Dr. Venkat Sumantran
Venkat Sumantran has spent over 30 years in the auto industry spanning USA, Europe and Asia. He is currently Chairman of Celeris Technologies and serves as advisor to many Fortune 100 corporations. He has founded and led organisations across the spectrum of autos, industrials, defence and information technology. He was Director of R&D for the GM-FIAT alliance in Europe and later served as chief executive of the car business at Tata Motors. Spanning the domains of industry and academia, he has served on the Science Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India. He is a member of the Board of Governors at the IIT Ropar and also an Adjunct Professor at MIT’s MISI. He is a Founder-Director of Chennai City Connect, a think-tank for urban stakeholders. He has a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and a Master’s degree in Management of Technology.
Prof. David Gonsalvez
David Gonsalvez is the CEO and Rector at the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI), an education and research center in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Network (MIT SCALE). Earlier he was in charge of MIT’s Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) in Zaragoza, Spain. Prior to joining MIT’s Global SCALE Network, he had a 20+ year career at General Motors where he was Director of Global Supply Chain Strategy. Dr Gonsalvez has a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Ohio State University
