SPEAKER PROFILES

Philip Carter
Associate Research Director, Asia/Pacific IT Services Research
IDC Asia/Pacific

Philip Carter is the Associate Research Director for IDC's Asia/Pacific Services group, based in Singapore. Philip leads IDC's Asia/Pacific syndicated research coverage across both the business and IT services markets. He is tasked with identifying emerging trends, new business & pricing models and assessing how these interconnect with the software and hardware markets along 'solution lines'. This could be at the application layer (e.g. ERM, CRM, SCM and Business Intelligence), or from an infrastructure perspective (e.g. Security, Storage BCDR and Data Center Services) and then matching these solutions to end-user demands in terms of awareness and adoption trends amongst CIOs across the region. 

Prior to joining IDC, Philip spent 7 years with SAS Institute. Initially he worked for the SAS European Headquarters in Germany, where he built up the market intelligence function focusing on competitive analysis, market research and analyst relations. He subsequently moved to Singapore, where he was head of the Public Sector practice for SAS in the Asia/Pacific region. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and growing the business in the government, healthcare and education sectors, with a primary focus on Japan and Korea. This work was in conjunction with regional service providers with the objective of developing information management E-Government strategies for public sector organizations in the region. His experience in working with government agencies exposed him to the recent regulations and drivers towards 'Greener' IT in Asia/Pacific – and this is one of the focus areas of his research at IDC.

Philip holds an honors degree in Business Science, majoring in economics and law from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. 

Durgadutt Nedungadi
Director, Marketing & Alliances Technology Solutions Group 
Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd.

Durgadutt Nedungadi is Director, Marketing & Alliances, Technology Solutions Group, HP India Sales. 

Durga has been with HP for the last 12 years, and has fulfilled a variety of sales and marketing roles at the APJ region as well as in India, spanning business unit management, solutions marketing, product management, alliance management and category sales. In his most recent APJ assignment, he has been responsible for driving BladeSystems sales, as well as optimizing the routes to market for the ISS business.

Having joined Compaq/HP India in 1997, as Business Manager for ISS, Durga was responsible for taking ProLiant servers to market leadership before moving into a regional role. Prior to joining HP, Durga was with Wipro for 8 years in roles which included Direct sales, Channel sales as well as product management.

Altaf Girkar
Business Development Manager- Server, Storage & Datacenter Services 
Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd.

Altaf Girkar is the Business Development Manager for Data Center Services, Technology Services, HP India Sales. He is also responsible for Server and Storage Services. His responsibilities include strategic planning and business development, enabling sales, assuring the quality of services and maintaining communication with customers.

Altaf has been with HP for the last 11 years, and has handled responsibilities from service management, account management and business development encompassing a variety of services from support services, mission critical services, business continuity services, ITSM services and software services.

Altaf received his Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University. He has over 17 years of experience in IT services. Prior to joining HP, Altaf was with Tata Consultancy Services and NCR India handling responsibilities from project management, professional services and technical services.

Lorie Wigle
General Manager, Eco-Technology Program Office, Intel Corporation and President, Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Lorie Wigle leads Intel’s Eco-Technology effort which is focused on the sustainable manufacturing and usage of Intel’s products. This corporate-wide function drives Intel’s market position across energy efficient performance and design for the environment. In this capacity Lorie also drives external programs related to client, server and data center efforts including Intel’s participation in Green Grid and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.

Prior to this position, Lorie was the Director of Server Technology and Initiatives Marketing for Intel. In that role, she and her team were responsible for Intel Virtualization Technology offerings as well as Intel Dynamic Power Technology and other advanced platform capabilities. Her organization also drove industry engagement on memory and I/O for server platforms.

Lorie has been with Intel for 23 years in a wide variety of Marketing and Product Planning roles and was the General Manager of Intel's Internet Imaging Services group. She has an MBA from Portland State University and a BA degree from the University of Oregon.

Sandeep Menon
Country Head – Novell India

Sandeep Menon currently heads the India operations for the Novell Corporation.

In this role, he is responsible for the overall growth and profitability of the business in India, and his responsibility spans the entire gamut of business operations.

Sandeep is considered one of the pioneers of the Linux industry in the ASEAN region, having been involved with growing the open source enterprise business, from its early days. 

In the past, Sandeep worked for almost a decade with IBM, and he was responsible for various growth strategies across their hardware, Open Source Software and Services business lines.

Suresh Menon 
Head of Storage and Solutions business 
Dell India

Suresh has been in the IT industry for 19 years and worked in India and abroad. His experience spans Technology & Solutions Consulting as well as Product Management and Marketing. 

He has been involved in designing some of the largest IT Infrastructure Solutions in the country. His areas of focus has been IT Consolidation and Virtualization with a keen interest in the development of the Next Generation Data Center.

R. Ravichandran
Director – Sales
INTEL SOUTH ASIA

Ravi is responsible for the overall consolidation of all sales activities in South Asia across channels and OEMs. Ravi joined Intel over thirteen years ago spending the first six years in various sales roles based in Bangalore. Starting in 1993, Ravi helped set up the distribution infrastructure, the Intel® Reseller Channel Program, the local OEM business and the overall expansion in South Asia in the early days.

Ravi was located in Singapore from 1999 till recently. In his regional roles, Ravi started with managing APAC marketing for desktop and server boards and successfully led the Grow Faster’ initiative. More recently, he successfully managed the APAC marketing function for server platforms achieving many key business deliverables with aplomb.

Nimrod Gindi
Director - Corporate Strategy, Mellanox Technologies

Nimrod Gindi is Director of Corporate Strategy at Mellanox Technologies, which specializes in Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect silicon and system products. Mr. Gindi has been in charge of business development mainly in the USA financial market. Between 2000 and 2005, he was Team Leader for Network Adapter Architecture and Design validation projects and Team Leader for PCI Bridge design projects. 

Between 2003 and 2005, Mr. Gindi was the company's official representative in standard Architecture working group at the InfiniBand Trade Association, and Workgroup Leader in Compliance and In-teroperability Working group (CIWG). Mr. Gindi holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Israel Technion Institute of Technology (2001).