Mike Brinker is a senior partner in Deloittes US firm with management responsibilities for Deloitte's India Technology practice. Deloitte is a $26B global audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory firm with substantial operations in India serving global clients and the local market. As a partner in the global firm, Mike actively participates in strategy relating to all four functions of the business.

In his capacity leading the India Technology practice, Mike advises Deloittes largest global multi-national clients on India strategy, directly oversees a practice of 3,500 practitioners, and is a leader in Deloitte, overseeing expansion and go-to-market strategy within India. Mikes direct practice responsibilities include ensuring the success and quality of client projects, definition of service offerings, talent acquisition strategy, campus strategy, and general financial operations. Deloittes Technology Practice includes services related to IT strategy, package applications (Oracle and SAP), custom development, information management, and application management and support. In addition, Mike chairs a joint-management team that serves the India market directly and he participates in numerous global technology committees.

Mike has over twenty-one years of experience in consulting and technology advisory, including fifteen years with Deloitte Consulting. He has served in dozens of client and practice leadership roles within Deloitte. Mike is based out of Orange County, CA, but splits his time between India and the US. His undergraduate studies were in Computer Science at the University of Southern California.

David Good joined the Tata Group on February 1, 2005, as their corporate representative in North America after completing a 34-year career with the U.S. Department of State. His last position with the State Department was Director of the Office of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives Affairs, following a three-year stint as American Consul General in Mumbai (Bombay), India from 1999-2002. During his career in the Foreign Service, he also served as Public Affairs Officer at the American Embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel; in Amman, Jordan; in Kuwait City, Kuwait; and at the American Consulate General in Jerusalem.

From 1997-1999, Mr. Good was Director of the Office of North African, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, and responsible for U.S. Government education, exchange and information programs across the Middle East and South Asia. From 1989-1991, he was Spokesman and Director of Public Affairs at the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Bureau of the State Department. He served in previous assignments in Calcutta and New Delhi, India and in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Dr Nandakumar Jairam currently is the chairman and group medical director for Columbia Asia Hospitals in India. He continues to function as a consultant colorectal and general surgeon for Columbia Asia and heads the specialty surgeons group. He is the chairman of the accreditation committee of the NABH under the auspices of QCI. Committed to social causes he was one of the founder trustees of the Krishna charitable trust. He is actively involved in the health related activities of FICCI and CII.

Until its existence Dr Jairam was actively involved in the Terry Fox foundation, Bangalore as its founder trustee. Also responsible for the development of the cause of Ostomates, he was the vice president of Ostomates India until 2007. He was nominated the Hanumaiah Orator for the year 2004 He was chairman, Health CII institute of quality from 1999 for a period of two years. He also led the delegation of health professionals as its chairman, to England under the Indo UK partnership treaty.

From 1996 to 1998 he was the Medical director of Mallya Hospital, Bangalore. He was secretary of the Dhanavanthri hospital, a charitable hospital, between 1997 and 2000. Between 1980 and 1994 he served at St Johns Medical college and Hospital, first as lecturer, later as assistant professor, associate professor, Professor and head of Surgery and member of the Board of administration of SJMCH.

Dr Nandakumar Jairam trained in colorectal and minimally invasive surgery in UK and the USA. He attended a course at St Marks Hospital in Colorectal surgery in 1986..He is an alumnus of Bangalore Medical College, National College, Basavanagudi and Bishop Cottons School, Bangalore, India. He has been an examiner for MBBS and the MS examinations of several Indian Universities. He was an examiner for DNBE in surgery and inspector for the national Board. He has several papers including publications in the prestigious British journal of Surgery and presentations to his credit. He is the son of an illustrious surgeon and is a third generation doctor. He has two sons and one of them is a budding surgeon. He has a flair for theater, plays golf and enjoys working out at the gym.

Dr. Vijai Kumar is the President and Chief Medical Officer of Excel Life Sciences, Inc., a leading US based company providing trial management services in India and pharmaceutical consulting services to global biopharmaceutical and device industries. Excel Life Sciences also provides strategic inputs for clinical development of drugs and devices in India and other emerging markets.

