Mr. Syed Baderuddin, the National President of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce has been associated with the IACC, for the past 26 years, right from the formation of the Andhra Pradesh Branch, in the year 1982-83, and held the Posts as its Member Secretary, the A.P. Branch Chairman, the South India Council–President and has been the member of the National Executive Council, for the past around 15 years.

Mr. Baderuddin, born in December 1952, is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer of the Osmania University, and has an experience of over 34 years in Manufacturing Industry. He started his career in the year 1975, by promoting a Heavy Industrial Chemical Manufacturing Unit, as its Promoter and Managing Partner, in the name of M/s. Hindustan Activated Earths & Chemical Products, to manufacture Clay Based Products and Adsorbents. He has done extensive Applied Research on Clay Minerology for over 16 years and has been responsible for the Development of Indigenous Technology to manufacture the above products which are comparable to the best in the World.

In the year 1983, promoted the company, as its Chief Promoter and Managing Director, M/s. Shez Cements Limited, (presently name changed to Anjani Portland Cement Ltd. ) a listed company. Has worked on Cement Technology for over 12 years.

In 1993, promoted the Non-Banking Finance Company (Registered with the R.B.I), in the name of M/s. Esbee Holdings Pvt. Ltd., as its Chairman. The company promotes and invests in all its industrial and business activities through this holding company. The company also has substantial exposure in the stock market, mutual funds, and real estate.

Mr. Baderuddin has also promoted the following Companies, as its Chief Promoter and Chairman.

A. M/s. Essbee Auto Industries Pvt. Ltd. (A company promoted to develop and produce, an Indigenous, 1.5 Tons Commercial vehicle)

B. M/s. Essbee Shoes Pvt. Ltd. (A company promoted to take over an existing Footwear Manufacturing Unit with Italian & German Machinery and technology, with a capacity to manufacture 2000 Pairs of Shoes /day)

C. M/s. Essbee Motels and Inns Pvt. Ltd. (A company promoted to put up a FOUR STAR Hotel in the City of Hyderabad) Has promoted the in-house Design, Engineering and fabrication Unit in the name of M/s. Hitech Engineers, catering to the in house requirements of Design, Development and Manufacture of Process Plant Machinery, Machine Elements and Prototypes. Has promoted the company M/s. Icon Properties Inc., based in Lancaster, California, U.S.A.

( The company is involved in the Development and Construction of Single Homes Complexes and Multi Apartment Complexes.)

Mr. Lalit Bhasin, Managing Partner, Bhasin & Co., Advocates, Delhi – Mumbai, India

President, Society of Indian Law Firms
Hony. General Secretary, The Bar Association of India
Executive President, India Law Foundation
Chairman - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (India Chapter)
Chairman – Services Export Promotion
Council – Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India
Honorary Life Member, International Bar Association

Lalit Bhasin started his law practice in 1962 and has developed Bhasin & Co. as one of the largest law firms in North India. Mr. Bhasin’s areas of specialization in dispute resolution practice include Employment & Labour Laws, Corporate Law (Formation of Joint Venture Companies, Foreign Collaborations, Amalgamations, Mergers, Acquisitions, Disinvestment); Laws relating to Information Technology; Contract and Conveyancing; Constitutional Law; Banking and Finance; Consumer Protection Laws; Disputes relating to foreign Investment e.g. Shareholders Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, Agency and Distribution Agreements, Technology Transfer Agreements.

Arvind Mahajan, Executive Director - Business Advisory Services, Head of Energy & Natural Resources.

Qualification : MBA,IIM,Ahmedabad, Global Program of Management Development, ACME-Michigan Business School

Experience : Arvind has over 30 years experience in consulting and industry, with primary focus on business strategy including entry and growth strategy, operations strategy and performance improvement, technology enabled transformation and organization and change services. He has worked with a diversified portfolio of industries with significant experience in energy sector including oil and gas (upstream and downstream),renewables and power.

He has been Partner for over 15 years with firms such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers, IBM Business Consulting Services and AF Ferguson & Co (Deloitte) before his current position at KPMG. He headed the strategy consulting practice at these firms. His industry experience was with Procter and Gamble in business planning and finance.

He has directed, project managed and conducted more than 300 assignments, for multinational and Indian clients in India, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe

Other information : Fellow of Institute of Management Consultants of India. His articles have been published and his views quoted frequently in the economic/business press, electronic and online media He has also been invited as a speaker at a number of industry forums and seminars, business schools, etc in India and overseas.

Amit Chugh founded Cosmos Ignite Innovations as a Sustainable Entrepreneurship venture to pioneer 'Energy Access' to the millions at the Bottom of the pyramid - through a corporate business model instead of the drip feed of charity alone.

Cosmos Ignite is widely recognized as the 1st global start-up to design, manufacture and market innovative low-cost Solar LED lighting & Micro-Energy devices and systems specially designed for the BoP. It is registered in India with an aim to provide local ‘green’ jobs and entrepreneurship development.

Having started as an international partnership from its incubation at Stanford University, Cosmos Ignite’s vision is to help 'Removal of Darkness' through innovations in products, markets & business models. It is now already delivering impact to over 100,000 people across India, Africa and Latin America, and aims to reach 20 million users over the next 5 years.

Amit believes that the exciting learnings from this, opens doors to meeting further basic needs and delivering direct benefits to the lives & livelihoods of millions - through the discipline of commercial enterprise - while simultaneously contributing to climate change mitigation.

This Triple-bottom-line approach is now being extended to a group portfolio of Renewable Energy across Solar & Hydro power.

The Solar value chain includes larger scale systems & community stations being launched; along with a major backwards integration project developing 300 MW Solar Cell manufacture for Rural Electrification.

