Guest Speakers

Mr. Tony Chazhoor

Managing Director -India at IPC Integrated Professional Cleaning

Mr. Tony is a business leader with sales and general management experience of over 30 years in diverse fields like wireless, telecom products and subscription, telecom end-to-end solutions, power generation equipment and retrofits, cleaning equipment, systems and solutions and also in operation and maintenance of electrical systems for the Indian Air force. Presently, he is working as Managing Director – India at IPC Integrated Professional Cleaning. He is PGDM from IIM Kozhikode.

Mr. R.S. Rajan

CoFounder & Director - Livpure Private Limited / Group CEO - Privi Group

Mr. R.S. Rajan is Co-Founder and Director of Livpure Private Limited. Started under the SAR Group, the company has been formed with the SAR Group’s passion towards environment and building a safer world for the future generations. Its core focus areas are water treatment, water purification and complete water management solutions for households and enterprises. Mr. Rajan is an Alumni of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and IIM Ahmedabad.

Mr. Prafful Dimri

Director, State Bank Institute of Learning & Development

Mr. Prafful Dimri is a Director at the State Bank Institute of Learning and Development, Noida. He ensures role-based certifications, as per RBI instructions, of the employees. Conducting workshops on audit, credit and general banking and induction programs for probationary officers, trainee officers and junior associates. He is an MBA from FMS Banaras Hindu University.

Dr. Narendra Nath Sengupta

Deputy Director, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Dr. Narendra Nath Sengupta is Deputy Director of Studies at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is a fellow member of ICAI. He has authored various books and articles. He was associated with the project of preparing ‘Roles and responsibilities of a non-official director of Central Public Sector Enterprise on behalf of ICAI, in association with the Department of Public Enterprise, Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises. He has chaired technical sessions of various nations and international seminars and has delivered lectures in various international conferences held in different places around the world. Dr. Sengupta has done M Com, MBA and Doctorate in Management Accounting.

Mr. Manmeet Pal Singh

Senior Vice President – Large Corporates & PSU Banking at Kotak Mahindra Bank

Mr. Manmeet Pal Singh is Senior Vice President – Large Corporates & PSU Banking at Kotak Mahindra Bank. Earlier, he was associated with Barclays Bank PLC as team leader, ICICI Bank as a regional head and HDFC Bank as Manager Sales. He did his B.Tech from NDRI Karnal and MBA from FMS Delhi.

Mr. Nagendra D. Rao

Vice President, Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Mr. Nagendra D. Rao, a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), is the designated partner and founder of Nagendra D. Rao and Associates, LLP, a firm of practising company secretaries based at Bengaluru. He did his graduation in Commerce and Law respectively from the University of Mumbai.

With over 15 years of experience in the corporate sector he specializes in Corporate and Securities Laws, Capital Market Transactions, Business Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Restructuring, Strategic Investment, Funds Planning & Arrangement etc. Prior to setting up his whole-time practice, he has also worked in multi-national companies like Godrej Foods Limited, Indo Nissin Foods Limited and Sobha Limited and was responsible for legal and secretarial functions.

Mr. Rao is a member of the council of the ICSI for the term 2019-2022 and has been elected as its Vice President for the year 2020.

Dr. S. K. Gupta

MD and CEO IPA of ICWAI

Dr. S. K. Gupta is currently MD & CEO of Insolvency Professional Agency of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India which is a frontline regulator in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy domain in India. He has over 39 years of corporate experience in leadership positions with various public and private sector organizations covering domains like Finance, Costing, Internal Audit, Legal and Company Secretarial functions. He has dealt with Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Restructuring, Anti-Dumping Duty and Corporate Governance mechanisms. Mr. Gupta did his post-graduation in Commerce and Ph.D in Corporate Governance and has also acquired FCS and FCMA.

Dr. B. P. Rath

Additional General Manager

Dr. B. P. Rath, Additional General Manager, NTPC, has over twenty-nine years of experience in power sector including operation, testing, commissioning and maintenance of Power plant. His managerial experience includes planning of overhauls and major repairs, contract preparation and scheduling. Worked in a wide range of functions including budget planning. CDM etc. Presently, he works as Additional General Manager, Engineering at NTPC. Led NTPC in association with GTZ developing a new methodology for estimate of emission reduction for (3x660 MW) North Karanpura STPP that was approved as ACM 0013 (Approved Consolidated Methodology) by United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Mr Rath is an M Tech from IIT, Delhi and PhD (MBA) from Aligarh Muslim University. His thesis was on “Integrating Emission Reduction in the Import of LNG in Indian Energy Sector.” Recently, he worked on “Brain, Synapsis and Neurons” at AL Hebrew University, Israel and “Neuro-economics” at Higher School of Economics, Russia. He has the right mix of industry and academic experience. He has published a number of papers and has been a visiting faculty and guest speaker at several technical and business schools like All India Management Association, PMI, Noida, Institute of Petroleum Management, Noida, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, NTPC School of Business, Manipal Institute of Technology etc.