Dr. Kumar's experience includes clinical research, business strategy, clinical trial logistics and supply chain management, regulatory affairs and senior executive positions at Sandoz and the Upjohn Company for 16 years. During his tenure in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Kumar played a major role in the evolution of clinical research in India and other parts of Asia, specifically the advancements in regulatory compliance and operational excellence. Dr. Kumar has been a WHO faculty for development of drugs for Tropical Diseases and leading clinical research institutions.

Dr. Vijai Kumar has an M.B.B.S. Degree from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India and M.D. (Board Certification) in Internal Medicine from University of Delhi, India.

Praveen Tyle, Ph. D. is currently Senior Vice President & Global Head of R&D and BD&L OTC for Novartis Consumer Health Care, Parsippany, NJ. Dr. Tyle joined Novartis in June 2008 from Bausch & Lomb's where he served, from 2004-2008, as corporate senior vice president - Global Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer, responsible for the Company's research, new product development, preclinical development, project management, clinical, medical and regulatory affairs, and product quality.

Dr. Tyle has 26 years of drug development and commercialization experience. He began his professional career as a formulations research chemist in drug delivery research with American Cyanamid Company (now Wyeth), moving on to executive leadership and scientific positions with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis), Agouron Pharmaceuticals (now Pfizer) and Aronex Pharmaceuticals (now Antigenics). In 1999, Dr. Tyle was named vice president - pharmaceutical sciences, U.S., Pharmacia & Upjohn (now Pfizer) and then named in 2001 as global vice president and global head - pharmaceutical sciences at Pharmacia Corporation. He joined Biovail in 2003 where he was group vice president - pharmaceutical sciences and manufacturing.

Dr. Tyle holds academic appointments as an adjunct professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester Eye Institute, as well as an adjunct professor of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island, at the Howard University, Washington DC, and at the University of Houston, Texas. He is editor of seven books about drug development, holds several patents and is the author of more than 125 technical and scientific papers and presentations.

Dr. Tyle was born in Hapur, India, in March 1960. He holds a doctorate in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry from The Ohio State University (1984) and a bachelor of Pharmacy (honors) degree from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India (1980). Dr. Tyle is a member of the Board of Directors for Orient Europharma Ltd., Taiwan, and of EyeGate Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Waltham, MA. He is also a Scientific Advisory Board member of VioQuest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New Jersey and Health Care Advisory Board of Arsenal Capital Partners, New York, NY.

John has over 15 years of experience in the pharma & biotech industry. He has spent the past five years in the vaccine space with Merck and the last two years doing work in key emerging markets such as China and India. His primary focus is on helping Merck to globalize its overall vaccine business through development of market entry, growth and competitive strategies, as well as, identification of M&A and operational strategy opportunities.

John has broad business experience across the hospital, tablet and vaccine commercial segments. He has held key roles for Merck in the areas of strategy, sales, marketing and commercial operations. Prior to joining Merck, John worked in the US House of Representatives as a Legislative Aide, focused on Science, Technology and Healthcare legislation. He has also worked in the healthcare industry using advanced technologies to improve patient and provider interactions.

He is very active in Merck's external recruiting and mentoring programs and is responsible for recruiting efforts at both the Wharton School and Rutgers Business School. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics & Finance from Rutgers University.

Dr. Manoj Mohanan is an Assistant Research Professor at Duke Global Health Institute with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Duke Medical School. He also leads DGHI's health systems strengthening research initiative. His research focuses on topics in the economics of health and development. Currently, he is working on development of innovative methods to measure quality of care in primary care settings in developing countries. Another major area of work is impact evaluation of large public sector programs such as the effect of voucher programs and evaluation of contracting mechanisms in public-private partnerships in health. He has several years of experience consulting to the World Bank and governments in developing countries on issues relating to health insurance and public private partnerships.

