To identify and develop unique & high potential change agents of India through a multi-disciplinary programme guided by eminent leaders and scholars of our time.

Sanjeev Aga
Mr. Sanjeev Aga is Managing Director of Idea Cellular Limited, which is among the top four mobile telephony players in India. He is a Director on the Board of the Aditya Birla Management Corporation, and is the Vice-Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India.

In a business career commencing in 1973, Mr. Aga has held senior positions in Asian Paints, Chellarams (Nigeria), and Jenson & Nicholson. In 1987, he joined Blow Plast to head the furniture business, was made Chief Executive of Mattel Toys in 1990, and in January 1993 was appointed Managing Director of Blow Plast with multi-business responsibility including the flagship VIP luggage business.

In November 1998, he was appointed CEO of the Aditya Birla Group's telecom JV, Birla AT&T Ltd. He led the company through a period of fast-paced change, through expansion and acquisition, and merger with Tata Cellular Ltd., to be CEO of what became Idea Cellular. From May 2005 until October 2006, Mr. Aga was Managing Director of Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited, a diversified conglomerate with manufacturing and service sector businesses.

Mr. Aga is an Honours graduate in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Ajay Bahl
The Founder and Senior Partner of AZB & Partners, Ajay is one of India’s foremost corporate attorneys. In addition to being a lawyer, he is a qualified accountant and prior to setting up of the Firm, he practised in the areas of direct tax as an accountant. He qualified as a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1978 and went on to become a Bachelor of Law from the University of Delhi in 1985. He has been associated with various important leading tax rulings. Ajay has also served as an independent expert on behalf of the Government of India on matters of accounting and tax issues before the International Court of Justice at the Hague. The Chambers Asia: Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2008, has mentioned Ajay Bahl as a Band One individual for Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions practice. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Chambers have named Ajay a leading attorney in the fields of Taxation and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has also been referred to as a linchpin of AZB’s corporate, M&A, private equity and finance practices. He is extremely well respected in India and overseas for being an astute lawyer and an acknowledged point of reference for difficult questions of law.

Ajay Bakshi
Dr. Ajay Bakshi is an experienced healthcare professional having played diverse roles as practicing Neurosurgeon (India), Stem cell Scientist (USA) and management Consultant (global) over the last 2 decades. He has abundant expertise in healthcare, has strong leadership skills and a passion for innovation.

In his last role, Dr. Bakshi was an Associate Partner with McKinsey and company where he worked for more than 6 years. He started in the New Jersey office, then moved to Dubai office and most recently transferred to the India office of Mckinsey. During this period, Dr. Bakshi worked on strategic, organisational, operational and M&A related engagements with leading international hospital chains, top-10 global pharmaceuticals and medical device companies, health insurance companies, philanthropic foundations and several ministers of health. In addition, Dr. Bakshi is deeply passionate about using technology to improve healthcare delivery models and he helped create and lead Mckinsey`s global mobile healthcare practice.

In his first professional assignment, Dr. Bakshi worked as a consultant Neurosurgeon at a leading private hospital in New Delhi. During this period (1998-2002), Dr. Bakshi conducted several hundred major brain and spinal surgeries including those for brain tumours, brain haemorrhage, injuries, congenital malformations and movement disorders. In particular, he pioneered Endoscopic Neurosurgical research work has been published in Journal of India.

Dr. Bakshi received his medical training from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India. He completed his MBBS in 1991 and M.Ch (Neurosurgery) in 1996. He has also completed the Wharton Management Programme from The Wharton School (2002-2004). He is married to Dr. Asha Bakshi (also a Neurosurgeon). He loves to play golf, read history and biographies and play the violin when in tranquil surroundings.

Arjun Bhagat
Arjun Bhagat is the Chairman and CEO of the PE firm, Calibrated Group. Prior to this, he was the President and CEO of R.M. Software India (Pvt.) Ltd (RMSI). Arjun was responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of RMSI, and was personally responsible for building strategic customer relationships and opening offices in the U.K., Belgium, Japan, Canada and Australia. Starting with 5 employees, he grew the company to an 800-person operation with an additional network capacity of 500 seats. In 1999, he negotiated the sale of the company to DMGI, the technology investment arm of the Daily Mail Group out of the U.K.

Arjun currently sits on the board of PipeIn, Inc. and on the advisory board of Yodlee, Inc. Mr. Bhagat did his MBA from UCLA in 1988, specializing in Finance and Marketing, and was a Riordan scholar. Prior to that he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT, Delhi.

Vivek Bhandari
Dr Vivek Bhandari was the Director and Professor of Social Science at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) in India. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his doctorate from UPenn, he became a faculty member at the School of Social Sciences at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. In this capacity, Dr Bhandari also taught and researched collaboratively at academic institutions in the Five College Consortium located in Massachusetts. He had been in this present role since 2007, when he moved to India after fifteen years in the US.

