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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...
Suhel Seth is the Founder and Managing Partner of Counselage India, a strategic brand marketing consultancy. His clients include Tata Sons, Mahindra & Mahindra, Max India Limited, Coca Cola, The RP- Sanjive Goenka Group and GMR to name but a few. Suhel Seth is also an author, columnist, actor, TV pundit and Socialite. A Bestselling author, Seth also writes columns on current affairs and the social landscape of India for The Financial Times, Business India, The Hidustan Times and The Indian...
Ruchir Sharma is Chairman of Rockefeller International and Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Breakout Capital, an investment firm focused on emerging markets. He moved to Rockefeller in 2022 after a 25 year career at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he was Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist. Sharma has been a writer for longer than he has been an investor. At age 17 he started writing for India’s largest economic daily, The Economic Times. His commentary has since appeared...
Rama Bijapurkar is one of India’s leading management and market research consultants, she is a respected thought leader on market strategy and India’s consumer economy. She is also a keen commentator on social and cultural changes in the evolving liberalising India. Rama Bijapurkar has an independent consulting practice and works across all sectors and organisations. In addition to her consulting practice Rama has served as an independent director on the boards of several of India’s bluechip companies. These included Axis Bank, Bharat...
TT Rangarjan, a previous software consultant and entrepreneur, now established as a guru, he is the man behind Alma Mater, a business committed to awakening humanity. In 1995, whilst a successful software entrepreneur,TT Rangarjan gave up a life of material wealth in response to an inner calling. Responding to his anguish at the preventable suicide of a friend, he decided to invest the rest of his life with people by establishing Alma Mater, an organisation with a difference. Its mission, to...
Swami Sukhabodhananda is the founder Chairman of Prasanna Trust. Sukhabohananda is not only one of the most respected spiritual leaders in the country but has also been nicknamed the ‘Corporate Guru’, due to his ability to apply spiritual teachings to the corporate world. His expertise lies in leveraging the ancient wisdom of the East with the modern vision of the West to provide applicable, practical tools and programmes for better living. Sukhabodhananda’s spirituality based transformative education programmes are designed for everything...
Jaggi Vasudev, commonly known as Sadhguru, is a yogi, poet and mystic. Sadhguru is a man whose passion spills into everything he encounters. Equally at home with bright-eyed village children, ash-smeared yogis and top business executives, Sadhguru defies any narrow description. Jaggi Vasudev founded the Isha Foundation in 1992, a non-profit organisation which offers yoga programmes around the world and is involved in social outreach, education and environmental initiatives. A multi-faceted personality, Sadhguru is also and author, motivational speaker, and philanthropist along...