abhijit pawar managing director sakal media group 27, narveer

Abhijit PawarManaging DirectorSakal Media Group27, Narveer Tanaji Wadi, Shivaji NagarPune - 411 005.Tel : 020 - 66262370Fax : 020 - 25513129Email : [email protected] / [email protected] : www.esakal.com

Abhijit Pawar is the Managing Director of Sakal Media Group, Printer & Publisher of

Sakal Newspapers, Agrowon, Gomantak ,and also Printer and Publisher of the

English daily from the House of Sakal, Sakal Times. A B. E. graduate, with

specialization in Mechanical Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering,

Sangli. As Managing Director, Sakal Media Group, he has been constantly focusing

on re-engineering the way each task is executed and today the groups entire focus is

on delivering tangible results and providing value to its readers and advertisers. Abhijit is qualified in engineering and has been responsible for various turnkey

projects in the areas of technology and electronic media. He, as a Director on the

board has focused on modernization for the newspaper house, implementing best

practices of the industry. This has seen him bring in developmental change in the

areas of content, business process and technology. His understanding of the

International environment is being leveraged successfully to enable Sakal deliver the

state of Maharashtra to audiences across the world. Besides this, what comes out of the Sakal stable is the General Entertainment Marathi

channel, Saam TV. Saam, the associated television venture between Neo TV Ltd

and the Sakal Group, has unveiled the logo and positioning for its Marathi channel,

Saam Marathi. Saam Marathi is a Marathi general entertainment channel (GEC)

launched on 15th August 2008.

He is also an Executive Committee Member of Mahratta Chamber of Commerce,

Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) for 2012-2014 and also sits on the International

Board of the global YPO (Young Presidents Organization). He is an executive

committee member of the Indian Newspaper Society, Delhi. Besides this, he also sits

on the committee of NM Wadia Institute and Media Research & Users Council,

Mumbai. He has also captained state hockey team for Maharashtra during 1988

1989

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Anupama AryaNational Chairperson, Young Indians &Managing Director, Hatch CenterPlot No 5, Sector 28, Chandigarh - 160 028.Tel : 0172 - 3042000Fax : 0172 - 3042030Email : [email protected] : www.thehatch.in

Anupama is a Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Business Executive, Technologist and

Mentor. Anupama is National Chairperson of Young Indians, Managing Director of Hatch

Fund; Managing Director of Hatch Incubators; and Co-founder of Angel Investors

Consortium.

Anupama is an Aspen Fellow under the India Leadership Initiative; the recipient of

the Athena India Leadership Award; Rotary International Young Achievers Award;

Award for Excellence - Women Entrepreneur by Software Technology Parks of

India, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India; and All India

Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur for the year Award by the Electronics and

Computer Software Export Promotion Council, Ministry of Information and

Technology, Government of India.

As an entrepreneur, she founded and led 3 companies in India and Silicon Valley.

Before starting on an entrepreneurial career, Anupama led many Software

Development and Architecture initiatives at Lucent Technologies and Synoptics / Bay

Networks.

Widely traveled, she has spoken at a number of industry events, symposiums and

standard body meetings worldwide. She has been profiled in a number of media

articles and has been featured on CNBC Young Turks program.

Anupama is actively involved as Member of the CII National Micro Small and Medium

Enterprises (MSME) Council; Member of the CII International Policy Council and

Board Member of Athena Foundation an international organization focused on

women leadership. She has taught topics on Advanced Communication

Technologies at UC Berkeley and San Jose State Universities. She has a Bachelor in

Electronics and Communication Engineering as well as an MS in Computer Science.

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Baijayant 'Jay' Panda Member of Parliament2, Mahadev Road, Near G.P.ONew Delhi - 110001.Tel : 011 - 2375 3431 Fax : 011 - 2332 3355 Email : [email protected] Web : www.jay.panda.name

Baijayant Jay Panda was elected to the Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

from Kendrapara Constituency, Odisha in May 2009. Earlier, Panda had been twice

elected to Parliament, Upper House (Rajya Sabha) in 2000 and 2006, also from the

State of Odisha. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party. Panda represents

the new face of Indian politicians, several of whom have been educated abroad and

have had alternate careers before choosing to serve the nation through politics. He

graduated from the Michigan Technological University and, with a background in

Engineering and Management, worked in the corporate sector before joining politics.

He assisted the late Biju Patnaik and subsequently Naveen Patnaik, who founded the

Biju Janata Dal party, which has found strong acceptance from the people of Odisha

and has been repeatedly voted back in elections.

