The India Construction Festival 2019
In line with its aim to enter the $5 trillion club economy by 2025 – which is highly dependent on real estate and infrastructure – the Modi government has taken a multi-modal approach towards infrastructure development in the country over the last five years. Since 2014, a conducive environment was provided by the federal government for the national and international players.
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Keynote Speaker
Stephen Jones
Senior Director, Industry Insights Research Dodge Data & Analytics
At Dodge Data & Analytics, Steve Jones focuses on how emerging economic, practice and technology trends are transforming the global design and construction industry. In addition to hundreds of speaking engagements around the world and numerous articles in industry publications, he produces Dodge Data & Analytics’ SmartMarket Reports on key industry trends, which are read by millions worldwide and frequently cited as authoritative references.
Steve holds a MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He has a track record of active leadership in many industry initiatives and serves as a judge for numerous industry awards.
Before joining Dodge, Steve was Vice President of Primavera Systems (now part of Oracle), the global leader in project management software. Prior to that, Steve spent 19 years in creative and management roles with top architectural/engineering firms, most recently as a Principal and Board of Directors member with Burt Hill, one of the largest A/E firms in the US (now merged with Stantec).
Who’s Speaking
Pushkar Kulkarni
Principal - Infrastructure Private Investments
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Pushkar Kulkarni is an Electronics Engineer from VJTI with a Management degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of management Studies, Mumbai. Before joining CPPIB, Pushkar served as the Managing Director of Serco India with a board position. Serco was the 100% subsidiary of the British services firm Serco PLC, a FTSE 100 company then. Prior to Serco Pushkar worked for 12+ years as the CEO of an Infrastructure Technology company, Efkon which was the 100% Indian subsidiary of a European Construction & Infrastructure giant, Strabag. During his times at Efkon he represented India at the International Standards Org (ISO) on several technical committees responsible for communication standards in road & transport infrastructure.
Prior experience of Pushkar has been in Infrastructure broadly covering toll roads and traffic systems both from a technology and operations perspective. During his tenure he was involved in several M&A transactions including the disposal of Serco India post the parents’ decision to move out of India. He has worked on several marquee Infrastructure projects including:
1. Bandra – Worli Sea Link
2. Yamuna Expressway
3. Nationwide ETC
4. Indore BRTS
Post joining CPPIB he was responsible for the setting up CPPIBs Infrastructure practice in India. He also led the team that conceptualized and created India’s first private Infrastructure Trust (IndInfravit) in partnership with Allianz Capital Partners & L&T.
Pushkar Kulkarni
Canada Pension Plan Investme...
Akhil Gupta
Executive Director
Afcons Infrastructure Limited
Mr Akhil Gupta is a graduate in Civil Engineering from IIT, Roorkee and post graduate in
management from IIT, Delhi. He has more than 36 years of experience with large corporations
in Corporate Management, Business Development and has successfully executed several large
value infrastructure and industrial projects. Currently as an Executive Director-Operations at
Afcons Infrastructure Limited, he is responsible for company’s business in Roads, Railways &
Bridges in India, South Asia, Middle East and Africa. Before joining Afcons in 2014, he led
Petron Civil successfully as the Managing Director for 3 years. Apart from this, he had long
stints with Punj Lloyd Ltd and IRCON International Ltd.
He has proven track record of developing, training and leading large teams for management
and execution of large value infrastructure and industrial projects both in India and abroad.
Analytical and keen student of Construction Industry, Mr Gupta has presented papers on
Construction management at domestic and international conferences. He has received awards
and recognition for professional excellence from various organizations.
Akhil Gupta
Afcons Infrastructure Limited
Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai
President
PMA
Born on 15 July 1947, Dr. Pillai graduated in Electrical Engineering from Madras University,
underwent Management Programme at Harvard Business School, and obtained PhD from Pune
University and D.Sc from Tumkur University. Dr. Pillai’s four decades of experience in ISRO
and DRDO under the great visionary leaders Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, Prof. Satish Dhawan and Dr.
APJ Abdul Kalam made him a Technology Leader in the field of launch vehicles and guided
missiles. His contributions to the successful development of SLV-3 as a core team member and
evolution of PSLV configuration for ISRO have been remarkable. Fmr. Chief Controller DRDO
(Special Secretary to Govt. of India) and until recently, Distinguished Prof. at ISRO, he is
currently the DRDO Dr. D S Kothari Chair (Research and Innovation), IIT – Madras.
Dr. Pillai’s skills in networking multiple institutions for the development of critical missile
technologies overcoming denial regimes enabled realization of Agni, Prithvi, Nag and Akash
missiles under the IGMDP as its Programme Director.
