Speakers

Ms.Amanda Kenyon

Amanda Kenyon is a private consultant with 20 years experience in the community economic and small business development field and runs her own successful small business.

While Amanda specialises in Business Incubators, Small Business Development Initiatives, and Small Town Revitalisation, she has a broad range of experience in the community sector and State and Federal Governments managing various labour market and economic and community development programs. She has extensive experience in community development, small business incubation and has an in depth understanding of the issues facing rural and regional communities.

While consulting she has conducted many successful projects through out Australia in the areas of small town revitalisation, small business development initiatives, capacity building, stakeholder management and strategic and community planning.

Amanda has been involved with the development, implementation and operations of Small Business Incubators at all organisational levels, ranging from feasibility studies, funding at a Government level and hands on involvement as Chairperson of ANZABI, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Business Incubators now Business Innovation and Incubation Australia. She has a broad range of International incubator experience.

Amanda is also currently working as a consultant for the World Bank’s Infodev program in SE Asia and the Pacific in the area of business incubators and small business development initiatives.

Dr.Anand Patwardhan

Anand Patwardhan is Professor in the Shailesh J Mehta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. He served as the Head of the School from 2003-2004, and as Executive Director of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), in the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India from 2004-2008. Anand has a BTech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT-Bombay and a MS (Environmental Science & Engineering) and PhD (Engineering and Public Policy), both from Carnegie Mellon University. Anand works in the broad area of environment - climate studies, focusing on the assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and on the diffusion and adoption of clean technology. He has been a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF); and a coordinating lead author for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Anand is currently co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Global Carbon Project, and is a member of a core consultative group on climate change for the Indian government.

Dr.Anil K. Gupta

Dr. Gupta earned his Ph.D. degree in management from Kurukshetra University (India) in 1986 after his masters in Biochemical Genetics in 1974 from Haryana Agricultural University, Haryana. He is currently a professor in the Centre for Management in Agriculture. His unique work analysing indigenous knowledge of farmers and pastoralists and building bridges to science based knowledge has led to the honour of being elected at a young age to India’s National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and recognition through Pew Conservation Scholar Award of USD 150,000, 1993 96 from University of Michigan. Biodiversity conservation through documentation, value addition and dissemination of local peoples’ innovative resource conservation practices is the thrust in future work.

His desire to develop a platform to recognise, respect and reward local innovators was the stimulus behind the creation of the Honey Bee network. The name Honey Bee was chosen to reflect how innovations are collected without making the innovators poorer and how connections are created between innovators. Honey Bee network has demonstrated that by building upon a resource in which poor people are rich in, that is their knowledge, a new paradigm of development can be unleashed.

To help provide support structures for grass roots innovators and link formal and informal knowledge systems, SRISTI, a global initiative and an NGO, to network local innovators was established in 1993. It provides organisational support to the Honey Bee network in over 70 countries. The key objectives of SRISTI are to strengthen the capacity of grassroots level innovators and inventors engaged in conserving biodiversity to (a) protect their intellectual property rights, (b) experiment to add value to their knowledge, and (c) enrich their cultural and institutional basis of dealing with nature and modern science.

National Innovation Foundation was set up by Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2000 to make India a Global leader in sustainable technologies. Compared to 948 entries in its first national competition, it mobilized more than 124,000 ideas, traditional knowledge practices and innovations from informal sector by march 2009. Organized an international contest for scouting innovation through IFAD Rome, and three grassroots awardees from three countries were honoured at Global Knowledge Conference held in Malaysia in March 2000. Working towards setting up Global Innovation Foundation so that India becomes a sanctuary or an incubator for green grassroots innovations from all over the world.

Mr.Annuar Bin Mohd Saffar

Mr. Saffar is the current President of Asian Association of Business Incubation (AABI).

Mr. Saffar has been involved in the technology parks and business incubation movement for the last fifteen (15) years, having held several senior positions in both government and private sectors, as Director, Industry and Technology Division, Taman Teknologi Malaysia, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Malaysia; and Vice President, Technology Park Malaysia.

Mr Annuar has also been engaged by the InfoDev Group of the World Bank, APEC, governments of German Republic, Kingdom of Bahrain, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.

Mr. Saffar obtained three (3) degrees from University of Missouri, United States of America; in Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering (Honours Scholar and Magna Cum Laude), Master of Science Industrial Engineering, and Master in Business Administration (Finance). He is the current Honorary President for National Incubator Network Association (NINA) Malaysia, and a member of the SPICE Group, Berlin, Germany.

Prof.N.Balakrishnan

Prof. N. Balakrishnan received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Communication from the University of Madras in 1972 and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science in 1979. He then joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering as an Assistant Professor. He is currently the Associate Director of the Indian Institute of Science and a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and at the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre. His areas of research where he has several publications in the international journals and international conferences include Numerical Electromagnetics, High Performance Computing and Networks, Polarimetric Radars and Aerospace Electronic Systems, Information Security and Digital Library.

