Mr. Sanjay Padode,
Secretary, IFIM Bangalore

A 1989 pass out from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, with Honors in M. Sc. (Math) and B. E. (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) had the entrepreneurial spirit from time of leaving college and founded Dataline and Research Technologies Ltd (DaRT). This company was the first in the country to pioneer online access to information and email services in 1993. The service was popularly referred to as "India Online" and "DaRT Mail". DaRT was the first real time market data provider for the Indian Stock Exchanges. The company partnered with Dow Jones Telerate to introduce a low cost market data terminal to enhance the penetration of Equity Trading in the country. The company was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

 

To meet the evolving needs of the market for trading, he founded Asian CERC Information Technology Ltd. which developed India's first Order Routing and Risk Management System for real time financial trading on the Internet. Asian CERC owned more than 80% of the market share in both financial information dissemination and providing technology solutions for securities trading. Asian CERC was then acquired by the Religare group and Sanjay continued to lead the company's new Avatar, Religare Technova Global Solutions Limited for a period of four years. During his stint as the CEO of Religare Technova, the company made international and national acquisition and grew from a strength of 250 to 3500 employees.


Post the completion of his obligation as the CEO of Religare Technova, Sanjay was keen to dedicate his self to the cause of education and took over as the Secretary of Center for Developmental Education a not for profit society which runs the IFIM Business School. Since the past two years the curriculum of IFIM Business School has, and is being revamped for transforming aspiring managers into continuously employable resources. Besides managing this Business School Sanjay is working on establishing an University and a K-12 school. Both these projects are expected to go live in 2013.

 

 

 

   SPEAKERS
*All names in alphabetical order
Dr Abraham Koshy,
Professor of Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Dr. Anadi S Pande,
Vice President, (HRM, Corporate Planning & Strategy) Hero MotoCorp Ltd.
Dr Anubha Singh,
Dean, Alliance School of Business, Alliance University, Bangalore
Dr Apoorva Palkar
President COME; & Director, SIMCA
Mr Ashok Mittal,
Chancellor, Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar
Mr Atul Dhawan,
Regional Managing Partner (North) & National Leader -Clients & Markets, Deloitte Haskins and Sells
Dr AM Sherry,
Chairman-Admissions, IMT Group & Director IMT-CDL
Dr Bala Balachandran,
Founder, Great Lakes Institute of Management
Mr Bharat Gulia,
Senior Manager, Ernst & Young & Co-author of ‘Higher Education in India’ Report
Dr Bibek Banerjee,
Director, Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad
Dr C Raj Kumar,
Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal Global University
Dr Eileen Peacock,
Senior VP & Chief Officer, Asia of AACSB International
Dr GPC Nayar,
Chairman, SCMS Group
Dr H Chaturvedi,
Director, BIMTECH
Dr Jitendra K Das,
Director, FORE School of Management
Mr Kunal Dureja,
Country Manager –Career Education, Software Group-India/SA, IBM India
Dr MJ Xavier,
Director, IIM Ranchi
Mr M Masood,
President, Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS)
Mr Madan Padaki,
Co-founder & Director, MeritTrac; & CEO, Erudient
Dr Murali Chandrashekaran,
Director, Robert H. Lee Graduate School, Sauder School of Business, UBC, Canada
Dr. Nagesh Rao
Director, MICA
Mr Nitish Jain,
President & Director, SP Jain School of Global Management
Mr P K Gupta,
Chancellor, Sharda University, Delhi NCR
Dr PV Ramana,
Chairman, ITM Group
Dr PY Agnihotri,
Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli
Dr Pandit Mali,
Director, Indira Institute of Management, Pune
Dr Pritam Singh,
Director General, International Management Institute (IMI)
Mr R C Bhargava,
Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Dr RC Natarajan,
Director, TAPMI
Dr. R. K. Mishra,
Director, Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE)
Dr. R.Nandagopal,
Director, PSG Institute of Management
Dr. Rajan Saxena,
Vice-Chancellor, NMIMS Mumbai
Dr Rajiv K. Sinha,
Lonnie Ostrom Chair in Business, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA; & Dean, MYRA School of Business
Dr Rajani Gupte,
Director, Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB)
Dr S S Mantha
Chairman,All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Professor Said Irandoust,
President, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Ms Savita Mahajan,
Deputy Dean & CEO, ISB – Mohali
Mr. Sanjay Padode,
Secretary, IFIM Bangalore
Ms Sharon Bamford,
Chief Executive, Association of Masters in Business Administration (AMBA), UK
Dr Soumitra Dutta,
Dean Designate, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Prof. Stephen Rawlinson,
Academic President, JRE Group of Institutions
Mr. T.K Srirang,
Senior General Manager, Human Resources Management Group, ICICI Bank.
Mr Vijay K Thadani,
CEO, NIIT Limited & Co-Founder, NIIT University
Mr Vivek Agarwal,
Chief Executive Officer, Liqvid
Dr.Zhou Lin,
Dean, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jaio Tong University, Shanghai, China