NK is a graduate in Electrical Engineering with over 29+ years of experience across different industry verticals & geographies in consulting, Design, Build and Management of Data Center Infrastructure, Managed IT Services & Data Center Facilities with 14+ Years in Leadership & domain expertise positions.

He is one of the known Data Center Experts in India who has designed and implemented 100+ Data Centers of different types and capacity in India and abroad and have detailed understanding of Data Center Infrastructure in Nuts & Bolts level. He has worked with Global Leaders like IBM, 3i Infotech, Religare, Schneider Uptime Institute etc and has been regular speaker in different events like DCD, Data Center by BE, CIO, DCtSummit, DC Nepal Summit, CII Event, Healthcare Summit, Facility Management, CII and other leadership events.

NK has special interest in finding innovative ways of finding solutions to problems & extending guidance to customers across Data Center Life Cycle for “Best Business Value”.

John is an Australia-based business professional with over 20 years’ local experience in the Asian Datacentre industry leading businesses focussing on Engineering Infrastructure Consultancy, Design, Operations, Certification and Training. He has extensive experience of working in Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, US and UK with global client groups on the design and operation of critical facilities in the Hyperscale, Colocation, Telecommunications and Financial Services sectors. John’s most recent full-time role was as Managing Director, South Asia for Uptime Institute, prior to this he held positions including Technical Director for AECOM Singapore, Senior Associate for Arup (Australia) Ltd and Executive Director for DSCO in Hong Kong. In 2019 John was awarded an Advanced Professional Diploma for successfully completing the globally recognised Financial Times Non-Executive Director Program and commenced a Datacentre Education Specialist role with DCPro (Singapore).

Rajesh Adhikary, Partner at Transcend Ventures is a diversely experienced Investments and Business Management Professional. He has over two decades of solid experience encompassing Private Equity Investment Management, Board level engagements, operationalizing strategic plans in investee companies, working with investee companies on value migration, business development, M&A, divestiture of non-core assets, profitable growth and implementation of exit strategies. He has served as a Director/Vice President at Fitch Ratings India with responsibility spanning business development, credit risk analysis and key account management. He has also worked in the non-banking financial services sector with role encompassing planning, control and credit function.

Mr. Adhikary is a Bachelor in Engineering, Post Graduate in Business Administration and a Charter holder from The CFA Institute.

Bharat Menditatta is a graduate engineer and MBA from IIM (C) with over 25 years of experience at Leadership role with various Corporates in India & Abroad in fields of Strategic Alliance’s , Supply chain, Data Center Infrastructure & Operations, Projects and Real Estate Consulting.

With 12+ years’ core domain experience in Data Center working with Bharti Airtel, Nxtra Data Center and L&W, India. Expertise knowledge in Business Development of new customers, New Green field Data Center projects from land selection, Design & Build partner selection, Project management and Infrastructure Operations. Have been instrumental in development of 10 Lakh sqft + Data centers in various geographies like Pune, Chennai, Manesar , Noida ,Mumbai , Bangalore along with other Tier 2 cities.

Certified Data Centre Professional in Design and operations.

At present working as Consultant for Data center companies with focus on Total Cost of Ownership, Reducing TAT as per Go to Market Strategy of customers and End to End Solutions.