Dr. Mohanan received his PhD in Health Policy (Economics) from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He also holds a medical degree (MBBS) from University of Mumbai's Grant Medical College and degrees in public health (MPH and SM) from Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Bimal Shah is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with a joint appointment at Duke University and Duke-National University Singapore (Duke-NUS). Bimal received his medical school training as well as his Master's in Business Administration from Duke University. He attended Stanford University for his training in Internal Medicine before completing a general cardiology fellowship at Duke University. He also has previously worked as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton and Sujansky & Associates.

In addition to his clinical responsibilities as a non-invasive cardiologist, Dr. Shah is involved in numerous programs around Duke in the areas of health services research, clinical trials, and registry analyses at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke-NUS. Bimal has numerous publications in the areas of health care finance and delivery, cardiovascular outcomes, and quality assessment in cardiac care. Additionally, Bimal currently assists in managing the Duke Heart Center Adult Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic, works on Duke Medicine's global initiatives in India and China, and works on a variety of strategic projects for Duke Medicine.

Mike Brinker is the Practice Leader for Deloittes India Technology practice. In this capacity, he has responsibility for the operations, people, project quality, and all proposed client solutions related to off-shore technology delivery. Mike has over twenty years of experience in technology consulting and continues to advise key clients, including Mattel, Apple, and Life Technologies.

Mr. Brinker has been with Deloitte fourteen years and has served in numerous client and practice leadership roles. His primary areas of technology consulting include IT strategy, Direct to Consumer eCommerce, and Enterprise Information Management in Retail, High Tech, and Life Sciences. Experience includes twenty-one years of project management, application architecture, systems implementation, and IS Strategy. Including five years as a corporate Project Manager, two years as a Project Manager with a software vendor, and over fourteen years as a Principal in Management Consulting experience in delivering solutions in a variety of industries and applications including life science, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, mortgage banking, credit unions, commercial lending, higher education, and insurance.

Mr. Brinker is based out of Orange County, CA, but splits his time between India and the US. His undergraduate studies were in Computer Science at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Alok Aggarwal received his B. Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1980 in Electrical Engineering and his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1984. He joined IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights New York in 1984 and has published 86 Research papers (most of which are in renowned journals and conferences) and has been also granted 8 patents from the US Patents and Trademark Office. During the fall of 1987 and 1989, he was on sabbatical from IBM and taught two courses (in two terms) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also supervised two Ph.D. students. During 1991 and 1996, along with other IBMers, he created and sold a "Supply Chain Management Solution" for paper mills, steel mills and other related industries.

In July 1997, Dr. Aggarwal "Founded" the IBM India Research Laboratory that he set-up inside the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Dr. Alagh, the Indian Minister for Human Resources and Mr. Richard Celeste, the US Ambassador to India inaugurated this Laboratory. Dr. Aggarwal started this Laboratory from "ground zero" and by July 2000, he had built it into a 70-member team (with 35 PhDs and 35 Masters in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and in Business Administration). In August 2000, Dr. Aggarwal became the Director of Emerging Business Opportunities for IBM Research Division worldwide. In this capacity, his responsibilities included converting business innovations into business models and then taking them to market and creating profitable business.

Dr. Alok Aggarwal is the Founder and Chairman of Evalueserve - a company that was started in December 2000 and that provides various kinds of research and analytics services to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific from its five research centers in Delhi-Gurgaon, India; Shanghai, China; Cluj, Romania, Santiago-Valparaiso, Chile; and New York, USA. Along with his colleagues at Evalueserve, in 2003, he pioneered the concept of Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) and wrote the first article in this regard. Today, KPO is a fairly well known term in the outsourcing sector and is considered a sub-sector on its own with more than 300 KPO companies in India alone.

During 1984 and 2007, Dr. Aggarwal has served as program chairperson for a number of conferences, including Symposium on Theory of Computing, Foundations of Computer Science, and Symposium on Computational Geometry. He has also served as a Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and has been on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal of Computing, Algorithmica, and Journal of Symbolic Computation. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

During 1998-2000, Dr. Aggarwal was a member of Executive Committee on Information Technology of the Confederation of the Indian Industry (CII) and also of the Telecom Committee of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He is currently a Chartered Member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) organization and has been quoted extensively by Wall Street Journal and other newspapers and magazines. In 2008, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhil.

