Dr Aquil Busrai

Dr Aquil Busrai graduated in Commerce with a Distinction. He obtained his MBA from Xavier Labour Relations Institute where he was awarded the J M Kumarappa Gold Medal for ranking First. He later passed LL. B and an Advanced Diploma in Training and Development. A University rank holder, he was honored with the Bharucha Gold Medal for academic excellence. He was awarded Ph D in April 2012. He is a Certified Executive Coach.

Dr Busrai has had 45 plus years' experience in Industry. He has worked in various HR roles with Unilever in Kenya and India and was Executive Director HR Motorola for Asia Pacific countries. He worked with Shell Malaysia as Director Human Resources, Shell Malaysia and Managing Director of Shell People Services Asia Sdn Bhd. His last corporate assignment was with IBM India Limited as Executive Director Human Resources. He is currently CEO of aquil busrai consulting.

Dr BBL MADHUKAR

Dr BBL MADHUKAR is currently the Founder Director General of BRICS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY at New Delhi, and an Advocate at Supreme Court of India.

Dr MADHUKAR is a Gold Medalist both in MA (Economics) and in LL. B., in addition to a First Class degree in MA(History) and a Ph.D. He has studied Management at Henley School of Management, England, during which he did his internship at London School of Economics.

He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE) and a Chartered Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers.(CAIIB) He has held a senior position in State Bank of India before joining as a Board level Director in a premier Govt of India Company at New Delhi.

Deepak Dhawan

Deepak Dhawan has over 35 years of general management, organization development and core HR experience at a strategic level across public and private sectors in the steel, automotive and services domains.

His last assignment was as Vice President & Global Head HR of Exl Service (NASDAQ: EXLS). As a member of the Executive Committee, he provided thought leadership to the journey of a captive operation in danger of extinction with 900 employees, to a publicly listed, global third party operation with over 10,000 employees.

Prior to this, Deepak was with the Eicher Group in various capacities, the last being Executive Vice President HR & Strategic Planning. He was a member of the Group Management Board and a member on the Board of Eicher Consulting Services. He established the strategic planning process within the company that led to subsequent strategic decisions of divesting in non-core businesses.

KVV Satyanarayana

Shri KVV Satyanarayana is a technocrat with 36 years of experience from different Navratna Companies such as NTPC, POWERGRID, PFC in Indian Power Sector. He has done graduation in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University, Hyderabad in the year 1982. On completion of graduation, he joined in NTPC and executed several tasks of Contracts Management and Procurement at the corporate level. He was also looking after the functions of International Competitive Bidding under World Bank funding. Later on in the year 1991, he joined in POWERGRID and handled various tasks such as Contract & Materials Management, Project Management & Monitoring etc. In the year 2005, he joined in Power Finance Corporation Ltd. and was heading the Information Technology wing of the Corporation as General Manager.

His expertise are in the area of Project Management, Contracts Management and Information Technology.

Prabir Jha

Prabir Jha, an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and XLRI Jamshedpur is the Founder & CEO of Prabir Jha People Advisory.

Combining an impeccable academic and professional record, in his stint as a civil servant, he handled the entire gamut of HR & IR issues of the Indian Ordnance Factories. On his switch to the corporate world after almost 10 years in the government, his initial HR years were with Thermax & TechMahindra. Thereafter, Prabir served on the executive team as the Global CHRO at two NYSE-listed Indian majors, Dr.Reddy’s and Tata Motors before moving to lead HR at another Fortune 500 giant as the Group CHRO of Reliance Industries Ltd. Prior to starting his own advisory firm, he was the President & Global Chief People Officer at the pharma major, Cipla.

Prabir has handled all areas in HR, with special interest in Organisation Transformation, Talent Management, OD interventions, Global HR Strategy, Employer Branding and Leadership Capability Development.

R Swaminathan

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

Raghavendra K

Raghavendra is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources Development (HRD), and is a member of the Executive Council of Infosys BPM.

