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Ashank Desai, Founder and Ex-Chairman is the chief architect of 

catapulting Mastek into the Top 20 software companies in India.

Mr. Desai is a leading light of the IT industry in India. He is the founder member and ex-President of National Association of Software and Service

Companies (NASSCOM). He has also been the Vice President of 

ASOCIO (Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation). He is the only Indian to be

 presented with the Honourable Contributor's Award for his outstanding contribution toASOCIO's growth in 1994.

Mr. Desai, M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai (ranked 3rd

among Technology and Science Institutes by Asiaweek in its Special Report on Asia'sBest Universities 2000) and MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM),

Ahmedabad (IIM-A ranks among the Top 5 management institutes in India) was awarded

the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, Mumbai for his contribution as a software

entrepreneur.

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"Sushanto Mitra, Chief Executive Officer of Society for Innovation &Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay, is a management graduate with over 20

years experience in technology and finance. Prior to his current position

Sushanto was with Techcap India, a human resources and financialconsulting services firm which he founded in 1999. His earlier roles

included stints at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and HCL Infosystems.

He has been a regular contributor to Dataquest a leading technology fortnightly from

India since 1996. He is also a contributor of articles and an active participant in industryrelated events."

Sushanto Mitra X Close

"Sushanto Mitra, Chief Executive Officer of Society for Innovation &

Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay, is a management graduate with over 20 years

experience in technology and finance. Prior to his current position Sushanto waswith Techcap India, a human resources and financial consulting services firm which he

founded in 1999. His earlier roles included stints at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and HCL

Infosystems.

He has been a regular contributor to Dataquest a leading technology fortnightly fromIndia since 1996. He is also a contributor of articles and an active participant in industry

related events."

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Shirish B. Purohit is the CEO and a founding director of Midas

Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mr Purohit oversees all

organisational and operational aspects of the company including businessdevelopment, project management, technology, applications development,

finance and administration.

Mr Purohit has over 15 years of experience managing design and development activities

in industrial automation, monitoring and control systems, telecom and networking products.

Before Midas, Shirish B. Purohit founded Texel Systems, which specialised in

automating test and measurement systems. In 1994, Shirish co-founded Midas. Mr 

Purohit holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Power & Electronics from REC, Nagpur,and an M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Madras. Mr Purohit specialised in

integrated circuits and systems design.

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Gopal Srinivasan is the Chairman & MD of TVS Capital Funds Limited,

that has launched an India focused growth private equity fund. The visionis to develop and nurture India's mid-cap businesses into world class

companies. The fund will make investments in companies that are at the

intersection of high growth consumer consumption driven opportunitiesand a developmental theme, such as organizing the unorganized/

inefficient sectors. The fund aims to source proprietary investment opportunities,

especially from emerging, high growth cities across India; and be a strategic partner tothe entrepreneur and the enterprise to help expand businesses beyond their existing roots,

 professionalize their operations and enhance their management team.

Gopal, a member of the TVS family, is the Founder and Director of TVS Electronics

Limited, Director of Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. and several other TVS Group businesses.TVS Electronics, founded in 1986, started as an IT peripherals manufacturer and has

today transformed itself into an IT Transaction Solution provider and Business Process

Outsourcing partner.

Gopal is the outgoing Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Tamil Nadu State Council. He is now chairing the "India@75" Mission (www.indiaat75.in) as

well as the "Entrepreneurship Initiative" for CII at the national level. He is also the

Chairman for the India-Taiwan task force at the CII National Council. He has also served

as the President of the Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT)for the fiscal year '95-96.

Gopal has incubated over eight businesses, and has over twenty five years of operational

experience in India, along with a wide network of relationships across the world. Gopaltill recently was on the Board of ICICI Ventures Ltd. and is currently a Board member of 

Milestone Capital, Great Lakes Institute of Management and Institute for Financial

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Management & Research (IFMR).

Gopal earned a B.Com. from Loyola College, Chennai and an MBA from University of 

Michigan, USA. A passionate entrepreneur, he is also actively involved in the promotion

of Entrepreneurship as an angel investor as well as through organizations including TiE(The Indus Entrepreneurs), Great Lakes Institute of Management, IFMR.