He has received many awards including the Padmashree by the President of India, 2002, Homi J. Bhabha Award for Applied Sciences, 2004, JC Bose National Fellowship in 2007, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Science & Engineering by IISc, 2001, Millennium Medal of the Indian National Science Congress in 2000, Ph D (Honoris Causa) from Punjab Technical University in 2003 more recently the CDAC-ACS Foundation Lecture Award in 2008. He was the NRC Senior Resident Research Associate at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. from 1987-1989. He was a visiting research scientist at the University of Oklahoma in 1990, Colorado State University in 1991 and was a Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2000. He is an Honorary Professor in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Indian National Science Academy (currently the Vice President), Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers.

He is currently a Part-Time Member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and Member, Board of Governors of IIT Chennai. He is one of the Directors of and the Central Bank of India, Data Security Council of India and of CDOT-Alcatel Research Centre at Chennai, a member of the Council of CDAC, Member of the Joint Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellon University at Qatar and a member of the council of many universities and CSIR Laboratories. He is one of the editors of International Journal on Distributed Sensor Networks and the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of World Digital Libraries.

Till recently he was a member of the National Security Advisory Board and the Board of governors of IIT Delhi. He was also one of the Directors of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).

He is the National Coordinator of Indo-US Million Books to the Web Digital Library Projects (www.ulib.org and www.new.dli.ernet.in ). He along with his colleagues from India, China and the US created the world’s largest Digital Library which proudly hosts more than a million books that are freely accessible by any one anywhere and anytime.
More details can be found at http://swati.dli.ernet.in/balki

Prof.Benjamin J.C. Yuan

Professor Yuan is one of the Founding President of Chinese Business Incubator Association (CBIA), Professor of Technology Management Institute of National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan.

Professor Yuan graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with Master and Ph.D. degrees both from Electrical Engineering Department in 1975 and 1978. From 1981 to 1990, Dr. Yuan worked for Data General Inc., a supermini-computer company, as IC Design Project Manager in Semiconductor Division in Silicon Valley, California and as Marketing Manager in International Marketing in America / Far East Division in Boston, Massachusetts.

After 1990, Professor came to National Chiao-Tung University, and founded the first Graduate Institute of Technology Management in Far East Asia at Taiwan. Professor Yuan visited MIT, USA for one year in 1996 as visiting scholar, and visited British Royal Society on Technology Foresight Program for two months in 1998. And he was assigned as Deputy Dean of Management School of NCTU between 2001 and 2002. In 2004, he received the Research Award from the International Association of Management of Technology.

Professor Yuan has been as consultant for many companies and research institutes. He has been invited as guest speakers in many worldwide major conferences, such as APEC meetings and forums, venture capital forums, innovation and entrepreneurships conferences, technology management and transferring conferences, etc.

Currently, he is Chinese Association of Management of Technology Fellow and Vice President of Asia Association of Business Incubator (AABI). And he is also the president of Chinese Business Incubation Association (CBIA). In addition, Professor Yuan is an Annual Guest Editor of the International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM) and the Regional Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneur & Innovation Management (IJEIM) of UK. At the same time, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Management (Chinese publication) and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Dr.David E. Martin

David E. Martin, PhD, is the Executive Chairman of M·CAM, Inc., the international leader in innovation finance and trade, and intellectual property-based financial risk management. M·CAM has established a global standard in intangible asset-backed finance, innovation finance arbitrage for the public and private sector, technology proliferation and counter-proliferation tracking, and patent quality and commercial validity assessment and management. Dr. Martin is the author of the international legal framework for the Heritable Knowledge Trust and Heritable Innovation Trust programs. His work on ethical engagement and stewardship of community and commons-based value interests is at the forefront of global financial innovation. Dr. Martin is also a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

Dr. Martin's work as a Fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and his related work at the Indian Institute for Management Ahmedabad, India, has brought unprecedented curricular focus to areas of intangible-asset risk management, finance, and accounting standards. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Martin has closely advised innovation-based finance and investment programs in India, China, Denmark, the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. He has served as the Constitutional and Economic advisor to the Autonomy Committee of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea and has worked with ethical trade frameworks for the Kingdom of Tonga, the Independent State of Samoa, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
E-mail David E. Martin   dem@m-cam.com

Mr.Edward Rubesch

Edward Rubesch's experience combines a mixture of practical and academic entrepreneurial experience. He has founded four companies in Thailand, which he still heads as President. In 2002, he started the New Ventures Program at Mahidol University's College of Management to give business professionals the entrepreneurial skills necessary to start and succeed in new businesses. He is currently on the faculty of the Thammasat Business School in Bangkok, where he started the Global Entrepreneurship Program, as part of the International MBA, and is also director of the Technology Licensing Office for Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency. In both roles, his goal is to increase the number of technology-based startups in Thailand.

