Mr. Tarun Khanna

Head Marketing, Fiat India

Mr. Khanna is an MBA from IIM Lucknow  with majors in Marketing & Finance, and has over 17 years experience in Marketing & Sales industry. He has worked in Market Research ,Automotive and Branded Apparel categories and is a strong Automotive marketing person with experience in 2 MNC brands – Ford & Fiat. Mr. Khanna is currently working as Head of Marketing at Fiat Group Automobiles India, with overall responsibility for marketing Fiat-Chrysler brands in the country

Mr. Pankaj Suri

Head HR, Edelaman India 

Mr. Suri is a result driven HR professional with substantial experience of managing change programmes in collaboration with key stakeholders (including CEO’s, Board of Directors and other members of the leadership teams) in major blue chip organisations. In particular, in Aviation, Automobile, ITES, Real Estate, Intellectual Properties & Legal Services Outsourcing businesses.  Mr. Suri truly has a global outlook and significant experience in setting up HR organisation in start up operations - including Recruitment, HR Operations, Shared Services and Learning and Development and also working with counterparts in Europe, Middle East, USA and APAC countries. Prior to Edelman Mr. Suri has worked with various organizations which include CPA Global, DTZ, IBM & Sahara India.

Mr. Suraja Kishore

National Planning Director, Publicis Ambience

Mr. Suraja Kishore is a TISS graduate with an eclectic mix of work experience. A maverick at heart he has undertaken various roles - that of being a Corporate communicator, Copywriter, Marketer, Academician and a Strategic Brand planner.  He has successfully led development of brand campaigns like Idea cellular – What an Idea, & Tata Tea – Jaago Re campaigns at Lowe Lintas. And has won Effies and various other awards for this work. During his stint at MICA as an academician, he conceived and executed the India’s first creative programme with specialisation in Copywriting & Art Direction, and also conducted Professional development programmes in the area of Advertising, Marketing & Creative thinking for professionals from the industry and ad clubs. He keeps his academic interest alive as a visiting faculty to MICA, SPJain, Tata Management Training Centre, Advertising school at Northpoint and others.  His love for life, music, movies and food helps him remain spirited along the way.

Mr. Suman Paul

AVP Corporate HR,  HDFC Bank

Mr. Paul is a Performance & Reward professional with around nine years experience in the domain of Business Partnership, Employee Engagement and HR Policy & Process Implementation.

His Key functions include:

 Implementing  key HR Programs that would include developing and driving Recruitment & Retention strategies, Performance management metrics, Employee Engagement initiatives, SAP Implementation etc. Provide both transformational advice and transactional support on change management initiatives. 

Design and administration of a fair and equitable total reward system that attracts, motivates and retains people across levels and functions of the organization. Devise & deploy Competitive and Effective compensation & benefits plans in sync with the compensation philosophy and budget of the organisation.

Mr. Paul is an MBA from Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD

Ms. Nivedita Ghosh

VP - Talent Acquisition HR, SREI Infra Finance Pvt. Ltd

Ms. Ghosh is Human Resource professional with industry experience of over 12 years and expertise in Executive Search, Talent Acquisition, Identifying and evaluating potential manpower & Relationship management.

Previous to SREI she has worked with Ernst & Young, ABC consultants & Ma foi randstad.

Mr. Soundarranjan K

VP HR, TVS Logistics

Mr. Soundarranjan  is a commerce graduate with PG Dip. in HR and has over 25 years of experience in various organizations like Godfrey Philips, ORG Systems, Unilever and currently with TVS Logistics heading HR. He has worked in various businesses of Unilever in different locations and roles and is highly aligned to the business with deep understanding of its nuances. He has also completed  an Executive Program on strategic HR Management and has led a team to receive TPM Excellency Award in Japan in 1996 for a manufacturing site. Mr. Soundarranjan is also a guest faculty in couple of Management schools in Chennai.