Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is President and Chief Executive Officer of SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management.

With over 300,000 members in 165 countries, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world, impacting the lives of 115 million workers every day.

As a global leader on the future of employment, culture and leadership, Mr. Taylor is a sought-after voice on all matters affecting work, workers and the workplace. He is frequently asked to testify before Congress on critical workforce issues and authors a weekly column, “Ask HR,” in USA Today.

Mr. Taylor’s career spans over 20 years as a lawyer, human resources executive and CEO in both the not-for-profit and for-profit space. He has held senior and chief executive roles at IAC/Interactive Corp, Viacom’s Paramount Pictures and Blockbuster Entertainment Group, McGuireWoods LLC, and Compass Group USA. Most recently, Mr. Taylor was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

He is a member of the White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board and was appointed by President Donald Trump as Chairman of the President’s Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. He serves on the boards of the University of Miami, Jobs for America’s Graduates and the American Red Cross and as an adviser to Safe Streets & Second Chances. He is licensed to practice law in Florida, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

Shri Suresh Prabhu is known as a man of action, having a penchant for undertaking reforms, scripting turnarounds and achieving superlative results by working in mission mode. An advocate for decisive growth-driven change, he is well respected for his impeccable integrity, passion and commitment towards society at large.

He is currently India’s Sherpa to G20 & G7. A Member of Parliament for Government of India. A former Minister of Railways, A former Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation.

Featured among the top three Indian leaders of the future by Asia Week magazine, Hong Kong in its cover story “Giant on the Move,” he has been guided by the dream and mission to balance the needs of human development while preserving the fragile environment. Constantly featured in the list of top five ministers in India from 2014-2017 in terms of both performance and accessibility in nation-wide surveys.

Shri Suresh Prabhu is Official emissary of the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India in the G7 & G20 forums. He has been one of the key persons in shaping the official agenda of the Government of India on key issues for G7 & G20 Summit; in a short span he has engaged with global leaders/thinkers and has led delegations across the globe.

As the Minister for Commerce and Industry, he has highlighted areas – such as trade promotion, investment promotion, boosting domestic manufacturing and institutionalizing evidence informed policy making – where a focused approach will be adopted. From Introducing an Agriculture Export Policy, setting up Investment War Room, implementation plan for Make in India 2.0 and setting up a Data Analytics Unit are some of the steps being taken to address each of the areas.

He has served as the Minister for Railways. Under his leadership, Railways transformed from a slow-moving behemoth into a fast, responsive organization. A complaint resolution mechanism through social media, innovative project financing by leveraging extra budgetary resources, quantum jump in infrastructure creation and integrating sustainability into the core strategy of Railways are just some of his successes.

He is well known for his easy accessibility to the public, which not only acts as a deterrent to bureaucratic delays and corruption in the functioning of his Ministry, but also encourages new ideas and viewpoints. He is also a believer in people’s participation in the working of the Ministries under him, especially through the involvement of different stakeholders.

Some lesser known facts about him is that he has been an entrepreneur, banker par excellence.
He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and was the youngest chairman of one of the largest cooperative banks. His life has also been devoted to worthy social causes. He has related to over 150 social & cultural organizations.

Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years. Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 36 books, including three New York Times bestsellers, that have sold over 2.5 million copies and been listed bestseller in 12 countries. His books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers have been recognized by Amazon.com as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.

Dr. Sanjiv Goenka, is the Chairman of the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group which has an asset base of over Rs.47,000 crores. The Group has 45,000 employees and over five hundred thousand shareholders with annual revenues of more than Rs 27,000 crores.

The Group’s businesses spanning across eight sectors – Power & Natural Resources, Carbon Black, Retail & Consumer, Media, Entertainment, Sports, IT & Education, include flagship companies such as CESC Limited, Phillips Carbon Black Ltd, Firstsource Solutions Ltd., Spencer’s Retail and Saregama India Ltd.

In April 2001, Dr. Sanjiv Goenka took over as the youngest-ever President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), and the International Management Institute, Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. Sanjiv Goenka is a former President of All India Management Association (AIMA) and was the youngest President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

 Awards / Recognitions

• Goenka was conferred the World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow at Davos,
• Switzerland, in 1993.
• The Legacy Honour in 2002 from the Young Presidents Organisation.
• Xaviers College – Nihil Ultra Award of Honour in 2012.
• Indian Business Leader of the Year at Belfast Global India Business Meet in 2013.
• Banga Bibhushan Award for his contribution to the state of West Bengal; (the highest Civilian Award in the State) in 2015.
• Businessman of the Year – Hello Hall of Fame in 2016.
• Distinguished Fellowship Award of Institute of Director, India at their 16th London Global Convention, 2016 ;
• He was also conferred Degree of Doctor of Literature (Honoris Causa D Litt) from the University of North Bengal in 2018.
• Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar conferred the Honorary Doctoral Degree to Dr.Goenka on 30th October, 2019.
• Conferred Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) from Amity University in 2019.
• Asian Leadership Award 2019 – Asian Association of Management Organisations.

Mr. Goenka is ranked No. 18 in India Today’s list of 50 Most powerful people in India in 2019. Son of late Dr. Rama Prasad Goenka, Dr Sanjiv Goenka was born in Kolkata in 1961. He graduated from St. Xavier’s College in 1981. Married to Preeti, they have a daughter Avarna and a son Shashwat.

He is one of the industry leaders who pioneered a new global business model and transformed a division of General Electric (GE Capital International Services) into Genpact, a global professional services firm delivering digital transformation solutions for clients. Genpact has more than 90,000 employees and annual revenues of $3.52 billion USD as of December 31, 2019. Tiger was appointed as Genpact’s Chief Executive Officer in 2011 after serving as Chief Operating Officer.

In his current role, Tiger counsels and collaborates with C-suite executives of large global corporations, helping them drive change in their companies to improve their competitiveness. He frequently writes and speaks on such topics as digital disruption, global talent issues, continuous skill development, and the importance of building a strong corporate culture.

Tiger is especially passionate about diversity, and serves on the Board of Catalyst, a global non-profit organization working with some of the world’s most powerful CEOs to help build workplaces that work for women. He also was one of the founding supporters of the U.S. chapter of the 30% Club, which is committed to gender balance on boards of directors and in senior management. He is an active member of the Fortune CEO Initiative, a forum for corporate leaders committed to addressing major social problems as part of their core business strategies.

Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in India before moving to Citibank’s Consumer Financial Services businesses in sales, operations, and credit. He then joined GE Capital in 1994 as head of Risk in India and went on to become CEO for GE Capital’s Global Consumer Finance and Auto Financial Services business in India. Among his various roles at GE, he served as the Global Operating Leader for the GE Capital Commercial Lending businesses in the United States.

Tiger has a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and a master’s degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, where he majored in finance and marketing.

Tiger is based in New York.

Annette Dixon is the World Bank Group’s Vice President for Human Resources, responsible for providing strategic leadership to the institution on talent development and overseeing all HR policies, programs, services to support the Bank Group’s global workforce.

Prior to this appointment, Annette was the World Bank’s Vice President, Human Development, overseeing the Global Practices for education; health, nutrition, and population; gender; and social protection and jobs, and the Gender Group. She led the Bank’s work on Human Capital and oversaw the COVID-19 emergency response, under which the Bank delivered $20 billion in human development investments.

She was previously the Bank’s Vice President for the South Asia Region. In managing the World Bank’s engagement in South Asia to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity, Annette led relations with eight countries, including India—the institution’s biggest client. She also oversaw lending operations and trust-funded projects worth more than $10 billion a year.

Before joining the region, Annette was Director, Strategic Planning in the Budget, Performance Review and Strategic Planning Vice Presidency and Country Director to Central Asia, then South East Asia. She joined the Bank in 1999 and worked as Sector Director to Human Development in the ECA region.

Annette is a long-standing champion on gender issues. In South Asia, she set a target to deliver 100 percent gender-informed projects and interventions, going beyond the global corporate requirements. Under her leadership, the regional priority for South Asia was to support countries to improve Women’s Labor Force Participation.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Annette Dixon worked for the Government of New Zealand as Chief Executive of the Ministry of Youth Affairs.  She also served as General Manager, Sector Policy; Deputy Director-General in the Ministry of Health; Director of Health Policy, Department of the Prime Minister; and Manager Policy Division, Ministry of Women’s Affairs.

Born in New Zealand, Annette holds a Master of Public Policy. She was also awarded the Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University in 1994-1995.

Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for uplifting customer service and building service cultures.

Rated one of the “Top 25 Who’s Hot” speakers by Speaker magazine, Ron presents powerful insights and global best practices gained from working with clients on every continent for thirty years. His energetic online and onstage speeches and workshops have inspired millions.

Ron is author of the New York Times bestseller, “Uplifting Service! The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues and Everyone Else You Meet” and 14 other books on service, business and inspiration.

Ron’s experience and commitment to results have been distilled into proven models and methods for continuous service improvement. His unique approaches to learning and leadership have been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In 2018, 2019, and 2020, GlobalGurus has rated Ron the #1 customer service guru in the world.

He is the founder of Uplifting Service, a global education and consulting company that enables leaders and organizations to build Uplifting Service cultures. In 2020, Global Gurus ranked Uplifting Service the #1 Customer Service Development Program in the world.

Ron moved to Asia in 1990 to help Singapore Airlines and the government of Singapore create and launch a national service quality training organization.

He is a graduate of Brown University, USA with studies in France, London and Berkeley, California. He is a founding member of Asia Professional Speakers Singapore and is in the Ultimate Frisbee Hall of Fame (really).

Ron resides in Singapore with his wife Jen. Together they serve communities and clients throughout the world.

Leena Nair is the first female, first Asian, youngest ever CHRO of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive (ULE), which is responsible for delivering Unilever’s business & financial performance. Leena bears overall responsibility for the 160,000-strong human capital of Unilever, which operates across multiple regulatory and labour environments spread over 190 countries. She ensures the company has the right people, in the right roles, with the right capabilities and mindset to deliver high business performance. This is a key enabler for Unilever to meet its ambitious business goals with positive environmental and social impact. Throughout her career, Leena has gained a strong reputation for her leadership ability to ignite outstanding business growth. Through always-on learning and constant experimentation, together with an outside-in view of her customer, Leena ensures that her people and business stay ahead of the curve. Leena is also a Non-Executive Director of BT, BEIS (The Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy for the UK) and a member of the board for the Leverhulme Trust. Her purpose is to “ignite the human spark for a better business and better world”.

From the Indian Foreign Service class of 1973, Deepak Vohra was India’s senior-most Ambassador and has been described as one of the finest minds in the world

He has studied at the most prestigious Universities in India and overseas including St Columba’s School, St Stephen’s College, National Defence College and Sorbonne University, Paris

His academic record is outstanding: first in School, first in College, first among the men in the Indian Foreign Service, first in the training programme at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, first at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

He taught at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University from 1972-73

Among India’s most loved television figures he was short-listed by a woman’s magazine as one of the “most sensational personalities” in India. He has acted in commercial films

He has served in France, Vietnam, Tunisia, United States, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Chad, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Spain and as Ambassador of India to Armenia, Georgia, Sudan, South Sudan, Poland and Lithuania

He was Officer on Special Duty to the Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister of India

Ambassador Vohra spent four years with Sulabh International, the world’s largest NGO dealing with sanitation and is the author of best-selling books

He has specialized in national renaissance issues emerging nations. In October 2005, Armenia awarded him a gold medal and named a school after him. Sudan gave him its highest civilian honour and in 2006, he was made Prince of an African tribe

He has vast international experience, having represented India at several conferences

Not many know that when Indian oil workers were kidnapped in Sudan in 2007, Ambassador Vohra offered himself in exchange for the hostages. In 2014, he went to a remote Ebola-affected area of Guinea to help the villagers and fell seriously ill with the dreaded ailment

National and international leaders who have interacted with him have uniformly commented on his transparent sincerity and integrity. Surprised at his candour, some advise him to hide from the storm: he replies calmly: “I am the storm”

He is an advisor and mentor to universities and companies in India and lectures regularly to national and international audiences (over 5 million have heard him so far) on Global Megatrends and Trust. His insights are much appreciated. He also speaks about Kashmir: The Journey Resumes

He has been an advisor to the Government of South Sudan from July 2011

In April 2013, Ambassador Deepak Vohra was appointed Special Advisor (Minister) to the Prime Minister, Republic of Guinea-Bissau

In April 2014, he was named Special Advisor by the Prime Minister, Kingdom of Lesotho

In 2015 and 2016, he was appointed Special Advisor to the Autonomous Hill Development Councils in the remote Ladakh region of India

Ambassador Vohra speaks French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Bahasa Melayu, Hausa, Motu and Armenian fluently

Achal Khanna is the CEO for SHRM India and Asia Pacific Head for Business Development. SHRM India is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), which is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management with more than 2,90,000 members worldwide.

Achal is responsible for leading the India operations of SHRM, as well as Asia Pacific operations including Middle-East. She serves on the global SHRM Leadership Team and is responsible for building the brand, expanding its business and developing professional relationships with government agencies, and other HR and business associations in the region.

Achal has over 30 years of work experience. Prior to joining SHRM, she was Managing Director for Kelly India operations; Vice President for GE; and Country Manager for Polaroid India. She has also worked with Dupont, ITC and Cosmo Group in various capacities.

She is a recipient of the “Best Women Executive in India” award.

Achal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics; a Master’s Degree in English Literature and she is an MBA from Delhi.

Neelakantha Bhanu, aged 20, from Hyderabad, has won the first gold medal for India at the Mental Calculation World Championship, MIND SPORTS OLYMPICS, UK, beating 29 competitors, up to 57 years of age, from 13 countries at Mind Sports Olympics held in London recently, who also recently got congratulated by the President of India and addressed Common Wealth Nations. Bhanu has addressed conferences across 23 countries on the importance of math education in the human resource development of a country.

Neelakantha Bhanu holds

• 4 World Records,
• 50 Limca Records for being the Fastest Human Calculator in the World, breaking the records which were once held by math maestros like Shakuntala Devi and Scott Flansburg.

Bhanu believes that improvement of mathematical skill can cause a huge make-shift of a nation’s education composition and development. Bhanu has impacted over 2 Million Students as of now and has done shows across the world, and now wishes to carry this ahead into a National MISSION – गिणत भारत (Ganit Bhārat).

BHANU WANTS TO ERADICATE MATH PHOBIA ACROSS 10 CRORE CHILDREN IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

As President of Microsoft Asia, Ahmed Mazhari oversees a vibrant and diverse region comprising 20 countries, 22,000 employees, and 100,000 partners.

He focuses on acceleration of the Asia Pacific region’s digital transformation enabled by Microsoft, as the leading productivity and platform company, through its product, service and support offerings. He also continues to build and reinforce Microsoft’s reputation as a trusted partner for individuals, organizations and governments.

Mazhari believes in deepening collaborations with Microsoft’s customers and partners in Asia to accelerate digital adoption and empower innovative advancements in the region. This is fueled by his deep understanding of business process transformation and his passion for embracing change and implementing creative solutions in a fast-paced world. He is a big believer in the power of long-term partnerships with both employees and customers to achieve stronger and longer-lasting growth.

He joined Microsoft Asia in February 2020, following 23 successful years at GE and Genpact (a spin off from GE in 2005) where he last served as Senior Vice President and Chief Growth Officer leading the company’s growth globally across all industry verticals, products, service lines and geographies. Prior to this, he held senior leadership roles at Xerox.

Mazhari holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India. He is married with one child. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking with his family, is passionate about fitness, is an avid reader and loves watching cricket.

On 30 May 2019, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Ms. Anita Bhatia of India as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships at UN Women.

Ms. Bhatia has had a distinguished career at The World Bank Group, serving in various senior leadership and management positions, both at Headquarters and in the field. She brings extensive experience in the area of strategic partnerships, resource mobilization and management. Ms. Bhatia has served for several years as Director of Global Partnerships for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of The World Bank Group. She developed and expanded innovative partnerships with public and private sector partners to support IFC strategy in key areas, including fragile and conflict-affected states, gender equality, financial inclusion, support to women-owned businesses and other priorities critical for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition, she has served as Director of Development Partner Relations for the World Bank in which she led efforts to ensure strategic alignment between institutional priorities and resource mobilization across the World Bank Group.

In various positions she focused on enhancing sustainability, institutional effectiveness and impact through strategic partnerships. As Head of IFC’s Latin America Advisory Operations, based in Lima and La Paz, she successfully grew the Corporation’s reach and impact in the region. As Director of Partnerships and Advisory Operations, she oversaw financial management, risk management, portfolio management, knowledge management and learning for Advisory Services across the globe. She has led diverse teams, including as Global Head of Knowledge Management, Head of Business Process Improvement and Head of Change Management. In addition to Latin America, she has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia and South and East Asia.

Ms. Bhatia holds a BA in History from Calcutta University, an MA in Political Science from Yale University and a Juris Doctor in Law from Georgetown University.

In this role, Piyush leads Genpact’s global Human Resources (HR) function and plays an integral role in the company’s ongoing journey to be an employer of choice.

Piyush has contributed to a wide variety of areas involved in people management in both business and corporate roles, including employee relations, organization capabilities, integrations of mergers and acquisitions, and managing the HR function for profit-and-loss businesses and geographies.

Piyush joined Genpact in 2001 and led HR engagements across various businesses. He began his career with Hindustan Lever, served as HR director for AT&T in India, and as the organization capability director for Frito-Lay, Asia Pacific.

Piyush earned a post-graduate degree in personnel management from the Xavier School of Management in Jamshedpur, India, and a bachelor’s degree with honors in economics from Delhi University.

Emily M. Dickens, J.D., serves as SHRM’s Corporate Secretary, Chief of Staff and Head of Government Affairs. She is the executive responsible for coordinating staff to implement the CEO’s vision, the liaison for the SHRM Board and subsidiary boards, and executive with oversight of external partnerships, public policy, government affairs, and administrative services.

Dickens is an attorney with significant and progressive experience in government, higher education and the non-profit sector. She has served as a member of the leadership team at the University of North Carolina system, the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.  Her prior roles include general counsel, chief relationship officer, senior vice president, vice president for public policy and assistant vice president for federal relations.  Dickens has also worked at Duke University and Fayetteville State University in administrative and external affairs roles.

Emily is actively engaged in board service. She is currently a member of Strategic Education, Inc. HIRE Advisory Board; the Board of National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL); the Advisory Council of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI); the Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina Central University; and chairs the International HBCU Task Force for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

She is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Central University School of Law.