Ed was originally educated as a mechanical engineer, receiving Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Management degree from the Sasin Graduate School of Business, a program in Thailand, offered jointly by the Kellogg School of Northwestern University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He completed his Ph.D at Thammasat University, with a study of border entrepreneurs in the Greater Mekong Subregion. He is active in academic research in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, and distribution in developing countries.

Ed is an active participant of the Roundtable of Entrepreneurship Education, hosted by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which brings together educators from around the world to examine best practices in entrepreneurship education. Ed has attended REE in the US, Europe, and Asia, and was the host of REE Asia 2006.

Ed has also been active in business plan competitions for students at the MBA level. His teams have competed internationally and have won at Asian Moot Corp, the University of Oregon New Venture Challenge, Global Moot Corp, the Global Social Venture Challenge, and the Rice University Business Plan Competition. He is the director of the Global Social Venture Competition for Southeast Asia.

Dr.Hong Kim

Hong Kim is Dean of the Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship at Hoseo University, Seoul, Korea; President, Korean Society of Business Venturing since 2006; and Honorary President of the Korean Society of Safety. He has been a Professor of Hosoe University since 1988 and Dean since 2003. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Venture from 1999-2004.

Dr. Kim has been the Technology Business Incubator Director at Hoseo University since 1995. He was the President of Korean Business Incubation Association from 1999 to 2003, Honorary President from 2004 to 2005 and an Advisor of the organization from 2006 to 2007.

He was the President of Association of Asian Business Incubation from 2004 to 2005 and Honorary President from 2006 to 2007. From 2006 he has been an Advisor of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning since.

Dr. Kim has been Member of International Summit of the National Business Incubation Association in USA since 2000 and a member of SPICE (Science Park & Innovation Center Expert) Group in Germany since 2001.

He has been a speaker at over 40 international conferences and forums around the world.

Dr.Indraneel Ghose

Dr Indraneel Ghose works at the Delegation of the European Commission to India, Bhutan and Nepal as the Science and Technology Analyst since 2004. His responsibilities include the promotion of science and technology cooperation between the European Union and India, including the promotion of Indian participation in the European Union’s Research Framework Programme. Prior to that, he worked as Coordinator in the Science and Technology Section of the Embassy of France in India (1999 to 2004). His primary responsibilities there were to promote Indo-French scientific cooperation.

Indraneel obtained his doctorate in Marine Geosciences from the University of Paris in 1997, where his research focussed on the geochemistry of rocks obtained from the Atlantic Ocean. This was followed by a post doctoral stint at the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa.

Mr.RMP.Jawahar

Mr. R. M. P. Jawahar has worked in the first Indian Business Incubator, TREC-STEP, for last 19 years. The problems of budding enterprises, the entrepreneurial traits which makes a person a success or a failure, management of challenges of growth in start-up ventures, building innovation in enterprises, the impact of incubators on its environment, the evolution of incubators world wide have been the key areas of interest in Mr. Jawahar's career. Particularly, he also has rich and rewarding experience in working with many organizational partnerships with reputed organization such as infoDev World Bank, European Union, United Nations Development Programme, United Nationals Industrial Development Organization and other international organizations. He is also the Founder member and Chairman of Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park and Business Incubator Association (ISBA). He has helped many incubators in India in establishment, management and effective functioning.

Mr. Jawahar is also involved in dissemination of management and technology skills across a wide spectrum of societies, particularly unemployed youth in India. He believes in Business Incubators as one of the great vehicle for growth, equal opportunity, wealth distribution and creation at various levels, developing interdependence and value in the social exchange. He has been awarded "The International Champion of Business Incubation Award 2006" by UKBI.

Mr.Jonathan Kirkpatrick

Jonathan Kirkpatrick moved from London to New Zealand in 1991 and has a history of management and governance spanning both the not for profit and commercial sectors, focused on new ventures and innovation. He has run his own company and is in increasing demand from international speaking circuits on subjects relating to the commercialisation of innovation.

Jonathan has been involved in the AUT Business Innovation Centre since it opened in January 2001 and the CEO since 2002. The AUT Business Innovation Centre contains one of the countries foremost business incubators for start up technology companies; university research groups; commercial companies and the University's office of commercialisation.

In 2006 Jonathan became the Chair of the New Zealand business incubator association Incubators New Zealand. Since that time the association has focussed its work on helping incubators to understand international models of best practice and to adapt and apply them to particular local situations. New Zealand currently has over 150 companies in incubation and last year these companies raised over $30m in capital, generated revenues of $27m and created over 330 new jobs.

