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Date:
Sunday March 16, 2008
Location:
Harvard
Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163 |
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THE PANELISTS
The following speakers and panelists have confirmed their attendance for the conference.
Karthik Ramanna - Moderator | Heramb Hajarnavis | Sumir Chadha | Vivek Paul
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Karthik Ramanna
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Moderator
Karthik Ramanna is an assistant professor of business administration in the accounting and management unit at Harvard Business School. In the fall semester, he teaches the first-year M.B.A. course Financial Reporting and Control; in the spring semester, he co-teaches a doctoral seminar in empirical financial accounting research.
Karthik’s research interests are in the political economy of financial information. Specifically, he investigates how institutions, regulation, and special-interest lobbying shape the nature of accounting standards and financial reports. Karthik is also interested in politics and economics of various accounting phenomena like accounting conservatism and fair-value accounting. Karthik has a Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Heramb Hajarnavis
VP, Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs
Heramb Hajarnavis is a Vice President in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs &
Co. based in Mumbai, India where he is co-head of the Principal Investment Area.
Heramb’s past experience includes being a member of the management team of Centennial
Communications and an investment banker with Goldman Sachs.
Heramb focuses on transactions in several sectors including general industrials, consumer
products and retail, communications and media, and business services.
Heramb sits on the Board of Sudhir Gensets Limited and on the Working Board of the Indian
American Council.
Heramb holds a B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA
from Harvard Business School.
Goldman Sachs (www.gs.com) is a global investment banking, securities and investment
management firm. It provides a wide range of services to a substantial and diversified client
base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments, non-profit organizations
and individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains significant offices in
London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai and other financial centers around the world.
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Sumir Chadha
Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India
Sumir Chadha is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Sequoia Capital India was formed by merging Sequoia Capital and WestBridge Capital Partners, India’s leading venture capital fund, which Sumir co-founded in 2000. Sumir has been investing in the Indian venture capital industry for the past ten years and his current board seats include GlobalLogic, Pangea3, People Group (Shaadi.com), Satellier and SKS Microfinance. He has also led investments in Applabs and MarketRx.
Prior to co-founding WestBridge, Sumir was a member of the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he led a number of successful software and services investments. Prior to that, Sumir worked at McKinsey & Co. in New York and New Delhi. Sumir received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University. Sumir is the co-founder and Chairman of the US-India Venture Capital Association (US-IVCA) and also a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
Sequoia Capital India provides venture and growth equity capital to entrepreneurs who wish to build world-class companies. Sequoia Capital India manages four funds totaling over $1 billion under management, focused on investments in India across industries. Sequoia Capital India investments include Applabs, Bharti Telesoft, Café Coffee Day, GlobalLogic, Indiatimes and People Group (Shaadi.com). Globally, Sequoia Capital has been an early investor in such companies as Google, Yahoo, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and Youtube. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit www.sequoiacap.com.
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Vivek Paul
Partner, Texas Pacific Group
Vivek Paul is a Partner at Texas Pacific Group, one of the world’s leading investment firms. Prior to joining TPG in 2005, he was Vice Chairman of Wipro and CEO of its global information technology, product engineering, and business process services segments, a position he held since 1999, Mr. Paul grew this business from under $150m in revenue to over $1.4b with 50,000 employees. During his tenure at Wipro the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2000. Mr. Paul was ranked among the best managers in the world by BusinessWeek in 2003, among the top global business influentials by Time magazine in 2004 and among the top 30 most respected global CEOs by Barron's in 2005.
Prior to this role, Mr. Paul was employed at GE for 10 years, where he ran GE's Global CT (Computerized Tomography) business from 1995 to 1999, reporting directly to the current Chairman of GE. Mr. Paul also served as President and CEO of GE's medical equipment joint venture in India. Under his leadership this business was recognized by GE as among its best joint ventures in the world, and subsequently by the Economist as the best in Asia.
Prior to working at GE, Mr. Paul worked at Bain & Co., Boston, and at Pepsi Co Inc., Purchase, NY. Mr. Paul received an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from B.I.T.S., Pilani.
Mr. Paul currently serves on the Board of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world’s leading game publisher. He is a Special Strategic Advisor to FPT
Corporation, Vietnam’s leading ICT company as well as Amyris Biotechnologies, a technology leader in synthetic biology and biofuels in the US. He was recently nominated to the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve of San Francisco, and is an advisor to the Radiology and Molecular Imaging Department of Stanford University.
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