About The Conclave

Speakers

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  Sanjay
  Behl

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  Sanjay
  Behl
  
  Chairman, CII National Committee on Leadership & HR & CEO & Executive Director, Greaves Electric Mobility

Sanjay Behl

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Mr. Sanjay Behl, Chairman of CII’s Leadership & HR National Committee 2021-22, Co-founder of Nextqore Inc. A US Delaware Based Company. CEO of Nextqore Private Limited - 100% subsidiary of Nextqore Inc. EVP Global Marketing, Nextqore Inc.

Ex-CEO of Raymond Lifestyle Businesses for 7 years (2013-2020) - Responsible for Textile, Apparel and Retail businesses. Executive board member of Raymond Apparel limited from 2013-2020

Besides the last 7-years in Textiles industry, 2 decades of prior work experience with 10-years in FMCG and 10-years in Telecom. Worked Hindustan Unilever, Nokia and Reliance in diverse functional and business leadership capacities across all the organizations, in India, Asia Pacific and Globally. Led some of the top Indian and Global brands – Vim, Surf, Rin, Sunlight, Nokia, Reliance amongst others; and 3 Global IPR's in Brand & Marketing operations.

Business and brand leadership experience ranging across consumer goods to service industry – project set-up, operation scale-up and managing large established brands and businesses. Led teams of diverse skill sets, experience, scale, structures, locations, cultures and nationalities.

Graduated from IIT BHU (Varanasi) and MBA from Sydenham Institute of Management, Mumbai. Avid enthusiast of technology and gadgets, a die-hard cricket aficionado and enjoy painting.

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  Tarun
  Rai

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  Tarun
  Rai
  
  Executive Director Wunderman Thompson APAC

Tarun Rai

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A brand and business builder with experience of over 30 years across industries – from FMCG to Luxury – with a specialization in Media and Communications. For the last 15 years he has been a CEO and has sat on various Boards.

Developing strong, result-focused teams, working comfortably in multi-cultural environments and delivering ambitious business results are his core strengths.

Over the three decades he has worked in MNC/MNC Joint Ventures and has an excellent record of transforming businesses and taking them to leadership positions quickly.

As the CEO of Worldwide Media, a joint venture of The Times of India and BBC Worldwide, he championed Convergence - transforming a print business and making it a ‘multi-media’, lifestyle business, converging print and digital. And in the process, creating multiple revenue streams. Worldwide Media became the largest Lifestyle publishing group in the country.

He joined Wunderman Thompson in 2015 as the Chairman and Group CEO, South Asia, with the responsibility of three countries and six companies, spanning communications, digital, activation, shopper marketing, rural and live events. He was given charge of the larger APAC geography as Executive Director, in January, 2022.

His over three decades of experience in Marketing Communications has given him expertise in building brands and developing the right marketing and communication strategy. His Media and Publishing experience has given him deep exposure and understanding of Fashion, Luxury and Lifestyle spaces.

As a result of working across media and advertising for some of the top companies in the country – both MNCs and Indian business houses – he is very well networked. He writes frequently and is extensively covered in industry and business media.

In 2018, he was facilitated as ‘India’s Most Trusted CEO’ by WCRC. He was also the only finalist from India at the HR Excellence Awards, Singapore and was recognised as the ‘Most people-focussed CEO’.

He is a past President of the Association of Indian Magazines and has been on various Executive Committees of Advertising bodies.

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  Sudhir
  Sitapati

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  Sudhir
  Sitapati
  
  Managing Director and CEO Godrej Consumer Products

Sudhir Sitapati

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Mr. Sudhir Sitapati is the Managing Director and CEO of Godrej Consumer Products Limited.

He has worked as Executive Director, Foods & Refreshment at Unilever Ltd where he joined in 1999. Before his appointment as the Executive Director, Refreshment, Sudhir was Regional Category Vice President, Refreshment (South Asia & Africa), Unilever. Before his appointment as the Regional Category Vice President, Refreshments (South Asia & Africa), Unilever, Sudhir was the General Manager of Personal Wash Category for HUL

He is currently the Co-Chair of the CII National Committee of Food Processing and is a past Co-Chair of the FMCG Committee. He was also a member of the advisory board of Flipkart in 2015.

Sudhir has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a B.Sc in Math with Economics Honours from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

In 2017 Sudhir was awarded the Young Alumni Achiever at his alma mater IIMA.

He writes periodically, on a variety of subjects, in national newspapers. In his free time, he enjoys playing tennis, the sitar and farming.

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  Madhavi
  Lall

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  Madhavi
  Lall
  
  Co-Chair, CII 12th National HR Conclave, Managing Director, Head – HR, India Deutsche Bank India Private Limited

Madhavi Lall

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Madhavi Lall is a Human Resource professional and MBA in HR & systems from XLRI Jamshedpur. She has around 30 years of experience working for large companies like Standard Chartered Bank, Accenture, ABN Amro bank, Colgate Palmolive and HCL Hewlett- Packard.

Has been the head HR at Deutsche Bank India since May 2015. As a member of the Executive Committee at Deutsche Bank, she is responsible for shaping the Deutsche Bank Group’s people strategy in India and in helping build the employer brand for the organization. She was conferred the “Women Leadership Award” by the jury and Council of Board Members of the Institute of Public Enterprises-BFSI in 2010 and the Distinguished Alumnus Award by XLRI in 2016. She is also a founding member of the HR Committee for FICCI. Madhavi is also a member of the CII National Committee on Leadership and HR and has been the chairperson at CII– Indian Women Network for the Western region for the year 2020-21. She is in the list of top 50 HR Influencers in ETHR World list for 2020.

