Presenters

Vivaik Bharadwaaj

Vivaik is the Manager of the Search Quality Evaluation team in India and Korea. He has been with Google since 2006.

Prior to joining Google, he was a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force.

He holds an MBA from Indian School of Business and a Bachelors in Physics and Maths from National Defence Academy.

Adam Lasnik

As Google's first Search Evangelist, Adam is dedicated to building stronger relationships between Google and webmasters. Prior to joining Google in 2006, Adam held online communications and advertising positions at a mix of small and large companies. He was also an Interactive Strategist at the high tech PR firm Niehaus Ryan Wong, helping clients understand and leverage the power of online communities.

Throughout his career, Adam has written comprehensive search engine optimization reports, managed sponsored ad campaigns for Fortune 500 companies, and provided broad communications consulting to successful startup companies.

Adam earned a BS in Communications and Political Science from Northwestern University, and an MBA and J.D. from Indiana University.

Koti Ivaturi

Part of the Search Quality team at Google and in the role of a Strategist, Koti is one of the two Google Guides from India on the Google webmaster Help Forum.

He has a Master's Degree in Information and Business Systems Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK.

Rajat Mukherjee

Dr. Rajat Mukherjee is a group product manager at Google, working on the Google Custom Search platform. He has also worked on other products, such as Google Alerts, and related search on Google.com.

Prior to joining Google, Rajat worked at Yahoo!, Verity and IBM.

He holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, as well as a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Ankit Gupta

Ankit is a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

At Google, he is working on making our mobile products discoverable and accessible, as well as providing a consistent and rationalized experience.

Dinesh Jain

A Google Analytics Specialist, Dinesh has been working at Google for 3 years now.

He has a Master's degree in Business Information Technology from The University of Melbourne.

Deepak Kumar

Also from the Google Analytics team, Deepak works on Google's Website Optimizer. He has worked in the Search Engine Optimization industry prior to joining Google and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Golden Valley Institute of Technology, Kolar Gold Fields.