Jonathan has a first class degree in Theology from the University of London; an MBA from the University of Otago.

Mr.Julian Webb

Recognized internationally and in Australia, Mr. Webb has been a pioneer and leader in the small business development and business incubation industries since the 1980s. He ran award winning business incubators and business advisory services for many years in Australia and has helped develop and establish numerous business incubators in Australia and internationally. He expresses his passion for innovation, entrepreneurship and local economic development through his own consulting company, as the founder and current deputy chair of the Australian incubation industry association and through his work with the infoDev Program. He has worked in numerous countries for governments, development agencies, incubators and international donors. Mr. Webb is the Asia Region Facilitator for the World Bank's infoDev Incubator Initiative; Managing Director CREEDA Projects Pty Ltd; Deputy Chairman Business Innovation and Incubation Australia Inc; Science Park and Innovation Centers Expert Group (SPICE Group). For more information about these organizations, please visit www.creedaprojects.com.au and www.springboardbusiness.com.au.
E-mail Julian  julian.webb@creedaprojects.com.au

Dr.Kiran K Sharma

Dr. Kiran K Sharma is associated with various programmes of ICRISAT since 1992. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate, University of Calgary, Canada.

Dr. Kiran K Sharma is specialized in Experimental Plant Morphogenesis, Plant Genetic Engineering for crop improvement, Translational of concepts of genetic engineering into commercial products, Agri Business incubation through Public-Private Partnership.

Dr. Kiran is involved in conceptualization and setting up of the Agri Business Business Incubator and setting of the Platform for Translational Research of Transgenic Crops (PTTC) at ICRISAT, Hyderabad.

Dr. Kiran has published over 90 research papers and reviews in International Publications and books. Dr. Kiran is Member of several governmental, institutional and private sector committees

Ms.Laura A Parkin

Laura is the Executive Director of the Wadhwani Foundation, where she leads the foundation's investments in non-profit programs. The overarching mission of the foundation is to create more economic opportunities for individuals in India. The foundation works in two areas: developing business entrepreneurs, and helping the disabled build livelihoods or achieve gainful employment.

Laura is also the Executive Director and co-founder of the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), the foundation's key program. NEN is a leading catalyst for entrepreneurship education in India. Since starting NEN in 2002, Laura and the NEN team have built NEN to include over 200 top tier institutes across 26 cities. NEN is helping develop a pool of over 300 entrepreneurship faculty members, and reaches over 200,000 students.

Prior to this, Laura was a Vice President at Ashoka, an organization that identifies and supports leading social entrepreneurs in over 40 countries. She is a serial entrepreneur, having founded four companies, and former venture capitalist at Highland Capital Partners in Boston, Massachusetts, where she invested in health care companies. In the early 90's she successfully helped established a merchant bank in Moscow on behalf of the investment firm Aldrich, Eastman and Waltch. Currently, she is also an Advisor for Acumen Fund's Water Portfolio. Laura was born and brought up in Hong Kong, and holds a B.A. from Harvard University.

Dr.Mahendra Pal

Dr. Pal, a Doctorate in Chemistry from Delhi University served as Lecturer in Chemistry in Ramjas College & Moti Lal Nehru College (University of Delhi) prior to joining as Scientist in Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun in 1981. He served IIP for about 24 years and contributed in R&D of Petroleum Products, published 30 papers in National & International journals of repute, and has 3 patents to his credit. His contribution in Metalworking Lubricants in India has benefited the Indian Steel Industry particularly in metal forming.

Dr. Pal is presently on deputation in Technology Development Board as Adviser since 2004 and looks after Technology Financing, Seed Support for Start-up, joint financing of TDB & venture funds and Technology Day Awards related activities.

Dr. Pal has visited several countries including Japan, Germany, Sweden, France, Hungary on technology financing and Seed Fund Schemes

Mr.Manav Subodh

Manav Subodh joined Intel Corporation in 2004. In his present role Manav leads corporate affairs for Intel in South and West India. His charter is to deliver on policy agenda that furthers Intel's goals & enhance Intel's reputation as a world class corporate citizen and technology leader. He also drives Intel's Global Technology entrepreneurship programs in 15 countries; create partnership models with local government, US universities, NGO's and multilateral agencies.

He represents Intel in various industry & government forums and works closely with them to drive a change in the ecosystem. Manav lead several public private partnerships (PPP) for Intel programs. Manav has been instrumental in driving the first of its kind PPP model in India on Innovation & Technology entrepreneurship with Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India & Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF).

Prior to joining Intel, Manav was with Hughes. He is an engineering graduate in Electronic and telecommunications and has done a Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

Ms.Mercedes Barcelon

Ms. Barcelon is Senior Manager of Ayala Foundation and Program Lead for its Technology Business Incubator Network (AyalaTBI).

