Animesh is an ambitious and business savvy technology professional with an eventful career of over two decades in India and North America. His experience is studded with professional excellence, predominantly in the areas of program management, pre-sales, Greenfield project management, client servicing, managing multi-national businesses, and communication management.

He also has commendable experience in propelling sales, marketing, general administration and business leadership with primary focus on strategy formulation, profit and loss management, business acquisition, operations, budget development/implementation, market research, team leadership and brainstorming. Animesh is well known for rolling out innovative strategies to transform business units to globally competitive business ventures.

At AGC, Animesh blends leadership skills with sound business practices to achieve turn around growth and position the organization for long-term profitability. He is also responsible for developing high-value revenue and profit plans and creating an ethical sales model using vast knowledge of both the market and the capabilities of the product.

He is a prolific relationship builder, deft in steering PAN India Sales, and managing strategic alliances with major business partners, distributors, OEMs, system integrators and global/local strategic partners. In the future, he aims at steering the company towards unprecedented revenue growth for FY 13.

Arvind Gautam brings with him over 21 years of professional experience from large and successful organisations like Wipro Limited, 3D Networks Private Limited, Global Telesystems Limited, and Datamatics Limited. As head of emerging business and practices for AGC Networks Limited, he is responsible for strengthening practices to enable AGC's growth.

Arvind has a unique management style, connecting well with strong team players as well as customers. He does this in order to keep close to the eco-system. He has extensive experience in leading teams for sales, technology, business development and support across range of products. His strong verifiable track record consists of bridging technology and executing projects to provide business solutions and accomplish business goals. He is a result-oriented professional, recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving mission critical issues to ensure bottom line success.

Arvind has also been a notable part of creating many success stories and establishing new businesses. In his last assignment with Wipro InfoTech, he successfully helped Wipro build a large ITS solutions business and structure large telecom deals in contact center technology. Prior to working with Wipro he has been part of 3D Networks as a founding member and has been instrumental in building 3D Networks as the largest SI in the contact center space till it got acquired by Wipro Limited in 2006.

He holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering and a Post Graduate in General Management for IT professionals from IIM Kolkata.

He has formerly served as President and CEO of XETA Technologies, sold to PAETEC in May 2011 (now Windstream). After he was appointed CEO in June 2007, XETA garnered numerous customer wins, completed multiple acquisitions (including four in FY2010), and attained the highest partner certifications with the communications industry's largest providers while enjoying steady financial performance. While serving on XETA's Board of Directors, he led the company's executive team in its continued development of a converged voice and data communications portfolio. He also served as Director of Sales for XETA's Seattle branch following its acquisition of Blackjack.

His visionary leadership, global perspective and entrepreneurial drive has allowed him to found and operate several fast-growing companies in the textile, commercial facilities and communications industries, including Blackjack Systems, LLC, which was acquired by XETA in 2004.

While serving in CEO positions with both public and private companies, Mr. Forrest's transformational leadership has facilitated organizational and cultural changes that promoted financial growth, compensation and improved performance.

Mahua Mukherjee has over 20 years of HR management experience, of which more than 10 years have been in a senior HR leadership role with a strategic, operational and country-wide focus. She is responsible for driving strategic HR planning and implementations, partnering with business leaders to align people strategy as per changing business needs, developing and executing specific programs to improve employee engagement levels.

Mahua holds extensive experience in IT, Telecom and Service Industries. She has been associated with multinational and large organizations such as Capgemini and Reliance Infocomm, an organization with a global presence across Europe, North America, Middle-East and Asia Pacific regions, and an employee strength of over 60,000.

In her last stint as Associate Director(HR) with Capgemini she led the India strategic business unit as Head of talent management and was responsible for evolving and implementing numerous talent management initiatives to create an engaged work force aligned with organizational goals. Additionally, she also headed the HR operations of the nordic and central Europe business unit.

She has expertise in formulating HR strategy, competency and capability building practices and retention strategies and initiatives. She specializes in directing and leading the full spectrum of strategic and operational human resources activities and processes with a keen focus on business model pyramid, manpower planning, succession planning and performance management.

Mahua holds an MBA in Personnel Management and HR.

Pravin has a total of over 16 years of experience in system integration, remote managed services, and enterprise communication solutions in the IT industry. Being in charge of the service delivery function the various activities undertaken are projects, upgrades, support and other related activities. This team enables overall customer experience and ensures to strive for highest customer satisfaction. It also believes in multi-skilling of and right skilling of resources to address any customer requirements.

Prior to AGC, he has worked with Wipro Networks as the Head of Service Delivery, handling services across India, MEA. He has been responsible for overall customer satisfaction, acquisition of new logos, multi-skilling of resources, smooth execution of projects and support to other geographies. He prefers team members who are honest with a positive attitude.

Pravin holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering.

Raguram comes with over 19 years of industry experience in the field of enterprise - IT, ITES, Networking and Telecom.

Raguram has successfully handled multi-faceted roles in sales, business development, customer service, technology consulting, as an SBU head and also as a CIO/IT Head. Some of his earlier roles include Managing Director and consulting practice leader for APAC at Avaya. He has also been consulting practice leader at Nortel Networks for APAC, ME and Africa.

