With a broad range of hands-on experience founding, funding and supporting early-stage technology companies, Alok Mittal joined Canaan India in March 2006. Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well as innovators in managed software services and other IT enabled businesses.

Prior to joining the venture industry, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business, which was acquired by Monster.com, the global leader in online recruitment. He also brings strong Telecom experience to Canaan having worked for Hughes Software Systems prior to that. Alok is also a co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in Delhi. During the course of his association with Canaan India, he advised Canaan Partners in their investment in Bharat Matrimony, iYogi, Cellcast, UnitedLex, Chakpak and MotorExchange.

Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Arun has over 19 years of experience in managing various businesses in Asia. As Managing Director, Yahoo! India & Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia & Thailand), Arun Tadanki has the mandate to expand and consolidate business, building on Yahoo!'s leading market position in this region.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Arun worked for 7 years at Monster.com where he was President (Asia-Pacific & Middle East), reporting to the global Chairman & CEO. Before Monster, Arun worked at JobsAhead for 2 years (a company subsequently acquired by Monster). He started his career at Nestle, where he was eventually heading the Culinary Business comprising the Maggi range of products.

Arun was named "Hottest Young Executive in India – 2004" by Business Today, the largest selling business magazine in India. He was also named as one of the "50 Young Leaders of India - 2005" by India Today, the largest and most reputed English magazine, along with celebrities like Rahul Dravid, Karan Johar, etc.

Arun graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (1990) and is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992).

Arun is a certified DJ from Denon School, Singapore. He started his DJ career as a guest DJ, at The Dublin, ITC Luxury Collection, Hyderabad. For the last 5 years, he has been regularly playing at various clubs including Vapour, Gurgaon.

He brings with him significant experience in the Media and Entertainment sector, especially in the television space. He is also the Head of Digital Media for Times Television Network.

He has earlier worked with HTA Fulcrum, Discovery Communications, Star India and NDTV Media in diverse roles. He was also heading the consulting practice of NDTV Media and actively consulted with various TV channels and digital companies including MSN India. His last assignment was as CEO for Sahara One in which he headed three channels for them namely Sahara One, Filmy and Firangi.

Avinash is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Pune followed by Masters Degree in Management from University of Mumbai.

Deep Kalra is the pioneer of Online Travel in India. His company, MakeMyTrip.com is the dominant player in the travel industry and also the largest ecommerce business in India. Deep established the company in April 2000 by drawing on his experience from successful stints at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank.

Under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip.com has grown rapidly to become the largest online travel agency in India and also one of the largest travel companies in the country. In August 2010, MakeMyTrip successfully launched its IPO on NASDAQ; reinforcing its position as an industry leader in the online travel agency space. The company achieve sales of INR 2200 crores in the financial year ending March 2010. Recently, MakeMyTrip has been crowned with the accolade of second rank in the 2010 'Great Places to Work' Survey conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, India. Deep takes immense pride in the fact that MakeMyTrip has been recognized amongst 400 organizations across categories, beating IT giants like Intel. Deep believes that it is no secret that happy employees create happy customers, a belief well proven by the fact that MakeMyTrip enjoys a 40% repeat purchase rate and over 3.5 million delighted customers continue to draw benefits from its services. That's why Deep endeavours to make MakeMyTrip, not a just a place to go through everyday hassles of work, but a place where work is a fun way to meet challenges and create history.

Deep is a member of the Executive Council of Nasscom and chairs the Nasscom Internet Working Group. He is also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the Board of TiE New Delhi. Deep is a member of CII's Tourism sub-committee and a regular speaker at internet and travel conferences. He currently serves as an independent Director for IndiaMart.com, a leading B2B website and One97world.com, India's largest and most widely deployed telecom application platform developer.

Deep is a founding member of "I am Gurgaon", an NGO focused on the improving the quality of life in Gurgaon. Deep holds an MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992) and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1990).

Deep's interests include adventure sports, swimming, yoga, quizzing and travelling to places off the beaten path.

Hari V Krishnan is the Country Manager at LinkedIn India. He is LinkedIn's first employee in Asia.

Hari's focus is to help LinkedIn better serve its membership and customers on a local basis. Consistent with LinkedIn's mission, he aims to connect all of India's professionals to make them more successful and productive.

