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Alex Moazed is the CEO of Applico, the advisory firm for platform innovation. After founding the company using credit cards in college, he now advises Fortune 500 companies and startups on building platform businesses and has developed nearly 400 mobile apps.

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Alex Lyashok oversees WorkFusion’s Sales and Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, Finance and People Operations functions. Prior to joining WorkFusion, Alex was Head of Global Operations at EPAM, NYSE-listed software product development services firm. He was responsible for Strategy, Marketing, and EPAM’s operations globally. Alex joined EPAM in 2009 when EPAM acquired Rodmon Systems, a media industry services company Alex co-founded. Prior to his Operations role, he was EPAM's CTO and was responsible for EPAM’s business in the Media industry. Alex has been in consulting industry since 1997. His experience ranges from helping build network operation support systems for national telecommunications carriers in the United States to advising the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on its global initiative in Africa and Latin America. Alex received his MS and BS degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and has an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.

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Anita Ganti is the Senior Vice President & Global Head of Wipro’s Product Engineering Services (PES). Her diverse experience in leading technology firms has given Anita a deep appreciation of the limitless possibilities that technology can create for global businesses. Drawing on her expertise in identifying the “unseen” trends, building strong teams and running large engineering operations, Anita has successfully executed some of the most complex projects in her career spanning two decades.

Prior to joining Wipro, Anita was Vice-President of Global Technology at Flextronics. Previously as the Business Head of the Precision Signal Path Division at Texas Instruments, Anita managed diverse teams ranging from product design and applications to testing and quality assurance across multiple engineering centers in USA, Europe, India and China.

The Product Engineering Service Line enables product engineering platforms for the future, through innovation, while leading today’s constrained products into a world of ubiquitous connectivity. Anita passionately believes that new age digital technologies will alter the very definition of a product and empower companies to solve their business challenges and transcend new boundaries. Anita holds a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from VJTI Mumbai, and a MSEE from Virginia Tech.

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Manish is Senior Vice President, Global Innovation, Pitney Bowes Inc., he is responsible for establishing and managing the complete range of operations in R&D for Pitney Bowes in various locations across the world including India, where he is also the Managing Director.

Manish is a strategic and a results oriented executive, with a proven track record of driving organizational change. He is a member of the Pitney Bowes Global Operations team, and is responsible for driving innovation and high growth initiatives for the company’s technology portfolio and bringing PB software product lines to global market.  

Manish has been instrumental in growing the company’s R&D strength substantially by leading global technology teams to deliver consistently on value and innovation. He started India R&D operations in 2007 that is 800 + strong today and one of the best technology companies in India. He is also focused on driving forward high-potential growth areas such as Global Ecommerce in the India market. 

Manish is a frontrunner for Diversity & Inclusion, having spent considerable time and resources on building a diversified and vibrant workforce. Under his leadership, Pitney Bowes has been lauded for its unique diversity initiatives and programs in India. Manish is also focused on encouraging the start-up ecosystem in India and launched the Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program, a start-up incubator that provides mentorship to innovative IT start-ups since 2014. He serves on the advisory board of a few startups along with serving as the founding member of Catalyst India (founding member along with TK Kurien as chair) He is also Chair- IT, Delhi Management Association, a core member of NASSCOM Regional Council, India CEO Forum, Indo- US Chamber of Commerce, European Union Chamber of Commerce, TiE and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

He has been consistently recognized for his excellent leadership, talent development, strategic business acumen, and industry knowledge across the corporation and externally. He is passionate about innovation, building new businesses and connecting with & developing people.

Manish completed his MBA from Anderson School of Management, UCLA and Harvard Business School, he also has a degree in Architecture.