A Bachelor of Technology graduate in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975 

• Completed doctoral work in 1983 in the field of Molecular Biology. A PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.  
• Worked as a Research Fellow from 1984 to 1985 and then as a Senior Research Fellow from 1986 to 1988, at the California Institute of Technology 
• In 1988, joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as a Reader.  
• Instrumental in establishing the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru in 1992, under the aegis of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) 
• Undertook in-depth research to understand the important principles and mechanisms that control the nervous system and muscles during development, and how these neuromuscular systems direct specific locomotory behaviors. 
• Former Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. Currently serving as Emeritus Professor 
• Served as Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India from January 2013 to January 2018    

Awards

• Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences 
• Fellow of the Royal Society 
• Fellow of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
• Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Kanpur  
• Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences
• Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 

Major Initiatives

Major initiatives as PSA, which made significant impact to the STI landscape of the country 

PM-STIAC | Empowered Technology Group

Awards Summary

Significant Awards
Padma Shri in 2013

Dr. R. Ananthanarayanan (Ananth) is Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Strides Pharma Science Limited. He has over three decades of top pedigree global pharmaceutical experience across technical and commercial functions. Before joining Strides, Ananth was President & Global Chief Operating Officer at Cipla Limited, where he oversaw the company’s generics business in regulated markets, branded generics in emerging markets, API business and complex drug-device combinations. Prior to that, he was President & CEO of Global APIs, Biologics, & Medis Generics B2B division at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd in the U.S., managing multi-billion P&L responsibility. He has also held leadership roles at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Piramal Healthcare (formerly Nicholas Piramal), Galpharm International, U.K. (acquired by Perrigo Group), and Zydus Cadila. Ananth is a Graduate in Pharmaceutical Sciences and earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Mumbai, India. He has also been a member of the Board of Advisors at the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey. Widely seen as a people-oriented business leader, Ananth has been a champion of the role of combining the strengths of technology and people power in driving business outcomes.

Cyrus Sahukar really needs no introduction. Known for his brilliant comic wit, satirical comedy shows and his ability to not just hold but also engage an audience, whether on radio, television, films or live events, Cyrus Sahukar has always been a popular face in the Indian media, well-loved by audiences and industry alike.

Born to a Parsi army colonel and a Punjabi writer, Cyrus grew up in Delhi, where at a very young age, he performed in school plays, actively participated in theatre and even sang for his school band. By age 16, he had acted in educational skits for the inmates of Tihar jail, performed as a professional singer, lent his voice for voiceovers and jingles, hosted a radio show in Delhi and worked as part of the production and cast in numerous plays.

The turning point in his life calme at age 18, when he auditioned for and won the nation-wde MTV India VJ Hunt, and moved from Delhi to Mumbai, to become one of the youngest people working in MTV. Within a year, Cyrus had carved his own niche and literally spearheaded the youth comedy genre, by hosting and fronting some of the best comedy content on Indian television, with shows like MTV Fully Faltoo, where he parodied popular movies, shows and commercials; MTV Kickass Mornings, MTV’s first foray into Mockumentaries, where he played over 25 different characters; and other shows like MTV Housefull, MTV Bakra, MTV Roadies, and live events like MTV Style Awards. It was during this time, that he created some of India’s most unforgettable spoof characters like Piddhu The Great based on Navjot Singh Sidhu, and of course, Semi Girebaal, which was a spoof on Rendezvous with Semi Garewal, and which recorded even higher ratings than the original show!

After that, there was no looking back. From hosting numerous telelvision shows for channels like Pogo, Nat Geo, Sab TV and Colors, to acting in full-length feature films, like Bombay Talkies, Delhi 6, Aisha n Rang De Basanti and Om Jai Jagdish ,million dollar arm , and recently shot for a film with director mira Nayar.Cyrus Sahukar became well-known for his sharp and witty comments, and endeared himself not just to fans and Indian audiences, but to the television and film fraternity as well. In 2015 he also finished his 1000th show that he hosted on stage

Most recently, Cyrus Sahukar has actively been a part of the digital and social media revolution in India, with his own web-series productions, like The Bench, a unique and casual celebrity chat show which has featured the likes of Karan Johar and Farah Khan. He has even acted in viral videos and campaigns for Yashraj Studios youth division, Y Films and a new web series for Tvf and most recently Mind the the Malhotra’s on amazon prime video . He also hosts the discovery by his school super a inter state school quiz show on discovery , The Anti social network on Mtv and Elevator pitch on Mtv india and on voot . 

In theatre he acted in various productions the latest being “as you like it I don’t like it”by Rajatkapoor . In Events he has hosted over a 1000 live events in the last 18 years. He has a two year contract with Google and Youtube to host their big events in india. He is also the official host for BBC top gear awards, good housekeeping magazine awards, vogue women of the year awards for the last three years . He hosted some of the biggest events including the GQ men of the year awards ,Vogue women of the year awards Femina Miss India 2015, lonely planet awards , Ht style awards two years in a row 2019 among many more . Cyrus Shaukar has hosted over 150 shows for Icici prudential and Icici bank including all their annual full day conferences, all vodafone annual days for the last 4years . Launched various cars phone brands and luxury watches in india which include Adidas , Erricson , Samsung , huawawei, puma , Mahindra automobiles , Maruti , Nike , Tissot watch launches , Tag , Tata motors ( did the entire launch campaign for Tata motors with Lionel messi) among others . In concept events he works extensively with Diageo including being the official host for three years for the series signature masterclass a twenty city all india event with famous people from all walks of life speaking about their inspirational individual journey and blackdog easy evenings – an improv and stand up comedy tour exclusively curated for black dog whiskey

Presenting singer performer par excellence, who started her journey as a reality show contestant and saw her life coming full circle when she became a judge of a reality show. One of the most sought after playback voices of the nation. She has sung in more than 17 languages. Winner of RD Burman Filmfare award, IIFA, Radio mirchi and many others awards. She is also a part of Oscar-grammy winner AR Rahman band for more than 13 years. Having sung all over world tonight she is here to grace the stage with her melodious voice. Ladies and gentleman presenting the lady with a versatile voice, Put your hand up for Ms. Neeti Mohan  

Hitesh is a Paralympic Medal winner with the Singapore Cerebral Palsy Football Team and the author of the book “Better Than Normal” which has sold more than 11,000 copies worldwide. He has received the South-East Asia Excellence Awards-Special Mention of Outstanding Achievements for being an exceptional role model to youth all around the world.

Hitesh is also a certified Jack Canfield Success Principles Trainer and is featured regularly on local and global TV, Radio and Magazines for his crazy mission to inspire 50 Million People by 2050!

Hitesh was born with Cerebral Palsy. But despite his condition, till date he has touched and won the hearts of more than 1.2 Million people from over 32 Nationalities. He is consistently voted as the best inspirational speaker in every event he speaks at, and has delivered keynotes at Microsoft, TATA Steel, Prudential, Great Eastern, Buhler and Deutsche Bank.

Arjun Singh is currently the Managing Director for Asia and the head of Envestnet | Yodlee’s growing operations in India. In his role, he oversees the Bangalore development center and spearheads revenue and user growth in the region. With more than 25 years of experience running and growing businesses, Arjun has held senior roles at Aon Hewitt in Asia, WNS, ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam, GE Capital Information Services, and ANZ Grindlays Bank in Delhi and Melbourne. Under Arjun’s leadership, the Envestnet | Yodlee India operation has grown to over twelve hundred employees, with continually expanding international sales.

Arjun has an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from IIT, Bombay. Arjun is passionate about education and is a trustee at the Om Foundation School for underprivileged children, and is a board member of the Welham Girls School. His interests include tennis, golf, travel and theater. Arjun is married to Kavita and they have a daughter Amira, who has just started her career with Morgan Stanley in London. 

For over two and a half decades, Radha Ahluwalia has created and led industry leadership networks across the country centred on the creation of independent economic and business insight. A renowned name in India’s business leadership community, Mrs Ahluwalia’s perspective on the Indian economy, its socio-political landscape and on business best practices has informed the views of global Boards and Indian industry leaders. For a decade and a half, Mrs Ahluwalia curated and chaired over 120 discussions among CEOs, CFOs, CHROs and CMOs each year, forming bridges of interaction within industry and among government and industry.

After a career spanning two decades at IMA and previously at the World Bank, Mrs Ahuwalia now lends her time selectively to guide start ups and is closely involved with community development and social responsibility initiatives.

Mr. Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra is Director (Human Resources) on the Board of Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil) with effect from 19.2.2018. Prior to this, he was IndianOil’s Executive Director in charge of West Bengal State Office. A Mechanical Engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani, with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Mr. Mohapatra joined IndianOil in 1987 and has since worked on varied assignments, including Terminal Operations, Supply Chain Management & Logistics. With in-depth knowledge and acumen in Supply Chain & Logistics, he had been associated with evacuation of finished products from IndianOil’s domestic refineries, and product upliftment agreements with stand-alone refiners as well as other oil marketing companies (OMCs).

Mr. Mohapatra was also one of the chief architects of the auto fuel quality (BS-III/BS-IV) upgradation programmes of OMCs in India. Between April 2010 and Jan. 2012, he headed the Operations function of IndianOil’s Maharashtra State Office, which oversees the largest number of bulk storage terminals & depots in a State. As Managing Director of IndianOil(Mauritius) Ltd., the Company’s overseas subsidiary, during 2012-2015, Mr. Mohapatra led a team of young professionals, registering sizeable growth in market share and profitability. He was also on the Board of Mer Rouge Oil Storage Terminal, a joint venture formed by four MNCs to set up modern oil storage facilities in Mauritius. Under his inspiring leadership as head of IndianOil’s West Bengal State Office, the OMCs released a record 10.5 lakh PMUY (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana) connections in the first 116 days of the scheme, that is, over 9,000 new connections a day.
Always eager to try out new things, Mr. Mohapatra achieved cashless transaction facilities at almost all Indian Oil fuel stations in West Bengal State and piloted a smart auto-fuel complex that has come up at Rajarhat in Kolkata. Being a person with human touch, Mr. Mohapatra initiated his direct interaction with Young Officers of different functions in the State Office, which has been greatly appreciated. He also conceptualized and launched the now acclaimed Fab-14, which is a novel mentoring system within the channel partners. Widely travelled in Europe, USA, Africa and Southeast Asia, Mr. Mohapatra presented papers in several national and international forums and published a number of articles in international journals and supply chain reference books

Anurag Seth is Vice President and Head of Talent Transformation and responsible for all the technology programs across Wipro globally. In today’s digital era and changing technology landscape, he is responsible for re-skilling the workforce on emerging digital skills. He also drives crowdsourcing at Wipro through TopGear, a platform to enable hands-on experience through learning assignments, case studies and live customer projects. Anurag has played various leadership roles at Wipro in Delivery and Business for over 30 years . In one of his previous roles, he was the champion of the Innovation initiative that won the Chairman’s award for Best Innovation.

Kishore Jayaraman is President for Rolls-Royce India and South Asia. Since taking over the role eight years ago, Kishore has been instrumental in driving strategic focus and significant expansion across the Rolls-Royce Defence, Civil Aerospace and Power Systems businesses.

Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, Kishore held diverse leadership roles across markets at GE for 23 years, and his last assignment was as President and CEO of GE Energy, South Asia.
With an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, Kishore serves on several boards and is at the helm of industry committees and associations, whilst being a champion for leadership development and strategic ecosystem evolution for the present and future.

Kishore is based in New Delhi, India.

Manish is a passionate futurist and advisor with a compelling perspective on the future of work based on human + machine. A respected speaker and thinker, Manish heads the Center for the Future of Work in the Asia Pacific and guides businesses to shape their future. He influences the way leaders think about and prioritize emerging technologies by challenging the status quo and reappraising the underlying principles of businesses to unleash the power of the new. Manish has over 20 years of research, advisory, and business strategy experience. He joined Cognizant in 2014, from Forrester Research, where he served as Vice President, Country Manager and provided guidance and advice to C-level executives.

Manish has been widely quoted in the press, including The Wall Street Journal, The Business Times, Economic Times, and others. He is based in New Delhi, India and a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences.

Ramanan is the Mission Director of the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) Government of India

• The Atal Innovation mission is a strategic and holistic national inclusive innovation initiative aligned with UN SDG, spanning schools, universities, industry and NGOs
• As the Mission Director of AIM, Ramanan has been instrumental to date in the launch and execution of several nationwide innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives resulting in 10,000+ Atal Tinkering Labs being established in schools nationwide with 5400+ operational across all districts and over 2 million students having access to innovative tools and technologies like 3D printers, robotics, miniaturized electronics do it yourself kits
• 102 Atal Incubation Centers being established in Universities / industry fostering Startups
• 24 Atal New India Challenges to stimulate product innovations along with Ministries of India
• one of the largest mentorship networks with over 10000+ registrations nationwide AIM iNNONET to mentor young school students and Startups in the Tinkering Labs and the Incubators
• He has also spearheaded the establishment of global, academic, industrial and government relationships of AIMs aligned with the its objectives

R Ramanan is the Senior Vice President of Tata Consultancy Services, prior to this he was the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of CMC Ltd., a subsidiary of the globally acclaimed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Ramanan’s illustrious career in the IT industry spans more than three decades when he joined TCS in 1981 after graduating from IIT Bombay in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Ramanan has also been invited as the guest of honor at convocation of various prestigious institutions like:

• IIT Bombay (Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), IIT Bombay),
• Nehru Group of Institutions,
• Durgadevi Saraf Institute of Management Studies (DSIMS),
• NITTIE Mumbai,
• Dayanand Sagar Institutions, etc.

Ramanan played an instrumental role in the growth of TCS with a variety of responsibilities ranging from software product development, technical marketing, global business development, and general management of large delivery centers of TCS.

Ramanan led CMC’s rapid transformation from a domestic government organization to a global IT system engineering and integration organization. Under his leadership

• CMC share price grew over 2100% between October 2001 to 2014,
• its operating profits grew over 1338%, with over 72% of its business coming from the overseas markets and leading to its successful amalgamation into TCS in 2015

Ramanan is also a Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program Alumni and accredited by Cambridge University in Sustainability Leadership. He was also elected as the Lifetime Chair of HBS AMP187 Alumni by HBS.

Ramanan has also been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by the Gujarat Law Society in recognition of his impactful considerable contribution in the areas of Corporate Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Ramanan is also the

• Chairman of CSIR LRF committee
• Chairman of the New Zealand Trade & Enterprise-NZTE Beachheads Advisory Panel
• Key board member in the Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO) – innovations for defence excellence
• Key board member in I4F (India Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund), aimed to promote, facilitate and support joint R&D between India and Israel by the Global Innovation and Technology Alliances (GITA)
• Key member of the Tata Group Innovation Forum (TGIF) and has served on the board of TATA companies
• He is an eminent speaker at numerous national and global forums on corporate leadership & sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship

Ramanan received the

• CEO of the Year award in 2015 from CMO Asia,
• India’s top 3 most “Value” able CEO recognition by Business World in 2011 and 2013,
• Indira Gandhi Sadbhavana and Rajiv Gandhi Shiromani awards in 2005-2006
• Many other recognitions for outstanding contributions in Innovation and Business Leadership. He has recently been honored with Mint SAP Digitalist Award -19th April 2018 in Mumbai.

With over 25 years of industry experience under his belt, Rohit is CHRO at Paytm since December 2019.

Rohit has previously worked with Accenture, where he was the Managing Director Human Resources, India Geographic Unit..  Prior to that he has served as the head of Human Resources for Microsoft India. Rohit has also spent 11 years at GE in various HR leadership roles across multiple businesses like Energy, Capital, Engineering, Corporate and Aviation, where he was proud to be one of the employees recognized globally as a growth leader in inclusiveness. He has also worked with Eicher Tractors, Cadence Design Systems and Bausch & Lomb.

Rohit is a graduate of SRCC Delhi. He has subsequently also done his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.

A consummate HR leader and mentor with an experience of 30+ years in Human Resources function globally across multiple countries and across Manufacturing, Consulting, IT & BPO industries. Paneesh has been driving strategic HR initiatives to realize bottom line results and enhance employee engagement in pursuit of organizational objectives.
A creative thinker, problem solver and decision maker, effectively balancing the employee needs with the mission of the organization.

He pioneered initiatives and led large HR interventions with an objective of creating an organization climate providing workforce strategy and management translating into a wide range of people programs, career development, total rewards, inspire and lead large teams deliver business needs and stimulate environment.

In Mindtree, Paneesh oversees the entire gamut of human resources function and employee life cycle management. Heading a large team of 150+ HR professionals, globally, he drives significant initiatives for creating an organization climate that fosters innovation, creates high energy culture and makes the company an employer of choice.

Sukhjit Singh Pasricha joined the Kotak Mahindra Bank in 2019 as Group Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO). His responsibilities include overseeing all HR functions to secure long term growth for the company by leading training, talent acquisition and career development activities across Kotak Mahindra Group companies.

In a career spanning 25 years, Sukhjit has been in leadership position across sectors and in complex businesses that operate in both the B2B and B2C spaces. He has been instrumental in building business-aligned HR strategies, driving HR transformational projects and strengthening organisational capabilities through formulation & implementation of HR processes and ensuring proactive HR interventions.

Prior to joining Kotak, Sukhjit was Chief of HR & Admin at Bajaj Finance, CHRO at IndiGo Airlines, and was in leadership roles at companies such as Bharti Airtel, PepsiCo and Spice Communications.

Sukhjit has done his BA Hons in Sociology from Chandigarh and holds an MBA degree in Human Resources.

As part of his fitness regimen, Sukhjit likes to run and play various sports. Supporting social causes is close to his heart and he takes time out do volunteer work regularly.

35 years experience in leadership roles in strategy, operations, finance, M&A, business turnaround  in diverse geographies – India, USA, Latin America, Russia

Currently runs a management consulting firm with clients in multiple sectors in India and the US  – strategy, scaling up,  business reengineering, M&A,  fintech, mentoring 

Also senior advisor to NABARD on Digitization of micro finance sector with a footprint of over 100 million members.

Independent Director on the Board of IDBI Bank

As CSO  for Vodafone, led all new growth initiatives, expansion into new markets, investments, spectrum auctions, m-commerce, sales and distribution initiatives in the fastest growing market – 25%+ CAGR and annual investment of $2Bn

Led PepsiCo Inc’s global strategic initiatives out of New York – led international side of Gatorade acquisition and business model integration, Russia business turnaround, Mexico and Venezuela bottler restructuring. Prior to that, led operations, strategy, finance in India from the start –  Franchisee system reengineering, Market expansion, taking the brand from scratch to #1 brand in India

Samaresh holds a PGDM from IIM -A, with additional qualifications as a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant.

Rohit is currently the CEO for the entire India & South Asia business across Hotels, Homes, LIFE & Workspaces at OYO. Started in 2013, OYO Hotels & Homes, a young hotel startup, today is one of the world’s leading chain of hotels and homes. OYO today operates in over 800 cities in 80 countries, including the U.S., Europe, U.K., India, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Prior to this role, Rohit was overseeing the growth of OYO LIFE – the brand’s long-term rental housing portfolio as well as other new real estate businesses in India including OYO Workspaces.

A seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience, Rohit has worked in various leadership positions across sales and finance in several companies such as Max India Limited and Mckinsey & Company. Prior to joining OYO, Rohit was the Executive Board Member at Max Healthcare for close to 5 years. He has also been Senior Director-Strategy & Business Performance at Max. Before Max India, Rohit was serving as the head of strategy for the Religare group and was involved in shaping the company’s presence across sectors. In the past, Rohit has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company for close to a decade. During his tenure with McKinsey, he gained extensive exposure to multiple international markets.

Rohit also serves on the board of Max One Distribution and Crossley Remedies.