Hari has a strong entrepreneurial experience in building businesses and companies in India and abroad. He has worked in leadership positions in companies such as Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Fox Interactive Media, Travelguru, and also co-founded stylkist.com. He brings diverse business experience having led functions in Corporate Planning, Strategic Alliances, Marketing & Product Management and has been associated with the internet industry for over 10 years. His previous stint before joining LinkedIn was as Country Head for MySpace India.

Hari has an MBA from INSEAD and an MS in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado.

As the co-promoter, Hitesh leads the operations at Info Edge. Apart from the country's leading job site, Naukri.com Info Edge also owns Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, Quadrangle, Brijj.com and the recently launched Shiksha.com.

With 10 years of experience in the internet industry, he is part of various industry forums. He currently chairs the Classifieds' Committee for IAMAI and is also a charter member of the TiE, New Delhi.

Prior to Info Edge, Hitesh worked for almost four years as the Regional Planning and Distribution Manager (North India) for the Ice Cream Division of Hindustan UniLever Limited, the Indian arm of Unilever Plc.

An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, he won the Prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award along with his Partner Sanjeev Bikhchandani for Business Transformation in 2008.

Karl believes everything is, if not, will be digital. At AgencyDigi he creates ideas, solutions, conversations, stories, promos, stunts, innovations, platforms and products to help brands communicate, survive and thrive in a digital world.

Previously as National Creative Director, Digital at Rediffusion YR, Karl created an environment to listen, understand and engage brands in online and offline conversations. Prior to this at Arc Worldwide / Leo Burnett he was Executive Creative Director – Digital with a mandate to leverage Web 2.0 and new media across big campaignable ideas and the National Creative Director at Tribal DDB India, where he worked on creating brand demand using the online space.

Karl has won numerous awards at Cannes, Webby, One Show, New York Festivals, Asia Pacific Adfest, Abby and AAAI, including the 1st Indian Cyber Shortlist at Cannes 2006 for Timesjobs, the 1st Indian Webby award for a simple and intuitive multilingual portal for Life Insurance Corporation of India, the 1st Bronze Cyber Lion at Cannes 2008 and India's first Silver Pencil at the One Show Interactive 2009 for an Online campaign "highlighting what's important" for Luxor Highlighters. He was awarded "Young communicator 2008" by Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune for outstanding contribution in the field of media and communication in India.

Karl was on the Cannes Cyber Lions, ADFEST Cyber Lotus, Asia Interactive Awards, Abby Awards, Indian Digital Media Awards, Yahoo Big Chair and Yahoo Uncannies Jury.

Kartik Jain is responsible for advertising, marketing communication, digital marketing and customer analytics for HDFC Bank in India. Prior to joining HDFC Bank, Kartik was Head Marketing and Direct for ICICI Lombard General Insurance, India, overseeing advertising, marketing communication, corporate communication, CRM and the direct sales channel including telesales and e-commerce. He developed and launched ICICI Lombard's eCommerce proposition which was the first in the Indian industry to offer instant online issuance of insurance policies.

Kartik has focused on innovative and cost effective branding solutions. He has championed an 'RoI' led approach to communication be it on TV, print, radio, outdoor, online or sms by linking marketing spends to customer response. He brings a strong business orientation to his work and believes in differentiation through innovation.

Prior to joining the financial services industry, Kartik worked with KPMG Strategy consulting in London and Mumbai where he project managed assignments in Europe and India in the areas of business strategy, e-strategy and process re-engineering across a range of sectors including telecom, consumer goods, real estate, auto, industrial goods and media.

Kartik started his career with Cadbury India where he held various roles in Sales and Marketing.

Kartik is a British Chevening Scholar. He has been recognized with the Pride of the Industry Awards 2009 and was awarded Best CMO of the Year in the General Insurance Category by the CMO Council India in the 1st CMO Awards 2009. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and completed his post graduation in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Ms. Kirthiga Reddy is the Director of Online Operations and Head of Office India at Facebook India. In her current role, Kirthiga Reddy will head Facebook's operations in India, supporting the company's growing number of users, advertisers and developers worldwide who are capitalizing on Facebook's global service to foster relationships with people and reach out to new customers locally and internationally.

Prior to Facebook, Kirthiga was VP and GM of SaaS-based Consumer Security business unit and India operations at Phoenix Technologies (NASDAQ: PTEC). She led a global team located in US, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Before Phoenix, Kirthiga was with Motorola Good Technology for over six years. She was based out of Silicon Valley where she led global product management and strategy. She moved to India a year after Good Technology's acquisition by Motorola to lead the cross-functional Good India team. Kirthiga has also held the position of Director of Engineering at Silicon Graphics and Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.

She holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with top honors, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Ambedkar University, India. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling and trying out new things. She is passionate about causes for children as also about developing women leaders.

Kiruba Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging, a full-service social media consultancy He has 15 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.

For two years, he was on the advisory board of RangDe, a peer to peer funding initiative supported by ICICI Foundation.

He has authored four books on Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing, Unconferences and Personal Branding.

He has authored technology columns at Business Standard and Financial Express Newspaper.

Kiruba has taught at Asian College of Journalism and Madras Advertising Club. He has lectured on Social Media at IIM Kozhikode, IIM Bangalore and IIT Madras.

He has helped organize TEDxChennai and helps with TEDx programs across India. He is the curator of http://Cerebrate.in, an international event for achievers. Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles.

He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show at http://Kiruba.TV , where he interviews passionate achievers from different fields. BusinessWorld Magazine ranked his blog http://Kiruba.com as one of India's top blogs. He can be reached at Kiruba@Kiruba.com.

Lakshmi Narasimhan, 42 years, is Chief Executive Officer of Web18. Prior to this he was CEO for the Magazine Publishing business at Infomedia18. He started off his career with HTA (now re-christened J.Walter Thompson) as a Media Planner. He was part of the team which started up HTA Fulcrum, the AOR for Unilever in India in 1995. Post his stint with Madison as head of the Coca Cola AOR, he returned to HTA in late-2000 as head of buying on the Unilever business. Prior to joining Network18, Lakshmi was a national director of the central trading group with Group M (the media arm of WPP).

He is a graduate from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.

In January 2012 Madan, or Maddy as he is known in the industry, took charge as CEO at AD2C which is an entrepreneurial venture in the Digital Advertising & Communications space. AD2C is gearing for a big launch in India, soon.

Maddy comes with 16 years of experience in the media industry of which the last 12 have been in the Digital space. In Dec 2002 he joined GroupM and later on grew up the ranks to lead the Digital culture for Mindshare India in 2007. Since then, the Mindshare digital team has dominated digital award categories at the Goafest Abbys, EMVIES, Campaign DMA including the Campaign Digital Agency of the Year. After this exciting stint he resigned from Mindshare in Dec 2011 and remains proud of the Mindshare/ GroupM team & culture.

Maddy has been committee member in Industry bodies like IAMAI, on Advisory Board of AdTech New Delhi and ViziSense, an advisor to tech & media start-ups, Speaker, Trainer, Anchor, Panelist & Jury at various Industry bodies and award functions.

An Engineer with a Master in Marketing, his ambition is to be a serial entrepreneur and dedicate time & effort in become a leading trainer in digital capabilities. You can follow him @maddyisms.

Brimming with energy, Manish Vij is one of the youngest internet entrepreneurs who started his career by founding India's first digital classifieds business while in his business school in '99. Post that he worked with Rediff.com and then co-founded companies in digital domain alongwith international joint ventures or venture partners.

Quasar - India's largest digital services company is a joint venture with WPP (World's largest communication company). Tyroo - India's leading internet AdNetwork is joint venture with Yahoo!. Zoomtra.com - India's leading travel search engine under operational contract with Travelocity. Squad - A joint venture in Kenya with the leading Scan Group. Letsbuy.com - India's leading online electronics and IT retailer.

Combined strength of the companies makes them a major player in digital media and ecommerce industry. Therefore, Manish has been regarded as one of the strongest online media and digital business professional in the country.

Max Hegerman has over 20 years of work experience across digital, traditional advertising, marketing and communications planning for clients such as Nike, Pizza Hut, Land Rover, Volvo and Apple.

He started his career in 1990, with Hal Riney & Partners, a full-service advertising agency based in San Francisco, California, where he helped launch the Saturn automotive brand (GM). After three years, he joined Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon, where he handled Nike on a global level. While there, he was instrumental in launching Nike Apparel. Max left W+K to join Oakley Sunglasses, in Orange County, California, where he lead the company's marketing efforts during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Later that year, Hegerman moved to Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, California, and was part of the team which pitched for and won the Nike account – and, along the way, won a Grand Prix at Cannes for his work on Nike Skateboarding. Later, he worked with Euro RSCG Worldwide, as Managing Director, handling the Volvo Cars account for the North American market.

