CEO Profiles
| Shekhar Bajaj,Chairman and Managing Director,Bajaj Electricals Ltd |
 Shekhar Bajaj is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bajaj Electricals Ltd started his career with Bajaj Sevashram after which he worked at Bajaj International, the group's export company. Shekhar Bajaj joined Bajaj Electricals in 1980, became the Managing Director in 1987 and took over as the Chairman and Managing Director in 1994.
Bajaj is the Chairman of Bajaj Group companies Bajaj International and Hercules Hoist Pvt. Ltd. and on the Board of Directors of Bajaj Auto and IDBI Bank. He was the President of ASSOCHAM, former President of Indian Merchant Chambers (IMC) and Council for Fair Business Practices (CFBP).
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| Harsha Bhogle, Renowned Commentator |
 Harsha Bhogle has a long association with ESPN STAR Sports. Since 1994, Harsha has been the face of cricket on ESPN and STAR Sports, and, of course, STAR Cricket. A presenter and internationally renowned commentator for cricket, Harsha currently fronts & commentates on all STAR Cricket & ESPN's Live Cricket output and hosts the widely acclaimed Harsha UnPlugged. In the past, Harsha has hosted numerous ESPN magazine shows such as Inside Edge, Cricket Up-Close, Dream Job in addition to the original cricket quiz show, Stumped.
Having graduated with a distinction in chemical engineering from Osmania University in 1983, the Hyderabad born Harsha followed that with two years at IIM Ahmedabad. He also obtained an advanced diploma in French (with distinction) in 1979. He joined Rediffusion Advertising in 1985 as an advertising executive and worked there for two and a half years before working with Professional Management Group for an equal period.
As a journalist and presenter, Bhogle has been invited to work with all the major global broadcast networks. Indeed, leading Australian newspaper, The Melbourne Age said his presence helped boost the ratings of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's cricket coverage. In today's multi-media environment, Bhogle is the only Indian sports personality to be accepted internationally across all media; whether it be TV, newspaper or magazine journalism, radio reporting and commentary, or broadcasting for the Internet and mobile platforms. In addition, he hosts live shows, has written two books and works, in a consultative capacity, with leading Indian companies
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| Madhabi Puri Buch, Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Securities Limited |
 Madhabi Puri Buch is Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Securities Limited. ICICI Securities is a leading firm in the capital markets space in the country. Its Investment Banking team helps raise capital for India Inc – both equity and debt – both publicly and privately placed. In the secondary market, its broking teams cover both, institutional and retail clients with ICICIdirect.com enjoying significant market leadership.
Madhabi has been with the ICICI Group for over 15 years and prior to her current assignment, she was an Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Bank. She was responsible for the global markets business covering treasury solutions for clients including FX, Fixed Income and Derivatives solutions. In addition, Madhabi was also the head of global operations of the bank covering transaction processing and mid-office control for the retail, corporate, international and rural banking. She was also the Chief Brand Officer for the ICICI Group.
She joined the Board of Directors of the bank in 2007, heading the Internal Control Environment function including global operations, global risk management and the legal, compliance and audit functions for the bank. Within the ICICI Bank, Madhabi had earlier looked after various businesses including home loans, bonds and retail broking.
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| Sanjeev Chadha, Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo’s India Region |
 Sanjeev Chadha is the Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo’s India Region, and is responsible for their beverage and snack businesses in India and neighboring countries. Under his leadership, PepsiCo India has risen to become the No.1 Food & Beverage company in India, and a leading model of PepsiCo’s philosophy of Performance with Purpose. In 2009, the business achieved “Positive Water Balance”, by replenishing more water than they consumed: a global first for PepsiCo. He was a founding member of the PepsiCo business in India in 1989, and has since played an important role in developing PepsiCo businesses in India & across several Asian countries.
Chadha spent 12 years in Asia based out of Hong Kong during which he was PepsiCo’s leader for different markets and functions, before returning to India in 2007. He started his career with Brooke Bond, now a part of Unilever, and was with JWT prior to joining PepsiCo. Chadha has been the Rural Development Chair for CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) over the past two years, and is currently the Chairman of CII’s National Committee on Water.
