Mr. Bunty Walia

Managing Director

GS Entertainment

Topic-Insight on Event Management & Movie Making.

Date-26th November2009

GS Entertainment is headed by Guneet Singh Walia aka Bunty Walia. An eminent businessman and a great visionary who has carved the company from a start up into a multinational organization.GS one of the leading names in the Indian entertainment industry startedbusiness in 1995 as an event management and film production company.Having scaled the heights of success, the company has ventured into thediversified fields of television software development, weddings, ad films,music videos and celebrity management.What sets gs apart is vision, talent, expertise and attention to detail whichshows in the flawless planning and execution. Some of the biggestBollywood shows in India and abroad have been co-ordinated, scripted &directed by gs entertainment. In addition gs has produced films like ‘PyaarKiya to Darna Kya’ (1998), ‘Hello Brother’ (2000), ‘Maine Dil Tujhko Diya’(2002) and ‘Ek Ajnabee’ (2005).

Mr. Anupam Vasudev

Executive Vice -President

Marketing & Communications
Star India pvt. ltd.

Date-25thNovember2009

Topic- Traditional Media and New Media
Mr. Vasudev is a marketing veteran from the FMCG industry with a career spanning 18 years in the US and Asia, He spent the last 6 years with SC Johnson Consumer Products and 12 years before that with Hindustan Lever in various roles in their sales and marketing functions in India
His key achievements include setting up and implementing the air care category strategy while he was the Regional Marketing Director across the Asia region in SC Johnson USA. He successfully commercialized new products across 35 countries with common marketing mix.
In Unilever as Regional Sales Manager for South India, he led the region to be the fastest growing region in the country for three years. Mr. Vasudev graduated in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi and has a MBA from FMS, Delhi University. Mr. Vasudev's role in STAR is to make marketing a core of Star's strategy and create processes for aligning the organization from a marketing point of view. In addition to Marketing, he also leads the L&M, research, communications and events divisions at STAR.Mr. Vasudev is based in Mumbai and enjoys watching movies, listening to music, reading and traveling with family.

Mr. Ratish Nair

Co-founder

Ad Magnet

Topic-Business Models for Online & Digital Marketing

Date-24th November2009

Mr. Ratish Nair has served as the CEO of Interactive Avenues, which is backed by Sequoia Capital India, a leading venture capital firm whose investments include Indiatimes, Travelguru and Shaadi.com. Globally, Sequoia Capital has been an early investor in leading internet and technology companies including Google, Yahoo, Apple, Oracle, Cisco, PayPal and YouTube.
Ad Magnet, the ad network launched by Interactive Avenues uses proprietary 4th generation ad serving technology to aggregate billions of ad impressions across categories, create audience segments and help advertisers reach highly fragmented Internet users.
In past Mr. Nair has also been associated with companies like Mediaturf Worldwide and Euro RSCG. He is also an alumni of IIM,calcutta and birla institute of tecnology.

Mr. Rajesh Gupta

Head of Logistics
J K Tyre & Industries

Date-23rd November

Topic-Uncertainties in Supply Chain: Risks and Futures

Mr. Gupta is a Gold Medallist in Electrical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Srinagar (now known as NIT Srinagar). Afterwards he did MBA from IRMA in 1987. During the last 22 years he has worked with MNCs and Major Indian Companies. Presently he is working with J K Tyre & Industries at New Delhi, a pioneering Company in Radial tyres in India, as Head of Logistics. He has rich experience in the Supply chain function from one end to other end and has been instrumental in bringing transformation in the Supply Chain function of the Companies where he has worked. He is fond of Computer Systems and has implemented ERP including SAP and many other Systems.He believes in teamwork and has been able to create excellent teams. His hobbies are photography, traveling and reading. He also gives lectures on Supply Chain and other management topics. He is a visiting faculty to many business schools.

Mr. JP Shukla

Whole time Director & CEO merchandise
Vishal retail ltd.
Date-22nd November2009
Topic-Retailing
He has served as Ex. CEO indiabulls retail,Ex chief big bazaar and Ex Head adani retail.
has an experience of 15 years in retail and is among the Founder members of vishal retail.