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Ajay Goel is an experienced professional, actively involved in building and managing large and challenging businesses, strategy office, engineering and R&D functions for very large IT systems and complex Industrial Automation companies.

After 25 years in the Industry, Mr. Goel recently started Elucido Media Networks, with his Stanford Business School Classmates. Elucido, a high tech start-up in the high end digital media space.

Prior to Elucido, Mr. Ajay Goel was the Senior Vice President for the Industry Business, Strategy and Operations for Cisco Systems, India and SAARC. Mr. Goel had a long stint with Sun Microsystems as the Country Director - India Business Operations, and also had the honor to represent as a Special Director to the world wide Sun Microsystems Inc. Foundation Board for year 2006-2007. Mr. Goel started his career with Asea Brown Boveri.

Mr. Ajay Goel built and successfully managed large P&L, lead diverse business units, and transformational efforts across Industry in India and abroad. A well recognized industry personality, an active Rotarian, Paul Harris Fellow, Louise Marchese Fellow, Member of American Chambers of Commerce, and Confederation of Indian Industry. Mr. Goel is the past chairman of Bangalore Round Table, and active member of Bangalore Golf and Wellington Gymkhana clubs.

Mr. Ajay Goel is a 1982 Graduate Engineer by training in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, and an alumnus of the Stanford Business School.

Ms. Farzana Haque is the Global Head - Large Accounts SBU at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global information technology company with over US$6 Billion in revenues. The Large Accounts SBU at TCS has leading brand names as its clients. Prior to taking on this role, she was based in New York and was part of the e-business vertical at TCS, where she was an instrumental part of the team that helped grow that business from its inception. Ms. Farzana began her career with the TATA Group in Mumbai as a management trainee.

In recognition of her leadership at TCS, Ms. Farzana was nominated to the World Economic Forum as a "Young Global Leader" The Young Global Leader recognizes the top 250 young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, their commitment to society and their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. Ms. Farzana has been profiled and featured by leading Indian and International Media on her work both for her organization and for the development work that she does in India. Farzana is also the recipient of the "INDIRA" Super Achiever Award 2008. Farzana is a Charter member of TiE.

Ms. Farzana is a frequent speaker at business schools around the globe and India on topics covering leadership, building global brands, and innovation. She is passionate about social development in India and works with NGO's and foundations in order to further the cause, besides being on boards of a few foundations.

Harish Abbott is the Chief Product Officer at Lulu.com, the premier global marketplace for new digital content on the Internet. Abbott's focus is on growing Lulu.com's existing user base and integrating social networking into Lulus product offerings.

Prior to joining Lulu, Abbott was the President and Co-Founder of Ugenie, the company behind weRead.com. At Ugenie, Abbott was responsible for setting the overall product direction and management of the engineering center and company operations. Abbott was a Senior Program Manager at Amazon.com before Ugenie, leading initiatives on strategic planning, supply chains and order fulfillment. He helped Amazon launch and build its distribution network through warehousing and drop-shipping in North America and Europe. Before Amazon, Abbott was a Solution Architect at i2 Technologies where he played a key role in the consulting and sales teams of the retail and automotive division.

Abbott, a graduate with top honors from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, also holds a Masters in Operations Research from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Rena Golden is that rare media executive with extensive experience in both digital and traditional media. Shes currently CEO of GoldenMedia , consulting on content and business development in the growing digital space in domestic and international markets. Prior to that, Golden was part of the senior leadership team at CNN.

As Senior Vice President of CNN.com, she led content creation and editorial operations, managing a team of more than 50 journalists. During her tenure, CNN.com was consistently named the #1 news and information website. Coverage highlights included the 2008 Presidential Campaign, the First 100 Days of the Obama administration, the on-going global economic crisis and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Golden was an early proponent for the integration of social networking and citizen journalism into CNN.com operations, overseeing the iReport.com team as well as editorial initiatives with Facebook and other digital partners.

