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For years, Abhishek Majithia has delighted audiences around the world as a dynamic speaker with his unique combination of energy, humour, and sincerity. He’s interviewed celebrities, and you might recognize his voice from 94.3 radio one where he hosted the Mera Request Show. But he’s also an IT engineer who deeply understands the tech space and is able to talk with top-level executives to bring out interesting details and personal anecdotes. Abhishek will be guiding you through the day’s schedule as your MC at CloudFest INDIA.

Soeren von Varchim is the CEO of CloudFest with a robust career in and an in-depth knowledge of the global cloud, hosting, internet infrastructure and domaining space.

John Pollard leads Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Communications, Business Development, Engineering and Operations for Donuts’ registry. Prior to Donuts, John was CEO in Residence at Madrona Venture Labs, after having run Amazon’s Customer Reviews and Answers team. Before Amazon, he was co-founder and CEO at Elemental (acquired by Porch.com). John was also co-founder and CEO of Jott, which was acquired by Nuance Communications. He served as VP and GM of Nuance’s Voice to Text Services division, which during his tenure grew to over 80 million unique users worldwide. Before Jott/Nuance, John was Senior Director at Microsoft in mobile, an early manager at Expedia -- where he led its global expansion and started its Corporate Travel Business Unit -- and ran Microsoft Sidewalk’s international business. Before Microsoft, John was a consultant with Cambridge Technology Group, and a program manager at Harvard’s Institute for International Development. John holds a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

 

Alan is the Chief Revenue Officer for Duda and has helped drive the adoption of the Duda platform with hosting companies, large agencies, and web professionals around the world. Alan brings more than 15 years of experience in a combination business development, customer success, and executive management roles. Prior to Duda, Alan was the Vice President of Business Development at VerticalResponse, a leading email and social media platform for SMBs. Prior to VerticalResponse, Alan was the Director of Worldwide Business Development for Mercado, a leading e-commerce product discovery solution provider. Alan holds a Bachelor's of Science in Marketing and International Business from the University of San Francisco.

Jay Paudyal is the founder of DomainKhan.com. Domaining has been one of his action-packed passions for the past two decades. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has successfully failed and established many businesses and startups all united with one thread – the Internet. These days, Jay is into multiple ventures like Domain Name Investment, Telephonic Language Training, Software Product Development, E-commerce, Astrology, Semi-Precious Stones, Legal Aid Services, Publishing Text & Videos online and Internet Governance. Jay is also an active member of Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel under IDN Programs of ICANN. He acts as a consultant on this panel for making LGR (Label Generation Rules) as specified by ICANN, supporting it with the on-boarding process. He is also an ICANN Fellow alumni.

Deepak Daftari, CEO, eSiksha.com, runs a Executive Search Firm, is an Active Domain Investor dealing in Short and Keyword domain names and is an Angel Investor in Start-ups. He is also the immediate ex-Vice President of TiE Kolkata and one of the pioneers of the Indian Domaining Industry.

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory. He is author of the books The Master Switch, and The Attention Merchants, along with Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, and other works. In 2013 he was named one of America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers, and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Zak Muscovitch has practiced international domain name law since 1999 and is presently General Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association (the “ICA”). Zak was lead counsel in numerous precedent-setting court cases, including the Toronto.com case (2000) and the Sweetsuccess.com case (2001), one of the first decision to establish the convenient forum for international domain name disputes. Zak was also instructing counsel for the registrant of the defendant domain name in the Technodome.com case (2002), which was the first in rem decision under the United States ACPA and he was in one of the first court case overturning an ICANN UDRP commenced by Molson in the Canadian.biz case (2002). Zak has represented clients from all over the world, in countries such as China, England, Australia, the United States, Brazil, Turkey, Belgium, South Africa, Korea, and Canada, in numerous ICANN domain name disputes. Zak successfully defended Groovle.com in a case brought by Google, and successfully resisted two additional attempts by Google to use the UDRP to obtain domain names in two other cases. Zak is the author of several articles on domain name law, such as “A Guide to ICANN Procedure and Policy (2000). Zak wrote, “Taxation of Internet Commerce" (1996). It was the very first published legal treatise on the taxation of Internet commerce. . Zak has served as a consultant to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority on updating and revising the Canadian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Zak is frequently consulted by the media on Internet related legal issues, including by Wired magazine.

Mr. Alberto Pittoni is the Sales Director of Zextras, he determine profit plans by implemen ting marketing strategies, analyzing trends and results world wide, projecting expected sa les volume and profit for existing and new products. Implements world wide sales programs by developing network sales action plans, changing trends.