BrahMos Aerospace is a unique Joint Venture, first of its kind between India and Russia to
design, develop, produce and market the most advanced supersonic cruise missile. His
outstanding leadership qualities made India proud to possess the fastest, highly precise and the
most potent missile BRAHMOS which is now inducted in the Indian Armed Forces. BRAHMOS
is a world leader in the family of Cruise Missiles surpassing those in the developed countries. As
the founder CEO&MD of the Joint Venture, Dr. Pillai is regarded as the “Father of
BrahMos” which has become a role model for establishing joint ventures between the countries.
Is globally regarded as a project and program management guru, and has authored books like &
The Success Mantra of BrahMos & and Revolution in Leadership.
Dr Ritesh Tiwari
Director Highways & Structures
Egis
Dr. Ritesh Chandrashekhar Tiwari has over 20 years of experience in Metro, Rail & Road Sector,
Smart City, Master Planning, and Multi-modal Transit Hub for Engineering, BRT, PRT, Mono
Rail, LRT, Ropeways and Consultancy domains. He has held senior positions in leading global
companies of repute. Dr. Tiwari is a Doctor of Philosophy in Structural Engineering, M.TECH.
IN STRUCTURAL Engineering, M. Tech in Geotechnical & Geo-environmental Engineering,
BE Civil and MBA. Currently he is the Director – Rail, Roads & Structures at Egis India and is
considered one of the best minds in the business with a futuristic vision for the sector on the
whole.
Dr Ritesh Tiwari
Egis
Katsuo Matsumoto
Chief Representative
JICA
Mr. Matsumoto joined the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) in 1990. In 1996, he was appointed as Representative at Bangkok office and in 2008, as Deputy Chief Representative at Malaysia office. He worked primarily on Japanese ODA loans to Mekong region countries and South Asia. In June 2018, he was appointed as a chief representative in JICA India. He was responsible for several of the largest Japanese ODA projects, such as the Greater Mekong Subregion: East-West Corridor Project and railway projects, such as the Bangkok Metro and the Bosphorus Rail Tube Crossing Project in Turkey. In India, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor and Chennai Bengaluru Industrial Corridor as well as ODA projects are under his responsibility. He graduated in 1990 with B.A. in Law from Hitotsubashi University and in 1995 with an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia
Katsuo Matsumoto
JICA
Dr. Pradeep N
Industry Manager - Utilities, Transport and Mining
Esri India Technologies Limited
Dr. Pradeep N
Esri India Technologies Limited
Sandeep Singh
Managing Director
Tata Hitachi
Mr. Sandeep Singh is the Managing Director of Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company
Private Limited (Tata Hitachi), a leader in the Indian Construction Equipment Industry. He joined Tata
Hitachi in August 2015 where he aims to guide the company through the next phase of growth.
Mr. Singh has over 32 years of experience in sales, marketing, customer support and general
management roles across automotive, tractor and construction equipment industries.
- He has spent 22 years at Toyota where his last position in India was as Dy. MD & Chief Operating Officer in 2014. Prior to joining Tata Hitachi, he was based at Bangkok, Thailand where he was responsible for strategy planning operations of Toyota Motor Asia Pacific
- Mr. Singh began his career with the Mahindra group where he worked in the Tractor and Automotive industry. He also had a 5 year stint in the Construction Equipment industry with JCB India, where he was the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing.
Mr. Singh is an engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Surat.
Sandeep Singh
Tata Hitachi
Siva Subramanian
Director - Global Infrastructure Ratings
India Ratings & Research
Mr. Siva Subramanian is currently working with India Ratings and Research (Fitch Group) as
Director – Global Infrastructure Ratings. Mr. Subramanian possess close to twelve years of
extensive experience in project feasibility analysis, project cost assessment, means of project
finance and proposal drafting. Expertise and background in preparation of detailed project
reports, presentations on projects, initiatives and financial models.
Mr. Subramanian’s experience includes assessment of regulatory and policy environment ,
evaluating financial health of infrastructure project vehicles in the area of ports, airports and
roads. Mr. Subramanian was involved in various credit rating processes of state government
entities, urban local bodies, and educational institutes as well.
Siva Subramanian
India Ratings & Research
B K Arora
General Manager
Afcons Infrastructure Ltd
More than 37 years of Experience in Construction and related activities of Infrastructure Projects within the country and outside. Having experience of executing specialized heavy foundations like Large
Dia Piles, Diaphragm wall and Well foundation Marine Construction of jetty and Wharf with Custom made Gentry and Barges.
Segmental Construction with Launching truss. Executed Bridges, Flyover,Road, Metro Elevated structure, Underground station, Underground cut and cover tunnel for Service Corridors as Project Manager/
Co-ordinator. Commenced Company’s International operations and developed business at Middle East. Extensively travelled African Countries tosource Business in African Countries. Keen interest in Contract related matters.
B K Arora
Afcons Infrastructure Ltd
Bharat Parekh
Executive Director, Infrastructure Research
CLSA
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facilitate cross border capital flows and bridge China to the world and the world to China.