His expertise lies in aligning HR’s functional role to dovetail business plans. His areas of interest are development of HR competencies, managing cultural diversity and change management, especially in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

Raghavendra has created strong synergies between performance management processes and employee development platforms, ensuring that the organization has a competent, readily available internal talent pool to meet business challenges. A strong proponent of ‘Learn While You Earn’, he has institutionalized a number of interventions whereby there is a huge value add for a person to move up the value chain, while continuing to pursue one’s career.

Ravi S Ramakrishnan

Ravi is a seasoned global business and people leader with ~40yrs of business, finance and business services experience. A former Business Leader at American Express, he was integral part of the global leadership team to set up its pioneering offshore operations in India in mid 90s. He has held leadership positions in Unilever, Murugappa Group & Eicher Group, with CXO level responsibilities.

Ravi has led large scale process transitions and transformations, and serviced 30+ countries across US, UK, Europe, JAPA, and India. He has successful track record of transforming business services: strategy to execution, hands-on experience of global COE Ops, global process ownership, global implementation of SOX (Amex $160Bn Balance Sheet), re-engineering, technology & change management. He has strong relationships with the BPM ecosystem across the globe.

Ravi set up RvaluE in 2005, a growing firm focused on business services strategy, operations, process transformation and captive operations offering E2E solutions to 'realize business value'. In 2011, he founded Shared Services Forum (SSF), an interactive Industry Platform for Shared Services & IT/ITeS space. His latest venture is Quintes Global, setting trends through transformation centric NewAge Business Services Operating Model – 'Dedicated Captive' (D-Cap) Model.

Smriti Ahuja

Smriti Ahuja is the Global HR & Learning Head- Cognizant Digital Operations. She is based in Delhi – NCR. In addition, she is the Diversity Head for Cognizant India. She also plays the role of Location Head for NCR.

Smriti has close to three decades of work experience, 10 years of which have been as an independent consultant. Her consulting work has been primarily in the areas of HR Strategy, Executive Coaching, and Leadership Development. She counted Fortune 500 companies as her clients, including a three year consulting term with Coca Cola Bottlers Philippines.

Her previous corporate experiences include her role as founding HR and Learning Head for Exl Service and the Global Head of Leadership Development for Genpact. One of her designed programs in Genpact was internationally awarded for "Best Integration of Learning and Talent Management".

Sushil Baveja

Sushil Baveja is the Head of Corporate Human Resources function based at the Corporate Office, New Delhi.

Mr Baveja has done his Business Management, with specialisation in HR, from the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad in 1984. He joined DCM Shriram Ltd. in October, 2003, bringing with him an experience of a few large Indian and Multinational Companies like Samtel, Cadbury, Gillette and Alcatel.

Apart from driving the Talent & Leadership Development, Change Management, Organisation Development and related initiatives, he works closely with the various SBUs, supporting them in the design and delivery of their HR agenda in sync with the business goals and objectives.

Varadarajan Srinivasan

S. Varadarajan or Raja as he is popularly known as, is an alumnus of Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur and Indian Society for Training & Development, New Delhi. He is a Graduate Leadership and Life Coach, from Coach for Life, USA, and a Hogan Certified professional.

Raja has over three and a half decades of experience as a Human Resources Leader, who has shaped high-performing cultures at major growth brands with technical business acumen, prolific communication and robust development programs.

He prides himself in working in partnership with senior management to orchestrate cultural development and organization change initiatives that address corporate goals and strategies. He has been awarded the Seasoned HR Professional Award from NHRDN, the Best HR Professional, by the World HR Congress for thought leadership & contribution in the field of HR and featuring in the list of Top 100 Most Talented HR Professionals by World HRD Congress.

Ved Prakash

Mr. Ved Prakash has been the Chairman and Managing Director of MMTC Ltd. since March 19, 2015 and served as its Director of Marketing since September 21, 2010. Mr. Prakash served as the Chief General Manager at MMTC Ltd. He served as the Chief General Manager of NINL & Wind Power Projects at MMTC Ltd. He serves as the Chairman of Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited. He has been a Whole Time Director of MMTC Ltd. since September 21, 2010. He served as Director of MMTC Ltd from February 19, 2010 to September 21, 2010. Mr. Prakash studied at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

He is also the chairman of Scope Executive Board.