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  Atrayee
  Sanyal

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  Atrayee
  Sanyal
  
  Co-Chair, CII 12th National HR Conclave, Vice President, Human Resource Management TATA Steel Limited

Atrayee Sanyal

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Atrayee is VPHRM in Tata Steel Ltd. She has spent 23 years in the company with 19years in Marketing & Sales spearheading the Branding Journey for the Steel Company. She is Humanities graduate with and MBA and has completed General Management Programme from CEDEP INSEAD France. She won the Chevening Scholarship by the British Govt. She has handled wide areas of HR and IR for past 4+ years before taking over as the Vice President HRM. She has been a passionate proponent of Diversity and Inclusion in her organisation and dreams to achieve the aspiring target for the same in the coming future. She is serving on the boards of The Tinplate Company of India Ltd (TCIL) & (KGSSL) Kalimati Global Shared Services Ltd - subsidiaries of Tata Steel, Indian Iron & Steel Sector Skill Council (IISSSC) and the European Centre for Executive Development (CEDEP-INSEAD), France.

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  Heide
  Abelli

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  Heide
  Abelli
  
  Chief Content Officer & CEO North America Byteedge

Heide Abelli

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Heide Abelli is an accomplished executive with extensive general management experience. She is a seasoned veteran of product development, innovation and product management in the fields of corporate training and educational technology.

She has authored and developed award-winning corporate training solutions and is a globally recognized subject matter expert in the areas of leadership, management, general business skills, the unique skills required for success in the digital economy, employee learning and development and effective corporate training practices. Heide was most recently General Manager of Skillsoft’s largest corporate training portfolio. Prior to that, she was a senior executive at Harvard Business Publishing and Harvard Business Review where she developed state-of-the-art, technology-enabled training solutions for executives and business students, including market-leading computer simulations and interactive content experiences.

Heide is a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council and is a frequent contributor to Forbes.

She has been featured as an author and subject matter expert in dozens of business publications around the world including Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, Chief Learning Officer, Business Insider, Economic Times and CEO Today.

Heide regularly speaks at industry conferences in the field of corporate training and is invited as a subject matter expert for webcasts and podcasts in leadership, the future of corporate learning and in-demand job skills.

Heide is also a teaching faculty member in the department of Management & Organization of Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Heide is a National Diversity Council 2019 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech award recipient and a 2019 Stevie American Women in Business award winner.

She holds an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School

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  Ritu
  Anand

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  Ritu
  Anand
  
  Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Tata Consultancy Services

Ritu Anand

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Ritu is the Senior Vice President & Chief Leadership and Diversity Officer at Tata Consultancy Services.

In this role, she is responsible for identification and development of senior leaders in TCS. In addition to this, she is leading diversity for the entire organization, enhancing all aspects of diversity in workforce, with a focus on creating more women leaders in the Leadership Pool – with a commitment to build and sustain a robust leadership pool with diverse representation from all employee segments.

Prior to this role, she was Deputy CHRO and led Talent Management and Total Rewards functions in TCS where she was recognized for progressive policies for women and GenY workforce, competency, performance, compensation, and leadership practices.

She is a well-renowned speaker at various global forums, sharing her visionary views on the future of workplace, talent, and inclusion. Featured on the SAP Game Changing Women Radio, she has written for various international magazines on evolving face of workplaces and culture of diversity.

She serves as an independent director and an advisory board member for few organizations. She was selected as one of the 20 Top HR Influencers chosen by HR 40under40 and recognized as one of the LinkedIn Top Voices of India on LinkedIn for two consecutive years.

An iconic leader, a charismatic speaker in the HR community and a doctorate in psychology, Ritu has been pivotal in bringing diversity, equal opportunity, and advancement of women in corporate leadership along with being a role model to many aspiring young leaders.

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  Ankit
  Aggarwal

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  Ankit
  Aggarwal
  
  Founder and CEO Unstop

Ankit Aggarwal

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Ankit Aggarwal, Founder & CEO of Unstop, is not your typical engineering plus MBA guy. From opting out of his MBA summer placements at IMT Ghaziabad to getting a 100% tuition scholarship from Harvard Business School for a coveted leadership program, he has done things differently. He has worked at Deloitte, Sapient, and spent 3 years with Teach For India (NGO) to understand the educational inequity from the roots of India.

Through Unstop, he enables companies to discover, engage, assess, and hire the right talent #BeyondBoundaries while connecting the unstoppable talent, students & early professionals with the world of opportunities to let them #GoBeyondResumes.

Unstop is the category creator and serves over 40 Lakh students across domains from 20,000 colleges and companies.

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  Pankaj
  Bansal

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  Pankaj
  Bansal
  
  Co-founder & Group CEO PeopleStrong

Pankaj Bansal

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Pankaj is an entrepreneur, who believes in the power of work capital i.e., deploying capital to give meaning and access to work. This thought led him to create two ventures which are constantly transforming the world of Work and HR Tech.

Pankaj is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of PeopleStrong, which comprises three independent businesses: PeopleStrong HR Tech, Taggd, and Wheebox and Founding Partner of Work10M, an initiative that aims to make work accessible to 10 million people by 2030.

A part of the Prime Minister’s task force of Mission KarmYogi – Pankaj is working with the Government of India for introducing capacity building and reforms in bureaucracy. He is also on the advisory board of Sunstone Eduversity, India’s only Pay after Placement B-School

Pankaj believes that an equitable world should be our gift to the next generation and supports the cause through YouinYou, a trust that works to provide education to underprivileged kids, where he is the Founder Trustee and as the member of Advisory Board of Empower Foundation – a not for profit organisation.