Born on March 4, 1970, Dr Bhandari is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He did his BA (Honors) in History from St. Stephen’s College, and then a Master’s in Modern History from the University of Delhi. He went on to do a second Master’s in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and proceeded to complete his PhD in History from the same university.

Most recently, as a co-author of "The State of Panchayats Report: An Independent Assessment, 2007-08,” India’s first macro-study of institutions of local self-governance in India, Dr Bhandari has taken a particular interest in the study of social and community mobilizations in India, and explored strategies for mediation between the state and extremist movements. His work as a professor and the director of IRMA involves an in-depth engagement with the changing character of rural India, and the role that academic and civil society organisations can play in shaping the country’s fast-unraveling rural transformation. In 2008, Business Today magazine included him in its list of “India’s Top 25 Young Executives under the age of 40.” Most recently, on a short break from IRMA, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pramod Bhasin
Pramod founded Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) in 1997. Under his leadership, Genpact pioneered the Business Process Management Industry in India. This industry now employs over a million people in India, directly and indirectly. Genpact has also been the pioneer of this industry in China and Eastern Europe. Today, it is acknowledged as a leader in the globalization of services and technology. Genpact serves its global customers from over 39 operations centers in 13 countries, with over 43,000 employees across a wide range of business processes, technologies and industries. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Pramod was earlier an Officer of General Electric (GE). His career with GE and RCA spanned 25 years across the US, Europe and Asia. He was most recently the head of GE Capital in India and in Asia, having earlier worked with GE Capital's Corporate and Finance Group in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.

Pramod is a Chartered Accountant from Thomson McLintock & Co., London, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Delhi University. He was the past Chairman of India's National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM), and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of NASSCOM Foundation. Pramod is the current Chairman of the CII Services Council. He serves on the boards of NDTV and SKS Microfinance. He is also Chairman of the Junior Achievement India Founders Board, and is on the governing boards of several educational institutions including IIM Lucknow, Lady Shri Ram College, and Shri Ram School.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Sanjeev Bikhchandani is the Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman of InfoEdge, the company that runs the popular job portal Naukri.com. Mr. Bikhchandani obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management ("PGDM") from IIM, Ahmedabad in 1989. His work experience includes an advertising position at Lintas India Limited, a marketing position at HMM Limited (now known as Glaxo SmithKline), and a senior management position at CMYK Printech Private Limited (owner of The Pioneer newspaper). Sanjeev, along with his partner Hitesh Oberoi, won the "Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2008 for Business Transformation. He also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award & the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Business in 2008. Sanjeev is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at conferences and at business schools.

Melanie Bowen
Melanie Bowen is a global business executive with experience in venture capital, business building, strategy consulting, and law. She is currently working with an Indian partner to build a high quality, sustainable, affordable school outside of New Delhi with an eye to replication, while continuing select additional Board and Advisory work in education and social business.

Previously, Melanie was a Senior Advisor for Lok Capital, focusing on new initiatives including social performance management, education and healthcare. Before moving to India in 2008, Melanie was the first General Manager of the consumer health website RevolutionHealth.com, anchor property in the Revolution Health Network, launched by America Online founder Steve Case. Prior to this she was a senior executive at Discovery Communications, launching their education business, and, before that, leading a turn-around in a one of the company’s key finance departments. Melanie’s previous experience spans Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the United States, including time as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co, a diplomat based in the Caribbean, and a tax consultant with PriceWaterhouse in Central Asia. Melanie holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Dartmouth College.

Amit Chandra
Mr. Chandra joined Bain Capital in early 2008 to found the Mumbai office and today is the Managing Director of Bain Capital Advisors. Mr. Chandra spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch, India's leading investment bank. At the firm, he had direct oversight of its Global Markets & Investment Banking business. He retired from DSP Merrill Lynch in 2007 as its Board Member & Managing Director. Previously, Mr. Chandra was a partner, since inception, of NSR Advisors, which advised NSR Private Equity, a $1.3 bn fund focused on the sub-continent. Prior to his MBA, Mr. Chandra worked for over two years at India's leading engineering & construction firm, Larsen & Toubro. Mr. Chandra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007. He is active in India’s not- for- profit space and serves as a Trustee/Board Member of The Akanksha Foundation (providing education to less privileged children), GiveIndia (India's leading philanthropic exchange), and Creditibility Alliance (working towards uplifting standards of NGOs).

Mr. Chandra received his MBA from Boston College, on a full research scholarship, and was awarded the school's Distinguished Alumni in 2007. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay University.

Sanjeev Chatterjee
Dr Sanjeev Chatterjee is Vice Dean, Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami, where he has taught classes in studio and field production, media and society, writing and documentary production at the University of Miami. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002 and has been nominated two more times since.

