He is the CMD of Cyber Media India Ltd., India's leading niche media company which publishes 10 publications in India including Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice & Data Living Digital and BioSpectrum with a combined reader base of 1.2 million. CyberMedia is an integrated media company with presence in Market Research, Multimedia, Events, Online Portals, Education, TV and Media BPO services.

Pradeep is also the Chairman of PanIIT India. He is on the Board of Kaleidoscope Entertainment, Charter Member of TiE, Delhi, and General Partner of Infinity Ventures. He was the past Chairman of e-Gurucool and a founder of SQL Star International.

He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi.

He is a regular contributor to various newspapers, magazines, news agencies and websites.

He has also worked in documentary films and produced radio programmes.

A graduate from St. Stephens's college, New Delhi and a Postgraduate in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Mr. Guha Thakurta has worked with the India Today, The Pioneer, The Telegraph, Business World and the Business India. He has co-authored a book on coalition politics in India and directed a documentary film on India's experience with television.

Kapil has over ten years of industry experience, of which close to 8.5 years is in business research. In his earlier stints, Kapil has headed several new initiatives at IDC including that of software & services, corporate research, internet research etc., of which the software & services group he built from scratch. Prior to joining IDC Kapil worked for three years with IMRB (part of the WPP group& South East Asia’s leading research firm) and for one year with HCL. Kapil is widely quoted in the press and is a regular speaker at various industry forums.

Kapil has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical) from Bengal Engineering College (Calcutta University) and a Masters in Business Administration (Marketing) from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (Calcutta University).

Previously, Marathe held positions as Vice President of the Business Transformation Group, and Vice President of operations for the Manufacturing Services Division of the Computation Products Group where he was responsible for CPG's and PCSG's assembly and test operations in AMD's Penang and Singapore facilities.

Marathe has held several Engineering and Management positions since joining AMD in 1984. As manager of MSD Engineering, he introduced and implemented total continuous process improvements and innovations to assembly/test/mark/pack operations to enhance productivity by 8 to 10 percent each year. During his one-year assignment as Director of Operations for AMD Thailand, he helped raise operations to "best in class" standards. In 1999 he was promoted to Vice President of MSG logistics and CPG operations. In this role he successfully led the manufacturing efforts for the AMD Athlon module and ran the SCI Systems operations which resulted in the fastest ramp up to one million processor units per quarter in AMD's history.

Marathe holds a Bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from VJTI University in Bombay, India, and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. In April 2005, Ajay was inducted into the Industrial Engineering Academy of the Texas Tech University, his alma mater. He was nominated by a panel of professors from the University for his contribution and achievements in the field of Industrial Engineering.

Kumar also helped architect Wipro's entry into leading-edge financial institutions such as American Express and Goldman Sachs. While serving as group vice president of human resources, Kumar increased the number of employees in Wipro's software services business from 800 to 4,000 people.
Kumar is also an active member of professional industry organizations such as the Manufacturer's Association for Information Technology and the National Association of Software and Services Companies.

Kumar earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Madras, India, and a Master of Business Administration degree in marketing and systems from the Xavier Institute in Jamshedpur, India.

Prior to joining IDC, Ajith was Market Research Manager at MCG, a Chennai based Management Consulting & Market Research firm, and has over five years of experience in handling research and consulting assignment in the B2B space. Prior to MCG, he was with Sea Horse Group, Mumbai, a shipping & logistics firm.

Ajith has a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Marketing from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

Mythily has been with Wipro for 17 years. This is her first job and further testament to the culture that Wipro has fostered over the years. She joined Wipro in 1988 as a software programmer after her management education at IIM Ahmedabad. She has donned several roles in her long career including driving The Six Sigma initiative as a Black Belt in Wipro a few years back.

Prior to this, she was at the helm of 01markets, leading eProcurement service provider in India. She is one of the founding members of 01markets that took shape in 2000. In her 17 year long career Mythily has performed several roles in Sales, Quality, Marketing and Business Head.

A firm believer in the concept of 'Hands on Management' Mythily is an avid reader and likes to spend time with her two sons. She loves to paint besides being a Carnatic music aficionado. Mythily was awarded the "Indira Super Achiever" award by Indira Group of Institutes, Pune. She was also featured among Six Super Women published by Data Quest in 2004.

Mythily holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Computer Science) from the Anna University, Chennai and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. Dhawan was Vice President, Customer Solutions Group, Hewlett Packard India (HP) with a focus on enterprise, public sector and SMB sectors for all computing products and services. She was also responsible for strategic alliances and partner relationships. Neelam has over 22 years of IT industry experience having worked for HCL and IBM before joining HP in Dec 1999.

Mr. Goenka completed his schooling from Bishop Cotton, Bangalore and graduated in 1982 with a major in Mathematics from the National College, Bangalore. Mr. S. S. Goenka mentored Bharat in creating software that would handle the financial accounts for his business. It was his refusal to accept anything less than what he thought was perfect and simple to use that coaxed Bharat to continue research, and develop new path-breaking technologies and incorporate them into the commercial product.

During his more than three years association with IDC, Parijat has contributed significantly in the growth and continuous success of the company.

Parijat brings a wealth of experience gathered from his associations with other leading research and consultancy organisations of the world. In IDC, he has played a significant role in a number of strategic initiatives, including some world-leading innovative projects.

Anil moved to Sun Microsystems India in April 99 as their Director - Systems Engineering responsible for all technology consulting, leading a team of IT Architects, Consultants and specialists in Internet, Data Center, Networking, Java and other technologies.

He has been involved in some of the largest enterprise computing decisions in the country with customers belonging to diverse segments. Anil is passionate about technology and is especially interested in microprocessors, system architectures, high availability and storage. He is regular speaker on technology in many events and seminars and is a key evangelist for Sun in India. Anil is married to Neelima, who is an environmental biologist and has a daughter Nishitha and a son Aryan.

His hobbies include building audio systems, digital photography, digital cinematography, playing cricket, watching movies on the home theater and surfing the net.

Prior to joining IDC, he was heading the Industrial Market Research for South India at AC Nielsen ORG MARG. Sanjit has also worked in sales during the initial days of his career.

Sanjit is an engineer from Bengal Engineering College and holds a MBA degree from IISWBM, Calcutta, with specialisation in Marketing.

Prior to his current responsibility at IDC, Naresh has worked in Cyber Media as a market analyst and business journalist covering the Indian communications industry.

Naresh is an MBA from IIFT specializing in Strategic Business Management and International Business.