On Twitter : @PankajBansalPB

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  Sudakshina
  Bhattacharya

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  Sudakshina
  Bhattacharya
  
  Chief Human Resources Officer HDFC ERGO General Insurance

Sudakshina Bhattacharya

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Sudakshina is an experienced HR Professional having a dynamic exposure in all facets of the HR domain and is a practicing HR professional for over a decade. She has experienced the pinnacle of success through her proficiency in various sectors like Telecom, Hospitality, Entertainment and Financial Services industry. In her current role, she leads the HR team at HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Ltd.

Sudakshina has successfully built high standards for performance within organisations by setting up work environments which create, engage, align and motivate employees. She emphasises on employee research to study individuals and human behaviour to help predict and enhance individual and organizational performance. At IL& FS Group she initiated a program for retaining top talent and performance by engraving that performance is self driven and also implemented developmental interventions at various levels to enable employees to take on higher roles and effectively handle ever increasing complexities within the organisation. The signature initiative ITDP was a melting pot of employee experience through culture, values, growth and fulfilment

Sudakshina is known to introduce employee awards and recognition program which is unique and one of its kind. She is a CPCC from Co-Active institute, USA and an accredited Coach from International Coach Federation

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  Avijit
  Bhattacharya

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  Avijit
  Bhattacharya
  
  Chief Human Resources Officer Tata Capital Limited

Avijit Bhattacharya

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Avijit joined The Tata Group in 1996 as a TAS Officer in Tata Administrative Services and has worked on various assignments in the areas of automotive and financial services.

Currently Avijit is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at Tata Capital. As CHRO, Avijit oversees all aspects of People Management, Infrastructure & Administration, Safety and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Avijit was the founding CEO of Tata Cleantech Capital Limited (TCCL), a joint venture between Tata Capital Limited and The International Finance Corporation, Washington from 2012-2015. TCCL is a specialized lender for Renewable Energy Projects, Water Management Projects and Energy Efficiency Projects. Prior to TCCL, he was the founding CEO of Tata Securities Limited (TSL) from 2007 to 2012. The primary businesses of TSL are Equity Broking, Investment Banking and Distribution. Both TCCL and TSL are subsidiaries of Tata Capital Ltd. of which Avijit was one of the founding members.

Prior to Tata Capital, Avijit worked with Tata Motors Ltd, the leading automobile manufacturer of India, from 2003 to 2007 in the Passenger Car Business and Corporate Finance. From 2003-2005, he was Head - Systems & Process and Business Excellence for the Passenger Car Business (PCBU) and Engineering Research Center (ERC) and was a member of the office of the Executive Director - PCBU & ERC. Thereafter Avijit moved to the office of Executive Director - Finance & Corporate Affairs as DGM - Corporate Affairs looking after Mergers and Acquisitions and Subsidiary Relationships.

As a TAS Officer, Avijit was involved in various assignments like the Launch of the Tata Indica, setting up of an online equity trading portal and retail broking business for Tata TD Waterhouse Securities and setting up of Concorde Motors, a captive car dealership chain.

Avijit is a B.Tech from IIT - Kanpur and MBA from IIM - Bangalore. He is a Fulbright Scholar, having undergone the Fulbright Program at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Avijit was recognized as a Young Leader by the British High Commission in 2013.

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  Smiti
  Bhatt Deorah

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  Smiti
  Bhatt Deorah
  
  Co-founder & COO, Advantage Club

Smiti Bhatt Deorah

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Smiti Bhatt Deorah is the Co-Founder and COO of Advantage Club, a Global Employee Engagement Platform with features like rewards, recognition, community building, and FlexBen on a unified platform. Currently, she oversees various functions, including business development, marketing, customer relations, and content operations.

An alumna of the University of California (UCLA) with a Master's degree in Computer Science, Smiti has a strong experience in B2B networking/relationships. Before co-founding Advantage Club with Sourabh Deorah, she was part of the first 10 people in the customer engagement and sales team for SQL Azure at Microsoft Redmond.

Smiti envisions Advantage Club disrupting the traditional Employee Engagement and Experience industry. She firmly believes that corporations need to engage with their employees beyond salaries. Under her leadership, Advantage Club has transformed employee engagement in more than 1000 corporates in over 100 countries and has grown into a platform through which employers can engage more meaningfully with their employees.

This year (2022), she has been featured as ‘Woman Leader of the Year’ by BW Businessworld. With her guiding principle of “Every employee should feel the best which would lead them to perform the best”, Smiti has redefined Advantage Club from an HR Tech Start-up to multi-million-dollar venture.

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  Amit
  Chincholikar

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  Amit
  Chincholikar
  
  Global Chief Human Resources Officer Tata Consumer Products

Amit Chincholikar

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Mr. Amit Chincholikar is currently Global CHRO for Tata Consumer Products. As part of the Global Executive Committee for the company, he focuses on harnessing the power of people transformation to fuel the group aspiration of creating a best in class global FMCG company. Amit moved into this role from Tata Sons where he was Senior Vice President – Group Human Resources. He has been with the Tata Group since 2010 prior to which he has worked with Aditya Birla Group and Mercer Consulting across all HR domains including mergers and integration, HR strategy, talent, learning, compensation and business partnership roles. Amit has also worked in several geographies across the world and has lived in India, Singapore and the US. In his current role, he is also responsible for the key agendas of Sustainability and Business Excellence across Tata Consumer Products.

Amit graduated in Statistics and Operations Research and completed his MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. He is a theatre enthusiast and a quizzing buff with an ongoing interest in aviation and technology. He is also an active advocate of grass root education in India.

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  Sandeep
  Chaudhary

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  Sandeep
  Chaudhary
  
  Chief Executive Officer, PeopleStrong

Sandeep Chaudhary

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Work Mode

He is a well-known business leader, advisor, educator and technology enthusiast. In a career spanning over two decades, he spent 17 years at Aon (formerly, Hewitt Associates) and was the CEO for their India & South Asia region and served on the Global Executive Committee of the company. In his consulting career he worked extensively with CEO, CHRO’s and boards to build and execute on a value creation plan focussed on Talent and Organisation transformation.