In 2008, Hegerman shifted to TBWA\Media Arts Lab, where he was responsible for opening and managing a MAL office in Beijing to support the growth of Apple in China. Subsequently, Max moved to Mumbai to lead Tribal DDB India, making it one of the most successful pure-play digital agencies in the country. Based upon that success, he recently joined JWT India Group in Delhi, and has been charged with creating a separate digital unit within JWT India Group.

Mohit Gupta is the Chief Marketing Officer of MakeMyTrip & an integral part of the MakeMyTrip strategic think tank. He is responsible for global Marketing and Advertising activities for MakeMyTrip. He is credited with making MakeMyTrip a name to reckon with in the dynamic travel industry in India.

Mohit undertakes marketing initiatives for all segments of MakeMyTrip's hybrid business model; that includes online marketing activities as well as innovations that cater to the retail segment of the organization. His ideas and creativity provided the brand the much required impetus to emerge as the leading online travel agency in the country. Under his stewardship, the company was recognized as a Super Brand in the Consumer Superbrands India 2009 list.

With 11 years of experience in the field, Mohit has handled sales, field marketing, brand marketing and channel leadership assignments across many levels and geographies. He has served as the VP - Marketing at PepsiCo International - India Beverages as well as being the General Manager for Modern Trade Sales at Pepsico International for India Beverages. He has also been the General Manager - Marketing at Pepsico International for India Beverages. He was responsible for developing the 7UP brand franchise and the Lime Lemon category for Pepsico's South Asia Business Unit. He started his career with Voltas Ltd. as a Management Trainee in the Air Conditioning Business Division.

Completing his PGDBM from the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata and his BE B.Tech Mechanical Engineering from the Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, Mohit is also an active member of the prestigious International Advertising Association. He is a keen photographer and practices yoga to relax.

Neville Taraporewalla heads Microsoft Advertising for the Consumer and Online Business, Microsoft India. In this role, Neville provides strategic direction to the Microsoft Advertising business driving long term success and market growth of Microsoft Advertising in India, while offering digital innovations to consumers.

With over 23 years of experience, Neville has been an early adopter of the Internet and the digital space. During his tenure with Yahoo! India from 2002 – 2006, he was instrumental in reversing Yahoo India's fortunes, and played a pivotal role in converting the India office into a profit centre. In 1996, he led The Times of India Group's foray into the Internet space, where he was in charge of online media sales, content production and marketing.

Prior to Microsoft, his other assignments have been with Publicitas Digital where he was the CEO and Online Media Director for the Asia Pacific region and has held key Leadership roles at Times of India, Mid Day Multimedia Ltd. & Khaleej Times in the past.

Neville attained a Bachelors degree from the University of Bombay, following which he pursued a course in "Strategic Brand Management" from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta & successfully completed the Global Advanced Management Program (GAMP) conducted jointly by Indian School of Business (ISB) & Kellogg's Business School of Management. Neville is a theatre buff and thrives on his dose of weekend movies with his wife. A voracious reader, his other hobbies include travelling & exploring new destinations and food! A national athlete, he is fond of cricket and share's his son's passion for Football.

Prashant Mehta is Chief Executive Officer of Komli Media (www.komli.com) – APAC's leading digital media Network Company, which also powers the leading audience measurement platform, ViziSense. Prashant is responsible for Komli's overall business operations including sales, product development, engineering, marketing and business development. He joins Komli Media after eight years at Yahoo! Inc., where he was most recently Vice President and Head of Yahoo!'s Emerging Markets commercial operations which included India, South East Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe.

He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

R. Balakrishnan (Balki) is the Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas. He has written and directed two successful Bollywood films "Cheeni Kum" and "Paa".

Ratish has been in the Internet advertising and communications industry for more than a decade.

He started his digital career in 2000 with Mediaturf and 6 years down the line, in 2006 along with 4 colleagues co-founded Interactive Avenues, which quickly grew to be the No. 1 digital advertising agency in the country. In 2008, along with Sunil Miranda (one of the co-founders of Interactive Avenues), Ratish moved within the group to start Ad Magnet, which in 2 years ' time has grown to become the largest Indian ad network & the 5th largest internet property in the country as per Comscore.

Ratish is a Mechanical Engineer from BIT Mesra and worked for 2 years in the copper mines at HCL before doing a post graduate course from IIM Kolkata.

After IIM – C, Ratish spent 5 years in strategic media planning – first at O&M and then at Euro RSCG, before shifting gears for a career in the digital space.