Rohit holds a PGD from Indian School of Business where he was ranked among the top five students in his batch and was the recipient of the Young Leader Award, for best all-around performance in the class. Rohit has recently been featured as one of ISB’s most influential alumni in the book “ISB Portraits.”In addition to the PGD, he is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, USA).

Rohit is extremely passionate about a quality education, and for access to opportunities being given to all. For this reason, he has been appointed as visiting faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Harappa Education, IMT Ghaziabad, and Vedica Scholars- a programme for women to broaden their horizons. He also dons the hat of an investor across the domains of prop tech, health tech and fintech to name a few as he believes that entrepreneurial ambitions must be nourished, and is actively entrenched in the startup ecosystem of India. He continues to mentor and invest in startups such as OFBusiness, Fitternity, Mosaic Brands, Tjori, Aleiva, Meddo, to name a few.

In his personal life, he is fond of all things design, is a keen portrait photographer and a fitness enthusiast. In 2017, he bicycled from Manali to Leh, one of the toughest cycling routes anywhere in the world. Outside of work, Rohit plays the role of a caddie for his children (7-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old son) and supports their passion for golf. He is also passionate about animals and is vocal about animal rights & welfare.

Runs a new age business transformation lab using research, simulation, prototyping, validation & deep testing in the areas of digital acceleration, people & culture change, marketing & communication and leadership services.

A 6 by 6 matrix global professional who has six roles in six varied industries, to his credit. He started his career handling systems on mainframes & went on to become a corporate banker, run P&L’s, execute Corporate Strategy, do new business startup, SAP Functional, Business Consulting & Global HR. Built convergence between Business & People keeping Technology at the forefront. He has been in global roles for over 3 decades and managed diverse teams across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia & APAC.

He is passionate about digital disruption, leadership development, people & culture transformation & skills building holistically for business value & excellence creation in his various roles with ICICI Group, Essel Propack as Global CHRO and with The Oberoi Group as EVP Group HR & OCLD ( Oberoi Centre for Learning & Development), EVP & Global CHRO at IGate – Patni Computer Services ( now part of Capgemini) , Group CVP, Business Consulting & CHRO Capgemini, Group CHRO for Vedanta Resources Plc and Welspun Group as Director & Group CHRO.

He created customer – centric global HR models across geographies with world class learning skills, building frameworks & running complex yet efficient structures to create customer value.

Rajesh won the prestigious UN Award for building world class diversity & inclusive practices at Capgemini.

His hobbies include Cricket, Fitness, Motorcycles, Travelling & Research.

With almost three decades of experience in Human Resource and Learning & Development, Vibhash currently is the Head – Human Resources, Learning & Development and Administration at HDFC Life Insurance Co., one of the leading private life insurance company in India. Having a demonstrated history of working in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industry, Vibhash has been instrumental in rolling out a number of successful, progressive people strategies and initiatives, to support the achievement of the business goals at HDFC Life.

Prior to HDFC life, Vibhash was the Head of Human Resources with Religare Macquarie, a boutique wealth management firm and has been in various roles in the space of Organisational Development, Compensation and Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement and HR business partnering,  with his previous employers like Lehman Brothers, Tata Interactive systems and Atos Origin.

Andras is the Global CEO of Maven7, one of the leading companies in the Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) space. He has 20+ years experience in HR and Organizational Development and has been focused over the last decade in the area of ONA and Social Capital.

Andras is regarded as a leading exponent in ONA and has worked with nearly 200 Projects in this specific sector globally. He is a second generation ONA Expert He is passionate about bringing social capital and networks on the agenda of HR and management.

Andras is a global expert in the application of organizational network analysis in change management, HRM practices and improving organizational performance.

Aditya Malik, is a successful tech-entrepreneur and CEO of Talentedge, one of the country’s leading new age, technology driven ISO: 9001-2008 certified interactive education companies. He is the face of Talentedge and helms a variety of functions like Senior Leadership, Product Development and delivery, Sales and Marketing, HR and Technology, Regulatory and Government bodies, General expansion etc.

Aditya helms responsibility for leading the company towards India’s largest online education company. He believes in the prowess of a strong workforce and hence has meticulously built the team infrastructure, on the basis of their core expertise and their determination to work with passion. Under his leadership Talentedge has been successful is partnering with premium institutions like IIFT, XLRI, MICA, IIMK and many more. He has also been leading the company towards building a strong Enterprise connect with organisations like Nokia, Pepsi, Addidas to name a few.

Aditya holds an MBA from the University of Pune. Apart from his present role at Talentedge, he also serves as the Senior Partner at Lumis Partners, an operating private equity fund. Specialist in start-ups, leading it all the way to fruition, he has served on the leadership team for 7 years at  Bank of America in its initial days.  He also held the position of Head of Operations at SBI cards in India at the time it started. He worked as VP Operations as well at GECIS (GE Capital International Service). He is also Six Sigma Master black belt Certified from GE.

He plans to carve a niche place for Talentedge as India’s first online interactive education company. His goal is to create a category that will disrupt Education and Learning in India.

Aditya is a Hindi movie-buff and loves to network and travel when not cracking new codes to expand the education ecosystem.

Sanjeev Sahgal joined World Bank Group (WBG) to set up its first HR Shared Services capability before taking on his current role as the Head of HR Strategy and Agile HR.

Sanjeev is a futurist and a strong advocate of bringing innovation in HR through Technology and Agile ways of working. He has worked in world’s leading organizations like Target, Lehman Brothers, GE, Genpact and Motorola before joining World Bank, and his diverse experience pans across Human Resources, Operations, Sales and Six Sigma.

Swaminathan leads WNS’s Human Resources function, and is responsible for the entire gamut of people-oriented processes. Swami is an unconventional HR professional, who also has a sterling experience spanning Operations and Sales. Prior to joining WNS, Swami was with C A Technologies, where he served as Vice President – Human Resources and was the Country Head – HR for India. He has also served as Head of HR Operations at Syntel and thereafter, for a short while, was, its Global HR Head. Prior to Syntel, Swami had a long tenure of GE spanning multiple roles such as Master Black Belt- HR and Assistant Vice President and Head – Operations for HR, Customer Research and Operational Analytics, apart from other roles in mergers and acquisitions. He is a certified Change Acceleration Coach and a keen practitioner of Six Sigma. Swaminathan has a Masters in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Madras.

Gaurav Lahiri is a Partner with Deloitte Consulting. He leads the Human Capital Service area based out of Delhi. He brings significant experience in consulting, focusing primarily on organization transformation, leadership development and M&A.

Gaurav works with clients to align their organizations with their strategic agenda – this includes reviewing strategies, designing organization structures, implementing talent management programs and formulating reward strategies to drive performance and motivation.

Hari consults with Chief Executive Officers, Chief Transformation Officers, Chief Digital Officers and Chief HR Officers in shaping a strategy for a new disruptive world. He is based in Los Angeles.

Hari defines agility as being ‘At The Speed Of The Customer’. He believes that strategy in a new world is driven by multi industry influences making every company a platform, technology and data company.

He is a Caltech CTME Faculty and teaches strategy & transformation. He has over 25 years of industry and consulting experience across 55+ Countries.

He brings this thinking to creating imaginative, creative and futuristic people strategies for companies that blur the lines between industries, customer and employees, humans and technology. He is known for his work in areas of Agile HR and Reimagining Work through a one-of-its-kind diagnostic he developed.

Luke Coutinho is a globally renowned Holistic Lifestyle Coach in the field of Integrative Medicine and the Founder of Luke Coutinho Holistic Healing Systems Pvt Ltd. Luke’s approach towards prevention and healing revolves around four important pillars: Balanced Nutrition, Adequate Exercise, Quality Sleep and Emotional Detox. 

Luke’s programs work across preventive medicine as well as cancer, diabetes, cardio-vascular and auto-immune diseases. It has positively impacted the health of children and adults to achieve their health & wellness goals.

Luke has recently joined forces with the Lifeness Science Institute (LSI) as the chief programme mentor for UG and PG courses in Integrative Nutrition and Dietetics.

Wellness being the need of the hour, Luke has Co-founded RESET – Holistic Living Concepts, a one-of-a-kind facility for individuals who are voyaging towards holistic well-being. He is also an Adviser and Head of Integrative Lifestyle and Nutrition at Pure Nutrition. He is currently working on a project to build a sustainable food chain across the country.

He has also authored a range of books on wellness and has 3 best sellers to his credit – “The Great Indian Diet” with Shilpa Shetty, “The Dry Fasting Miracle – From Deprive to Thrive” with His Highness Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Ali Bin Rashed Al Nuaimi – Member of the Ruling family of Ajman , and “The Magic Weight-Loss Pill” with Anuskha Shetty. His most recent release is a digital book with Shilpa Shetty “The Magic Immunity Pill: Lifestyle”, a free gift to India & the world.

Website : www.lukecoutinho.com

Yashwant Mahadik (Yash) a seasoned global HR professional with over 30 years of experience in top-notch multinational corporations. Has established a track record of success in all his roles and assignments. His experience is diverse and varies across industries/sectors (Technology, Consumer and Healthcare) and geographies (India, UK, Japan, USA, ASEAN and Europe).

His strengths and areas of expertise include; Strategy (Business, Workforce and HR functional), HR and Business Transformation, Leadership Development, Organization and Culture building, Capability Building, Workforce Design & Planning, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Merger/Acquisition Integration and Executive Coaching. He has led/is leading global transformation programs and initiatives in J&J, Philips, SunPharma and Lupin at enterprise level. He is proficient and enthusiastic about evolving social and digital technologies and has a strong presence on social media platforms such as Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, etc and has a blog of his own (www.yashmahadik.com). He is recognized amongst top 50 most powerful HR professionals coming from India and is a leading HR thought leader who has worked in association with leading academicians in USA for conceptualizing and executing global strategic initiatives in areas of Human Resource Management.

Has a very high social (development sector) orientation – believes in sharing his earnings and time with social developmental causes related to education for the underprivileged. Is an avid golfer and enjoys travelling and reading. He is a very keen photographer and is a creator of many professional level, highly creative images using digital photography equipment and technologies. He is incubating his new and personal venture “Yash Mahadik Photography” in dedication of a noble wildlife conservation cause.

Hema is a Learning & Leadership Development expert driven by a strong passion to create an impact on individuals and organizations. She holds multi-sector experience and has worked with large business conglomerates including Reliance Industries, Tata Motors & EID Parry.

She is currently driving the learning and capability building agenda for the Hydrocarbon Business of Reliance Industries Ltd. as its Chief Learning Officer. She is a firm believer and proponent of Modern Work Learning practices and works on technology led learning transformation, towards building learning as a key driver for individual and organizational results.

As a Culture Champion, she has led large scale culture change initiatives including articulating Mission, Values and Cultural Priorities and making it come alive through deep enrolment processes.

Coaching and Mentoring young HR professionals is her way of Paying Forward, which motivates her to blog regularly on topics pertaining to Leadership and HR. She writes poetry in her free time, which she believes is not just a form of creative expression but is also a medium for influencing change

Hema Mani has over 25 years of experience in Strategic Human Resources Capacity , with wide ranging Multinational experiences from Kelly Consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Jain Group of Institutions, i2 Technologies and Honeywell . She is a certified Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, Lean Sigma Green Belt assessor and certified OD facilitator

She is currently heading the Asia Pacific HR at Lennox International, part of her responsibility in Lennox India & Asia sourcing leadership team, she spends considerable time in developing HR talent in the organization and developing them into a global team of excellence. She is committed to the cause of Diversity. She has recently launched the LGBTQ+ initiative at Lennox India

Under her leadership, Lennox India has won several honors for HR such as the 13 best workplaces in Tamil Nadu by Times of India, 100 Best places to work for women in India 2016 by Avatar, Best places to work in Chennai by Economic Times, Best Games based Learning Program by TISS and Dream companies to work in 2016 by Times Ascent. Best Community engagement Award by Economic Times More recently Lennox was Certified as the Top 100 Great Places to work under her leadership

She is the current Chairwoman for CII-Indian Women Network in Chennai and part of her role she is focused on develop Leadership talent among women, Mentoring initiatives, Gender Parity diagnostics & facilitation in corporations and POSH activities

She was one of the founding members of Mahaveer Academy of Technology and Sciences (part of the Jain Group of Institutions), here she was responsible for developing the HR curriculum for post graduate studies in collaboration with Industry and Academic experts.

>She is a member of the Board of XIME-Chennai and plays a vital role in developing the HR curriculum for the group. As part of XIME, she mentors and coaches young HR talent

She has represented on topics of Human sciences in forums of IHRD and NHRD. She has published a couple of papers on Execution Excellence in HR which is compiled into a journal released by Indian Institute of Science and another one on Innovative learning strategies was recognized by Nasscom and published on their site. She is recognized as one of the 30 Women Super Achievers by World HRD Congress

More recently , she has been an active volunteer and Meditator with Isha Foundation.

Ravi Gupta is a seasoned professional with 27 years of experience across functions spanning Operations, Commercial, Improvement Projects, Quality, Six Sigma, Human Resource and has delivered complex projects. Currently, he heads Learning and Skill Development for Hindustan Zinc. Ravi has done B.E. (Metallurgical Engineering) Hons. from MNIT, Jaipur; Marketing Management from FTDC, Delhi; Six Sigma Master Black Belt from Uniworld USA and is a life member of QCFILM. He is also a recipient of the International Process Excellence Award as the winner from IQPC, London. Ravi has trained participants on various subjects & his recent webinar was on ‘Mining of the future: Resourcing Tomorrow: Technology, Connection, Transformation’ arranged by the Confederation of Indian Industries. He is passionate about coaching, mentoring, reading, nature and plays Cajon & Drums.

Amir Bharwani –  Head HR at eClerx, a BSE/NSE listed process management, analytics and automation services company.

He has 20+ years of experience with global companies such as WNS, Bank of America and SITEL, in various HR leadership roles.

At WNS, he was HR Head for BFSI, Healthcare and Consulting services, prior to that – HR Head for the Philippines and earlier for Travel Vertical, leading their overall Talent strategy.

He has done diverse roles in his earlier roles in Business HR, HR Transitions and Recruitment and Bank of America Continuum and SITEL.

Stacey Harris is Chief Research Officer, and a Managing Partner for Sapient Insights Group a Research and Consulting firm focused on helping clients use data and insights to achieve organizational outcomes. She also oversees Sierra-Cedar’s industry research work, including the esteemed Annual HR Systems Survey and White Paper, now in its 23rd year, and sits on the IHIRM Board of Directors, overseeing strategy and education in her role as Vice Chair. Stacey is listed in HR Executive Magazines Top 100 HR Tech Influencers list and is a frequent speaker at HR events both in the U.S. and abroad and co-hosts the HR Tech Weekly Radio Show at HR Examiner.com.

Nikhil has managed and implemented large technology transformation initiatives across diverse geographies & multiple industries. Nikhil has setup and manages large scale HR shared services and played a pivotal & strategic role to model shared services, up the service delivery standards, led digital mandate to leverage efficiency through automations to deliver significant cost savings. Nikhil has modelled HR analytics to help address organization pressing problems y providing insights to improve operational efficiency.

James brings with him extensive experience in management, sales consulting, alliances and channels, and business development, along with a deep understanding of the India market. He also has a wealth of experience in IT services as well as partnering ecosystem in India and Asia Pacific.

Most recently, James spearheaded the India Sales, Services and Operations at Kronos. During his tenure of 12 years, he led India to be one of the fastest growing regions for the organization. He even served as a member of the International and Asia Pacific Leadership team, responsible for all markets outside of America and drove growth in the emerging markets. Moving ahead in his illustrious journey of more than 25 years, James will be chartered to lead the business and operations at SAP in India.

James is a much sought-after speaker at a lot of forums and is constantly featured in interviews across various publications on topics related to Human Resources and Workforce Management. He holds an MBA from IMT, Ghaziabad, India, and is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, with an Honors degree in Electronics Engineering. He is an avid sports enthusiast and a voracious reader.

Amit is currently leading HR function at SBI Funds Management Pvt Ltd and playing a key role in shaping the employee experiences to build an employer of choice. Amit comes with extensive experience in building HR transformation journeys, Change Management, Talent Management, HR Digital delivery, Capability Building and Engagement. He is passionate about bringing focus on “culture” and philosophy of “service first” HR delivery.

In his experience of more than 16 years, he has handled HR leadership roles across areas in Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity and Information Technology. Prior to SBI Funds Management, Amit was Director & Business HR Head at IDFC Bank. At IDFC for close to 11 years, he led HR transformation for IDFC Asset Management & IDFC Securities and also contributed to IDFC’s transition to IDFC Bank. He has also had stints with TCS and Blue Star Infotech in early stages of his career. Amit is PGDBA from ICFAI, Mumbai.

An engineer by education, Tapas spent 17 years building the e-commerce vertical of a large IT services organization in India. Currently the CEO of Giftease Technologies, Tapas Lenka is a veteran in the field of B2B enterprise-grade SaaS solutions. He has grown Gratifi, Giftease’s flagship product in the rewards and recognitions space, to become one of the leading engagement platforms in the field today. Tapas upholds a passion of combining cutting-edge technology with the art of people engagement to achieve a holistic HR digital transformation within any firm.

Sean Sullivan serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer and is responsible for providing human resources leadership, vision and service delivery for SHRM, the world’s largest HR professional society.

Sullivan has over 25 years of experience in human resources strategy and operations. He has built his career across multiple industries, including health care, defense, technology, IT, and manufacturing, applying his expertise to help grow and support diverse business models.

Prior to SHRM, he was Vice President, Human Resources for Tufts Medical Center, an internationally respected academic medical center in downtown Boston. He was responsible for all aspects of human capital practices and labor relations in support of the healthcare, research, and teaching mission of the oldest permanent medical facility in the country. Under his leadership, Tufts Medical Center launched innovative initiatives in workforce development and diversity and inclusion while strengthening strategic partnerships with community-based organizations and enhancing equity in patient access to healthcare.

Sullivan has held senior leadership positions for technology firms in the defense and intelligence industries, including senior vice president for human resources with Leidos, a global IT and technology firm. He led due diligence and integration efforts for international mergers and acquisitions. He helped establish the Leidos Relief Foundation and served as its first president. He played a key role in the re-design of the human resources function for SAIC when it was spun off from Leidos in 2013. Earlier in his career, Sullivan took on roles of increasing responsibility at Northrop Grumman and TRW, including the support of global business units in systems integration and manufacturing.

With a passion for workforce development, he has been a guest speaker at the Close It Summit, the Colloquium on Global Diversity, the Work Rebooted Conference and other forums. He has been a member of Innovate+Educate’s Innovative Business Hiring Council and the Healthcare HR Leadership Forum. He holds an MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, from which he also earned his undergraduate degree in political science.

Mr D V Shastry is an astute professional with passion for L&D and Human Resource Development (HRD). A strategic thinker and facilitator of change, he possesses more than 36 years of rich and multifarious experience in Oil & Gas Sector.

Presently working as Executive Director in GAIL (India) Ltd. (a Maharatna PSU) and Director on the Board of M/s GAIL Gas Ltd., Mr. Shastry heads GAIL’s three verticals – Training, R&D and Start Up.

He has also worked as Director (Personnel) in Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL),  a PSU under Department of Atomic Energy.