Panda had helped to form the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) and was its

Convener; he has also been associated with the India-USA Forum of

Parliamentarians and is its Chairman. He was awarded the Bharat Asmita National

Award for best parliamentary practices by the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India in 2008.

Since its inception in 2007, Panda has been associated with the Citizens' Alliance

Against Malnutrition, an advocacy group including many parliamentarians across

parties, Bollywood actors, other celebrities, civil society activists and non

governmental organizations.

In his earlier corporate career, Panda was active in industry organizations like the

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the International Chromium Development

Association. In the past he has also been associated with the Govt. of Odisha's

Industrial Advisory Committee and been a Director on the Industrial Promotion &

Investment Corporation of Odisha (IPICOL).

As a parliamentarian, he has been a member of many important committees like the

Parliamentary Committees on Energy, Urban Development and Finance. In

parliament and public life, Panda passionately espouses the cause of his home state

Odisha as well as other national issues close to his heart, such as economic

development, education and information technology.

Arun Maira

Member - Planning CommissionYojana Bhawan, Sansad MargNew Delhi - 110001.Tel : 011 - 2309 6750Fax : 011 - 2309 6577Email : [email protected] : www.planningcommission.gov.in

Arun Maira is a Member of the Planning Commission chaired by the Prime Minister of

India. In this ministerial level position, he is responsible for facilitating the shaping of

policies and programs relating to industrialisation and urbanisation in the country, and

tourism. He has a combination of hands-on leadership experience, consulting

experience to leadership teams internationally and thought-leadership as an author

and speaker on the subjects of leadership and organisation transformation.

He is a frequent speaker at international forums on the future of India. He writes

regularly in the Economic Times in India and other management and business

journals. He is the author of several books which include "Shaping The Future:

Aspirational Leadership in India and Beyond", Remaking India: One Country, One

Destiny, Discordant Democrats: Five Steps to Consensus and Transforming

Capitalism: Business Leadership to Improve the World for Everyone in 2008. He is the Chairman of Quality Council of India and Chancellor of Central University of

Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Tata Administrative Services and worked

in several senior positions in the TATA Group in India and abroad for 25 years until

1989. He has advised clients across a wide variety of industries and in many countries

on issues of strategy and organisation. He has worked with clients in North America,

Europe, South America and Asia in industries ranging from automobiles, steel, and oil,

to pharmaceuticals, and financial services. He has also advised Governments and

international agencies on leadership processes to accelerate development. Arun Maira has served on the boards of several large Indian companies, including

companies in the Tata, Birla, Godrej, Hero and Mahindra Groups. He has been a

Member of The Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) National Council for many

years, as well as Chairman of several of CII's National Councils, including the

National Council for Corporate Governance and Chairman of CII's Leadership

Summit. He was a Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact in New York. He was also

Chairman of Save the Children, India, and Chairman of the Axis Bank Foundation. He

received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from St Stephen's College, Delhi University.


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S GopalakrishnanPresident Designate, CIIChairman, Apex Council on India@75Bangalore - 560 100.Tel : 080 - 2852 0431Fax : 080 - 2852 0352E-mail : [email protected] : www.infosys.com

S Gopalakrishnan (Kris), along with N R Narayana Murthy and five others founded

Infosys in 1981. He served as the Director (Technical) and his initial responsibilities

included the management of design, development, implementation and support of

information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US.

Between 1987 and 1994, he served as the Vice President for Technical Operations of

KSA/Infosys, a joint venture between Infosys and KSA located in Atlanta, US. In 1994,

he returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Infosys.

Before becoming the CEO and Managing Director in July 2007, he served as the

company's Chief Operating Officer, President and Joint Managing Director

responsible for customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions. He took

over as the Executive Co-Chairman on August 21, 2011.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was recently

voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking

of Asia's Top Executives. He was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global

business thinkers compiled by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, in association with

the IE Business School, Madrid and the London Business School's Management

Innovation Lab in 2009.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the

country's third highest civilian honor. He has also represented Infosys and the country

at various international forums. In April 2012, Kris was appointed as a member of the

reconstituted United Nations Global Compact Board for three years. He is also a

member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) International

Advisory Board and Fudan University School of Management International Advisory

Board.

He is on the Board of Governors at the IIM, Bangalore; Chairman of Indian Institute of

Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala and International Institute

of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore and a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE

Computer Society. Kris holds master's degrees in Physics and Computer Science

from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Chandrajit BanerjeeDirector General Confederation of Indian IndustryMantosh Sondhi Centre, 23, Institutional AreaLodi Road, New Delhi-110 003.Tel : 011 - 2462 1874 Fax : 011 - 2463 3168Email : [email protected] : www.cii.in

Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

He has been with the CII for over 25 years and has been the Director General, CII

since May 2008. As Director General, he is responsible for overall operations of CII.