Ratish has worked with leading advertisers like Uniliver, Pidilite, Philips, etc in his media planning days. In the digital space he has worked a plethora of clients in various categories like BFSI Consumer Durables, FMCG, Travel, Internet Businesses, etc. A keen interest in advertising related technology, helped Ratish and Sunil set up Ad Magnet which has grown to become the largest Indian ad network.

Other than his passion for all things digital, Ratish loves reading (mostly non-fiction), is a keen follower of Football and F1 and loves to spend time with his kids.

Ravi Kiran is a newly turned entrepreneur, an angel investor and a venture mentor.

He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Friends of Ambition, arguably India's first growth advisory company focusing on ambitious enterprises in Middle India - India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns.

The former CEO -South East & South Asia and Emerging Market Leader-Specialist Solutions for Chicago headquartered Starcom MediaVest Group, in turn owned by Paris based Publicis Groupe, he opted out of his full time position in end 2010, in order to explore alternative business possibilities.

Of his twenty years working life, he spent twelve years at Starcom MediaVest Group, including over seven years in country and regional leadership roles, based in Mumbai and Singapore. He has built teams and product portfolio, grown businesses and stature for the company, mentored peers in the Middle East, Mexico, Russia and elsewhere on creating new lines of business.

He also served on SMG's Global Product Committee and Global Management Group, the company's apex product and leadership groups respectively.

Since 2003, Kiran has been chairing the marketing committee of the Media Research Users' Council, India's premier industry research association. He regularly speaks in industry fora across the region as well as is engaged in teaching assignments as visiting faculty in several business schools in India. Kiran has served on the juries of several industry awards, such as the Bombay Ad Club's Emvees, the BSR [Business for Social Responsibility] Awards, the AME [Asian Marketing Excellence] Awards, and the Cannes Media Lions.

Kiran holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Kashmir and a Business Management degree from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shalini. His interests include technology, behavioral sciences and philosophy.

Rishi Khiani , CEO of Times Internet LTD ( Indiatimes ) is a cross media veteran with over a decade of experience in the media, internet and mobile space . Prior to joining Times, he was the COO of Web18 where he managed teams across Marketing, Operations, Creative, and Production . Rishi was responsible for either the rollout or redevelopment of all portals for the Network18 group including spearheading the execution and launch of In.com, in 1996 Rishi setup UrbanEye Media - a digital marketing agency that was later acquired by the Network18 group in 2006.

Sameer Suneja, Managing Director, Perfetti Van Melle has been with the Indian confectionery major for 13 years now. Accredited as among "India's Hottest Young Marketers" in 2005 by Brand Equity and also one of "India's Hottest Young Executives" in 2008 by Business Today, Sameer is largely responsible for building the brands at PVM and creating some memorable and award winning advertising. Sameer joined PVMI during its start up days and has played a key role in the company's distinguished growth over the years. Perfetti Van Melle is the undisputed leader in sugar confectionery today and most of its brands are market leaders in their respective segments.

Sameer launched Alpenliebe in India which today is the country's single largest confectionery brand. Today Perfetti is known by the Brands it keeps. Several campaigns and brand baselines have become a part of consumer lingo such as "Dimag Ki Batti Jala De" for Mentos, "Dobaara Mat Poochna" for Chlor.mint, "Lagey Raho" for Alpenliebe Lollipop, "Smile Please" for Happydent White, "Hila Ke Rakh De" for Center Shock and so on.

Sameer joined the company as a Brand Manager in 1997 and subsequently moved to Milan for an International Marketing assignment where he spent a couple of years. He returned to India in early 2002 and then was elevated as the Head – Sales & Marketing. He became the Managing Director two years ago and is among the youngest Managing Directors in the country running a company which is almost a 1000 crores.

An MBA from IIM Bangalore ('94 batch), he started his career at Colgate Palmolive. From there he moved on to Frito Lays before joining Perfetti Van Melle in early 1997.

Sidharth Rao is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Webchutney, India's leading and most awarded full-service interactive marketing agency.

A self-educated entrepreneur, a digital evangelist and a creative visionary, Sidharth opted out of regular academia at 19 and cofounded Webchutney.

Today as India's number one digital agency (Ranked by Brand Equity, Economic Times, December 2008 and 2009), his vision has been translated to a 150 people strong organization directed by an enviable executive management team across New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.