Before joining the CNN.com team, Golden worked for over a decade growing CNNs International businesses. Golden was Senior Vice President of CNN International, managing a team of more than100 journalists based at Atlanta headquarters and regional production hubs she launched in London and Hong Kong. As one of the lead architects of CNN Internationals regionalization strategy, Golden led the creation of more than 80 hours of news, business and lifestyle programming targeted at both international and regional audiences. She recruited and managed the most diverse network anchor team in television newswith 25 presenters from more than 15 different nations. During her tenure, CNN Internationals audience reach and revenues grew by over 35%.

Golden played a key role in expanding the CNN presence in South Asia, working with regional partners to launch the joint venure CNN IBN in India. She is a keen observer of how Indian media has evolved, and how western news organizations coverage of India particularly its economic prowess is changing.

Angela Chitkara is Founder & CEO of US-India Corridor, a strategic consultancy firm focusing on international companies with India exposure. She has trained and worked as a television journalist for more than a decade in the United States, London, South Africa, Singapore, and India, serving in various roles from News Associate to International News Editor.

Angela has served as a News Editor and Anchor, and reported on the global markets for CNBC TV18 in India. She led daily editorial meetings and set up the first multilingual local and international assignment desks for CNBC in India. This was critical in enabling bureaus around the world to provide viewers with a more current and accurate story of an emerging India and its role in the global economy.

Ms. Chitkara has served as a political researcher to the late Louis Rukeyser during the 2000 US Presidential Election cycle and co-produced the 2004 US Presidential Elections from Singapore for CNBC Asia. She produced the first LIVE hit on the Tsunami for the NBC network from India in 2004. In 2006, she produced the Mumbai blasts coverage for the NBC network globally. Angela is a regular commentator on issues relating the US India space.

Angela holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, a Masters in International Journalism from City University in London, UK, and a BA in Communications, Journalism from Seton Hall University. She also serves as a Media Advisor to the World Music Institute, a NY based not-for-profit dedicating to bringing the finest contemporary music and dance from around the world, and contributes to Pratham USA, one of Indias largest non-profit organizations, in teaching children how to read and write through its Read India Initiative.

Mr. Sharad Devarajan is a media entrepreneur and film producer. He is the Co-Founder, CEO & Publisher of Virgin Comics LLC and Virgin Animation Pvt. Ltd, a set of companies he originally founded with Sir Richard Branson, author Deepak Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Recently Mr. Devarajan led a management buyout of Virgin Comics and renamed the Company, Liquid Comics (www.LiquidComics.com). Mr. Devarajan oversees all aspects of the Companys business and worldwide operations. Similar to Japanese Manga and anime, the Companys mission is to redefine a new wave of Indian themed character entertainment and permeate this new vision to audiences around the world. The Company uses the medium of comic book publishing as its development vehicle to incubate intellectual properties for theatrical live-action films, animation, merchandise and gaming. Beyond Indian themed content, the Company also creates new stories for multiple media platforms with leading filmmakers, actors, musicians and personalities including Deepak Chopra, Shekhar Kapur, John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Ed Burns, Dave Stewart, Nicolas Cage, Sachin Tendulkar, John Mostow, Duran Duran and more.

Mr. Devarajan is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film projects based on Liquids comic properties including the Warner Bros. film adaptation of Gamekeeper with director Guy Ritchie; Virulents with New Regency and The Leaves with Summit Entertainment.

Prior to Virgin, Mr. Devarajan was Co-Founder & CEO of Gotham Entertainment Group, a leading South Asian youth magazine publisher that pioneered the Indian publishing activities for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Cartoon Network. In 2004, Mr. Devarajan worked with Marvel to reinvent Spider-Man as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai. Unlike traditional translations of western characters into foreign markets, the new series, Spider-Man: India was heralded as the industrys first trans-creation sparking a trend in reverse globalization for character entertainment companies.

For his accomplishments, Mr. Devarajan was featured as CNNfn's 'Maverick in The Morning' and profiled in numerous media including Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and NPR's Fresh Air. He holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia University where he also teaches as an Adjunct Associate Professor.

