Mr. Sujan Roy

Head Marketing - Tata Motors

Mr. Sujan Roy is the Head of Marketing & Product Planning for PVBU at Tata Motors responsible for all the International markets. He is entrusted with all marketing and product related decisions in 18 Global Markets as diverse as Italy, Spain, South Africa and Bangladesh. He is additionally entrusted with the responsibility as Regional Head for Europe.

He has previously worked with Volkswagen India as the Head of Product & Training and was responsible for the successful entry of the Volkswagen brand into the Indian Market. He has also served as a Country Head for Planning at Honda, as Senior Brand Manager for Mahindra Scorpio, as a Product Manager for Mercedes C - Class and Product Head for Lexus in Oman.

He is a technophile, avid reader and also an award winning writer and speaker.

Mr. Rajat Mathur

Executive Director HR - Morgan Stanley

 Mr. Mathur has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources. He has earned his Master’s from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune and his Bachelors from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

He has served as Asia Head of Talent for Morgan Stanley and previously as a Director of Human Resources - for–Deutsche Bank Off Shoring and as a Vice President Human Resources at JP Morgan. Prior to which he ran his own Consulting and Adventure company.

He is also an adventure seeker with his primary interest being running Marathons, Ultra Marathons and Adventure Racing. Currently, he is serving as an Executive Director of Human Resources at Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Sanjay Srivastava

 

Associate Director - HR - Astra Zeneca

Mr. Sanjay Srivastava is a seasoned HR professional with over 13 years of global experience across industries and geographies (India & US) in world class organizations like Cognizant, AOL, Freescale and is currently with Astra Zeneca Pharma india as Associate Director - HR.

He holds accreditation in MBTI & FIRO - B and is currently undergoing certification in 'Organizational Development Internship' & 'Process Work' with 'Sumedhas Academy of Human Context'. He holds a graduate degree in B.Pharm from Jadavpur University and MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.

Mr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Senior Vice President - Corporate Communications - TAM India

Mr. Siddhartha Mukherjee brings with him more than around 12 years of experience in the area of Corporate and Marketing Communications. He has worked in various National and Multinational Communications Consultancies like Lintas, JWT and B-MRP (now R&PM: Edelman).

A standard and neutral measurement system has been the key towards the growth and effectiveness of any communication tool in the world, convinced by which, Mr. Mukherjee presented a concept of a Standard "Industry PR Measurement Tool Kit" in conjunction with PRCAI in 2007.

He is currently serving TAM Media Research as the head of communications. Additionally, he is also the Business Head of Eikona PR Measurement - the PR and Content Measurement & Analysis Wing of TAM.

Mr. Rituraj Sar

 

Head Learning & Development - Lupin Pharma

Mr. Sar has a Bachelor's Degree with honors in Chemistry, a Diploma in Pharmacy and Masters in Marketing Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. He is a trained facilitator and a certified trainer. Using his business insights clubbed with HR exposure, he has done extensive work in areas of Performance Development, Leadership Development and Organizational Development across sectors with large MNCs and Indian organizations.

With 24 years of experience spanning geographies and industries in India, Rituraj joined Lupin from IBM. Mr. Sar has been awarded for his sterling contribution to People Development by the magazine - The Human Factor. Under his leadership, Lupin has also earned the rank of No. 1 Biotech and Pharma company in India as per Great Places to Work Survey conducted in partnership with Economic Times in 2012.

He currently serves at Lupin heading the Learning & Development function.

Mr. B. Jaishankar

General Manager - Marketing & Training - TVS Motors

Mr. Jaishankar holds an MBA - HR from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi and also boasts of certifications in world - class People Development practices from BELBIN, Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL), American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and SHL (UK).

He is driven by a bone deep belief that Business IS People. He is a passionate teacher, trainer, coach and mentor  who has leveraged People Development for Business Development in his span of thirty years career with Eureka Forbes, Whirlpool, Dell and TVS Group.

Serving TVS Motors since 2009, Mr. Jaishankar partners with Sales, Service and Marketing heads in embedding People Development processes as a sustainable competitive advantage in both, the internal (TVSM) and extended (Dealer) organizations.

Mr. Sunil Ranjhan

VP - HR - Honda Cars

Mr. Ranjhan, has a rich experience of 26 years in HR leadership roles. He is fluent in Japanese also and his work has been published extensively in Japan and India. He is a regular contributor to business journals and an avid case writer. His book, “No Right Answers”, has been published by Leadstart in January 2012 and selling on Amazon, ebay, Flipkart, Oxford, Landmark and others.

He started his career with Wipro Information Technology in Sales and Marketing functions and thereafter moved to a Management, HR Role with which he spearheaded many large consulting assignments with organizations like SAIL, NTPC, MTNL etc. He also served as a corporate HR to the Thapars Group for five years.

