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.

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.