Balancing his technical know-how, he is keenly involved in training related to the self-development aspects of individuals. He uses the heartfulness approach to personality development. He has been a Heartfulness mediator for the last 23 years. On Quora he has 60.9K views, moderator to “Samadhi” with 40 k followers, Administrator - “Divine Grace” and “Mission 2036”. To sum it up, he is an engineer by profession, a researcher by qualification and a teacher by conviction.

Mr. Nisheeth Srivastava

Mr. Nisheeth Srivastava is Vice President and Unit Creative Director Mullenlowe Lintas Group. Prior to this he worked as Marketing Manager with OLX Group and as Cluster Head in Radio Mirchi.

He has more than 12 years of robust marketing and advertising experience, across e-commerce, tech brands, Journalism and radio. A Team Leader. Team Player whose passion is writing.

Dr. Sambit Patra

He is National Spokesperson of Bhartiya Janata Party and represents the state of Odisha in the central committee of BJP chaired by National President Amit Shah. He served Spokesperson of BJP from 2011 to the current date. He is said to be pivotal factor in swinging the national opinion in favour BJP by his exceptionally conducted debates over the national media.

Mr. Mohit Dutta

A management graduate from a premier B-school, Mohit has worked in Hindustan Unilever as Area Manager. Currently, he is working as Regional Manager South in Mars Wrigley India.

Mr. Prahlad Kakkar

He is an Indian ad film director, best known for his work on the famous Pepsi TV commercial with Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendulkar. He is the founder and main director for Genesis Film Productions, established in 1977.

Ms. Jasmine Saini

Ms. Jasmine Saini is the Business Head in ITC Chain of Hotels in New Delhi. She has a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry.

Mr. Gaurav Nigam

Prior to taking a plunge as an entrepreneur, Mr. Nigam worked as a Senior Vice President for Lava International Limited and as the senior Marketing Head of Airtel. Currently he is the director at Tumbledry Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Vikas Sachdeva

He is National Head (International Ad Sales) at Star TV Network, one of India’s largest media conglomerates. With 15 years of experience in Media Sales.

Mr.Vikas Sachdeva currently handles International Business Sales for Star TV covering various territories like UK, Middle East, APAC and Africa.

Ms. Meeta Kalra

Ms Meeta Kalra is Director Customer Experience in Microsoft- New Delhi.

She is a customer experience and business excellence leader. She helps her organization consistently meet and exceeds customer expectations, effectively manage customer relationships and deliver value.

A team player with strong interpersonal skills and proven record of building relationship with customers partners and cross functional teams to meet organizational goals. A continuous learner, problem solver, a go-getter with diverse skill sets.

Ms. Ranjana Mittal

Ms. Ranjana Mittal is Assistant General Manager in NTPC.

She is an adept trainer and facilitator in areas of emotional intelligence, Leadership, Self & interpersonal effectiveness.

Dr. Pawan Agarwal

Dr. Pawan Agarwal is a world-renowned motivation speaker.

He has delivered more than 100 sessions in various countries like London, Philadelphia, Norway, America, Kenya, Turkey, Malaysia, and Dubai etc. Dr. Pawan Agarwal has conquered hearts by delivering inspirational stories about Mumbai Dabbawalas.

Mr. Surinder Singla

Shri Surinder Singla, Former Finance Minister, Punjab, - delivered a guest lecture @ AIM yesterday, 12th Dec., 2014, on "Changing Markets and Global Business Environment". The topic revolved around Indian context and covered different aspects of regulatory and policy issues of "Make in India" along with how Indian management students fit in the dynamic and ever-changing global business environment.