Mr. Shastry is M.Tech (Energy Systems Engg) from IIT,Bombay with PG Diploma in Management (DIM) & Advanced Certificate in HRM (ACHRM). Prior to dedicating to HR/HRD domain, he has had experience in the domains of Project Management and Operations & Management of Natural Gas Pipelines and Gas Processing Plants.

Apart from performing the key roles in various areas of HR and HRD, his major contribution has been in bringing transformational changes, particularly in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Training & Leadership Development, Mentoring, Employee Engagement & OD and establishing a strong Industry-Academia Interface.

It is under his leadership that GAIL’s Corporate Training Institute (GTI) has been transformed as a World Class Centre of Excellence in Natural Gas sector.

He is the recipient of many national and international awards like “DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD” by ISOL Global Foundation at Chicago, (USA), ISTD “EMERGING HRD THINKER AWARD”, “Asia-Pacific Leadership Award”, etc.

He is actively involved with and is holding important positions in various professional bodies/institutions like Member, Board of Studies (BoS) – AIMA, Member, GC & BoS – Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Member, General Body (GB) – FORE Society, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT),  etc.

He is a member of national & international professional bodies like SHRM, NHRDN, NIPM, ISTD, ASME, etc. He is also a Member of Jury for the prestigious FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards.

Mr Shastry has a deep interest in spirituality, ancient Indian literature/scriptures, music and yoga, etc. He is also an erudite writer having several publications to his credit.

He has widely travelled across the globe in pursuit of his professional activities.

Dr Alka Mittal leads the human resource management function of India’s largest E&P company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited. She joined the Board of ONGC as Director (HR) in November 2018 after having distinguished herself in diverse roles and challenging assignments over a period of more than 33 years in India’s Maharatna Energy She is the first woman functional Director of the company in its more than 60 years Major. of history.

Dr Alka Mittal has driven strategic & impactful human resource programmes and policies in ONGC, with focus on adopting best-in-class HR practices towards making ONGC a best place to work and nurturing a generation of dedicated energy soldiers in India.

A leader with a mission, Dr Mittal has steered ONGC to become one of the top companies in the country today in the area of CSR, with focus on impactful and sustainable projects to empower the community and preserve our planet.

Dr Mittal is on the Board of ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL) as ONGC nominee Director since August 2015, and is a member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Trichy.

She is actively involved with various national and international professional forums and bodies dedicated to the cause of Human Resource Management and empowerment of women, especially in the Energy Sector. She has a special penchant for training and mentoring, and has trained more than 12000 young Graduate Trainees of ONGC since 2001.

Dr Mittal is a post graduate in Economics, MBA (HRM) and a Doctorate in Commerce and Business Studies in the area of “Corporate Governance”.

Kamal Ahluwalia brings extensive experience in creating software categories, scaling businesses and ensuring that customer and partner success drive business success.

As Chief Revenue Officer at Apttus, Kamal led the company to market leadership in multiple product categories ahead of Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, IBM, and others.

Co-Author of the book “What’s Next for You – The Eightfold Path To Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent”.

Jayant Paleti is the Co-Founder of Darwinbox. Recognised as the most preferred HCM solution in APAC by Gartner, Darwinbox is used by 350+ large enterprises to manage their end to end HR needs.

Prior to Darwinbox, Jayant was an investment banker at Ernst & Young. Jayant worked across functions like M&A and private equity. He is an IIT Madras and IIM Lucknow alumnus. He has advised several large corporates on big investment and strategic decisions.

A visionary of the underlying scope of HR Tech, Jayant heads all sales and marketing activities at Darwinbox. Given his exposure to corporate org structure and human capital-intensive decision-making practices, he strongly believes the HR function can be a source of great competitive advantage for an organization. And also, that this underlying potential can be optimally harnessed through technology.

Alexander Reisch is the Managing Director at IPM India Wholesale Trading Private Limited (IPM India). He took on this role in 2018.  An entrepreneurial, innovative and a strategy-driven senior management leader with over 25 years of experience across four continents, he has been credited for opening many new profitable markets. He is an internationalist with a proven track record of business growth, by building influential relationships and driving high profile successes with leading global retailers, clients, and corporate banking leaders.

In his current role, Alexander is responsible for managing IPM India (a joint venture. Presently, his focus is on reinvigorating the organization with cutting edge talent, while building new skillsets needed in the dynamic business landscape. He has been credited with creating a comprehensive Leadership Team Strategy and to rebuild a strong trust & relationship with partners to gain market share.

Prior to India, Alexander was the Managing Director of Philip Morris, Pakistan for a period of two years. He has also held various leadership roles in Philip Morris across diverse markets like Indonesia, Philippines, South America, West and central Africa and Switzerland.

Alexander has a degree in Bachelor of Arts Degree in Management and Finance from Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland. His passions are mentoring his son on go-carting and traveling the world.

Amol, an alumnus of UC Berkeley Extension, SIMS, Symbiosis Law College and Delhi University was born in a Defense Family. An avid learner, he pursued additional certifications like SPHR, HRMP & SHRM – SCP.

With an overall experience of 23 years in Human Resource Management including global experience in US as HR Business Partner to CFO and other Chief Executives that added challenge and contributed heavily in his professional growth. Amol has worked across various segments such as Financial Services, IT Product Company, IT/ITES, Pharma and Bio Technology.

He specializes in – Strategic Human Resources – People Strategy, Organization Development, Human Capital and Employer of Choice Branding, Performance Management, Compensation Management, Talent Engagement and Management, Policies and Processes, Risk Management, BCP, General Management and Leadership Transformation. He holds experience in Core HR Practices and Process Areas which includes, Complete Value Chain.

Currently he is The People Leader for India/Philippines at FIS. He is associated with FIS for last 5.5 years. He is responsible for bringing People Strategy to life and driving culture change. Amol’s focus is enhancing employee experience and ensuring India operations are world class.

Prior to FIS, Amol has held different positions at Barclays Technology Center India, SunGard, Infosys BPM, Lupin Ltd. and few others.

Apart from work, he is a Marathon Runner and has participated in multiple runs including Ladakh marathon and enjoys spending time with his family.

Ms. Meenakshi Davar is a full-time Director in Power System Operation Corporation Limited, a Schedule ‘A’ Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Power. She heads the HR function.  She has been appointed as Director (HR) in December 2017.

She was Executive Director (Human Resource) with POWERGRID. She has spent last 37 years in the HR function, first 9 years in NTPC and then in POWERGRID. She has handled all areas of HR including Appraisals and Promotions, Training, Establishment, Policy, Industrial Relations, Manpower Planning and Administration.

She is an MBA from University of Hull, UK and a Post Graduate from University of Delhi. She is also a Diploma holder in Industrial Psychology. She is a certified trainer of soft skills.

She is the recipient of Amity’s Women Achiever Award 2016 in the area of HR. In 2017 she received the ‘Women Persona – InWENA of the Decade ‘– Public Sector Enterprises Award for contribution to the Power Sector and Public Sector at large across functions like Human Resource, Corporate Social Responsibility, Technical Planning, Resourcing, etc.

In February 2018, the Forum of Women in Public Sector has felicitated her with ‘The Achiever Award’ for leading by example and creating a lasting impact in the organizations she has worked for.

In March 2018, she has been honored for her exemplary Leadership skills and conferred with the Amity Leadership Award.

Fame India Magazine in their 2018 issue has rated her as one of the 25 Shaktishali Women in the Country.

In August 2018, she has been conferred with the ‘Seasoned HR Professional Award’ by National HRD Network at its 21^st National Conference for her significant contribution in the field of HR.

In September 2018, she has been awarded with “Women Super Achievers Award for Excellence in HR” at 17^th Asia Pacific HRM Congress Awards 2018 by CMO Asia.

In December 2018, she has been awarded with the ASSOCHAM’s ‘Women in Energy Sector- Excellence in HR’ for her immense contribution in Power Sector in ASSOCHAM’s conference on ‘The Energy Agenda 2030- Innovation Development & Energy Excellence Awards.

In February 2019, she has been awarded with “Pride of HR Professional- Public Sector Profession” in the World HRD Congress presented by TIMES ASCENT.

In January 2020, she has been awarded with “Top Rankers Excellence Award 2020” for HR Leadership.

In February 2020, she has been awarded with “Sustainable HR Professional- Leadership Award” in the World HRD Congress presented by ET NOW.

In March 2020, she has been awarded with “Chanakya Award for Best HR Person of the Year” in HR Field Category by PRCI.

A seasoned HR professional with a successful track record in strategic HR leadership positions including end-to-end HR Management in varied cultures and industries. I have been exposed to the best global HR practices in a highly developed but at the same time complex and challenging environment; US Government, U.S.-U.K. Joint Venture in Pharma space, Core Indian Manufacturing (based out of over 50 locations), electric mobility and Financial Services

In my various assignments, I have partnered with business to design, implement or collaborate to manage HR transformation & strategies, talent & performance management initiatives, compensation, R&R programs, talent acquisition & sourcing, talent development & engagement programs across functions and levels, HR operations & management, change management, labor & workforce relations/engagement, HR policies and compliance, ethics governance, critical HR projects & Improvement Initiatives, launch of new business and have extensive experience with Government & Industry bodies etc

Deepti Jerath is an accomplished Investment Banking and Insurance Executive with over 18 years of experience in UK financial markets. During this time, she has held senior positions across HSBC, JP Morgan and Phoenix Group. 

Deepti has extensive experience of advising FTSE100 clients on risk management, portfolio management, investment strategy and innovative financing solutions. She has a track record of building successful businesses and is a firm believer that business success is underpinned by teams that are empowered and diverse. 

Deepti has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University. She is passionate about the role of finance and business in building towards a more sustainable future.    

Rajiv Kumar is the Vice President & Country Leader of SumTotal India. In his role he is responsible for leading the Sales and Consulting Lines of Business across the region including Presales, Channels, Professional Services and Strategic Customer Program. His focus lies in strategy, innovation, people management and customer experience.

As the Country Leader, he holds the responsibility to drive the next phase of growth for SumTotal in India overseeing and providing guidance to sales, customer support, professional services, partner ecosystem and marketing initiatives.

Rajiv has two decades of rich experience in business management, strategy, sales, corporate affairs, market development and marketing Management. Prior to SumTotal, Rajiv was the Vice President & Head of Oracle Business at Sify Technologies. Previously, he was the Sales Leader of the Oracle’s Technology business in Public Sector in India. He was leading the strategic initiatives of Big Data, Data Warehousing, Information Security, Information Lifecycle Management and Cloud Computing for Oracle in the Public Sector.

A 20+ year sales and marketing veteran, Rajiv has managed Entrepreneurial roles with exposure to multiple functions across verticals and geographies in large MNCs as well as Start-up organisations.

His is a firm believer that success lies in building talented teams and strong customer relationships; and an effective leader should focus on getting the best people for the job, giving them the tools and skills they need to succeed, and celebrating victories with them.

Praveen spearheads high impact strategic and transformational interventions at the Vedanta group He started his career with the Group in 2005 and has served across various locations/businesses. He has been instrumental in continuously setting benchmarks in global best people practices, creating a strong pipeline of leaders from within and strengthening and sustaining Vedanta as an ‘Employer of Choice’ through some of the industry leading key initiatives such as –‘ Vice Chairman’s Internal Growth Workshop (Flagship top-talent program) ’, V-Reach (Graduate development program), V-Lead (Anchoring for women leaders) and VLDP (Flagship Campus Leadership program), V – Deliver (Leadership Performance Scorecard).

Praveen is a strong proponent of knowledge sharing and regularly contributes articles eminent journals & magazines. Amongst industry recognitions, Praveen has been conferred with Top 100 HR minds –TOI, The Economic Times -Great Managers Award (Overall), Young HR Leader and ‘Star of the Business’

Emrana Sheikh is the Enterprise HR Head for Johnson & Johnson India & South Asia. In this role, Emrana leads the Company’s human resource strategy for all 4 Business Sectors namely Consumer, Medical Devices, Vision and Pharmaceuticals, with a special focus on organization design, talent development, capability, culture, and diversity & inclusion initiatives. She is member of Asia Pacific Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board of Johnson and Johnson.

She has overall rich experience of more than 25 years in both Manufacturing and Service Industry ranging from FMCG, Automotive, Express Transportation, Agricultural Equipment and Media. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Emrana has been heading HR portfolios in large global organizations like Asian Paints, Mahindra & Mahindra & FedEx.

She has Bachelor of Science (Physics) and Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Mumbai University. She has also completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Management from University of Leicester, UK. She is a certified ICF Coach and has received several other certifications including Hogan, MBTI, FIRO-B etc. She was nominated for the prestigious Mahindra Universe Program at Harvard University.

A much-recognized HR leader, Emrana has featured in Economic Times Women Ahead 2016 list as Corporate India’s fastest rising women leaders. She was awarded with ‘LinkedIn Power Profiles 2015’ in India. She was recently listed in Women of Change – Aspirational HR Women Leaders by People Matters. She was awarded in April 2014, ‘Leading Women in Human Resources’ by IWLF (International Women Leadership Forum). She was invited by British Council High Commission to Sri Lanka for the South Asia Meet for Women Leaders on the theme of Global Education in March 2014. She has been a strong advocate of Children Welfare Organizations and is passionate about making a difference to communities.

Vice- President & Head – Corporate Human Resources, Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian Multi-national Conglomerate with varied interest in basic and heavy engineering, construction, realty, manufacturing of capital goods, information technology, and financial services.

 A highly result oriented, HR professional with 32 years of experience in Engineering & Construction Industry with proven experience in successfully planning, designing, implementing and managing various Strategic HR Initiatives.  He has varied experience including International exposure in Middle East & Africa Region. Has expertise in the area of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Change Management and OD processes. Has implemented various new age digital solution in HR for delivering business results.

Vishpala leads HR for Philips in India and Area countries. She is responsible for HR across Market Commercial Operations, Philips Innovation Campus, Healthcare Innovation Centre, Global Business Services and Factories located in India. As part of the India Management Team, she spearheads the people and talent agenda to support business growth enabling Philips to get closer to its commitment of improving 3 billion lives a year by 2030. Prior to Philips, Vishpala was with Uber Technologies where she was the Regional HR Director for Asia-Pacific leading HR across 12 countries and all lines of businesses like Rides, EATS, Engineering, Community Operations & Customer Support. She joined Uber in 2017 and was part of the leadership team responsible in driving the transformative growth in the region as well as enabling the HR function as the company went public in 2019.

Prior to Uber, she was with American Express for 12 year and her last role was Vice President & Head HR, where she was leading Human Resources for American Express in India across P&L, Servicing and Capability LOB’s comprising a diverse workforce of 12000+ employees. She has held positions in Hewitt Associates and Cognizant Technology Solutions prior to American Express. Her experience includes driving change, leadership enablement, employee brand communication, organization-effectiveness, diversity & inclusion and leading innovative HR programs.

Vishpala served as a Board member of the national executive board of NHRDN (National HR Development Network) 2015-2019 and led their Young Minds Advisory Board aimed at enhancing capabilities of young HR professionals in the country.

An avid proponent to the cause of developing women leaders across walks of society, she lends her time in mentoring women professionals. She is passionate about leading innovative and sustainable HR practices with measurable impact and being a strong talent advocate. She has been honored with the “HR Influencer Award 2019” by Jombay, “LinkedIn Power Profile in HR 2018” “Women Super Achiever Award” World HRD Congress in 2016.

She is based in Gurgaon with her husband and two children and loves to travel and experience different cultures. A sportsperson, Vishpala has represented Andhra Pradesh/University as a national level shuttle badminton player.

Jaspreet Bakshi (JP) carries 20+ years of learning journey in managing different business & HR functional leadership roles across industries. In his current Org’n & role at NatWest India as Managing Director, HR Customer Service & Operations, he led the HR transformation for India businesses with focus on Digital & Culture and creation of an integrated & value-based HR delivery model and leads that for region.

Prior to the current role with RBS, Jaspreet has led multiple leadership roles in organization design to support Business Strategy for Marketing, Sales and Service organizations – both in business and functional roles; and holds cross cultural experience with clients across Americas, Asia-Pac, Europe and India.

A Six Sigma Black Belt, certified & practicing OD specialist and a technology geek, Jaspreet continues to be a keen learner and has been contributing in enabling individuals & teams. Also works as a Mentor & Sponsor of Social Entrepreneurship work undertaken by various institutes & foundations; partners with incubators to advise on Talent & Manpower strategies & planning for start-ups. Jaspreet has an Armed Forces background and is an avid reader and sportsman ranging across tennis, swimming, golf and off late cycling.

Ms. Rajkamal Vempati is the Head of Human Resources at Axis Bank, one of India’s largest private sector banks. In a career spanning more than 22 years, she has donned various hats successfully and carved a niche for herself in the industry.  Having started her career in HR as a Consultant with Hewitt Associates, she went on to be a part of the Global HR Leadership Program at GE Capital. Prior to Axis Bank she was heading Human Resources for ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited.

She is married and has a daughter. She loves travelling and planning holidays.

Aditya is the Chief Human Resources officer at Clix Capital and is responsible for building the culture and the human capital of a young and fast-growing Fin-Tech startup. He is passionate about leading the people agenda that ensures that we get the right people, in the right roles, with the right capabilities to drive differentiated performance and make a significant impact in our Industry.

He has over two decades of experience that spans across multiple facets of HR including  Performance, Reward and Benefits, Business Relationship Management, HR Transformation & Change Management, Employee Engagement, HR Technology & Service Delivery Strategy, Shared Services and Global Payroll Models. He is a results-driven leader, who has worked in Singapore, India and London, managing global teams in a highly matrixed global environment. In all of his roles, he has created space to drive change through a multi discipline approach that leverages all aspects of Human Capital Management, Technology and Culture to drive productivity and performance.

Prior to Clix he has worked across sectors in marquee organisations like Airtel, Standard Chartered Bank and Hewitt Associates (Aon).

James Jobs is the Senior Vice President – Talent Acquisition for HGS India. He is responsible for the recruitment and team building for HGS India. He has been with HGS for more than half a decade.

An experienced professional with track record of more than three decades has worked extensively in sales, operations, and HR both in manufacturing and services sectors,

James is a distinct leader spearheading large projects/operations across multiple geographies. He is recipient of coveted awards and titles scaling the career ladder in senior and responsible positions.

Prior to HGS, James had stints with Aditya Birla Minacs and CEAT Ltd. for over a decade.

Chandrashekarr B S is working with Adobe Systems India as Head of Total Rewards, India. He holds a post-graduation certification from XLRI, Jamshedpur in Human Resources Management along with Masters in Human Resources Management from Pondicherry University. He has a rich experience in Compensation and Benefits function spanning over 2 decades with organizations like Societe Generale, Mphasis, IBM, iGATE (Capgemini) and Motorola. His last assignment was with Dell, where he was the Lead – Compensation and Benefits for over 13000 + employees. In addition to his Compensation and Benefits experience, he also carries a rich experience in Change Management & M&A

Shweta is the Chief Human Resources Officer for Citi South Asia. She took over the role effective September 1^st, 2018. Prior to this, she was the Regional HR Advisor for the Global Consumer Bank based in Singapore, where she worked with Consumer business heads to provide end to end HR advisory and support.

