The Steering Commitee
Ravi Narayan
Ravi has over 18 years of management and engineering experience in the corporate & startup companies in the Telecom and IT Industry. He worked at various technical and management levels for IBM and Hughes Networks. His start-ups include American Systems International (ASI), Nextone Communications, a global leader in the VoIP space and Astuto Networks, an India based company specializing in Metro switches. He has BTech from IIT Madras, and MS in Industrial Engineering & MBA from University of Southern California. He is a founding member of PAN-IIT, charter member of TiE organization and on the boards of IT and telecom companies in India.
Ravi has over 18 years of management and engineering experience in the corporate & startup companies in the Telecom and IT Industry. He worked at various technical and management levels for IBM and Hughes Networks. His start-ups include American Systems International (ASI), Nextone Communications, a global leader in the VoIP space and Astuto Networks, an India based company specializing in Metro switches. He has BTech from IIT Madras, and MS in Industrial Engineering & MBA from University of Southern California. He is a founding member of PAN-IIT, charter member of TiE organization and on the boards of IT and telecom companies in India.
Gopal Srinivasan
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan, a member of the TVS family, is the whole time Director of TVS Electronics Limited. He is also the Joint Managing Director of Sundaram-Clayton Limited & TVS Motor Limited and is also in the Board of various other TVS Group companies.
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan passionately believes that technology can improve the life of the common man. He is extremely entrepreneurial in nature and has so far built over a dozen new businesses. A vivid reader, he enjoys meeting people and spending time with his family.
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan, a member of the TVS family, is the whole time Director of TVS Electronics Limited. He is also the Joint Managing Director of Sundaram-Clayton Limited & TVS Motor Limited and is also in the Board of various other TVS Group companies.
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan passionately believes that technology can improve the life of the common man. He is extremely entrepreneurial in nature and has so far built over a dozen new businesses. A vivid reader, he enjoys meeting people and spending time with his family.
Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis is Senior Vice President (Product Technologies and Strategy) at Geodesic Information Systems.
Arguably one of India's best known technologists, Atul has been at the forefront of India's technology evolution since the 1980s, predicting and driving new technology waves such as datacommunication, networking, the Internet, wireless and mobile computing, and Open Source, among others.
His focus areas include mobile and hand-held computing, wireless data networks, "appropriate technologies" (matching available technologies to actual requirements, instead of the other way round), Linux and Open Source, computing in entertainment technologies (especially the music industry), and the identification and understanding of future technologies that could impact his clients and technology audiences.
Atul Chitnis is Senior Vice President (Product Technologies and Strategy) at Geodesic Information Systems.
Arguably one of India's best known technologists, Atul has been at the forefront of India's technology evolution since the 1980s, predicting and driving new technology waves such as datacommunication, networking, the Internet, wireless and mobile computing, and Open Source, among others.
His focus areas include mobile and hand-held computing, wireless data networks, "appropriate technologies" (matching available technologies to actual requirements, instead of the other way round), Linux and Open Source, computing in entertainment technologies (especially the music industry), and the identification and understanding of future technologies that could impact his clients and technology audiences.
