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Topic: Open Innovation in Asia:  The Changing Role of India

Dr. Sridhar JagannathanDr. Jagannathan
Director of Global Enginnering Strategy,
Intuit Inc.

Bio:
At Intuit, Dr. Jagannathan is responsible for defining Intuit's engineering execution, partnerships and technology M&A.  Former positions include:
  • Managing Director for Symantec's India Development Center, where he set up offshore engineering operations and created new models of engineering partnerships. 
  • VP of Technology for Softbank Emerging Markets, a $200M venture capital fund focused on early stage investments in emerging markets. 
  • Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Adatom.com, Inc., an ecommerce marketplace. 
  • Technical Director for Internet & eCommerce at Oracle Corporation, where he was in charge oftechnology strategy, product evolution for ecommerce and implementation. 
  • Sridhar is also the author of "Internet Commerce Metrics and Models," Prentice Hall, 2001.  He has taught courses at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley and IIT, Madras.  He has a doctorate in engineering from UC Berkeley, a Master's degree (Sloan Fellow) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and B.Tech (Hons) from IIT, Kharagpur.
Dr. Avinash Agrawal
Dr. Avinash Agrawal
Former Managing Director
India Engineering Center
Sun Microsystems

Bio:
Having recently founded Jupiter 2xLearning, an International software and services company in the education space, Dr. Avinash Agrawal has more than 25 years of global engineering management experience.  He has managed teams in major markets around the world, including the US, India, Germany and France.

Avinash was the founder and Managing Director for Sun Microsystems's India Engineering Center (IEC) in Bangalore.  He led the transition of multiple large products to the IEC, guiding its evolution into Sun's top international engineering facility.  The IEC now employs over 800 people.  Avinash also initiated collaborative research programs with local universities in India.

Avinash holds a Ph.D from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. 




 

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6 /6/2006 - Dr. Nicky Lu, Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of Etron Technology - Spring Series " Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries"

5/31/2005 - Panel with Professor C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan & Mr. Jonathan Barker, Managing Principal, Center Street Advisors- Spring Series "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries"

5/24/2005 - Panel on Online Auctions, eBay-China, eBay-India & Yahoo! Japan - Spring Series "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries"

10/21/04 - Mr. Hajime Sasaki, Chairman, NEC Corp.- Fall Series "Cross-border partnering in Asia: Globalization challenges for high-tech industries"

10/07/04 - Mr. Min Zhu, President, WebEx - Fall Series "Cross-border partnering in Asia: Globalization challenges for high-tech industries"


12/4/2003 - Dr. Morris Chang, Chairman, TSMC - Fall Series "Doing Business with your Technology in Asia"


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