In her over 15 years with Citi, Shweta has done several roles including HR Advisor for various businesses across Institutional Clients Group (ICG), Global Consumer Bank (GCB), Global Functions (GF) and Operations & Technology (O&T) and specialist roles in Talent, Leadership development and Learning. She moved to Hong Kong in 2015 as the Head of Talent & Diversity for Asia Pacific, responsible for identifying and implementing initiatives around Talent Assessment and Development, and leading the Diversity agenda for Citi’s Asia Pacific franchise. Since her taking over, she led the rollout of several initiatives including ‘My Career’ which aims to empower employees to take charge of their career, Asia’s Inspiring Women Leaders Program intended to strengthen female pipeline, recognized several employee networks, and played a key role in the equalization of benefits for domestic partners. Prior to moving to HK, Shweta was based in Mumbai as the Head of HR for O&T and Global Functions for Citi South Asia. In her earlier stint, she led Talent and Leadership Development at Citi South Asia, where she was also responsible for Citi’s entry level hiring strategy.

Shweta is a certified Coach and an accredited Leadership trainer at Citi. Her other professional certifications include trainer for Myer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and SHL’s Occupational Testing.

Prior to joining Citi, Shweta has worked with Colgate Palmolive and Unilever. She is an Economics graduate and holds a Master’s degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI. She is married, and has a thirteen-year-old son. Her hobbies include outdoor sports and travelling.

Senthil Nayagam is Senior Vice President at Hexaware Technologies handling Global Revenue Assurance and also the Chief Learning Officer. In his current role, he leads the corporate functions for Revenue Assurance covering Recruitment & Resource Management, Learning & Development and Sales Excellence.

Senthil has been with Hexaware for over 15 years handling many key leadership roles such as Global Head of Manufacturing & Consumer Vertical, Key accounts delivery for North America and the ERP Practice. He has about 30 years of experience in the IT industry with earlier stints in GE and Sierra Atlantic. He holds a commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and is a Chartered Accountant. Senthil is based out of Chennai, India.

Swatee has driven several organizational change initiates with focus on skill building, leadership development, creating a learning culture and enabling the digital transformation agenda. She has over two decades of rich experience encompassing teaching, research, training, consulting and leading people development practices. She has driven several strategic interventions for business advantage and has extensively worked in areas of talent modelling, learning, leadership, change and work practice innovations.

Swatee is an accomplished HR thought leader with a Ph.D. in the area of Talent Management and Organizational Development

Over the last two decades, Shaakun has been a consultant to many Fortune 500 Organizations on areas of Talent Management, Organization Design & Transformation, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development and Succession Planning. He graduated from Delhi University and further studied HR Consulting at the Gallup University, USA. Additionally, he is an Accredited Executive Coach and coaches business leaders across the region.

Human resource strategy development, deployment of key products and services from HR, and consulting support to optimize human capital in the organization in order to build competitive advantage through people.

Ankur has over 23 years of consulting experience in organization strategies, talent strategies, and strategic change.  Ankur leads the Learning and Career Solutions offering for Asia-Pacific within Deloitte.  Ankur has led large scale global engagements in the areas of Organisation Strategies, Learning and Career strategies, Employee Engagement, Workplace Design, Talent Strategies, HR strategies, HR platforms, and Technology Enablement.

In his previous roles, Ankur has led business units and services lines within Deloitte.  Ankur also played a key role in the design and enablement of the Deloitte University in the US.

Ankur has served clients across sectors globally, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, China and France.

Ankur currently leads the Workforce Transformation service line for Deloitte in India, with a focus on Future of work.

Pallavi Tyagi is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for Capgemini in India. As India CHRO, she drives the HR and talent strategy for Capgemini in India and serve as its representative in the Global Capgemini HR Leadership Team. Her people-focused charter includes Business HR, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Transformation and Retention; Talent Mobility; One Employee Experience; Diversity & Inclusion and Organizational Competitiveness.

Pallavi has more than two decades of vast experience in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Information Technology (IT) as well as Process and Discrete Manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Capgemini, she led the Talent Acquisition & Organizational Vibrancy at DuPont.

Pallavi’s profile spans the entire gamut of HR functions, including strategy, leadership pipeline development, manufacturing operations, compensation and benefits, talent acquisition and management with a strong focus on high emotional quotient, interpersonal capability and strategic stakeholder management. She brings with her a rich global experience as well, having service in multiple geographies including the United States, Russia, Poland, the Middle East, China, South East Asia and India, among others. 

Pallavi is married and has a daughter who is pursuing medicine. She is passionate about art history and follows it keenly in her free time.

Puneet heads the mid office functions for the Consumer Bank, which covers – the Voice Channel, ATM & Branch Automation, Currency Chest and Door Step Banking, Deposit, Debit & Third Party Distribution Products, the Priority Banking Program, Customer Value Management & Data Analytics, Transaction Risk Control, Functional Training & Processes and Service Quality.

Puneet joined Kotak Mahindra in Oct 2002 as part of the project team to set up the branch banking business. He was instrumental in putting together the framework of retail branches including work flows. With the launch of the Bank, Puneet took over as the Regional Head – West for retail liabilities & branch banking and led the business to establish its presence across Mumbai, Gujarat and Pune.

A commerce graduate and MBA from the University of Jodhpur, Puneet started his career with Escorts Ltd in 1991. Subsequently, Puneet had a long stint with Citibank and then American Express across various functions like Phone Banking, Relationship Management and Strategic Projects

Shanti heads the Consumer Banking business at Kotak Mahindra Bank since April 2014 and is focused on growing customer acquisition, cross-sell and digital adoption across physical and digital channels and as an integrated Consumer Banking franchise across asset and liability products. Shanti is part of the Bank’s Group Management Council that drives and oversees the Kotak Mahindra Group’s growth charter. Shanti is associated with the Group for over 29 years and has been responsible for successfully setting up and running several business units.

Under Shanti’s leadership, the consumer banking business continues to record the fastest pace of customer acquisition and savings account growth in the Indian banking industry. Shanti oversaw the integration of ING Vysya Bank’s retail bank with Kotak’s consumer banking operations, and the emphasis is on realising business synergies on the expanded customer base via cross-selling opportunities. In addition, the consumer banking business is driving its digital agenda across customer acquisition, customer adoption of banking, payments & e-commerce transactions, enhancing customer experience and deepening engagement.

Prior to this, Shanti was President – Corporate & Investment Banking for 11 years till April 2014, where she was responsible for ensuring delivery of comprehensive advisory & financial solutions to leading Indian Corporates, Public Sector Undertakings, Financial Institutions, Multinationals and the Government. Shanti was also Executive Director and CEO of Kotak Investment Banking earlier and, along with her team, steered the firm to a position of market leadership. She established a franchise recognised for executing innovative deals, including pioneering the first book-built IPO in India, which ushered global standards in the Indian capital markets. Shanti has rich and varied experience across retail and wholesale banking.

Before joining Kotak Mahindra Group, Shanti had a short stint with Bank of Nova Scotia – the Canadian International Bank, with their corporate banking and treasury division.

Shanti is on the board of Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM-B).

Business Today, one of India’s leading business magazines, has recognised Shanti as one of the ‘Most Powerful Women in Indian Business’ from 2013-2017, 2019 and 2020. Fortune India has featured Shanti as one of the top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in India from 2016-2020. Shanti received the “CA Business Leader” award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in the “Large Corporate – BFSI” category in 2020 and was also named “CA Woman Business Leader” in 2013. Further, the Ladies’ Wing of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry recognised Shanti as “Woman of the Year” 2013-14 in Banking and Financial Services.

Shanti graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College, University of Mumbai, and has completed her Chartered Accountancy and Cost and Works Accountancy.

Shanti is a philanthropist at heart and has been supporting several NGOs. She is a regular participant at various marathons in the country, and has raised pledges for causes close to her heart through Mumbai Marathon for the past several years. She was recognised as the Highest Individual Woman Pledge Raiser in 2011 and 2016, and Second Highest Individual Pledge Raiser in the Corporate Challenge category in 2013, 2014 and 2015. She has also been recognised as the highest fundraising change champion for SOPAN at the Mumbai Marathon 2017, and as a Change Icon at the Mumbai Marathon 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Pramath is the Founder and Chairman of Harappa Education, which strives to become India’s largest online institution focused on teaching habits and skills critical to workplace success in the 21st Century. He has helped establish multiple high-quality institutions of higher education in India over the past 20 years. Pramath is the Founding Dean and a member of the Executive Board of ISB, and also Founder and Trustee of the acclaimed Ashoka University, a liberal arts university.

Shreyasi’s journey to entrepreneurship, and higher education, is itself symbolic of the diversity and opportunities of modern careers. She is currently Founder & CEO, Harappa Education – an online education institution that aims to become a necessary and high-quality learning destination for all young professionals

She began her career as a journalist, and spent more than 10 years in media, across news agencies, broadcast and specialty print media. She was the editor of the Indian edition of  Inc., the iconic American magazine on entrepreneurship. The magazine was consistently commended for its benchmark production values, editorial quality and fresh storytelling. Her fascination for entrepreneurship, especially around tech-enabled scale businesses, was seeded at this time.

Shreyasi has written two books on entrepreneurship, including The Wealth Wallahs, which profiled India’s first-generation wealth creators and a new breed of wealth managers. She was recognized with the Young Woman Author Award by India’s Women Enterprise Awards for the book. Her second book, The Girl Who Thinks In Numbers, is a children’s book, and tells the real-life story of a woman entrepreneur. She has also been a columnist for Mint, where she wrote two columns, Surviving Start-Ups and Art of Work.

A few years ago, Shreyasi switched to higher education, driven by the opportunity to help build a women’s-only management program. She set up the program’s Careers, Mentorship and Executive Education initiatives. She has also taught effective writing, business communication and critical thinking at several universities and programs across India.

Shreyasi is an alumnus of the Lady Shri Ram College For Women and the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

Seema Chowdhry is the Vice President, Curriculum at Harappa Education. In another life, she was a print journalist-editor. She edited Business of Life, Mint (the daily features page) and Lounge, Mint (the Saturday magazine). She also edited a weekly page dedicated to the coverage of corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, civil society. She has a master’s degree in public administration from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and bachelor’s in English literature from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi.

Nick Schacht is a highly experienced executive with more than three decades of experience in professional services, education, and corporate learning and development. He has a history of driving product innovation, growth and profitability, and he has led organizations operating worldwide. 

Schacht is Chief Global Development Officer for SHRM, the world’s largest HR professional society. Before joining SHRM, he was the founder and CEO of KnowCyber, a learning and development company focused on improving the cybersecurity-related skills of people in all types of organizations worldwide. Prior to KnowCyber, he was President and Chief Operating Officer for PetroSkills, a provider of training and development services to the worldwide petroleum industry. Prior to that, he was CEO and President of Learning Tree International, a publicly traded provider of IT and management learning and development. Schacht was also the President of Global Learning Systems, a start-up focused on e-Learning and digital content. He served in a variety of capacities at ESI International, culminating in his role as President when ESI was sold to the Institute for International Research (IIR) and then as Group President for the Americas for IIR. He has been a Research Fellow at the Logistics Management Institute, and began his career as a U.S. Navy Supply Officer, on the headquarters staff of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. 

Schacht graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy, and holds Master’s degrees in Administration from the University of Maryland University College and Information Systems Technology from The George Washington University.

Shashank started Razorpay, along with Harshil Mathur, after discovering the dismal state of online payments in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee and before taking the entrepreneurial route with Razorpay; Shashank also worked with Microsoft US as a Software Developer. 

With an idea to change the way online payments function in India, Shashank quit his full time job. By early 2014, Razorpay was conceptualized with a vision to simplify online payments.

Three years since then, Razorpay rebranded itself in 2017 as Razorpay 2.0, a Converged Payments Solution company with a product suite designed to ease businesses of managing concerns around flow of money in their financial systems. Progressing in it’s journey that started with Razorpay 2.0, the Company recently launched neo-banking platform, Razorpay X and lending platform, Razorpay Capital  – both designed to power the financial systems for disruptive companies.

Razorpay has been charting exponential growth since its inception. In the last five years, the company has powered digital payments for more than 1,000,000 small & large businesses such as Indigo, BSE, Thomas Cook, Reliance, SpiceJet, Aditya Birla, Sony and Oyo, among others. The company has been working towards enabling adoption of digital payments especially in traditional cash-rich sectors such as education, insurance and mutual funds, among others. The company has clocked in a healthy growth rate of 35% month-on-month and is geared up to increase the number of businesses to 1,400,000 by 2020. The Neo-banking platform expects a 4x growth in its revenue by the end of the next fiscal year. 

Shashank was featured in an eclectic list of 30 promising young Indian talents under the age of 30, by Forbes Magazine (2017) and 40 Under 40 by Fortune India (2019).

Alexander Alonso, PhD, SHRM-SCP is the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) Chief Knowledge Officer leading operations for SHRM Certification, Research functions, SHRM’s Paragon Labs, and SHRM Foundation. During his career, he has led numerous global business initiatives with the aim of unleashing human potential through evidence-based management. His works have been published in top peer-reviewed journals and he has published several books including The Price of Pettiness, a guide to enhancing workplace culture. His works have been recognized by groups such as the American Psychological Association for their contribution to real-world issues having received more than $10 million in research funding from well-known foundations. Dr. Alonso serves as a columnist analyzing major trends in the workforce for The Industrial Psychologist and HR Magazine. In addition, he has served on several professional society boards including the SIOP and the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington. Dr. Alonso is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Division 14 of the American Psychological Association.  He received his doctorate in industrial-organizational psychology from Florida International University in 2003. 

Ms. Parminder Varma is a Senior executive with 33 + year’s experience in the Retail Banking sector.

Currently based in Mumbai, Ms. Parminder Varma heads the Corporate Salary Business at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

Educated in Delhi, she is a Master in Business Administration and pursuing her Doctorate in Management.

Parminder has also completed a Program for Management Development from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a Postgraduate Diploma in Cyberlaw & Cyber Forensics from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She enjoys reading and is very fond of traveling.

Ms. Usha Singh is the first Director (HR) of MOIL LIMITED.

MOIL is the largest Manganese ore producer in the country with market share of around 50%. MOIL is a Schedule-A Mini Ratna Category-I PSU and has been making profits year-after-year from decades.

Prior to this, Ms. Singh was Executive Director (Personnel & Administration) heading Personnel, HRD, CSR, Administration and other related functions at NMDC. She was also heading the Business Development and Corporate Planning functions at NMDC.

Ms. Singh has also worked for 25 years in Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) which includes 8 years as a Technical Advisor to Chairman, SAIL.

She is an Engineering Graduate and an MBA, who has more than 30 years of professional experience.

Ms. Singh has been nominated among the Top 100 Global inspirational Women in Mining in 2020. She also has several awards to her credit, which includes, ‘SCOPE Outstanding Woman Manager’ and ‘Best Employee Award’ in SAIL. She has authored and presented several papers in national as well as international conferences.

The Founder-CEO of a firm who took the responsibility of providing employment opportunities to more than 25,000 people, Rachit Mathur is known to connect people to brands that they never imagined working for.

Avenue Growth was born in his head a long time ago. Right after he returned to India from Canada, Rachit realized that unemployment was a serious concern and he should do something about it. Now, with an on demand workforce with more than 30,000 skilled people associated with it, the potential market size of Avenue Growth is 650 billion globally. The firm has now become the future of work with unlimited earning potential and flexible opportunities which is the need of the hour. The platform works with major firms like the number one social media platform, travel firm etc.

Rachit Mathur is now known as the advocate of the gig economy and rightly so. Rachit Mathur has been felicitated with the Most Promising Entrepreneur of the Year – 2019 by Economic Times, India’s top 50 emerging icon – 2019 by Global Foundation, Ten innovative Startups – 2018 by CEO Magazine, Best Online Business – 2017 by NDTV and Innovative Entrepreneur – 2016 by CNBC

Kiran Menon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tydy, a global leader in virtual and automated employee onboarding & experience management.

Kiran Menon’s entrepreneurial journey began in college, when he started his first CSR consultancy in 2003. During his 17+ years of experience in consulting and sales, he has worked across multiple geographies including Europe, USA and Asia.

Kiran moved back to India in 2012 to start Tydy, a solution that reimagines the employee experience, from onboarding to offboarding. Under his leadership, Tydy has transformed the employee onboarding process for leading brands like Unilever, ABInBev, EXL and Airtel, to name a few.

A Human Resource Leader with 26 years of work experience spanning across multiple facets of HR. Currently she is leading a multi-dimensional global portfolio encompassing Diversity & Inclusion, Talent Development, and Employee Engagement n’ Experience for 1.5 lakh employees of HCL Technologies.

Her past experience includes working with Tata InfoTech & APTECH where she led the deployment of integrated learning & assessment solutions, covering e-learning, online skills measurement assessments for large IT & ITES organizations.

Her charter for Diversity and Inclusion is based on the premise that an increased degree of diversity, inclusion and a ‘sense of belonging’ in an organization translates into smarter, more creative, innovative and empathetic workforce. This in turn empowers the organization to achieve competitive business advantage.

Her portfolio also includes in designing and driving a business context based global Talent Development Strategy to strengthen the organizational Culture and Capability, showcasing a clear Business impact.

The third dimension includes the entire spectrum of Employee Engagement & Experience where the focus is to deploy effective strategies for improving performance and productivity of the employee workforce.

Passionate about Diversity, Inclusion, continuous Learning and co-creating innovative, data driven solutions, her success mantra is “Don’t look for faults, look for solutions”.

Girish Rowjee is a co-founder & CEO of Greytip Software. Girish has guided Greytip into the position of a premier HR & Payroll solutions provider that today enables processing of 10 Lakhs+ employee records on a monthly basis. One of the early movers in the Cloud B2B space in India, he’s been instrumental in positioning Greytip as a market leader in the cloud Payroll & HR space with around 9,000+ paying businesses in India and GCC countries. Girish has done his Engineering from SJCE Mysore. He is one of founding members of iSPIRT (Indian Software Product Industry Round Table) and is a Mentor at the Founder’s Institute, India.

Out of a total experience of over 30 + years, Tojo has worked both in India and abroad, both as Human Resources practitioner and as a consultant.