He is a graduate of Hindu College, Delhi University, and an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad. Sanjeev has varied interests, including reading, skiing, and spending time with his close-knit family.
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| Amit Chandra, Managing Director,Bain Capital |
 Amit Chandra is the Managing Director of Bain Capital Advisor, a global private equity- an alternative investments firm. Prior to Bain Capital, Chandra was associated with DSP Merrill Lynch, India's leading investment bank. At DSP Merrill Lynch, he was responsible for leading the firm's investment banking, equities, fixed income, and investing activities. He personally led a number of the landmark transactions in the industry for today’s leading corporate such as ICICI Bank, AV Birla Group, Tata Group, and Reliance Industries.
Chandra was also a partner, since inception, of NSR Private Equity, a $1.3 billion PE fund that focused on the sub-continent. Prior to his MBA, Amit worked for over two years at India’s leading engineering & construction firm, Larsen & Toubro. Chandra was named as a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum in 2007 and amongst ‘India's Leading CEOs’ under the age of 40 by Business Today in 2005. As a person Chandra is passionate about social causes and is a long serving Trustee of ‘The Akanksha Foundation’ (providing education to less privileged children), and a Board Member of ‘GiveIndia’ (India's leading philanthropic exchange).
Chandra received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay University, where he was named Best Graduating Student. Amit received his MBA from Boston College and was awarded the school’s Distinguished Alumni in 2007. |
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| Adi Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Group |
 Adi Godrej is one of the icons of Indian Industry. He is the chairman of Godrej Group, a private based Indian company. The Godrej Company is a century old family conglomerate, with operations in India and several other countries. He has been the president of several Indian Trade and Industrial Bodies and Associations.
Godrej is a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business and a member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and a member of the Wharton Asian Executive Board. Godrej is a patron of the Himalayan Club.
Godrej holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. |
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| R Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, Tata Sons |
 R Gopalakrishnan worked for his first 31 years in India’s most Indian multinational, Hindustan Unilever. Since then, he has worked for India’s most multinational Indian company — Tata. Currently, he is the executive director of Tata Sons. He is also the chairman of Tata AutoComp Systems, Rallis India and Advinus Therapeutics, vice chairman of Tata Chemicals, and a director of Tata Power and Tata Technologies. He also serves as an independent director on the boards of the Indian subsidiaries of Akzo Nobel and BP Castrol. He joined Tata Sons in September 1998 as executive director.
Gopalakrishnan is involved with education through his board memberships of a school and two management institutes. He is a past president of All India Management Association. He has delivered guest talks in India and abroad. His articles have been published in management journals and financial newspapers.
Gopalakrishnan studied physics at Calcutta University and engineering at IIT. From 1967, he served Hindustan Unilever for over three decades in various capacities.
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| Chanda Kochhar, Chief Executive Office and Managing Director,ICICI Bank |
 Chanda Kochhar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of the ICICI bank in May 2009. She is currently the Joint Managing Director (JMD) of ICICI Bank. She is also the bank`s the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the official spokesperson & that`s not all. She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI Bank. Chanda Kochhar joined ICICI as a Management trainee after her Masters in the year 1984. After 9 years of hard work, Kocchar was appointed as part of core team to set the ICICI bank. She got promotion in 1994 & 1996 as Assistant General Manager and then Deputy General Manager respectively. In 1998, she was promoted as the General Manager with role of handling relationships with ICICI`s top 200 clients. In April 2001, she was promoted as Executive Director, heading the retail business in ICICI Bank. In April 2006, Chanda Kocchar was appointed as Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank.
Under Kocchar`s leadership, ICICI Bank won the Best Retail Bank in India award in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and Excellence in Retail Banking Award� in 2002; both awards was given by the The Asian Banker.