Mr. Subhankar Ghose

Mr. Subhankar Ghose is the Chief Manager HR In Muthoot Fincorp Ltd..He has a total of 11 Years of Experience with ICICI Prudential,Sahara Global and Tybros.He also have his certification from Six Sigma - Green Belt, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, IBM ACE.He also completed his education as B.E (Electronics),MBA,PGDHRM.He is also a life Member of NIPM.AIMA,NHRDN and an Assosiate Member –ISABS. 3. Mr. Harbhajan Singh is Vice President – General &CorporateAffairs, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, Pvt. Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Honda Motor Co. Japan.

At Honda he is responsible for Human Resources,, Industrial Relations Administration, Legal & Secretariat, Internal Audit, Medical, Security, CSR, & Corporate Social Responisbility. He is with industry for more than 36 years. From 1976 to 2006 in Tata Steel and thereafter in HMSI. Has been associated with ILO – Danida Project, on Trade Union Organisation and Leadership Development and was Vice- President of Tata Workers Union, the sole bargaining agent for 40,000 workers in the Steel Co. . He is a Post Graduate in Labour & Social Welfare, Law Graduate and Post Graduate in Business Management (XLRI). Creating peace in turbulent environment and evolving industrial harmony through social connectivity & bonding of industry with society has been the core area of personal and professional contribution.

Mr. Amit Awasthi

Mr. Amit Awasthi: Director warehouse operations at Jabong.com He joined Jabong in October 2011. His current role is to set up a world class processing center/ Facility from where company can despatch customer’s order, store inventory, inbound, returns etc.

14 years of experience in hard core retail supply chain. More than 3 years in online retail Started my carrier as a management trainee from Arcus Stores (first large format store in Delhi NCR in home improvement products). Prior to this, he worked with Fashion and You India Pvt. Ltd. as an Operation Head. Before that, he was leading all INDIA Operations of Supply chain in BLACKBERRYS.

He has a network of over 800 MBO's, 90 EBO's & around 60 LFRS (Large format retail stores like Shoppers, LIFESTYLE, West Side.....) His specialties are Competitive analysis, Retail Operations, Inventory Management, Good quality knowledge of MS-EXCEL.To be successful in his work, he seeks customer point of view and develop solutions for the custmoer concern and problem. In addition to this he maintain and inspires a result-driven approach, focuses on results and critical performance indicators. He has developed his team and keep them motivated to achieve goals. He did his MBA in Supply Chain from Indian Institute of Management Studies.

Mr. Manish Modi

Mr. Manish Modi is Editor - Asia Economic News Data – Bloomberg based in N.Delhi is Alumni (as MSc in Finance & Investment ,Student and Research Assistant The University of Edinburgh) and International Management Institute,N.Delhi. Though working with global organization but feels proud in mentioning only Hindi as his language ! Conceptual and research based international academic exposure. Experience in research activities at academic and commercial level Eight+ years of Textile commodities trading experience.

Achieved trading volume growth of 6-10% per annum through adding new products to the trading line and developing strong relationship with clients. Developed seven new partnerships with some of the leading suppliers of textile commodities. Fair understanding of commodity trading operations in spot as well as derivative markets. Involved in structuring financial products academically thus understanding the core working of the derivatives and their relationship with rest of the market Excellent IT skills with special interest in Excel (including macro coding for financial modeling using VBA) and stochastic simulations (Monte Carlo, Latin Hypercube) software - Crystal Ball (certified advanced user). IT oriented & good algorithm building skills. Strong working knowledge of MS Office. Prior to with Bloomberg he has been with Datamonitor and as Partner and General Manager at Modiyarns. He likes travelling,squash and indulges in Yoga

Mr. Rohit Sakunia

Mr. Rohit Sakunia :Community Manager-Asia Pacific , Google India Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Rohit Sakunia is the Community Manager-Asia Pacific in Google India Pvt. Ltd.Traditional Media, New Media,Outsourcing had been his areas of experience. As a Community Manager of the world’s biggest company, he makes sure that his consumer gets exactly what they want. He does so by studying and analyzing metrics everyday.In addition to this, he helps google partners in creating content that is engaging and enabling them to use platform tools i.e. hangouts, hash tags, gifs etc.He had also worked in Print, Broadcast and Digital medium over the last 5 years.

Mr. Rohit has experience in Sports Journalism and Sports Reporting as well. He had worked as an Editor in ESPNSTAR.com and Cricketarchive.com As an active sports writer, he has his many blogs on indiansportsnews.com and stick2hockey.com. He also had worked with corporate like Infoedge India Ltd., Information TV Pvt. Ltd. He did his B.Com(Hons) from Rourkela Municipal College. With deep interest in media industry, he completed his Post Graduation in Journalism from International School of Media and Entertainment Studies. His areas of expertise includes Negotiation skills, Planning skills, Marketing Communication, Brand Building and Management and Writing skills.

