CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Speakers
Krishnan Chatterjee
Krishnan Chatterjee
Chief Operating Officer,
MarketsandMarkets

Krishnan is COO at MarketsandMarkets. He is focused on driving operational excellence across MnM entire customer lifecycle. His key mandates include sales excellence, marketing and customer success. Krishnan is a multi-disciplinary business and marketing leader with over two decades of experience across B2C and B2B industries. He incubated zCMO™– a thought-leading offering for CMOs to improve marketing performance in the digital transformation era which was extensively covered by Forbes.


Paul Santilli
Paul Santilli
Worldwide OEM Industry Intelligence and Strategy,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Paul Santilli is a 23 year veteran of (HPE) and currently leads the HPE Worldwide (WW) Industry Intelligence & Strategy Organization for the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Solutions Business. He is a recognized thought leader in Data Analytics Modeling around Industry Intelligence, Insights and Strategy, and chairs HPE OEM Executive Customer Councils and Industry Advisory Boards globally. Paul also serves as Chairman of the Strategic Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Board of Directors Executive Committee and is active in several advisory roles to industry conferences and forums.  Paul presents worldwide on Intelligence, Innovation, and Strategy in keynote and executive audiences, and has published numerous papers in industry and academic journals related to Intelligence Modeling, Innovation, Disruption, and Strategy. Prior to HPE, Paul contributed 10 years at Apple Computer in various leadership roles around Quality, Operations and Product Development


Aashish Mehra
Aashish Mehra
Chief Research Officer,
MarketsandMarkets

Over 16 years of rich experience advising CXOs, Promoters and Boards globally. Advised clients across Asia (India, China, Korea, ASEAN, Australia), Europe (Germany, Switzerland, UK), Middle East (Saudi Arabia, UAE) and USA. Deep expertise in pharmaceuticals, working with both innovators and leading generic companies to help set ambitous goals, design winning strategies to achieve them and partnering on implementation to deliver value. Areas of expertise include new market entry strategies, therapy area strategies, building mega brands, profitably accessing "middle of the pyramid" patients, acquisitions & divestures, in & out licensing, marketing spend optimization, designing differentiated services, and leveraging digital capabilities to win. Big-bet decision making when the future is uncertain: Advise top management on taking significant investment decisions in uncertain/ dynamic sectors like oil & gas, technology, infrastructure etc. Advive heads of R&D on maximizing value from their R&D investments by implementing world class processes & tools for R&D portfolio management & decision making. Advise CFOs on optimally allocating capital across diverse capital projects, and CROs in taking a strategic, value focused approach to Enterprise Risk Management.


Rajat Kumar
Rajat Kumar
Chief Knowledge Officer ,
MarketsandMarkets

Rajat manages the Knowledge Store product of MarketsandMarkets. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing the product and also supporting the sales teams in commercializing the Knowledge Store product to the leading companies globally. He has been working with MarketsandMarkets for nearly 5 years and prior to taking up the current role, he managed the India based research team of MarketsandMarkets for a couple of years. Overall, he brings over 15 years of experience in establishing, managing, and growing the research & analysis teams and developing business intelligence platforms.  Prior to joining MarketsandMarkets, Rajat worked with GlobalData for nearly 8 years. He led a team of 100+ analysts and was instrumental in developing & successfully commercializing their oil & gas subscription product. Rajat has also worked with the European Energy team of Frost & Sullivan, specializing in the distributed generation technologies such as renewables, fuels cells and power rentals.

Rajat holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from XIM Bhubaneswar with a specialization in Finance & Strategy.


Rishi Bhardawaj
Rishi Bhardawaj
SVP & Chief Operating Officer ,
PCTEL

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.