Kapil has over twelve years of industry experience, of which ten years is in business research. In his earlier stints, Kapil has headed several new initiatives at IDC India including Software & Services research, Corporate Research, Internet Research etc. Of these Kapil built up the Software & Services research practice from scratch. Prior to joining IDC, Kapil worked for three years with IMRB (part of the WPP group and southern Asia’s largest research firm) and for one year with the HCL group. Kapil is widely quoted in the press and is a regular speaker at various industry forums.

Kapil holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical) from Bengal Engineering College (Calcutta University) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Marketing) from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (Calcutta University).

Praveen Sengar is a Senior Analyst in the Software and Services Research group. He is responsible for market analysis research and identifying opportunities across Packaged Software market. He handles the Packaged Software market tracker for IDC in India.

Praveen has worked with Organizations like Lowe Lintas in brand management and Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals in marketing.

Praveen graduated from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University with a Masters in International Business (specializing in International Marketing).

As MD, she works closely with her team and motivates them to be passionately committed to relentless customer satisfaction and service. With much business potential within the ASEAN/India region, she is excited about the markets Hyperion can serve, new channel relationships to build, new solution bundles to create, and new ways of selling to their customers.

As a trusted business advisor, qualified as a Certified Public Accountant, with strong hands-on experience in Finance, she is able to understand her clients’ requirements and translate them into reliable working solutions using Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management tools from Hyperion. Helping them manage their business and drive profitability has always been her goal. Her ASEAN and Indian clients includes verticals from Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Telco and Logistics.

Prior to Hyperion, she worked as an auditor for KPMG Peat Marwick Singapore, an accountant for Sembawang Shipyard, and as a business Lecturer in Nanyang Polytechnic. Suganthi is married with two girls. Her interests include walking, reading, photography, cooking, music, theatre and drama.

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Prior to joining Business Objects, Frederic was spearheading business development for SAS Customer Intelligence in Asia-Pacific where he was helping organisations develop their customer intelligence strategies to increase revenue. Before that, Frederic ran Sound Principles, a specialist consultancy firm focusing on Marketing ROI and helped several organisations build and develop their sales pipeline. Frederic has also partnered with the Pepper and Rogers Group Asia on several customer relationships management (CRM) projects in Singapore, India and Malaysia with the aim to marry CRM strategy and technology. Frederic was also in charge of marketing for PeopleSoft South Asia in 2000 and 2001.
Frederic has lived in Singapore since 1991 and holds a Master in International Marketing from the University of Strathclyde, a Bachelor (Honours) in Business Studies from University of Buckingham. He has also engaged in post-graduate Information Studies research at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

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Mani oversees some of the consulting initiatives – mainly in the areas of process, structure and Technology. Mani’s responsibilities include Deloitte’s BPM initiative in India, providing consulting and technology solution implementation to clients. Mani oversees the Indian aspects of the F&B initiative – an initiative that has been jointly developed with SAP worldwide to give a greater value proposition thru the adaptation of best practices for that industry. Mani also oversees initiatives in the Oil & Gas, insurance and Tourism, Hospitality and leisure sectors.

Prior to Deloitte, Mani has been associated with various institutions including Citibank, Asea Brown Boweri, UB Group and Pricewaterhouse.

He joined Systems Union in 2005, bringing 7 years of product management, product marketing and pre-sales experience with various Business Intelligence software vendors including Cognos and SPSS.

Richard holds a masters degree in economics from the University of Munich; he has presented at numerous industry events and conferences and has authored several published articles.