NASSCOM EMERGE Community Catalyst for Growth of Emerging & Start-Up companies

 Ashim will be covering these topics

1. The SME conundrum - opportunities and constraints
2. Marketing to SMEs
3. Marketing by SMEs
4. Customer preferences and product management challenges
5. Unearthing opportunities
6. Customer relationship imperatives

Raghunandan - CEO, Athena Info Consulting is a Graduate from B.Tech from Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University and a Post Graduated from IIM, Bangalore. From a Programmer Analyst with Tata Burroughs Limited in 1986, he moved on to TVS Electronics Limited and to MicroLand Limited, Bangalore in 1990 holding diverse positions. In 1994 he was assigned as the Country Manager for Seiko Epson Corp. Chennai. In 1996 he was the Promoter, Managing Director & CEO - Servion^t Global Solutions Ltd., Chennai, Then in 2004 Strategic Investor and CEO of Indium Software India Limited. Raghunandan is an active speaker at different forums and associations.

Ashim Bose is the co-founder of The Aktion Group. He helps companies create customer inspired initiatives, and sharpen and institutionalize their ability to execute with distinction. He was most recently the Director -Global Alliances at EMC India managing EMC's 360 degree worldwide alliances with Indian System Integrators. Earlier, at Oracle India, he managed strategic alliances, platform alliances, and managed Enterprise Application sales channels. Prior to that, he was associated with Tata Consultancy Services, as a Manufacturing Consultant, and had executed consulting assignments with various Indian corporate entities, and at Management Sciences America, Dun & Bradstreet Software, IBM, and HP Intercontinental Operations in the USA. Ashim has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the IIM, Lucknow, and undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecom Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Bhopal.