Mr. Milind Deora is the Union Minister of State, Communications and Information Technology.

He is one of the youngest members of the current Lok Sabha. He has been elected twice as the Member of the Lok Sabha from South Mumbai. He was elected from the Mumbai South Constituency for the second time in the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections.

While taking charge, He had said there was scope for improvement in the telecom sector, while emphasising on maximising telecom penetration in the country. He had said he would identify the areas which require improvement. He, also, had said that his first and foremost priority would be to increase telephony services in rural areas at affordable prices, while ensuring revenue to the Government at the same time.

Sachin Pilot (born 7 September 1977) is an Indian member of Parliament. He represents the Ajmer constituency of Rajasthan and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is presently the Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

 

At the age of 26, he became the youngest Member of Parliament in the country. Mr. Pilot is: Member of the Indian Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs. Member of the Consultative Committee in the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Technology. (A portfolio held by the late Rajesh Pilot, who held independent charge in P. V. Narasimha Rao government.

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If there is one man who built the foundation of the revolution in telephony usage in India in the last two decades of the 20th century, it is Dr. Sam Pitroda. His vision, and his technology, helped connect the people of India'in its far-flung regions and remotest corners, to each other and to the world. When the developed world saw a resource-strained country heading toward a billion people separated by large distances, it saw a tele-density gap nearly impossible to bridge. Looking at the same mammoth problem, Sam Pitroda saw access, not tele-density, as the solution.

He visualized a countrywide network of thousands of phone booths to provide this access. He battled conventional wisdom and lobbies that questioned why impoverished people needed telecom. Pitroda's tenacity helped create the concept and technology behind the network of 'STD/PCO' phone booths across the country, in every village.

Dr. R. Chidambaram is the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and former Director of India's primary nuclear research facility, BARC. He played a key role in the 1974 nuclear explosion experiment at Pokharan and led the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) team in the Pokhran-II tests in May 1998.

Dr. Chidambaram is one of India's distinguished experimental physicists and the research groups established by him in BARC in the fields of High Pressure Physics and Neutron Crystallography are regarded among the best in the world. He has made important contributions to many aspects of our nuclear technology.

Indian Government acknowledged his contribution to the successful nuclear tests by awarding the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Civilian honor of the Nation, in 1975 and the Padma Vibushan, the Second highest civilian honor, in 1999.

Mr. Shankar Aggarwal is a 1980 batch IAS officer who has worked in various Central and State Govt. Ministries before taking charge in the Ministry of IT as the Head of NeGP (National e-Governance Plan). He is shouldering a very important responsibility of carrying the nation to the next level by evangelizing the use of ICT in making Government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency & reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man.

For the implementation of NeGP, DIT is creating the Common and Support Infrastructure (National/State Wide Area Networks, National/State Data Centres, and Common Services Centres & Electronic Service Delivery Gateways) and making suitable arrangements for monitoring and coordinating the implementation of NeGP under the directions of the competent authorities in this regard. The DIT also has taken initiatives to evolve/ lay down Standards and Policy Guidelines, provide Technical and Handholding Support, undertake Capacity Building, R&D, etc., as required, for successful implementation of various e-Governance Projects. DIT has been mandated to adequately strengthen itself and its various arms like NIC(National Informatics Center), STQC(Standardization, testing & Quality Certification), CDAC(Center for Development of Advanced Computing), NISG(National Institute of Smart Governance), etc., to play these roles effectively.

Prior to the current role he has held key leadership positions in Deptt. of Housing and Urban Planning, Deptt of technical education, Trade Tax, State Transport, Bundelkhand University, Indian Oil Corporation, Small Scale Industries, Personnel & Training in the Central Government and Conventional and Non Conventional Energy Department in State Government of UP.

Mr. Vidyashankar holds a M.A. Degree in Economics and M.Phil. from the Delhi School of Economics and a MBA from Harvard University, USA. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1982 and served in different departments in the state government including Rural Development, Revenue, Animal Husbandry, Panchayat Raj, Agriculture and Energy. He also served in the Ministry of Personnel and Public Grievances, Government of India. He was Chairman BWSSB, Commissioner BDA and Secretary to Government, Health and Family Welfare Department.