Kocchar completed her Bachelor of Arts degree from Jai Hind College, Mumbai. Later, she joined the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute |
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| Sunil Lulla, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd |
 Sunil Lulla is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Times Global Broadcasting Co Ltd, responsible for the Times Television Network, at present comprising of 3 TV channels: TIMES NOW, ET NOW and Zoom
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Lulla has over 25 years of rich experience in building brands and businesses, across media, advertising, music, & beverages. He brings deep domain knowledge in the Television Broadcasting Industry, having been associated with it since the last 14 years. He plays an active role, across many Industry Forums and Association. |
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| Vijay Mahajan, Chairman, BASIX |
 Vijay Mahajan is an Indian social entrepreneur and chairman of BASIX, a group he founded in 1996. Today, BASIX supports the livelihoods of over a million rural poor households, of which a third have been supported directly with micro-credit worth over Rs 1000 crore, in addition to savings and insurance services, agricultural/business development services and institutional development services.
Mahajan started working in the rural development field in Bihar, the poorest state of eastern India. In 1983, he established an NGO, PRADAN which works with over 120,000 poor households, promoting livelihoods and community institutions. Afterwhich, he set up BASIX as a “new generation livelihood promotion institution”.
Mahajan is also a member of the Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, chaired by Prof and also of the Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion. He is a member of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) and the Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods. He serves on the Boards of ASSEFA, Gram Vikas, ARAVALI, DSC and the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA),.In 2002, Vijay was selected as one of the 60 “Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs” at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos. In 2003, Vijay was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the IIT, Delhi.
Mahajan is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D), 1970-75, a post-graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), 1979-81, and was a mid-career fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA, 1988-89, where he studied economic development policy. |
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| Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director,Bharti Enterprises |
 Rakesh Bharti Mittal is the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director at Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, financial services, retail, manufacturing, realty and agriculture.
Bharti Airtel, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders including AXA for financial services, Del Monte for agri-business and Wal-Mart for retail and wholesale operations.
Mittal is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) National Council for Agriculture and also the Chairman of CII Task Force on Agriculture and Water. A passionate advocate of the right to good education, Mittal serves on the Boards of several institutional bodies. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Campus Advisory Board [CAB], ISB Mohali and the Punjab Education Development Board. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi, Bharti School of Telecommunication, Technology & Management and Pearl School of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, USA.
Mittal is also on the board of several companies including Bharti Airtel, Bharti AXA Life Insurance, Bharti AXA General Insurance, FieldFresh Foods, Bharti Retail, Comviva Technologies, Centum Learning and Bharti Teletech. Mittal believes a responsible corporate has a duty to give back to the community in which it operates. Besides his role as the Co-Chairman of the Foundation, Mittalalso devotes time to managing the activities of several charitable institutions in the country. Mittal is an electronics engineer and has contributed to the industrial, educational, social development and welfare sectors in India. |
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| N R Narayana Murthy, Non-Executive Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Limited |
 N R Narayana Murthy is the Non- Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited. He founded Infosys in 1981 along with six other software professionals and served as the CEO of Infosys for 21 years till March 2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999.
Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. Murthy serves as an independent director on the boards of several global companies including Unilever, NV, Unilever, plc and HSBC Holdings plc. He is the Chairman of the Asia Business Council.
He is also a member of the advisory boards and councils of several educational institutions including Wharton, Cornell, INSEAD, Stanford, Tokyo University, SMU - Singapore, IIIT Bangalore and ESSEC, Paris. Murthy is the recipient of numerous awards and honours. The Economist ranked him 8th in the list of the 15 most-admired global leaders in 2005. In 2004, TIME magazine identified him as one of the 10 global leaders who are helping shape the future of technology. In 2006, TIME magazine voted him as one of the Asian heroes who have brought about revolutionary changes in Asia in the last 60 years.
Murthy was voted the "World Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young in 2003. He was voted India's most powerful CEO for three consecutive years - 2004, 2005 and 2006 - by The Economic Times. Murthy holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the Mysore University and an M.Tech (Electrical) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has been conferred honorary doctorate degrees by several well-known universities in India and abroad. |
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| Sanjay Nayar, CEO and Country Head, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, India |
 Sanjay Nayar joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) in 2009. Prior to joining KKR, he spent 24 years at Citigroup, as the CEO of Citi’s Indian and South Asian operations and as a member of Citigroup’s Asia Executive Operating Committee and Global Senior Leadership Committee.