The sustainable Small Hydro power business has its first 10 MW project under construction amidst snow-clad Himalayan peaks, towards an aggregation of 100 MW of projects of green energy.

Amit is an MBA and Economics graduate having been educated at the Doon School, St Xavier’s College Bombay University, Oxford University and TA Pai Institute. His work experience includes a wide ranging multinational corporate career in Rural Marketing & General Management, after which he returned to India to lead the Renewable Energy group ranging from Solar to Hydro energy.

Amit’s work has received wide coverage, in the Economist, Le Monde, Business Week, Economic Times, Business Standard, Financial Express and others; and he is the recipient of a profile by Time magazine.

Mr. Gautam Mahajan, President, Customer Value Foundation

Mr. Gautam Mahajan is an internationally acclaimed expert in strategy, general management (including Customer Value) and globalisation. He is President of Inter-Link Services Pvt. Ltd., an International Consulting Firm operating since 1987 and helping clients from America, Europe, Asia, Australia and India. Inter-Link helps companies enter Asia and India, especially in entry strategy, technology transfer, marketing, business development, and operations, and Indian companies with strategy, globalization, changing the mind-set and thinking through the future. Gautam has started the Customer Value Foundation to help companies with Total Customer Value Management (TOTAL CVM). His book Customer Value Investment: Formula for Sustained Business Success is a best seller. Mr Mahajan spoke to CEO’s from 25 countries on Customer Value in Spain in January 2008, and in Florida in February; and in June introduced TOTAL CVM to two US companies. This program is running successfully at the Tatas and Godrej. He is consulting in Europe in October.

His recent projects have been building a India strategy for the Tuck School of Business and for a major European distribution and sourcing company including acquisition in India, an European chemical manufacturer, a large US manufacturing company.

Mr. Mahajan has global affiliates, particularly in Customer Value Management. He has started an exciting new business concept called Total CVM. His associate in Argenine is the former Minister for Industries there.

Among overseas companies Mr Mahajan has worked with CVM associates are GE Capital, Stamford, CT; State farm Insurance, Bloomington, Ill; and Wisconsin Energies, Milwaukee, Wis.

Companies Inter-Link has been associated with include companies in the Fortune 50 list (some are not listed due to confidential agreements:
AUSTRALIA: BTR-Nylex EUROPE: APEAL •Azelis • Barodan • Bischof & Klein • Chicago Metallic • Cobelplast • Continental Can Europe • DRG? • Euromonitor Consultancy • European Union • Husky •Israel Chemicals • Klockner • Rexam (Bowater) • Solvay? • Sidel • Uniloy INDIA: Apollo Tyres • Bhutan Polythene Company • Chambal Fertilisers • Fibre Foils • Government of India • Gujarat Gas • Indian Aluminium • ITC • L&T • India Software Group • Khaitan Group • Mahanagar Gas• MilkFood • Orient Packaging • Pan Foods •Steel Authority of India •Uniplas •Tata Chemicals• Tata Fertilisers •Tata Power• Voltas • Zuari Industries JAPAN: Sumitomo • Toyo Seikan • Fanuc.

KOREA: A-Star • Korea Telecomm • Chean-An Knit • Hankook Dynamics • Mee Kang US: Alcoa • Continental Can • duPont• GE • GTE• Element K • International Finance Corp • MindBranch • Novartis• The Pace Consultants • Pioneer Hybrid Seed • Reliance Insurance •Reynolds Aluminium • Rockwell • Sealed Air • Sonoco • Schotland Business Research • Sun Micro • TransFresh•Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth • University of Wisconsin Valmont •Xerox• Wearever

Mr. Mahajan worked in the US for 17 years with Continental Group, the world’s largest packaging company (then a Fortune 50 company) and ran their plastics businesses. He is one of the inventors of the PET petaloid bottle and noise control kits. He commercialized the half liter PET bottle, aseptic products such as puddings and yogurts and the co extruded plastics business including ready to eat foods and soups. He spent time in California in 1998-2000 helping British dotcom companies.

Mr. Mahajan is past Regional President of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, and was Chairman, PlastIndia Committee, Vice President All India Plastics Manufacturers Association, Trustee Plastics Institute of America. He was a member of the US India think tank. He is currently National Executive VP of IACC. Among his honors is a Fellowship from Harvard Business School and Illinois Institute of Technology. He also has 18 US patents. He was honored by the Illinois Institute of Technology with its Distinguished Alumni award. Recently, he spoke at the Center for American and International Law in Dallas to an audience of 35 countries on India, at Berlin in 2006 at the European Fine Chemicals Conference, the IACC-CAIL-US National Law Institute seminar in Delhi in May 2007. He spoke to CEO’s from 26 European companies on Customer Value.He delivered an address at the Schotland conference in February 2008. He will be conducting a workshop on Total CVM in Los Angeles in June 2008. He was written up in the Wall Street Journal for his study on the American Business Experience in India

Mr Mahajan is a graduate of IIT Madras, where he was an Institute Merit Scholar. He has a Master’s degree in Mechanics and has completed his PhD coursework from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and has an MBA from Suffolk University.

Mr. Mahajan is on the board of Gilbert Tweed and Marigold, a subsidiary of Azelis SA

Mr. Mahajan has spoken earlier at the US India Joint Business Council in Washington on the American Business Experience in India, an Inter-Link –Xerox study that was featured in the Wall Street Journal. He has been a featured speaker at several international conferences.

More information can be had from Inter-Link website: www.interlinkindia.net or by writing to Mahajan@interlinkindia.net (telephone +91 98100 60368)