Mr. Niteen Bhagwat

Executive Director & CEO
Cogito Consulting

Topic-"How Advertising Works."

Date-19thNovember2009

A Chemistry major,Mr. Bhagwat did his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. A love for advertising drew him to JWT. This was followed by a stint in sales and marketing with Lakme – then India’s largest cosmetics company.
The pull of advertising was far too strong and the late 80’s saw Mr. Bhagwat coming back to his first love – advertising. Over the past 25 years, he has been involved with some of the biggest brand successes in the country.
Mr. Bhagwat is CEO Cogito Consulting, the marketing and brand consulting company from the DraftFCB-Ulka group. He also oversees strategic planning for the region. He is actively engaged in training within the organization and at management colleges. He specializes in training in the area of strategic thinking, campaign planning and innovation. In his free time he is associated with organizations like BMA – the oldest management association in Mumbai and assists them with their marketing initiatives.

Ms. Nandita Lakshmanan

Founder and CEO

The PRactice

Topic-360 Degree Communication.

Date-18th November 2009.

The PRactice – is a public relations firm specializing in technology, healthcare and consumer domains.
In her seventeen year long career,Ms. Lakshmanan has personally been involved with two start ups that she has built and scaled successfully: the first being her erstwhile employer, Genesis Burson Marstellar for whom she set up the southern operations. She set afoot their technology practice with clients like Digital Equipment, Intel and IBM while bringing in prestigious clients like Volvo, 3M into the Firm’s fold.
She subsequently founded The PRactice in Year 2000. The PRactice, under her leadership, has emerged as one of the top PR firms in Asia, having won several international awards including the APAC PR Week Certificate of Excellence for “New Consultancy of the Year”.
Ms. Lakshmanan’s philosophy has been to ‘grow slow, but grow right’ which she has exercised consistently throughout her career.
In 2009, in recognition of her work as an entrepreneur, Ms. Lakshmanan was amongst a handful of women chosen from around the world by Fortune and the US State Department to participate in its Global Mentorship Program.Based on the impression she made at this program, she was invited to speak at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit in Washington DC in September this year.
Ms. Lakshmanan is an active member of PRCAI (Public Relations Consultants Association of India) and stepped down in 2008 after serving two years as President.
She believes that every individual can and needs to make a difference. Since 2005, she has been a Member of the Board at Dream a Dream, an NGO that works with children, and advises them on their marketing and fund raising initiatives. She is also one of the founding members of a citizens-initiative called Smart Vote, to get the educated, privileged sections of society to participate actively in the country’s democracy. In addition to this, The PRactice works pro bono with one deserving cause every quarter to get them the publicity they need to succeed in their efforts.
In just nine short years, Ms. Lakshmanan is well on her way to realizing her dream that led her to start The PRactice - to get PR and Communications into the boardroom, a place she believes it always belonged.
Ms. Lakshmanan has been training in Hindustani Classical Music for close to two years; and is currently soaking in interesting conversations with her seven year old son.

Mr. K. ULLAS KAMATH

Deputy Managing Director

Jyothy Laboratories Limited

Topic-"Simple Success Story of Jyothy Laboratories"