Natasha Israni is a New York based consultant reporter with Reuters TV and Times Now. Reuters TV is the television arm of Reuters, one of the world's largest international news agencies. Times Now is a leading 24-hour English television news network in India. It falls under the umbrella of The Times of India group, India's largest media conglomerate.

At Reuters TV, Natasha produces stories for the New York bureau. As Times Now's U.S. correspondent, Natasha is responsible for coverage of topics important to Indian audiences. Apart from reporting, producing and anchoring for the network, she also manages a team of freelance producers across the United States.

Natasha has covered a wide range of topics in more than a decade as a journalist -- from politics to international affairs, entertainment to business, and from fashion to environmental issues. She has reported on some of the biggest American stories of the last few years, such as the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal, the first state visit of the Obama administration by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the G20 economic summit at Pittsburgh and the climate change debate.

Prior to her current position, Natasha was a senior correspondent with India Today magazine, India's leading weekly English news magazine.

Natasha holds a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from New York University, a Masters in English Literature from Mumbai University and a Diploma in Mass Communications from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. She is a 2002 Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) fellow.

David Good joined the Tata Group on February 1, 2005, as their corporate representative in North America after completing a 34-year career with the U.S. Department of State. His last position with the State Department was Director of the Office of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives Affairs, following a three-year stint as American Consul General in Mumbai (Bombay), India from 1999-2002. During his career in the Foreign Service, he also served as Public Affairs Officer at the American Embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel; in Amman, Jordan; in Kuwait City, Kuwait; and at the American Consulate General in Jerusalem.

From 1997-1999, Mr. Good was Director of the Office of North African, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, and responsible for U.S. Government education, exchange and information programs across the Middle East and South Asia. From 1989-1991, he was Spokesman and Director of Public Affairs at the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Bureau of the State Department. He served in previous assignments in Calcutta and New Delhi, India and in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Surabhi Garg is the Vice President at Alliance for US India Business (AUSIB) where she manages organization's membership services for the Small and Medium Enterprises. Dr. Garg also serves as the Vice President of Finance and Operations at USINPAC (US India Political Action Committee).

Recently Surabhi Garg was chosen for the 'Woman of the Year Award' in the 'Professional Organizations' category by the IndUS business Journal. According to the Journal, "this award is to recognize women for their contribution to the South Asian community in the United States and for their setting a tremendous example of women's success in the workplace".

Surabhi has nearly 14 years of experience in the biotechnology industry, clinical research, and analysis of biotechnology markets and is Vice President of the Biotechnology Group at 'The Americon'; a consulting company. Dr. Garg has over fifteen years of business management and analysis experience. She is the author of 20 peer-reviewed articles and 13 abstracts presented at national and international conferences. Her areas of expertise include immunology, molecular biology, molecular epidemiology, microbiology, clinical diagnostics, and human physiology.

Surabhi completed her Ph.D. in Microbiology from NICED, a WHO collaborating center in India. She graduated in Anatomy and Physiology from Presidency College, Calcutta, India. She has conducted post-doctoral studies at the International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo and at University of Maryland, College Park.

Surabhi has also worked at Voice of America, Washington DC as a news show anchor and broadcaster for nearly 10 years.

Farzana is the Global Head - Large Accounts SBU at TCS, a leading global information technology company with over US$6 Billion in revenues. The Large Accounts SBU at TCS has leading brand names as its clients. Prior to taking on this role, she was based in New York and was part of the e-business vertical at TCS, where she was an instrumental part of the team that helped grow that business from its inception. Farzana began her career with the TATA Group in Mumbai as a management trainee.

In recognition of her leadership at TCS, Farzana was nominated to the World Economic Forum as a "Young Global Leader" The Young Global Leader recognizes the top 250 young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, their commitment to society and their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.Farzana has been profiled and featured by leading Indian and International Media on her work both for her organization and for the development work that she does in India. Farzana is also the recipient of the "INDIRA" Super Achiever Award 2008. Farzana is a Charter member of TiE.

