Mr. Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Senior Director HR, Oracle 

Mr. Ramakrishnan is currently working in the capacity of Senior Director HR at Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. He has a work Experience of 23 years and had been associated with Oracle Group since 1996.

Mr. Vijay Deshpande

VP and Head HR, J.K Tyres

Mr. Deshpande has over 30 years experience in industry in functions/ sub functions of human resources management / development and organization development. Though Human Resources Management and Development has been his forte, he has also worked as head of a manufacturing plant for a brief period. In the span of 30 years he worked in large multinational organizations as well as large Indian organizations namely – Bayer India, Bombay Dyeing group, KEC International (of RPG Group), Kansai Nerolac, Bajaj Electricals and Greaves Cotton. He has been head of HR in large, pan India organizations for past 20 years.

Mr. Gourab Barik

DGM-Corporate HR – Emami Group

A result-oriented professional with over 13 years of experience in the areas of Human Resource Management, Administration. Presently associated with Emami Group. as DGM-Corporate HR.

Work with different companies like TNT, Organon , The Park Hotels , M P Birla group. He in also awarded as Genius HR Excellence Award he is also interviewed by Economic Times and Employment News. He is also certified in Thomas International, Leadership and Organizational Change and KSAB Retooling by CII. He is also certified in Train the Trainer by Breakthrough Consultants Bangalore

Mr. Deepak Behl

CPO, Kwality Group

Mr Behl joined Kwality Group in the month of May 2012 as Chief People Officer.  An alumnus of IIM – Lucknow and IMT, Mr. Behl has a working experience of about 17 years with companies like BPL, The Oberoi Group of Hotels, Gap Inc. (American MNC), Inter Continental and Hilton. 

Mr. Abhinav Kanchan

Group Head,-Corporate Comuunications, Moser Baer

Mr. Abhinav is the Group Head, Corporate Communications of Moser Baer. He lends strategic direction to the Group’s overall communication processes. Under his leadership the company today has robust internal and external communication practices in place. He has more than 18 years of diversified experience working in organisations like FICCI, Aditya Birla Group, ArcelorMittal and Moser Baer where he has steered the communication portfolio admirably. He is trained in the precepts of Total Quality Management and Integrated Marketing Communications from Nikkeren, Tokyo and from ISB, Hyderabad respectively. He is an ardent believer in creating credible communication practices by being transparent and trustworthy.

Mr. Rajeev Malik

Head Marketing, Mahindra Navistar

Mr. Malik’s distinguished career spanning over 24 years, has been associated with several brands. He learnt his lessons in concept selling and the nuances of B2B sales when he started his career with Modi Xerox at Mumbai in 1988. Worked in various companies like Blue Star Ltd, Eureka Forbes Ltd., Toyota, DAIHATSU automobiles. Mr. Malik is currently engaged in a fierce tussle with the biggies of Indian Trucking, TATAs and Ashok Leyland and new entrants like Bharat Benz.

Mr. V Srinivasan

Head- Human Resources (India & SL) at Ma Foi Randstad

Mr. V Srinivasan  has over 12 years of experience in diverse industries like Bharti Airtel Limited, The Times of India, Mahindra Hinoday Industries Ltd. currently he is working with Ma Foi Randstad as Head-Human Resource. Mr. V Srinivasan  is an extremely well rounded HR professional. He brings in the right blend of fucntional and business understanding,collaborates with the decision makers and always willing to listen.

Mr. KV Sridhar aka Pops

National Creative Director, Leo Burnett

From humble beginnings as a bollywood film billboard painter to the National Creative Director of Leo Burnett India, Pops has seen it all and today is widely respected as a creative leader in the Indian Ad-world.   Under his creative leadership, Leo Burnett India went on to win agency of the year in the Leo Burnett global network, twice. Continuing the Agency’s superb show at the Cannes the agency has won 12 lions, in the past two years. While over the decade, the Indian office has done splendidly by wining over 328 awards at major award shows including the Cannes, One Show, D&AD and Clio. Pops, as he is popularly known, is credited with the emergence of Leo Burnett as a creative powerhouse in India. Creativity magazine ranks Leo Burnett India among top 20 creative agencies in the world. Pops has been on many Indian & International award juries. Back in 2006-07 he was nominated for the ‘Teacher’s Achievement Awards’. In 2008, he was recognized by the United Nations for his contributions made against Gender bias in Media & Advertising. In July 2009, Pops was honoured with the New York Festivals Creative Achievement Award and in November of 2010 he was cited with the 2010 creative of the year (Indian Subcontinent) award by Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Agency of the Year awards.

Mr. Amit Mukherjee

 














Executive Creative Director, Dentsu India 

As an Executive Creative Director, Amit Mukherjee spearheads the New Delhi office of Dentsu Communications.   Armed with a degree in Applied Art from Delhi College of Art and a PGDBA from Institute of Marketing and Management (IMM), New Delhi, Mr.  Mukherjee has been in the task of nurturing brands for the past 20 years.

Before joining Dentsu in 2008, he worked with some of the leading advertising agencies in India, namely Lintas, Ogilvy and Saatchi and Saatchi. He successfully launched some of the most memorable and everlasting brands in India, namely Hyundai Santro, Hyundai Accent and Samsung LCD TVs. With numerous national and international awards to his credit, he believes in pushing the envelope and making brands touch the hearts. An ardent fan of Kishore Kumar, Amit holds the view that to create timeless communications, advertising professionals need to be happy and in tune with the world around.

Mr. Hersh Bhandari

Business & Revenue Head, Zoom Tv (Times Group) 

Mr. Bhandari, who has about 14 years of experience, has spent six years in the clothing industry and eight years in media. He joined Channel V in 1998 as marketing manager. After spending two years in the organisation, he moved to Aidem Ventures as vice-president. A few months later, he joined Times group(Zoom tv) as Revenue Head for Zoom tv.

Mr. Sandeep Tyagi

 












Director - Human Resources

Mr. Sandeep Tyagi comes with about two decades od experience in the industry after completing his MBA from Faculty of Management studies, Delhi University. Along the way, he has had HR stints with bigwigs like NTPC Ltd., as a Senior Personnel Officer, Automotives Ltd as HR manager, Sony India as Corporate HR manager, Xerox as Deputy General Manager and, Bharti Airtel Limited as General Manager HR.

In 2006, Mr. Tyagi left Bharti Airtel Ltd and joined Haier Appliances as director Human resources and he handles the entire gammit of Talent Acquisition, Talent Retention and Talent Development for Haier India. 

He is also responsible for designing, Planning and Development of HR policies & strategies for the group in India.

Mr. Maneesh Phatak

Senior Creative Director, JWT Mumbai 

Mr. Phatak has worked for 16 years in agencies like McCann Erickson, Euro RSCG and St. Luke’s India, on brands like Coca-Cola, HSBC, BPL Mobile, Tata Indicom, J&J Band Aid, Vaseline, HDFC Bank, L’oreal Paris, Maybelline New York, Sony (SET), Set Max, Sony Pix, NDTV 24x7, Bhaskar Group, BPCL and Reliance Retail amongst others.

 In JWT Mumbai,  he works on the Johnson & Johnson portfolio (Listerine, Band-aid, Savlon, Benadryl, Splenda, Shower to Shower, Crocin), Godrej Corporate, LIC and Starbucks.

Prior to advertising, a brief, miserable stint as a software programmer, a post graduate degree in computer management from Symbiosis and a graduate degree in commerce from University of Poona helped him decide what he didn’t want to do. Along with copywriting, his passions include Formula-1, scuba diving, photography, science fiction, experimenting in the kitchen and watching movies.