Vivek N Gour

Vivek has over 32 years of experience in marketing, financial services and aviation industry. Previously he has worked in Genpact India, GE Capital Services India and has also been the managing director and the chief executive officer of Air Works India (Engineering) Private Limited. Currently, he is also serving on the boards of directors of MakeMyTrip Limited, Mauritius and IndiaMART InterMESH Limited. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from University of Bombay and a master’s degree in business administration from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He also completed the Owner/ President Management Program from the Harvard Business School.

Bijay Nawal

Bijay Nawal read law at Oxford University. He is a corporate lawyer with two decades of legal practice experience with a particular focus on M&A and regulatory work. He started practice as a litigation lawyer with Wong Partnership, a Singapore law practice, and later practiced with the Capital Markets and M&A teams of Shearman & Sterling, a US law firm. Bijay was a partner with Drew & Napier and oversaw various IPOs of local and foreign companies on both boards of the Singapore Stock Exchange. Bijay was the Managing Director of PwC’s network law firm in Singapore prior to him establishing the law firm, Oxon Law.

Dr. Naresh Gupta

Naresh is currently a designated partner in Accuracap Technologies LLP and holds the position of director in Info Edge (India) Limited. In the past, he was the Managing Director in Adobe Systems India Private Limited. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he also received the Ratan Swarup Memorial Gold Medal. He also holds the degree of master of science and the degree of doctor of philosophy from University of Maryland.

Sudhir Jatia

Sudhir is currently the chairman and managing director of Safari Industries (India) Limited, a company listed on the BSE. He has over 29 years of experience in luggage and travel products industry. In the past, he has been the director of VIP Industries Limited. He completed the course of S.Y.B.Com. at H.R. College of Commerce & Economics from University of Bombay and completed the Owner/ President Management Program from Harvard Business School.

Sumit Chadha

Sumit is currently the head of enterprise shared services at XL Catlin, and is also a director at XL India Business Services Private Limited. She has earlier worked in Citibank N.A. India for 20 years where she last worked as Director and she also worked at BlackRock Services India Private Limited for two years as the Managing Director. She has over 27 years of experience in banking and financial services. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Stephen’s College at University of Delhi and a Master’s degree from Delhi School of Economics. She is also an alumnus of the University of California.

Richard Humphreys

Richard Humphreys has a vast and rich experience in advertising and media and was previously the President of Saatchi & Saatchi. He was responsible for 63 companies with over five thousand employees in 27 countries. He has vast experience in many aspects of Advertising & Media.

Richard started his career writing for BBC and ITV. He rose to be the Managing Director of an operating division of one of the first publicly listed UK agencies. Following this, he started his own advertising agency in 1978 and took it to the top twenty in the UK by the mid-eighties. His company was acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi. After serving as President, Richard moved on from Saatchi & Saatchi to become President of Adcom Investors, owner of a leading US advertising, new media, and sports marketing group of companies. He negotiated the sale of Adcom to Publicis.

Over the last decade, Richard has advised some of the World’s leading media companies. Based primarily in London, he has been involved in the expansion of various new media companies in the US, television broadcasters in Russia and Japan, film and television production studios in the US and Mexico, and advertising companies in Europe.

Takayuki Hoshuyama

A seasoned professional in the mobile marketing and advertising domain, Hoshuyama San is the founding member and CEO of D2C Inc. (D2C), a joint venture between NTT docomo (docomo) and Dentsu, which was founded in 2000 to build the mobile advertising business in Japan.

He started his career in the sales department of Dentsu, one of the largest advertising agency in the world. He later worked as Dentsu’s account executive for docomo where he was in charge of media buying, international communications and strategic alliances with them. When docomo released the i-mode service in 1999, he was one of the original members of the Mobile Advertising Project. He became one of the founding members of D2C, where he was appointed the Director of Sales and Business Development. In November 2004, he was appointed to be the COO of D2C. In 2005, he was appointed as a board member of the MMSA (Mobile Marketing Solution Association). Most recently, he was appointed by D2C’s board of directors to become its Chief Executive Officer in June 2010. He is the youngest CEO in NTT Group and Dentsu Group.

He has a wide range of experience as speaker for both Japan and overseas such as “SP planner training in Sendenkaigi (2000-2003)”, “Digital Hollywood University (2006 / as a part-time professor)”, “Mobile Marketing Conference 2010 (as a key note speaker)”, “Mobile Advertising Conference in Spain (2001)”, “Mobile Advertising & Marketing Conference in London (2002)”, “Mobile Marketing & Advertising Conference in Singapore (2003)”, “Mobile Future Forward in Seattle (2010)”, “Global Mobile Internet Conference (2011)” and more.

Jay Snyder

Jay Snyder currently works in private equity investments as a principal of HBJ Investments LLC, which provides seed capital to a diverse group of start-up companies.

In May 2003, Mr. Snyder was sworn in as a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. He was reappointed to serve a second term until his resignation in May 2011. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Snyder served as Public Delegate, United States Representative to the 55th United Nations General Assembly. In addition to his federal government appointment, Mr. Snyder was appointed to serve as a Commissioner on the New York State Commission for Public Authority Reform in June 2005.

Prior to his work at HBJ and the United Nations, Mr. Snyder enjoyed a 17-year career at Biocraft Laboratories, a publicly held generic drug manufacturer. At the end of his tenure, Mr. Snyder was the Vice President of Research and Development and a member of both the Management Steering Committee and Board of Directors. Before serving in those capacities, Mr. Snyder held various positions with the company, including Plant Manager, Production Manager, and Operations Manager.

Aside from his work in the public and private sectors, Mr. Snyder has been and continues to be active in community service and serves on the boards of several non-profit entities. In late 2009, he and his wife Tracy founded The Open Hands Initiative; a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to improving people-to-people understanding.

Bijay Nawal

Bijay Nawal read law at Oxford University. He is a corporate lawyer with two decades of legal practice experience with a particular focus on M&A and regulatory work. He started practice as a litigation lawyer with Wong Partnership, a Singapore law practice, and later practiced with the Capital Markets and M&A teams of Shearman & Sterling, a US law firm. Bijay was a partner with Drew & Napier and oversaw various IPOs of local and foreign companies on both boards of the Singapore Stock Exchange. Bijay was the Managing Director of PwC’s network law firm in Singapore prior to him establishing the law firm, Oxon Law.