliances at AppLabs, but she is also actively involved with AppLabs Charitable Trust, the CSR wing of AppLabs.

Uma Thomas, Vice-President, Process Excellence Group, KPIT Cummins Infosystem
As the head of PEG, Uma’s chief responsibilities include management of processes for delivery, support and cross-functional areas.

Uma joined KPIT Cummins in 2004. She has effectively enabled the Process Excellence group to be the customers’ and management’s “eyes and ears” within KPIT Cummins for quality.

Uma has been instrumental in KPIT Cummins obtaining some of the

valued standards certifications such as CMMI level 5, ISO 9001-2000, SPICE. Uma Thomas has vast experience in the IT industry, spanning over 18 years. Before joining KPIT Cummins, she was with Infosys, Patni Computers and Amphetronix.

Under the guidance of Uma, PEG is the organization has successfully managed internalization of quality in software projects, which have resulted in increased customer confidence in our delivery capability.

Another highlight of her career has been the successful integration of processes after mergers and acquisitions. She has been successful in taking quality beyond certifications, to something which can add value to customers and employees.

Aparna Ballakur, Director Human Resources- Adobe for India & China
Aparna Ballakur has played a significant role in growing the India centers for Adobe over the last 2years and six months. Under her leadership, the Adobe India organization has grown to over 1000 in Noida & Bangalore, doubling headcount year on year. At present, she heads the HR for Adobe for India & China. She reports to the Global Head of HR for Adobe Worldwide. She has been in the technology industry for the last 12 years and has worked with McAfee, TriVium Systems and Sasken prior to Adobe.

Aparna has contributed to the building of organizations from scratch on multiple occasions (McAfee, TriVium). In Adobe she has managed HR during a period of significant growth- both by recruiting & retaining the best talent in the industry as well as by building HR infrastructure to support the high growth. Aparna was also responsible for the employee integration in India, at the time of the Macromedia acquisition by Adobe.

Gurpreet Kanwal - Country Business Manager-Convergence, HP India
At the present position, what is her responsibility? Establish HP as a major vendor in the convergence business for enterprise and SMB customers. For how long time have you been serving the IT industry and which are the organizations you have worked for in the past?

She has worked for 14 years in the Industry, which started with Tangerine followed by Apple and then 10 years with Xerox and now with HP. At HP, she is responsible in handling high-end MFDs HP.

Kanwal’s success mantra are her dedication towards any work, be it professional or personal, her belief in teamwork. And finally the support she gets from her family.