• He started his career with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) where he held responsibilities in the corporate office (Mumbai) as well as Head of HR for North and South Zones, based out of New Delhi and Chennai respectively

• On leaving HPCL, he joined Arvind Mills at Ahmedabad, where he had a stint of 5 years and was designated as Head HR for Textiles Business at the time of leaving Arvind Mills

• After Arvind Mills, Tojo had a stint of almost 2 years with Arthur Anderson (Mumbai) in Change Management Consulting before proceeding to Middle East where he was Group Chief Human Resources Officer (GCHRO) for Al_Suwaidi Group. Based out of the Holding Company, he was responsible for HR for the 9 companies in the Group, employing more than 10,000 employees, drawn from more than 30 countries

• On return to India after a 6 years’ stint in the Middle East, he joined as Vice President-HR & OD with Jubilant Energy, based out of NCR where he served for almost 4 years

• He joined Blue Star Limited, in December 2010, as Executive Vice President-Human Resources responsible for both HR & EHS, with a mandate to introduce and institutionalize HR best practices as relevant to Blue Star needs and culture under the aegis of People excellence Program (PxP). He served Blue Star for 5 +

• Since Oct 2016, he is working with Muthoot Pappachan Group (MPG) as CHRO, responsible for creating competitive advantage for the Group by introducing and institutionalizing contemporary HR practices and initiatives

He is recipient of the following HR Awards and recognition:

• Recipient of the HR Leadership Award at the 6th Employer Branding Awards (Regional Round) and India Human Capital Summit 2011 held on December 17th,2011 at Indira Group Of Institutes, Pune

• Recipient of the Indira Super Achiever award from Indira Group of Institutes, Pune in August 2012

• Recipient of the award as one of the 30 Most Talented Global HR Leaders in Asia at the World HRD Congress in February 2013

• Recipient of the award as one of the 100 Most Talented Global HR Leaders in Asia at the 23rd edition World HRD Congress in February 2015

• Recipient of the “HR TECH LEADER AWARD” during the Asia Pacific HRM Congress/HR Tech Conference in September 2015

• Tojo was elected and assigned responsibility as the Convener, Skill Development & Affirmative Action Panel, CII Maharashtra state council for the years 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16

• Tojo was the Co- Convener CII Kerala Education, Skill and Entrepreneurship Panel 2018/19.

• Recipient of the 100 TOP HR MINDS INDIA, 2018, presented by World HRD

• Tojo selected as the Convenor of the CII Kerala HR & IR Panel 2020-21

• Tojo is a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of Poornima University,

• Tojo is a speaker and panel member at various HR seminars and business schools, where his key focus is to bridge the gap between HR theory and practice, based on the perspectives gained by him from his experience of over 30

Academic Credentials

• Tojo did his graduation in English
• Subsequently did his Post Graduation in Human Resources and Industrial Relations fromXavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur in 1985
• He is trained in Change Management best practices through Arthur Anderson at Charles, USA and is certified in Thomas PPA (Personal Profile Analysis), Team Analysis System Module and for Test Selection & Training

• He has completed his post Graduate Program in Executive Coaching in October 2015 and is a certified CEO

Tanvi is responsible for leading the People Strategy for JLL India (~ 12,000 employees) and JLL Business Services, Global (~2500 employees). Tanvi with a strong team of more than 100 HR professionals partners with the India Leadership Council of JLL and JLL Business Services Global Leadership to deliver Firm’s growth and sustain its leadership position in the industry through progressive talent management practices.

JLL is the market leader in terms of market share, revenues, profitability, and team size for all the business lines in India. JLL India was rated one of the Best Places to Work in India by the Great Place to Work® and the Economic Times in 2017, 2018 & 2019. JLL is a Fortune 200 Firm that creates value for its people and its clients. Globally, JLL operates in 1,000 locations across 80 countries

Silvia Fierascu, Ph.D., is a global consultant, trainer, and expert in ONA, with a decade of experience in applied network science projects across research and development sectors, in government, business, academia, and civil society. 

She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and Network Science from Central European University. Silvia is currently a Lecturer in Communication Sciences, Digital Media, and Big Data at the West University of Timisoara, Romania, and a return instructor at the European Consortium, training global academics and practitioners in Applied Social Network Analysis. She works in various international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary projects, translating complex problems into digital platform solutions for organizational development, anti-corruption, good governance, public policy, change management, and civil society resilience.  

Giridhar is the Founder/CEO for Nuvepro technologies and comes with a rich 25 plus years of industry experience across various technologies. Prior to this, he worked with Mindtree where he led their cloud initiatives and incubated the core idea that was spun off into Nuvepro Technologies.

Ritu joined Perfetti Van Melle in 2016 and leads HR for the country’s leading confectionery player. As a member of India management team and the Transformation Office she is driving organization-wide people agenda & Culture change to ensure success of PVM India’s business transformation agenda.

With expertise across various People practices and industries, she is well known for building high-performing teams, enabling business performance, establishing innovative HR solutions, developing strong Employer Brands and driving transformation both in business as well as organization culture.

Prior to joining PVM , she was the Head of HR for Becton Dickinson India (BD). She partnered to effectively strengthen succession pipeline at Senior level and enabled two very successful go to market transitions yielding extraordinary business results.

She was associated for a decade with Whirlpool India as a senior HR Leader and was very successfully in driving business agenda through people strategy and was instrumental in creating some very differentiated people practices and cultural transformation for the organization.

Ritu takes huge pride in working for four different sectors and driving multiple business transformations through people.

Ritu holds a Masters’ degree in Sociology and is a Management Graduate. She loves travelling and exploring cultural nuances of various places.

Appointed Independent Non-Executive Director in December 2014 and Member of the Remuneration Committee and Compliance & Culture Committee.

Career and Experience

Vinita holds an MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Bombay and a BA in Economics from the University of Delhi. She commenced her career in India with a Tata Group Company, and then joined Cadbury India, subsequently working with Cadbury Schweppes plc in the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. She has held a number of senior global positions in marketing and general management at The Coca-Cola Company based in the US and South America, becoming President of the Andean Division in 1999 and VP, Corporate Strategy in 2001. In 2003, she joined Zyman Group, LLC, a US based consultancy, as Managing Principal. Vinita was MD and CEO of Britannia Industries Limited, a leading Indian publicly listed food company from 2005 to 2014. Currently, Vinita is NED of Syngene International Limited, Bunge Limited and CRISIL India (a Standard & Poor Company). She is also a member of the Advisory Board of PwC India.

Skills and Competencies

Vinita has an impressive track record of achievement with blue-chip global corporations in multiple geographies including India, Africa, South America, US and UK, all key markets for Smith+Nephew. Additionally, her strong appreciation of customer service and marketing brings deep insight as we continue to develop innovative ways to serve our markets and grow our business.

A leading entrepreneur, and visionary in the corporate world Pratik Vaidya is synonymous with reform in the realm of Indian HR & Compliance. A passionate leader, Pratik joined the industry with a bachelor degree in law and a MBA in HR. He had a few stints with some big names in the industry only to realize he wanted to see his own ideas bloom. Using Kishor Vaidya & Co. as his first guinea pig, he transformed the simple PF & Insurance firm into an all compliance and related aspects solution hub. They unified a myriad of diverse HR services as Karma Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd. in 2007. Since then their revenue has grown 25 fold- it catapulted from 1.5 million to over 750 million in under a decade.

Through his outreach, expertise and his vision, Pratik is today almost synonymous with excellence in HR compliance and revolutionary consulting solutions. His belief in pioneering changes and embracing technology has laid the foundation for their services being driven by automation and technology. His generous investments have allowed for the innovation to storm the HR industry.

Kevin Dias is a universally celebrated HR leader, steering global executive leadership across large multinational organizations as the present CEO of ShareYourHR consulting practice. Having more than 25 years of experience in HR & IR under his belt, he is conversant with different industries on a global footprint. he hasn’t pigeonholed himself in a particular industry. Kevin has a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Mumbai, Human Resources Management, and a Degree in Law and is the recipient of many a HR leadership awards. In addition he the principal associate in India

In addition to his HR expertise, his skills as a leader and strategist has helped ShareYourHR experience steady growth and expansion into the global markets. A veteran consultant, he has successfully led M&A integrations, organizational design, cultural transformation and change management initiatives. He is the mind behind multiple ground breaking HR strategies aimed at building EVP, Increasing Employee Engagement, HR transformation, Global Mobility, Talent Review, Governance, Pay & Benefit, Shared Service, and Employee Experience. His contributions to ShareYourHR clients are revolutionary and indispensable respected.

Anil Santhapuri is a values-based and results-oriented Talent & OD professional, with 18 years of professional experience (IT and Financial Services) in the areas of talent management, learning & leadership development and consulting. In his current role as Director, Learning and Development for CGI APAC. His career span includes organizations like Western Union, HCL Technologies, CGI Information Systems, Mahindra Satyam and iGate Global Solutions, where he has designed and delivered award-winning talent initiatives.

He is a two-time “Learning in Practice award” winner both in 2017 and 2018 from Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine, USA. In March 2012, Anil was also recognized as one of the “Top 10 Training & OD Professional Globally” by Training Magazine. In October 2017, Western Union was recognized as “#1 Organization for Learning” by ATD BEST. In 2018, Anil was also listed as an Emerging HR Leader in India, by Jombay in their HR40Under40 list.

He is a digital transformation enthusiast and is currently a Technical Advisory Board member for Global Skill Development Council (GSDC) – an independent, third-party, vendor neutral, international credentialing and certification organization for latest technologies like: Blockchain, Six Sigma, DevOps, Cloud, ITSM, ISO, Agile and L&D professionals. Anil is also contributing to Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) as an adjunct teaching faculty for the topics of Learning and Development and Organization Design.

Anil is a passionate believer in empowering people through learning and is a ACC certified coach from International Coach Federation (ICF). His other passions and interests include writing poetry, practice of Vipassana meditation and inculcating values-based leadership in all walks of life.

Dr. Suryanarayan Iyer is currently Senior Director (Solution Engineering) at Oracle India responsible for their cloud applications strategy, market development and digital technology adoption. Prior to this, he was the Vice-President (Group Human Resources) at The Aditya Birla Group responsible for their Group wide Digital HR transformation – strategy formulation, execution and change management.

A Doctorate from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Masters in Finance and Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. He has over 27 years of work experience spanning:

1. Management Consulting & IT Advisory
2. Digital HR Transformation & change management
3. ERP / HCM Consulting

He is a visiting faculty in various management schools in India. His research interest includes SHRM and HR Technology adoption.

Job Profile:

• 30+ years of work experience in different Business Units/Profit Centers of Tata Steel and looking after Industrial Relations and Human Resources.
• Currently responsible for the HRM Delivery role in Tata Steel.
• Broad area of responsibilities in the current role includes the Management of Employee Life cycle, driving Employee Engagement & Connect in the company, People Policies and Digital interventions in HR.

Academics:

• Commerce graduate from Pune University & P G in HRM from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Upasna is the Head of HR in India at Fidelity International where she drives strategic and operational HR priorities to support organization’s vision and goals. During her 20+ years of HR career, she has played several leadership roles across the areas of talent management, organizational development, business partnering, and HR technology solutions. She has been a trusted advisor to leadership to design and implement business focused solutions to suit the needs of diverse, cross cultural and multi-generational talent pool.

Prior to Fidelity International, she operated at various Senior HR leadership positions with leading global organizations like Evalueserve and Sapient.

Venky is an experienced HR leader with more than 33 years of corporate experience. He is one of India’s senior most and longest serving Group CHROs for diversified conglomerates.

For the last 20 years, he has held the Group HR Head position in global, India-origin companies. Venky also had an entrepreneurial stint for over 4 years, during which he founded Svanishta, a strategic HR advisory firm which focused on a novel ‘Director HR-on-hire’ proposition.

Currently Venky is the President – Group HR for RPG Enterprises, a USD 4 Billion diversified conglomerate. The Group has business and operations in all major geographies around the world.

Venky is an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

Venky is an active and much sought speaker in various forums. He writes and contributes regularly on LinkedIn. Venky’s articles are off the beaten track, and challenges existing notions in management and HR. He writes on diverse subjects like leadership, talent, corporate governance, family/founder businesses etc.

Priti is the Senior Vice President Human Resources, South Asia, Mastercard. A seasoned HR leader, she has led business transformations and enabled service, growth and efficiency solutions across different industries. She has been recognized for driving high performance, HR Strategies for organization effectiveness in rapidly evolving global business. 

She has successfully driven organization design, talent solutions, built capabilities and brought together world class leadership teams including the culture change agenda spanning across Asia and North America.

At Mastercard South Asia, she leads People & Capability function spanning across International Markets, Technology, Cyber Intelligence, Data & Services business units across locations.

Priti is passionate about philanthropy, technology and diversity & inclusion. She enjoys working in a highly competitive matrix environment where collaboration and teamwork are critical keys to success.

Prof Madhu Veeraraghavan is the Director of T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal since April 2017. He also holds the position of T A Pai Chair Professor of Finance. A Doctorate in Finance with more than 15 years of teaching experience, he believes that management institute should work for outcomes that support the Mission of the Institution.

Professor Veeraraghavan has published over 50 papers in international journals and has presented his work in top conferences in finance and accounting. His work has appeared in The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and AUDITING: A Journal of Practice and Theory. His research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Behavioural Finance and the interplay between Auditing and Finance. He is a referee for Accounting and Finance, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Australian Journal of Management, European Journal of Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Quantitative Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

He has won many awards for the best article/paper in both National and International Conferences. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has recently announced that Prof Veeraraghavan is ranked in the top ten per cent of the authors around the world.

Mr. Ajay Trehan is an entrepreneur with over 26 years of experience in building and operating successful businesses.

Ajay founded AuthBridge in August 2005. AuthBridge has since grown rapidly to become India’s leading provider of solutions and platforms that enable trust. A pioneer in innovation and business transformation, Ajay has nurtured the organization from a largely services based to a highly tech-enabled business model. Today, AuthBridge is a quality-driven, best practice company, delivering proven business impact risk mitigation solutions to top draw clients, including Fortune 500 organizations. With some very marquee offerings like AuthLead, WorkAttest, TruthScreen and Student Services Bureau, AuthBridge is spearheading change in the Indian employee as well as customer screening industries.

Before turning an entrepreneur, Ajay had a distinguished career with the Shriram Industrial Enterprises Limited (a part of the erstwhile DCM group) and then ICI India.  He grew very rapidly in these organizations to eventually hold leadership positions in operations and sales.

His ability to recognize new business opportunities when markets and technologies are in transition also prompted him to co-author CORE BPO, a business process outsourcing company that specialized in providing Business Process Outsourcing to the global Real Estate Industry.

Ajay is very passionate about mentoring young entrepreneurs. He is on the Advisory team of various startups where he contributes a lot of his personal time helping them evolve and scale. He has been actively associated with NASSCOM and TIE, where he regularly speaks on subjects like innovation, process and business transformation, trust infrastructure etc. that are very close to his heart.

Outside work, Ajay is an avid reader and a movie buff. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi. He is also a certified ISO 9001 auditor.

Education & Professional Experience

• Specialization in Systems & Control Engineering
• Doctor of Technology – Coventry University (UK), Master’s – IIT Bombay
• He has Total of 34 years of wide ranging experience spanning from Industry, academia to applied research.
• Currently he is member of Senior Management of L&T Technology Solutions as Director of Global Engineering Academy.
• Earlier he has served as Vice President of KPIT Technologies Ltd, leading Global functions of Education, Recruitment and Immigration Functions
• He has also Served as Associate Vice President of Engineering Services Business unit at Infosys Ltd for 9 years
• He has Served as Chief Learning Officer at Honeywell technology Solutions (A Global Giant in Aerospace and Industrial Automation Business)
• In his capacity as an academician he has served as Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Professor and Dean of Postgraduate Engineering programme in India (Collaboration with a Global University), teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and guided more than 25 Master’s Projects and 50 undergraduate projects.

Professional Skills

• He is a Certified Master Facilitator on Steven Covey’s “7 Habits of highly effective people” from Franklin Covey & Co. Malaysia
• Has delivered many Leadership development programmes at Honeywell, Infosys Technologies Ltd., and KPIT Technologies

Professional Experience

• He has rich experience of Business Interactions with Global Aerospace and Automotive companies like BMW, Boeing, Airbus, ABB, Gulfstream, ALSTOM, Spirit Aero systems, Honeywell, Ford, Continental, Etc.
• He is widely traveled to countries like US, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, China, Malaysia, Netherlands, Switzerland, etc for business interactions.
• He has been invited by World Trade Council at Wichita Kansas to deliver key note address and participate in Panel discussion with Aerospace companies in the US.

Current Role Experience

• Developing global practices of corporate education in Core Engineering domains and niche technologies by developing inhouse capabilities as well as global partnerships.
• Responsible for developing external collaborations with premier institutions, research organizations, Government & Quasi government agencies, product vendors to represent industry perspectives

Memberships and representation of external bodies

• He was a member of core committee of NASSCOM – Engineering Talent Council
• He was a Member of the core committee to develop occupational standards for ITES & Engineering Services under NSDC and NASSCOM
• He is on the Academic board and Governance council of technical educational Institutions and universities across India.

Priya Tiruviti leads the Rewards and Mobility Function for South Asia at Citi. In this capacity, she is responsible for strategy and execution of all aspects related to the Rewards agenda, including compensation, benefits, wellness and mobility. Prior to this role, Priya led the global cloud migration for Rewards for Citi. During her 13 years with Citi, Priya has held various positions in Kentucky, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Tampa. In addition to compensation, she has held roles in project management and HR business partner areas.  Priya holds a Masters in Human Resources from Michigan State University. In her leisure, she enjoys travelling and reading.

Possess HR experience of more than 35 years at SAIL, and presently heading the SAIL Corporate HRD function at Management Training at Ranchi, Jharkhand.

For about 30 years, handled various HR policies relating to Performance Appraisal and Career Growth schemes, Succession Planning, identifying and developing Leadership potential across SAIL, Bipartite forums at National levels, Employee engagement, CSR, etc., while at Corporate SAIL. Also, as part of Govt Pay panel Committee, contributed in Pay Revision recommendations for over 250 public sector enterprises.

Around 4 years of HR experience at Durgapur Steel Plant, West Bengal, leading/guiding the HR contours in all spheres, viz., improvising framework to enhance efficiency & effectiveness of role of HR to ensure its strategic linkage to business, Managing IR dynamics in a complex multi union space, ensuring quality of life at steel township, implementing CSR initiatives with focus on livelihood schemes, spreading awareness on swatchata among children and rural populace surrounding Durgapur etc.

Presently as head of HRD in SAIL, am heading the Learning and Development function and responsible for formulation and implementation of HRD policy across the company and ensuring alignment of HRD initiatives at Plant/Units with Corporate HRD Policy and directives. I am also presently exploring and reinventing L&D alignments towards improved employee engagement.

D S Rao is a senior HR leader, facilitator and thinker. He currently works as Executive Director at NTPC Limited leading the L&D team from its training headquarters at Power Management Institute, Noida.

In past, he has lead NTPC teams as the Head of Center of Excellence-Strategic HR and Talent Management Division, Head of Corporate Policy Division, Performance Management and Human Resource Development, Head of HR Operations and Services including Employee Establishment, Industrial Relations, Land Acquisition and Boundary Management.

In his tenure of 36 years with NTPC, India’s leading Power Conglomerate and Maharatna, he has led HR teams at Vindhyachal, Kawas, Korba, Talcher, Barh, Simhadri and New Delhi.

Under his leadership, NTPC L&D has won internationally acclaimed laurels like ATD BEST Awards 2019 and 2020, Brandon Hall Group Award 2019 for “Best Use of Blended Learning Category”, The Dun & Bradstreet Infra Award-2019, BML Munjal Award 2019 and 2020 and ISTD Award consecutively for 2017, 2018 and 2019 for best innovative practices.

Rao has been trained in HR key areas from Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, Asian Institute of Management and ISTD wherein he was exposed to globally acknowledged best practices in leadership and culture building. He is also certified CII Assessor and licensed Coach.