Prior to his appointment as Director General, he held several senior positions in CII.

He has been responsible for important areas of work including the Sectoral Verticals -

Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences Sectors and the SMEs and

has led key policy work of CII in the areas of Economic Policy, Financial Services and

Corporate Governance (he was also the First Executive Director of the National

Foundation of Corporate Governance - NFCG, an organization set up by the Ministry

of Company Affairs, Government of India). He continues to be in the Board of Trustees

of NFCG as a Founder Trustee.

Earlier, he has served as Head of CII's regional operations in the Northern, Southern

and Western Regions. He was also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of

the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA), which is a state-of-the-

art centre for training, conventions and trade fairs.

He is in various advisory committees of the Government of India; the Vice Chairman of

the Asia Pacific Chapter of UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry; the

Co-chairman of the Governing Council, Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC), a

not for profit public private initiative of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) and

CII, established in 2007; Member of the World Economic Forum' s Global Agenda

Council on India and a Member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of

Management (IIM), Ranchi.

He has been honored with the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier

Wen Jiabao for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between

India and China. With 63 offices including 10 Centres of Excellence in India, and 7

overseas offices in Australia, China, France, Singapore, South Africa, UK, and USA,

as well as institutional partnerships with 224 counterpart organisations in 90

countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international

business community.


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K V KamathChairmanICICI Bank ICICI Bank Towers, Bandra-Kurla Complex Mumbai - 400 051.Tel : 022 - 2653 8003Fax : 022 - 2653 1212Email : [email protected] : www.icicibank.com

K Vaman Kamath is the Chairman of ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank

and Infosys Ltd, one of India's largest technology services companies. He is also on

the board of Schlumberger Ltd, Chairs the Credit and Risk Committees at ICICI bank

amongst others and Chairs the Finance Committee at Schlumberger apart from being

on its Audit Committee. As part of public service, he is the Chairman of the Society and

Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management Indore and a member of the

board of Governors of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.

After graduating from IIMA in 1971, he started his career with ICICI in the Project

Finance division and gained extensive experience within the company, including

setting up new businesses such as leasing, venture capital, credit rating as well as

handling general management positions. As part of his general management

responsibilities, he initiated and implemented ICICI's technology program.

In 1988, Kamath joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, within their

Private Sector Department. He returned to India in May 1996, to take over as

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at ICICI. The strategic initiatives and

structural changes subsequently instituted by him across the ICICI Group have

helped ICICI to redraw its boundaries.

He retired as Managing Director & CEO in April 2009 and assumed his present

position as Non-Executive Chairman.

He was conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian honors in 2008.

He has received widespread recognition internationally and in India, including being

named CNBC's Asian Business Leader of the Year in 2001, Businessman of the Year

by Forbes Asia and Business Leader of the Year by The Economic Times, India in

2007.

He was the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry for the year 2008-09.

Manish MalhotraCostume Designer, Stylist & Couturier Manish Malhotra Design StudioLinking Road Khar (W), Mumbai - 400052.Tel : 022 - 2605 0723Fax : 022 - 2605 0724Email : [email protected] : www.manishmalhotra.in

Manish Malhotra started his career in 1990 as a Costume Designer in The Indian

Film Industry, popularly known as Bollywood. Having won the first Filmfare Award for

Costume Design in 1995 for the film Rangeela, and styling for over 1000 films, Manish

Malhotra has redefined and contemporized costumes in Indian Cinema and still

continues to win many prestigious awards till date. His label is a hot favourite when it

comes to styling India's most glamorous Bollywood celebrities.

Manish has not only designed clothes for most of the leading actors in Bollywood but

has also designed clothes for International Stars like Michael Jackson, Jermaine

Jackson and wife Halima, Van Damme, Reese Witherspoon, Kylie Minogue and

supermodel Naomi Campbell.

Manish Malhotra's areas of creativity span the broad spheres of Bollywood, design,

styling, diffusion and everlasting bridal and couture. Manish is the first Costume

Designer to have ventured into mainstream fashion in 1999 with his high profile

couture store. He launched his own eveningwear couture label under his name

'Manish Malhotra' in the year 2004.

The label has also taken an initiative to develop and procure Kashmiri embroidery

such as ari and tila from small parts of Kashmir. The beautiful workmanship of the

Kashmiri craft has resulted into a long association with Kashmir and due to the label's

requirements a substantial number of Kashmiri houses have received employment.