AyalaTBI is a facility and a service network for technology startups in the Philippines. The vision of AyalaTBI is an ecosystem that enables entrepreneurs to build successful science and technology businesses with global potential. The facility network currently comprises four TBIs: 1) UP-AyalaTBI, is located in the University of the Philippines; 2) TechnoHub- AyalaTBI located in the new UP-AyalaLand TechnoHub also in the University of the Philippines; 3) UPV Cebu-AyalaTBI in central Philippines; and 4) Asian Institute of Management-AyalaTBI.

AyalaTBI runs knowledge and networking sessions - Innovation Forum and Kape + Teknolohiya; TechBootCamps as well as tools such as Start Out of the Box, and websites.

Mr.HK.Mittal

Mr. HK Mittal joined the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad for developing entrepreneurship among the various target groups including Science & Technology persons. Mr. Mttal was instrumental in establishment of institutions of entrepreneurship development at the state level. Mr. Mittal then moved on to provide technical and management consultancy to SMEs and evolved programmes for entrepreneurship development.

Between 1990 to 2003, Mr. Mittal was responsible for initiating various new programmes in NSTEDB and also had a short stint with UNIDO for development of Industrial Clusters in India and evolved programmes for entrepreneurship development.

Mr. Mittal has over two decades of experience in technology based entrepreneurship development; skill development; trainers training and faculty development; establishment of entrepreneurship development institutions like institutes of entrepreneurship development at the state level, Technology Business Incubators, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Parks, Entrepreneurship Development Cells in the educational institutions; development of micro-enterprises; working for income generation activities for underprivileged sections like: women, scheduled castes/tribes, physically challenged etc.; development of mass media systems for enterprise development like distance learning, TV, radio, satellite networks and development of portal; development of Industrial clusters; financial, management and technical consultancy to SMEs.

In addition to being Member Secretary of NSTEDB, Mr. Mittal also looks after the work relating to plan-coordination and Information Technology for the Department of Science & Technology. Mr. Mittal is also the National Programme Director of the UNDP project on skills which aims to demonstrate that jobs can be created through appropriate location specific, need based, competency linked training interventions using the conventional as well as on-line systems.

Mr. Mittal has been responsible for establishing networks with international development institutions like the World Bank (InfoDev Programme) and EU for bringing the global incubation knowledge to the Indian business incubators. At the National level Mr. Mittal has linked activities of the NSTEDB with various developmental ministries and institutions. Mr. Mittal is a member of various boards and committees of the developmental institutions.

Ms.Naowarat Ayawongs

Naowarat Ayawongs is a leading expert in business incubation in Thailand. She is currently Director of the Regional Science Parks Project, Technology Management Center (TMC) of National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) where at the initial stage of the project, she focuses on advising the leading universities in the regional science parks consortium in establishing technology business incubators and building their capacity to support technology business start-ups.

Prior to joining the Regional Science Parks Project, Ms. Naowarat was the Deputy Director of Software Park Thailand where she managed the Software Business Incubation Center and developed its incubatees into many of the successful software start-up companies in Thailand to date. During this period, She also directed an InfoDev Incubator Initiative Program of the World Bank for TMC, NSTDA titled "Strengthening the business incubation system in Thailand and its anchor function in the Mekong Region" to strengthen the Thai business incubation system and foster collaboration with future incubators in the Mekong Region, particularly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Before joining Software Park Thailand, she was the Advisor to the Economic Committee of the Thai Senate House.

Ms. Naowarat spent the first half of career as a business executive and IT specialist. She was the Vice President, Software Development Department for a major Thai international conglomeration. Prior to that, she was Assistant Vice President, Corporate MIS & EDP Division of a major telecommunication company in Thailand. She began her career as an MIS manager at Dow Chemical and was based in Switzerland and Thailand.

Ms. Naowarat holds a Bachelor and a Master of Economics, and a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering.

Mr.Naveen Kulkarni

As Director Business Development at Philips Research Asia, Naveen is involved in identifying and developing ventures for spin-ups, spin-ins and spin-outs in Philips. Currently he is managing a portfolio of Healthcare opportunities relevant for India, emerging markets and globally.

Educated at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia where he did his Masters in Life Sciences, Naveen is well known in the life sciences industry and has been an entrepreneur. He founded Polyclone Bioservices and led the company as a CEO and successfully forged Drug discovery alliances and developed markets for Genomics and Proteomics services.

Ms.Padmaja Ruparel

Padmaja Ruparel has a wide range of experience of over 20 years, in starting and growing organizations related to IT, entrepreneurship and investing. As the Vice President of Indian Angel Network (IAN), India's first and largest group of business angels, she ment,has this organization from inception. IAN plugs a key gap in India's entrepreneurial eco system. The organization in a short span of a little over 2 years has over 85 investors, 16 investee companies, operations over 3 locations, multiple partnerships in India and overseas. She has achieved a continuous increase in quality deal flow, investor induction, managing the entire investment process and a successful brand strategy.