He has actively advised the Governments of India and Sri Lanka on HR initiatives, served for three years on the advisory board of the Centre of Corporate Governance & Citizenship at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and currently is an Independent Director at Burger King India.

Life Mode

Sandeep believes that practicing balance is a sure way to celebrate abundance in life and achieve more. When he is not on the corporate treadmill, he enjoys a generous dose of running, nature, friends, and beer. He admires the role of the Armed Forces in society and evangelizes the cause of veteran reintegration and their transition into meaningful corporate careers.

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  Vishalli
  Dongrie

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  Vishalli
  Dongrie
  
  Partner and Head - People and Change KPMG in India

Vishalli Dongrie

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Vishalli has more than 17 years of experience in the field of Human Capital Consulting.

Vishalli has led HR transformational and leadership projects in India, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, ME, Australia, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc.

She has previously held varied leadership roles such as Partner Human Capital Consulting at Deloitte, Director, Hewitt Associates and Principal Consultant, ECS.

Vishalli is certified in Hogan, Work Level application, BIOSS work-MCPA, LOWA, LPA, IRIS, MBTI, 15 PF, Quest, EvaLax, 16PF and other psychometric tools. She has authored more than 40 publications and has presented in more than 30 Indian and international management conferences.

Areas of expertise:

Organizational Transformation and Change Management, Talent Management, Assessment and Development Centers, and Leadership Labs, coaching and Development,, M&A, Strategic workforce planning, HR Optimization, HR Analytics amongst others, in BFSI, Telecom, FMCG, Technology, Manufacturing and Oil & Gas sectors.

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  Anandorup
  Ghose

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  Anandorup
  Ghose
  
  Partner, Deloitte India

Anandorup Ghose

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Anandorup is a Partner with Deloitte in Human Capital Consulting. He has over 18 years of professional experience across a range of areas in HR advisory. Prior to Deloitte, Anandorup headed AON’s performance, rewards and organization consulting practice across India, Middle East & South East Asia. He has worked in the areas of executive compensation design and benchmarking, long term incentive plan design, sales incentive plan design, governance structure definition, remuneration committee advisory, performance planning and scorecard design etc.

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  Preeti
  Gupta

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  Preeti
  Gupta
  
  Group Executive President, Group HR, Aditya Birla Group

Preeti Gupta

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Someone who prefers being the script writer rather than being on centre stage, that's Preeti Gupta. An alumnus of XLRI and Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program) 2013, Preeti is recognized as a strong HR Leader who stands out for her thought leadership, ability to lead & sustain organization transformation and designing change within the context. She believes that deep specialists are the secret to sustained high growth, being relevant in the future and Courage of conviction, authenticity are attributes that amplify her impact and influence.

She has been

• • Awarded the HR Leader of the Year - ET Prime Women Leadership Awards 2019
• • She is the only woman among 12 ABG Fellows recognized for sustained leadership to Group in 2015
• • Awarded Aditya Birla Awards for Individual Excellence: Exceptional Contributor in 2005 and Outstanding Leader in 2019

Experience – Aditya Birla Group 1999 - Present

Preeti has Partnered in ABG’s 25+ years’ growth journey from $2 billion to $60 billion; 60,000 employees to 120,000 employees, presence in 6 countries to 42 countries, the transition of Group from pure manufacturing to a mix of manufacturing and service sectors with businesses, front ending the HR framework for new businesses in ABG being leaders in their respective sectors and more than 30 Acquisitions, Mergers and divestments and Joint ventures.

She has scripted the people strategies that have helped shape and redefine the Group's demographic landscape (0.5-17% gender diversity, increase in millennials from 5 to 50%, average employee age from 45 to 35 years), to make it younger and more diverse. At Aditya Birla Group, she is considered a role model on gender intelligence, one who inspires leaders to be inclusive. A key leader for 20+ years, Preeti has also been a pathblazer-helping to institutionalise the ABG Purpose and Values framework, the Group's performance culture, create compensation frameworks, establish family care initiatives and many more such transformational initiatives.

Preeti has observed that Indian enterprises do better when they 'adapt' 'Japanese' and 'American' models to Indian scenarios rather than adopting them. One of her passions is to conceptualise and articulate an Indian model of Contemporary Management, a framework which has global appeal with family values.

Work and Achievements over the 2 decades:

