CIO Agenda Task Force

An accomplished technology leader with over 25 years of experience, Anish Shah is dialing in 5G, helping Jio to leapfrog to nextgen. His focus has been on developing and building global-scale digital platforms, digital strategy and infrastructure services for India’s largest telecom company, that has over 425 million subscribers. In this mutual growth journey, he has partnered with technology startups and Fortune 100 companies. He is counting on AR, VR and Web3 technologies to enable new revenue streams and believes that telecom companies should become technology companies.

Reforms historian and author of best-seller ModiNomics, Sameer Kochhar is Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is a passionate advocate of social, digital and financial inclusion and is a foremost expert on governance and inclusive growth. His work has been acclaimed globally and endorsed by Mr Narendra Modi, Mr M Venkaiah Naidu, Dr Manmohan Singh, Mr Arun Jaitley, Mr P Chidambaram, Mr Yashwant Sinha, Dr C Rangarajan and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and so on. In his thinking and writings and activities, his profound admiration for India's economic reforms and in extension, those outstanding personalities who strive to make these reforms more meaningful and broad-based comes out clear and unambiguous.

Cyber security is crucial for Digital India. It has attained growing importance for national security and is considered an essential element of national power. Akhilesh Tuteja has been instrumental in moving the government and corporate perspective from risk mitigation to cyber security.

The solutions developed at the age of 27 covering Cyber Security, Data Analytics and Shared Services Outsourcing for KPMG has helped the firm to grow the $1 billion revenue mark. Being ahead of his times in decades, made him an undisputed leader in Cyber Security. Little wonder, Akhilesh Tuteja today partners with over 50 countries in improving business resiliency and risk management.

Akhilesh’s expertise is relied upon by the industry to protect mission-critical business assets as well as incubate and manage high-growth businesses.

He is an ardent advocate of digital transformation and leveraging technology to address business needs, but with security embedded in the design. It was he, who led corporates to involve CISOs in strategy development and investment decision making.

Dr Deepak B Phatak is Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Indore and then completed his MTech and PhD in Computer Science. He is with IIT Bombay since 1971. He served in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering till January 2000 and was the Department head from 1991 to 1994. He also served as the first Dean of Resource Development for IIT Bombay from 1995 to 1998. He was invited to head the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology set up in October 1998 at the Institute. He has been an eminent consultant and advisor to many organisations on various issues related to Information Technology. In the financial sector, he has involved in a major effort by Industrial Development Bank of India, and has been an I.T. advisor to the State Bank of India for several years. He has also been a consultant to several other financial and industrial organisations like Reserve Bank of India, Unit Trust of India, Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India, Life Insurance Corporation of India, New India Assurance, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers, L&T, Times of India, etc. He works on several committees advising Government departments on issues related to computerisation. Dr Phatak is on the boards of IDBI Bank, ISIL, UTIISL, NIBM, IDRBT, Bank of Baroda, and NIA. He has recently published an edited book entitled Infrastructure and Governance.

Kersi Tavadia, CIO at BSE Ltd., has over 40 years of vast industry experience in IT - Software Development, Infrastructure Services (Networks, Operating Systems and Databases) and Cyber Security for organizations operating in Financial Services and Capital Markets.

In his twelve-year stint at BSE, Kersi has played a leading role to transform BSE into world’s fastest exchange with response times of 6 microseconds. He is strong proponent of Open-Source Technologies and has demonstrated “Walk the Talk” by successfully implementing one of the Largest Data Warehouse on Open Source Platform. Taking this to next level, he is instrumental in use of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in BSE’s surveillance function by implementing Social Media Analytics for rumour verification.

Providing technical leadership & architectural vision is core to his heart. Under his leadership at BSE Limited, many such mission critical projects/ applications have been implemented and some of the noteworthy implementations are successfully designed and built multiple datacenters for the exchanges and have automated complete disaster recovery procedures as well as the day-to-day business systems operations.

He is known to be an innovative CIO who has exemplified over 26 years of his managing IT in large corporates, including implementing IoT and Robotic Process Automation based tools for business process automation. Manoranjan Kumar has a proven track record of reducing IT operational costs and completing timeline-based large IT projects within budget and meeting management expectations. He has successfully managed collaborations helping to bridge internal and external customers and has laid out short and long-term IT and information security strategy and a roadmap.

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India and is based out Chennai, India. He is responsible for the IT strategy and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise-wide applications. He leads the digital transformation initiatives at the Apollo Hospitals Groups.

He has led Apollo Hospitals in achieving the prestigious HIMSS Level 6 Health care IT maturity model certification which is a rare maturity level attained in Asia Pacific Arvind has lead the Apollo team to be recognized with the HiMSS- Elsevier award (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018) for outstanding use of IT in patient care delivery in Asia Pacific . Arvind has led Apollo Hospitals to achive the CHiME Most Wired Digital Hospital stage 8 certification in years 2019 and 2020.

Under his leadership, Apollo Hospitals was awarded the Microsoft Health Innovation award in 2016 for the use of effective big data analytics using Microsoft solution in Infection control surveillance in health systems. His experience in the domain of health care IT has spanned geographies across the world.

Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO. He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine. In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO&Leader for Exemplary Leadership, Professional excellence and Community contribution.

Apart from ICT solutions in the Healthcare domain, Arvind has keen interest in IT solutions that aid Quality and Service excellence in service industries. Arvind lives in Chennai with his family and is a very keen Carnatic music enthusiast.

Rajeev is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and member of the EC (Executive Committee) at Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd. (BCCL) - the largest publishing company in India and South-Asia. BCCL and its subsidiaries (called The Times Group), are present in every existing media platform -- newspapers, magazines, books, TV, radio, internet, event management, outdoor display, music, movies and more and includes The Times of India - largest English publication in the world. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Rajeev is responsible for driving the strategic and tactical adaptation of Information Technology at the Times Group.

Prior to joining BCCL, Rajeev was with MTS India, a JV of Sistema JSFC, Russia and Shyam Telecom, as Chief Information Officer and Member of Management Committee. He is also on Advisory Board of Sistema JSFC investment, Sistema Asia Fund in India.