Speaker Profile: Mr. Nitish Pandey

Senior Vice President - Product & Technology, Power2SME

As Chief Technology Officer, Nitish looks after Power2SME’s technical strategies by focusing on delivering customer-ready solutions that are apt and cost-effective. Passionate about coding, he has developed a number ecommerce portals and has worked in the industry for over 20 years designing, developing, deploying, and managing solutions in many industry verticals.

Speaker Profile: Mr. Nirbhay Kant Gargya

Board Member, MSME Business Forum India

Nirbhay has diverse industry experience of more than 20 years, an Engineer with management qualification & Strategic management program from IIM- Calcutta. He is also a Certified Chartered Engineer by Institute of Engineers, India.

He has hands-on experience in Manufacturing, Sales & Business Development, International partner alliances, New product Introduction in different geographies, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement & Supply Chain Management, Global Contracts negotiation & management, Sourcing of Technology / Telecom / Capital Equipment & Raw material / MRO/ Direct Component Development. New Vendor & Product Development has been his key skill. Executed numerous vendor quality audits & improvement process implementations.

Driven many cross-functional assignments, worked on converting services to products- Source to Pay and Order to Cash. Executed many consulting assignments in International trade channels, Dealer -Distributor network development, Cost Optimization projects, Retail Network establishment. Have a pool of skilled SCM & Sourcing professionals with multiple category expertise.

Speaker Profile: Dr. H P Kumar

Former CMD, NSIC & Director - External Affairs, Power2SME

Dr. H.P. Kumar is Director External Affairs at Power2SME and he is spearheading the organization’s objective of building alliance network in the industry. Dr. Kumar will design innovative programmes and framework to enhance Power2SME’s value proposition for SMEs, Suppliers and financial institutions. With rich experience in leading successful and profitable campaigns to benefit SMEs, Dr. Kumar comes with deep knowledge of SME market. Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in dealing with promotion, development and financing of MSMEs, exports and other small & large projects. Prior to joining Power2SME. He was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NSIC (National Small Industries Corporation), a govt. of India enterprise engaged in development and financing of SMEs in India. Under his leadership, NSIC was able to achieve a turnover of 17400 crores and became a dividend paying entity with an excellent MOU rating continuously for 7 years, a spectacular shift, from a loss making CPSU prior to his successful tenure.