With his expertise in banking and finance, Nayar has been associated as the Deputy Chairman of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA), Chairman of the Foreign Banks’ Committee of the IBA, a member of the Board of USIBC, Co-Chairman of the Banking Committee for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and Co-Chairman of the Habitat for Humanity India Builds campaign.
He has also been an active member of various financial sector reform committees set up by the Indian government and domestic regulators – Infrastructure Committee in 2008. Currently, Nayar is on the Committee by Reserve Bank of India to build a “Centre for Advanced Financial Learning” (CAFL). Nayar believes in giving his share to the society and so he is on the board of large NGOs such as Habitat for Humanity and Pratham. |
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| Nitin Paranjape, CEO & Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) |
 Nitin Paranjpe is CEO & Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) and Executive Vice President of Unilever companies in South Asia, since April 2008. In his early years in the Company, Paranjpe worked as Area Sales Manager – Detergents and then Product Manager – Detergents. In 1996, he was appointed Branch Manager for the South Branch, and in 1999, as a member of the Project Millennium Team.
In 2000, he moved to Unilever headquarters in London and was involved in a review of the Organisational Structure. During 2001, he was Assistant to the Unilever Chairman & Executive Committee in London. On his return to HUL in 2002, he became the Category Head-Fabric Wash & Regional Brand Director (Asia) for some Laundry and Household Cleaning brands. In 2004, he became Vice President - Home Care (Laundry & Household Care) India, responsible for the top and bottom line of the Home Care business. From March 2006 to March 2008, he was the Executive Director for the Home & Personal Care business.
He is on the Managing Committees of industry associations such as Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM); Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI), where is the President.
He is a member on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, (Chandigarh). He is also a Member of the General Committee of the Breach Candy Hospital Trust |
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| Rajendra Pawar, Managing Director , NIIT Technologies Ltd |
 Rajendra Singh Pawar, B.Tech. is co-founder of NIIT Technologies Ltd. and has been its Managing Director since July 25, 2007. Pawar is co-founder of NIIT Ltd. and serves as its Managing Director. Pawar is responsible for the functioning of NIIT's subsidiaries incorporated in India, namely, NIIT Online Learning Limited and Minimally Invasive Education Company Limited.
He is an IT Visionary and he foresees the trends in the IT industry and leads NIIT from the front. He has been Vice-Chairman and Member of Executive Council of National Association of Software and Service Companies since April 2010. He is sharply focussed on bringing in the customer and other stakeholder interests in the quality processes at NIIT. He serves as an IT Advisor to the President of South Africa. He plays a major role in providing thought leadership and strategic inputs to NIIT Limited in addition to supervising the functional heads of Corporate Development, Center for Research in Cognitive Systems, Strategic HR and Corporate Communications.
He is interested in foreseeing the trends and crucial directions in the deployment of IT for quantum change in organisation effectiveness. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of NIIT SmartServe, Limited. He serves as the Chairman of NIIT Technologies Ltd and NIIT Ltd. He has been an Executive Director of NIIT Technologies Ltd., since June 12, 2004. He serves as a Director of NIIT Ltd., NIIT Online Learning Limited and Minimally Invasive Education company Limited. He serves as a Director of ROOM Solutions Limited. Pawar serves as a Member of Governing Board Indian School of Business. Pawar serves on the Boards of several prestigious institutions and organizations such as IIT Delhi, and IGNOU, etc. He served as a Non-Executive & Independent Director of Nestle India Ltd. from October 1, 2001 to April 22, 2010.He serves as a Member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.