Date-16th November2009
Education :
Master of Commerce
Bachelor of Law
Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Associate of Company Secretaries of India
Advanced Management Program
(Wharton Business School, USA – 2004)
Advanced Management Program
(Havard Business School, USA – 2008)
Age : 45 years
Industrial Management Training – Widia India Ltd- 1986-87
Working for Jyothy Laboratories Limited as Deputy Managing Director for the last 18 years.
Traveled extensively both in India and abroad on various business delegations on behalf of Govt. of India and Govt. of Karnataka.
Winner of ICAI BUSINESS ACHIVER AWARD – 2008 (SME)
Brief note on Achiever award:
Business Achiever Award in the SME segment at ICAI 2008 awards organized by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. The awards are instituted to recognize and honour the achievements of fellow Chartered Accountants in professional, personal and community services. Mr.K.Ullas Kamath has joined Jyothy Laboratories Limited (JLL) 17 years ago and has been the main driving force in transforming Jyothy from a proprietary concern to a multi-brand FMCG corporate with key brands like Ujala, Maxo, Exo and Jeeva.
In 2008, JLL diversified into services sector with the launch of its new venture called 'Fabric Spa'. The service is introduced with the objective to provide world-class laundry service at affordable prices at your doorstep.
JLL has been a debt-free company for the last 15-years and has been credited with the success of JLL's IPO offering in the year 2007. Mr.Ullas Kamath also helped in creating direct employment to the needy in rural areas – over 2,000 in manufacturing and 1,500 in sales force and set up projects in backward areas like Mehboob Nagar (AP), Bishnupur (WB), Guwahati (Assam), Jammu, Roorkee (Uttrakhand), Silvassa (Dadra & Nager Haveli), Wayanad (Kerala).
Brief note on Jyothy Laboratories Limited:
Jyothy Laboratories Ltd. was founded in 1983 by Mr. M P Ramachandran. The company was incorporated as Jyothy Laboratories Private Ltd in 1992. Later, in 1996, it was modified to Jyothy Laboratories Ltd. Over the years the company has evolved from a single product proprietary firm into a multi brand company involved in the manufacturing and marketing of fabric whiteners, mosquito coils, soaps, detergents and incense sticks. The company has attracted investments by various well known private equity investors like Baring India Investment Ltd, CDC Financial Services, CLSA and ICICI Bank Canada and UK, who have invested in the company's growth.
JLL is a fast moving consumer goods company with a turnover of over Rs.600 Crores, in the Fabric care, household insecticide, surface cleaning, personal care, and air care segments of the Indian market and offer branded products including fabric whitener, mosquito repellent, dishwashing, bath and incense products. The company has 21 manufacturing facilities in 14 locations across India.

Mr. Ashutosh Dolke

Cox and Kings India Pvt. Ltd

Topic- Creativity: A Critical Skill in HR.

Date-14th November2009

Mr. Dolke has a work experience of Total 13 years out of which 10 years devoted in the area of HR. Mr. Dolke Worked with Companies like Bombay Dyeing Ltd, IRFT & Datamatics Limited.
His Academic Profile includes-
1 Masters Diploma in Personnel Management (M.B.A.- H.R. Equivalent),from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies.
2.Diploma in Human Resource Management, NMIMS, Mumbai
3. Diploma in Training from Indian Society for Training and Development
4.M.B.A. (Marketing) Masters in Business Administration, Pune University
And B.COM Mumbai University.
HE is also a Recipient of Exemplary commitment award in 2005
And received Leadership in execution award in 2007.
He is also a Visiting faculty at NMIMS, ICFAI Mumbai& Sinhagad Institute of Management, Pune .

Mr. Anish Srikrishna

Sr. Vice President and Head of Marketing

Spicejet Limited

Topic-'How Spicejet evolved as a strong player in Indian Aviation Industry'

Date-14th November'09

Mr. Srikrishna has served as Vice President and Head of Marketing at The Oberoi Group of Hotels .He has also been theVP Marketing at Oberoi Hotels & Resorts And was CEO at ICEWARE.He is an alumni of Asian Institute of Management.

Mr.Mahesh Chauhan

Group CEO

Rediffusion – Y&R

Topic- "The Future"

Date-13th November2009

Mr. Chauhan responsibilities include looking after the group companies of Rediffusion – Y&R; TME, Wunderman, Showdiff Worldwide, Rediffusion – Y&R Public Relations, OAP-Touchpoint as well as Rediffusion – Y&R.
Previous to this role Mr. Chauhan was President, Rediffusion – Y&R. Under his leadership the creative agency grew into a hub of the best talent and some of the most admired work around. With over sixteen years of experience, Mr. Chauhan has worked for some of the biggest brands of HUL, Shell, Cadbury’s, Tata Motors, BP-Castrol, Bajaj as well as the Taj Group of Hotels. He started his career with Ogilvy and Mather and returned there again in 1998 when he was closely involved in business development, accruing accounts like Tata Corporate, Amaron Batteries, Bajaj, Grasim, Pfizer and ITC. He then went on to become Regional Business Director (Africa, Middle East and South Asia) for Castrol and BP businesses at O&M. His first stint with Rediffusion – Y&R, then Rediffusion I DYR, was in 1995 and again in 2002 when he was came back to head the South operations as Vice President. After turning around the Bangalore office, he moved to Mumbai to become President of Everest Integrated Communications in 2004 – alternate agency to Rediffusion. After an extremely successful period with Everest, which saw the agency being relaunched as Everest Brand Solutions and reclaim its place among the top creative agencies in India, Mr. Chauhan was appointed President of Rediffusion – Y&R. An all-round sportsman once, he is a keen follower of all sports besides being a man who loves to party. Music and books are also his passions.