 

Mr. Vidyashankar's areas of interest include downsizing, re-engineering, e-governance, business process outsourcing, customer relations and enterprise resource planning. Currently Mr. Vidyashankar is Secretary to Government, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology

Dr. P (Gopal) Gopalakrishnan has extensive global experience in the management of technology development and innovation. He is currently the Vice President, IBM India Software Lab (ISL). In this capacity he oversees product development and technology innovation efforts of a large team of engineers spread across five cities in India. The ISL is one of the largest such development centers for IBM, with projects in all major software brands and systems products. Dr. Gopalakrishnan received his Bachelors degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Following this he joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Lab in Yorktown Heights, NY and was part of the world-leading speech recognition effort at that lab for many years. Dr. Gopalakrishnan has received numerous awards during his tenure, including an Outstanding Innovation Award and several Invention Achievement awards. He has also served on the global Technology Team of IBM, a group of senior leaders charged with evaluating long term technology trends and priorities for the company. He has over twenty patents to his credit and has published extensively in peer reviewed technical conferences and journals

 

Mr. N Ravishankar serves as the Joint Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Communications and Information technology, Department of Information Technology, N. Ravi Shanker holds the responsibility of Policy Planning on E-Infrastructure, E-Learning and Internet Governance. He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service with 29 years of experience in public Administration & Public Policy. Among other responsibilities, he represents India at the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN.

 

Mr. Anthony Wong has been an ICT Professional for more than two decades and has held senior management positions in multi-national corporations and government, including as CIO of the Australian Tourist Commission during the Sydney 2000 Olympics and led the development of ebooks for Thomson (now Thomson Reuters) in the Asia Pacific. Anthony is the Chief Executive of a multidisciplinary Legal and Consulting Practice specialising in ICT including technology licensing and intellectual property, privacy and data protection law, ICT regulatory, governance and compliance.

 

Anthony serves on the IT Industry Innovation Council for the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and on the Industry Advisory Network of the University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. He is the President of the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) and was the founding President of the New Zealand Society for Computers and the Law. He is also a member of the International Technology Law Association and the NSW Law Society..

 

D. Krishnan has been working for the past 23 years in areas of IT, e-governance, telecom and finance. As Director, National e-Governance Division, he brings experience in conceptualization and execution of nation-wide e-governance projects, public private partnerships, strategy and policy formulation.

 

Krishnan has played a key role in evolving the Government's framework for delivery of Basic Financial Services using mobile phones. He is currently supporting the Technical Advisory Group on Unique Projects constituted by Ministry of Finance. He is also working in the areas of mobile governance and cloud computing.

 

Krishnan graduated with Distinction in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University and topped a postgraduate program in management from the Indian Institute of Management. He is a recipient of the President of India's Award for Specially Distinguished Service in the year 2006.

Ajay Sawhney

President & CEO, National e-Governance Division

Department of Information Technology, GoI

 

An Engineer by qualification, an IAS officer by profession and a champion of Information Technology by choice. Ajay Sawhney is an experienced, modern Technocrat Administrator.

 

Currently working as President and CEO, National eGovernance Division, Media Lab Asia, Department of IT, Government of India. The National eGovernance Division assists the Department of IT in Programme Management of the National eGovernance Plan, framing of core policies, design of shared service delivery platforms, technical appraisal of all NeGP projects and various capacity building initiatives, including the setting up of State eGovernance Mission Teams.

 

Since April 2002, he is virtually leading the development of IT vision, architecture and e-Government projects of Andhra Pradesh as Secretary, Information Technology (HR & Special Projects).

Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar is an alumnus of Mayo College, Ajmer (1963), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (B. Tech in 1968) and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (MBA in 1970 and Doctoral Programme in 1975). Prof. Bhatnagar worked for 30 years at IIM Ahmedabad before taking an early retirement in September 2003. He chaired many academic committees at IIMA and served as the Dean of IIMA for two years. He was also a member of the governing board of IIMA. He headed many large research initiatives at IIMA including the Centre for Electronic Governance set up at IIMA with the sponsorship of Oracle (India), Caldera (formerly SCO) and Compaq.

 

Currently he leads the team at IIMA which oversees the conduct of Department of Information Technology, Government of India (DIT's) impact assessment program for e-governance projects. He is a member of the National Advisory Council on eGovernment and an Empowered Committee on Capacity Building for the National E-Governance Plan (NeGP). He is an advisor to NISG, Hyderabad.

Mr. Prakash Kumar, Director, Global Public Sector Practice ,IBSG, CISCO Prakash Kumar is a director in the global public sector practice of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) heading its Asia-Pacific operations. He joined Cisco with more than 20 years of experience in public sector first at field level and then at policy level. In his work with the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Prakash's focus is primarily on the public sector. He works at the senior-executive and political levels to help shape Internet business solutions and online strategies in India. He has also been a key member of the global team developing the Smart and Connected Communities (S+CC) Institute.

