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Honourable Minister Shri. K. T. Rama Rao
Sri. Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, the Cabinet Minister for IT E&C, MA&UD and Industries & Commerce Departments, is a legislator from Sircilla Assembly Constituency
Honourable Minister Shri. K. T. Rama Rao
Government of Telangana
GUEST OF HONOUR

Shri. Jayesh Ranjan
Mr. Jayesh Ranjan is a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the 1992 batch and working in the state of Telangana.
Shri. Jayesh Ranjan
Commerce, and Information Technology,
Government of Telangana
GUEST OF HONOUR

Anil Yendluri
An IPS officer for 20 years and a visionary leader who made significant contribution since the inception of the port, Anil has achieved a remarkable milestone of being inducted into the LIMCA Book of Records in 2013 with the Krishnapatnam Port. A Master’s Degree in Science, followed by an MBA and a Law Degree, his current academic focus is in pursuing a PhD. He has also won numerous awards over the years including a) The prestigious President’s Police Medal as an IPS Officer, b) The Golden Peacock for KPCL in 2015, as Director & CEO of Krishnapatnam Port, and c) CSR EXCELLENCE OF THE YEAR by Gateway Awards in 2016, as Director & CEO of Krishnapatnam Port, to name a few.
Anil Yendluri
Managing Director,
Vishwa Samudra Engineering
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Vandana Aggarwal
Vandana Aggarwal is currently Chairperson of the IFSCA Committee on Ship Acquisition, Financing, and Leasing. In her previous assignment, she worked with the Ministry of Civil Aviation, GOI as the Senior Economic Advisor.
Vandana Aggarwal
Chairperson – IFSCA Committee
on Ship Acquisition, Financing
and Leasing

Halit Tuncer
Halit Tuncer is a computer engineering graduate. He spent five years with the most prestigious event management company in Turkey before he joined Turkish Airlines. After being a part of the project team responsible for migration from legacy Crew Planning software he used his experience for the similar project of Turkish Cargo. He was based in Dubai as Regional Sales Manager for the MESA region between 2013 – 2020. He is the Regional Director for South Asia as of March 2020. He distinguishes himself by optimizing sales and increasing market share and profits using his IT background.
Halit Tuncer
Cargo Director – South Asia
Turkish Cargo

Ankit Jhanwar
Ankit Jhanwar

Ravi Kumar Tummalapalli
Ravi Kumar Tummalapalli
MD – India-
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Dr. MJ Khan
A well-known face in political and agriculture arena, Dr. MJ Khan has made noticeable contributions to the Indian and global food and agriculture sector. Dr. Khan graduated in agriculture from Meerut University, post graduated in business management from AMU Aligarh and obtained Ph.D in agri-business management from Prescott University, UK. During his two and half decades-long career, Dr. Khan served the Government of Uttar Pradesh in the Animal Husbandry department, global major Glaxo India in veterinary division, Indian conglomerate, EID Parry in Seeds business, and the Indian Agrochemicals Association, before starting the knowledge sector enterprise in agriculture. Dr. Khan launched Agriculture Today Group to provide knowledge led growth of Indian farm sector.
Dr. MJ Khan
Chairman – Indian Chamber
of Food & Agriculture

Saurabh Kumar
Saurabh is a Supply Chain & Strategy Professional with nearly two decades of experience in Aviation, Logistics, Infrastructure and Retail sectors. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of GMR Cargo Business wherein he is leading the Pan India Cargo Terminal (CTO) Business including Hyderabad, Goa and other new locations. As part of his strategic focus, he is driving initiatives to expand the Cargo Terminal and its offerings to capitalize the opportunities from segments such as Pharma, Agri Products, Warehousing, Express & Allied Services. He is actively working on projects related to Automation and New Technology Adoption to improve Productivity, Traceability and Response Time.
Saurabh was instrumental in starting the Hyderabad Chapter of ACFI and served as its first Chairman of the HYD chapter during 2019-2021. He is also the Chairman of the Logistics Committee of ‘Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI)’ and Board Member of ‘Air Cargo Forum India (ACFI)’. Through his active association with Industry bodies, Saurabh has contributed significantly in identifying challenges/bottlenecks and working with concerned authorities and ministries to mitigate the same.
Saurabh has been with GMR Group for 12 years and in his previous assignments has led the ‘Strategic Planning’ function for several GMR Businesses viz. Hyderabad International Airport, Hyderabad Airport City & Special Economic Zones (SEZ).
Saurabh Kumar
CEO
GMR Cargo, Hyderabad