Mr. Satish Moorjani

Business Head (Asia Pacific)
Bristlecone

Topic-"Uncertainties in Supply Chain : Risks and Future."

Date-10th November 2009

“Bristlecone”, a global SCM consulting company headquartered in California ,USA, and now part of the Mahindra Group specializes in delivering business value through SCM-IT and Process improvements to leading businesses across the world. In past Mr. Moorjani Has worked for around 30 years (including 5 years overseas) in various capacities and functions such as - Head of Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, International Marketing etc, in a variety of industries e.g Automobile, FMCG, Industrial.In education he has done his graduation in B.Tech from(I.I.T) and PGDM from (I.I.M).He has been a Speaker at SCM conferences in India and Overseas. And Was also invited to USA to make a presentation at the American SAP Users group forum, on the SCM implementation done at M&M.

Mr. Shashank Raodeo

Head Logistics and Supply Chain Management Function

Mahindra Renault.

Event- Chain Act 2009

Date-8th November2009

A Mechanical Engineer from REC Surat, he started his career with Mahindra & Mahindra (Farm Equipment Sector) in 1989. His experience spans various companies viz. Voltas, Videocon and Emerson Network Power. In his last assignment in Emerson, he was heading their Strategic Sourcing Function. He also holds Diploma in Quality Systems Management from NMIS and has been trained on Lean Manufacturing at Emerson China.
At Mahindra Renault, Shashank's responsibility entails procurement of all imported and local parts, setting up and managing the Supply Chain Management System, Inventory Management and Quality Upgradation on an ongoing basis, Complete Outbound Logistics of Vehicle Movement and managing exports for the Company.

Mr. Abhijit Chaudhuri

Director (SCM)
Ispat Industries Ltd.
Event-Chain Act 2009
Date-8th November'09
Education
Mechanical Engineer,
IIT, Kharagpur
Experience
Union Carbide India Ltd.
1976 – 1984
Thermax Ltd.
1985 – 1988
Thermax & Babcock Engineering
1989 – 1998
Independent Supply Chain Consultancy
1999 – 2002
Blue Star
2002 – 2006
Membership
Lean Enterprise Institute, U.S.A.
Outsourcing Cell, CII, Western Region
Publications
In India & Overseas Management Institution Magazines in the areas of Operations Management, Organisation Development and Supply Chain Management

Mr. Sreenivas Rao

Regional Supply Director, South Asia

Reckitt Bencksier India Ltd.

Event-Chain Act 2009

Date- 8th November'09

Mr. Rao has been associated with FMCG Industry for the last 17 years and has vast experience of working in all core spheres of Supply viz Plan, Source, Make and Deliver.
Mr. Rao completed his B.E (Technology) from University of Nagpur and thereafter completed a Masters Degree in Technology (Mechanical) from IIT, Kanpur in 1992.
Mr. Rao started his career with Unilever as a Management Trainee and has worked with them in different capacities for the last 16 years. In the course of his career with Unilever he has been responsible for managing factory operations at Rajpura, Silvassa, Daman, and Orai. He has acted as Cluster Head for all manufacturing operations in Northern Indian including fiscal facilities in Himachal Pradesh, and also as Platform Head for Packaging operations for Unilever in South Asia. In his last assignment with Unilever, he was Regional Supply Chain Director - Skin Care for Asia.
At Reckitt Benckiser in a very short span of just over a year Mr. Rao has turned around the supply function and has brought in a lot of robustness in the function. Under his leadership the factories across India have churned out highest ever volumes. He has made structural changes in the Planning function of Supply Chain which led to reduction in inventories by approx Rs.20 crores on a base of 160 crores while the turnover of the company went up by more than 15% during the same period. The service levels have also improved. Mr. Rao is a true believer in Reckitt Benckiser values which are Achievement, Ownership, Teamspirit, and Entrepreneurship. He has also build up a more engaged Supply team which goes to say what he believes i.e. “ It is not the leader who delivers but it is an engaged team who delivers for the leader.”