Padmaja has been an integral part of the entrepreneurial eco system having operationalised the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi chapter in 1999, functioned as it de facto Executive Director and over 8 years, set the foundations for it to be a profitable, award winning chapter in the TIE Universe. She also functioned as the Executive Director of TIE Asia bringing successful entrepreneurs of from around the world (TiE Charter Members) to India.

She has helped rejuvenate the Indian Venture Capital Association and as its current CFO has ensured a enhanced membership base as well as a growing revenue line.

In her corporate avatar, Padmaja was part of the key team of Xansa India Ltd. (a US$ 800 mn company now merged with Steria). Through the years, she moved across various roles in the company before exiting in 2006. She has handled parallel roles at Xansa involving strategic initiatives like M&A, helping set up the US subsidiary, recruitment / induction of senior / top management. Operationally, she has provided project support for all North American projects as well as headed recruitment for all North America and the Continent - right from recruitment to relocation post down turn.

As Vice President of Corporate Communications and Strategy, she built the communications, media and advertising strategy of Xansa in India. The strategy culminated in revitalizing the Xansa brand through an aggressive media (not advertising) visibility of one per day. She also headed the Corporate Social Responsibility function and led initiatives across the country, catalyzing benefits for over 3,500 children. The strategy was immensely successful as it engaged the government, clients and employees and helped tremendously in the customer and employee retention strategy as well as with the key policy makers.

Padmaja has a Masters in Business Administration, and a Bachelor with honours in English.

Mr.Paul Basil

Mr.Basil is founder and CEO of RIN. Over the last 6 years, Mr Basil has worked with hundreds of innovations and innovators. He co-founded the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Programme for Innovators in collaboration with IIT-Madras. Mr Basil has also co-founded Samruddhi, a unique rural retail chain for innovative products.

Mr. Basil is a member of the Promotion Board of Technopreneur Promotion Programme, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology. Mr Basil has consulted for a project of the International Finance Corporation and also offers advisory services to Bombay Hub, a novel incubator for social entrepreneurs. Mr Basil is also offered incubation support in setting up of the Chennai centre of iVolunteer, a leading non-profit that connects volunteers with NGOs.

MR Basil was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for his outstanding social entrepreneurship in setting up RIN. He has also been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award.

Mr Basil was one of the earliest team members at the marketing department of the Kerala Horti culture Development Programme, a project of the European Union and the Government of Kerala. Mr Basil’s worked on two key social innovations while at KHDP. The first was establishment of fruit and vegetables "farmer's markets" and the other was "Udyanam" a fresh fruit and vegetables retail chain. Over 100 farmer’s markets exist now

And are the hubs of commercial horticulture in Kerala, catering to over 10.000 farmers. Mr Basil has also worked with the tree grower’s project of the National Dairy Development Board.

Mr Basil is a mechanical engineer and postgraduate in management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal.

Dr.Pham Minh Tuan

Dr. Pham Minh Tuan is Dean of Faculty of Banking and Finance, Hanoi Open University and Director of TOPICA Business Incubator, Hanoi University of Technology. Since 2005, TOPICA has been incubating 9 e-commerce ventures, 5 of which are generating fast-growing revenues and 3 have raised significant venture capital investments. Since 2006, its TOPIC64 project has also incubated 64 ICT training centers in 64 provinces with an 80% sustainability rate, and these centers has provided ICT courses to 87,000 students. The organization's sponsors include Microsoft, Qualcomm and Hewlett Packard, and it has been recognized as global finalist of ICT for development awards from Development Gateway and Stockholm Challenge.

Previously, Pham served as Vice Dean of HAST School, Hanoi University of Technology. Before that, he was as a Strategy Consultant at McKinsey&Company in Budapest and Stockholm, an Investment Project Manager at venture capital fund Extramedia in Singapore and Boston, and a software development manager at Integra Corporation in Budapest.

Since 2003, Pham has been judging and is now chairing the Investment Screening Committee of Tri Tue Viet Nam annual national software competition. In 2007, he was invited as a Senior Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego. He is a regular speaker at international conferences on business incubation, entrepreneurship and workforce development Pham received a PhD in Information Management and a MSc in Information Technology from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and an MBA from New York University.

Dr.A.S.Rao

Dr. A. S. Rao mentors Indian innovators both as Adviser, in the Ministry of Science & Technology, looking after innovation promotion programs and as Honorary President of Indian Innovators Association, a non-government organisation of volunteers. He has authored two books and several articles on innovation. TePP Network orchestrated by him is India's largest network of
incubation managers.

His specialties are R & D project management, Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, Taking innovation to market, igniting
minds, start-up support, unleashing creativity, and open innovation networks.

