Gary Cohen

As president and co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is managing partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book is Just Ask Leadership – Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

Shawn Parr

Shawn Parr is the CEO of Bulldog Drummond, a design and innovation consultancy headquartered in San Diego whose clients include Starbucks, Adidas, MTV, Nestle, Pinkberry, Virgin, Disney, Nike, Westfield, NESTLE, Pepsi, Jack in the Box, and American Eagle Outfitters. He is also part of a VC firm and invests both financial resources and marketing and brand-building expertise into such startups as Honest Kitchen, CleanWell, Jedidiah Clothing, The Glue Network and THREAD Show.

Eunice Nyandat

Eunice Nyandat is the founder of The Errand Manager, a lifestyle management company for professional and entrepreneurial women. She holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology and a MBA in marketing and management. She has held positions in network security, product management, and information technology security with Fortune 500 corporations. Eunice actively volunteers with several nonprofit organizations whose mission is to help children and women, and she is currently on membership committee for Women in the Boardroom Atlanta and a liaison ambassador for Africa in the 1M/1M Initiative. A technology enthusiast, she loves to read.

Hema Kalsha

Hema Kalsha is the technical director and owner of Titanium Studios, a company focused on creative and exclusive digital media content development. In the recent past she has worked as technical architect. She is a public speaker and has participated in Microsoft webcasts and co-written technical books.

Mark Yacano

Mark Yacano is executive vice president of Hudson Legal, where he leads the legal staffing and discovery solutions business in North America. Before joining Hudson, Mark founded the Discovery Solutions practice at Wright, Robinson, Osthimer and Tatum, one of the first law firms in the U.S. to develop a specialized document review and discovery practice. Under his leadership, that business grew steadily year-over-year until Wright Robinson merged with LeClairRyan in 2008. Post-merger, Mark continued to head the Discovery Solutions team, providing Fortune 1000 corporate clients with discovery-related representation and advice focused on the effective management of large-scale document and electronic discovery projects for litigation, government investigations, and other legal engagements. Mark holds a juris doctorate from Washington & Lee University School of Law and is a member of the Virginia State Bar.

Prashant Sachdev

Prashant Sachdev is the founder of onion.tv, which works toward enhancing the media playback experience by integrating video with range of relevant information. He began his entrepreneurial studies at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India and later completed MBA in entrepreneurship from Babson College with a focus on managing technology-intensive enterprises. He did his undergraduate work in computer engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology.

Previously, he worked with Kenati Technologies, which was later acquired by 2Wire Inc, and consulted a couple of multinational companies and startups. He is passionate about digital media, TV, and embedded devices. He is an active member of TIE and Net Impact and currently leads Net Impact Pune. His long-term vision is to promote entrepreneurship, and he has begun his efforts by setting up the Open Library for Entrepreneurship Development.

Praveen Karoshi

Having spent the past decade amid the Internet transformation and being associated with the global mobile/telecom revolution, Praveen Karoshi finds himself at the intersection of Internet and mobile with unlimited opportunities. In the sphere of emerging-to-emerged markets, where the challenges and growth potential are exhilarating, he has been keeping a bird’s-eye view as a startup watchdog and a social collaboration enthusiast, gaining insights into business models and trend spotting. He has studied, worked, or traveled in North America, Europe, and East and Southeast Asia and is currently based in Bangalore. Find him on Twitter @https://twitter.com/pkaroshi, and for a professional profile on LinkedIn, access https://in.linkedin.com/in/praveenkaroshi. His personal site is https://www.pkfactor.com. [Disclaimer: The writings and views are his own and are not in any way related to his employer(s) present or past or any third party.]

Sudhindra Chada

Sudhindra Chada is an MBA candidate at Boston University School of Management. He previously worked as a project manager with Tata Consultancy Services in Bangalore, India, and Seattle, Washington. He also has experience working with IBM and as a business development manager at Daulatguru.com, a Web 2.0 startup. He is passionate about IT strategy consulting.