Kalyanarama is the Executive Director, South Central Region of CONCOR. A 1987 batch IRTS officer, Kalyana Rama holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He is also a trained cost accountant from ICWA. Earlier in his career in CONCOR, he had served as chief general manager of southern region and senior general manager at Visakhapatnam. He had also served the Indian Railways in various positions including Sr.Divisional Operations Manager, Bilaspur and Sr.Divisional Operations Manager in Visakhapatnam.

Mr. P.L. Haranadh, a 1993 IRTS Batch officer.The 1966 born Mr. Haranadh, before taking this charges worked as Cargo operational Incharge at South Central Railway, Secunderabad. He was earlier with South Eastern Railway

Mr. Sabyasachi Hajara is the former Chairman-SCI & Chief Advisor, Elektrans Shipping Pvt ltd . He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Kolkata. He also holds a degree in Law, a diploma in Professional Ship Management from the Norwegian Shipping Academy, Oslo. Mr Hajara is also experienced in marketing, chartering, import operations, liner conference/bilateral matters and commercial operations in Liners, Bulk Carriers and Tankers.

Cdr Prashant Srivastava was commissioned on 01 Jan 94 and has specialized in hydrography. He has done his Advance ‘H’ course from NIH Goa, Advance Mapping Course from SIT, Hyderabad and Remote Sensing and GIS course from IIRS Dehradun. His specialist appointments include, Executive Officer of survey ship INS Nirdeshak Chief Instructor, National Institute of Hydrography at Goa and Commanding officer of INS Sandhayak at Visakhapatnam. The officer was also a member of the Indian Antarctic Expedition. He is a qualified sky diver and member of the Naval Mountaineering team. He has presented many papers at national and international levels. He is life member of various professional societies & institutions & is presently on deputation with Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) as Hydrographic chief.

Mr. Joy Saxena is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, an Associate Cost and Management Accountant and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. Mr. Saxena has a vast experience of 30 years of working with big Corporates and multinational companies at very senior leadership roles in Finance, Business and Strategic functions. He has worked with Sahara Group, Daewoo Motors, Becton Dickinson, Vedanta Group, DLF Group, ERA Group and Techno Electric Group. Presently he is working with M/s. Jindal ITF Ltd. in a leadership role as Group President and Whole Time Director.

Kapil Rawat, the Executive Director-Logistics at Jindal Steel & Power Ltd has a whole gamut of experience in shipping and logistics sector. Throughout his career he had held various positions namely, President- Logistics at Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, President and CEO at Worlds Window Infrastructure &Logistic Pvt Ltd., CEO at Container Rail Road Services Pvt Ltd- DP World, CEO at Gateway Terminals India Pvt. Ltd, Chief General Manager at Container Corporation of India Ltd and IRTS OFFICER at Indian Railways.

Walter D’Souza, Convenor, FIEO Committee on Ports and Logistics, is a post graduate in Economics and Industrial Management. He has a number of distinctions to his credit. His involvement, active participation and contribution to the Indian trade, industry, commerce, import, export has brought him several laurels. He is the first and as of now the only Cashew Exporter to be elected as the Chairman of The Cashew Export Promotion Council of India from the State of Karnataka since the inception of the Council in 1955. Also he is the first and as of now the only Exporter to be elected as the Chairman of FIEO from the State of Karnataka, since the inception of FIEO in 1965.

Ramnath C Vaidyanathan is the Director & Project Lead, Adani Ennore Container Terminal Pvt Ltd. He started out his sailing career in 1988 and sailed on general cargo, OBOs, container and car carrier vessels. He got command in 2000. A master mariner, he has about 12 years of experience in container terminal operations and three years of experience in auto terminal operations. He was involved in the start up of five container terminals in India - one in the South, one in East and three on the West Coast. He has conceptualised the design for RFID based operations in Container Terminals which was implemented in Hazira and was instrumental in the implementation of the automated documentation and gate system in Hazira. He holds diploma in port management Lloyds Maritime Academy in the UK.

Capt Swaminathan is the Commercial Director for CMA CGM India since August’2015. Capt Swami started his sailing career on various vessels like Dry Bulk, PCTC, Tankers (Product & Chemical), Multi-Purpose, Ro-Ro’s and Container carriers for 17 years; the last five of which were as a Master on Ro Ro, Multi-Purpose & Container Vessels.
Being a link in the chain of the entire transport industry, he came ashore to explore the entire transportation chain & further his career where he joined MSC Agency India and handled various profiles from field sales, Trade, capacity and pricing and eventually heading the western region as Sr. GM Mktg & Sales for 8 years.
He became a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers in 2009 and also successfully cleared Post Graduation in International Business operations in 2012.
To contribute more to the shipping Industry he joined the board of SPNM (The Shipping Professional Networking Mumbai) as a secretary in 2011 and also assist the governing council of NMIS (Narottam Morarjeee Institute of Shipping) as a visiting FACULTY for 1st & 2nd year students for various subjects.

Krishna Kumar obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Loyola College, Chennai and went on to study Management from Great Lakes Institute of Management.
Starting his shipping carrier as Management Trainee in 1993 with A.P.Moller Group, Krishna Kumar has worked in various functional and management roles across Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Liner Activities. He has been managing MSC in South India for the last six years. He is happy married with a 11 year old son. Running behind him and running for fitness keeps him busy.

Mr Sharma, the President of Nepal Freight Forwarders Association (NEFFA) is also the Director/CEO of Quality Freight Service P Ltd/Quality International Pvt LTD. He also serves different positions in various capacities. Mr Sharma is the Executive member and Co Chair land Transportation and Warehouse Committee, Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), General Secretary of European Economic Chamber (EEC), Promoter /Board Director of Excel Development Bank, Member of High Level Trade and Transport Facilitation Committee (HTTFC), Board member of Nepal Intermodal Transport Development Board (NITDB), Vice President of Rotary Club of Dillibazar, Kathmandu, Nepal, Trainer on Int'l Purchase and Supply Chain Management (ITC Geneva). Mr Sharma has experience in Transport and Logistic services by all means and mode of transport since 1988.

Mr Krishnan is presently holding the position as Advisor, FFFAI and Trustee, Chennai Port Trust. He has held the position of President, Chennai Customs House Agents Association for 5times.