Julian Sutch
Julian Sutch
Head of Global Sales- Pharma
Emirates SkyCargo

Balasubramanian P.
P. Balasubramanian, aka Bala is the Founder and CEO of ACCIS – Air Cargo Consultancy International Services and operates from Chennai, India. In his current role, Mr. Bala is a global Consultant and Advisor working with reputed entities across the wide spectrum of Air Cargo and Logistics sector. Mr. Bala has over 4 decades of global experience having worked with Air India and Emirates Airline and being closely involved with global bodies such as IATA and ICAO. He is among the globally well-known industry figures contributing and influencing the course and direction of the industry. Mr. Bala is a prolific international speaker and is still a regular speaker and panel moderator at global conferences and seminars on Dangerous Goods, Cargo Handling and Operations, Cool Chain and Logistics.
P. Balasubramanian
Founder and CEO
ACCIS

Keku Bomi Gazder
Mr. Keku Bomi Gazder is presently the MD and CEO of Aviapro Logistics Services Pvt Ltd and part of the Air Cargo industry from the past 32 years. He has experience in regions of Levant, Middle East, Arabian Gulf and Indian Sub-continent. Prior to this he headed India’s largest Air Cargo Terminal operations with a presence in over 45 airports and earlier he successfully set up three airlines Regional Head Quarters in Dubai, Sharjah and Chennai.
Keku Bomi Gazder

Dr. Ravi Prakash Mathur
Dr. Ravi Prakash Mathur-Vice President and Global Head of Logistics and Supply Chain Excellence, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. at Hyderabad India. He is a supply chain professional and published author with 30 years of experience. He works in the areas of Supply Chain and Digital Transformation, Integrated Business Planning and Global Logistics. He is a member of Supply Chain Councils and on Academic Boards of Business Schools. He speaks regularly at international conferences and at top-ranked universities in India.
In 2020, he coauthored an academic paper, titled “Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd: Inventory Management Under Resource Constraints” and which is hosted by Harvard Business Publishing Education and is also available on the HBR store.
He was amongst the “Top 25 Digitalist Thought Leaders of India” announced by SAP Ace awards in 2015. In 2014 he co-authored the book “Quality Assurance in Pharmaceuticals & Operations Management and Industrial Safety”. Dr. Mathur’s doctoral thesis was about supply chain systems for international freight.
Dr. Ravi Prakash Mathur
VP Supply Chain Management
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

B.Govindarajan
B.Govindarajan, Chief Operating Officer of Tirwin Management Services (P) Ltd. a Chennai based Air Cargo Training and Consulting Organization is backed with almost 45 years of experience in the area of international logistics solutions. He started his career with a non-scheduled air operator and then moved to pre-merger Air India and moved higher to be the Faculty Head of Air India Staff College, Santa Cruz, Mumbai. He was also holding the position of Manager-Regulations Compliance.During his tenure with Air India, he was representing Air India in IATA Training Task Force for very many years. He is an invited speaker to various global and national conferences and conventions in the area of aviation. He also writes columns to express his opinion on issues that he believes would impact the industry.He started Tirwin in 2008 and currently holds the distinction of providing training and other solutions to various shippers, freight forwarders, airlines, terminal operators, Ground Handling Operators and others in India and abroad.
B.Govindarajan
Chief Operating Officer
Tirwin Management Services

Kiran Gubba
Gubba Kiran, CEO of Gubba Cold Storage, has been leading the company into efficient service in cold storage preservation. He has virtually become the face of Gubba to the Indian seed industry. He has been the key driver in educating pharma companies about preserving the critical products at Gubba. He has also been instrumental in creating Gubba from 0.7 million cubic feet to one of India’s biggest cold storage company with 11 million cubic feet. He is inspired to make a difference to people through his study of Ontology.
Kiran Gubba
Gubba Cold Storage

