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Neal is the field CTO at Smart Communications, focused on helping organizations reimagine and transform their customer experience. Neal has more than 25 years of experience helping businesses – especially those in insurance and financial services – to modernize their customer communication and business process tools to take advantage of digital innovation. Having worked with a range of clients, from small businesses to large enterprises, Neal has deep experience in strategic product planning, business development, industry solutions and analyst relations.

Julie has been with PCM TRIALS since its inception in 2008, working in all facets of the business including project management, human resources, quality, marketing, business development and is now spearheading the site relations efforts to provide support to the sponsors and CROs in outreach and education of sites.

Dr. YUN Zhanyou got his PhD from Osaka University and has rich experience in food and dairy R&D. Now he is Assistant President of Yili Group, member of the International Dairy Federation (IDF) Standing Committee on Dairy Science and Technology, member of the Technological Committee of Chinese Dairy Industry Association, standing member of the council of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology

Mr. Kishore C. Supekar is presently working as Managing Director of National Co-Operative Dairy Federation of India Limited (NCDFI), Anand, Gujarat. NCDFI is the Apex body of all dairy co-operatives in India. It works for strengthening the relationship between different stake holders in the cooperative sector and promoting institutional marketing to central organizations like the Ministry of Defense and the Railways. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA).

He is instrumental for leading NCDFI team in its new venture since 2015 i.e NCDFI eMarket. NCDFI eMarket is a software based ePlatform for transparent transaction between seller and buyer on real time basis. During the financial year 2019-20 NCDFI eMarket achieved turnover of INR 20.47 Billion while total turnover of NCDFI was INR 34.02 Billion.

Mr. Supekar is a Post Graduate in Agronomy from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Viswa Vidhyalay, Jabalpur with Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). Presently, he is pursuing PhD from Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, Pune.

He has been awarded Four Gold Medals and also selected for Junior Fellowship in the University during his Graduation (Bachelor of Science – Agriculture). Mr. Supekar launched his career in Bank of India for two years after his Post Graduation. He was involved in Implementation of scheme of finance to weaker

section of society through “20 Point Programme” of Government of India and he has successfully handled scheme of financing to Agriculture and Dairy Sector.

Mr. Supekar was Associated with National Dairy Development Board for the last 38 years in the field of institutional development, Operation Flood project and commercial functions in Dhara/Motherdairy Fruits & Vegetables Pvt. Ltd. And NCDFI as MD. He has also acted as board member of various dairy cooperative unions/Oil Unions. He has been a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Task force for the Dairy Industry and a parent member on the Board of Anandalaya Education Society

Director Consulting, Consumer and Retail, APAC

Deepak has over 18 years of years of consumer research, business intelligence and brand strategy experience, having previously worked for KANTAR (TNS and Millward Brown) in India, Middle East and Singapore for over 12 years.

He specializes in Brand strategy research, Consumer and retail (Shopper) intelligence, Retail Market Data and Analytics, having done research for flagship brands in over 30 markets across the globe. His core expertise lies is in helping brands identify growth opportunities in a rapidly changing market environment.

Deepak regularly speaks at conferences and seminars in the APAC region on topics and sectors that range from Food and Beverage Sector Trends to latest developments and innovation in the world of market research, data and insights.