Manish has showcased his collections at various International Fashion Weeks like

The South-Africa Fashion Week and the Dubai Fashion Week. His label is

synonymous with opulent, contemporary Indian wear. His intention has been to

create glamorous ensembles with Indian traditional colors, textures, embroideries,

and craftsmanship.

Manish continues to create spectacular collections under his label and is one of the

most coveted designers for Brides and Bridegrooms all over the world. His label

currently retails across Mumbai, Delhi, and Dubai amongst others.

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Naushad ForbesDirectorForbes MarshallP B No: 29, Kasarwadi, Old Mumbai - Pune Road Pune - 411 034.Tel : 020 - 3985 8555 Fax : 020 - 2714 7413Emai : [email protected] Web : www.forbesmarshall.com

Thermax Limited is an INR 5,375 crore (USD 1.05 Billion) company, providing a range

of engineering solutions to the energy and environment sectors. We are

headquartered in Pune, India and operate globally through 19 International offices, 12

sales & service offices and 9 manufacturing facilities - five of which are in India and

four overseas. Its presence spans 75 countries across Asia Pacific, Africa and the

Middle East, CIS countries, Europe, USA and South America. Tuning to the needs of

the day, all our solutions are innovative, energy-efficient, environment-friendly and

easy to operate. Meher Pudumjee is the Chairperson of Thermax Ltd. After her return to India in

September 1996, she was appointed on the Board of Directors of the company. With

her newly acquired interest in Finance, she worked closely with the treasury and the

working capital management functions of Thermax.

In January 2001, she became a Non-Executive Director and was appointed Vice

Chairperson in 2002. During this period, she played an active role along with the

senior management in the turnaround of the company. She had taken over as

Chairperson, Thermax Limited effective October 5, 2004, after the retirement of Ms

Anu Aga. Meher has a keen interest in music, especially western classical and is a member of a

Pune based choir.

Naushad Forbes is Director of Forbes Marshall, India's leading Steam Engineering

and Control Instrumentation firm. He is the CEO of the Steam Engineering

Companies within the group. He has also been a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Program in

Science, Technology and Society from 1987 to 2004 and developed courses in

Technology and Policy in newly industrialized countries and the Management of

Technology in Firms in Newly Industrialized Countries. Naushad received his

Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Stanford University and his PhD in Industrial

Engineering was on the Process of Technical Entrepreneurship in India, also from

Stanford. His book, co-authored with David Wield, From Followers to Leaders: Managing

Technology and Innovation in Newly Industrialising Countries, was published by

Routledge in 2002. His recent papers include Doing Business in India: What has liberalization

changed?, Working Paper No. 93, Center for Research on Economic Development

and Policy Reform, Stanford University, 2001, Pan Asia Conference: Focus on

Economic Challenges held at the Stanford Center for International Development

from May 31-June 3, 2006 and India's National Innovation System-What's new,

What's Old, What do we really know, Mont Pelerin Society Tokyo, September 2008,

Japan. Naushad is on the boards of Godrej Industries Limited and the Godrej Family Board,

Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd, Tata AutoComp Ltd (TACO), Board of Governors National

Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, Ruby Hall Clinic Pune, Jump

Associates LLC, California, USA, Stanford Alumni Association, Advisory Council

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Vishwakarma Institute of Technology,

Pune and Member of the Steering Committee on Industry for the Twelfth Five Year

Plan. Naushad also Chairs several commissions in the Confederation of Indian

Industry (CII) and was the Chairman of CII Western Region for the year 2009-10.

Meher PudumjeeChairperson Thermax LtdR D Aga Road, Chinchwad Pune - 411 019.Tel : 020 - 6612 2100Fax : 020 - 2747 2049Email : [email protected] : www.thermaxindia.com

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Neera NundyPartner & Co-Founder DasraRelief Road, Santa Cruz (West)Mumbai - 400 054.Tel : 022 - 6120 0400Email : [email protected] : www.dasra.org

Neera Nundy is the Partner & Co-Founder, Dasra. She holds a Masters in Business

Administration from the Harvard Business School, is an Aspen Institute Fellow and

sits on the Board of Mann Deshi and Jaipur Virasat Foundation. Dasra is committed to help scale promising non profits and social businesses to

positively impact thousands of lives. Dasra's success lies in its unique ability to work

with both philanthropists and social entrepreneurs and bring together knowledge,

funding and people to catalyze social change. Neera plays a crucial role in bringing

managerial skills, knowledge and analysis to the sector. She incubated the Dasra

Social-Impact program, a highly successful executive education program for social

entrepreneurs, enabling over 150 social organizations to receive over USD 7 million

in funding over the past 7 years. Neera also has written and published 9 sector research reports in the education,

health and livelihood sectors. She has enabled portfolio organizations such as SMV

Wheels, Sabras and SNEHA to refine their strategies and accelerate their growth by

20 - 30 times.

