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Anil R, Sr. Vice President - CIOL, CyberMedia

Anil R, Senior Vice President, CyberMedia India Online Ltd., is the business unit head for online business. He has nearly two decades of experience, 17 out of which is in CyberMedia. Starting his career with CMR India, Anil moved on to magazine ad-sales, editorial and event sales at the regional level and at National level for all CyberMedia print brands before taking up the current responsibility.


Ed Nair, Editor- Global Services

Ed Nair is Editor- Global Services, the media platform for global sourcing of IT and BPO services. Ed Nair is responsible for upholding the brand values of Global Services, and creating credible content for its audience. Based in New Jersey, he manages a team of editorial staff spread across different locations in the U.S.A. and India and various key alliances and programs for the publication.

Ed has spent 20 years in technology research and media industries, handling a variety of functions that include industry research, sales and marketing, print and online content, and general management. In previous roles, he was the editor for enterprise computing at Dataquest, India’s leading IT publication and a senior analyst with CMR India. He was chosen to get the Polestar Award for Best IT Journalist in India in 1998.

Ed has been tracking the global outsourcing industry since the early nineties, when he was part of the World Bank-funded study for the Department of Electronics, Govt. of India on software exports. His direct exposure to the outsourcing industry includes: a project at Tibco Software, Palo Alto, where he worked hands-on at offshoring global marketing activities and a consulting assignment advising First American Corporation, Phoenix, on managing organizational change in large scale outsourcing operations. For the past five years or so, Ed has been involved in researching and writing about global business, factors of globalization, international trade and economy in broader contexts beyond the technology and media sector.

Ed holds a graduate degree with honors in electronics engineering from University of Mumbai and an MBA from Thunderbird School for Global Management, AZ.
 

E Abraham Mathew, President, CyberMedia (I) Limited

As President of CyberMedia, E Abraham Mathew 'Abey' spearheads the Specialty Media Group. Abey drives the key strategic initiatives of the company and is responsible for the Asia and India editions of BioSpectrum, Global Services, DARE and Technology Review. These products represent various sectors like life sciences, biotechnology, outsourcing, energy, entrepreneurship etc. He has 25 years of experience in the IT and media industries. He is an MBA by qualification.


Hoshie Ghaswalla, President, CyberMedia (I) Limited.

Hoshie Ghaswalla is a President. He has been associated with CyberMedia for over two decades. In his earlier roles at CyberMedia, Hoshie provided leadership to multiple functions and businesses. Between 1996 & 1999 Hoshie was with Mid-Day Multimedia and in his capacity as AGM–New Media & Niche Publishing, he was responsible for launch of one of the first websites from India and a publication that catered to the advertising and media industry. Hoshie is a Commerce graduate from Mumbai University and has attended a course in Management from the St. Xavier’s Institute of Management, Mumbai.



Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, Business Magazines Group

Ibrahim Ahmad, the Group Editor, Business Magazines Group heads 5 publications - DATAQUEST, Voice&Data, DQ Week, DQ Channels and Voice&Data Connect. During his leadership DATAQUEST and Voice&Data took up the evangelists role by bringing various industry stakeholders together for DQ CIO Series conferences and Voice&Data TopView panel discussions. These publications championed industry issues like Bandwidth and Project W for opening up and promoting Wi-Fi.

Ibrahim, an Economics graduate and an MBA from AMU Aligarh is in the business journalism for the last 18 years.


Thomas George, Vice President and Country Business Head, CMR India

Thomas George, Vice President and Country Business Head of CMR India Limited and in this capacity he is responsible for the management and business operations of the company in India. He has more than fifteen years of industry experience, of which close to twelve years is in sales, marketing, business development, customer servicing and close to three years in a general management role in the ICT market research industry. Prior to joining CMR India, Thomas worked with Global Solutions, a software development firm in a sales and marketing role with a responsibility of expanding the custom application development business for the company.

Thomas is an Economics graduate and is based out of Bangalore, India. Thomas is also a qualified lead auditor for ISO 9001: 2008 requirements and a certified Six Sigma ‘Green Belt’ quality professional. He is a firm believer and evangelist of the concepts of teamwork and human capital creation within the work environment and social life.

Krishna Kumar, Founding Editor, DARE & CIO, CyberMedia

Krishna Kumar joined CyberMedia in 1996 after stints at the National Dairy Development Board and Venkateshwara Hatcheries ltd., where he was involved in project management and corporate strategy functions. An Engineer and an MBA by training, at CyberMedia he was initially instrumental in setting up India’s first vendor neutral IT products testing facility – Cybermedia Labs. Subsequently, he was the Editor of PCQuest and Living Digital. Currently, he is the founding editor for DARE, India’s first magazine on entrepreneurship and is also the CIO for the group. His blog at www.dare.co.in/blogs/krishna-kumar.htm covers issues relating to business, technology and entrepreneurship.


Narayanan Suresh, Group Editor, Life Sciences Group

Suresh, the Group Editor (Senior VP) of the Life Sciences Group handles the India and Singapore editions of BioSpectrum as a profit center. Suresh is involved in evangelising biotechnology in the region as a speaker at various industry meetings and educational institutions.

Prior to joining CyberMedia in 1997, Suresh was The Times of India’s first and only exclusive Science & Technology correspondent based in New Delhi. He has extensively chronicled India’s rising technology prowess.

A Masters in Physics and India’s one of the leading technology analyst, he is also a consulting editor for DATAQUEST and Voice & Data.


Pankaj Nath, Sr. Vice President, CyberMedia

Pankaj Nath, Sr. Vice President, CyberMedia India Limited heads CyberMedia Events & CyberMedia Digital Limited. He has over 18 years of professional experience in IT, Media, Media Services and Academics.


Prasanto Kumar Roy, President & Chief Editor, ICT Publishing Group

Prasanto Kumar Roy heads ten IT and telecom publications which includes both B2B and consumer.

A technology journalist and analyst for two decades, Roy, 41, studied physics at Delhi’s St Stephen’s College. He joined CyberMedia in 1990, and was responsible for pioneering projects such as Asia's first cover-mounted CDs, and the first publication-run product testing processes and labs.

He is deeply interested and involved with mobile technology and products, and on green technologies, driving CyberMedia’s three-year green evangelization program beginning 2008.

He lectures on a variety of technology and media related subjects.


Ram Capoor, President and CEO, Content Matrix, New York

Ram Capoor’s background uniquely combines both "Main Street" and "Wall Street" skills. He brings to Content Matrix experience as an entrepreneur and operator along with more than 20 years experience in a broad spectrum of arenas including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, investment banking, asset management, and corporate development. Much of his experience was gained at leading firms such as Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Deloitte. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Capoor received his MBA from the Fuqua School at Duke University.
 

Rachna Garga, Vice President

Have an experience of over 19 years in Sales and Marketing functions across various media brands of CyberMedia . A Physics Graduate from Hindu College, Delhi and an MBA with specialisation in Marketing from FMS, Udaipur.

Currently working as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. The current portfolio is Head of Publishing Services and Audience Marketing. The prime responsibility is to lead the marketing efforts for development of audience of all our media brands including their event management, circulation and printing services.

 

 
 
 
 
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