Mr.Richard White

Since joining New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in 2002, Richard White has been involved in policy development and advisory roles across a range of SME development, business growth, access to capital and IP commercialization initiatives and programs. In 2003 he was seconded to the New South Wales Department of State & Regional Development to advise on small business program development.

His primary responsibility however, since late 2003, has been to guide the development of New Zealand's business incubation industry as Manager of NZTE's internationally recognized Incubator Support Program.

Richard has presented at numerous international conferences and workshops on business incubation, entrepreneurship and SME development. Events include infoDev, APEC and Pacific Islands Forum conferences as well as major events run by United States (NBIA) and United Kingdom (UKBI) incubator associations. He has undertaken contract work for the infoDev program and is on the working group for an infoDev funded project lead by Octantis (Chile) entitled "Facilitation of International Working Groups on High-Growth ICT Enterprise Business Incubation".

As an active member of the Asian Association of Business Incubation, Richard has been on the judging panels for AABI Asian Incubator of the Year Award and the Dr Horiba Award for Entrepreneurship. He was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Richard holds a Master of Business qualification and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Mr.Saurabh Srivastava

 

Mr. Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman of CA India, is one of India’s leading IT entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists. He has worked extensively in the US, UK, India and Singapore and has held senior executive positions with leading international companies such as IBM and Unisys, before becoming an entrepreneur and then a VC

He founded one of India’s most successful and trend setting software companies, IIS Infotech Ltd. which became India’s 11th largest software company within 4 years of inception and the first to get international quality certification. IIS was publicly listed in India and, post merger with Xansa, listed on the London Stock Exchange. It had revenues of around US $ 800 mill till it got acquired by Steria in October ‘07. Saurabh was Executive Chairman of Xansa India and served on the Xansa plc. board. He has currently retired from both positions. He has since helped found several start ups in the IT, Entertainment and many other fields.

Mr. Srivastava is one of India’s most respected IT industry leaders and is recognized as one of the architects of the Indian software industry. He is a cofounder and past Chairman of NASSCOM, past Chairman of the Indian government’s Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council, has chaired the IT Committee of FICCI and is currently on its Executive Committee. He has also been on the National Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

He has served on several government committees / task forces / boards such as the Indo EU Round Table, PM’s Working Group on Innovation, IT Ministry’s Committee on software exports, Screening Committee of OTCEI, Planning Commission and SEBI Committees on Venture Capital, UP and Bihar Task Forces, Media Lab Asia and PICUP, etc.

He is very active in promoting entrepreneurship in India, chairs the Indian Venture Capital and Asia Pac Venture Capital Associations, is Chairman Emeritus of TIE Delhi (and served on TIE’s global board), is Co Founder and Director of the Indian Angel Network and Chaired Infinity Ventures, India’s first and most successful early stage Venture Fund.

He is on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School, London, an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship of IIT Mumbai, on the Entrepreneurship / Incubation board of IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur, and on the Advisory board of Uttarakhand University. He has a Masters from Harvard University and a B Tech from IIT Kanpur. Awards include “Distinguished Alumnus” from IITK, Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Lifetime Achievement award from the IT Industry in India.
 

Dr.Shailendra Vyakarnam

Shai is Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL). He started his working career in small companies, leaving to complete his MBA and PhD at Cranfield School of Management, where he stayed on the faculty for ten years, before taking up a Chair in Enterprise at Nottingham Business School.

Shai has both academic and business interests. His current research includes work on social capital,opportunity recognition (See The Innovative Brain, Nature November 2008, co-author with Prof Barbara Sahakian) and entrepreneurial learning. He has published five books and several papers onentrepreneurship. He has consulted widely with policy makers and his most recent work was onEntrepreneurship Education for the World Economic Forum (January 2009). He currently holds theOtto Monsted Guest Professorship at Aarhus School of Business in Entrepreneurship, Denmark. He isSenior Member at both Darwin College and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, UK.
In 1990, Shai co-founded Transitions, combining his academic interests with the practical 'how-to' for businesses. As a result of this, he has worked with over 400 businesses in workshops, on consulting assignments and as coach, mentor and non-executive director. He is Co-Founder and Director ofwww.acceleratorindia.com and of www.tristart.co.uk.
Shai is on the editorial board of the International Small Business Journal and the Journal of Strategic Change. He is presently on the Boards of Enterprise Educators UK and of the UK India Business Council. He is also a Chartered Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
 

Ms.Suwipa Wanasathop

Suwipa worked as an Investment Promotion Officer for the Office of the Board of Investment, Office of the Prime Minister from 1984-1994. She has been stationing in Zurich (Switzerland), Frankfurt (Germany), and Paris (France) for eight years. After she returned, she joined the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) in 1998 working as Marketing Officer of the Software Park Project. The Park was fully occupied within the first year of its operation. She was then promoted to be the Assistant Director in 1999 and Deputy Director in 2000. She served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Park.