Mr. Lokesh Mehra

LOKESH MEHRA-DIRECTOR- EDUCATION ADVOCACY,MICROSOFT Lokesh Mishra is passout from Birla institute of Management Technology.He has vast experience in Corporate World. Working as a Director in Education Advocacy at Microsoft. In Microsoft he is responsible for managing strategic relationships with Govt. and Institutional Bodies, Policy led engagements and Skill development initiatives. With a passion and drive to change, innovate and help India become a knowledge economy, have been recognized in the last 23 working years for starting new business lines, excellence in business process re-organization, and introduction of state of the art e-learning practices and skill building initiatives Specialties: Strong experience from strategising, policy framing and implementation with Govt., Industry associations encompassing K-12 , vocational and higher education He has served in Corporate world like Cisco Systems,Intel and NIIT.

Mr. Sudhir Mittal

Sudhir Mittal an IIT and IIM Alumnus and presently as Corporate IT Chief heading the Gujrat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has started his career as Scientist with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has wide industry exposure to diverse field as Group CIO SAMTEL, Group CIO Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, Head (MIS) Reliance Industries Ltd. , Head (IT & ERP) Grasim Industries Ltd., Dy. Mgr (Information Technology)at National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd.. He likes travelling, making friends and active for many national ,social causes Analysis.

Mr. Rajiv Kapoor

Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, Fortis Healthcare Limited Twenty Seven Years of work experience. Member of CII HR National Committee and Co-Chair of North CII ER Committee Members of the CII National Committee on Skill Development, Women Empowerment Member FICCI Taskforce on Migration & Diaspora Convener of HR Panel CII Haryana Regular speaker at Industrial forums, HR forums, Seminars, ILO workshops, Management schools

Associated with CSR Programmes, IAYP Programme& Global Dignity Programme Has convened Three CII National Level Seminars on HR and IR. Has presented a paper in the Indo-European Union Summit and submitted case studies to VLFM curriculum. Past companies / groups. - Shriram Group - Goodyear India Ltd - Tecumseh Products India Ltd - JCB India Limited: Areas - Currently working with Fortis Healthcare Limited

Mr. Vikrant Tyagi

A competent professional with 17 years’ rich experience in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Distribution Management & System Implementation. Highly result-oriented, motivated and dynamic manager of change with a flair for conceptualising, developing and implementing innovative practices for organizational improvement. Quality exposure to SAP activities which include understanding & mapping of business processes, analyzing requirements, finalizing the business scenario and implementing ERP systems.

Mr. Pankaj Dubey

Mr. Pankaj Dubey is the Managing Director of Polaris India Pvt. Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of Polaris, world’s No.1 off-road vehicle company. Mr. Dubey joined Polaris India Pvt. Ltd. at the time of the company’s inception in January 2011.

Born in 1967 Mr. Dubey is a Postgraduate in Business Management, with an additional qualification in Program on Leading and Managing from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. Mr. Dubey has an Economics background and attended Management Development Programmes at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, The Indian school of Business, Hyderabad and Carlson School of Management, US.

Exhibiting exemplary leadership in every task that he does, Mr. Dubey, believes in inculcating a healthy team spirit. His approach is people-oriented with core emphasis on teamwork. The records of accomplishment are testimonial to the motivation and support that Mr. Dubey extends to his teammates, dealers and employees.

Mr. Dubey has contributed significantly to the growth of each organization he has worked with in the past as well.

Prior to joining Polaris India Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Dubey has worked in India’s top automotive companies such as Yamaha Motors, LML, and Hero; which have enriched him with diverse experience in the area of Sales, Marketing, Channel and Business Development. His last assignment was with Yamaha India Pvt. Ltd. as National Business Head.

A man of substance Mr. Dubey possesses the rare quality of turning negative in to positive. The best-recalled example could be when Mr. Dubey joined Yamaha, when the company was struggling to sustain itself in India. The Economic Times reported “Yamaha to Shut Shop”. However, believing in his capabilities and trusting his vision, Mr. Dubey made some significant strategy and also launched successful models like  R15, Vmax, Fazer & FZ16. His ambitious efforts proved extremely useful in helping him maneuver the company towards profitability in a tightly contested and pressure-ridden field.