Neera has also been quoted in revered media channels like The Times of India, The

Hindustan Times, The Hindu, India Today, Live Mint, Inc. India and Alliance magazine.

She has also spoken at events like SOCAP11, Khemka Forum 2010, NSEF Idea

Conference - IIT Bombay and Godrej India Culture Lab's Urban Re (Imagination).


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Pradeep BhargavaChairman, CII (Western Region) &Director, Cummins India LtdKothrudPune - 411 038.Tel : 020 - 2538 5435Email : [email protected] : www.cumminsindia.com

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Prakash Javadekar Member of Parliament & National Spokesperson Bharatiya Janata Party 24, Mahadev RoadNew Delhi - 110 001.Tel : 011 - 2335 2124Fax : 011 - 2376 5111Email : [email protected]

Prakash Javadekar is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from

Maharashtra. He is also the Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He

has served as a Member of the Legislative Council in Maharashtra from the graduates'

constituency for 12 years (1990-2002). He has also served as the Chairman of the

Maharashtra State Planning Board from 1995-1999.

As a Parliamentarian, he is a member of the Standing Committee on Defence, Public

Accounts Committee, Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Committee on Wakf

and Consultative Committee on Power and a member of the Press Council of India.

He is the President of the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment

(GLOBE), India. In addition, he serves as the President, NOINO (National

Organization of Insurance Officers) and President, KCKU (Khadi Commission

Karmachari Union).

In his years of experience, he has worked on several social causes. He has served as

Chairman of GRAMSHAKTI, a NGO working in the Rural Development Area.

Between 1978 and 1980, Javadekar worked in the Tribal area of Thane District for the

revival of a development project launched by the Bank of Maharashtra. From 1996-

2000, he ensured the successful completion of the Government of India's watershed

Development Project in the Kolvan Valley of Mulshi Tehsil of Pune District.


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Raja KocharChairman, CII Pune Zonal Council Eaton Technologies Pvt Ltd.Plot No. 1, MIDC Kharadi Knowledge ParkPune - 411 014.Tel : 020 - 6607 5821Fax : 020 - 6633 8585Eamil : [email protected]

Raja Kochar is associated with Eaton Corporation - India, a global $11.9 billion

premier diversified industrial manufacturer. In his former role as Managing Director,

Kochar was responsible for working with Eaton's all five businesses to develop

strategies that will build Eaton's overall presence and success in India.

Prior to this, he was Vice President of Information Technology at Eaton and head of

the India Information Technology Center (IITC) located in Pune. He was responsible

for overall operations and increased IT capabilities to the Electrical & Industrial

sectors as well as corporate functions globally.

Prior to joining Eaton, Raja worked at Mphasis as Senior Vice President and Head of

Consulting in New York. After its merger with EDS, Kochar played a key role in the

integration and relocated to India in October 2007 with additional responsibilities as

head of Global Alliances.

Kochar started his consulting career with General Foods in 1983 and gained 25+

years of experience with Fortune 1000 companies in a variety of industries including

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Food Service, Retail,

Telecommunications and Utilities with extensive international experience including

assignments in North America, Latin America, Europe, Far East Asia and India.

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Rajan R NavaniChairman, National Committee on India@75 Managing Director, Jetline Group of Companies101 - 104, First Floor, Metro HousePune - 411 001.Tel : 020 - 2616 4823Fax : 020 - 2616 2299Email : [email protected]; [email protected] : www.indiaat75.com, www.jetlineindia.com

Rajan Navani is the Managing Director of the Indian arm of the Jetline Group of

Companies with interests in Packaging Manufacturing, IT services and new ventures

in innovative entertainment, and organized consumer retail. Rajan is responsible for

the India strategy and its implementation for all the group companies. The roots of the

Navani group originate back to the 1930s in Bangkok, Thailand where the group

continues to have its diversified business operations. Prior to this, Rajan worked with NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland,

USA before returning to Thailand and then to India to enter the family business. Rajan

is currently the Chairman of the National Committee on India@75, the Past National

Chairman of the Young Indians, which is an integral part of Confederation of Indian

Industry and is a member of CIIs National Council. Through India@75, CII is looking

at effectively channelizing the vast youth energy of the country towards building a

Dream India by 2022, seventy five years since its independence. He is also a trustee

of the India@75 Foundation. Rajan is a fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative 2011 2012 and member of

the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is also a BMW Foundations young world

leader and part of the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum. He was the Founder Chairman

of the Emerging Presidents Group, a forum for second generation industrialists and a

promoting member of the Family Business Forum. He is actively associated various

other business and social organizations in India and Thailand. He holds a Masters

degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA under

a NASA grant majoring in Digital Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing graduating

with the award for outstanding academic achievement. A gold medalist at the

University of Poona, India in the Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunications

program, Rajan also has a diploma in Business Management.


