Baba Prasad (Prasad) is a leading thinker in the area of management strategy and innovation. He is President & CEO of Vivékin Group, a thought-leading management consultancy with offices in the USA and India. Prasad is also a Sloan Fellow at the Wharton School (USA) and Visiting Professor of Management at the International Institute for Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H).

He has degrees in Math, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, as well as a PhD in Operations & Information Management from the Wharton School. He taught at Purdue University (where he was rated MBA faculty of distinction), the University of Minnesota (where students consistently noted him as insightful and inspiring) and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (where students called him one of the nicest persons they've known).

Prasad founded Vivékin Group to help organizations become excellent and sustain that excellence by focusing on, developing, and nurturing intelligence the quintessential characteristic that makes human beings dynamic and adaptable. Through years of research at some of the world's best business schools, Prasad has drawn on theories from psychology, operations management, information systems, and cultural anthropology to develop the Vivékin Intelligences FrameworkTM (VIFTM) and the Vivékin Agility Matrix, paradigm-shifting frameworks for business strategy based on theories of human intelligence.

Kiran Bettadapur is a "sequential entrepreneur" with interests in Internet applications, handheld computing and LPO services. He is co-founder and CEO of Cylive Corporation, an enterprise social-media marketing company.

Prior to succumbing to the irresistible charms of entrepreneurial life, Kiran headed operations for the Birlas based out of California. He also served as Head (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) for HCL-Hewlett Packard in Mumbai.

An alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and IISc-Bangalore, Kiran is passionate about spreading the Gospel of market-driven innovation and disruptive entrepreneurship in India. With a law degree under his belt, he is working on many pro bono publico initiatives. A hardcore environmentalist, he is actively involved with many NGOs to give back to the community.

"Gita and the Art of Selling" is Kiran's first book.

Mukul Jain has spent over 30 years in the technology industry in various engineering and business roles. He is currently CEO at MTree Software, a network simulation and computer vision company. Prior to founding MTree, he was the COO at GlobalLogic, during the period when the company was scaling its product engineering capacity globally to become a leading pure play product engineering services company. Mukul started his career with HCL group and led several product R&D teams in the initial period and later on helped build the technology services business of HCL Technologies. He has deep interest in technology innovation and is passionate about learning and education. Mukul has a B.Tech. Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Mahesh Chandra Pant, the Former Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) (May, 2004 to April 2009) and Former Director of Education, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal (December 1998 to May 2004), acquired rich experience in teaching, school administration, preparation of institutional plans, development of curriculum and instructional materials, and monitoring and supervision of educational programmes. As Chairman NIOS, he took significant steps to put the open schooling system in India on a sound pedestal. Realizing that the open schooling programme with inherent flexibilities has potential to meet substantially the challenge of universalisation of school education, a comprehensive re-engineering of the process as an integral part of the strategic approach for promotion of open schooling was initiated to develop and implement the Vision 2020 for NIOS.

He was instrumental in promotion of Open Schooling in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa, through advocacy, consultancy and capacity building programmes under the Open Schooling Association of Commonwealth (OSAC) and the International Centre for Training in Open Schooling (ICTOS) in collaboration with international organizations like Commonwealth of Learning (COL), UNESCO, and UNFPA. He also spearheaded expansion of Open Vocational Education Programme the On Demand Examination System and e-Governance.

Sanjay Kothari, has done his graduation in B. E. Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani followed by PGDM from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. Having initially worked with Shriram Fertilizer & Chemicals and Tata Economic Consultancy Services, he ventured into Capita Markets thus acquiring Membership of National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) in 1995. With close to two decades of vast work experience in the field of Capital Market and Arbitrage Business, he is currently looking after group's Investment activities at C. R. Kothari & Sons Stock Broking Private Limited. He is actively involved in Social Services as a patron of C. R. Kothari Memorial Charitable Trust.

Gora Datta, a Science and Engineering alumnus of BITS., Pilani and HL7 International Ambassador, is the founding Chairman and CEO of CAL2CAL group of companies (est. 1996 in California, USA: http://www.cal2cal.com) - a multi-national innovative ICT products and solutions organization with subsidiary and offices in Australia, India & USA.

He is an accomplished, creative and visionary executive with around 32 years of international professional experience in the field of Computing and Software Engineering. His global professional experience spans many countries. As an eHealth, public health and ICT subject matter expert, Gora has provided consultancy to & collaborated with large governmental organizations (like the County of Los Angeles, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, USA; Governments of India, Indonesia, Niger, USA) and multi-lateral agencies (like The World Bank, WHO, UNICEF) to name a few.

He focuses on mobile technology based, cost effective, standards based open solutions for social protection and healthcare delivery in both developed and developing world. Gora is an avid traveler, reader and loves to play bridge in his spare time on his mobile PDA!