In his consulting work, Prakash specializes in strategy, policy analysis, and use of ICT to improve the delivery system of the government, especially in developing countries. He holds a bachelor's degree (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India and a master's degree in policy analysis from National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Shashank Ojha, Global Information and Communication Technologies Department, World Bank Mr. Shashank Ojha is with the Global ICT Department of the World Bank. He is responsible for the eGovernment team of the Bank in India which provides technical advice and support to ICT and e-Governance projects in India. He is also part of the eBharat Project that supports the National e-Governance Program of the Government of India.

 

Before joining the World Bank, he has worked as a Senior Management Consultant with Ernst & Young and as General Manager - Finance & IT with National Panasonic group.

Osama Manzar is a convert social entrepreneur spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India's rural sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) — the not-for-profit organization founded to accomplish the mission. He is Member, Task Force on Growth of IT, ITES & Electronics HW Manufacturing Industry; Member Working Group – Internet Governance; Member Working Group – e-Governance, Ministry of Comm. & IT, Government of India.

He has authored titles like: "Development & Digital Inclusion – Cases from India & South Asia", "e-Content: Voices from the Ground" in 2 volumes in 2003 and 2005; "Internet Economy of India" in 2001.

Manzar is e-Content Expert for India for World Summit Award (WSA), Grand Jury Member and member of Board of Directors. Osama has a credit of covering at least 100 ICTD cases in India and South Asia, has traveled more than 1000 villages in India and South Asia, including 18 countries.

Dr. F C Kohli  is known in the world over for the pioneering role he has played in the IT services industry.  He obtained his BA and BSc (Honours) in physics from Government College, Lahore, BSc (Honours) in Electrical engineering from Queens University, Canada and Master's from MIT, USA.  Besides IT services, he has made significant contributions to system engineering and power engineering, for which he was honoured with the Fellowship of Indian National Academy of Engineering, IEEE, NY; IEE, London; Computer Society of India; Singapore computer Society and several others. He has also been honoured with doctor of Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada; Robert Gordan University, Aberdeen, UK; University of Roorkee, UP and IIT, Bombay.  He has contributed on the board of numerous professional bodies, educational institutions and committees on public policy. The Government of India has honoured him with the Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian awards.

Alphonsus Pang is the President of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). Since 1997, he has held various appointments in the society, including Vice President of the Exco Council, Honorary Treasurer and SCS Chapters' Board Chairman. Over the years, he contributed significantly by leading and developing SCS in areas of Corporate and Community Branding, International Relations, Membership, Chapters and Special Interest Groups as well as Professional Certifications. In addition.

 

Alphonsus is the Deputy Chair of the ITE ICT Academic Advisory Committee and also a council member of the Singapore IT Standards Committee and is a board member of the Institute of System Science, NUS. In 2009, he was elected Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society.

 

Prior to this Alphonsus was Director of MINDEF Systems Organisation. He has held various appointments including Defence Finance, with primary responsibilities for the financial operations and systems in MINDEF as well as other Defence Technology portfolios.

Mr. Kumar Parakala is the Global Head of Sourcing and the Head of IT Advisory for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. He is a member of the Executive Council and Board for the Global IT Advisory business of KPMG.

 

Kumar is also the immediate past President of Australian Computer Society (ACS), the leading professional body for 16,000 ICT professionals in Australia and Asia-Pacific region. He holds an adjunct Professor position at the Central Queensland University.

 

Kumar is one of the most quoted industry leaders in the media and provides advice regularly to Premiers, Ministers, public servants and academic community on ICT matters of national importance in India, Australia, Malaysia and other countries. He worked as a CIO for a number of organizations.

Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chandra, has been the Chief Executive Officer of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), a holding company of Diligenta Limited since October 2009 and serves as its Managing Director. Mr. Chandrasekaran is responsible for formulating and executing the TCS's global strategy and has been at helm of several key strategic transitions at TCS since He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Diligenta Limited. He serves as Vice-Chairman of Executive Council at National Association of Software and Service Companies. He is a member of Computer Society of India and senior member of IEEE. Mr. Chandrasekaran holds a Master's Degree in Computer Applications from the Regional Engineering College -Trichy, in Tamil Nadu, India in 1986 after obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Applied Science from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology.

Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Rediff.com , an internet company listed on the New York NASDAQ market (REDF). He is a graduate of IIM Calcutta where he also now serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors. He graduated with Bachelors degree in Physics from Kerala University. He is currently Chairman of the Govt of India, Ministry of IT Committee on Internet Governance and Proliferation and chaired a recent Committee appointed by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development on 'Research and Faculty Enhancement at the 7 IIMs'

Mr Balakrishnan has won numerous awards for his entrepreneurial and management skills including the Path Breaker Award given in December 2000 by Dataquest, a leading Indian IT publication.

