2^nd US - India Conference

Shrinivas V Dempo is Chairman of the Goa-based Dempo Corporate Group, which has diversified interests in industries such as calcined petroleum coke, shipbuilding, food processing, real estate and newspaper publishing.  He has been Chairman of the western region of the largest industry lobby in India, the Confederation of Indian Industry.  In 2013, Mr. Dempo was named honorary vice consul of Italy in Goa, India.  He was appointed non-executive Chairman of Automobile Corporation of Goa Ltd, a company co-promoted by the Tata Group.  Mr. Dempo has a long association with football, having patronized a premier football club.  Mr. Dempo is on the Executive Council of Goa University, besides being associated with a number of non- governmental organizations performing yeoman service to society such as the Charles Correa Foundation as also the Goa Cancer Society whose president he is.

Mr. Dempo earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Mumbai in 1990 and 1992 respectively.  He later took a Master of Science degree in Industrial Administration & Finance from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in 1995.

Mr. Dempo continues his multi-generational engagement with Goan society, which covers institutions and programmes of higher education, cultural enrichment, environmental conservation, sporting excellence and affirmative action, under the Dempo Charities Trust and Vasantrao Dempo Education & Research Foundation.

In his capacity as Chairman of the prominent petroleum coke manufacturing listed company, Goa Carbon Ltd, Dempo was honoured in the year 2014 with the Asia Pacific Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award India 2014 in recognition of his pursuit of responsible business practices by the Asia-wide organization, Enterprise Asia, dedicated to management development and ethical business. Goa Carbon is India’s second largest petroleum coke producer and is a listed entity of the Dempo Group. The group’s overseas subsidiary has recently taken ownership control of Vena.tv (Video & Entertainment Network Asia), a software company at the forefront of video advertising technology offering a single monetisation solution for mobile applications worldwide.