As Director (Managed Services), in Nortel Networks India, his responsibilities included managing one of the biggest enterprise accounts in India for the contact center managed services and solutions portfolio.

As VP (Business Excellence and Migrations) in E2E Serwiz Solutions (a Tata BPO) he was responsible for the migrations/transitions, process standardization and improvement functions and was also in charge of information security, and driving special projects on process automation and application integration. This included implementation of SAP and also managing BCP planning for the organization. Raguram has also been CIO/IT head in E2E Serwiz Solutions where he was instrumental in setting up the delivery centers, designing the enterprise application architecture with in-house applications development team, driving ISMS (BS7799) certification of the centers and running IT operations.

He has played a successful role as sales/project prime for over 150 enterprise voice projects on Nortel solutions, and also as a consultant/project prime for more than 45 international contact center projects.

Raguram is an MBA gold medalist with dual specialization in marketing and systems and an engineering graduate (Electronics and Telecom).

Mr. Sanjay Ahuja heads the Middle East and Africa region at AGC Networks wherein he is responsible for delivering AGC Networks growth in the region.

Mr. Ahuja's rich career spans 18 years of working in reputed organizations like Avaya, Nortel, Aspect and Wipro in areas ranging from Sales & Channels to Operations & Product Management. He has led several teams across verticals like Telecom, Finance and Global Accounts. His domain experience in key verticals like Telecom and Finance has helped grown highly profitable business.

Sanjay's skill at building and nurturing strong client relationships, both in India and overseas, is widely acknowledged. His rich experience in managed services along with analytical skills in managing complex business models has helped him win many businesses.

Prior to joining AGC Networks he worked as Director Sales at Avaya. Mr. Ahuja is graduated in Engineering and Masters in Management from Mumbai University.

At leisure, Mr. Ahuja enjoys adventure sports, reading books and travelling.

Sreeharsha Subbanna has over 15 years of experience in key leadership positions in organizations in the Information Technology and services sector. In his current role he is responsible for driving the Managed Services Business Unit globally across all the regions of AGC's presence.

He is a seasoned management professional with experience in working in large companies as well as in small start-ups. He has previously worked with companies like Wipro, 3D Networks, GTL Limited and Parsec Technologies, as well as having started niche entrepreneurial start-ups like Momenta(WISL) Info services which was bought by a mid-sized South East Asian Information Technology Group in 2010. Sreeharsha has experience in successful mergers and acquisitions.

Sreeharsha also has vast experience around and across technology services in infrastructure solutions, enterprise applications, customer interaction management solutions, information management solutions and services (business analytics and enterprise intelligence), cloud computing and strategic outsourcing. He has earlier led subsidiaries and global business units across India, Middle-East, North America and South-East Asia.

Sreeharsha holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Kuvempu University and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is strong believer of collaborative institutional creation and development and is involved with NGOs contributing to the education and knowledge sector.

Subir has over 22 years of experience in Technology Design and Consulting, Technical Sales, Marketing and Product Management with a number of organizations. He is currently the Vice President and Global Head of solutions and leads a team of technology/solution consultants for areas like Unified Communications and Collaboration, Contact Centers, Customer Experience Applications, Network Infrastructure.

Over the course of his career, Subir has worked with organizations like Lucent Technologies (now Avaya), Nortel (also now Avaya) and Wipro Networks primarily in the Contact Center, Self Service, Unified Communications, Networking and CRM domain.

He has been at the forefront of new technology and business initiatives for the Indian market by contributing to the launch of the Self Service portfolio. He has also played a significant role in the development and introduction of new solutions /technologies addressing the Indian market.

Some of his achievements include innovating, conceiving and developing a service provider network based call routing solution to address rural contact center requirements. He has conceived, consulted for and designed the contact center strategy comprising multiple world class technologies for the largest mobile service provider in India. He has also been at the helm of the innovation and development of an analytics solution to address the contact center industry. His accomplishments also include setting up and developing Nortel (now Avaya's) Self Service portfolio (IVR) products and their contact center portfolio in India.

Subir's key strengths lie in technical consulting, solutions architecting, linking ICT to business needs, new product/solutions development, product marketing and strategy and people development.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering.

Vikram is a seasoned technical leader with over 25 years of broad and wide-ranging experience of the IT function in MRO, IT/ ITeS and telecom domains. He has managed high transaction volume applications and business processes, large scale end user IT services, data centres, multi layered IT security and IT operations. He has a track record of delivering results through technical innovation and strategic planning with demonstrated skills in financial management, contract negotiation, project management and leading large dispersed teams.

His experience includes tenures with the Indian Navy during which he had the privilege of serving on-board India's aircraft carriers INS Vikrant and Viraat; with the Naval Dockyard , Mumbai, and Defence Machinery Design Establishment, Secunderabad. Therefater he has had tenures with Virtusa in Hyderabad and Reliance Communications at Navi Mumbai.

Vikram holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from IIT Powai.

Vikram loves travelling and has enjoyed driving holidays in India and other parts of the world. He also enjoys adventure sports of various kinds and has experienced the sheer terror of jumping out of a plane at 10,000 feet and equally scary jumping off a 500 feet high cliff with a paraglider which he was required to pilot after launch. He has also had the pleasure of admiring the rich underwater beauty whilst scuba diving.

Amongst his many pithy one liners his favourite is Work Less, Produce More.