Speakers Profile

Edgar Dias
Regional Director of Enterprise Business, Asia Pacific,
Brocade

Profile: Edgar Dias is the regional director for the Enterprise Business for Asia Pacific (APAC) based out of Singapore and is responsible to develop and execute strategies, programs designed to grow Brocade's business of its enterprise networking portfolio in APAC across a number of Enterprise verticals specifically Government, Media and Entertainment, High Performance Computing, Education and Healthcare. Prior to joining Brocade, Edgar was the sales director at Juniper Networks responsible for its Campus and Data Center businesses. Before that, he spent 10 years at Nortel Networks and Alteon Websystems where he was responsible for sales of the Data portfolio across Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Kanwal K Mookhey
Consultant and Founder,
Network Intelligence India

Profile: Kanwal K Mookhey (CISA, CISSP, CISM) is the Principal Consultant and Founder at Network Intelligence. He is an internationally well-regarded expert in the field of IT governance, information risk management, forensic fraud investigations, compliance, and business continuity. He has more than a decade of experience in this field, having worked with prestigious clients all over the globe. His skills and know-how encompass risk management, compliance, business continuity, application security, computer forensics, and penetration testing. He is well-versed with various international standards. He is the author of two books (Linux Security and Controls by ISACA, and Metasploit Framework by Syngress Publishing), and of numerous articles on information security. He has also presented at conferences such as OWASP, Blackhat, Interop, IT Underground and others.

Prashanta Ghoshal
Director IT Solutions and Services,
Geometric

Profile: Prashanta Ghoshal is the Director, IT Solutions and Services at Geometric. He joined Geometric in 1998 and gradually rose to head the IT Solutions and Services department in 2006. Prashanta has been responsible for building and managing the IT Infrastructure and Information Security Governance of the organization in alignment with the business objectives over the years.

He has a varied experience in diverse fields of IT infrastructure management, delivery of IT services and support, solution development, outsourcing of IT services, information security, compliance and governance. In his career spanning 14 years, he has handled numerous assignments in various fields including networking, voice communications, messaging systems, collaboration systems, Open Source technologies and virtualization. Prashanta is a post graduate in computers science and telecommunications.

Alpna Doshi
CIO,
Reliance Communications

Profile: Alpna J Doshi is currently Reliance group Chief Information Officer and Business Head of Reliance Tech Services, the IT Organization of India's foremost integrated telecom company. Alpna, with over two decades of experiences in Information, Communication, and Entertainment industries, is driving key IT Transformational Initiatives to support business growth for Reliance.Alpna has been well known for her skilled execution, turning around companies and thought leadership with excellent people management skills. Her 360 degree Management style uniquely stands out in the Telecom and IT industries worldwide, where she has effectively broken through the glass ceiling, and is a globally recognized, accomplished and result oriented leader. She has successfully lead major initiatives in Telecom, Media and Entertainment industry with Telcos (Verizon and now Reliance), Systems Integrators and Suppliers (Telcordia Technology and Mahindra Satyam) and Management and Strategy Consulting (Deloitte and Touche Management Consulting) A technology buff, she has also enabled business transformation for multiple verticals like BFSI, Infrastructure, Power, Health and Entertainment.

An active contributor to TM Forum for over 8 years, she is on TM Forum Board of Directors. TM Forum is the world's leading industry association focused on enabling best-in-class IT for service providers in the communications, media and cloud service markets. She is an active contributor in directing Standards for multinationals including DAVIC (video consortium), ATM Forum, IPv6, IEEE and CSI. She was awarded the "Woman CIO of the Year 2010" award by CTO Forum India, the Best Paper Award by IEEE Communications for her pioneering work in Telecommunications, Brand Ambassador Excellence Award- Mahindra Satyam and Excellence Award-Verizon, SODA™ (Secure On-Device API) Innovation Award. She is a frequently invited keynote speaker at major National and International Conferences.