Farzana is a frequent speaker at business schools around the globe and India on topics covering leadership, building global brands, and innovation. She is passionate about social development in India and works with NGO's and foundations in order to further the cause, besides being on boards of a few foundations.

Professor Coleman graduated from the University of Chicago in 1987 with a Ph.D. in economics. He spent the next five years working as an economist in the International Finance Division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington D.C. In 1992 he moved to the Department of Economics at Duke University, and in 1994 he moved to the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is currently a Full Professor at the Fuqua School of Business.

Professor Coleman his widely published in the top journals in economics. His overall research program has generally been in the area of macroeconomics. He began his career by developing methods for studying dynamic economies, with an emphasis on both develop- ing theoretical methods and inventing numerical algorithms for solving non-linear, dynamic models on serial and parallel computers. He later applied this technology to addressing a series of macroeconomic issues, such as the effects of monetary policy, the optimal method and rate of taxation, irreversible investment, understanding the sources of growth, and the adoption and diffusion of technology. His current work focuses on the adoption of technology for countries in different stages of development, structural transformations as economies attempt to sustain growth in per-capita income, as well as economic motivations for ethnic conflict. Pursuing this research program has blended aspects of theoretical economics, computational methods, applied macroeconomics, and international economics.

Professor Coleman has taught courses on the Global Economic Environment of the Firm, the Economics of International Business and Multinationals, International Financial Policy, and Corporate Finance.

Ashok Vasudevan has an intimate knowledge of, and a deep commitment to international trade & policy issues, and the growth and globalization of small and medium enterprises. He has the experience and track record to structure, build and manage commercially viable and socially responsible international SMEs both in the developed and emerging economies. His 28-year career has been spent almost equally between being an entrepreneur and a corporate executive for large multinationals (Unilever & PepsiCo).

He is a co-founder of three food businesses in the US, India and Australia. Presently, he is CEO of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company, Chairman of Tasty Bite Eatables Limited an Indian public company traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange and Chairman of Preferred Brands Australia Pty Ltd, a Melbourne based sales and marketing company.

These three closely linked corporations manufacture and market Tasty Bite an all-natural, ready-to-eat specialty food sold in major super markets in North America and Australia. Tasty Bite was this years recipient of the prestigious Government of India APEDA silver award for value added exports in agriculture. Tasty Bite just got ranked amongst the Top-50 Best Companies to Work For in India in 2009!

Ashok is also well acquainted with opportunities and challenges emerging out of cutting-edge technologies. He is the co-founder and CEO of ASG-Omni, a Stamford, CT based strategy-consulting firm involved in the design and development of entry strategies for large US corporations looking to do business in India. Ashok was also on the board of Tejas Networks Limited, a Bangalore based optical networking company, which he co-founded with Desh Deshpande and Sycamore Networks. Tejas was last years recipient of the CSIR award for technology from the Prime Minister of India.

Prior to his career as an entrepreneur, Ashok headed the India desk of Pepsi World Trade from its world beverage headquarters in Somers, New York. He received Pepsis MVP award in 1991 for his contributions.

Before joining Pepsi, Ashok spent 10 years with Unilever in various functions that included Management Development, Sales & Marketing and International Business.

Ashok Vasudevan graduated in Agricultural Sciences and Business Management from Bajaj Institute, Bombay and the Harvard Business School. He is a visiting Professor of International Entrepreneurship at the Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India. Ashok also co-authored a chapter in the book Building Global Business Success- Lessons from Emerging Markets (Macmillan, 2004). He is a member of the International Education Policy Advisory Council in the State of Connecticut, an executive member of the ITC (International Trade Council), in Stamford, CT and a member of the oversight committee for the Center for Globalization, a joint initiative between the University of Connecticut and the Chamber of Commerce. Widely traveled in Europe, Asia and Australia, Vasudevan lives with his wife Meera, also an entrepreneur and a senior Business Executive, in Stamford Connecticut.

