Authors

Sameer L. Kanodia is the Managing Director and CEO of Lumina Datamatics Limited. He is also the Vice Chairman and CEO of TNQTech. He leads a global workforce of over 6,500 professionals, delivering technology-enabled content, data, and digital transformation solutions to some of the world’s most influential publishing and eCommerce enterprises.

FE Retail Bureau represents the collective voice of the media division.

Sharmila Das has been a writer and editor with experience of covering Retail, E-commerce majorly in her 17 long years of experience. Previously she headed Inc42 Media, led The Economic Time’s ETRetail besides writing long format retail pieces for ETV Bharat. She joined The Financial Express in April this year.

With almost two decade of experience in cyber space, Lalit has helped several clients in the technology, media, and telecommunications segments to strengthen their privacy and cybersecurity frameworks. He advises C-level executives on data protection and privacy, cyber risk, security incident response, governance, risk and compliance strategies, and vulnerability assessment, among others.

Atul Khichariya, Co-founder & COO, Velocity has extensive experience in operations and consulting. Previously AVP at Acko and VP at InI Consulting, he also led operations at Taskbob. Atul holds a degree in Chemistry from IIT Bombay and brings operational expertise to Velocity.

Mr. Rajagopalan has been steering the Retailers Association of India for the past 16 years. RAI is an association formed to develop, facilitate and propagate practices and processes that will grow the Indian retail industry leading to increased consumption and growth of the economy. RAI works on advocacy,learning initiatives and industry creation activities including events for retail.

With more than 3 years of exerience in business journalism, she covers the retail sector and the changing priorities of CFOs, drawing on a background that ranges from retail players, to D2C startups, to hospitality giants.

Paritosh is an experienced management executive with a focus on product management, design, digital strategy and user experience. Specialising in helping organisations think about creative solutions using user research, data analysis & synthesis and conceptualisation. Experienced in managing projects from concept to execution.

Sanket Desai is a Partner with EY India specialising in GST and focussing on the Consumer Products and Retail Sector. He is a Chartered Accountant and a post graduate in Commerce and has over 20 years of experience in advising various corporates on indirect tax matters.