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Andrew Dalziel leads the Infor International Industry Strategy team and is responsible for defining the industry go-to-market plans and focusing on resolving business and industry-specific challenges of organizations using Infor’s applications to deliver positive outcomes. He has extensive experience with many of the industries including Food & Beverage Manufacturing.

Prior to Infor, Dalziel was global VP Product Management & Product Marketing at Kewill, he was with Intentia and then Lawson, where he held various roles, including Marketing Director for an Industry Business Unit.

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Mr. Paolo George is the Director of Symega Food Ingredients, Kochi (A manufacturer of natural colours, flavours and savoury blends to food and beverage industries worldwide). He is an Engineering Graduate with Post Graduate Degree in Engineering Business Management from Warwick University. He had a professional stint with Infosys Technologies Ltd before he was appointed as the COO of Aromco Flavours (a Joint Venture start up between Synthite Industries Ltd & Aromco Ltd (based in UK) in 2006. During this period, he set up a distribution channel for the Company’s flavours in India. In 2010, when Synthite acquired Aromco’s stake to become a wholly owned subsidiary, he was promoted as CEO and Managing Director of the renamed organization – Symega Flavours. Since merger of Symega Savoury Technology Ltd with Symega Flavours India P Ltd in 2018, he was appointed the Director of the new entity. He also serves on the board of Synthite Industries Ltd & Intergrow Holdings (P) Ltd. Besides his professional engagements, he is an active member of Young Presidents Organization (Kerala Chapter) and Round Table India.
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Alain has more than 25 years of experience in Technology Strategy, IT Transformation and Complex Solutions Implementations working for clients in all major industries, but primarily in banking and capital markets. His focus is on helping organizations leverage Digital and Technology as a capability to drive their strategic priorities and create tangible business value.

Alain is currently responsible for Boston Consulting Group Platinion Business in South East Asia. He also leads in APAC, BCG Cybersecurity and Engineering practice. Alain collaborates with clients to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges and implement key initiatives. The BCG Platinion business helps leading companies across diverse business sectors deliver key results in terms of new business / technology platforms, develop ground-breaking digital products and accomplish major system implementations enabled by world class Design Thinking, Agile@Scale, Architecture, Engineering and Cybersecurity capabilities.

Before joining BCG, Alain led the Financial Services Industry Technology growth programs across Southeast Asia at Deloitte Singapore. Before Deloitte, he was in charge of the Accenture Technology Strategy practice in Southeast Asia.

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Ranganath Sadasiva is the Chief Technology Officer, Hybrid IT for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India.

Ranganath is responsible for bringing in thought leadership across HPE Hybrid IT business and delivering best in class technology experience for customers.

He works closely with the enterprise segments, understanding their business and technical needs, developing HPE’s point of view aligned to HPE Technology Vision.

With more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Ranganath is an accomplished Technologist and Management Executive across core ICT technologies working predominantly in the India and Asia Pacific & Japan region. He has done various customer centric roles across Sales, Product development and Consulting in these geographies. Before joining HPE, Ranganath served as Director, Enterprise Research for IDC India and was responsible for the overall Enterprise research in areas including Hardware – Server, Storage and Networking, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Services and emerging technologies like Cloud, IoT, AI, Big Data etc. Prior to IDC, Ranganath served as Regional Sales Director for Spectra-APJ and EMEA and earlier as Director, Product Management, Asia Pacific and Japan for HPE Storage. He has also held management roles with HCL Infosystems and CADD Centre. Widely known in the Industry for his insights on Technology and its articulation, he is a regular speaker at Customer & Industry forums. He is also a Mentor of change with Niti Aayog, Government of India.

Ranganath Sadasiva has a Master of Business Administration Degree in Marketing from Bangalore University and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore.

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“Aligning technology solutions with business ensuring automation, business process improvements, compliance and leveraging of data to information and knowledge is what keeps me motivating.”

Has about 20 + years of Professional Experience with deep insight and vast experience in Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences domain and IT technology leading to strong business and IT technology alignment.

  • Winner of
    • IT NEXT100 CIO (2016) award.
    • CIO Power List 2019
  • An active participant in industry forums to discuss on technology subject.

