On Target 2010 - PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter

Maj Gen Shashikant Pitre was commissioned into Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army in 1962. During his chequered service spanning 36 years, he has served on all the active borders of India. He has participated in the 1965 and 1971 wars and the IPKF operations in Sri Lanka during 1987- 90. He retired from the Army in 1998 after serving in senior command and staff positions.
General Pitre has been a prolific writer. His columns appear widely in Marathi dailies on military matters. He has also authored a book on the Kashmir Imbroglio, titled “Domel Te Kargil” in Marathi, which was adjudged as the best book of 2001 by Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad, a prime literary forum. General Pitre is the founder chairman of NGO HORIZON dedicated to humanitarian demining. The NGO has worked in Sri Lanka and in Jordan since 2003. The General is a Trustee of Queen Mary Technical Institute for disabled soldiers. He also works for few other social organization like Vidyarthi Sahayal Samiti and Lokhande Charitable Trust.

mahitaward_ashish08 Ashish Kulkarni (Reliance Media Animation)Ashish Kulkarni is known to be the most colorful personality in the animation industry, this side of Hollywood. He has set up world class animation studios in India and has successfully completed and marketed several animation films for studios in Hollywood over the last nine years. The latest feather in Ashish’s cap came in the form of award-winning ‘Little Krishna’, the first high-end 3D TV Series out of BIG Animation, the company headed by Ashish, which is embellishing the Indian TV Screens. ‘Little Krishna’ is the first-ever Animation content produced out of India being beamed through Nickelodeon (India), leading Kids Entertainment Channel. A man who quintessentially understands the medium, Ashish can identify the need of any Hollywood producer, infuse creativity into his creative team and deliver world-class animation.

Satish Diwanji Program Manager for the Bandra-Worli Sea Link project with HCC Ltd.
"Bandra Worli Sea Link Bridge with its majestic pylon towers is poised to make a glorious contribution to signature structures of Mumbai. The hitherto un-chartered journey towards its successful culmination is replete with examples of triumph of indomitable will and innovative spirit to overcome daunting challenges caused by structuring problems, seasonal difficulties, construction and technical impediments and we had to devise ingenious methods are devised to get around and over come all these hurdles and successfully execute this prestigious and eagerly awaited project. It was awarded the ?Golden Peacock Award? for safety, health and environment.

Prabhu K B Barclays Technologies Centre India Private Limited (BTCI).

Prabhu comes with 18 years of rich experience in Banking & Investment Banking operations, Project/Programme Management and Support & Service Management. Started his Career with Southern Railways in the year 1990 moving on to Banking with Karur Vysya Bank. In 1993 he moved to Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCIL). He did Business consultancy in the Custody Product of Deutsche Software Ltd (DSL), now part of HCL. In 2002, he moved to Standard Chartered Bank's IT arm, International Software Centre India (ISCI), a division within Scope International, wherein he headed the Application Support & Development function by transitioning it from Singapore to Chennai. Lead and managed the products on a real time 24*7 basis for 13 countries across the globe. Set up the In house core Banking Change Management stream that manages all Application changes. He is currently managing Application Support in Barclays Technology Centre, and has been instrumental in setting up the Application Support and played a major role in institutionalising the Barclays Support process/methodologies within the Emerging Markets group

Dr. Narendra Gore

Narendra has been working in designing IT strategies and architectures those yield cost effective business solutions. Narendra has a strong background in creating roadmaps, strategies and service oriented architectures (SOA) using leading edge technologies coupled with tactical business planning.
Narendra works as the SOA Solutions Lead in IBM, India. Previously, he has worked as a CIO for the US unit of a European Automotive company. His experience also includes working as a Senior Director at Fujitsu Consulting Inc, and Senior Manager at BearingPoint in USA.
Narendra received 2 national awards from Department of Science and Technology, India at National Science Congresses held in Goa (1993) and Jaipur (1994).

Mr. Vikas Dikshit
Mr. Dikshit has done extensive research in the field of mind sciences, psychology and the behavior modification techniques. He has conducted many Workshops and Seminars on various topics to bring about holistic & significant improvements in professional and personal lives of people. He works to apply and research latest developments in the field of mind sciences, psychology and behavior modification techniques, to bring about holistic & significant improvements in professional and personal lives of people.

Satyadeep Mishra(Head of HR for Barclays Technology Centre India) Topic:“Employee Engagement – What is it and how to get it?"