Anirban Bhattacharyya – Board / Industry 4.0 Lead
Anirban has over 18 years of strategy, research and development, and implementation experience in physical and digital operations manufacturing, supply chain process improvement, and process automation services. He is the founding member of Amplo Global Inc., an AI-led Industry 4.0 risk management product company that powers AmploFly4.0, a platform that enables organizations to measure, assess and define 3 to 5 years of Industry 4.0 execution readiness. He earned his engineering degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, in Electrical and Electronics, and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he specialized in strategy and marketing.
Industry Specialization:
MFG/Hi-Tech/Semi-Con/Auto, Med Devices, Consumer Services Functional Expertise: Digital Reinvention Strategy, Transformation, NextGen Supply Chain/MFG
Samir Sathe : Co-Founder
Samir has a successful track record of coaching, consulting with, and transforming 600+ businesses, coaching entrepreneurs/ founders on growth, fundraising, and leadership agenda. Beneficiaries are Individual entrepreneurs/ founders, MNCs, SMBs, and Large Indian enterprises, who have experienced, 300-800 and 100- 300 bps delta in revenue and EBITDA, respectively, compared to its peers. ~6,000 net new jobs. NPS >50. He has championed AI-enabled products and led growth for both students and businesses.
Dr Karabi Pathak : Chief Product Officer
Dr Karabi Pathak is the Chief Product Officer/… at Amplo Global. Karabi strategizes the AI/ML product and designs it to bring solutions to complex issues of Environment, Social and Governance and related Business Risks. She devises sustainability solutions and develops frameworks on the AI platform for clients across diverse industry sectors. She brings the customer delivery approach and helps Businesses with change management.
Karabi is an accomplished climate change scientist and sustainability leader with expertise in carbon sequestration, Nature-based Solutions, sustainable value chain in the industry, and ESG. In the last 10 years, Karabi has been awarded several prestigious funds by several governments for her work on Science-based solutions to Climate change. She works with diverse stakeholders to bring best practices, knowledge exchange and innovation for readiness in the climate crisis. She works on Resource management in extreme climatic conditions across geography. Furthermore, the re-carbonization of the terrestrial ecosystem and merging it with the carbon investment programme for global net zero targets is one of her focus areas. She tenured as a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellow at the Ohio State University, USA, and Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada. She had been the Erasmus Scholar of the European Commission for her PhD programme at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of several scientific papers in internationally acclaimed journals. Apart from this, she is passionate about community engagement for climate-resilient livelihood generation and is associated with such forums for years. Karabi loves nature, and when not working, she explores nature-based solutions to promote sustainability.
Nilanjan Sen – Chief Financial Officer
Nilanjan is a Financial Professional with over 25 years of experience in the industry. He has a wide portfolio of Controllership, Financial Management, Corporate Policy, Audit, Valuation, Fund Management, and the like. He has led projects to set up financial monitoring and compliance policies, Instituted processes to review financials for accurate and timely reporting, and set up processes to reduce closing timelines. He is also well versed in tax computation and has been a part of various external audit and review teams.
He aims to provide professional services at all times with an endeavor to constantly update knowledge and improve processes to increase efficiency. He is driven to evaluate and implement efficiency tools, implement processes, tools, and guidance to comply with laws, regulations, and standards.
Amit Ghosh : Chief Technology Officer
Amit’s interest lies in technology, people and how each affects the other to change our lives. To this effect, he operated as a Partner/Advisor to a number of startups embracing disruptive technologies — incorporating a “Socratic” pedagogy to assist middle-school students to learn Physics in a fun way, employing heavy-duty machine learning techniques in predicting loan default likelihood, creating Speech Analytics platform powered with intent identification and “agent” performance analysis, enabling fully automated legal compliance selection and management based on the characteristics of large enterprises.
For the longest time, Amit served as the Chief Technology Officer at UpdatePower Corporation, a silicon valley based provider of sales and marketing intelligence. In this role, Amit led the company’s technology strategy, key business initiatives, design and development of massive web data mining solutions for providing business intelligence to large Enterprises and Company information providers. For nearly two decades, Amit had extensively deployed new and emerging business analytics methods to transform web information into current, accurate and actionable company intelligence.
Prior to UpdatePower, he was the Chief Technical architect for Interra Systems and Intarka, Inc. (acquired by UpdatePower AG in the year 2000), a position that included design and development of intelligent solutions for salesforce automation systems and CRM platforms. He began his career at Texas Instruments, where he led engineering efforts in the development of DSP-based speech compression applications.
Amit holds a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a ME in Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Head, Indian Subcontinent
A pedigreed marketing corporate career for 20 years, with an enriched experience across sectors & leadership management roles. She unifies Business objectives to Strategic Brand management. Her approach to intertwine her core strengths in Consumer centricity, apply Technology to meaningful business solutions, driving innovative practices and profitable relevance with Design thinking, brings in unique & impactful market focused creative solutions. She is a Sustainability SME and an IIM Calcutta MBA alumnus.
Abii Mitra : Head, Europe Region
With 30 years of enriching experience in the realm of Information Technology, I’ve dedicated the last 18 years to serving as a senior architect consultant for a diverse array of businesses spanning industries such as Fashion, Healthcare, Grocery, Clothing, General Merchandise, E-Commerce, Retail, and Supply Chain.
My journey began after completing my Master’s in Computer Science from Sibpur Engineering College, whereupon I embarked on a 14-year tenure with TCS. Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working across various global geographies, including the Far East, India, Europe, and the UK, honing my skills and insights in the ever-evolving landscape of technology.
My expertise lies in driving innovation and technological advancements, ensuring that businesses maintain a competitive edge in the market. I specialize in establishing best practices, standards, and methodologies to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. Furthermore, I’ve played a pivotal role in establishing IT Data governance frameworks, encompassing principles, standards, governance, audit, and KPIs, to steer organizations towards data-driven success.
I have experience of delivering sustainability programs, where I gained deep knowledge in sustainability data, analytics, reporting, and controls. These experiences have solidified my commitment to sustainability underpinned by data, complemented by a passion for leveraging AI to drive positive change.
As a data evangelist, I am driven by a fervent desire to empower organizations with the transformative potential of data, advocating for its pivotal role in shaping a sustainable and technologically advanced future.
Ani Bhattacharya – Chief Commercial Officer
Ani is an action-oriented commercial insights and strategy professional, with over 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He has held several positions in commercial product portfolio strategy, business development, marketing, and operations. As a problem solver, he is specifically skilled at identifying and addressing specific business issues in the commercial space. Ani has developed end-to-end business valuation platforms for new product opportunity analysis and built innovative platforms that offer strategic choices for portfolio planning and decision making for several pharma and biotech companies. Throughout his career, he has operated as a strategic business consultant across various cross-functional teams, while communicating meaningful and actionable recommendations for market entry and life cycle management. Ani has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an MBA in marketing and supply chain management from Rutgers Business School.
Industry Specialization:
Commercial Insights, Product Opportunity Analysis, Financial Modeling, Product Portfolio Planning, Go-to-market Strategy.
Megha Mondal: Head of Marketing
Megha is a young Marketeer, championing in Digital Marketing, Branding and Strategy. She has completed BBA (Marketing) from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta (Autonomous) and MBA in Marketing from IMT Ghaziabad, followed by a certification from Harvard Business School (Online) in Disruptive Strategy. She has prior experience in the education industry and medical device manufacturing industry. She has specialized in Entrepreneurship and Media and Entertainment and holds a BARC Certification.