Ramkumar Govindarajan
Ramkumar Govindarajan
Co-founder & CEO
WIZ Freight

Krishnakumar V.
Krishnakumar V.
Global COO
WIZ Freight

Satish Lakkaraju
Mr. Satish Lakkaraju is the Global Head for Air Freight and Pharma Vertical for WIZ freight. He is an alumni of prestigious SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. He started his professional journey in the industry 27 years ago and has evolved to become an experienced sales & commercial head with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and supply chain industry. Satish is a thought leader in the pharma and life sciences vertical with knowledge and connections in the Air Freight industry. Strong sales professional skilled in Negotiation, Import& Export , Operations Management, Air & Ocean Freight, Customs clearance and Sales & Marketing. He is passionate about Life sciences and patient safety , speaks in various forums in India and overseas on the various subjects like Cold Chain, infrastructure at airports for cargo handling for Pharma, Perishable exports etc. He is a motivational speaker and likes to be ahead of the curve .
Satish Lakkaraju
Global Head of Air Freight & Pharma Vertical – WIZ Freight

Pranav Malik
Pranav is a Strategic Supply Chain Specialist with 23 years of experience in EXIM operations, vendor management, sourcing & procurement.
He has spearheaded the overall supply chain in setting up new business/ logistics tie-ups from strategy & planning levels to scale up. Executing projects from concepts to launch focusing on rendering end-to-end solutions under complex and challenging environment in food industry. His passion is to create and reshape supply chain strategy for shareholders ( customers/ partners) resulting in an improvement in the services to generate continuous productivity. He is a forward-focused leader with expertise in managing commercial & liaising operations like import/export, vendor & contract management, Air & Ocean logistics, and cold chain management.
Pranav Malik
Associate Director
Food & FMCG – WIZ Freight

Laurence Jacobi
Mr. Laurence Jacobi is Cargo Manager, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana for Emirates SkyCargo based in Hyderabad and TS, including Safety, Compliance, CRM and operations. He has total 33 years of experience in airline industry of which 22 years have been a wonderful, challenging and exciting association with air cargo.
Laurence Jacobi
Emirates

BVR Vijaya Bhaskar
Mr. Bhaskar is responsible for Supply Chain Management function that includes Planning, Logistics operations and ERP process ownership. He manages plan vs actuals and provides necessary guidance for improvements for delivering commitments in a compliant way. He owns all the periodic budgets and review variance with attribution analysis, including inventory management, cost optimization, and customer service. Mr. Bhaskar is part of the site leadership team which has achieved significant volume ramp-up in various organisations. Deployed two SAP projects as a business lead along with multiple other applications. He has a track record of establishing highly performing Planning and Logistics teams. He has established processes in SCM function in preparing functions for commercial readiness and ramp-ups.
BVR Vijaya Bhaskar
Associate Vice President SCM
Pfizer Healthcare India Pvt Ltd

Ramesh Mamidala
Mr. Ramesh Mamidala is currently working with Adani Group as Chief Cargo Development Officer (CCDO-Airports) based at Ahmedabad. He started his career with GATI in 1991 and went on working with many renowned organizations including Eicher Consultancy Services Limited, Emirates Airlines Group-Dubai & Mercator and Qatar Aviation Services (QAS) Cargo. He was associated with Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal Management Ltd. – IGI Airport as Chief Executive Officer at Delhi. At IGI Airport he was responsible for overall terminal operations-International, domestic, RFS AFS (Air Freight Stations) and Express. Commercial development & implementation, Revenue diversification, IT Systems improvement & implementation, Product design & development, Internal & External supplier and regulatory authorities management.
Ramesh Mamidala
(CCDO-Airports) Adani Airports

Anand Garg
Anand Garg

Rashmi Karnad
Rashmi is responsible for the QR Pharma product at Qatar Airways Cargo. She has an experience spanning over two decades in airline industry. She started with the passenger divisions at KLM and Jet Airways India, before moving on to cargo, where she has dedicated the last 21 years of her career. Rashmi’s work profile in air cargo saw her fulfilling a range of commercial roles based in India with IAG Cargo before she progressed into product specialization in the Pharma vertical. At Qatar Airways Cargo, Rashmi is part of the wider Cargo team of product specialists involved in product design & development, quality management, training, commercial strategy, operational synergy & customer relationships. She is very keen to use this wonderful opportunity to network with industry partners, customers and trade bodies as part of Wiz Freight’s efforts to encourage a collaborative relationship between stakeholders towards a rapidly evolving area if the cargo industry – transportation of time & temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products.
Rashmi Karnad
Manager Climate Control Product – Pharma – Qatar Airways Cargo