Mr. Roger Darashah

Director - Rediffusion/Edelman

Mr. Darashah has over 20 years of experience, managing international programmes for companies like Hewlett - Packard, Adobe, Gamin, Compaq and currently serves as the Director of Rediffusion/Edelman.


Before joining Edelman, Mr. Darashah was Managing Director of the technology PR agency Hotwire France for five years supporting a range of clients including Research in Motion (Blackberry), Western Digital, Interwoven, TCS and Infor. His previous experience includes Cable & Wireless where he was PR manager for the operator's corporate division and Weber Shandwick where he provided pan European PR support for HP's Personal systems group based in Grenoble, France.

Mr. Vinod Varghese

Senior GM HR - 3M

Mr. Vinod Varghese has over 17 years of experience in the field of Human Resources and has worked in different industries with organizations such as Colt Technology Services, Ernst & Young, HSBC and Shaw Wallace & Company. He has worked with the senior leadership of organizations in the areas of Employee Relations, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Leadership Development, Performance Management, HR Communications, Talent Acquisition and HR operations.

He has done is Bachelor of Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and then went on to do his PGDPM from Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi. He is currently working as the Senior General Manager - Human Resources and HR Business Partner Head for 3M India.

Mr. Paritosh Bhandari

Head Marketing - Globus Spirits

Mr. Paritosh Bhandari is a management graduate with over 15 years of experience spread across diverse industries and geographies. He has handled varied business and marketing portfolios in renowned organizations such as Levi Strauss & Co, SAB Miller, Sony Electronics and Bennett Coleman, to name a few.

He was instrumental in conceptualizing and launching India’s first super premium vodka, Artic, at Modi Illva, an Indo Italian JV as its first employee. 

He currently heads Sales & Marketing at Globus Spirits and looks after P&L functions for the consumer facing divisions. He is also entrusted with the responsibility of setting up Premium Business via Foreign JV’s. In his previous assignments, he was managing many blue chip, consumer facing brands and played a significant role in launching Foster’s, Playstation, Docker’s and Levi Strauss Signature brands in India.

In his illustrious career, he has been honored with several coveted honors such as – Star Youth Achiever Award ( Youth Marketing Forum ), IndSpirit Award and SAB Miller Asia Pac award for Best Beer brand for Foster’s®, Levi’s® Saddleman Trophy for best integrated launch in APAC and Sony Corp’s President Medal etc. Paritosh is extremely passionate about alcohol, badminton, cooking and travelling.

Mr. Anil Sinha

CPO - Aditya Birla Group

Mr. Anil Sinha started his professional career as a Management Trainee in SAIL in the year 1980 in Personnel & Human Resources function. He has served as the Director of Human Resources and Administration in Timken India Limited and has also been heavily responsible for the Supply Chain function of the company.

He worked as the Vice President - Human Resources of of Hindalco  and was also involved in the due diligence process, the acquisition of Novelis by Hindalco. He currently serves as the Chief People Officer of Chemical, Fertilizer and Insulator business of Aditya Birla Group.

Ms. Papri Dev

India Chair Consumer & Brand Marketing - Burson Marsteller

Ms. Papri Dev has over a decade of experience in Communications, counseling a variety of companies spanning numerous industries and geographies.

Her extensive experience in the corporate and brand marketing communications space has allowed her to work across a range of sectors and stakeholder segments, creating strategic programmes for over 50 corporate and brand retainer relationships, including PepsiCo, Ford Motor Company, Yum! Restaurants India, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Novartis Diagnostics amongst others. She has established herself as an expert in creating and managing long-running reputation management and integrated marketing campaigns, multimedia programmes, advocacy initiatives, designing category & awareness building initiatives and helping clients with crisis preparedness and response. Her work also includes issue management scenarios, corporate social responsibility, brand & product launches and content planning. 

She is currently heading the Consumer Marketing Practice for Burson Marsteller in India - Strategy, Business Development & Mentoring teams and is also responsible for Key Client Relationships.

Ms. Jyoti Verma

Director Ad Sales & Business Development - Worldwide Media

Ms. Jyoti Verma started her career with the Times of India and has worked on varied brands (newspaper and magazines) and events. Her vision, passion and employee orientation has been the 'Midas Touch'  morphing brands bottom line.

With stints in the Television and Dot com business, she has an integrated comprehension of customers business. A team builder, her inspirational and motivational leadership style has been the hallmark of many a growth stories.

Mr. Ajay Ambewadikar

 

Country HR Head - Sandvik Asia

Mr. Ajay Ambewadikar is an HR post graduate from the University of Pune and holds varied experience with different industries such as luggage, heavy engineering, pharmaceuticals, automobile and project organisation.  He has been associated with companies like Jindal Saw and has also headed the HR Division of Greaves Ltd and Knorr - Bremse. 

Being stayed very close to business more than 20 years has helped him leading and driving change management in a good way and currently he works as the Country HR Manager of Sandvik Asia.