• • Discovering, Articulating and Cascading Group Purpose: Instrumental in designing and orchestrating 125 ABG leaders to envision and converse about what ABG is and should be in the future. Designed and led bringing the Group Purpose to life for the last person standing in ABG (2021)
• • Built the ABG ‘Values’ framework. Unified 120000 employees across 35 countries and 42 nationalities through common ABG values (2004)
• • Spearhead Employee Wellbeing and enabling productive, engaged work environment during COVID CRISIS with focus on individual, team effectiveness, family care with work from home arrangement, proactive digital and leadership connect and enabling policies and programs like tele medicine, mental stress, covid leave. Lead cross functional, cross business teams to action for dynamic impact (2020)
• • Re-articulated integrated talent reward philosophy for sectors by scenarios and employee segments, enabling communication of people rewards strategy and employees to appreciate the context of their total rewards (2020)
• • Reimagining and Restart- Handholding the organization to being proactive to tide over anticipated cash flow deficits and set frugal expectations for employees and managers through reward and benefit decisions and communication, including severance. Bringing normalcy back to life, work and workplace and minimize the pandemic impact.
• • Refine Executive Remuneration POV and programs for ABG companies in the context of Investor scrutiny, regulatory compliance, market opinion. Enable NRC, Board, Company Secretary, and leadership collaborate effectively. Articulated Total Compensation Framework across conglomerate 45 Annual Incentive Plans and 25 Long Term Incentive Plans across public, private and New Age companies with a management employment cost of $26 billion.
• • HR Transformation and HR Strategy 2022-2024 – spearheading functional excellence, brought together 2200+ HR employees across the globe to collectively work as One HR. Customising HR for Business context to lead the Group thought process on opportunity to differentiate to experiment. Aided HR stakeholders and today her efforts have led to a Group wide HR Strategy Road map with 6 clear aspirations.
• • Led the Best Employer Project for Aditya Birla Group leading to being voted as the Best Employer India (2003, 2007, 2011 and 2018), Best Employer Asia (2007), Best Employer APAC (2011).
• • Designed and institutionalized a Performance culture. 100% coverage across 35 countries; OneABG –One Performance Management System across 35 countries
• • Defined Job Architecture across functions & Businesses and the Job Evaluation which is the foundation for HR processes like Talent, Learning, Hiring and Organization productivity.
• • Conceptualized and steered ‘Add More to Life’ initiative to build urban experiences in 100+ remote townships – multiplex, multi-generational parks with amphitheaters;17 ABG Hospitals and 35 Primary healthcare centres across the country.
• • Spearheaded Family Care Initiatives such as Pratibha (Scholarship Program for employee children), Nishchint (safety net to cover unforeseen circumstances in an employee’s life), Group Medical, Medical Top-up, Retirement Medical, lifestyle flexible compensation, sabbatical leave etc. Cover 60,000 families, 2000000 lives today.
• • Change the diversity landscape through enabling policies, inclusive leadership and mind set change: manifold growth of gender diversity from 0.5% to 17% (26,147)
• • Digital Champion – Setting up Smart Workplaces, People Analytics and Poornata the HR ERP which was largest implementation in 2005 -2006.
• • Supported Mergers & Acquisitions and JVs of Indal, Madura, L&T Cement, Novelis, Carbon Black, Pantaloon, Jaypee and currently Vodafone Idea and Aleris
• • Championed the establishment of the AWOO (A World of Opportunity) Foundation - awarded 3355 scholarships in 9 years.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/preeti-gupta-97a3297/

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  Sandeep
  Girotra

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  Sandeep
  Girotra
  
  President & CHRO, DCM Shriram

Sandeep Girotra

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Sandeep was born in New Delhi, India and completed his Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University and Masters in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (T.I.S.S), Mumbai, India.

He started his career in 1992 and over the last almost 24 years has worked across Indian and Multinational companies like SIEL, Dupont, GE, Ranbaxy and HSBC. His work has taken him across industries and geographies, having lived in Japan, Korea, Middle East and Singapore. He has held leadership positions in General Electric, where he worked for 13 years, MENA Regional HR Leader for HSBC at Dubai and with Ranbaxy as the Global Head of Human Resources. Till recently, Sandeep was the HR Head for Emerging Markets, for Xylem Incorporation, based in Singapore. He is currently associated with DCM Shriram as Chief Human Resource Officer.

Sandeep has led HR change agenda through many of his roles, setting up people strategy for growth and building organization and people DNA for business success. During his international stints, he was involved in HR strategy, business reorganization, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Talent and Growth.

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  Dr. C.
  Jayakumar

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  Dr. C.
  Jayakumar
  
  Executive Vice President & Head - Corporate Human Resources (CHRO) Larsen & Toubro

Dr. C. Jayakumar

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A highly result-oriented, HR professional with 33 years of experience in successfully planning, designing, implementing, and managing various Strategic HR Initiatives. He has been the Head of HR for various businesses, independent companies, and JVs within L&T Group, including leadership roles in the Middle East & Africa Region. He has led various transformational initiatives within the organization including digital transformation. He has been an established thought leader and widely acclaimed speaker in various national and international conferences and forums.

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  Ravindra
  Kumar G.P.

  Ravindra
  Kumar G.P.
  
  CHRO
  Tata Motors Limited

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  Dr. Shilpa
  Kabra Maheshwari

  Dr. Shilpa
  Kabra Maheshwari
  
  EVP & Country Head (People & Organisation) Siemens India

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  Mallika
  Mutreja

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  Mallika
  Mutreja
  
  General Manager - Reward, South Asia Unilever

Mallika Mutreja

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Mallika Mutreja heads Rewards for Unilever South Asia. She is a Global HR Leader with diverse experiences across HR business partnering, Employee Relations, HR Services and Reward.

Her purpose is to create a winning legacy and leave a lasting impact. Her purpose has been the guiding force across roles whether it was leading collective bargaining negotiations, landing complex restructuring & change management projects or most recently, leading the COVID taskforce & vaccination program for HUL. An avid traveler, she enjoys road trips, reading detective fiction and spending time with family.

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  Anurag
  Malik

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  Anurag
  Malik
  
  Partner & India Leader – Workforce Advisory

Anurag Malik

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Partner with EY’s People Advisory Services practice in India. A seasoned HR consulting professional, and passionate about the role of digital technology in the HR function.

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  Raju
  Mistry

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  Raju
  Mistry
  
  President and Global Chief People Officer Cipla

Raju Mistry

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Dr. Raju Mistry has been President and Global Chief People Officer of Cipla since April 2019.

Raju is an accomplished and veteran HR leader with over three decades of global experience across diverse sectors such as Chemicals, Pharma, FMCG, IT, Engineering and textiles. Prior to Cipla, Raju was Chief Human Resources Officer at Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd. Raju has previously worked with the Aditya Birla Group, Tata Sons, Colgate Palmolive, Siemens, and Mastech Corporation, Canada.

At Cipla, Raju oversees Human Resources, and Administration and Facilities Management. As a member of the Management Council of Cipla, Raju brings to the table her gravitas and expertise to lead Cipla’s dynamic and ambitious people agenda with a keen focus on corporate culture, talent, employer brand and leadership development.

