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• Mr. Romesh Kumar Puri is an Officer of the Indian Economic Service. He is a Postgraduate in Economics from Himachal Pradesh University. • Presently serving as Joint Director in DPIIT looking after E-Commerce, Internal trade, and Open Network of Digital Commerce. • He has been closely working on some of the key policies in emerging areas of E-Commerce while also looking at ways to enhance and strengthen Retail trade. • He has in depth experience in trade and research across sectors and has headed multiple studies as part of the Tariff Commission • He also has substantial experience in Trade negotiations and has been working on FTAs across competing nations • Overall, he has more than 30 years of experience in various Departments of the Government of India including Labour Bureau, National Sample Survey organisation, Tariff Commission, Finance Commission, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and DPIIT.

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Ruthraiah Thulasi is the Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Tata CLiQ. With nearly 22 years of experience, Ruthraiah brings in-depth knowledge and expertise in technology and architecture strategy, enterprise architecture, and digital and data enablement. He has been involved in designing, architecting, engineering, and building scalable IT products and platforms across the financial services, banking, and retail sectors. Prior to joining Tata CLiQ, Ruthraiah held several senior management positions at BCG, Jio Payments, and Flipkart. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from VIT, Vellore.

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Pradeep Kumar Sampath is a thought leader, accomplished business leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in Cards, Payments and other Fintech sectors. Currently he is the CEO and co-founder of nStore Technologies, a micro-marketplace platform for small and medium retail businesses. He has been in this role since April 2018. Prior to this, he worked at mRupee (mobile wallet business of Tata) as the Chief Executive Officer from March 2013 to April 2018, where he launched a new open-loop prepaid VISA card in partnership with RB, among other accomplishments. Before that, Pradeep worked as the Vice President Sales (Middle East, Africa) at Opus Consulting Solutions for Electra Card Services Private Limited from April 2010 to February 2013, where he was responsible for the Middle East and Africa business. He has also held positions as Director Sales at Euronet Services India Private Limited, Regional Manager at IBM Global Services India, Senior Sales Executive at Wipro Limited, Senior Sales Manager at Wipro Limited India, and Manager Major Accounts at Network Solutions Limited India. In his various roles, Pradeep has been responsible for sales and business development, launching new products and services, and expanding businesses into new regions. He has worked with a range of products and services, including electronic payments solutions, mobile wallets, network solutions, and more.

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Praveen has 18 years of industry experience including 16 years of Strategy & Business Transformation Consulting experience. He leads Sales Acceleration & Growth Solution for Deloitte Consulting in India primarily focusing on advising clients in the Retail sector. His recent experiences have been in the areas of Digitally enabled Business Transformation, Growth oriented Omni-channel transformation, D2C & e-commerce, Sales transformation through Execution Excellence, Future of Retail etc​