Mr. Ramesh Iyer

Managing Director

Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited

Topic-India Rural Story Opportunities and Challenges.

Date-6th November 2009

Mr. Iyer is the Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited (MMFSL), which is in the business of financial services for the last 15 years. Mr. Iyer has been associated with MMFSL from its inception.MMFSL has a Rs. 8000+ crore balance sheet with 440 branches spread across the country. The Company has maintained an aggressive growth year on year since its inception.MMFSL is managed by a team of young Managers with employee strength upward of 4500 people. Mr. Iyer is also on the Board of following M&M Group companies-: 1.Mahindra Insurance Brokers Limited (MIBL), which is engaged in insurance broking in both life as well non-life businesses. 2.Mahindra First Choice Wheels Ltd., a firm engaged in purchase and sale of pre-used vehicles. 3.NBS International Ltd. 4.Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Ltd., which is set up to provide mortgage loans in rural India. 5.Mahindra First Choice Services Ltd., a firm engaged in the services of multi range of vehicles through a network of service outlets. 6.Mahindra Business and Consulting Services Private Limited. Mr. Iyer is also on the following committes- 1.Chairman of Banking & Finance Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 2.Member of core committee of Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) 3.Member of Taskforce of NBFCs of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 4.Co-Chairman of the Group on Finance & Leasing and Insurance of the Council of Economic Affairs set up Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) Mr. Ramesh Iyer was conferred with the following awards;- 1.Udyog Rattan Award by the Institute of Economic Studies, New Delhi 2.Rashtriya Udyog Pratibha Award by the Council for Economic Growth & Research, Pune 3.Bhartiya Udyog Ratna Award by the National Education & Human Resource Development Organisation, Bombay. Music and Reading are his most favourite hobbies.

Mr. Unny Radhakrishnan

Nationl director -Digital

Maxus India.

Date- 7th November 2009

Topic-Digital & Online Marketing.

Mr. Radhakrishnan has over 14 years of experience in IT, Marketing and Digital Media. In his current role, he works with clients in planning and implementing their digital marketing strategies. he is an avid traveller/trekker and blogger, and occasionally writes for some travel magazines.Maxus, India's second largest media agency and part of GroupM, handles some of the prestigious clients like Nokia, Hero Honda, Vodafone, Tata Sky, Tata Motors, Titan, and Wipro, to name a few.

Mr. Arvind Singhal

Director – Marketing, PR & Corporate Communications
McDonald’s India (West & South)
Date-4th November 2009
Topic- Crisis Management

‘Life is a game where one has to constantly practice it to be good, enjoy it to be excellent and totally involved in it to be successful’ is what he believes in’.

With over a decade of experience in the field of Marketing, Mr. Arvind Singhal, continues vivaciously to learn, explore, discover and evolve every single day, both personally and professionally.With a varied body of knowledge and experience in managing national and multinational brands, Mr. Singhal with his vital skills in marketing is set to take McDonald’s to greater heights. In his role, He is responsible for aligning the functional goals to the overall business objectives to achieve the company’s annual targets.An alumni of IIM-Calcutta and IIT-Mumbai, Mr. Singhal started his career as a Graduate Trainee Engineer in Telco in the year 1997 and thereafter moved on to become the Area Manager (Raipur branch) of Asian Paints (India) Limited. At Asian Paints he was successful in achieving the highest collection performance ever in 24 years.In 2002 he joined Marico Industries where he broke all time records in Rajasthan for edibles and played a key role in launching and establishing new products. He was awarded the ‘Best ASM for North’.After his two year stint with Marico, Mr. Singhal moved on to join Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. as the Product - Marketing Manager. Prior to joining McDonald’s Mr. Singhal was with Reliance Communications as Marketing Manager of Reliance Mobile & Reliance Hello and was responsible for providing advertising support at National & Circle levels.He is passionate about learning. His biggest strength is integrity and is driven by positive attitude in any sphere of activity - be it academics, sports or extra-curricular.