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  Pallab
  Mukherji

  Pallab
  Mukherji
  
  Chief People Officer Equitas Small Finance Bank

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  Rashmi
  Mandloi

  Rashmi
  Mandloi
  
  Co-Founder - Leadup Universe

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  Dr. Tanaya
  Mishra

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  Dr. Tanaya
  Mishra
  
  Vice President & Head of Human Resources (India) Endo International plc

Dr. Tanaya Mishra

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Dr. Tanaya Mishra is a Chief human resources officer (CHRO) who has been ensuring businesses' growth through partnership strategies for the last 15 years.

With 25 years of experience in the field, she has emerged as an active senior professional who can proficiently formulate workforce strategies while keeping an eye out on the company parameters at the same time.

Dr. Tanaya has been a part of diverse organizations and industries, including manufacturing, retail, BFSI, and IT/ITES verticals.

She focuses on swift workforce strategies driven by technology-based and future-focused interactive practices that efficiently achieve business goals. She has collaborated with multiple top global companies across 7 geographies and is known for her competency and expertise of drawing up strategies corresponding to worldwide diversity and cultural ethics.

With her astute skills and workforce values, she has efficaciously taken part in the business world's organizational and cultural dynamics, integrating cultural transformation, ex-pat hiring, diversified workforce planning, behavioral assessment, and other facets under her wings.

She is recognized for building a Future-Ready Agile workforce for the VUCA environment for Fortune 500 clients like Google, AT&T, Duck Creek, Aviva.

She has been awarded India's Best CHRO Award in 2017 and recognized among Asia's 40 most Aspirational Women HR Leaders (People Matters) in 2018, including many other accolades.

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  Rajiv
  Naithani

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  Rajiv
  Naithani
  
  CVP & Chief People Officer Infogain

Rajiv Naithani

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Rajiv is a leading expert on building resilient, high-performing cultures, leading the people function as Chief People Officer. A service-oriented leader, Rajiv takes a human-centered philosophy to delivering employee experiences at scale, creating meaningful impact to employees in the US, India, UK, Poland, Singapore, and Middle East.

Rajiv has played a transformative role throughout 16-plus years, enriching the people function in senior leadership roles at Dassault Systèmes (R&D and Services Entities in India), GlobalLogic, HCL, and Interglobe Technologies (IGT). For his critical role in evolving organizational culture and integrating core values into employees’ behavioral ethos, Rajiv received GlobalLogic’s Best of the Best CEO Awards for two consecutive years (2013 and 2014). He also won the “Young HR Professional of the Year 2014” award at the 5th Asia’s Best Employer Brands Awards in Singapore.

Rajiv graduated from the Xavier School of Management (XLRI) and serves on the Board of Trustees at Pauri Garhwal Trust, dedicated to the development of underprivileged people in Uttarakhand State, India. He regularly shares his voice as a thought leader, delivering speaking engagements at a number of industry and academic forums and publishing articles in print and digital media.

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  Rajiv
  Nair

  Rajiv
  Nair
  
  Group CEO Kaya Limited

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  Rajesh
  Padmanabhan

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  Rajesh
  Padmanabhan
  
  Chairman, HONO and, Managing Director (India), The EXCO Group and CEO, Talavvy Business Catalysts LLP

Rajesh Padmanabhan

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Rajesh Padmanabhan, is an accomplished corporate executive, board advisor, master coach & a start-up Entrepreneur. He brings more than 30 years of global diversified business, operating & consulting experience across industries in IT Services, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Mining & Metals, Banking & Infrastructure. He has successful track record of driving digital transformation, building boards, Excos and top teams along with driving effectiveness, running large human resources function globally with experience in corporate banking as business head & driving strategy.

Career History

Rajesh is an influential Senior Business Transformation leader and a matrix global professional who has done seven roles in seven varied industries, to his credit. Started his career handling systems on mainframes he went on to become a corporate banker, run P&L’s, execute Corporate Strategy, do new institutional business of SME ( Small & Medium Enterprises), SAP Functional, Business Consulting & Global HR. He built convergence between Business & People keeping Technology at the forefront. He has been in global roles for over 3 decades and managed diverse cross-cultured teams across North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, SE Asia & APAC.

He is passionate about digital acceleration, leadership development, people & culture change & skills building holistically for business value & excellence creation in his various roles with ICICI Group, Essel Propack as Global CHRO, The Oberoi Group as EVP, Group HR & OCLD ( Oberoi Centre for Learning & Development), EVP & Global CHRO at I-Gate , Group CVP, Business Consulting & CHRO Capgemini, Group CHRO for Vedanta Resources Plc and Welspun Group as Director & Group CHRO.

He has created customer – centric global business models across geographies with world class capabilities, building organisational excellence & running complex yet efficient structures to create enterprise value.

He now runs a new age business transformation lab, Talavvy (www.talavvy.com) as CEO using research, simulation, prototyping, validation & deep testing in the areas of digital acceleration, people & culture change, marketing & communication and leadership services.

He is on the board of Cornerstone International Group and is a Business Mentor with The Exco Group ( formerly Merryck & Company, Americas).

He is also on the National Board of CII Leadership & HR & is appointed as the Chairman of the CII HR Incubation Centre ( CHIC).

Personal

Rajesh is a Double Masters in Human Resource & Finance from the University of Mumbai. He won an UN Award for building world class diversity & inclusive practices at Capgemini. His hobbies include Cricket, Fitness, Motorcycles, Travelling & Research.

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  Srinivas
  P.M.

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  Srinivas
  P.M.
  
  Head – Human Resources, P&G India Sub-Continent

Srinivas P.M.

