Indian Printers Summit 2022

Amit Khurana heads newspaper sales for TechNova Imaging System Pvt. Ltd. He has been associated with TechNova for 11 years. Khurana is a Printing Technologist who holds an MBA and boasts of rich experience and a deep understanding of the newspaper industry. Khurana started his career on the shop floor handling press operations and worked in the Printing Ink Industry before joining the TechNova family.

Bernhard Schmiedeberg studied electrical engineering and has been with EAE since 1990.
He started as a software developer and influenced EAE’s systems in the graphic industry, especially in workflow and production planning. He found his way into sales via various management positions within the EAE organisation.

John Cusack is Business Development Manager at Baldwin. Specializing in development of Inspection, Color Management, and Data systems. He has over 20 years’ experience in the print
industry.

In his current role at Baldwin, he is helping drive industry awareness of connectedness and data driven decision making and how it can enhance business performance.

John lives in Ireland with his wife Margaret and three children PJ, Marie Claire, and Charlie.

Mohit Jain, is the Chief Operating Officer (Publishing) & member of the Board of Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL). He also represents BCCL on the Board of Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), an industry

Partha  is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Ahmedabad. In his career spanning over 30 years, Partha had been a Nuclear Design Engineer, a Banker, a Strategy and Marketing head of Media and Internet companies and an Advertising Strategist.

He has worked with companies like Citibank N.A, Ogilvy & Mather, Zee, Publicis, BBH, & McCann World Group. Now he is the President with Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd – the company that publishes the Times of India, the Economic Times and many other marquee newspapers.

He has won many accolades internationally including the planner and business development person in the Asia Pacific region. He has also won a number of awards in Effies, WARC, Cannes Lion including some grand prix.

On the personal front, Partha is a voracious reader, an ardent Arsenal fan and loves listening to Hindustani classical music.

Over the past 30 years, Paula has held key roles in the global newsprint industry, working for both paper mills and leading trading companies. She has held various positions including operations, logistics, marketing, sales and business development. Her in-depth knowledge ranges from the production process all the way through printing and distribution.

Puneet Razdan Heads All India Quality for HT Media Ltd. A Printing Technologist with MBA in Marketing and English(Hons) with over 25 years of rich experience in newspaper Industry, worked for organizations like H T Media ,  Dainik Bhaskar, & Times of India .

In his professional journey across organizations, he worked in Production, Projects, lead Focused improvement Groups, and is responsible for Continuous evaluation/ Implementation of Quality Processes.

Mr. Satish Chandra Mishra is Director of Jagran Prakashan Limited. Taking care of Production and Stores. He completed his B.E. (Electronics) in 1983, then P.G. Diploma in Human Resource Management and MBA . He has over 38 years of experience in Newspaper industry.

He is heading production and Stores for the group.

Samudra Bhattacharya is Chief Executive Officer – Print for Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd. He is also on the board of Next Mediaworks Ltd., Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt Ltd., Next Radio Ltd. and Digicontent Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer-Print at HT Media Ltd.

He previously was President, Executive Director & General Manager at Pepsi Cola Products Philippines, Inc. and Chief Operating Officer-Franchisee Bottling & VP at Pepsi Foods Pvt Ltd.

Samudra Bhattacharya received an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.

Saptangshu Chaudhuri is a Dy. GM in Print Production at ABP Pvt Ltd
He has done his degree in BE Printing from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
He has a long association of 18+ years with ABP Pvt Ltd.

Snehasis Roy is an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and B.S with Honours (Printing Management & Sciences) from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Snehasis has over 28 years of Leadership experience spread over organisations like Times Warner inc., Dainik Bhaskar, ABP Pvt Ltd & Times of India Group (BCCL).He is currently leading the Times group production as Technical Director.

Suresh Balakrishna is the Chef Revenue Officer of The Hindu Group, he has been with The Hindu
since November 2018. Prior to joining the Hindu, he was the CEO, South Asia and Middle East of

Varghese Chandy is the Vice President, Marketing, Ad sales at Malayala Manorama. With over 2 million copies and over 18 million readers, Malayala Manorama is the largest circulated/read regional language Daily in India. Credited with the founding of Junction K, the integrated Media solutions Platform of the group.  As a Pepper creative awards Trustee at CBMI India an International disability inclusive development Organization, his played a key role in the development of organisation.