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BI TrailBlazer NAMRITA SEHGAL Director of Internet Marketing - Taj Group Alma Mater: Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management Ethnicity: Indian Namrita Sehgal is a strategic digital leader adept at crafting compelling customer experiences and delivering next gen business solutions at the intersection of digital, brand and technology that creates a competitive advantage for the organization. Recognised for driving business transformation by designing innovative digital strategies and digital centres of excellence utilising a defined maturity, capability and competency model that helps in re-skilling people, process digitization, governance and performance management. NEELAM DHAWAN Managing Director and Director, HP India Pvt Ltd. Alma Mater: St. Stephen’s College and Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University Ethnicity: Indian Neelam Dhawan is the Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard India. She has countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest leverage from HP’s Services, Personal Systems and Imaging & Printing businesses. With a portfolio that extends to offshore activities, BPO, Software Engineering, Research and IT Services, She is focused on shaping the company’s overall business agenda and leading its strategy and corporate development efforts to make HP the most admired company in India. Previously, She was the Managing Director of Microsoft India, a position she held from 2005 to 2008. During her tenure, she sharpened Microsoft’s strategic focus and improved its operating efficiency and execution, as well as its financial performance and customer focus. Prior to this assignment, she held a variety of successful leadership positions in leading Indian IT companies, including HCL and IBM.