Anand Maheshwari

Anand Maheshwari is a meritorious Chartered Accountant and a veteran CFO. He comes with nearly four decades of extensive work experience with a blend of senior management & entrepreneurial roles, within India and UK. He is the Founder Director of Quintes Global, a new business entity, promoted by RvaluE Group to offer an innovative solutions & capabilities in Business Process Management to a niche segment – both in India as well as globally.

Anand’s experience includes controllership/ CFO responsibilities, business and finance leadership across domains: Offshoring & Domestic Business Services, Financial Services, Oil, Petrochemicals & Chemicals, IT & related services. Anand has worked in corporations like Jubilant Organosys, Kanorias, American Express and Venture Infotek (now Atos Worldline).

Anshu Gupta

Seasoned HR Transformative leader with nearly two decades of cross border experience in managing end to end employee life cycle and Service Delivery. With strong customer centric approach with focus on People, Process, and Technology Aspects Anshu Gupta has been in various leadership roles in Human Resources across organizations such as Ericsson, Wipro, Hewitt Associates etc.

Currently Anshu Gupta is working as the Vice President and Head of Human Resources, for Ericsson Global Services, India. In a career spanning <18> + years, gained wide experience of building organizations in India and coining best in class people practices fostering growth and development of employees with a clear focus on motivation and engagement, he also possesses multi geographic exposure in leading Sales, Solutions, Transition, P&L and Budgeting, HR Advisory and Consulting for HR shared services in captive, offshore and Build Operate Transfer Model.

Anup K Srivastava

Anup K Srivastava, an Honours Graduate in English Literature from St Xavier’s College, Ranchi and a Post Graduate Honours in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, is a professional accomplished in Corporate Planning & Management of the entire gamut of HR and Industrial Relations, Training & Development with more than 40 years’ experience in the area/ field, Experience in leading a big team of Human Resources, Experience in Corporate merger & amalgamation, Experience in Corporate Communications & Public Relations, Led the entire gamut of Customer Services at Corporate level and leader of a National level Social Mission under Skill India Programme.

Anup K Srivastava joined erstwhile Indian Airlines as Management Trainee and rose in the hierarchy to become Director- Personnel (2004) and a Member, Board of Directors (2005). Subsequent to amalgamation of Indian Airlines and Air India, he was appointed Director-Personnel and a Member, Board of Directors of the merged entity (2007), among others, formulating and implementing HR policies and strategies aimed at the development and effective utilization of the human resources, formulating and implementing change management strategies in an extremely complex and challenging business and HR environment.

Debasish Das

Having a rich experience of over 20 years, Debasish has played a pivotal role in contributing to the success of business through effective people strategy in several companies. He worked with IBM, Genpact, Alcatel Telecom and Spanco BPO, prior to working for Trans-Maldivian Airways. He has led several crosscountry projects and has handled global roles in these companies. Debasish has done his post-graduation in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur; and B.E. (Electrical) from NIT Rourkela. He is trained in COPC as well as PCMM and is a lead assessor for ISO 9001. He is also certified in Advanced Business Analytics.

Dependra Mathur

Dependra Mathur, MBA from IIM Bangalore, India, has varied work experience ranging over 29 years covering Human Resources and business roles and has been with Infosys for the last 12 years. His experience covers working in leading organizations like Infosys BPM, Wipro Ltd, WeP Peripherals Ltd and Tata Motors in various capacities. He heads Compensation and Benefits and International HR function at Infosys BPM. He led the HR efforts at Infosys BPM in various different global mergers and acquisitions programs and employee transfers, which led the organization to win the globally renowned Optimas Award in 2012 for managing change and in 2013, for innovative compensation programs.

Dependra has won various awards in different forums. He is GPHR (Global Professional in Human Resources) certified from HRCI and has been accredited with BELBIN Team Role certification.

Gaurav Kapur

Gaurav Kapur is the Head of Policy, India at ACCA. His current role builds on over 14 years of his experience in knowledge-based intervention and public policy through thought leadership.