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Rasika WakalkarNational Co-Chair (Education), Young Indians Managing Director - Renee Enterprises Pvt LtdRudraksh, 104, Anand Park, AundhPune - 411 007.Tel : 020 - 2588 2255Fax : 020 - 2588 2256Email : [email protected] : www.studiorudraksh.com

Rasika Wakalkar holds a BA (French) and has done her Masters in Marketing

Management from the Pune University, besides an Advanced Diploma in French

iterature.

With a work experience of about 11 years in different areas and capacities, Rasika is

currently the Managing Director at Renee Enterprises Pvt Ltd and founded Punes

first and largest multi-designer store, Rudraksh that has put Pune on the countrys

fashion map and has been the launch pad for over 130 Indian designers.

She is also a Trustee at The Vishweshwar Education Society that runs under

graduation & post graduation courses of the Mumbai University. In her previous role

as a Trustee with the Pune based Indira Group of Institutes, she was responsible for

founding 3 schools.

In her free time, Rasika loves to read, travel and cook.

She was recently awarded the Star Youth Achiever Award in Fashion at the 3rd

Global Youth Marketing Awards in Mumbai. She has been listed in The Power Club

Women in Pune by the Femina magazine and was also felicitated by the Royal

Western India Turf Club for her contribution to fashion.

The love for travel that she has, Rasika has been to the US, UK; France, Italy, Austria,

Spain, Portugal and a few other countries in Europe & Hong Kong, Singapore,

Thailand etc in Asia.

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Rati Forbes graduated with Psychology and Sociology from Bombay university - and

has further done special courses in Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour.

She has been a Director at Forbes Marshall (FM); and has been involved in

overseeing the Human Resources function till 2010. During this time, Forbes Marshall

was thrice selected one of India's Top 25 Great Places to Work; most recently bagging

11th rank in 2011 and 5th rank in 2012.

Today, Rati focuses full time on the social initiatives the company has been developed

and grown over the last 30 years. Rati also heads the Foundation which Forbes

Marshall set up three years ago. She has initiated several programmes for under-

priveleged women and children from neighboring communities; the focus areas being

health, education and women's empowerment.

The social initiatives team at Forbes Marshall is involved with several programs -

some of them are a reading/learning enhancement programme in a hundred

municipal schools in Pune; catalysing 200 self-help groups for women, a gender

sensitisation programme for 8th and 9th standard students which continues to run

each year in about 30 to 40 municiapl and low cost private schools. FM was also the

first company in India to be recognised by the Social audit network of UK and awarded

a certification after a rigorous process in 2010.

Rati chaired CII Western region's cell for Social development from 2002 to 2006; the

main objective being to sensitise corporates to their social responsibility. She

continues to be actively involved with CII's outreach programs for skill development,

leading to employability. Rati is also on the board of several foundations - some of

them are Mobile Creche Pune, the advisory board for Akanksha Pune, Centre for

Learning Resources, the Centre for the Advancement of Philanthropy, etc.

Rati is currently pursuing a part time two year Masters in Sustainability Leadership

from Cambridge UK; she will graduate in June 2013. She has two children - Riah who

works for Google in their corporate office in Mountain View and Darius who is a Junior

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Revathi RoyHead-Investor Relations Brick Eagle2012 One India Bulls, ElphinstoneMumbai - 400 025. Tel : 022 - 24314648Email : [email protected] : www.revathiroy.com

Revathi Roy graduated from St Xaviers Mumbai, is a post graduate from Mumbai

University and has a doctorate from University of Toronto. She is the pioneer of the

first ever women's taxi service in Asia called FORSHE which was subsequently sold,

and started another company called VIIRA. A completely novel profession was

created for the women below poverty line, who only had an aspiration to become

drivers. She has a dream of training 10000 women in 5 years and creating a

residential school.

She is a pioneer in the Women's Fleet Taxi Service which is a large platform for

providing employment to women from below poverty line families in this unique

profession. She Started Forsche pronounced as FORSHE by driving a taxi herself

and getting a first hand experience in real life. She started another brand called VIIRA

and has exited from that as well.

She is a recipient of many awards, the latest being the Godfrey Philips National

Bravery Award. Revathi has also won the Entrepreneur of the Year 2007-08 by

Bombay Management Association, the Indian Merchants Chambers, Inner wheel

Club of Mumbai Airport 2009, Parmanand Foundation Certificate of honour and the

Veerangana award.