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Srinivas P.M. currently heads the Human Resource function for P&G in India Sub-Continent. Srinivas joined P&G in 2001 as the Associate HR Manager in India and since then has grown in the company across various leadership roles. During his stint, Srinivas has mastered Talent Strategy, Talent Acquisition and Organizational Development within the HR function at P&G.

He has a diverse experience of managing and leading various verticals of the Human Resource function across countries like Singapore, China, Australia and Indonesia. Prior to his present role in India, Srinivas was the Business and Organization Strategy Director at P&G Indonesia.

Srinivas is passionate about developing talent, grooming young leaders, building gender equal organization’s and developing high impact employee engagement programs. Srinivas has an MBA in HR from Symbiosis International University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Nagpur University.

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  Meenakshi
  Priyam

  Meenakshi
  Priyam
  
  Group CHRO Udaan

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  Yogesh
  Patgaonkar

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  Yogesh
  Patgaonkar
  
  Chief People Officer Persistent Systems

Yogesh Patgaonkar

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Yogesh is Chief People Officer, responsible for Persistent’s Global HR, People Engagement, Talent Acquisition and Development Initiatives. Yogesh brings close to three decades of experience in the fields of HR, P&L management, Consulting and Executive Coaching.

Prior to Persistent, he played leadership roles in leading organizations like RPG Group, L&T, Mphasis handling strategically critical roles that included setting up and scaling the HR function to cater to global operations, turning around loss making P&L, post-merger integration, build-operate-transfer deals and talent management at corporate level across diversified domains. In his consulting stint, Yogesh set up a successful consulting practice to work on executive coaching and strategic interventions for a diversified set of organizations across industries.

Apart from his professional pursuits, Yogesh has served on advisory boards of leading management institutes. He regularly mentors coaches in their journey to get credentialed by ICF. Yogesh also published his poetry book in the year 2020. Yogesh holds a master’s degree in HR (MMS) from NMIMS and is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) credentialed by International Coach Federation (ICF).

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  Vishpala
  Reddy

  Vishpala
  Reddy
  
  CHRO Philips, Indian Subcontinent

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  Venkatanarayanan
  R

  Venkatanarayanan
  R
  
  President - HR & CHRO Rane Group

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  Suvamoy
  Roy Choudhury

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  Suvamoy
  Roy Choudhury
  
  Chief Human Resources Officer Vodafone Idea Limited

Suvamoy Roy Choudhury

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Suvamoy Roy Choudhury is the Chief Human Resource Officer at Vodafone Idea Limited.

As a member of the Executive Committee at Vodafone Idea, Suvamoy is responsible for shaping Vodafone Idea’s people strategy in India and building the employment brand for the organization.

Suvamoy has about 30 years’ experience in industry across various multinational companies.

Suvamoy started his career with ICI India as a Management Trainee. He worked across different businesses and locations in ICI – Fertilizers, Explosives and Specialty Chemicals. After 8 years at ICI, Suvamoy joined the telecom company, Motorola, as HR manager, for a short stint. He then moved to Baxter Healthcare where he spent more than 9 years in various Regional assignments. He moved to Reckitt Benckiser in 2007 where he was responsible for Human Resources in the South East Asia Region for the Company.

Suvamoy has worked across industry segments and different verticals of the HR Function and has done a number of assignments across the Asia Pacific Region.

He is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

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  Shraddhanjali
  Rao

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  Shraddhanjali
  Rao
  
  Head HR - Google, India

Shraddhanjali Rao

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HR leader with extensive experience in developing and executing HR strategy for building high performance organization across geographies. Trusted partner to key leaders of best in class high tech global companies. Passionate about driving business priorities and leading large scale transformational changes by enabling it through simple and effective HR strategy. Adept at leading large scale global projects. Recognized and respected for being a strong voice of HR at the executive table.

Areas of expertise : Strategic HR Business Partnering with a Global Portfolio, Executive Coaching, Change Management, Organization Design, Integrated Talent Management (Performance Management, Talent Assessment, Succession Management), HR Consulting, Corporate Governance, Employee engagement and Mergers & acquisitions.

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  Gautam
  Ray

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  Gautam
  Ray
  
  Executive Director - CESC Limited

Gautam Ray

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Gautam Ray, 61, Fellow of The Institution of Engineers, graduated in Electrical Engineering from Calcutta University (erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, presently IIEST) in 1981 and completed Post Graduation in Electrical Power System, from the same Institute in 1983. Presently, he is Executive Director of CESC Limited, age-old power utility serving the city of Kolkata for more than 100 years. He is also President (HR), Power Group of RPSG. Mr. Ray has an experience of 37 years of working in Power System operations and load dispatch, before he migrated to HR & Admn. He is responsible for HR and Administration for CESC, along with the entire HR process for the new initiatives under CESC, which includes, new power projects and new distribution businesses, training initiatives, collaborative efforts etc. He was instrumental in working on a collaborative project with Singapore Power for improvement in Distribution Sector. He also established AIPM (Asia Institute of Power Management) under CESC, which imparted training and consultancy services for many power utilities of India and neighboring countries.

He is the Chairman of National Safety Council - West Bengal Chapter, Former President - Calcutta Management Association for 2015-16 and 2016-17, President (Elec) & Managing Committee Member - Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Chairman - (HR & IR Committee) - CII (ER). Presently he is serving as Vice Chairman of IIEST Alumni Cell and Executive Committee Member and Co-Chairman of Energy Committee of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

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  Urvashi
  Singh

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  Urvashi
  Singh
  
  Senior VP - HR
  Genpact India Private Limited

Urvashi Singh

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Urvashi Singh is one of our senior human resource leaders and holds multiple portfolios, including Global Business HR Partnership for all delivery and functions, spanning over 100,000 employees. From a regional perspective, she also heads HR for India, the Philippines, Australia, and Egypt. She also leads the Total Rewards for Genpact. Urvashi has spent ~20 years with Genpact and has deep expertise across business HR and executive hiring.

