Kiruba Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging Pvt Ltd and Director of F5iveTechnologies. He has 13 years of experience in the Internet space. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.

Kiruba is a Director (designate) at Wikimedia India, the foundation that runs Wikipedia.

He is a technology columnist at The New Indian Express and Business Standard Newspaper .

Kiruba loves teaching and has taught at Asian College of Journalism, Madras Advertising Club and IIT Madras.

Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behindsuccessful events like Proto.in, MobileMondays and BlogCamp.

His first book is titled ‘Wikipedia : A Beginner’s Guide’ and his second, which will be launched in February 2010 is titled, ‘Engage : How Global Organizations Successfully Leverage Social Media’.

Benedict Gnaniah (age 51), completed his post graduation in Political Science from the Madras Christian College, then got into management studies specializing in Advertising from Besant Raj Consultancy. His first assignment was with The Telegraph Kolkota (Ananda Bazar Patrika Group). His paper “Industrial Renaissance in West Bengal” was commended by WBIDC and used to attract investments into West Bengal. Then he joined The Times of India Group and was instrumental in starting the Hyderabad operations played a key role in starting the Economic Times edition at Hyderabad.

After a 12 year stint in the media he moved into mainstream advertising and brand development and worked the Apollo Hospitals account for 6 years and handled other major business like Pondicherry Tourism, Sundaram Mutual, Philips Medical Division, Castrol Textile lubricants, Sundaram Home Finance, Color Plus (media), etc

He then started a relationship marketing firm ‘Petit marketing’ specializing in direct mailing, telesales and in organizing events. He worked for accounts such as IBM, Microsoft, Apollo Pharmacy, My TVS. While on this assignment he developed a promotional mailer integrating Mass media and Direct mail for a leading telecom company in association with Ogilvy1. This mailer went on win a bronze at the Cannes.

In the year 2003 he got into education, working with children with learning difficulties.

Rajasekar has over 6 years experience in the Information Technology industry with a clear focus on implementing value added business solutions in BI Space. He has international experience working in Australia,UAE and Indian Markets.Rajasekar is a specialist in implementing Business Intelligence and Analytical Solutions using SAP Business Objects and Microsoft BI Solutions and also SAP Certified Business Objects Consultant.

Rajasekar is an active participant in the growing SAP Community and his interest are blogging,wikipedia,Social Media and Networking.

He holds a Bachelore Degree in Mathematics from University of Madras.

Rajasekar now working as a Microsoft BI Consultant for a Entertainment Company in Chennai.

Ramasubramanian Alwarsamy aka Ram is an aspiring entrepreneur who loves to play with ideas. There is nothing more exciting than a concept or product development to him. He has been successful in developing software, media and internet products.

After serving for more than 10 years in the Software, Media, Internet and Finance domains he is now preparing himself for his next adventure.

He is in the process of setting up a business consulting firm “The Unorthodox”. Throw him a business challenge and he would love to find a solution, at times he is successful too!!! He is highly passionate about social entrepreneurship.

He is currently involved in developing a knowledge portal Kledge.com and a social networking platform right2sayno.com for people to collaborate on community driven projects, a dream to make everyone realize the hero inside them.

He loves to meet people and make friends. If dreaming big is a crime than he commits that too often.

Prashanth is an energetic little guy with a strong passion for Branding, New Media, Event Management and Social Entrepreneurship. He quizzes, blogs, tweets, loves to meet new people and have interesting conversations. He firmly believes in learning by experimentation and loves to take initiatives. He always has time for a joke and loves to keep the folks around him happy and cheerful.

After stints in content writing, social media marketing and non-profit volunteering, he’s now a post-grad student at ITM Business School, Chennai.

Felix Chandran is a Bachelor in Business Administration but his heart and soul lies in turning dreams to reality. He has been doing this by using art and technology. He served on the faculty of Digiscape Gallery at the age 19 but gave up his job to complete his formal education. His experiments include working in advertising and delivering lectures on animation and film making. His technical skills have proven ground in projects in India and UK. He believes in solving his logical problems creatively and claims to be a ‘right brained anomaly’. His technical skills lies in various aspects of film making, advertising, branding and loves to work on anything creatively challenging. An open source software enthusiast, he loves to work equally on technically challenging projects. His hobbies include RnD, browsing, reading books, listening to music, playing his guitar, riting stories, songs and poems.

His favourite quote is “Dream. And work on them all your life. Cause in realising your dreams, you break boundaries.”

Sandeep is a professional with 9 years of experience in Marketing and Advertising. He passed out of MBA from Amrita School of Business and a PGDAM from the Madras Advertising Club.

Starting his career in a Bank, he later joined a Marketing company. He then shifted to a BPO that services the Medical industry. After that, he worked for a Research firm followed by a stint in an Advertising agency. Sandeep now runs his own Activation agency, PROPEL.

His interests include Blogging, reading travelogues and Biographies.

Eternally hungry for new ‘funda’, he tortures his cab-mates with audio books; drives away his room-mates by watching quiz programmes in tv; Fond reader of graphic novels; involved in the training circuit in Chennai. Secret dreams include conducting a ‘seduction/dating’ workshop. Does a quiz series in twitter called the ‘Jugaad’ Quiz and is working to take TED to more and more people in India.

Joseph Sam Jayanth is a mechanical engineer by education and a marketing analyst by profession. He gets involved in anything that lets him meet new people, make friends and travel. He loves to read novels, write short stories, blog about humorous experiences and listen to almost all genres of music. He is passionate about trying out new things and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.

His motto in life is “Make one person smile at a time, eventually the world would be a happy place, more or less like a smiley face!”

Sreraam finished his bachelors in visual communication and wandered into the media industry.He has always had a huge passion towards photography.

He is very talkative and a good listener who loves socializing .He is a typical taurean, who enjoys trying different cuisines.A fitness freak, A Person who loves music and derives his inspiration from the different genres he listens to.
When words become unclear, he will focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, he will be content with silence.

Nimit Jain is Analyst by profession and Film-Maker by passion. Leadership and creativity is what defines him the best.

Nimit was Student General Secretary, IIT Madras for 2008-09. He is a multifaceted event organizer. He was awarded with prestigious Motorola Prize for the best overall performance in Curricular and Co-curricular activities for the period 2004-09.He represented India at AIUYF 2008 in Australia based on his demonstrated interest in sustainability, leadership qualities and academic results