Mr.Prakash Ranjalkar

Chief Operating Officer& Whole Time Director
GTL Infrastructure Limited
Date-26th September'09
Topic-leadership Best Parctices Human Capital & Action Learning.
Mr. Prakash Ranjalkar is one of the key driving forces behind GTL Infrastructure Ltd. He is the Whole-time Director& Chief Operating Officer and heads the company's business and geographic operations. He is responsible for executing business strategy and ensuring operational excellence.With his strategic vision and rich experience of over 22 years in the telecom space, Prakash charted a defining growth path for GTL Infrastructure Ltd., and in a short time span, catapulted the organization to being a leader in the shared telecom Infrastructure space.Since becoming Chief Operating Officer in January 2005, Prakash has instituted several programs to make Global Group’s core vision of “Employee Entrepreneurship” DNA of GIL. "Employee Entrepreneurship" has engaged each employee as part owner to the growth and success of the organization. Prakash holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. Prior to joining the Global Group he has been associated with Lucent Technologies, Crompton Greaves Limited and The National Radio & Electronics Company Ltd (NELCO).

Mr. Leroy Alvares

President
Wunderman India Pvt. Ltd.
Date-26th September'09
Topic- Online & Digital Marketing
Mr. Leroy has a career over 13 years across Advertising,Brand Management,Direct & Digital.He has extensive experience across several categories like Financial Services,Retail, Telecom,IT,Travel- Tourism,Fashion and Lifestyle.In past Mr.Leroy has been assosiated with organizations like Ogilvy & Mather, iContract and Tribal DDB India. Mr. Leroy has a superb track record of brand building through relevant, innovative and impactful communication solutions that work across media platforms. He has the unique distinction of being a part of the team that won the 1st ever Gold Lion in Cannes Direct Marketing, in addition to winning both an Effie and a Grand Effie. Under his leadership, Tribal DDB India grew to be the biggest and the most awarded digital agency in the country with over 40 local and international awards in 3 years .Mr.Leroy firmly believes that there is a great need to integrate interactive, direct and relationship marketing disciplines to deliver quick, highly impactful and sustainable solutions to clients.

Mr. Pradeep Gogte

VP HR Ad factors PR
Date-26th September'09
Topic-Preparing for a Professional Career – Do’s and Dont’s in Placements.
Pradeep Gogte has a Total work experience of over 35 years and has been associated with companies like Godrej & Boyce, Tata Power Co, Johnson & Johnson, Skypak Couriers, Wartsila Diesel and Infomedia 18 where he has managed diverse assignments in Human Resources, Personnel and Administration.Mr.Gogte had also been incharge of admissions, placements, faculty hiring & supervising HR processes wid high-profile B-schools like (ISB), Hyderabad, and S P Jain Centre of Management, Dubai – Singapore.
He is also a PROFESSIONAL MEMBER of bodies like
*Bombay Management Association.
*National Institute of Personnel Management. and
*National HRD Network.
He has done his Graduation in B. Sc.(Geology) 4rm Patna University And Post graduation in M A (Personnel Management and Industrial Relations) 4rm Tata Institute of Social Sciences,Mumbai.

Ms. Ranjona Banerji

Senior Editor DNA,Mumbai
Date-22nd Sep'09
Topic-Emerging trends and Challenges-Print Media
Ranjona Banerji has worked in the media for about 25 years and in a number of publications from Bombay magazine and India Today to Gentleman to Mid-day and the Times of India. She has also co-written and co-edited with Mr Ayaz Memon a book on 50 years of Indian Independence, which was published in 1997. She has been deputy editor of Mid-Day and deputy resident editor of the Gujarat edition of The Times of India. She is currently senior editor, edit page, with DNA, Mumbai's newest and fastest growing English broadsheet. She writes a fortnightly column on the edit page, a weekly restuarant review and as often about tennis superstar Roger Federer.

Mr.Milind Mutalik

Sr.Manager HR
Cognizant
Date-21st Sep'09
Topic-Cross Cultural Dynamics
In past he has worked as Manager "Compensation & Benefits" at P&O Nedlloyd IT Services and also as Manager Compensation & Benefits at Maersk Global Service Center/P&O Nedlloyd.he has been an alumni of institutes like XLRI Jamshedpur and Symbiosis institute of Management Studies.

Mr.R. Chandramouli

Director,
Moulis Advertising
Date-19th Sep'09
Topic-Overseas Advertising
Moulis, established in the year 1959, is celebrating its golden jubilee this year.Chandramouli is based in Mumbai and is in charge of the company's overseas operations.He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from the university of madras.He has a Masters degree in Advertising from the United States. He graduated from Oklahoma State University, in the year 1982.After completing his masters, he has worked in the US as a journalist for 2 years.He returned to India in 1984 to join Moulis Advertising, and this is his 25th year with the company.He is a long distance runner. He likes to read and write.He is the author of many short stories, which can be read on www.storiesfromindia.com He has published his debut novel, titled "North Star," last month. The book will soon be available at book stores nationwide.He has great respect and regard for Dr. Pramod Kumar of ISBM. He has given several guest lectures to our students over the last two years.Moulis has recruited over 6 students till date from ISBM, and also 7 summer trainees. Their company was the first company in the history of ISBM to have a summer placement overseas, for their branch in Dubai.

Mr. N Chandramouli

CEO
Bluelotus PR
Date-17th Sep'09
Topic-Public Relations-Learning the Science of Influence.
N Chandramouli is a Chemical Engineer and a MBA in Finance with 20 years of multifunctional experience. His public relations experience spans over a decade in the areas of corporates, healthcare, technology, finance and education and he has been the CEO for Blue Lotus since its inception in October 2002, having grown the business from 2 people to 115 people with 9 office across India. Prior to setting up Blue Lotus, Chandramouli was heading a healthcare and technology PR agency which he helped grow to reputed agency. He ventured into setting up his own agency in October 2002. Before the PR experience, Chandramouli has had successful multi-varied entrepreneurial stints in giving him exposure into many disciplines and sectors. A multi-lateral entrepreneur, he is currently heading four successful communication businesses namely, Blue Lotus (a knowledge based public relations agency focused on healthcare, technology & finance), i9 Communications (a PR agency focused on lifestyle, hospitality & entertainment), Mustard Designs (a boutique design firm) and Blue Bytes (an information capture & dissemination powerhouse.)