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.