Pawar serves as a Member of the Indian Prime Ministers' National Task Force on Information Technology. He serves as a Member of the Executive Council of the Global Growth Companies of the World Economic Forum. He is a Fellow of many professional societies, including the Computer Society of India, the Institution of Electronics & Telecom Engineers and the National Telematics Forum. Recognizing his pioneering and entrepreneurial work in the education and software sectors, global business intelligence firm, Ernst & Young conferred on Mr. Pawar its prestigious Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1999. He is recipient of the IT Man of the Year award instituted by IT industry journal Dataquest for his contributions to the IT industry in India.Pawar is a distinguished alumnus of IIT, Delhi. |
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| Srini Raju, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Peepul Capital |
 Srini Raju, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Peepul Capital (formerly, iLabs Capital). Peepul Capital manages over $400 million of institutional and general partner’s capital across two funds; Peepul Capital has initiated or funded and supported over 20 companies during the past decade. Some of these companies have grown into world class organizations, employing over 15000 employees. Peepul Capital specializes in transforming professional managers into entrepreneurs.
Before starting Peepul Capital, Raju was associated with Cognizant Technologies Services and Satyam Enterprise Solution as CEO and Satyam Computer Services as COO. He is also the Founding Member of International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad and a member of the Governing Board of ISB.
Raju completed his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, with Honours, from REC (NIT), Kurukshetra and a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. |
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| G V Sanjay Reddy, Managing Director, GVK BIO |
 G V Sanjay Reddy the Managing Director of GVK BIO, has spearheaded GVK’s foray into the life-sciences domain. Since inception, he has led GVK BIO through the initial phases of evolution with remarkable success. Reddy is responsible for putting the right scientific talent, leadership, processes and infrastructure in place to ensure continuous growth.
Reddy is the MD of the Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL), which operates India's busiest airport. He is also on the board of the Hyderabad-based TajGVK. Apart from being the soul of GVK, Reddy is the Chairman of CII National Committee on Transport Infrastructure, Founder National Chairman of CII Young Indian, member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) and also member on the Board of Trustees of the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art
Reddy completed his Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA and his MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
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| I Syam Prasad Reddy, Chairman & Managing Director, Indu Projects Limited |
 Indukuri Syam Prasad Reddy is the Chairman & Managing Director of Indu Projects Limited, one of the fastest growing private sector engineering construction companies in India. In 2001, Reddy started the Indu Projects Limited, an end-to-end solutions provider in Infrastructure and Real Estate headquartered in Hyderabad with operations spread across the country. Reddy’s contribution in the area of real estate and construction is immense. For the knowledge and the vision Reddy brings along, the Indian School of Business honoured him by inviting him to join their Executive Board.
Reddy is actively involved in various charitable initiatives and is closely associated with Akshaya Patra Foundation, an NGO that provides mid-day meals to students of economically backward communities in association with ISKCON. He is a member of AADI Foundation (Ananthpur District Initiative), an NGO that helps create employment opportunities among the rural youth. He is particularly keen to improve and contribute in the areas of Education and Training and has pioneered Indu foundation which focuses on health, education and environment, and help in creating sustainable livelihood to the rural poor through skill upgradation.
As part of his philosophy of co-prosperity, caring and sharing, he has helped set up a township colony for the workers and their families at Hyderabad providing them with basic primary education and health care. Reddy completed his Civil Engineering at JNTU Engineering College, Ananthapur. After which, he joined his father, a flourishing contractor at Warangal where he helped him in managing small civil contracts. |
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| Varun Sahni, India Director, Acumen Fund |
 Varun Sahni is associated with Acumen Fund a non-profit global venture fund. Its investment focus is on delivering affordable, critical goods and services—like health, water, housing and energy—through innovative, market-oriented approaches. Acumen Fund’s work in India focuses on supporting enterprises that are providing access to affordable, essential healthcare services, safe water and clean energy to the rural and urban poor.
As India Director, Sahni is responsible for all India related investments, operations and business development activities. He has focused on building, managing and investing in businesses for low income communities for the past twelve years. Additionally, as part of the portfolio management team, Sahni is jointly responsible for the global portfolio of Acumen Fund.
Prior to joining Acumen Fund, he worked at the profit and not-profit organisation level.Sahni has also been involved as an angel investor in a number of companies in the Hospitality Services, Education, and Food and Beverage sectors across India. He received an MA from Columbia University in Political Economy. |
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| Uday Shankar, Chief Executive Officer,STAR India |
 Uday Shankar is the Chief Executive Officer of STAR India, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation and the number one media company in India. He is responsible for the transformation of Star Network into a pan-Indian broadcaster with the addition of Bengali, Marathi and South Indian languages to its portfolio. Shankar has also been instrumental in shaping STAR India into a broad spectrum media company with interests beyond television broadcasting into film production, television distribution and home shopping.