His thought leadership and industry expertise have propelled him to infuse the Indian digital landscape with other exciting ventures and start-ups. He has been involved as an incubator with JuxtConsult, India's leading online research consultancy firm and India's number one brand ad-network, Networkplay.

A popular figure in the Indian digital landscape, he has lent valuable insight to this medium through online and print publications. He has been a prominent speaker at various panel discussions and seminars, and is often quoted in leading Indian publications and national dailies.

From humble beginnings as a bollywood film billboard painter to the National Creative Director of Leo Burnett India, Pops has seen it all, and today is widely respected as a creative leader in the Indian Advertising fraternity.

Under his creative leadership, Leo Burnett India went on to win agency of the year in the Leo Burnett global network, twice.

Continuing the Agency's superb show at the Cannes the agency has won 9 lions, in the past two years. While over the decade, the Indian office has done splendidly by wining over 328 awards at major award shows including the Cannes, One Show, D&AD and Clio.

He's credited with the emergence of Leo Burnett as a creative powerhouse in India. Creativity magazine ranks Leo Burnett India among top 20 creative agencies in the world. He's been on many Indian & International award juries. In July last year, Pops was honoured with the New York Festivals Creative Achievement Award.

Subho Ray is president of Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) since March 2006. As president, Subho heads the permanent secretariat of the association and is an ex-officio member of its governing council. He is currently responsible for conceptualising and implementing the association's activities around regulatory affairs, public policy, industry standards, research, communications and promotional events.

In his current role, Subho has been instrumental in some crucial steps for the development of the digital industry. The main among these are instituting an accreditation process for interactive agencies, a credit recovery process for online publishers, organizing and getting recognition for the mobile value added services industry and for opening up the pre-paid instruments industry. Under Subho's leadership, IAMAI has also been recognized as the leader in all Internet and mobile value added services research in India. Since 2006, IAMAI has grown seven-fold in terms of membership and has been at the forefront of the advocacy for ecommerce, online advertisement, ICT for SMEs, internet penetration and an equitable business regime for mobile value added services industry.

Before joining IAMAI, Subho was director for the ICT vertical at the Confederation of Indian Industry (India's largest industry body) in New Delhi where he worked since 1998 with a 2 year stint at the Confederation's London office.

Subho is a trained historian having read history at Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and receiving his PhD in south Asian Economic History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published his first academic book in 2002 "Transformation on the Bengal Frontier" with Routlege Curzon and co-authored "Building India with Partnership: The History of CII" which was published by Penguin India in 2006.

43 year old Subho lives in New Delhi with his wife and daughter.

Sunil Lulla is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd, responsible for the Times Television Network, at present comprising of 3 TV channels: TIMES NOW, ET NOW and zoOM.

Sunil has over 25 years of rich experience in building brands and businesses, across media, advertising, music, & beverages. He brings deep domain knowledge in the Television Broadcasting Industry, having been associated with it since the last 14 years.

He plays an active role, across many Industry Forums and Association.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, aged 32 years, is the Chairman, Managing Director and Founder of One97 Communications Limited. He is currently responsible for the strategy and direction of One97 and leads the company in all areas relating to business expansion as well as product road map.

Vijay has more than 10 years of experience in the telecom and new media industries, having founded his first venture XS Corps while he was at college, which he sold to Lotus Interworks LLC, New Jersey in 1999. Prior to founding One97 in 2000, Vijay played key roles in a number of organisations such as Riverrun Software Services Group Limited, Inter Solutions Software Private Limited, Startec Global Communications Limited, focusing on the design and development of various products and applications for the technology, media and telecom industries. Vijay holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Vivek Bhargava is the founder and Managing Director of Communicate2, which has evolved into one of the largest Search and Social Media Specialist organization in India. Communicate 2 also helps Search Agencies in Europe and US to become more profitable and flexible by providing Search offshore services.

Vivek has spent the last 10 years guiding the Digital Advertising Strategies of companies such as MTV, Merrill Lynch, ICICI Bank, Reliance in both Indian and Global Markets.

Vivek regularly speaks at global events such as Ad-tech, SES, SMX, I-com and the Apex Internet conferences in India. He is a keen Chess Player and an Amateur Paragliding Pilot. Vivek is the Co-Chair for SEMPO Apaq.

Vivek has traveled to more than 40 countries on various Consulting and Project Assignments and lived In Dubai for two years.

Vivek is passionately committed to Communicate2's mission of being the Biggest Contextual Advertising Firm in the Emerging Markets and Leading Offshore Contextual Advertising.