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About Pratibha Arvind Sarathy

Handled various roles from software development to business strategy and handling high level corporate and government stakeholders. Good team player and leader,interested in exploring newer areas of work and challenges. Specialities: General management including projects, large team handling, proposals, operations, quality and software development. Technical expertise in Telecom, Insurance, Energy, Learning & development, tourism domains. Learning and development is a passion, and a expertise. Want to sustain learning as an inherent and exciting facet throughout one’s life. To cross over inter-cultural barriers, fundamental differences in ideas and opinions. And To work towards building an effective bridge between a corporate and the social sector facilitating sustainable development, and help people realize their inherent work-life balances.

About Sujit Janardanan

As part of his current mandate as the Chief Marketing Officer at Cropin, a B2B Agtech player, Sujit is focused on building a new product category, while creating a brand that is seen as instrumental in leading the digital transformation led change in agriculture globally. He last was part of the Google Cloud founding team in India, which he helped grow and take away sizeable market share from AWS and MS. He also led marketing as VP – Global Marketing at Aranca. Before Aranca he was with Amazon where he was part of the initial team that drove the growth for AWS’ business in the Indian sub-continent. He is also one of the few technology marketers in India with over a decades experience in taking cloud services to market. He joined Amazon from Netmagic – an NTT Com Group Company, where his role included developing strategy to build the Netmagic brand, while also leading the corporate, field marketing, corporate communications and the inside sales functions. He was part of the leadership team that drove Netmagic's growth as an Indian IT infrastructure outsourcing and cloud services market leader. He was also entrusted the additional responsibility of restructuring the Customer Advocacy practice for the company. Sujit has consistently built world-class marketing capabilities for the organizations that he worked with while building business revenue and brand. A keen student and practitioner of B2B marketing, Sujit has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Talented CMOs of India – 2013 by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress. Sujit held key marketing roles at 3i Infotech as part of its Global Marketing team and McAfee where he led their enterprise marketing in India & SAARC region. Beginning his career at Sercon as Executive - Operations and then moving on to Shobiz Experiential Communications, Sujit has managed and rolled-out several BTL marketing campaigns for brands like HUL, Cisco, Oracle and Symantec among others. With a career spanning over 20 years, Sujit has a deep understanding of the IT ecosystem, complex enterprise (B2B) purchase decision-making process. He has learnt and honed his skills as a B2B marketer and brings to table a keen sense for business-oriented marketing coupled with strong execution capabilities. A Hotel Management grad from IHMCTAN, he holds a post-grad degree in management from IIM Kozhikode’s Management Education Programme - the Executive Management Education Programme.

About Hemendra Mathur

Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund and Co-founder, ThinkAg

About Dipu KV

Global Award-Winning Digital Transformation & Innovation Leader I drive digital transformation, innovation & industry leadership as President & Head - Operations & CX @ the world's #8 digital insurer, Bajaj Allianz (industry's first blockchain & ioT solutions, thrice Digital Insurer of the Year, ISO certified, highest NPS & lowest grievance ratio, 2 innovations in the final 45 @ ET Innovation Awards 2020, 20 Best Insurers for 2020 in APAC, 58 awards including global Celent Model Insurer, IDC Digital Transformation Award, twice Global 25 CX Leader, CXO Hall of Fame, 50 Fabulous Innovative Leader, Top 20 Influential Conversational AI Leader et al), leading a team of ~1600 people in 170 locations, leveraging fintech / insurtech start-ups globally. Prior to insurance, I worked @ GE Capital (financial services + cards) for 20 years, fusing digital transformation & 6 sigma to redesign business models. A unique aspect of my career is both scaling up from scratch & transforming legacy businesses. Many of my accomplishments have received global industry awards & press coverage. A speaker & writer on digital transformation & innovation in global forums & publications, I take sessions for senior industry executives @ National Insurance Academy & B-schools around the world. Domain Expertise A certified lean 6 sigma black belt, my testimonials showcase my "part career, part revolution"​ approach. Along the way, I have learnt (1) to grow & also consolidate (2) to launch a start-up & also create a turnaround (3) to lead large teams & also influence cross-functional/multi-site teams (4) to work in direct settings & also in joint venture / matrix structures & (5) to grow revenue & also control cost. Passions / Certifications My passions include connecting with people, reading, speaking, writing & travel. I am an IvyExec mentor & a member of various global committees such as HBR Advisory Council, EFMA editorial committee, UiPath Customer Advisory Board, Pioneers of Automation board, CII Committee on Financial Inclusion & Fintech, IAMAI Digital Transformation Advisory Board, Worldwide Thinktank on AI et al. The #1 TripAdvisor reviewer with 820,000 readers, I write monthly columns in a New York-based website on leadership & a Mumbai based newspaper on "digital". Specialties: Strategy | Process Re-engineering | Lean Six Sigma | Insurance | Cards | Payments | Blockchain | Internet of Things | Robotic Process Automation | Artificial Intelligence | Insurtech | Fintech | Digital Transformation | Innovation | Retail Finance | Consumer Finance