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Ashank Desai
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 to
ASOCIO'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's
Best 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
"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 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 from


India since 1996. He is also a contributor of articles and an active participant in industry
related events."
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Sushanto Mitra
"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 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 from


India since 1996. He is also a contributor of articles and an active participant in industry
related events."
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Mr. Shirish Purohit
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 business
development, 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
Gopal Srinivasan is the Chairman & MD of TVS Capital Funds Limited,
that has launched an India focused growth private equity fund. The vision
is 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 opportunities
and 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 to
the 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. Gopal
till 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
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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Prof. Martin Haemmig
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 developments
across 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 in
conjunction 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 at
Stanford 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 a
doctoral 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 business
Session III: IIT's Role in Nation Building through support of entrepreneurship

Session I: Enabling/ launching a million entrepreneurs


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 Ananth
President, IFMR Trust.

Vineet Rai
Founder Aavishkaar.

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

Mr. Sitaram Rao


CEO, SKS Microfinance.

Mr. Rakesh Rewari


Deputy Managing Director, SIDBI.

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Session II: Building global leaders from early & growth stages of a business
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 Das
General Partner, Ventureast Funds.

Key note
Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan
Founder, Infosys Technologies.

Mr. G. V. Prasad
Vice 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.
Chair Person
Dr. B. V. Phani
Professor, IIT Kanpur

Co-chair and Moderator


Srini Raju
Serial entrepreneur and Founder of iLabs, VC and PE firm

Key note
Prof. Noshir Contractor
Professor Kellogg School of Management.
Building an eco system for building entrepreneurship.

Panelists
Ashank Desai
PANIIT Leader/ Reach 4 India Leader.
Can the Alums help & how?

Sushanto Mitra
Chief executive officer, SINE, IIT Bombay.

Shirish Purohit
CEO 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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