Before Genpact, Urvashi was with ITC Limited and held various HR roles. Urvashi has a Bachelor’s Degree in History from St. Stephen’s College and a Diploma in Germanic and Roman languages from Delhi University.

She has been a Director in Genpact India Private Limited since 2016 and is part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Executive Committee for HR and leadership.

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  Krish
  Shankar

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  Krish
  Shankar
  
  Group Head- Human Resources Infosys

Krish Shankar

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Krishnamurthy Shankar is the Group Head of Human Resource Development at Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for envisioning employee experience and driving the talent and organization strategy.

Shankar has over 30 years of experience and has led HR functions in organizations like Bharti Airtel, Philips, Hindustan Unilever and Unilever. In his wide ranging experience in these organizations, he has facilitated transformation and capability development.

Shankar holds a postgraduate diploma in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India and has received an executive certificate in Strategy and Organization from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a doctorate in Business Administration from Aston University.

Shankar is the author of ‘Catalyse – Power Up your People Ecosystem’, a much acclaimed play book for HR, blogs occasionally on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/krish-shankar-36666a12/), and is passionate about exploring new ideas in HR and organizational development and sharing them. A football enthusiast, he also likes trekking and running.

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  Balaji
  Sreenivasan

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  Balaji
  Sreenivasan
  
  Executive Vice-President, Human Resources Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited

Balaji Sreenivasan

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Mr. Balaji Sreenivasan is the Executive Vice-President, Human Resources at Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited (CPIL), since November 2020. He joined CPIL in 2005 in the Human Resources function. Over the course of 15 years, Mr. Sreenivasan served through leadership roles in the Human Resources function at Colgate-Palmolive Company’s divisions and subsidiaries in India, Turkey, Central Asia & Caucasus, North Africa/Middle East Region, as well as at the Asia Pacific Division HeadQuarters in Hong Kong. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Sreenivasan was Human Resources Director, Asia-Pacific Supply Chain, where he and his team partnered closely with business leaders to strengthen organizational capabilities and drive transformation towards an agile and empowered culture across the region.

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  Randeep
  Singh

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  Randeep
  Singh
  
  Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer HONO.ai

Randeep Singh

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Accomplished leader, highly skilled in program design, with significant experience influencing strategic business results. A change agent and a process advocate with 20+ years of leadership experience in Indian and global environments. Exceptional track record of success working with senior leaders, managing interventions across complex businesses.

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  Manoj
  Shikarkhane

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  Manoj
  Shikarkhane
  
  CHRO LTIMindtree

Manoj Shikarkhane

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With 34+ years of industrial experience, Manoj Shikarkhane heads the global HR organization for LTIMindtree, a $3.5B ITeS company with 90,000+ associates.

An old-timer with the organization, Manoj has worn many hats in various roles such as Chief Delivery Officer, Head of the Software Engineering Group, Transformation Office to name a few. Prior to LTIMindtree, he has also worked with organizations such as Capgemini, Blue Star Infotech and Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

With a rich experience through various organizations, Manoj’s forte lies in his approachable demeanor, strong governance capability, Talent Management and ability to drive large, complex transformation programs for the clients.

Manoj has done his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, Post-graduation in Software Technology from NCST and Diploma in Financial Management from NMIMS.

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  Ashutosh
  Telang

  Ashutosh
  Telang
  
  CHRO ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel Business

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  Raul
  Villamarin Rodriguez

  Raul
  Villamarin Rodriguez
  
  Vice President Woxsen University

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  Akshay
  Verma

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  Akshay
  Verma
  
  Co-Founder, FITPASS

Akshay Verma

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With 14+ years of professional and entrepreneurial experience, Akshay worked as an investment banker in London before moving back to India to deep dive into his entrepreneurial adventures. A Mathematics graduate from St.Stephen's College (D.U.), Akshay completed his MSc. in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford (England, U.K.) and a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University (New York, U.S.A.). Akshay is consistently identified as a young business leader, and is frequently invited to top business schools such as London Business School, Oxford, Columbia, IIMs, XLRI, Symbiosis, etc. to share his experiences. A sportsman and debater in his university days, Akshay is responsible for product development, technology, and corporate strategy at FITPASS. FITPASS is India’s largest and most loved full-stack corporate well-being platform that ignites, fuels, and personalizes each individual’s journey to feel good and be well. We do this by reinventing well-being, making it universal, engaging and accessible. Leading Corporates rely on FITPASS to support the health and happiness of their employees and families through unmatched variety, convenience, and flexibility uniquely offered by FITPASS.

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  Manu
  Narang Wadhwa

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  Manu
  Narang Wadhwa
  
  CHRO Sony Pictures Networks India

Manu Narang Wadhwa

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Manu Narang Wadhwa A human resource management specialist, Manu joined Sony Pictures Networks India in 2019 to drive the people strategy for the network. In her current role, she is responsible to create a compelling employee experience while establishing leadership and promoting best talent practices. With a career spanning over two decades, across various industries and countries, she has piloted the workplace and people agenda for dynamic global organizations like American Express & General Electric, in roles as Head HR, Talent & Development, M&A, HR Transformation, Change & Digital Innovation. Prior to joining SPN in 2019, Manu was associated with Coca-Cola, as the Head of Human Resources - India and South West Asia. She is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – National Leadership & HR Committee, Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) – Asia Pacific Advisory Board, Chandigarh University Corporate Advisory Board and Jombay Advisory Board. Manu holds a PGDBA in Human Resources from Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Rajasthan. An epicurean globetrotter, Manu likes to travel and experience culinary delights from across the world.