 

Prof. Umesh Bellur

 

After his graduation, Prof. Umesh Bellur went to work in an industry where he had helped establish distributed object standards such as CORBA with OMG and J2EE with JCP. He worked for over ten years at Oracle Corporation, Teknekrom Communication Systems and Covad Communications. He helped Collation secure their first round of $6M in April of 2002 and release their Discover product in Jan. 2003 after which he returned to India to Join IIT, Bombay as an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology. SIT subsequently merged with CSE.

 

His current research interests revolve around adaptability in service oriented environments, autonomic computing techniques for distributed component based applications and model driven development techniques in software engineering. These research areas translate to projects in middleware design for different kinds of distributed systems including wireless sensor networks as well as QoS models for such environment.

He has won the several awards such as SAP research and Innovation Award for work in QoS based routing in Overlays 2008 and IBM Faculty Award for work in Autonomic computing 2006.

 

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is a Research Scientist and Project Leader in the CSIRO ICT Center (http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/rajiv.ranjan/), Information Engineering Laboratory, Canberra, where he is working on projects related to cloud and service computing.

He has authored/co-authored 36 publications including 5 book chapters, 4 books, 13 Journals, and 14 conference papers. He was the Program Chair for 2010, 2011, and 2012 Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing and 2010 IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium.

Though his PhD was awarded only two years ago, already the quality of work undertaken as part of that degree and his subsequent post-doctoral research undertaken at the University of Melbourne and UNSW has been recognised, often cited, and adopted by both industry and academia.

Mr. Sudhir Dixit is the Director of HP Labs India. The principal focus of the laboratory is on creating new technologies to address the information technology needs of the next billion customers for HP. HP Labs aims to create new and relevant technologies by conducting leading-edge research on technologies to enrich and simplify the end-user experience by seamlessly converging interactions with devices, paper, digital content and the Web, and develops product concepts and system demonstrators.

Dixit received his Ph.D. degree in electronic science and telecommunications from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K, and his M.B.A. degree from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, M.E. degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and the B.E. degree from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India.

 

Prof. Sartaj Kumar Sahni is an Indian computer scientist, now based in the USA, and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.

His research publications are on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, data structures, parallel computing, interconnection networks, design automation, and medical algorithms.

Prof. Sahni is a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1988, and of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1996; he is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mr. Sahni was given the Honorary Professor Award of Asia University (Taiwan) in 2009.

Mr. Dilip Chenoy is currently Managing Director & CEO of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). He is also on the Governing Council of a Management School.

Prior to NSDC, he was Director General of the advocacy group for the automobile industry in India, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), where he was responsible for setting the technical, economic and social responsibility agenda for the automobile industry. He also represented SIAM on various Government Committees as well as on the board of the National Skill Development Corporation and the Steering Committee of the International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association.

Before joining SIAM, he was Deputy Director General responsible for Industry Sectors and Associations Council (ASCON) covering, Agriculture, Life sciences and ICT in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Dilip was the CII spokesperson and coordinated CII's international work relating to the ASEAN..

Prof. R K Shyamasundar is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow ACM and currently Senior Professor and JC Bose National Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has more than 250 publications, 6 books, and several international patents. Thirty five students have completed Ph.D. under his guidance, has served on IEEE Standards and served as consultant to ESPRIT projects. He did pdfunder the famed Professor Dr. Edsgar Dijkstra. He has servedat IBM TJ Research, Eindhoven University, State University of Utrecht, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois, University of California, San Diego, IRISA, Max Planck Institute etc. He was Founding Chair of FSTTCS and founding President of IARCS.He serves on the Governing Council of IIIT, Jabalpur, and CSIR Centre CMMACS, Bangalore.

He is a Fellow of: Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing world (TWAS), Trieste, Italy.

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Dr. Rattan Datta has completed his B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc (Hons) in Physics from Punjab University. He did his Ph.D from IIT (Delhi) on "Monsoon Dynamics & Modeling".

Dr Rattan K. Datta was Adviser, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, project Coordinator & founder head of National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting , a center involved in development of global weather prediction models and acquisition , installation & management of the first supercomputing facility in India. This was established as a center of excellence to develop global circulation models & provide weather based agro –advisory services.

He was awarded a gold medal by the Govt. of India in 1975 for his research contributions during 1972-1973. Currently he is Chairman of two Technical advisory committee of DST , Govt. Of India on planet earth.
The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK, nominated Dr Datta as the International man for the 1992-93.