Assumed Leadership roles in Business IT and in core-IT Consulting. Core Expertise includes: 

  • IT Strategy
  • System and Data Compliance
  • Business Process Alignment and Strategy Formulation
  • Integrated business application development and deployment
  • Risk Management
  • Cross Functional environment
  • End-to-end Project Delivery

Is responsible for leading the various IT initiatives in Ipca which includes drawing up an architecture and roadmap for new technology and initiatives for digitization of key business functions and in putting together a new information security initiatives and infrastructure to support the future growth needs of the organization.

Working with Ipca, has initiated and deployed a number of Technology solutions in alignment with the  growth imperatives of the organization.

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Mitanshu Shah is working as Senior Vice President – Finance with Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited since last 14 years. He is heading finance and accounts, strategy, management reporting, business finance and investors’ relations at Alembic. He is also responsible for M&A and treasury function for Alembic group.

Between 1998 – 2006 he worked as Head of finance and operations at LK India Pvt Ltd (groupe – Schneider Electric, France) where he was key member of global in-sourcing and member of management committee. Sun Pharma and Aventis Pharma were two initial stints in his stellar career.

He possesses 25 years of rich corporate experience in variety of subjects encompassing field of finance and management.

Mitanshu Shah has completed his master of commerce from M. S. University of Baroda and is also a fellow member of Institute of Cost Accountants of India and Management degree.

He is regular faculty at Institute of Chartered Accounts of India, Institute of Cost and Works Accounts of India and key speaker at various public forums including Euro money, Euro Finance and reputed Electronic media.

He is also associated with various social causes and is chief trustee of a formidable social welfare organization – Rural Development Society, Vadodara.

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Mukesh is currently working as the Chief Digital and Information Officer for Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. He has global responsibility for Digital Transformation, Process Excellence and Information Technology Management for the organization.

He has more than 22 years of experience doing various roles across industries – Business Process Consulting, Digital Innovation, Digital Strategy and execution.

He has worked across FMCG, Automotive, IT and Pharma Industries.

He is a Industrial Engineer from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from IIM Lucknow.

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Sumeet Pathak is an IT professional with in depth experience in Banking and Finance vertical. He has more than 18 years of experience in top tier regional and global banking institutions. An early adopter and now avowed evangelist of Software Automation, Sumeet has been at forefront of Automation strategy and execution in finance industry. Sumeet has built Automation CoE from scratch and led automation for global banks.
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With 40+ years of rich experience across reputed Pharma MNCs, Yugal has successfully led large businesses, building blockbusters and bringing business-turnarounds.

Yugal has been Global Head-Marketing (Commercial Functions) and Head (CEO), India Region at Ranbaxy where he led P&L of 26 Businesses, developed/managed diverse portfolios,~6500 employees across countries successfully. Earlier, as India-Head, Pharma (Gen-Med) at Novartis, India-Head, Pharma at Pfizer and Marketing-Head at GSK, his long career spans across all business verticals/functions from R&D-to-Commercialization.

Yugal was invited to join the Board of RPG Life Sciences, part of >$3B RPG Group, as an Independent Director and later requested to take on an operating role as Managing Director and embark on its 180-degree business-turnaround.

Yugal has been closely involved with Industry-affairs: served as Vice-Chair of OPPI Marketing-Committee, contributing to creating Industry’s Code, Awards and Initiatives; invited by McKinsey to be in the Steering-Committee of its widely-referred publication/report, “India Pharma:2020”; invited by NitiAayog-DMAI to “Government-Industry-Dialogue” and invited to chair/speak at several Pharma/cross-industry platforms like CPHI, CII, IPC, IDMA, Bio-Pharma, CNBC CEO-Panel, McKinsey CEO-Forum, Pharma Leaders-Roundtable, CIO-Summits.

He cares deeply about coaching next-gen – passionate about transforming Pharma education by forging a strong academia-industry partnership. He led Pharma Management Education at NMIMS University for ~3 years and continues to teach courses on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation.

Yugal is regarded as a thought-leader on the impact of innovation. He is Mentor to high-impact digital-health-ventures at RPG and at Atal-Incubation-Center, a leading Government-of-India/NMIMS initiative. He has also been on the board of BSE-listed GlobalSpace Technologies.

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