Revathi was invited by Hillary Clinton to participate in the Summit conducted by the

Hillary Clinton Foundation last year. She was also recently awarded the Lions Gold

Award for 'Favourite Woman Social Entrepreneur' at a glittering award ceremony. An

episode of 30 minutes has been made on Revathi Roy, which was anchored by

Anurag Kashyap and aired on Samay Mumbai several times in the show entitled

'Rags to Riches'. She is a regular speaker at Forums and is invited by many Business

Schools, including ISB Hyderabad, Mckinsey, TCS etc to speak and guide students

on Entrepreneurship.

Revathi wants to change the way women travel and make roads safe. She is

associated with many NGOs and not for profit organizations in empowering women

and issues which have social impact, and has represented India in many events.

Rati ForbesDirector Forbes MarshallKasarwadiPune - 411 034.Tel : 020 - 27145595 / 39858555Fax : 020 - 27147413Email : [email protected] : www.forbesmarshall.com

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A thorough-bred Puneite, Ritu Nathani is a Dentist by qualification and an Elocution

Teacher by passion. Ritu had started her active participation in theatre and drama

during her school days. And eventually, her sabbatical from dentistry after the birth of

her second child drove her back to her childhood passion.

For over a decade, she has been a communication teacher running her own speech

and drama classes and training children for speech exams conducted by The Trinity

College of London. She has, in the past, taught in many schools like St Mary's and

Primrose, trained May Queen contestants at local clubs, hosted Times of India's

Spelling Bee contest for several years, compered many corporate events,

interviewed celebrities from different walks of life, and has played lead roles in various

professional plays such as Careful Rapture, Where There is a Will by Mahesh Datani,

Plaza Suites by Neil Simon.

Ritu is the wife of Arun Nathani, founder and CEO of Cybage, an emerging IT services

leader with global footprint supported by over 4200 professionals. Ritu heads

CYBAGE KHUSHBOO, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing which

provides financial aid to deserving needy students for professional college education.

Since its inception in 2009, Khushboo charitable trust has sponsored over 250

students for medicine, engineering and other professional courses, and also supports

rural schools around Pune. In recognition of her contribution, Ritu was honored as

one of the Women Leaders of India 2011 in the CSR category at an awards ceremony

that celebrates the remarkable achievements of India's successful women leaders.


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Sam PitrodaAdviser to the Prime Minister on Public InformationInfrastructure & InnovationsPlanning Commission, Yojna Bhawan New Delhi - 110 001.Tel : 011 - 23096622Fax : 011 - 23096767Email : [email protected] : www.iii.gov.in

Sam Pitroda is an internationally respected development thinker, policy maker,

telecom inventor and entrepreneur who has spent over four decades in Information

and Communications Technology and related human and national development

initiatives. Credited with having laid the foundation of Indias technology and

telecommunications revolution in the 1980s, he has been a leading campaigner to

help bridge the global digital divide.

During his tenure as Adviser to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s, Pitroda

headed six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy,

immunization, dairy and oil seeds. He was also the Founder and first Chairman of

Indias Telecom Commission. In these roles, he helped revolutionize Indias

development policies and philosophies with a focus on access to technology as the

key to social change.

Pitroda was the Chairman of Indias National Knowledge Commission (2005- 2009),

an advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, set up to provide a blueprint for reform

of the knowledge related institutions and infrastructure in the country. The

Commission has offered a series of recommendations on various aspects of the

knowledge paradigm to help India meet the challenges of the 21st century.

He is currently Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information

Infrastructure and Innovations and has undertaken the ambitious task of providing a

plan for creating digital infrastructure in the country for enhancing governance and

improving delivery of public services. He is also the Chairman of the National

Innovation Council (NInC) which is working on several initiatives to boost innovation

performance in the country. He is also the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force set

up under the aegis of the Ministry of Power, Government of India. He has also been

appointed as one of the founding Commissioners of the United Nations Broadband

Commission for Digital Development.