A journalist by profession, Shankar is a veteran of news business. He has to his credit the remarkable launch of Hindi news channel, Aaj Tak, which re-defined the television news in India. He has also been the Editor and CEO of MCCS, the company that runs Star News.
Shankar holds an MPhil degree in Economic History from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. He also holds a post graduate diploma in journalism from Times School of Journalism and is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. |
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| Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Limited |
 A successful technocrat of global standing, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw heads India’s leading Biotechnology enterprise, Biocon. She is highly respected in the corporate world and has been recently voted by Nature Biotechnology as The Most Influential in Bio-business person outside Europe and USA. Under her stewardship, Biocon has evolved from its inception in 1978 as an industrial enzymes company to a fully integrated Bio-pharmaceutical enterprise encompassing a well balanced business portfolio of products and services with a research focus on Diabetes, Oncology and Auto-immune disease. During this transition, Biocon has established two subsidiaries: Syngene (1994) to provide development support services for discovery research and Clinigene (2000) to cater to services in clinical development.
Shaw chairs Karnataka's Vision Group on Biotechnology and also served on the Board of Science Foundation, Ireland. She presently serves on the Advisory Council of the Government’s Department of Biotechnology where she has been instrumental in bringing government, industry and academia together, to chart a clear and progressive growth path for Biotechnology in India. Most recently, she has been invited to join the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry in India and the US-India CEO Forum.
Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the ET Businesswoman of the Year, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare, Technology Pioneer, etc. Her most cherished awards are the national awards, PADMA SHRI (1989) and PADMA BHUSHAN (2005) presented to her by the President of India, for her pioneering efforts in Industrial Biotechnology.
Shaw received her graduate honours degree in Zoology from Bangalore University (1973) and qualified as a Master Brewer from Ballarat University, Australia (1975). Shaw also received an honorary Doctorate of Science in 2004, from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in recognition of her pre-eminent contributions to the field of Biotechnology. She has also been awarded honorary doctorates from University of Abertay, Dundee, U.K. (2007), University of Glasgow, U.K. (2008) and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. (2008). |
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| Pramath Raj Sinha, Managing Director, 9.9 Mediaworx Pvt. Ltd |
 Pramath Raj Sinha is currently the Managing Director of 9.9 Mediaworx Pvt. Ltd., a company he helped establish. 9.9 Media has a diverse set of traditional and new media businesses, spanning print, online, research, conferences and events.
Sinha spent 12 years with McKinsey and Company, the international management consulting firm, where he was a partner. He led McKinsey India’s telecom, IT, and media practices as well as its Organisation Practice, where he focused on issues of transformation and leadership. He has assisted several blue-chip Indian companies and MNCs overcome the organisational and leadership challenges of building a world-class operation in India. He was also instrumental in advising central and state governments on policy issues related to economic development and technology. Before founding 9.9 Media last year, Sinha was the MD & CEO of the ABP Group, one of India’s leading and most diversified media conglomerates with leading properties in the newspaper, magazine, and TV genres.
Sinha took a year off from McKinsey to be the Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB), an initiative led by McKinsey and a group of leading Indian business leaders, in partnership with Kellogg and Wharton, to establish a world-class business school in India. Pramath received M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. |
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| Analjit Singh, Managing Director, Max New York Life Insurance Company |
 Analjit Singh B.A.(Hons), BS, MBA serves as a Partner of Vodafone Essar Limited. (Formerly Hutchison Essar Ltd. Singh has been a Managing Director of Max India Ltd. since June 2008. He serves as Managing Director of Max New York Life Insurance Company, Ltd. He served as Managing Director of Max Healthcare Institute Limited. He is the founder of Max India Ltd. and has been its Chairman since October 30, 2001. Singh serves as the Member of Executive Board at Indian School of Business. He serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of Indus Towers Ltd. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Max India Limited, Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited, Max Healthcare Institute Limited., Max health care and Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited.
