Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., graduated from Harvard College, Massachusetts. He returned to India in 1981 to join Mahindra Ugine Steel Company (MUSCO) and initiated the Mahindra Group's diversification into the new business areas of real estate development and hospitality management.

Harish is a leading legal expert on matters relating to taxation, property transactions and the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. He is a partner of D. M. Harish & Co, one of India's leading legal firms.

CEO & Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group. Media baron Aroon Purie wears various hats as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of post-independence India. He is the Founding Editor & Editor-in-Chief of India Today and CEO of the India Today Group. Additionally, he is also the MD of Thomson Press (India) Ltd. and CMD of the listed TV Today Network Ltd. In 2001 he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan.

Director IIT Mumbai. After graduating from IIT, Kanpur, he obtained a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts He was the Head of the Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering and a Visiting Scientist at the Monsanto Chemical Company in Springfield, Massachusetts. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and has published 70 times in international journals and been awarded 6 patents.

As the President of NASSCOM, Karnik works closely with the IT industry members and the Indian central and state governments for the advancement of this sector locally as well as internationally. Business Week recently named Mr. Karnik as one of the 'Stars of Asia'. He was also selected as Forbes Magazine's 'Face of the Year 2003' for being a driving force behind India's offshoring wave.

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Chairman of IndAsia Pvt. Ltd., Pradip Shah holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant and ranked first in India in the Chartered Accountancy Examination. Shah is the Ex-Managing Director of CRISIL, India's first and the largest credit rating agency. Prior to establishing CRISIL, he assisted in developing the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in 1977.

He received his BTech. from IIT, Kharagpur and his MS and PhD in Operation Research from the University of Berkeley, California. At McKinsey he led major strategy and organisation assignments for large international corporations. He left McKinsey in 1986 to invest in public market and private companies with George Soros. Purnendu then founded The Chatterjee Group (TCG), an affiliate of the New York based SFM.

Executive Director, Mukta Arts Ltd. Rahul Puri spent almost 3 years at UBS Warburg in London in corporate finance, working on international transactions worth up to US$10 billion. After moving to Mumbai in 2002, he joined Ambit Corporate Finance followed by Nimbus Communications. In 2003, he joined Mukta Arts Limited and has been involved in the development of the company and the production and release of numerous films.

CEO, Mukta Arts Ltd. Executive Director of Whistling Woods International. Ravi Gupta brings a wealth of media and corporate experience. He was the founding CEO of B4U, founding member of SRFTII, Managing Director of NFDC and has also been on the Governing Board of FTII. He has been closely associated with the production and distribution of over 150 films.

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of CRISIL, India's leading Ratings, Financial News, Risk and Policy Advisory Company. CRISIL is the fourth largest credit rating agency in the world and is majority owned by Standard & Poor's. He was recently featured among India's 50 most powerful people in India Today.