Anand Chandrasekher

Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Qualcomm

As senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Qualcomm Incorporated, Anand Chandrasekher oversees global marketing and external communications.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Chandrasekher was senior vice president at Intel Corporation in charge of the Ultra Mobility Group and the Intel Atom™ processor family. During his 24-year tenure at Intel, Chandrasekher held a variety of roles including co-head of Intel's Mobile Platfroms Group; Worldwide Sales and Marketing Group; and, the Workstation Platforms Group. He is best known for his pioneering efforts on the Intel Centrino™ platforms which helped usher in the modern era of mobility.

Chandrasekher received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Cornell University, his master's in operations research from Cornell University; and, his master of business administration from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management. Chandrasekher is a board member on Cornell's College of Computing and Information Sciences; a member of the advisory board for Rutberg Wireless; and, a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).

Dr. Avneesh Agrawal

Senior Vice President and President of India and South Asia

Qualcomm

Dr. Avneesh Agrawal is president, Qualcomm India and South Asia and senior vice president for Qualcomm Incorporated, providing leadership and oversight of Qualcomm's business operations in India and South Asia. Dr. Agrawal began his career at Qualcomm in 1994 as a systems engineer for Globalstar. From 1998 – 2001 Dr Agrawal led the development of QCT's first UMTS chipset. From 2002 – 2009 he led the company-wide effort on the development of OFDMA technology and LTE chipsets.

In 2005 he was named the general manager for Qualcomm's Technology & Ventures division responsible for Qualcomm's venture investments and research in new technologies, and in 2006 he served as the co-lead for Corporate R&D. Dr. Agrawal joined the Office of the CTO in 2007 while continuing to lead Qualcomm's R&D in OFDMA-based next generation wireless technologies. Dr. Agrawal joined QCT in 2009 where he led the development of wireless connectivity (LAN/PAN & Broadcast) chipsets. In 2010, Dr. Agrawal became the product management lead for the Wireless Connectivity Products group where his group focused on Qualcomm's standalone wireless connectivity products business and on driving the wireless connectivity technology roadmap for QCT.

Dr. Agrawal has been granted 84 U.S. patents and holds a bachelor of science degree in computer systems engineering and master of science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from Stanford University.

Mr. Deepak Gulati
Executive President, Mobility Business Division
Tata Teleservices Limited

Deepak Gulati is the Head of Tata Teleservices Limited's Mobility Business Division, overseeing the company's operations on both the GSM and CDMA platforms. Deepak also spearheaded the Company's foray in the 3G business, and leads the core team that identifies and innovates on new business opportunities in the fast-evolving telecoms market in India. It was Deepak who led the national launch of Tata Teleservices Limited's telecom services on the GSM platform—branded Tata DOCOMO—across the 18 Circles where the Company received spectrum from the Government, and oversaw the overall business strategy and implementation. In that role, Deepak's direction and guidance saw Tata DOCOMO emerge as India's most differentiated and pioneering telecom brand. Deepak also oversaw and guided the launch of Tata DOCOMO's 3G services in November 2010, when TTL became the first private operator to do so. Deepak was also at the helm of affairs when TTL consolidated all its products and integrated them under the Tata DOCOMO brand—on both the GSM and CDMA platforms.

Prior to taking charge at Tata Teleservices Limited, Deepak was the Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Planning Group at GMR, India's leading infrastructure Development Company. At GMR, Deepak was responsible for the airport sector for operations, organization development, governance and performance management, partnerships and alliances, marketing and regulatory affairs. Deepak has worked with Dell Computers as the Head of its Centre for Competence, where he led the company's global customer experience centre for technical support, creating many industry benchmarks in the process. Deepak is not new to the telecom industry, having worked with Bharti Airtel for eight years as the Business Head in the South, North and East India regions.

His knowledge of customer trends and market movements across the country have led to him being a well-known figure in the industry. Deepak has nearly three decades of experience across various industry segments—Telecom, Information Technology, Manufacturing and Consumer Durables. While crediting his success to his focus on customer satisfaction and result orientation, he believes in achieving goals through balanced systems and processes, thereby ensuring 'talent benching'. Deepak believes that a strong leader invests in people and relationships—with his strengths being his strategic acumen and attention to detail. He credits his deep knowledge of consumer insights and an innovative mindset for having helped him conquer many challenges. Deepak completed his Masters in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing, from Punjab University in 1982.

Fredrik has held key positions in Ericsson including Vice President & Head of Engagement Practices with responsibility for customer engagements within the Region India (from August 2010 till end of May 2011). Between April 2006 to July 2010, Mr. Jejdling was Vice President & Head of Sales, Business Unit Global Services. In this role he was responsible for sales and finance for the Business Unit and the consolidated Market Units’ services financial results.

Prior to that he was Director & Head of Managed Capacity responsible for developing the Managed Capacity offering for Ericsson.His previous positions include various senior managerial positions in LUX Asia Pacific, Singapore and LUX Australia Pty. Ltd. (between 2002-2006) spearheading into branding strategy and new products from design, development to sales system. From 1998 – 2002 he held various managerial positions with Tele 2 group offering Public Telecom Services, Transaction Processing & Clearing Services to Airports and Hotels.Fredrik has also served as Lieutenant, Combat Command Officer with Royal Swedish Navy responsible for the combat information centre and officer on the bridge.Fredrik holds M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration & Major in Finance and International Business from Stockholm School of Economics. He is MBA/ 2nd year exchange program from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Ontario, Canada. He also studied Lieutenant/ Reserve Officers training for the Royal Swedish Naval Academy.Born in Sweden, Mr. Jejdling is married and has two children. He is a sports enthusiast particularly interested in kite boarding and skiing.

Arvind Subramanian is a Partner & Director at The Boston Consulting Group.
Arvind has been working with technology and telecom clients in India, Asia and Africa on a range of topics including product and market strategy, new business build, organization design and leadership effectiveness, and operations transformation.

In recent years much of his work has centred on understanding the emerging Digital Consumer in India and how companies within and beyond the technology sector should prepare for their growing influence. Arvind is the global topic leader for the 'Next Billion Consumers' – a group of consumers across emerging markets that BCG has identified as an emerging force and has been tracking for more than five years. Prior to BCG, Arvind worked with the Tata Administrative Service the central management cadre of the Tata Group.

Faisal Siddiqui
Country Head
HTC India

Chakrapani has the overall responsibility for the Consumer Channels Group (CCG) at Microsoft India, having been appointed in this role in October 2011. CCG consolidates all of Microsoft's consumer products and channels across the Retail, OEMs and Operator Channels. This Group has single point of accountability for all of the India subsidiary's consumer channel and product partner activities across all device platforms; Windows PCs, Windows Phones and Xbox360. Chakrapani will strategically lead this business and drive market share for Microsoft in the Indian consumer segment.

With over 19 years of experience, Chakrapani brings expertize in the ICT industry and deep understanding of how to create scale in an emerging market. Prior to joining Microsoft, he spent 6 years at Nokia where in his last role, he was Director, Mobile Financial Services business at Nokia, focused on driving the Go-To-Market strategy and expansion in Asia after initially establishing the business in India. In his earlier role with Nokia, he served as Country General Manager for the Enterprise Solutions Business Group where among other activities, led the team to establish and scale the smartphone and Eseries business for Nokia in India. Chakrapani is excited about the opportunity to drive consumer experiences across multiple platforms and devices for Microsoft. He lives in Gurgaon with his wife and two daughters and enjoys running and in spare time living the outdoors life with activities like trekking and rafting.