Renuka Ramnath is the Founder and Managing Director of Multiples Alternate Asset Management which seeks to manage circa $450 million of Indian and International capital.

In her career spanning nearly two and a half decades in the Indian financial sector, Renuka has been involved with building several businesses from scratch in the ICICI Group which include Investment Banking, Structured Finance and e-Commerce in the 1990s and Private Equity in 2000; much before each of these terms became ubiquitous in Indian marketplace.

Renuka led ICICI Venture to become Indias largest private equity fund whilst transforming the firm from a banks investment arm to a traditional blue-chip private equity fund managing substantial amounts of third party capital both domestic and international. All four funds raised by her (aggregating to US$1.5 billion) have been the then largest domestic funds raised in the Indian market.

Time and again, Renuka has demonstrated her ability to identify and conceptualize new business opportunities, create high quality teams and quickly build these businesses to scale. As a result, she has featured in many prestigious listings, including the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business (Business Today, India), Indias most Powerful CEOs (Economic Times) and in the Top 25 Non Bank Women in Finance (US Bankers global list).

In her new avatar, Renuka looks to bring together her tremendous experience, long-standing credibility and enormous relationships to build Multiples as a platform to channelise long-term capital to create valuable enterprises and successful entrepreneurs. She draws motivation from the fact that supporting entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses has the potential to generate employment, to create ripple effects in the Indian economy and to facilitate the greater process of nation building.

As President & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Inc (KM Inc), New York, Mr. Pola manages the US, Canada and South American business of the Kotak Mahindra group. Kotak Mahindra is one of the largest financial services groups in India and a leader in the Capital Markets business. The flagship company is a bank listed on the Indian exchange with a market cap of about $6.0 bln and with 20000 employees. The Banks subsidiaries include KMCC - one of Indias largest Investment Bank, Kotak Securities - Indias largest domestic securities broking firm, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company - one of Indias largest asset managers with about $12 bln in assets.

Mr. Pola has been with the Kotak Mahindra group since 1994. At Kotak, he worked as the Head of Syndications until 1997. He later managed the Corporate Finance desk including lending, syndications and products development team. In this role, he oversaw various regional offices of Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. In 1999, he moved to the Investment Banking group - Kotak Mahindra Capital Company (formerly a Goldman Sachs JV), managing large corporate relationships within India. He thereafter moved to New York as the President and CEO of KM Inc since April 2001.

Mr. Pola was recently awarded as one of the 50 Outstanding Asian American Business Leaders for 2006-07 by the Asian American Business Development Council at New York.

Atish has a wide experience in technology start-ups and venture capital/private equity firms. He has spent significant time sourcing and evaluating early stage and growth investment opportunities in India and US at Edelweiss Capital and Battery Ventures.

Atish was also an early team member at Vonage. He served as the company's VP of Corporate Development for several years, helping to build the company into the early leader of the US VoIP market and bringing it to an eventual IPO. Atish has also spent several years as a Program Manager at BAE Systems, where he managed advanced communications businesses serving customers around the world.

Atish is a mentor to a number of cross-border (Indo-US) entrepreneurs and students with new venture ideas. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his undergraduate studies.

Manju Puri is the J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. She was earlier Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford Business School, which she joined after earning her Ph.D in finance at New York University. Professor Puri has been an executive and consultant in the banking industry, and is a leading scholar in banking and venture capital. Her research interests are in the area of empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation, with focus on commercial banks, investment banks, venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Professor Puri has published widely in the leading finance journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. Her research has won multiple awards including two Western Finance Association best paper awards, and two Fama-DFA awards in Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Puri is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and serves as associate editor of several journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Financial Services Research. She is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work has been supported by the FDIC, National Science Foundation, and Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Professor Puri teaches an elective she created on Raising Capital for the MBA students at Fuqua. She also teaches a Ph.D class on Empirical Corporate Finance and has taught Advanced Corporate Finance, and Venture Capital Financing at Fuqua and Stanford Business School. She has mentored a number of Ph.D students who have been placed at the leading schools including Columbia, Northwestern, MIT and Yale University.