His specialities include Strategic HR, L&D, Change Management, Leadership, Organizational Transformation, Talent Management, Coaching, and he strongly believes in touching lives of people through community and personal services.

Sarika is passionate about building inclusive business creating a positive social and economic impact. She has over 20 years of experience having worked with firms such as Merrill Lynch & ICICI Bank. She has deep experience across Investment banking handling clients across India, Europe, USA & SE Asia.

In 2011, Sarika decided to follow her passion in social innovation and successfully built BeyonDiversity, a purpose driven social enterprise. BeyonDiversity is recognized as one of the Global Top 10 Diversity Consulting firms with 150+ organisations as clients. She currently sits on the Board and involved as a Strategic advisor.

Currently, she is pursuing her next passion to reimagine higher education and build future skills for next generation. As part of leadership team at Plaksha University, Sarika is responsible for raising funds and donor stewardship for one of the largest collective philanthropy and build a world class tech university.

Sarika is also a Board member for Non Profits & start-ups. She contributes frequently for leading publications on topics of inclusion and related business issues. She is also a recognised speaker in national forums, industry associations and academic institutions on social innovation, inclusive leadership, gender issues, and entrepreneurship. She is an Economics graduate from St Xaviers College, Kolkata and did her MBA from MDI, Gurgaon.

Awards and industry recognitions:

-Global Leadership in Mentoring” award by Hillary Clinton & Vital Voices USA in 2014
– Listed amongst “Top 10 Global Diversity Consultants” in 2015, 2016 &2017 by The Economist & The Guardian
– “Exceptional Women of Excellence” Award in 2017 & 2019 by the Women Economic Forum.
– Top 100 global women leaders impacting change by Vital Voices as #VV100 Fellow
– Featured in Top 50 Indian Women to follow on Twitter by WowAsia
– Nominated by US Embassy for the prestigious Fortune Most Powerful Women Mentoring Program held in the US.

Areas of Interest:
Social innovation, Future skills, Higher education, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work, Mentoring & Coaching, Women leadership, Inclusive Business 

Dr. Balyan completed his masters in technology from IIT, Delhi and also went on to complete his Ph.D. from Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. With a career spanning over 46 years, Dr. Balyan is considered to be an authority in the energy sector. As Managing Director & CEO of Petronet LNG Ltd. Dr. Balyan led its transformation and resurgence as the best performing corporate in the gas sector in the Country in 2012 and was awarded by Dun & Bradstreet for Excellence in performance.

Along with been a successful business leader, Dr. Balyan is also a successful Human Resource leader, having led a study at ONGC to redefine the organization structure and manpower norms – “ARCUBE”, focusing on Roster, Roles and Responsibilities to be benchmarked with global best practices. He also restructured the institute of management development into a vibrant ONGC academy as the nerve centre for training and development needs of the organization.

Among the various awards and felicitations that Dr. Balyan has achieved, its critical to mention Best CEO Award by Business Today – 2014, Inspirational Leader of the Year –World HRD Congress – Feb 2010 and Corporate Award for Innovative HR Practices –World HRD Congress-2010, among many.

Dr. Balyan is a friend of SHRM and works extensively through SHRM, providing guidance and consulting to organizations.

An alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Ravindra started his career in Asian Paints in 1998. He joined GE in 2001 where over the next seventeen years he held numerous roles with increasing responsibilities across different geographies

In December of 2018, Ravindra joined Tata Motors as Chief Human Resource Officer and member of the Executive Committee.

During his career of over twenty two years, Ravindra has had the opportunity to work in country, regional and global roles; in businesses across a variety of industries and organizations at different stages of their life cycle. These experiences have enabled him to develop into a creative and result oriented HR professional with particular interest in organization effectiveness, organization development and change management.

In addition to Tata Institute of Social Sciences, he is also an alumnus of Bangalore University and the University of Hyderabad.

Sachin Khurana is the Vice President and Chief People Officer at Happiest Minds Technologies. He is also a part of the Happiest Minds Global Management Team. Before this role, he was the Global Head of HR at OSSCube Solutions, which Happiest Minds later acquired in 2017. He was also associated with Lodha Group and Citigroup Global Services in different roles.

Sachin has around 14 yrs of experience spanning across different industries; his expertise lies in Talent Strategy, Leadership Development, HR Business Partner, HR Transformation, Learning and Development, Diversity and Inclusion and building a great place to work. He has a proven record of creating, nurturing and executing industry-leading people management practices, building a highly motivated and empowering work culture. All through his journey, he believed purpose, teamwork, collaboration, and trust are the critical ingredient of long-term sustained organizational growth.

Sachin is an alumnus of Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, where he did his Master’s in HR and he also holds a bachelor’s degree in management.

Global HR leader with rich experience of leading and drivingchange, acceleration and integration in large, complex and fastgrowing organizations. Excellent track record of 15+ years of HRleadership for top Global and Indian MNCs. Expertise in developingand delivering change management programmes including talentstrategy, sales force transformation, green field set ups, strategicemployee relations management, organization restructuringand downsizing. Leading Global HR across India, Europe, US &Emerging markets.

Ina heads Learning & Development across the globe for Tata Communications. In this role, Ina spearheads the learning transformation journey of re-skilling, upskilling and cross-skilling talent to create a sustainable business impact; and has been at the fore-front of enhancing the company’s culture of continuous learning through leveraging technology solutions and behavioural interventions.

Ina brings 15+ years of intradisciplinary approach in Human Resources to pressing people issues for organisations across diverse sectors. In recent years, Ina has held various leadership roles in HR and has also worked closely with business leaders to establish & scale new businesses in the IoT, Managed Security Services, cross-border Mobility and SaaS domains in India, APAC, UK and US geographies and has been at the fore-front of driving new-age talent management. Ina has highly specialised experience in areas of diversity & inclusion, talent management, organisation development and strategic resourcing.

Prior to Tata Communications, Ina worked with BCG, HSBC and the Essar Group. Ina is passionate about developing women leaders and finds her purpose in grooming others to become successful.

Anuranjita Kumar is a human resource veteran with over twenty-six years of experience working across the globe managing various assignments, including senior human resource roles in Asia, North America, and Europe through her stints at the Royal Bank Of Scotland, and Citibank.

Anuranjita kicked –off her career with Procter & Gamble in 1994 and joined Citi in 1995. During her exceptional journey in the world of HR, she has held a variety of roles including Senior HR Generalist for Corporate and Investment Banking, Staffing and Development manager. Anuranjita was the first South Asian and woman leader to be appointed as COO & Head of HR, Global Banking EMEA In 2007. Also, Anuranjita was the first woman management committee member at Citi India. All this led Anuranjita to be recognized as an ‘Upcoming South Asia Leadership Talent’ by Asia Networks. She was head of HR was International hubs till recently with RBS. She is now a partner with IndusCap Venture and the founder of Women in Technology, India.

Anu has Been synonymous with work in diversity/ inclusions and actively engaged globally in cross-cultural issues and forums. Kumar has been recognized in many forums. For her excellent contribution to the field of HR, she was honored as ‘Most Powerful HR Professionals of India’, by

the World HRD Congress in 2012 and amongst the ‘Most Powerful Woman Leaders’ by Fortune in 2013.

Recently she featured on The Economic Times ‘Women Ahead List 2018’ for being a role model for India Inc and further by the leading Asian D&I organization – House of Rose Professionals (Singapore-based Asia firm) as a Visionary Diversity and Inclusion Leader in 2019.

She Chairs the Board of the American India Foundation, is a director on the board of Plaksha University – a new age modern thinking tech university geared towards future-tech learning as well as on the Advisory board member of SHRM.

Anu is an accredited executive coach with foundation certification from School of coaching UK, Post graduate certification from I-coach academy UK and certified Integral coach from Third space and New venture west coaching institute in the US. She has over 1000 hours of coaching work under her belt and is well known for CXO coaching.

She is also a gifted author having launched her second book – ‘Colour Matters?’ primarily addressing the issue of racial and colour discrimination still prevalent. Her earlier bestseller book ‘Can I Have it all?’ addressed the opportunities of being a woman in today’s life – and in the need to opening oneself to accept these as privileges. Anu is also a philanthropist involved in volunteering with underprivileged children and a mentor to several upcoming start-ups.

A management graduate from XLRI, specializing in Human Resources. She attended Welham’s Girls School and is a gold medallist and topper in industrial psychology from Delhi University. Apart from her regular work, Anuranjita spends considerable time coaching Senior Executives and Start-up Leaders around the world.

Chitbhanu is the Senior Vice President- People Operations at Razorpay. He comes with a unique blend of experiences ranging from large multinational organizations to some of India’s most respected technology startups.

Chitbhanu enjoys building organizational capabilities that enable long term growth & success for businesses. He is also a strong advocate of nurturing the right value system and a humane culture that makes the organization’s success more inclusive & sustainable.

Chitbhanu is an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, with 19+ years of experience in Human Resources. He has contributed towards creating a superior employee experience for companies like Accenture and Dell, handling several HR responsibilities within India and across the APAC region. Before joining Razorpay, he also held HR

leadership responsibilities for organizations like Flipkart, Tavant, YourStory Media, and Moonfrog Labs.

Chitbhanu has a deep belief in the power of building simple & pragmatic people processes that create deep meaning for the employee and make a direct impact on the business.

Razorpay’s People Operations team is working on an aggressive agenda to enable the organization’s spiralling growth and invest in future-ready solutions for the Razors!

Chitbhanu enjoys sports and is an active football player. He is also an avid reader and follows several subjects ranging from Psychology, Health & Nutrition, Sustainability to International Relations.

Pratik Kumar is a member of Wipro’s senior leadership team, closely associated with Wipro’s growth over the years. He has played a significant role in shaping Wipro into a strong global player over his more than two and a half decades association with the company.

Pratik spent his initial years in the IT business before taking over the mantle of HR leadership of the Corporation in 2002. Under Pratik’s leadership, Wipro was recognized as the first company in the world to be assessed at PCMM Level 5, the highest maturity level on the SEI framework of Carnegie Mellon University.

Pratik assumed leadership of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering ( WIN )as its CEO in July of 2010. In the last few years, WIN has taken rapid stride in establishing its footprints in emerging as well as other growth markets. WIN, under his leadership has also focused its efforts in scaling up its nascent business in Automation, Aerospace & Defense and Water which would be strong platforms for WIN’s future growth.

Pratik is member of the Board of Wipro Enterprises Limited as well as member of the Group Executive Council of Wipro Group. He is an active member of the various industry bodies.

Pratik is a Post Graduate in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Smriti has over three decades of experience encompassing performance management, leadership development, coaching & talent acquisition. Her previous roles include Global head of Organization Effectiveness at Cognizant, Global Head of Leadership development at Genpact and the founding CPO for Exl Services . She is an award winning learning designer and an Executive Coach for the CXO suite . She has been a champion for Diversity & Inclusion throughout her career.

A true people’s person, Smriti is regularly invited to talk at national forums on a wide range of topics from HR strategy & transformation, leadership, diversity, motivation & purpose of ‘being’.

DP is a Business professional with 40 years’ experience in Human Resources. He has exposure to a cross section of industries, encompassing manufacturing and information technology.
He is currently Strategic Advisor Employability Business AWS (Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd) He is also Chief Advisor to HR Policy Association a leading public policy organization of chief human resource officers representing the largest employers doing business in the United States and globally for its India Chapter. An Advisor to Total Brain Ltd, a neuroscience-based mental health and fitness platform based in San Francisco. He is also on the board of Ethos India limited, a watch boutique retail chain in India. His last HR role was Vice President, & HR Head IBM – India/ South Asia he was also a member of Board of Directors for IBM India Pvt ltd. Post retirement from IBM he joined Chandigarh University, as Senior Executive Vice President.

Mr. Kishore Poduri, is currently the Country Head of the HR function at DBS India. He has over 23 years of experience within the financial services, ITES, manufacturing industries and the government sectors.

Under his leadership, DBS Bank has been recognized Aon Best Employers – India 2018, LinkedIn Top Companies – where India wants to work now, 2018 and has been Certified as Great place to work – 2018.

Prior to DBS Bank, Kishore Poduri served as Head – HR & Administrative Services at eClerx, one of the few listed KPOs in India, where he lead the Human Resources, Administration, Knowledge Management and Quality teams. He was also the Regional head for Human Resources, at HDFC bank, where he looked after the HR responsibilities across South and Eastern regions for the bank. Kishore had also brief stints at TATA Motors, where he was the HR Business partner for the Auto manufacturing unit at Pune, and served as Commissioned officer in the Aviation branch of the Indian Navy.

He has a Masters in Business Administration degree, with a specialization in human resources from the Symbiosis Centre for Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune (India) and a Bachelors of Science degree, with a specialization in computer science from Nagarjuna University (India).

Sashi Kumar is the India Head for Indeed.com – The World’s #1 Job Search Engine. A seasoned Leader with over 18  years of experience, Sashi has handled diverse portfolios including New Product Evangelization, Enterprise Sales Management and International Sales. He specialises in the Internet Industry, Recruitment Solutions and HR Automation. Sashi’s in-depth knowledge and vast experience in the Indian Recruitment Industry has made him a go-to person when it comes to understanding how companies can tailor their recruitment strategy and ensure success in the very competitive Indian Talent Search Market.

An Avid People Catalyst & Practitioner with versatile experience of 19+ years, Anuj is working as Chief Talent Officer at Reliance BP Mobility Limited. Affianced to his passion, he is endeavouring at the confluence of human behaviour and technology by providing strategic leadership across Organization Design, Organization Culture, HR Digitization, Talent, and Learning landscape.

With enriching experience across Brands as Reliance, Accenture, Vodafone. HSBC IBM etc, he has donned various hats of Talent Strategist, Learning Architect, Employee Experience Lead, Organization Development Lead, Platform Head and Coach.

An experienced content creator, with over eleven years of experience across verticals, Rohan Sylvester has a demonstrated history of working in the content industry. Combining his passion for content, data-driven insights, and recruitment technologies, he is able to provide companies with actionable strategies to enhance their recruitment.

As the recruitment evangelist for Indeed in India, Rohan leverages Indeed’s extensive platform data and research to support HR and TA professionals across India with insights that could help them attract and hire the right talent.

Rohan is a Marine Engineer and an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology.

Rajorshi Ganguli is with Alkem Laboratories Limited as their President & Global HR Head since 2017. Overall he brings with him about 26years of experience in the field of human resource function handling variety of transformational roles both in India and abroad. Prior to Alkem he was with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories for 13 years and before that he had stints with BPCL & Usha Martin. Rajorshi has authored several articles and case analysis, is a frequent well known speaker in different forums. He is a “Certified Management Trainer” and an alumnus of Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi.

Lavanya is leading programs that harness the energy and talent of Genpact employees for the economic, social, and environmental betterment of the communities we live and work in. As the diversity, equity, and inclusion leader, she is involved in steering initiatives to create a gender balanced and inclusive organization with 50% representation of women across all levels.
She has more than 18 years of experience across talent management domain – Hiring, HR, and Learning and development.

With more than 25 years of international experience building high performance leadership teams to meet business outcomes, Unmesh is a sought after leader in human capital strategy, organisational transformation and coaching. He is responsible for leading KPMG in India’s People, Performance and Culture (PPC) and is a part of the India Leadership Team. In his role, he is responsible for building differentiated capabilities in the market place through designing and deploying complex talent acquisition and management practices.

Prior to joining the firm, in his 17 year stint with Accenture, Unmesh was the Global Managing Director–Human Resources, for their Products Operating Group. He also previously held key roles there as the Global Managing Director for Talent Acquisition, Global HR Head for the Operations Business and as the APAC Human Resources Business Partner. In his early career days, he held roles with Mastek, Tata and Peerless groups.

Leading large-scale complex organisational culture change and building high performance teams has been a hallmark of Unmesh’s career. He combines his broad business knowledge and commercial acumen to help ensure that the potential of people is enhanced, and central to delivering business results.

Areas of expertise:

Unmesh’s functional expertise includes talent strategy, employee relations, inclusion and diversity, employee experience and HR transformation.

A Human Resource Leader with two decades global experience across all facets of HR and Organizational Effectiveness, especially large scale transformation with demonstrated ability to deliver business outcomes. Distinctive competency to influence organization culture (esp post mergers and acquisitions) & Employer Branding & Communications.

Rajita is currently heading the Human Resources of Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd; a wholly owned subsidiary of the US based Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR).

Prior to this she was heading Recruitment of ADP Private Limited, Hyderabad; a wholly owned subsidiary of the US based Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP).

She, in many ways represents the changing face of India’s IT/ITES industry, where human resource professionals are increasingly becoming strategic enablers to the core functions.

Under her leadership the company has been felicitated with numerous awards in the areas of Talent Management, Best Work Place, Women Leadership, Communications and HR strategies, by some of the leading bodies across the globe such as Great Places to Work, DQ-CMR, NASSCOM, World HRD Congress, Lokmat.

A management graduate by education and a PhD pursuant scholar from XLRI she has many youngest firsts to her credit both nationally and internationally.

Amar Raj Singh is the Chairman and Managing Director of Gamma Pizzakraft Pvt Ltd and Gamma Lanka Pvt Ltd, franchisees of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Delifrance, owning 75 outlets in NCR Delhi, Srilanka and Maldives . This entrepreneurial venture was commenced in 2005. He is also a consultant in the food and beverage industry and a director on the board of Sapphire Foods India Pvt Ltd a franchisee of Pizza Hut and KFC pan India.

He did his schooling from Delhi Public School and finished his graduation from Sri Ram College of Commerce. He then went on to become a Chartered Accountant. He did his Senior Executive Programme from London Business School and a specialized course in Strategy and Organisation from Stanford Business School.

Amar started his career as a practicing chartered accountant. He then moved to Nepal for 14 years and rose to become the CEO of Soaltee Group, one of the largest and most prestigious business houses in the country, having international joint ventures and interests in Hospitality, Tobacco, Tea, Transportation etc. He then returned to India in 1996 and took over as Vice President with Coca Cola India and was responsible for the setting up of new plants and corporate affairs for India. After 5 years with Coke he moved on to become the Managing Director for India and South Asia, for Diageo, the world’s largest liquor company owning brands like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Smirnoff. He has worked extensively with CII and other business chambers in India and Nepal.

Amar is a keen golfer and sportsman. He is widely traveled. He was the Captain of the Royal Nepal Golf Club. He is a guest lecturer at Management Institutes on Culture & Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility. He has written several articles and features. He is a poet, actor and singer. He is the former President of The Aravali Center for Art & Culture and a trustee of The Akshar Foundation which works in the field of dyslexia education .

He was decorated twice by His Majesty the King of Nepal for his services in the SAARC region.

Prasad Rajappan is the Founder & CEO of ZingHR – a global enterprise cloud applications provider for Human Capital Management (HCM). ZingHR has successfully empowered over 7,00,000 users across 550+ companies worldwide with 24+ HRMS modules.

ZingHR’s disruptive innovations for the modern workplace include – Machine Learning for Recruitment, Robotic Interviews, Digital Onboarding, Artificial Intelligence enabled Chatbot, Face Recognition for real-time employee authentication, Zero Touch Payroll for real-time payroll processing with ZERO efforts, gamified and personalized learning with Zing Learn, Power BI embedded for HR Analytics, Geo-fencing and tagging for the mobile workforce.