Singh has been a Director of Dabur India Ltd. since October 30, 2008 and Tata Global Beverages Limited (also known as Tata Tea Ltd.) since October 22, 2008 . He has been an Independent Director of Vodafone Essar Limited. since June 16, 2007. Mr. Singh has been a Director of Industrial Development Bank of India (also called as IDBI Bank Ltd) since May 2, 2005. Mr. Singh also serves as a Director of Max India Ltd., Moser Baer Solar Plc. and Hero Honda Motors Limited. He served as Independent Director of SRF Ltd. Mr. Singh is Member of Governing Board of Indian School of Business and Board of Management at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He is also a Member of the Harvard Medical School, Microbiology Advisory Council; Member, Board of Governors, Welham Girls' School, Dehradun. He serves as a Trustee of Chinmaya Seva Trust, New Delhi and a Member of the Delhi Chapter of the Young President Organization, Texas, USA. Mr. Singh is a Member of the Prime Minister's Joint Indo-US CEOs Forum.
He serves as the Chairman and Chief Patron of Max India Foundation (MIF). Mr. Singh is the Consul General (Honorary) of the Republic of San Marino in India. He is also the Life Chairman, Bhai Mohan Singh Foundation and Member, Governing Board of Bharti Foundation. Senator Hillary Clinton, on behalf of The Indian American Center for Political Awareness (IACPA), awarded Mr. Singh for his 'outstanding achievement' in presenting the international community with an understanding of a modern and vibrant India. Mr. Singh is an alumnus of Doon School, Dehradun; Shriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, and MBA from the Graduate School of Management, Boston University, Boston, USA. He holds BS and BA degree. |
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| Ashish Singh, Managing Director, Bain & Company |
 Ashish Singh is the Managing Director of Bain & Company, India. He is the pioneer of establishing Bain’s footprint in India, and leading Bain India to its current position of strength as one of the fastest growing start-up offices in the history of Bain.
With 15 years of management consulting experience, Consulting Magazine chose Singh as one of the Top 25 consultants. His expertise lies in developing corporate and business unit strategies, leading large-scale growth transformation programs, creating market entry strategies, and driving merger integration. He has also co-founded Bain’s Enterprise Software (1996), Media & Entertainment (1998), and Pharmaceutical practices (2001). Singh comes with an experience bank ranging in consumer products, retail, financial services, private equity, healthcare, and industrial. Growth strategy, operations efficiency and effectiveness have been some of the major areas of Singh’s work.
Singh is a frequent contributor of articles and interviews to journals and leading business publications in India, and his insights are often quoted in the media. His articles (Winning in Emerging Markets, Building Block of Corporate Renewal, etc.) have been regularly published in Mint under its Wall Street Journal initiative in India, and on the op-ed page of The Economic Times.
Singh earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with distinction. He completed his B.A. in Economics with honours from Harvard College. |
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| S Sivkumar,Chief Executive, Agri Businesses Division, ITC Limited |
 S Sivakumar is the Chief Executive of the Agri Businesses Division of ITC Limited. A 5,000 Crore Division deals with a wide range of products from agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture and plantation crops. Sivakumar conceptualised the path-breaking eChoupal model. With a vision to cover 100,000 villages, ITC eChoupal aims to increase incomes and improve the quality of life in rural India while delivering sustainable shareholder value.
Sivakumar’s eChoupal endeavour has won several awards including UNDP’s World Business Award, Wharton-Infosys Business Transformation Award, Development Gateway Award, Stockholm Challenge Award and India Innovation Award. Sivakumar heads as the Director on the Boards of Technico Pty Ltd., ITC Infotech India Ltd., Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture, IRMA, Centre for Collective Development, and Charities Aid Foundation India. He is on the Executive Committee of India’s National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and on the Private Sector Committee of CGIAR. He is an active member of the management committees of various industry bodies and several taskforces of Government of India.
Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Sivakumar served at farmers' cooperative for six years before joining ITC in 1989. |
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