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Mr C. N. Ram is a member of the Computerization and Automation Committee of the Indian Bank's association. He is also a founder-member of the Global Advisory Board of NCR Corporation of the U.S. and he is on the technology Advisory Committee of SIDBI and the Asia- Pacific Technology Advisory Board of VISA International. At the same time, he is on the Automation Sub-committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry and is a member of the Reserve Bank of India's committee on Cheque truncation.

In the August 2002 issue of Dataquest, Mr C.N. Ram was identified as one of India's Key IT influencers..

Mr. S. Mahalingam has been the Chief Financial Officer of Tata Consultancy Services Limited since 2003. Mr. Mahalingam joined TCS in 1970. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of CMC Americas Inc., the wholly owned subsidiary of the CMC Limited. He has been an Executive Director of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) since September 2007. He is on the Board of several subsidiaries of TCS. He has been a Non Independent Non Executive Director of CMC Limited since January 2010. Mr. Mahalingam serves on the Board of Directors of Tata Reality and Infrastructure Limited.

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Mr. Basant Rajan, a Doctorate in Computer Science from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, had a long and distinguished career at Symantec, having joined Veritas Software as senior developer in 1997. During this period Basant has filed 12 patents in his name. Basant has also been a visiting member at the School of Technology & Computer Science, TIFR, from 1998 to 2006.

 

As CTO of Symantec, Basant Rajan was instrumental in steering the Symantec Research Labs (SRL) and Advanced Concept Group (ACG) projects in India. He has also worked closely with government agencies in the security and compliance domains, and interacted frequently with customers on technology strategy.

 

Since 2009, Mr. Basant Rajan is leading Coriolis Technologies Pvt. Ltd as a CEO.

He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Indore University and then completed his M. Tech EE (Specialization in Instrumentation, control, computers) and PhD. (Thesis: Digital simulation and identification of linear continuous systems) in Computer Science IIT Bombay.

His research interests are in the areas of Data Bases and Information Systems, Software Engineering, System Performance Evaluation, IT enabled Education and IT strategy planning.

Mr. Dileep Ranjekar, the Chief Executive Officer of Azim Premji Foundation, has been an integral part of Azim Premji Foundation right from its conception. The Foundation has a vision to "significantly contribute to achieve quality universal education that facilitates a just, equitable and humane society" and the Foundation is operational since 2001.

The Foundation is focused on contributing to systemic changes such as building accountability for quality education by demonstrating that comprehensive quality education can be achieved in rural Government schools. The Foundation believes that teachers, parents and the education managers are the key change agents, examination reforms as the key change tool and technology as a key change enabler to influence quality of education in a significant manner.

Professor Kannan Moudgalya is Head of Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, IIT Bombay and a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1998 at the same institute. He did his Masters in Electrical Engineering and Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas. Starting his carrier as Assistant Professor in IIT Bombay, he became Associate Dean, R&D at the same institution.

He has won several awards and fellowships during this tenure. His active involvement in research is evident from his long list of publications. In 2004 he became the Head, Application Software Cell in IIT Bombay.

Mr. Ashok Sinha
He is an IIT graduate with an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. In his 28-year-long tenure with BPCL, Mr Sinha has served in key areas such as finance, corporate affairs, treasury operations and information management. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Bharat Oman Refineries Limited, a joint venture with Oman Oil Company which is setting up a new grass root oil refinery and NRL. He is also a Director on the Boards of Bharat Shell Limited, a joint venture with Shell International and Petronet LNG Limited, a publicly listed company promoted by four of India's leading public sector oil companies, which is engaged in importing LNG and setting up LNG terminals along with associated facilities to supply natural gas to consumers..

Jackie Taranto
Managing Director, Hannover Fairs Australia

Ms Jackie Taranto is Managing Director of Hannover Fairs Australia, organiser of CeBIT Australia and part of the global Deutsche Messe group, the largest and most successful trade event company in the world.

Over the last ten years, Jackie has built CeBIT Australia into the leading business technology event in the Asia Pacific region. The event annually attracts more than 30,000 visitors and 500 exhibitors and draws more international business to Australia than any business event regardless of industry sector.

As organiser of the region’s pre-eminent business technology forum, Jackie is one of the highest profile technology industry executives in the country and a trusted partner of governments and leading technology companies.

Jackie is a member of the Deutsche Messe AG board of senior international executives charged with strategic business development, with particular focus on the fast growing markets of China, India, Russia and Brazil.

Jackie was recently appointed to the position of Councillor of the German Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce.