Shashi Ullal

Shashi Ullal is Chairman of Digital Partners India. Shashi Ullal is one of the IT personalities associated with IT since its inception. He was President and Managing Director of HECL till 2001, when he was made the Vice chairman, which position he held untill he retired in April,2002.  Ullal’s longest stint with an IT company has been around 19 years with IBM. His other major assignments include country Marketing Manager, DCM Data Products and Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Division of Blue Star Ltd. Prior to HECL, he was Director on the Boards of Modi Olivetti and Alcatel Modi.

He was on the Telecom committees of the three Trade bodies until 2001.In 2001,ASSOCHAM elected him as the Chairman of the Telecom Convergence Committee, which he relinquished in August,2002.Currently,he is a member of that Committee.

Apart from these, Ullal has also been a speaker for the industry. He was also a member of the National IT Council of the CII.

Satish Jha

Satish is one of the founders of Tarahaat that has been acknowledged as one of the pioneering models in using ICTs for Development He started the Baramati Initiatives in 2001 with the support of M Kusakabe of The World Bank and Sharad Pawar, a former chief minister of Maharashtra who has turned his constituency of Baramati as a model of development. Baramati Initiatives is an annul event and is now jointly organized by Digital Partners India and Baramati Institute of Information Technology. More>>

Dorothy Gordon

Dorothy Gordon, the Chair at Digital Partners Ghana, has over 20 years of experience as a development practitioner in Africa and Asia. In addition to her current development work she also lectures on non-profit management at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. She serves on a number of boards including that of the International Society for Third Sector Research (www.istr.org). Her academic background includes an MPhil from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.