Professor Chatterjee is producer, co-director and writer of a global motion picture project about potable water entitled “One Water”. An earlier short version of the film won two awards at the Broadcast Education Association and has been screened at special United Nations conferences in 2004 and 2005.

Prof. Chatterjee’s earlier documentary work explores issues of identity among people in the Indian diaspora. His films on the topic are “Bittersweet” (1995) about Asian Indians in the United States and “Pure Chutney” (1998) about people of Indian origin in Trinidad. “Pure Chutney” won second place at the Film South Asia competition in Kathmandu in 1999. In 2005 Professor Chatterjee completed “Dirty Laundry” - an essay film about people of Indian origin living in South Africa.

In 1999-2000, Professor Chatterjee was commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to produce television reports about environment and culture in India. The topics of these reports ranged from deforestation and habitat fragmentation to the survival of folk and classical dance in India.

Professor Chatterjee has served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy since its inception in 2003. In 2006 he accepted the responsibility to advise the global online enterprise databazaar.com on their philanthropy aimed at supporting American and Indian students in the fields of Visual Journalism. Professor Chatterjee earned his M A in English Literature from Delhi University and his M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College.

Ajay Chaturvedi
Founder of HarVa, Ajay Chaturvedi, is an ex-Citi where he served in Strategy and Sales positions in Cards and Consumer banking verticals. Ajay begun his career with IBM Consulting in the US and has experience in Management, Operations and IT Consulting across Financial Services, IT and ITeS industries in US, UK, and South East Asia. Prior to Citi, Ajay was the Transition Leader at Global Vantedge, a company that was a pioneer in many ways besides being the first offshore receivables management provider. Ajay is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and a Graduate in Management of Technology from the School of Engineering and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ajay truly believes in the power of cost effective innovation on all aspects that will lead to value creation across the world, especially in India and supports the Socio-Capitalistic business models as the drivers of inclusive growth. He also thinks that the real growth in rural areas across the world and in India is yet to come and is possible only when we get into the real fabric of the country and not just overlay thoughts and patterns from the developed nations. A voracious reader, an avid golfer and an ardent traveller, Ajay spent almost a decade living in the US and across the world and now lives in Gurgaon. Most recently Ajay was awarded CNN IBN Youth Icon / Young Indian Leader of the year 2011.

Most recently HarVaXPO entered the Limca Book of Records for being the first all women rural BPO in the world. HarVa has won numerous awards and accolades including the Manthan Chairman Excellence Award 2011, SKOCH Financial Inclusion 2011 and TiE Entrepreneurial Excellence 2011 among the latest recognitions. Earlier in 2011, HarVa was also identified as the 3rd most innovative company in India (next only to Tata Motors) by the Fast Company magazine of New York, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability& Empowered Woman Award by the Rockefeller Foundation / United Nations 2012.

Ajay has recently been nominated as one of the Amazing Global Indian by Times Now News 2012-13 and Yahoo unsung Heroes 2012-13.

Keki Dadiseth
Mr. Dadiseth is a former Chairman of Hindustan Levers Limited (now Hindustan Unilever Limited) and former Director, Home and Personal Care of Unilever, the parent company of HUL. Currently, Mr. Dadiseth is the Chairman of Sony India.

Starting in 1973, he held various accounting and commercial positions with HLL and Unilever in India and London respectively. He became executive director and head of detergents for HLL in 1991, vice-chairman and managing director of HLL in 1995, and chairman of HLL in August 1996. At present, he sits on the boards of Nicholas Piramal India Limited, The Indian Hotels Company Limited and the Indian School of Business, among others.

Mr. Dadiseth did his schooling from Bishop's School, Pune and studied at Sydenham College in Bombay before qualifying as a chartered accountant in London.

Puneet Dalmia
MD, Dalmia Cements; BTech, IIT Delhi; MBA, IIM Bangalore

Mr. Puneet Yadu Dalmia, B.Tech.,MBA has been the Managing Director of Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Limited since January 16, 2007 and Vice President since March 25, 1997. Mr.Dalmia serves as Chief Executive Officer of Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Limited and WebNeuron Services Limited. He served as Joint Managing Director of Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Limited. He has eleven Years of experience in the industry having started his career as the Co-founder and Chairman of one of the most profitable e-recruitment websites in India, JobsAhead.com. He worked at Dalmia Cement. Mr.Dalmia has been a Director for OCL India Ltd. since May 2008 and Dalmia Bharat Enterprises Ltd. since February 11, 2011. He serves as a Director of Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Limited. Mr. Dalmia is a Gold-Medallist from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in strategy and marketing and B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology.

