Rishi is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for PCTEL, responsible for the company’s engineering, product line management, manufacturing, and supply chain functions. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connected Solutions business, which included PCTEL’s antenna products and related wireless product development capabilities. Previously, he led Connected Solutions sales, strategic development, and product management and the company’s patent licensing efforts. Prior to PCTEL, Rishi held several RF and software engineering roles, developing data collection and data analytics tools for the cellular industry at SAFCO Technologies and Agilent Technologies, which acquired SAFCO.

A progressive and inspiring leader with 15 years of IT experience across a wide range of industries including Oil & Gas, High-Tech R&D, Smartphone, Consumer Electronics and Telecommunications. Proven track record of achieving operational excellence & efficiency, innovation, business transformation, reducing risk and driving cost efficiency at a global scale. Worked for top ranked Fortune 500 companies such as Chevron and Samsung. Also worked in several million dollar projects with World Bank and PwC in other ICT based organizations. Currently in my role as the Head of Digital Transformation and Applications team in Chevron, I am leading a team comprising petro-tech and business applications, digital transformation, data analytics, RPA and cloud solutions.

Ganaventhan, a postgraduate in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things from National university of Singapore, steers the regional business development of OMRON’s Industrial Automation business across the APAC region. It comprises of all Industry 4.0 based initiatives & related technology interventions across varied sectors of manufacturing such as Automotive, FMCG, Pharma, and Infrastructure to name just a few. He has been instrumental in driving & expanding presence of OMRON automation solutions in the digital manufacturing and data driven service business segment and also plays a key role in the development of OMRON Automation centres in Asia Pacific to conceptualise and implement "integrated and connected" smart manufacturing solutions.  

Rohit Waghadhare has more than 8 years of experience in Electronics & Semiconductor business in different applications like consumer electronics, robotics, access controls, industrial, automation etc.

Worked with the leading market research companies like Global Data and handled the business research of Semiconductor and technology in R&D across various core industries.

Currently working on Technology Convergence concept for emerging trends like Robotics, Access Controls, NDT, Building Automation and smart homes.

Accomplished performance driven business leader with a sound technical background and proven success in handling portfolios like International Sales, Business Development, Strategy, Key Account management, Consultative/Solution selling, Project Sales, Technical Sales and Project Management. A hands-on leader, keen strategist, planner and executioner with expertise in devising strategies & delivering results aimed at enhancing overall organizational growth, sustained profitability of operations & improved business performance. Sectoral experience across Energy (Oil & Gas, Power), Automotive and ICT landscape including professional services, Enterprise products, Consultative Sales, Advisory & Researchers

Skills: Sales & Marketing , Project management , Business development, International Sales ,Strategic Planning, Marketing plan, key account management, customer care , Procurement .