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Dr. Martin Haemmig specializes as an international researcher, lecturer 

and advisor on "The Globalization of Venture Capital" focusing on the

industry trends, best VC practice, and benchmarks sector developmentsacross geographies with investments, valuations, exits and performance

data covering 13 countries in Asia, Europe, and the United States. While

traveling throughout the world, he undertakes research and teaches inconjunction with leading schools around the world. They are in U. S. (Stanford

University, University of California Berkeley & Davis), Europe (INSEAD, ETH Zurich,UniBW Munich, Leiden Univ.), China (Tsinghua, Peking, Renmin, Fudan, SH-Jiaotong)

and in India (IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IISc & IIM Bangalore, ISB Hyderabad).

In addition to this, Martin Haemmig is involved in various programs as an advisor and

expert on venture capital and entrepreneurship, including the World Economic Forum,

China's largest science "ZhongGuanCun" with over 20,000 companies and about 1

million employees. He is also a researcher and Senior Advisor on Venture Capital atStanford University (APARC-SPRIE). He helped set up the Venture Capital Ph.D.

 program in China and is a participant of the Stanford Roundtable for Entrepreneurship

Educators – REE. Martin Haemmig speaks English, German and French proficiently. He

spent about 10 of the past 30 years outside his home country, Switzerland. He has adoctoral degree in business and an MBA, from California, and an engineering degree in

electronics from Switzerland. During his 20 years industry experience as technologist and business executive, he also became the Swiss national marketing champion in 1994.

The objective here is to identify major gaps in this area for India, and see how

solutions can be found in general and in particular by IIT's/ IITians. The two primary

issues fall into building entrepreneurship/ self employment at the grass roots level;second, in building indian global leaders from an early/growth stage state. This would be

followed by the final session on how IITs/ IITians can find solutions.

Session I: Enabling/ launching a million entrepreneurs

Session II: Building global leaders from early & growth stages of a businessSession III: IIT's Role in Nation Building through support of entrepreneurship 

Session I: Enabling/ launching a million entrepreneurs 

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Theme:

What is needed to create large scale entrepreneurship at the grassroots level? Micro-

finance/ micro-equity; Handholding/ mentoring both prior to becoming an entrepreneur &after the plunge; how to bring these to activities together? PLUS personal journey stories

Venue: Kendriya Vidyalaya Grounds, IIT Madras.

Time: Friday, Dec 19th, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Chair Person

R. K. Misra

Managing Director, TENET .

Panelists

Bindu AnanthPresident, IFMR Trust.

Vineet Rai

Founder Aavishkaar .

S. SivakumarChief Executive of the Agri Businesses Division of ITC Limited, India.

Mr. Sitaram RaoCEO, SKS Microfinance. 

Mr. Rakesh RewariDeputy Managing Director, SIDBI.

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Session II: Building global leaders from early & growth stages of a business 

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Theme:

What is needed to build global leaders from India? Deep mentorship that focuses on

 building competitive advantages; the appropriate kind of venture capital; Selection of industrial sectors where India has a competitive advantage. PLUS personal journey

stories.

Venue: Kendriya Vidyalaya Grounds, IIT Madras.

Time: Saturday, Dec 20th, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Chair Person

Mr. Sarath Naru

Managing Partner, VenturEast Funds.

Moderator

Dr. Siddhartha DasGeneral Partner, Ventureast Funds.

Key note

Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan

 Founder, Infosys Technologies.

Mr. G. V. PrasadVice Chairman and CEO, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories.

Mr. Girish Reddy

 founder and Managing Partner of Prisma Capital Partners.

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Session III: IIT's Role in Nation Building through support of entrepreneurship 

Theme:What can IIT's do to promote entrepreneurship? Incubation; competitive & market-relevant technology development; network creation; personal stories of entrepreneurs

enabled through the IIT system, etc.

Venue: Kendriya Vidyalaya Grounds, IIT Madras.

Time: Saturday, Dec 20th, 2:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

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Chair Person

Dr. B. V. PhaniProfessor, IIT Kanpur 

Co-chair and Moderator

Srini RajuSerial entrepreneur and Founder of iLabs, VC and PE firm

Key note

Prof. Noshir ContractorProfessor Kellogg School of Management. Building an eco system for building entrepreneurship.

Panelists

Ashank DesaiPANIIT Leader/ Reach 4 India Leader. Can the Alums help & how?

Sushanto MitraChief executive officer, SINE, IIT Bombay.

Shirish PurohitCEO and a founding director of Midas Communication Technologies. What benefit they did or did not receive.

Prof. Martin Haemmig Academician and advisor on global venture capital

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