Dr Vivek Lall, Vice President and Country Head, Boeing Defense, Space & Security

Vivek Lall was appointed Vice President and Country Head, Boeing Defense, Space & Security in May 2007. Vivek came to this position after serving as Managing Director of Boeing Commercial Airplanes in India and now offers significant broad India market and customer insights on the emerging needs of the Indian customer.

Vivek has held numerous leadership roles in marketing and engineering at Boeing including manager in the Airplane Performance and Propulsion group. Prior to Boeing he worked for Raytheon and with NASA Ames Research Center in various multidisciplinary engineering fields. He also worked as an adjunct faculty member at Embry-Riddle, McConnell Air Force Base while working at Raytheon. He taught classes in aerodynamics and propulsion for aircraft and spacecraft to U.S. Air Force and Boeing personnel.

Vivek earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Carleton University in Canada and a Masters of Aeronautical Engineering degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. He also has his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University in Kansas and his MBA from City University in Washington. He has also completed management and executive courses at the American Management Association in Washington DC and the Boeing Leadership Center in St.Louis.

Vivek has been the recipient of several honors, including the 2008 OCA National Asian Pacific American Corporate Achievement Award. He has also received a gold medal from Cambridge (UK) for his scientific contributions to the field of aerospace, and has been cited in Who’s Who several times. He is in the Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Honor Society as well as the Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society. He was President of the Mathematical Association of America and is a member of various engineering and management societies in the US. He has authored over thirty articles in various journals. He was also trained as a private pilot at the Phoenix International Flight Training Center.

Vivek serves as both Chairman of the Defense Steering Committee and Co-Chairman the Homeland Security Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in India. He is also Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), and serves as Regional President of the Indo American Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, Chief Executive Officer, SpiceJet Ltd

Sanjay Aggarwal is the Chief Executive Officer at SpiceJet. With over 17 years of experience in travel and tourism industry, Prior to joining Spicejet Sanjay worked with US based private-jet company – Flight Options as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. He also worked with Marriott International and US Airways.

Fabio Marazzi, Sr. Managing Partner, Emmeplus

Work experience
1996 to present M+RZP / M+BIOLAW/M+LEGAL; Company founder and business internationalization project manager.

Education
Since 2003, professor at Bergamo University, Unesco chair in "Human Rights and Ethics of International Cooperation"

Memberships
Union Internationale des Avocats, Paris; International Bar Association, London; American Bar Association, Chicago; American Society of International Law; - BIA, Bioindustry Association, London; Centre du droit de l’art, Geneva; Art & Law Centre, Leicester, U.K.; Consultant for the "Italian Chamber of Commerce" Los Angeles, California; Italian Chamber of Commerce for the U.K.; American Chamber of Commerce in Italy; Italo-Chinese Chamber of Commerce; Fellow of "The Center for International Legal Studies", Vienna; Royal Automobile Club, London; Rotary, District 2040

Interest
Literature, art, sailing and golf

Appointments:
Director of the "Interdepartmental Centre of Biotechnology Law", Siena University.

Since March 2004, consultant for the Health Ministry for the study on US territory of issues regarding the development of transfer technology models and regulatory aspects of stem cell research.
Member of Constem. Association for Stem Cell Research

Consultant for the "National Association of Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art", Milan

Publications & Conferences
F. Marazzi – Il sistema giuridico in Russia – Assolombarda, Milan, January 20, 2009
F. Marazzi – What does it take ? from knowledge transfer to - AIMS Academy – Ospedale Niguarda, February 6, 2009
F. Marazzi – L'attrattività in Lombardia – Laboratorio Politiche per l'Attrattività – IRER, March 5, 2009, Milan
F. Marazzi - "Immigrazione e diritto di asilo nella Unione Europea" – Università degli Studi di Bergamo, March 14, 2009
F. Marazzi – Oltre la crisi: nuove opportunità per il tessile bergamasco – Regione Lombardia/ Camera di Commercio Bergamo – March 25, 2009
F. Marazzi et al. – International Joint Ventures – Wolters Kluwer, 2009
F. Marazzi – "Il cibo è un diritto" – Diritto al Cibo, giornata seminariale – Università degli Studi di Bergamo, May 28, 2009
F. Marazzi – Trasferimento Tecnologico: studi di fattibilità – Convegno Istituto Nazionale di Tumori / Regione Lombardia – Milan, June 26, 2009.

Raajeev B Batra, Executive Director, Advisory Services, KPMG

Raajeev is an Executive Director with the Governance, Risk & Compliance Services (GRCS) practice of KPMG India.

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Raajeev’s total experience spans over 22 years across professional service firms and industry. He has been in the firm for over four years and leads the KPMG’s transport advisory practice in India.

Raajeev keenly focuses on the aviation sector and has advised several companies in this sector, including airports operators, regulator, airlines and companies in related services. Among the projects led by Raajeev, notable engagements included advising operators of both Mumbai & Delhi airport during the operations transition from the Airport Authority of India (AAI). Raajeev has also led projects advising airlines in improving their operating processes. He leads the KPMG’s thought leadership in aviation sector with annual release on the outlook of the aviation sector.

Raajeev’s other experience spans a cross section of industries, to include Oil & gas, FMCG, metals and mining and manufacturing. His strengths include performing risk-based internal audits, process reviews, operational performance improvement and assessment of Information Technology (IT) security risks within the context of the organization business needs.

Raajeev’s industry experience included him servicing as head of Assurance at Coca-Cola India and Vedanta Resources, which is a large Indian conglomerate in metals and mining.