management: SREI Sahaj E-Village Limited

B.Com Honours Graduate with over 27 years of experience in industry, trade & financial services. Having been the former member of the Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, he has also presided over Calcutta Chamber of Commerce as the President. He has also been a member of Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committee under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He has also been a member of Economic Affairs Sub-committee, Confederation of Indian Industry, Eastern Region. He has been a member of the Steering Committee, Repository of Environmental Activities and Technology, Tata Energy Research Institute.

F.C.A with 49 years of experience in Corporate Management and Finance, he has been President of the Federation of Indian Hire Purchase Association. Also the former President of The Institute of Chartered Accounts of India, he was also the Chairman of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation.

Umang Das is one of the pioneers of the Indian Telecom Industry and was responsible for establishing Cellular Mobile Telephony Business and the 1st Mobile Call in the country in August 1995 at Calcutta while he was managing Modi Telstra. He has been the Managing Director of Spice Telecom – offering Cellular mobile Services in various parts of the country. Subsequently as Group President of Spice Global Businesses he contributed establishing the Group’s Business internationally.

He joined SREI – Quippo Group as Managing Director & CEO of SREI Infocomm Services Ltd. With the merger of the Group’s Passive Infra Co. Quippo Telecom with WTTIL (Tata Group), he is the President of Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd. having over 30000 Towers across the country, and is responsible for spearheading all the new Business initiatives of the Group in the field of Total Telecom Infrastructure enablement for Mobile Operators.

Presently Mr. Umang Das is the Chairman of the COAI Infrastructure Committee. He has also been the Chairman of GSM India. Besides being a Member of the ASSOCHAM Management Committee, he is also the Chairman of the e-Governance and IT Committee. He is also a Member of the Managing Committees of CII & FICCI and Chairman of FICCI’s Telecom Infra Committee. Mr. Umang Das is also appointed as the Chairman - Committee on Telecom Infrastructure of CMAI (The Communication Media and IT Association of India) - the only integrated association in India for IT and Telecom
He has been the President of the Rotary Club of New Delhi and is leading the Rotary Initiative towards Digital Education and Corporate Sector Social Services. On the social service front, he is also on the Board of Trustees of the Digamber Jain Mahila Ashram, Saraswati Vidyalaya and many other such social institutions involved in the upliftment of the Girl Child.

Mr Das is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad and an Electrical / Electronics Engineer form the Delhi College of Engineering.

He has over 43 years of experience in Commercial and Investment Banking. He was the Executive Director in UTI Bank (presently known as AXIS Bank), Mumbai since May 2002. He has extensive exposure in the areas of International Banking and has also worked in SBI London for 3 years and in Washington D. C. for 5 years. He has achieved expertise in the areas of Corporate Finance, International Business, Retail Banking, Project Financing, and Balance Sheet Management among others.

Harekrishna Misra is a Professor in the area of IT & Information Systems at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). He is an Electronics and Communication Engineer, and has Masters Degree in Software Systems from BITS-Pilani, has Post-graduate Diploma in Business Management in Systems and Operations Management from XIM-Bhubaneswar. He also holds a doctorate degree from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, in the area of Information Systems Management. He has around 30 years of experience in industry and academia in the fields of IT infrastructure management, database management, and communication systems and networks. His current research interests include software engineering (process modelling), e-governance, information systems management in development organizations, e-Business for rural enterprises and ICT enabled value chain in rural enterprises. He has widely published in national and international reputed and refereed Journals. He has also participated in technical as well as programme committees and presented papers in national and international refereed academic conferences.

He is a member of IEEE, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Association of Information Systems, USA. He is in the reviewers panel of the Computing Reviews-ACM, USA.

He has been a member of the Advisory Committee of The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission, Government of Gujarat. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board constituted by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is also in the steering committee constituted by the Government of Nagaland to set up an Academic Institute of Excellence to cater to the needs of Cooperative Sector in the North-East Region.