Presenters

  Craig Ferri

Managing Director
Palisade EMEA & India

Craig Ferri was promoted to Managing Director of Palisade Europe in 2005, having joined as sales and marketing director for the region in 2003. During that time the company has shown year on year growth. In addition to increasing brand awareness in EMEA and ensuring outstanding customer service, Craig’s helm at Palisade EMEA has seen the company continue to expand throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and more recently into India. Craig built up nine years’ experience of sales and marketing roles in niche technology sectors prior to working at Palisade. Key positions included global marketing director at software company Infomax Incorporated, and European marcomms manager at networking company Anixter. Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Marketing, and an MBA.

  Aman Bajaj

Regional Sales & Business Development Manager – India
Palisade Corporation

Aman joined Palisade towards the end of 2012 with a focus on growing the business for Palisade software and training services in India. During the last two years, Palisade has had considerable success in terms of winning new key customers on both the academic and industry side of the business in India. Aman holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Gulbarga University and also completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Capital and Financial Markets from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. Having passed CFA Level 1 in 2010, he is also studying towards the next level of this certification.

  Hitanshu Gandhi

Associate Partner
Strategic Decisions Group

Hitanshu, has a decade of experience spanning “blue sky” strategy engagements, evaluation of significant investment opportunities, program management of large & long-gestation investments and organizational re-structuring. He has worked across uncertain sectors like infrastructure, oil & gas where clients need to place “big bets”. As a decision analysis expert he has worked extensively with O&G majors including independents and NOCs, and has trained their staff in SDG's Decision Quality processes and tools.

  Chakradhar Iyyunni

Faculty
L&T Institute of Project Management

With 24+ years of academic & industrial research experience in oil & gas, energy utilities & aerospace industries and an earned Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Chakradhar Iyyunni conducts research on risk and decision-making. His goal is to create best practices by understanding experiential aspects of current projects. Grounded in optimization theory and nonlinear modeling, he believes that scientific, systematic and innovative project management techniques will lead to successful project execution. The focus on project control can be affected by scope or risk models, queuing theory-based scheduling concepts, communication protocols and managing people effectively.

  Vishwanath Mahendra

Appointed Actuary and Chief Risk Officer
Apollo Munich Health Insurance

Vishwanath Mahendra is working as Appointed Actuary and Chief Risk Officer. He is also member of the Executive Committee. He is associated with Apollo Munich since 2008. He has been instrumental in setting up actuarial and analytics functions in the Company.

He has over 20 years of experience in Actuarial and Finance domain in some of the best known companies.

He is an Associate Member of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Associate Member of Institute of Actuaries, UK and Fellow Member of Institute of Actuaries of India with specialisation in Health and Care Insurance. He is also working as the Chairman of Advisory Group on Health & Care Insurance of Institute of Actuaries of India.

Vishwanath is married and has two sons.

  Viswanathan M.B.

Founder
Money Shastra

Viswanathan is a Chartered Account with c.11 years of experience in a wide variety of roles including financial planning, corporate finance, equity research, consulting and teaching. He founded MoneyShastra.com an upcoming online portal that provides interesting tools and insights to retail investors. He also teaches corporate finance, risk management and financial engineering at various B-schools and institutes. Viswanathan holds FCA, CFA and FRM designations and is currently pursuing the actuary program.

  Dr. Pankaj Sinha

Professor
Delhi University

Dr. Pankaj Sinha is a senior Professor at Faculty of Management Studies. He received his Ph.D. degree in Bayesian Econometrics from the University of Delhi. Dr. Sinha’s research, professional and teaching interests revolve around the areas of Bayesian econometrics, financial forecasting, financial engineering, financial mathematics, financial risk management, investment analysis and computational finance. He has published papers in leading international academic journals as well as in international conferences.

He teaches financial modeling and forecasting, financial derivatives and financial engineering, quantitative analysis of financial decisions, financial risk management and Statistics to students of MBA at Faculty of Management Studies. He teaches Quantitative Economics to probationers of Indian Economics Service at Institute of Economic Growth.

Over the years, he has delivered lectures on Financial Risk Management, Financial Econometrics, computational finance, advanced quantitative methods, and advanced forecasting in India, USA and Europe. He has been regularly invited as a key speaker at IIM Lucknow, MDI, Gurgaon, National Labour Institute, National Academy of Customs Excise & Narcotics, National Academy of Direct Taxes, GAIL and National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science. Dr. Sinha also has expertise in the area of Bayesian evaluation of forensic evidence and Probability of guilt. He is associated with the various training programmes for higher judicial officers, forensic scientists and police officers conducted by NICFSc, Ministry of Home Affairs.