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Mr. Sudarshan Jain
Managing Director, Healthcare Solutions
Abbott Healthcare Pvt Limited
Mr. Sudarshan Jain is the Managing Director, Healthcare Solutions, Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Jain has a rich healthcare business experience of 35 years which includes stints in Abbott, Johnson & Johnson and leading Indian companies He has got extensive experience in field force management, brand building & overall business operations related to healthcare field. He has been associated with over 30 brands which are among the top 300 in Indian Pharmaceutical industry. His experience covers Pharmaceutical, OTC, Hospital, Diagnostic & Nutrition business over the years.
Mr. Jain is the Vice President of Organization of Pharmaceuticals Producers of India (OPPI) representing research based pharmaceutical companies. He is also a Board Member of Abbott Healthcare, Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, Member of the Advisory Board of Narsee Monjee University, Mumbai (NMIMS) and Goa Institute of Management (GIM), Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Mumbai (TiE), Rural Marketing Association of India (RMAI) and is associated as Visiting Faculty with various leading Management Institutes in the country.
Mr. Jain has a B.Sc. Degree in Physics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University & an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad specializing in Marketing & Finance.
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Mr. Vishal Mehta
Founder, Infibeam.com
With a stellar academic record, Mr Mehta entered Cornell University where he studied Operations Research & Management. After graduating with honours, Mr Mehta chose to gain some real world experience about the industry first by joining Dell and then pursued management studies at MIT. In the post Internet-bubble burst era where raising capital became difficult and the future of ecommerce was doubtful, he joined Amazon. Vishal worked at Amazon for several years in technology, finance and corporate development roles.
In 2007, he wanted to move back to India to pursue his dream of starting and building a technology company. After more than ten years of his life in the US, he liquidated his assets to venture out and founded Infibeam. Today, InfiBeam has more than 50 lakh visits per month by Indians online who buy everything from books to music to mobiles and more than one crore retail products. Infibeam has also opened up its technology platform under the URL www.buildabazaar.comwhere any store owner without software training can open an online store themselves in less than ten minutes. More than 15 thousand retailers in India today use buildabazaar to create and run their online stores including themobilestore, crossword, vijay sales, VIP bags, airtel and many more.
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Mr. S. Swaminathan
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Hansa Customer Equity Pvt. Ltd (HANSA CEQUITY)
S.Swaminathan is the CEO of Hansa Customer Equity (Hansa Cequity), a leading new-age marketing services company which brings together the power of data, analytics, campaign management for marketers.
Hansa-Cequity helps marketers convert information into insights, insights into interactions and interactions into memorable, distinctive customer marketing experiences. Hansa Cequity has successfully worked with leading blue-chip clients by using the power data, analytics, customer interaction & technology platforms and agency thinking program management capabilities to deliver exceptional value and results for their clients. They manage several successful CRM and analytics-driven marketing programs for different industry verticals like automotive, retail, financial services, media & entertainment, travel & hospitality to name a few.
Swami has over 20 years of CRM & database marketing experience. Before setting-up Hansa-Cequity, he was working with one of the world’s top marketing services companies – The WPP Group. In India, he was the National head & Executive Vice President of iContract (one-to-one agency of Contract Advertising, India and a subsidiary of JWT India). He is amongst the early evangelists to lead the data-led marketing & analytics thinking in the APAC region. Under his stewardship, iContract became a top-ranking one-to-one marketing agency both in terms of revenue growth, new business wins and awards. Under his leadership the agency won the prestigious Cannes Lions Direct Gold Award. It was the first time that India won a Direct Lion in this category. Over the last two decades, he has had a rich experience of handling key Indian & international client relationships.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering and a post-graduate degree in Management. He is an avid blogger and runs his own blog. He also teaches at leading management institutes and regularly writes in leading management dailies & magazines.
He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing, London. His other interests include music – he is an accomplished percussionist himself.
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Mr. Chandubhai Virani
Founder and Managing Director, Balaji Wafers Pvt. Ltd, India
Mr. ChandubhaiVirani, the owner of the leading potato wafers and Namkeen brands in India, is an inspiration to many budding entrepreneurs in the country through his story of an incredible struggle for a robust business which started about 39 years ago in 1974. A highly goal oriented person, a devotee of God Balaji (Hanuman) and gem of a person Mr. Chandubhai Virani is full of positive attitude yet very down-to-earth by nature. Today “Balaji Wafers” is a house-hold name not only in the state of Gujarat but also holds a premier position in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhyapradesh and Goa markets when it comes to namkeen, started as a micro business it has evolved into a Rs 3500 crore company (according to third party valuation) of quality products with an indigenous taste giving tough competition to multinational food processing giants despite price competitiveness. “Balaji Wafers” has a yearly turn-over of more than 1000 crores, which comes as more than 2.5 crore per day. Mr. Virani’s pragmatic and unassuming approach is one of the reasons for the soaring success of Balaji group which has been recognised by Business Standard as 'Sultan of Wafers' and Asia Pacific food online published a special article with Chip Off the Old Block tag. |
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