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Drawing from over a decade of experience at leading technology firms, including Google and Apple, Chris Heemskerk showcases his vision on corporate innovation by heading The Innovation Alliance, a global network of tech executives and innovation leaders.

As former Head of Scaled Acquisitions for Google in North America, Chris transformed his business operation into a global center for innovation and operational excellence. Hence, he was asked to serve as an advisor to Google's Innovation Lab and established a partnership with Harvard Business School to document the lab’s endeavors in two HBS Case Studies, in which he proudly features. In pursuit of providing organizations the necessary resources to innovate consistently, he authored The Innovation Scorecard, a comprehensive framework that enables firms to maximize their innovation capabilities and discover new growth opportunities. He’s been a sought-after innovation speaker and workshop facilitator internally at Google, including his upcoming external feature at the Arizona Technology Council's CEO Summit of 2023, co-chaired by HoneyWell and Intel.

Chris's educational journey is rooted in his passion for lifelong learning. He holds Executive Degrees in Innovation Leadership from Harvard Business School (HBS) and acquired sponsorship to attend the HBS High Potential Leadership Program of 2019. He’s certified in Design Thinking at Stanford University and holds an MSc in Marketing from the London School of Business and Finance.

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T. Koshy is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ONDC, a pioneering company established to revolutionize India’s e-commerce sector by fostering broad-based participation from buyers and sellers nationwide. With a track record of driving transformative digital solutions to address large-scale challenges, Koshy has been at the forefront of multiple high-impact initiatives.

Prior to his current role, he served as Senior Partner at Ernst & Young (India) in the Government & Public Sector Practice, where he led key consulting efforts in identity management, social protection, digital service delivery, health, education, and public finance. His contributions have been instrumental in shaping major national projects like Aadhaar, the Vaccine Intelligence Network, the National Digital Education Platform, GSTN, and Co-WIN. Additionally, Koshy has supported various global initiatives funded by organizations such as the World Bank and ADB, particularly in the areas of identity and social protection.

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As the leader for Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions in India, Dhanniya Venkatasalapathy is responsible for empowering Cloud Adoption and Digital Transformation by engaging with customers and partners to envision and architect their digital growth strategy.

She leads a team of Cloud Specialists & Technical Evangelists with diverse capabilities across Microsoft's six Solution Areas: Azure Infrastructure, Data & AI, Azure Applications, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Security Solutions, as well as Lifetime Support Offerings.

A Microsoft veteran for 15 years, Dhanniya has held a variety of roles across Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector, focusing on Business management, Partner Marketing, Channel Management, Operations and New business initiatives and has won numerous awards such as “Circle of Excellence” and Best People Manager award in each of the “Model, Coach, Care” categories.

Having worked with organizations such as NIIT, Computer Associates, Satyam, and Microsoft, she brings in 27 years of proven expertise in building teams with a learning culture, ability to create clarity amidst ambiguity, strong execution rigor and creating an atmosphere to collaborate for success.

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Paul is a senior executive with over 30 years’ experience in Technology roles. The majority of his more recent experience has been in financial services at leading companies including CBA, JP Morgan Chase, Macquarie Group and Black Rock. He spent 10 years prior to that at IBM.

Paul’s career commenced in a programming role before moving through analysis, project management, testing, IT services, strategic management, product development and marketing, including major program management. He then took up leadership roles of application development and technology infrastructure teams, through to full technology services teams. He has held executive level Technology roles for the last 20 years.

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Simon has been with Capital One for the past 13 years. He is currently UK CIO.

In the past he has held roles such as VP Customer Strategy, Sr. Director Customer Strategy, Director of Product Strategy, Head of Product Strategy, Product Manager, Senior Strategy Analyst and Strategy Analyst.

He did his Master’s degree in Mathematics from University of Nottingham in 2010.

He also does volunteer work with Friends International.

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In his role as an entrepreneur and techno-business executive spanning over two decades, Balaji has driven Mobile and Digital Innovation for a diverse range of customers, from large enterprises to small businesses. His expertise centers on Enterprise Mobility, Virtual Assistants, AI, and Blockchain technologies, where he has applied these tools to solve real-world business challenges and transform market engagement.