M Riaz Ahmed
Mr. Riaz Ahmed M. is the Vice President & Head of Supply Chain – Granules India Limited. He has over 28 years of experience in Engineering, FMCG, and Pharma Industry. He is involved in end-to-end supply chain operations. He has been involved in the implementation of ERP projects, worked in Project Management and Inventory Management, and has successfully implemented digitalization projects.
M Riaz Ahmed
Vice President & Head Supply Chain – Granules India Limited

Pramod Pereira
Mr. Pramod Pereira has been working with Cargo Service Center India Pvt. Ltd since 2005. He has headed the Quality department of Cargo Service Centre and had contracts, corporate communications, and customer services in his portfolio. He now manages the Mumbai Cargo Service Center Cold Chain Solutions’ Agro and Pharma Excellence Center terminal at the International Air Cargo Complex, Mumbai.
Pramod Pereira
Business Unit Head, MCSC Cold Chain Solutions Pvt Ltd

Mohammed Esa
Esa joined WFS on 01 Feb 22 as SVP Group Commercial Business Development & Strategy where his mission is to develop and implement WFS’ commercial strategy. He spent the last 18 years at Agility Logistics where he was most recently SVP Global Business Development & Global Lead Digital Customer Solutions. Esa was responsible for shaping & executing Agility’s commercial strategy including building and scaling solution driven, strategic customer relationships. In his digital role, he was working on deploying emerging technology solutions including IOT, Blockchain and enhanced Supply Chain Visibility to improve the customer experience. Previously, he was Agility’s Chief Executive Officer & SVP of UAE, Oman & Bahrain.
Mohammed Esa

Fabrice Panza
Fabrice Panza
Manager Global Cold Chain Solutions at Etihad Cargo

John Ackerman
John Ackerman
Executive VP Global Strategy and Development – DFW Airport

Anthony Pagnatto
Anthony Pagnatto
VP Global Sales and
Marketing – Mohawk Global

Bharat Rathi
Bharat Rathi
Logistics Head at Mankind Pharma

Nikhil Shireesh Nadkar
Nikhil Shireesh Nadkar
Vice President – Ocean Product and Procurement – WIZ Freight

Marrie Groeneveld
Marrie is a Senior Executive business leader and business development professional in pharma contract logistics, freight forwarding and supply chain. He is specialized in solutions for the pharma cold chain industry with a 35 years track record in multiple logistic modules at several global top 10 logistics companies. He has an in- depth knowledge on contracting and temperature controlled supply chain solutions.
Marrie Groeneveld
Advisor to the Board and CCO – SkyCell AG

Anurag Mehta
Anurag Mehta
Additional GM- Cross Sales – Mediterranean Shipping Company

Jebakumar S
Jebakumar S

Jesal Doshi
Jesal Doshi
B Medical Systems

S.Burak Omeroglu
S.Burak Omeroglu
South Asia – Turkish Cargo

Capt. Amar Mascarenhas
Capt. Amar Mascarenhas
WIZ Bulk

Mihir Mohanta
Mihir Mohanta

Stefan Braun
Stefan Braun is founder and CEO of SmartCAE. He is an engineer by education and working on the Virtual Cold Chain for more than 8 years.
Stefan Braun

Guhan AT
Guhan A T is the Director Land Transportation Solutions – WIZ Tracks. He is responsible for the Surface Transportation Solutions at WIZ. He heads the service delivery, sales strategy, demand management & strategic accounts management. He comes with a rich background in Digitally driven Logistics with 17+ years of experience.
Guhan AT
Director- Land Transportation Solutions – WIZ Tracks

Milton De La Paz
Milton De La Paz is Vice President of Airline Relations and Cargo Business Development at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and directs the airport’s primary business goal to grow the core business of domestic and international passenger and cargo airline service. He also leads efforts to optimize business performance with all passenger and cargo airline partners at DFW.Milton is an accomplished senior commercial executive with more than 25 years of airline experience in the aviation and commercial airlines industry. He is responsible for the execution of DFW Airport’s short- and long-range new air service strategies and for the airport’s strategy to retain and grow existing airline service. He also leads DFW’s air cargo business development strategy including new air cargo route development initiatives, facilities and infrastructure assessment and DFW air cargo community engagement.
Milton De La Paz
VP Airline Relations and Cargo Business Development – DFW