Prior to joining ACCA, Gaurav was at YES Global Institute, a think tank at YES Bank heading the Design Innovation and Creativity led Entrepreneurship (DICE) vertical focused on startups, fintech intervention, policy development, innovation, digital economy, and sustainability. His experience spans across industries and verticals which include Investment Management, Corporate Strategy, Commercial & Planning, and Treasury operations with organizations like AXA Investment Managers, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Hindustan Unilever, Hindalco, and Birla Sunlife Asset Management.

Gaurav has been exceptional in academics and has been recognized at various levels for his achievements and intellect. He is a qualified Chartered Accountancy (CA) and an MBA from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) where he was awarded with prestigious Ratan Tata Scholarship for academic excellence. He was also awarded a Full scholarship to study at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University (USA). Apart from this, he is also a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

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Neha Ahluwalia

Neha is currently the GBS Head Delivery Lead-AMEA and NAM for Human Resources for ABB Global Industries and Services Pvt Ltd. Neha has a Master’s degree in Business Management in HR. She started her career with HCL and then moved to ABB. She in a short span of 10 to 12 years has handled various senior roles in HR Operations and HR Business Partnering. She was the key member in building the project of GBS (Global Business Service Centre). Which she lead with great passion and owned it up to Live it today as a reality.

A very meticulous HR professional who has good eye for details and takes every task to closure against all odds. Has the ability to build rapport with employee groups very quickly.

• A proactive approach to solving business problems
• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• An understanding of legal practices and policies
• Excellent communication skills
• A creative and insightful work style
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, manage and inspire people

Nikhil Singh

Nikhil Singh is playing an integral part as Dean of India Centre for Global Excellence at New Delhi Institute of Management and also managing his responsibilities as CEO of International Skill Centre India

He is extremely passionate in making India a skill hub for the entire world. He is working very closely with Japan and India Government to send skilled Manpower to Japan. His expertise majorly comprises of Business Acquisition, Learning & Development, focusing on New Business Solutions and Strategy.

He is based out of New Delhi, and perceives design as a way of thinking that can be used to artfully solve problems, large and small.

Pravin Purang

PRAVIN PURANG is currently a Management Advisor, Head-Organizational Transformation & Group Head of Procurement and Supply Chain Management at Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. (A US$ 3.50 billion Global Group)

He has completed his B.Tech (Mechanical Engg.) and M.Tech (Industrial Engg.) from IIT Delhi.

Completed Thesis on “INVENTORY CONTROL OF ITEMS HAVING ERRATIC DEMAND PATTERN”. The thesis was done for Indian Airlines –spare parts of aircrafts.
And was accepted for presentation in “WORLD CONGRESS ON PRODUCTIVITY SCIENCES” which was later published.

Purang started his career with TATAs, through Campus selection and worked in the Central Purchase Department, Corporate Office at Voltas Corporate during 5 initial years of his career, subsequently changed over in EICHER TRACTORS LTD. as Material Manager and continued to grow to become Head of Materials Management Function of the Group.

Preeti Wadhawan

Preeti is a Compliance and Legal Professional with extensive experience in Policy Compliances, Investigations, Trainings, UK Bribery Act, Corporate Laws, handling Regulator &External Audits.

She has professional experience in implementing compliance program from the ground and leading it effectively with cross functional teams, conducting risk assessments, presenting the top risks to the Governance, risk and compliance committee, investigating whistle blower complaints, imparting trainings, enhancing compliance visibility, third party due diligence. She is a certified compliance and ethics professional from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, US.

Rachna Sharma

Rachna is an energetic trainer and facilitator with work experience of 27 years, of which 9 years, she has been in roles leading Organization Learning & Development in companies like Colgate, Samsung and American Express and the last 18 years as a Master Trainer, Facilitator and Coach of many Global/ local Programs. She has conducted several workshops/ programs in Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, Dubai, UK and Canada. She conducts programs and workshops to meet the requirements across all levels of leadership.