In 2002, Prasad founded FileMyReturns.com, for e-filing Income Tax returns, for the Department of Income Tax, GoI. He also founded Cnergyis – an enterprise HR Technologies, Outsourcing and Services Company, in 2000.

Prasad has over 25 years of experience in ERP, Operations, Business Process Reengineering, Information Systems and Human Resources. He has held a number of senior management positions at reputed companies like Reliance Industries, Ernst & Young, and Mahindra & Mahindra. He was a part of the SAP Project Directorate at Reliance, which managed more than 30 SAP implementations across various industry verticals like Petrochemical, Energy, Retail, Life Sciences etc.

His stint with the automobile giant Mahindra and Mahindra Limited as Senior Manager – Business Process Reengineering, gave him exposure to different functions like Production Planning, Operations, Information Systems, Human Resources and Business Process Reengineering. 

He is a Production Engineer and has earned an MBA degree from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (NMIMS) in (HR, Operations).

Dr. Sanjeev Dixit is loved to be called “IDEAPRENEUR” as he has been growing personally & professionally by creating & executing unconventional and path breaking IDEAS. He is a Global HR Leader with more than 23+ years of Strategic Corporate HR & CHRO experience across diversified industries & geographies and achieved Business transformation & growth through Values & Culture alignment & Transformation. He has worked in Himalaya, Dubai, Hindalco, Philips, Indorama Jakarta, PepsiCo, Alstom, ABD in senior HR roles and currently he is Global President- Human Capital Management in Cadila Pharmaceuticals . He is a Doctorate in Human Resources Management & Organization Development from globally renowned Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad, India. He has also achieved Chartered Fellow from globally acclaimed Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), UK and Fellow Certified Practitioner in Human Resources from Australian Human Resources Institute. He is a Global accredited Trainer & Consultant in Directive Communication Psychology, Certified Culture Consultant, Colour Brain Mapping endorsed by American Institute of Business Psychology (AIOBP) and Accredited member of Global Trainers Federation. Awarded Global Top 100 HR Minds Award by World HRD Congress in 2018, World’s Greatest CHRO Asia & GCC by URS International & Asia One in 2017 and 100 Most Influential Global HR Professionals Award in World HRD Congress 2017. He is a celebrated and awarded global speaker of repute spoken across various global forums across virtual Reboot 2020 summit along with Global gurus like Marshal Goldsmith & Arthur Carmazzi, GLC summit at Budapest & Berlin, Khaleej Times Virtual Global webinar from UAE etc.

He is an author of much acclaimed book PLAN C which is hands-on and experience based framework on achieving business transformation through culture focused strategy

Sailesh Menezes is currently the India HR Leader with an overall responsibility for the India Geography. Sailesh has played multiple roles in his career with HP/HPE including the HR leader for the Sales, Engineering (R&D), Services & Software organizations in the country, and has been responsible for the execution of people strategy, engagement & development, employee relations and talent management.

Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard in December 2011, Sailesh had worked in two other organizations for about 15 years both in India and the US, first at IBM (www.ibm.com) and more recently at Wipro Technologies (www.wipro.com) as a General Manager where he had a global responsibility leading Talent Management and Organization Capability Building in addition to driving HR Systems & Solutions, Processes and HR Policy formulation across the 140,000 strong organization.

He is a post graduate rank holder in business management from the Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, India.

With over 22 yrs of Industry experience across Retail, Consumer goods & Manufacturing, Janardhan currently heads Talent development for TCS. In this role, Janardhan is responsible for transforming TCS Talent from Recruits who are yet to join all the way to Senior leadership, on the full set of skills and traits needed in the Business 4.0 era  – across Technology, Domain, Process, Culture/Language, Behavior, Business skills and Leadership.

Janardhan started his professional career with TATA motors as an Automotive engineer. Subsequently with TCS he has specialized in Retail Industry, Big data & Analytics and worked with several global enterprises in Consulting, Program management, Client relationship and Delivery partnership roles. 

Based out of Chennai, Janardhan holds a Master’s degree in Industrial engineering. Outside of work, he likes to spend his time on long walks, gardening and podcasts

Gunjan Rai is leading the Reward function for NatWest Group India. Gunjan has a diverse experience of around 20 years in HR where he helped organizations achieve business success through effective Human Capital management. He has worked in a mix of Corporate and Consulting firms – KPMG, Deloitte and Aon and expertise is in Human Resource functions of Reward, Employee engagement, HR analytics and Talent management.

Harjeet is an international speaker, author, poet, visionary, influencer and a HR Leader. He is an alumnus of IIT Roorkee and INSEAD. He is currently working with Reliance Jio. 

He is a SAP HCM consultant, Six Sigma Greet Belt, White Belt in Executive Coaching and Assessor for Predictive Index. He has 2 published patents.

He has been conferred with HR Leadership Award, Pride of Nation Award, HR personality of the year, Global Digital Ambassador and Global Learning Award. Harjeet has been a LinkedIn Power Profile, Chicken Soup Writer, TEDx speaker, Guest Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, Board Member of Federation of World Academics, Member of CII HR IR committee and Co-chair of Nasscom Diversity Committee.

Sahil Nayar is a Certified MBTI, NLP Practitioner, a double graduate in management and law, a double post graduate in HR and Marketing, Being a certified design thinker he loves flirting with ideas as he designs prototypes for enhanced human experiences at the workplace. A regular columnist in leading HR magazines, his thought leadership under the name #HRBytes on LinkedIn is a must follow. He currently serves as a Senior Associate Director – HR at KPMG and is a renowned visiting faculty at various IIMs and IITs across the country. Currently he is learning the art of influencing through his YouTube Channel. He truly believes, “You really get what you got, when others get what you got”.

Sangram is a Post Graduate in Management from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune, and also holds a Diploma in Labour Laws & Labour Welfare. He has over 20 years of work experience in industries like Healthcare, Financial Services and FMCG, amongst others. He has held senior positions at DBS Bank, Diageo –India, subsequently Diageo- Singapore & Bunge India. Sangram is a cricket enthusiast, likes to drive and travel, and loves listening to music

Rajan works in the area of Business Enablement and Leapfrogging Organisations to the next orbit of growth. His firm focuses on 4 practice areas -­ Talent Management, Organisation Transformation, Executive Search and Leadership Skilling. He and his team has cre-­ated the revolutionary One Minute Feedback mobile application tool, Karma Notes.

Rajan has a rich and varied 28 years experience in Human Re-­sources . He does cuNng edge Talent Management work with Marc Effron for Fortune 100 companies across the globe, closer home he is involved with Harvard Business Press, Stanford Seed and SHRM advising, consulting, teaching and coaching their clients.

For the past 9 years Rajan has been consulting, advising, training, coaching and launching organisations in their next growth orbit. He has worked with over 100 clients in varied sectors including Fortune 100 Global, Indian private and public sector companies. His clients seek his advice to solve complex Talent/ Performance Management issues, build robust Talent strategies and Transform Organisations.

Since 1992, Rajan has garnered his expertise through hard-­won experience across multiple sectors – in manufacturing industry he worked with Eicher and Ballarpur Industries, in FMCG with Coca Cola, and in consul;ng with Eicher Consultancy Services (ECS), before geNng into financial services with Max New York Life Insurance (MNYL). He spent over a decade in the financial services industry.

In his corporate career, Rajan has been instrumental in seNng up HR functions, formulating the philoso-­phy, strategy and policies of the function. He has specific expertise in the areas of Performance Man-­agement, Compensation, Feedback & Talent Management. He has been instrumental in Transforming Organisations over the last 15 years. He regularly tweets and publishes on LinkedIn.

Rajan has been trained by Harvard Business Publishing in Case study methodology, DDI in Performance Management & Coaching, by SHL in OPQ Assessments. He is an international speaker, expert in the areas of Human Resources & Performance Feedback.

Rajan is Masters in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is certified in Organisation Design from IIMB and in Behaviour Economics 101 from Rotman School, Toronto.

Mr. Anupam Kaura is President Human Resources & Corporate Administration, CRISIL Limited. In his current role, he is responsible for CRISIL’s talent management, leadership development, and people experience practices globally, to create an innovative, high-performance, and inclusive culture that drives customer delight. He is a member of CRISIL’s Executive Committee, and a board member of multiple group companies in India, the UK, the US, Argentina, Poland, and China.

He has over 23 years of HR leadership and business partnership experience, of which 17 years have been in Banking and Insurance HR having worked in multiple HR leadership roles with Citibank NA, IDFC Bank, and AXA Business Services. Mr.Kaura started his career with PwC in Human Capital and Organization design consulting.

Mr. Kaura holds a Master’s degree in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Atul is an senior talent acquisition leader at Infosys with about two decades of experience in the industry.
He currently heads the lateral hiring for the India geography. He manages a group of 100+ pedigreed recruiters who service the India talent needs of a $ 13 Billion business enterprise. As a hiring leader, Atul’s span of control extends from hiring for voluminous requirements which run into the thousands, to pursuing niche and hard to find talent in the market.

His core expertise includes designing and implementing the hiring strategies, continuous recruitment process improvements as well as managing high performance teams.

Mr Abhishek Datta is the Executive Director-Human Resources at HPCL. Prior to this, he held key portfolios as Chief General Manager – Human Resources and Dy Chief Vigilance Officer in HPCL.

Mr. Abhishek Datta graduated in Chemical Engineering from REC Trichy (now NIT Trichy). He has a rich and varied professional exposure of over 32 years in downstream petroleum marketing function having held key positions in LPG Marketing, LPG Projects, Marketing Operations and Distribution, Lubes Manufacturing etc.

He has a practical understanding of business needs and has been responsible for the design and deployment of key HR Policies and practices that are oriented towards employees realizing their true potential for achieving organization objectives. He believes that continuous upgradation of employee skills and competencies play a key role to stay ahead in a VUCA environment. He has taken forward the collaborative arrangements with institutes of national importance across the country like IITs and IIMs for continuing education of HPCL employees. He is spearheading the succession planning initiatives in the organization and development of leadership pipeline through structured interventions.

He has various accomplishments to his credit and has been actively participating and representing HPCL in various programs and events both at national and international level.

Expertise and Competencies:

• 23 years of experience in Learning and Development & Operations across Banking, ITES and Telecom Industry.
• Certified CFA Claritas, L&D professional. Post graduate in Human Resources and completed General Management program from IIM Ahmedabad
• Seven and half years with Cognizant managing business training for Insurance, Accounting, Mortgage, Banking and Financial Services, Retail Businesses

Past Experience:

• Entrepreneur: 3 yrs as a Senior OD consultant working with leading international banks. Coaching Senior management. Facilitating Leadership training
• Banker: 12.5 yrs Worked for Citibank, HDFC and Kotak Bank on advisory side

Mr. Sreeji Gopinathan serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Lupin Limited. He brings to Lupin over 20 years of significant domain expertise and global experience. Most recently, he was with Reckitt Benckiser. Prior to that, he was associated with Philips, Procter & Gamble, ISRO and Asea Brown Boveri.

Mr. Gopinathan holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Edinburgh, UK and B. Tech (Applied Electronics and Instrumentation) from the University of Kerala.

• Brief on the verticals that you handle at Lupin

• End to End IT and Digital portfolio – Data Analytics including leveraging AI/ML/DL and RPA for intelligent automation, Applications across Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply chain, R&D, Finance, HR etc, Infra and Operations, Information Security, Computer Systems Validation etc

• Major accomplishments

• CIO100 award for Freight and transportation management saving upto 2% of freight cost and avoiding collusive business practices
• Global CIO Impact award from Frost & Sullivan for automation of sales force and distribution management a unprecedented speed
• Top CIO100 award for Defective Lamp Inspection automation leading to significant savings on account of controlling the lamp returns
• Transformative eCommerce automation platform which enabled multiplication of top line by 2X YoY
• Various SAP projects, M&A integrations, Healthcare Informatics projects, Warehouse and material management automation etc

• Interest and passion

• Advisor at Oorjja – an ‘Ecosystem for Empowering Differently Abled Community’
• Passionate about arts (theatre) and sports performances – acted in two movies. Best New Face 2019 award & Best environmental category movie 2019 in Malayalam movies
• Running for fun and also in marathons

Rajesh Dhuddu leads the Blockchain & Cybersecurity practice for USD 5.2 billion IT giant, Tech Mahindra. He guides a team of 500+ highly accomplished Cybersecurity professionals empowering Global customers in EMEA, APJ & India to strengthen their enterprise wide Cybersecurity posture and build a highly resilient security organization. He has been working closely with CISOs, advising them to leverage best practices both in technology and operations covering Cloud Security, Network Security, Advance Threat Management, Zero Trust, Offensive Security, Cyber-risk Quantification & SASE.

He was instrumental in establishing Blockchain practice at Tech M that made Blockchain real and valuable for several global customers. Under his leadership, Tech M has been recognized as one of the Global Blockchain leaders by several leading analysts, industry bodies like World Economic Forum & Governments like State Government of Telangana.

Rajesh is responsible for making Blockchain relevant and valuable for common man in India by spearheading implementation of solutions to block spam calls and text in partnership with 3 leading Telcos and also Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Lattice80 has listed Rajesh as one of the top 100 Blockchain Influencers in the world in recognition of his contributions over the last 5 years. Thinkers360 has recognized him in the Top 3 Global list of Blockchain influencers.

He is a member of Blockchain Steering Committee at IIM Ahmedabad, part of World Economic Forum Expert Network (comprising only select 5000 people in the world on emerging technologies) for both Cybersecurity and Blockchain and is founding chairman of Blockchain Special Interest Group at Nasscom.

Rajesh is an alumnus of Columbia Business School & Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning with a Gold Medal in MBA Finance. Driven by his life motto “Help Ever, Hurt Never”, Rajesh has mentored several Entrepreneurs, Corporate Executives and MBA Students.

He is an avid cyclist, holds the title of Randonneur from Paris for cycling 208+ kms in under 10 hours.

He is a Talent Management practitioner with global experience across various sectors. He is the ex-Chief Learning Officer for Wipro, a role he worked at for seven years. As an alumnus of Microsoft, PepsiCo, Colgate and Tata Steel he has been exposed to globally acknowledged best practices in leadership and culture building. Forbes describes him as “one of the most interesting Globalists“. LinkedIn voted him as a must know writer. More than half a million followers on LinkedIn and Twitter follow his short form articles and sketches. SHRM describes him as an “Influencer”.

Archana Jerath has been with SHRM for 6 years and is Business Leader, Operations for SHRM India and APAC. She is responsible for Conferences and Events (India, MENA, APAC) ; SHRM Certification and Membership growth in India and APAC, B2C Sales and driving various initiatives in the region. She has Twenty Three years of experience of which she spent the last Thirteen years in the HR Industry. In the past Archana has worked with TV-18 (BBC World, CNN, Star etc.), GE Capital International Services, Kelly Services and IKYA Human Capital Solutions in various roles prior to joining SHRM. Archana is result oriented and has successfully led large teams across various verticals and has an expertise in Business and project management. She is Six-Sigma Green Belt Certified from GE and has led quality projects in Lean Six-Sigma, ISO implementation and Internal Systems and procedures from the ground-up.

At SHRM India, Nishith leads a growing advisory practice focussed on enabling clients realize business goals though better alignment of people practices. He is focused on achieving business growth through effective execution of client consulting mandates for the whole practice in domains such as Vision & Values cascade, Organization Structuring, Performance Management System & other HR process design. In his stint in a corporate role, Nishith has worked with the Bharti group- as a part of the Organization Design and Talent Management team. Here – he worked on projects such as shared service design and implementation, manpower planning, and organization structure design and evaluation. Prior to working with SHRM, Nishith was with the HR consulting teams of PwC, ECS, and Aon Hewitt. Nishith holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development (MHROD), presently MBA-HRD, from Dept. of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and is a certified practitioner of BIOSS tools and methodologies for organization design and leadership capability assessment.

A passionate and multi-tasking business professional with over a decade of experience, Dedeepya handles the portfolios including Advisory, Research and Academic Partnerships catering to the regions of India, as well as APAC regions. She further also heads the South Region for SHRM India and is responsible for business development and consulting in the area of Human Capital Management. Prior to this, she has worked with Oracle India as HR Consultant. Her areas of interest include Knowledge Management, Diversity and Inclusion, Competency Assessment and Development, Organization Development, Research and HR Analytics. She has been involved in the project design, content generation and implementation of consultancy projects in the above areas. She is experienced in using Quantitative and Qualitative research methods for diagnostic purposes including identifying relevant variables, designing questionnaires and using various statistical methods for analysis. She co-authored papers/ book chapters in the areas of Diversity and Inclusion and further has contributed extensively to various articles / interviews in leading newspapers. Dedeepya is a Mechanical Engineer from Jawaharlal Technological University (Kakinada, A.P) followed by a MBA from Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore, India). She is a certified SHRM Senior Certified Professional ( SHRM SCP), Level -1 Hogan Assessor and is certified in Job Evaluation by KornFerry – Hay. Along with her work, Dedeepya is passionate about painting, dancing and sports.

Ashissh has over 17 years of experience in HR Consulting firms and has been providing strategic HR inputs to more than 200 clients across industries and geographies. He is a trusted adviser to C suite leaders on improving business results by helping build leadership capability, craft talent management strategy, training and designing development journeys and measuring employee engagement.

Ashissh is known for his executive presence and passion of facilitating leadership and behavioral training workshops. His other significant work includes evaluate and build organizational structures by linking to business needs and the application of competencies across the organization. He is also a certified Competency Based Interviewer.

Prior to joining SHRM, Ashissh has worked with organizations like Gallup, Mercer, Aon and Jombay. Ashissh has worked across India, Middle East, USA and many South East Asian countries in various industries.

Specialties: Design of Leadership Development Journeys, Facilitation, Talent Management, Competency Framework Design, Assessment/Development Centre, Psychometric Assessments & Feedback and Employee Engagement

An MBA graduate from the University of West London with over 14 years of work experience across India and the UK. She has been a part of the SHRM India team for over a decade has worked in the areas of operations, events, trade support, research, business development and strategic management across organizations such as J.P. Morgan, DHL UK and Market Probe Europe. She is currently heading Retail Products Pan India and drives Memberships, Certifications, Virtual Professional Development Programs and other key initiatives. She has also been an integral part in launching the SHRM Certifications across India and Bangladesh.

She is part of the Knowledge Advisory team at SHRM India focused on helping clients achieve their business objectives through effective consultation and project management support. Over the last decade, she has worked extensively in the area of Learning and Organizational Development in organizations such as Adobe, Evalueserve and Wipro. A passionate facilitator, she has facilitated more than 300 virtual learning sessions and over 5000 hours of class-room learning on a variety of topics. She is a certified SDI (Strengths Deployment Inventory), Saville Wave and Hogan practitioner. A Vipassana meditator and a trekking enthusiast on the side, draws tremendous inspiration from the mountains.

India’s first wheelchair dance theatre performances by the differently-abled artistes that instantly motivates and transforms millions of lives across the world.