CK Lam
Enterprise Solutions Manager, APAC,
Juniper Networks

Profile: Based in Singapore, CK manages the Juniper Networks Enterprise Solutions for Asia-Pacific and is responsible for evangelizing leading-edge solutions including the Data Center, Cloud Computing, Networking and Security solutions to enterprise customers and partners in the region.

CK was most recently with IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) as an Advisory Sales Specialist for network infrastructure, network security and data centre solutions. Prior to that, he spent five years as a Technical Marketing Engineer for Intel's Network Products Division covering the APAC region and supporting the product managers for switches, routers, SSL accelerators and Server Load Balancers. He also held various technical positions in Novell and Singapore Computer Systems before that.

CK has nearly 20 years of experience in the IT industry, covering technologies from networking security, VoIP to wireless solutions.

Sajan Paul
Director –Systems Engineering,
Juniper

Profile: Sajan Paul is the Director for systems engineering and technology consulting in India covering both enterprise and service provider verticals.

In his current role at Juniper , he drives strategic solution initiatives and technology architectures which uniquely help our customers in their businesses. He leads a team of architects who help customers build their next generation telecom infrastructure and innovative ways to monetize their investment.

Sajan Paul has been an integral part of the telecom and networking industry for over 20 years in various capacities from design, driving technology directions and managing solution focus across many telecom companies in his career.

Balasubramanian Somasundaram
Associate Enterprise Architect,
Microsoft Corporation India

Profile: Balasubramanian Somasundaram is an Associate Enterprise Architect at Microsoft Corporation India. He has 13+ years of experience in IT industry with a focus on IT Architecture and Business Technology Solutions. As part of Enterprise Strategy Services Group at Microsoft, he helps customers achieve their business goals by optimizing the use of technologies. His interests include Enterprise Architecture & IT Governance and Emerging Technologies such as Mobility, Social Media and Cloud Computing.

George Chacko
Systems Engineer Manager and Lead Technical Consultant,
Brocade

Profile: George Chacko is currently the Systems Engineer Manager and Lead Technical Consultant at Brocade Communications Systems. In this role, he manages the Systems Engineering Team for Brocade India and is a Technical Evangelist for Brocade's high-performance SAN and LAN product portfolio within the SAARC region.

George joined Brocade through the Foundry acquisition in 2009. He has been with Foundry networks from 2004. He has more than 15 years of industry experience in the areas of data center networks, high performance computing networks and campus networking solutions. George is a frequent speaker at industry forums as well as for all Brocade events and Seminars. George holds a Computer Science Engineering Degree from the Bangalore University, India.

Abilash Sonwane
Senior VP,
Elitecore Technologies

Profile: Abhilash V. Sonwane is responsible for the product and technology direction of the Cyberoam product line of Unified Threat Management appliances and other network security products. He is also the anchor for the Ahmedabad chapter of NASSCOM, a premier trade body representing IT/BPO industries in India. Abhilash has around 12 years of experience in developing products solutions. He is one of the key innovators of Cyberoam's Layer 8 technology that implements the Human Layer over the theoretical 7 layers of the network stack. Abhilash's excellent grasp of the security industry and in-depth technical knowledge has been instrumental in the evolution of the Cyberoam brand worldwide. A prolific public speaker, he has addressed network security forums including RSA Conference (San Francisco) and Virus Bulletin (Vienna).

Dhiraj Trivedi
Assistant VP of Revenue Management & Electronic Distribution,
Royal Orchid Hotels

Profile: An experienced profit driven and result oriented management professional with extensive experience predominantly in the areas of e-commerce, Sales & Marketing, and managing multi-national businesses, Dhiraj Trivedi is an MBA in Marketing with more than 14 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Passionate about the cloud, Dhiraj has used emerging technologies such as cloud computing innovatively for the benefit of his organization.

Dhiraj is currently working with Royal Orchid Hotels as Assistant Vice President of Revenue Management & Electronic Distribution.