Breached

Amrita Verma Chowdhury is the author of ‘Faking It’, an art crime thriller about fake modern and contemporary Indian art, and ‘Breach’ a cyber thriller. She holds engineering degrees from IIT Kanpur and UC Berkeley, where she was a Jane Lewis Fellow, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon- Tepper Business School. Her work as an engineer in Silicon Valley led to seven US patents for semi-conductor fabrication- something to show for those bad-haired days. She has done Strategy Consulting and Board Effectiveness work in the US and Australia and has spent long nights fitting five-syllable words inside two-by-two squares. She has worked in the rarefied bastions of Ivy League education bringing together ideas and people. She currently works in publishing. She lives in Mumbai with her husband Sumit, their two children Shoumik and Aishani, and an assortment of pets including a cocker spaniel, a guinea pig and two turtles. She loves travelling, baking cupcakes with her daughter and hearing from her readers.

Neeraj Roy is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hungama Digital Media. Under his leadership, Hungama today is the largest Digital Media Company in South Asia. Neeraj was recently voted amongst the ‘Top Ten mobiThinkers’ and ‘50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment’ globally. Neeraj was also awarded the Sun Microsystems- Economic Times Young Leader award in 2001 and voted as 25 young leaders in the new millennium by Business India. He is an active speaker at various international forums as Mobile World Congress, CTIA, World Handset Forum etc and on several domestic and international committees advising on the global Mobile & Digital Entertainment economy. Neeraj has served as Chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum - Asia (MEF) and is currently Vice President of IAA – India Chapter. A serial entrepreneur, Neeraj has incubated several businesses such as Hungama.com, which is South Asia’s largest Digital Entertainment service with over 20 million active consumers offering an integrated Movie and Music Service. Neeraj is excited about the prospects of the Indian digital economy as it prepares to transition to 600 million consumers over the next few years and is gearing up to cater to the needs of the world’s youngest nation as it embraces the mobile internet

Arjun S Ravi is the editor and co-founder of NH7.in, the influential music and alternative lifestyle magazine that has a finger on the pulse of what's new and exciting in urban Indian counterculture. He has been a music journalist for over a decade and has written for several national and international publications, including a long-standing, authoritative column with TheSunday Guardian. NH7.in is a part of Only Much Louder, the music and alternative lifestyle firm behind some of the country's best known live and content properties like the Bacardi NH7 Weekender (described by The Guardian as "India's answer to Glastonbury), the TV series The Dewarists, A Summer's Day (headlined by Norah Jones), and the Invasion festival (headlined by the likes of The Prodigy and David Guetta). Arjun is a director at OML, where he manages the content development side of operations with the firm's other partners

"Sumeli Chatterjee, is the head of marketing, media and insights for MTV India and MTV Indies. With a career that spans over a decade, she brings with her a potpourri of rich experience across brand management, channel marketing, business strategy, portfolio management, sales planning and management consulting across several categories. She stepped into the entertainment industry in 2010 with MTV India. She has been a part of the core team driving MTV’s transition from a reality TV to a multidimensional brand and with a multiplatform presence. At MTV India, she has been instrumental in driving MTV’s brand equity through several new properties/shows, award winning marketing concepts and the recent launch of Pepsi MTV Indies as a platform to showcase independent sub-cultures. She has also co-authored several MTV Insights Publications including MTV Power of One, MTV Age of Sinocence and most recently, MTV The Curious Minds studies. A marketing and strategy specialist (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Indore, she started her career with Coca-Cola India where she has managed leading beverage brands - Thums Up and Maaza; and had also been a part of the core team responsible for New Product Development and Innovations.