Peter Bracher, Head of Operations, Reliance Fresh

An experienced retail operations director and highly developed external relations expert with experience of grocery retail within twelve countries.

Currently Head of Operations for the Fresh supermarkets division of Reliance Retail in India where he established the new store opening function within 12 states and managed the opening of 400 stores in the first year and then drove the format towards profitability.

Prior to Reliance, Peter was the Director of Public Affairs & Corporate Responsiblity for ASDA Wal*Mart teams in Bentoville, USA, on issues including external affairs and business sustainability.
 

 Shashank Pathak, Vice President, Gitanjali Life Style Ltd.

Shashanl Pathak, Vice President, Gitanjali Lifestyle Ltd, carries a very valuable experience of 18 years in Operation, Marketing sales in Retail Industry, one of the fastest growing industries of our time.

Shashank's stint with large format furniture and fashion Retailers started in Dubai and continued in India, successfully serving organisations like Tylos Furniture, Herman Miller, Veneta Cucine and Piramyd Mega store. Currently Shashank is involved in conceptualising and formatting the lifestyle chain of stores for Gitanjali Lifestyle working with global brands like Morellato, Moschino, Roberto Cavalli, Nina Ricci to name a few.

Shashank is a post graduate in Management from Pune University and started his career selling cannon Photocopiers, fax and printers picking up the nuances of organised retail. Since childhood, he had a dream to travel around the globe and study diverse culture, people and visit the world famous historical monuments. Since 1990 he has worked with various organizations in Riyadh, Dubai, Bahrain, Italy and UK getting an opportunity to fulfill his dream.
 

 
Sanjeev Mehta , C.E.O, Shopworks

Sanjeev Mehta, BCom, DCS, is CEO of Shopworks India & South Asia, having over 19 years of experience in Sales, Marketing and Franchising & Retail. Prior to enetering into JV with Shopworks, UK, Sanjeev has served organizations such as Cadburys, Unilever, Kodak, UTV  and Reliance Telecom in strategic positions.
He was Country Head for Kodak, Head of Strategy for telecom business with Reliance and Sr. VP for UTV to set up their movies distribution business from scratch.  He is on the editorial advisory panel of specialised retailing magazines in India as well as for India Franchising Guild.

 
Tim Eynon, C.E.O., Provogue

Tim Eynon is Director of Provogue (India) Limited, and the Chief Executive Officer of Provogue subsidiary Prozone-Liberty, the Shopping Center Design, Development and Management business, which is developing large scale regional shopping centers across India. He has served on the Boards of Tencel(UK), a division of former Courtaulds Plc, and Cargil Dow(USA), a joint venture between the Cargill Corporation and Dow Chemical Inc.

He is widely travelled and has been conducting business in India for the past 30 years. A Graduate cum Laude from Leeds University, he also holds and MBA from INSEAD Business School of Fontainbleau, France. He serves on various committees on real estate, retail and fashion in India and currently resides in Mumbai.