Rachna is a Certified Master Trainer by Clarity Development Consulting Inc., Canada and the Lead Coach to facilitate Coaching for Engagement™ Leader as ‘A COACH’ programs in India. She was certified by Clarity Coach Bob Hancox (the author of the book ‘Coaching for Engagement’) during his visit to India in Nov 2008, and has conducted several workshops over the years for senior and middle level leaders.

Rachna has been Training and certifying Trainers for many workshops. As per the global requirements, she also conducts structured follow up calls and wrap up sessions as required by the Clients. She ensures that her delivery reflects the needs of various clients as per their business requirements. She also conducts workshops on Energy for Performance, another global program from USA. She is an Executive Coach and provides coaching to several people across functions.

Rajnish Virmani

“Work hard, Play Harder, Party Hardest”. That has been the guiding force for Rajnish. A truly global leader having lived and worked across the USA, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, he has led large teams of over 10,000 staff within India and over 1,000 in Europe. Rajnish shares with you a multi-cultural diverse perspective of running a business across geography.

An Engineer and MBA by background, Rajnish has worked for about 30 years with large multinational brands like American Express, Aviva, Colt Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and Reliance. He has played the roles of a CIO, COO and CEO over the last 12-15 years and brings that experience to bear as he coaches corporate leaders to lead business in an ever shrinking and diverse world. Voted as a Role Model Leader a few times, he has achieved many a turnaround in his career as a line leader – turning around performances of employees, departments and organizations – and is now helping spread that knowledge base to the current leaders in the corporate hierarchy.

Sanjay Dutt

Sanjay Dutt has over 26 years of experience in the industry and is well recognized for his work in linking learning to business impact and his expertise around driving organizational strategies through Learning & Capability Development. Sanjay holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics from the Delhi University and a MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, India.

Sanjay leads the Capability Development function at EXL globally , and spearheads many key organizational development initiatives in the organization. He provides leadership to India HR and heads the Global HR Shared Services, at EXL.

He joined EXL in 2010 and since then has been responsible for setting up the EXL Center for Talent (in Noida), establishing several Academies, launching and managing the program for our High Potentials and focused interventions to enhance Productivity, Customer Experience and Sales Effectiveness.

Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay has 32 years of work experience in the fields of Management, Business Process, Finance & Human Resources. He comes with a blend of experience in global and domestic corporations, in private sector and public sector organizations in various capacities. He combines extensive experience in strategic as well as operations roles, covering various domains in Off shoring, Financial Services, Insurance in Global Shared Services & BPO, with demonstrated execution and success.

At SSF, he has pioneered & published several research papers on BPM & Shared Services and also co – authored the first ever comprehensive book on BPM – “BPM in Global India – The Inflection Point for Competitive Advantage”. Sanjay is the Executive Editor of Shared Services Forum’s Journal, Process Edge and contributes immensely towards GICs/ Shared Services/ BPOs by knowledge capture, sharing and dissemination through articles, research and creating models for base lining and growth.

Sunil Sayal

Sunil Sayal is the President of SSF India. Sunil’s tryst with the Finance functions spans across three decades and is finely balanced between well known Indian names and Global ones.

He has worked in different facets of the Finance function starting with organizations like, Voltas, HCL Group, Ranbaxy Group , and Ericsson where he spent fourteen years. Currently he is the CFO for Region India at Nokia Solutions & Networks.

Sunil has been a regular speaker and panellists on various events organized by the Financial Media, Chambers of Commerce, Business Schools and Consulting firms sharing his views on topics of current interest with the industry. He was the Chairman of the Finance Committee of Delhi Management Association (DMA) a position he held for five years starting from 2010.

Swadesh Behera

Swadesh demonstrates robust HR experience with achievements across the globe with diverse sectorial experience in MNC’s & Indian Organizations covering Pharmaceuticals, FMCG and Manufacturing. With proficiency in establishing HR systems and processes, delivering performance intensification and organization building strategies, his forte has been in aligning HR strategies to organizational objectives.

With post qualification experience of more than 25 years, he has significantly contributed by spearheading HR functions at Boston Scientific, Coke, Tata Steel, Ranbaxy, Merck, and ICI. He brings across enormous impact through organizational design, leading change management initiatives, building leadership pipeline & designing people development interventions.