Suwipa started the Incubator Center of the Park and went on a study tour on Business Incubation Management in the UK and Northern Ireland under the program jointly organized by the European Union Institute for Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Department of Industrial Promotion. She was the leader of the Thai delegation to participate in the APEC Young Leaders / Entrepreneurs Forum in the People's Republic of China in 2001. Since June 2005, She has served as the Director of Software Park Thailand, a semi-government agency under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) established to promote and strengthen the Thai software industry. She was also appointed to be the Chief of Judges for the APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Award) hosted by Thailand in 2006 and a Judge in APICTA 2006-2008 in Macau, Singapore, and Indonesia. She is now the President of Thailand SPIN, the Advisor to the Association of the Thai ICT Industry (ATCI), and a Board member of Thailand Knowledge Park. She has recently been elected as the first President of the Asia-Oceania Software Park Alliance.

Suwipa holds Master of Business Administration from State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, Master of Arts (International Trade) from State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and Bachelor of Arts (English) from Thammasat University, Thailand.

Mr.A.Wang Zhen

Mr. Wang Zhen, assistant director of Shanghai Technology Innovation Center, has been responsible for international coopertion of business incubation in Shanghai for over 10 years.

He has the technology background on biochemical engineering and computer science with master degree. Mr. Wang Zhen has been engaged in organizing International Training Workshop on Incubation Mode of Business Incubators for 11 years which was the first international training program on incubation sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology of China. He has also been the resource person of ESCAP-UN (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations) and lectured on incubation in Laos PDR in 2002. Now he is the director of AABI Secretariat and also is the director of administrative office of Shanghai Technology Business Incubation Association and Shanghai International Business Incubator.

Mr.I.Wayan Dipta

Mr Wayan Dipta started his career in the year 1979 as faculty in Physics at Bogor Agricultural University. Mr Wayan Dipta still continues as visiting faculty in Jakarta Institute of Technology, MM-Program Pancasila University, Jakarta, MM-Program Pancasila University, Jakarta.

Mr Wayan Dipta joined the government services of Indonesia Cooperatives Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Cooperatives (1983 - 1993) with occupation:

1. Head of Division for Agriculture and Estate (1993);
2. Junior Researcher (1990 - 1993); 
3. Head of Sub-Division for Information Method Development (1986 - 1991);
4. Computer Staff of Information Division (1983 - 1986);
    

Mr Wayan Dipta then served The Agency of Research and Development for Cooperatives and Small Enterprises, Jakarta (1993 - 1999), with occupation:

1. Director for Research and Development Centre for SMEs (1998-1999)
2. Head of Division for Operational Management at Research and Development Centre for Small Enterprises (1993 - 1998);
3. Middle Junior Researcher (1993 - present);  
    

1. Senior Advisor to the Minister for Technology Utilization (2006-May 2008); 
2. Deputy Assistant for Cooperative and SME Resources Research and Development (2002-2006);
3. Deputy Assistant for Business Networking and Partnership (1999-2002);

Mr. Wayan Dipta is now the Deputy Minister of Cooperative &SME Resources Research and Development, Government of Indonesia.

Mr Wayan Dipta holds Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Statistics with specialization Agronomy, at Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor and Masters Degree in Applied Statistics with specialization Econometrics, at Michigan State University, USA

 

Hotel Residency, Coimbatore, INDIA

The Coimbatore district is spread over an area of 7,469 square miles and is bordered by a series of hills including the famed Blue Mountains (Nilgiris), the Anamalais and a smattering of hillocks of the Eastern Ghats. The Nilgiri Biosphere is one of the world’s most enchanting biodiversity hotspots and adds charm to the geographical location of the district.

Coimbatore is the second largest industrial region in Tamil Nadu with over fifty thousand large, medium and small scale industries present here. The City is known for its dynamic people and excellent infrastructure.

The entrepreneurial spirit of the business community here is renowned across the Country.The Region has the unique distinction of having the highest textile activity per Square Km in the world and accounts for 84% of the textile machinery manufactured in the Country.

Besides Textiles, the city today has evolved itself into a diversified economy with Engineering, Auto Components, Pumps and Motors (Out of every two water pumps produced in the country is from Coimbatore), Foundries (One among the six major centres in India) and the educational institutions (the highest density in the country: 84 in 75 Square Km) which produce about 40,000 graduates of various disciplines a year. Coimbatore is known for its excellent work culture, good quality of life and salubrious climate throughout the year making it one of the most preferred destination for investments. Coimbatore has been rated as the fourth best city in India to do business amongst thirty six others in the country in a study done for CII by Indicus Analytics.



 

 

 

 

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