The Jury

Dr. Moni is a well known senior technocrat in

informatics and e-Governance. His publications have generated academic and

research interests in the areas of regional, agricultural and informatics

development. He is instrumental in pioneering synergizing of informatics

with agricultural science, geography and library science for achieving

profound RoI in terms of people, process and knowledge. His credentials

include “Seva Ratna Award 2004” from the Centenarian Trust (Chennai) and

“Bhugol Bhushan Award 2006” from the Deccan Geographical Society India (Pune).

Prior to taking charge of the Mumbai Indians,

Ashish worked as President and Group CIO at Reliance. In this role, he was

in charge of the IT applications framework for the Reliance group. He also

acted as a CEO and MD of Reliance Infosolutions. Ashish has been

consistently ranked amongst the best CIOs in the world by renowned global

media companies. Ashish is known as one of the five founders of the National

Stock Exchange, which is considered amongst the top three markets in the

world by number of trades per day and the largest single stock futures

market in the world.

Raj is responsible for advancement of project

mgmt in India. His key responsibilities include designing, developing and

implementing strategic and business plans in addition to outlining the

corporate culture for PMI in India. An MBA in marketing, Raj has over 23

years' experience in sales, channel development and marketing in IT and

Education. Before joining PMI in Jan'08, Raj held senior management

positions in various companies in India, including the Manipal Education

Group and Aptech Ltd, among others. Raj holds a MBA from Cochin University

of Science & Technology and a BSc from Delhi University.

Rajeev has been CIO of E&Y since April 2007.

He was earlier heading IT in Hughes S/w Systems (now Aricent), HCL

Infosystems, and was GM-IS at Delhi Stock Exchange from 1995 to 1997. He had

a long stint in the Indian Navy, where he held the rank of Commander at the

time of leaving, working primarily in the area of warship design and

software maintenance policies. He has won a number of industry awards and

has been invited to speak at various national and international

conferences/seminars on IT and Information Security. He has an M.Tech in

Computer) from IIT Kanpur, a B.Tech in Electronics from IT-BHU, Varanasi,

and an MBA.

Ranbir is an old-timer in Wipro, having

joined the organization way back in 1991. A hard-core business development

person, he worked in various geographies and business units of Wipro till

2000. After that, he moved to Wipro's newly started company, WeP

Peripherals. He considers the 6 years stint at WeP as the most learning and

exciting period of his career. He developed the organization from a business

division to an independent company. After this, Ranbir moved back to Wipro

to head govt. projects, and since then has experienced Wipro signing up some

strategic contracts, with the most prominent one being the Rs 1,182 Cr. deal

with Employees' State Insurance Corporation. Ranbir has also been a

certified Six Sigma Black Belt, is an engineer from BITS Pilani and MBA from

Panjab University.

Pradeep founded CyberMedia, South Asia's

largest specialty publishing group with 15 publications and 12 websites,

100+ events and TV programs. With over 30 years of experience, he is highly

reputed in the IT industry. Pradeep is past Chair of PanIIT India and a

member of the IIT Delhi Advisory Council. He is co-founder of Indian Angel

Networks; Chair, Tech Committee, Indian Newspaper Society. He's on the board

of Kaleidoscope Entertainment; President of TiE, Delhi and VP, Association

of Indian Magazines. Pradeep is a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and PGDBM from IIM

Calcutta.

Prasanto heads ten IT and telecom

publications which includes both B2B and consumer. A technology journalist

and analyst for two decades, Roy, 41, studied physics at Delhi's St

Stephen's College. He joined CyberMedia in 1990, and was responsible for

pioneering projects such as Asia's first cover-mounted CDs, and the first

publication-run product testing processes and labs. He is deeply interested

and involved with mobile technology and products, and on green technologies,

driving CyberMedia's three-year green evangelization program beginning 2008.

He lectures on a variety of technology and media related subjects.

The PCQuest team

presents each project to the jury panel. One person in the PCQuest team is

identified as the 'advocate' for each project. This is the person who

researches this project in detail. This research includes the audit form

that is filled up, interviews with the project team, and visits to see the

project in action. It also includes interviews with beneficiaries and other

participants in the project and research of other published material.

Members of the jury ask the PCQuest team further questions on each project.

This information is provided from the audit report that the project

implementers have filled up or from in-depth discussions that the advocate

has had with the implementers. Finally, after all the projects have been

presented, the jury decides the winning projects. Here, the PCQuest team

does not participate in the jury's deliberations.