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Punita Lal is a high level, proficient manager with more than 25 years of involvement in system, advertising and authority, spreading over numerous topographies and societies. Lal's last position was as CEO for NourishCo, a joint venture between the Tatas and PepsiCo in the region. Her professional career began in the promoting business with Lintas, before moving to J Walter Thompson (JWT). While with JWT, she built up Pepsi's effective “Are you ready for the magic” marketing campaign. Punita Lal also worked...
Deepak Bagla has a professional career of over three decades with the World Bank, Citibank, and Private Equity and has held responsibilities across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. In 2015 he was appointed the Managing Director and CEO to establish INVEST INDIA, as The National Investment Promotion Agency of the Government and during his eight year tenure (March 2023) the Agency has been acknowledged as the World’s most awarded IPA. Invest India is the point of reference for Investors and also...
IT multinational organization. He was an extremely youthful CEO at 17 years old when he founded the organization and was named the world's most youthful CEO. He holds a diploma on global leadership and public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University. Suhas Gopinath taught himself how to create websites with the assistance of books and made his first one, www.coolhindustan.com, at 14 years old. In 2005 he won the Karnataka's Rajyotsava Award and was the youngest among...
Ronnie Screwvala spearheaded Cable TV in India and went ahead to create UTV – spreading over Television, Broadcasting, Digital, Mobile and Motion Pictures, which he sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2012 . Ronnie Screwvala is driven by his enthusiasm for championing entrepreneurship – he authored a book on entrepreneurship titled Dream With Your Eyes Open.
Dr. Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founder members of HCL began an exciting journey more than four decades ago with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The sheer clarity of vision and hard work led to a revolution and laid the foundation for the Indian IT industry, taking India to the league of major economies of the world. HCL, India’s original IT garage start-up founded in 1976, today is an Rs 72,000 crores (US $10 bn) global...
Som Mittal's name features first when we look at the drivers behind the advance of IT industry in India. Som Mittal has been working in the corporate world for more than three decades in different sectors and positions. He has held management positions at HP, Wipro, Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, and in his latest position as President of NASSCOM, he helped steer the business to develop from $60 billion revenue in 2008 to $108 billion in 2013 (in extremely troublesome condition...
Prithvi Shergill is an experienced Corporate Business Officer with a background working in the information technology and services industry. The former Chief Human Resources Officer at HCL Technologies, Shergill left the company in March 2017 to work as an independent consultant for breakthrough startups in the HR technology space. He is currently the Head of Talent Enablement and Workplace Design at Smarten Spaces a company he co-founded in April 2017. Prithvi Shergill is also working with new ventures establishing their businesses. Between...
TD Chandrasekhar is well qualified in his current role as facilitator and coach with his 24 years of corporate experience. TD Chandrasekhar started his career in NIIT with corporate planning and spent six years helping in their growth phase. He then joined PwC, primarily helping Fortune 500 Indian clients in the Oil Industry with large scale strategic projects. In 2008, Chandrasekhar became an independent facilitator and coach. He has conducted over 300 workshops and has coached over 30 executives. He has worked...
Hema Ravichandar is a strategic HR Advisor with 33 years of industry experience. She currently provides strategic HR advisory services to several Indian and multinational corporations and is on the Board of Directors at various companies. Throughout her career Hema has spearheaded large-scale HR interventions, change management programmes, broad branding initiatives and leadership and management development programmes to help organisations grow and prepare for the future. Until 2005, Hema was Senior Vice-President and Global Head of Human Resources for Infosys Technologies. ...
Derek O'Brien, born in Kolkata, India, started his journey as a journalist for Sportsworld magazine yet soon moved to advertising. Subsequent to working as Creative Head of Ogilvy, O’Brien chose to concentrate all his vitality and ability in his passion - quizzing. Today, O’Brien is Asia's best-known quizmaster and the CEO of Derek O'Brien and Associates. He is the host of the longest-running entertainment show on Indian TV, the Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Contest, for which he was voted the Best Anchor...
Mani Shankar Aiyar is an Indian Politician, diplomat and author. He is presently a member of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs and a member of the Parliamentary Forum on Disaster Management. Mani Shankar Aiyyar was an Indian National Congress party MP from 1991 to 1996, from 1998 to 1999 and from 2004 to 2009, speaking to the Mayiladuthurai supporters. He additionally served in Dr. Manmohan Singh's administration as Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas from 2004 to...
Rajdeep Sardesai is a well renowned Indian journalist and author. He is currently a counsulting editorial manager at India Today and hosts Headlines Today. He was also the Editor-in-chief of Global Broadcast News that incorporates CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat. He left this position in 2014 and went on to help with propelling an English general news channel. Sardesai has 17 years of experience amid which he has secured noteworthy political stories in India and abroad. He has also worked for NDTV Limited...
M.J. Akbar has been editor of a number of magazines and daily papers, including Sunday and The Telegraph. He is currently Editorial Director of India Today and Headlines Today, and also Editor-in-Chief of The Sunday Guardian. He has authored eight noteworthy books on Indian history, including India: The Siege Within, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the contention amongst Islam and Christianity, and Blood Brothers. His new book, Tinderbox: The Past and...
Shaili Chopra is one of India's best TV presenters. Recently she was the Senior Editor and Lead Anchor at ET NOW, the Economic Times Business News Channel and prior to that, was with India's biggest television station NDTV where she was part of the main group that set up their business station: NDTV Profit. In March 2016 Shaili was declared one of India's Top 50 Most Influential Women in Media, Marketing and Advertising by IMPACT Magazine. She is the founder of...
Shekhar Gupta is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ThePrint, an energizing news media start-up. He is a senior prime-time anchor at a leading channel, NDTV. Prior to this, Gupta was with the Indian Express and the Express Group where he ended a 19-year spell as Editor-in-Chief and drove the nation's biggest group of award-winning columnists. He was also an Editor with India Today. Gupta hosts Off the Cuff on NDTV 24X7 and NDTV Prime, an offering from ThePrint – which sees him...
Deepak Chopra is an expert in the field of mind-body healing and an acclaimed author on the subject of alternative medicine. Through his books and videos, he has become one of the best-known figures in alternative medicine. Dr Deepak Chopra was born in New Delhi in 1947, he attended the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, before emigrating to the US in 1970, where he completed residencies in internal medicine and endocrinology. He went on to become Chief of Staff at...