Currently, he is leading innovations in Payer-focused Healthcare technologies, leveraging LLM-AI solutions. He is responsible for shaping product and innovation strategies, developing roadmaps that incorporate enterprise blockchain, AI/NLP, and machine learning, while overseeing product and program delivery.

Balaji holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Engineering in India.

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Krishna Sudheendra serves as Chief Executive Officer of UST. With more than 25 years of experience leading high-growth organizations, Krishna is responsible for growing global technology businesses at scale and creating stakeholder value.

He works closely with customers and his teams to drive the company’s transformation to a digital leader by building strong industry consulting practices, innovative technology solutions and proprietary platforms. Krishna strongly advocates a customer-first strategy and solving customers’ business problems applying technology and industry expertise.

Krishna believes in servant leadership and consistently empowers and enables his teams to be entrepreneurs. He actively promotes UST’s values of Humility, Humanity and Integrity and firmly believes that a purpose-driven organization nourishes the success of a dynamic technology organization where change is constant.

Krishna advocates development of communities around UST’s businesses, promoting programs like Step it Up and Impact India. He is a champion of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and believes that collaboration is central for growth.

He is focused on building UST as a strong digital brand with investors, external parties, customers, and prospective employees.

Krishna holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Bangalore University. He holds CPA Certificate from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

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As UST's Chief Operating Officer, Manu Gopinath is responsible for leading the company's business operations, executing UST's business strategy, and ensuring operational excellence company-wide. He is responsible for client and partner relationships and new business development for UST across North America, Spain, and Latin America.

In addition to his role as COO, Manu, who is passionate about building innovative & high-performance environments, also owns UST's global people practices, including employee experience, talent acquisition, talent, workforce management, and talent platforms.

Since the inception of UST in 1999, Manu has partnered with associates across the globe to co-create change and transformation and aligned our workforce to UST's mission of "transforming lives" for its customers, partners, and the communities we operate.

Manu earned his bachelor's degree in bachelor of technology in Mechanical Engineering from India.

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Niranjan Ramsunder is UST's Chief Technology Officer and Head of Data Services. In his role, Niranjan drives technical innovation and integrates best in class agile methodologies, DevOps, test automation, and cloud development to meet customers’ most challenging business needs. As Head of Data Services, he helps large clients transform into data-driven organizations and drive effective business solutions, from data ingestion to advanced analytics.

Before his appointment as CTO, Niranjan was Global Head of Solutions responsible for identifying and delivering IT solutions across industry verticals, with a focus on the healthcare space. He joined UST in 2006 and served as Director of Technical Services overseeing pre-sales for client prospects in London. From 1997 to 2006, Niranjan was Vice President for Ness Global Services and served as Managing Consultant with Coopers & Lybrand. He began his career in the Indian Railways Service as an Engineer.

His work is instrumental in helping clients leverage cutting-edge big data engineering and analytics while ensuring strong data governance, security, and stewardship. Niranjan is also responsible for the success of key UST portfolio companies, all of which bring unique, specialized competencies.

Niranjan is a graduate from the Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Research And Systems from the Indian Institute of Management.

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As Chief Solutions Architect, Andy works closely with UST clients, executives, and other stakeholders to conceptualize and design high-performance, modern IT architectures, products, and applications that address business challenges, improve outcomes, and enhance customer experiences.

Formerly, Andy held various IT management positions at Athene USA, Submittal Exchange, and Briggs Medical Supply Company.

With a background in application development and a BS in MIS from Morningside University, Andy also served as an Application Development Team Lead at Aviva Investors.

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As UST’s Head of Data Engineering, Sripathi helps clients define and implement their data strategy; design, and develop scalable data platforms, best practices, select tools, and establish centers of engineering excellence. Sri works closely with UST’s client stakeholders, leveraging an ecosystem of partners and products in delivering high value solutions to clients’ business challenges.

In addition, Sri leads the development of UST IQ, an “ingestion to insights” platform that expedites the development of data heavy use cases.

Sri has a master’s in computer applications, from the University of Madras and post graduate certifications in computer science, programming, and application development. Prior to heading the Data Engineering practice, Sri designed and developed systems and applications that addressed key business challenges of some of the largest businesses in the world.

Sri has been with UST for nearly 24 years and worked with clients across industries, including Healthcare, Retail and BFS.

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