Jayaram Radhakrishnan
Jayaram Radhakrishnan- CEO & Executive Director at M+R Logistics India Pvt Ltd. – member of the Swiss Headquartered M+R Spedag Group. With almost 3 decades of experience in International Freight Forwarding and in leadership positions since 2001, has a vast understanding of the freight business and has regularly provided customers with tailor made solutions for their supply chain requirements.
Jayaram Radhakrishnan
M+R Logistics India Pvt Ltd.

Vilas Rebello
Vilas Rebello is currently the Head of Logistics – India & APAC for TEVA. He is an accomplished Supply Chain Management professional with specialization in the Pharmaceutical sector with global corporations.
He has a resourceful professional with 28 years of rich experience in supply chain management, logistics, shipping, export-import trade, compliance, and risk mitigation. He also has extensive experience in leading complex logistics operations covering exports from India to markets in the USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Mr. Vilas Rebello is skilled in formulating and implementing processes, systems, policies, and procedures adopting international best practices enabling smooth high-quality service delivery to customers.
Vilas Rebello
Head of Logistics – India & APAC TEVA

Pradeep Panicker
Mr. Pradeep Panicker is the Chief Executive Officer of GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL). Before joining GHIAL, he was at GMR Delhi International Airport as Chief Commercial Officer for Aeronautical Business. He is also board member of GMR Hyderabad Aviation SEZ Limited, GMR Hospitality and Retail Limited and GMR Air Cargo and Aerospace Engineering Limited. Apart from the Airport he is also responsibly for MRO, Cargo and Duty-Free Business. Mr. Panicker has been one of the key members of the successful team that won the bid for modernization of Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), New Delhi and its takeover. He was the Founder President of Air Cargo Forum India (ACFI), a not for profit association that offers a common platform to the air cargo community, his guidance has been pivotal in Process simplification, Policy formulation, Innovation, Benchmarking, etc. Mr. Panicker is a Chartered Accountant, Cost & Works Accountant and holds Diploma in Merchant Banking and Financial Services.
Pradeep Panicker
Chief Executive Officer, GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited

N. Natarajan
Mr. Natarajan is the Deputy Director & Regional Head, Indian Institute of Packaging, Hyderabad. He has over 29 years (9 yrs. in the Industry & 20 yrs. in IIP in the field of Packaging). He has handled various projects in packaging design & development for various products like Pharmaceutical, Agricultural Produce, Handlooms & Textiles, Food & Beverages, Handicrafts, Light & Heavy Engineering Goods, Medical Devices, SEA Foods, FMCG products, Automobiles Parts , Weapons, Musical Instruments & Dangerous Goods etc.
N. Natarajan
Deputy Director & Regional Head –IIP, Hyderabad

Akhil Kumar Gawar
Akhil is the Director – Food Processing, GoT is responsible for the development of food processing sector in Telangana
Akhil Kumar Gawar
Director – Food Processing, Government of Telangana

Vilas Rebello
Sameer is heading the F&V Business for Baramati Agro Limited, based out of Pune. Sameer Sachdeva has over 25 years of experience across industry and markets. Engineer(E&Tc.) and MBA(Marketing) by qualification, has worked in the Domestic and International markets. He joined the agriculture sector 15 years ago, purely out of his passion. In the years spend in this sector, he has acquired deep understanding in the Entire Value Chain of Agri Business, right from inputs to the final product. in his last assignment was Business Head at FieldFresh Foods Pvt. Ltd., he joined the company as Sales Manager for European Market, but within 4 years took the new role of heading the entire business.
Sameer Sachdeva
Baramati Agro Ltd

Vivek Sharma
Vivek is the Managing Commercial and Sales Development for ISC and Middle East region for ZIM Intergrated Shipping Services. He is leading one of the prolific sales team in the region. He is working towards new initiatives on adding new services and digital solutions for the customers.
Vivek Sharma
VP – Commercial ISC Middle East and Malaysia, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services India