He holds close to a 100 worldwide patents and has published and lectured widely in

the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Ritu NathaniChair, Young Indians (Pune Chapter) &Director, Cybage SoftwareKalyani NagarPune - 411 014.Tel : 020 - 2665 9718Fax : 020 - 2565 6518Email : [email protected] : www.cybage.com

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Sarathbabu ElumalaiChief Executive OfficerFoodking3/5, Bajanai Koil StreetNear Baliah Garden Bus stopChennai - 600 091.Email : [email protected] : www.sarathbabu.co.in

Born and brought up in a slum in Madipakkam in Chennai, Sarathbabu E is not

ignorant of difficulties and poverty in his life. Citing his mother to be the most

successful entrepreneur who brought up her kids working several jobs, he is a person

who we can take lessons from. He completed his matriculation form King's

Matriculation Higher Secondary school in Chennai and graduated in Chemical

Engineering from BITS Pilani. He worked in Polaris Software for three years and pursued his MBA from the Indian

Institute of Management - Ahmedabad. It was post his MBA, that he started Food King

food catering service in 2006. His vision was to offer employment to illiterate and semi-

illiterate people through Food King. In 2010, he started the HungerFree India

foundation and his vision is to see a hunger free India in his lifetime. He declared 10th

of October (10-10) as HungerFree day across India. One of his biggest achievements is becoming an Honorary Rotarian. He has also won

the CNN-IBN Award for Young Indian Leader 2011, RITZ Chennai Youth Icon 2010

and many more youth awards. A real icon for the youth in India for success in the face

of hardships, he believes in putting values before money and power.


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Srikant SuryanarayanNational Vice Chairman, Young IndiansManaging Director, Tradelinks Ventures Pvt LtdVeekshanam RoadKochi - 682 018.Tel : 0484 - 2354579Fax : 0484 - 2370725Email : [email protected] : www.pixetra.com

Srikantan Suryanarayan on completing his Bachelor in Commerce from St. Alberts

College in Kochi, Kerala in 1993, proceeded to University of Canberra, Australia for

his Masters in Business Administration, specializing in International Business. In

2003, he became part of the Wharton Fellows Program, University of Pennsylvania,

USA. As part of the Fellows program, attended Master Classes in Los Angles,

Shanghai, Milan, Copenhagen and Mumbai.

Tradelinks is entering its 5th decade of operation in 2012-13, a family run business

organization that specializes in trading, distribution and marketing of products

catering to diverse industries like Education, Audio-Visual, Photography, Printing,

Textiles etc. The brand portfolio includes most of the leading global and Indian

brands. Tradelinks Ventures, the flagship company of the group also runs a chain of

retail stores both virtual and physical, under the brand Pixetra. A new initiative of the

group Ishka Renewables in the coming years will be venturing in Agriculture and

Renewable Energy.

As Managing Director of the Tradelinks Group of Companies, a second-generation

entrepreneur, primary responsibility is to drive growth and explore new business

opportunity.

His other interests include Travel, Photography, Driving, Cooking, Running, learning

history and politics.

He joined Yi in Kochi during its early years in 2002-03. And has been passionate

about its core value systems and headed the chapter in 2006-07. He has been

actively involved ever since at the National Level on areas like Education and

Planning.

He is currently the National Vice Chairman of Young Indians.

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Supriya SuleMember of Parliament(Baramati Constituency)Yashwantrao Chavan Centr, Bhosale MargMumbai - 400 021.Tel : 022 - 22852385Email : [email protected] : www.supriyassule.com

Supriya Sule is a politician and a social initiative leader, and is currently a Member of

Parliament (MP) in the 15th Lok Sabha. She was also elected to the Rajya Sabha in

2006. Supriya is also a member of various Committees such as the one on

Empowerment of Women, External Affairs, and Ethics as also a member of the

Consultative Committee, Ministry of Rural Development. She was educated at Jai

Hind College in Mumbai, earning a B.Sc degree in Microbiology.

Supriya initiated a campaign in Maharashtra to have its first youth policy. Along with

demanding the State Government to declare its First Youth Policy, she conducted

state-wide consultations with youth from various sections like Navmaharashtra Yuva

Abhiyan, Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthaan etc. and presented a draft youth policy

to the State Government which was accepted as a basic document to formulate

official State Policy.

She also initiated a State-level campaign for public awareness against female

foeticide mainly through rallies where thousands of young girls had participated. This

campaign highlighted the issue in media and with policy makers.

Supriya is involved with educational activities in various capacities. She is engaged in

education of tribal children through many schools and is also a board member for the

schools of the Pawar Public Charitable Trust. She is also associated with Vision

programme for career guidance to school children and youth and initiated the

Yashswinini Abhiyan for upliftment of women below poverty line. It organises women

into SHGs, providing them training for entrepreneurship, value addition and

marketing.

She is also the convener of the first political wing for young girls in the country, the

Rashtrawadi Yuvati Congress (RYC); and she has travelled all over the State and has

had direct dialogue with more than 2.5 lakh girls. RYC provides a platform for these

girls to express their feelings and raise their issues.

Supriya has wide-ranging interests in the socio-cultural arena, especially in paintings,

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