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.

Mr. Binayak Datta

VP FINANCE
Zuari Industries Ltd.
Date-27th October 2009
Topic-Balance Score Card

Mr. Binayak Datta is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India and is by career a systems and information professional. After his schooling at St. Joseph’s Allahabad and Graduation from the Calcutta University, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1977 and as a Systems and Information professional in 1979.He has been in the Services of Philips India for most of his career from where he left as the General Manager Finance and Administration and a nominated Director on the Board of ELMI ( a subsidiary). He was lately in services with Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. as the General Manager Finance, Accounts and IT.Mr. Datta currently is the Vice President Finance & CFO of Zuari Industries Limited and is on the Board of several of its Group Companies. He is a member of Assocham (Experts Committee on Direct Taxes), Rajasthan Chamber (Taxation Subcommittee) ex-member Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Indirect Taxes Committee) and ex-member of CII (ER) {Economic Affairs Committee}.Mr. Datta is a Technical & Professional Associate Member of the FAI. He is also on the Managing Committee of the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industries and is the Chairman of the HR & IR Sub-committee there. He has been on the Accounting Standards Committee and Company Law Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India – in different Regional Councils. Mr. Datta has been a paper writer, speaker, moderator and mentor in various professional events organized by Chambers of Commerce and Professional Institutes. He has conducted corporate and international training courses in ABC Management, EVA, Understanding of Financials, Financial Laws, Accounting Standards, Balanced Score Cards, IFRS Convergence, Team Building and Team Play, VAT and Taxation for Purchase Professionals – to name a few..He is a fond family man, an avid reader, an active sportsman, a traveler and a photographer by liking, a musician, cartoonist, playwright and play-director at leisure and is an active Rotarian.

Mr. Bharat Sampat

Executive VP & CFO

Development Credit Bank

Date-25th October 2009

Topic- Measuring Customer Satisfaction.

Mr. Sampat is a B.Com, LLB (General), ACA, AICWA, ACS. He joined our Bank in September 2008 and is currently designated as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has prior experience of 24 years with Larsen & Toubro Limited, Hoechst India Limited, ANZ Grindlays Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and ABN AMRO Bank. He has worked in diverse industries such as manufacturing, banking, finance, and shared services with oversight for financial accounting, financial control and reporting, and management accounting both in India and abroad.

Mr. Avinash Pant

Director Marketing,

Still Beverages,Coca-Cola India.

Date-21st October 2009

Topic-Branding Stratergies.

Mr. Pant completed his Mgmt Degree from IIM Ahmedabad in 1997 and joined The Coca-Cola Company. He has been with Coke for the last 12 years starting right from initial years in sales, to a very long stint in marketing across various brands and categories. He launched Kinley water in India and handled brands Thums Up and Coca-Cola. Mr. Pant also handled the media function being responsible for all media planning and buying across the portfolio. In 2005 he moved to Atlanta, USA to the Coke headquarters to manage brand Fanta at a global level. In Mr. Pant returned to India in his current role as Director Marketing, Still Beverages responsible for Still categories like Juices and Water and Innovation into new categories at Coca-Cola India.

Mr. Abhijeet Majumder

Executive Editor

MID DAY

Date- 9th October'09

Topic- Journalism:Myths & Realities.

Abhijeet Majumder is the executive editor of MID DAY and heads all the editions of the group-namely Mumbai,Delhi,Bangalore and Pune and also Sunday MID DAY and mid-day.com.He has over 14 years of full time experience as a journalist in leading newspapers like the Times Of The India,Hindustan Times and DNA.He has also headed a failed magazine project in 2004,apart from writing a coffee-table book on Australia.