Gita Dang
Gita is a business leader with more than two decades of experience in executive search, corporate, retail, merchant, and international banking. She has served a wide range of clients and consulted with various organizations on topics related to leadership development, talent planning and on-boarding. She is a Certified Executive Coach.

Gita provides insightful coaching that enables leaders to be more self-aware and have greater impact in an increasingly globalized business environment. Her areas of developmental focus include: alignment of business and personal goals, situational leadership, communication and influence and executive presence. She brings a pragmatic approach to addressing the corporate needs of rapidly changing and complex business goals. She uses her diverse corporate experience to assist in understanding business issues, global needs and cultural nuance, which helps leaders adapt and align them to enhance their effectiveness.

Gita is the Founder Director of Talent Advisory Services, a boutique firm that focuses on working with top multinational and Indian companies in a variety of ways to help them execute world-class talent management strategies. Talent Advisory offers Coaching & Leadership Consulting Services for both young and high-profile growth companies across sectors entering or expanding their presence in India. Gita has successfully placed senior executives in the C-suite for a wide range of companies including ADP, Charities Aid Foundation, Cisco Systems, Fidelity Information Services (FIS), ICANN, Intel WLS, Manthan Systems, Omidyar Network, Acumen Fund, Patni Computers, Schneider Electric, Sequoia Capital and Tyco International. Gita is also the Senior Client Partner and Regional Leader for India, Korn/Ferry International serving a wide range of clients in the technology space for more than ten years. Major clients were - British Telecom, Goldman Sachs, Bennett Coleman, Cisco, Dell, EDS, Vodafone, McAfee, Autodesk, Lenovo, Moser Baer, NASSCOM, Symphony and Sequoia. She is an Investment Banker with HSBC and with ANZ Grindlays. She has held executive roles in retail, corporate and investment banking.

Gita has a master’s degree in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is a charter member and serves on the Board of Directors of TiE Delhi (The Indus Entrepreneurs). She has Co-authored English language textbooks and workbooks for primary schools on special needs.

Arunabha Ghosh
Arunabha Ghosh is CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), India. He is also an Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford; Faculty Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford; and Associate Fellow at the Governance of Clean Development Project at the University of East Anglia. He is a member of the working group of the Royal Society’s Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative.

Dr Ghosh was recently made a Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton and at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford. Previously, he was Policy Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

Dr Ghosh’s interests intersect international relations, global governance and human development, including climate, energy, water, trade and conflict. His recent publication, Harnessing the Power Shift: Governance options for international climate financing (Oxfam), comprehensively assesses the range of financing channels, funds and institutions and offers alternative design options for governing climate finance.

Dr Ghosh has presented to the President of India, briefed the Indian Parliament, the European Parliament, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and trained ministers in Central Asia. He has hosted a documentary on the water crisis set out of Africa, Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life, recognised as an Official Honouree at the Webby Awards. He has served as Assistant Editor and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

Arunabha holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) and M.Phil. in international relations from Oxford. He holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, as a Radhakrishnan-Chevening Scholar. He graduated at the top of his class with a BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

Vineet Gupta
Vineet Gupta is the Managing Director of Jamboree Education, a leading education services provider. Vineet graduated in mechanical engineering from IIT, Delhi in 1991. But his passion is creating companies and setting up new businesses. He started his entrepreneurial career in 1992 by setting up a successful packaging company. In 1995, he co-founded Jamboree Education Pvt. Ltd., a company that provides training for exams like the GMAT, GRE, SAT, TOEFL and IELTS. With twelve centres across 6 cities, it is the largest company of its kind in India.

Rakesh Jaggi
Rakesh Jaggi joined Schlumberger in 1992 in its Wireline divsion. As a field engineer he worked on challenging projects in Bombay, San-Fernando and Galeota (Trinidad) after which he was assigned to management positions in Yopal and Bogota (Colombia). As the Field Service Manager he was responsible for setting up the new Wireline base in Bogota. He managed the profitability of his division during the downturn in the oil industry in the late nineties as the Country Manager & Oil Field Services Manager for Wireline & Testing in Trinidad. As the Operations Manager for Mexico in 2000 he restored the profitability of the Wireline division in the country and led the division of the NSA geomarket from August, 2002 to 2004. He is currently the VP, Reservoir Production Group at the Abu Dhabi office of Schlumberger.

Dipak Jain
Dipak Jain is the current Dean of INSEAD, one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools, a post he has taken over just recently.

Jain, an American citizen and native of Tezpur, Assam, was the Dean of the Kellogg School of Management from 2001-2009, where he was the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing. He is a graduate of Guwahati University in India and received a Master’s in management science and a PhD in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.

A noted scholar in marketing and entrepreneurship, Dr. Jain has published some 60 articles in scholarly and professional journals, and three books. He has presented and lectured at universities throughout the world, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and scholarship. Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister of Thailand (2002-2006), Jain also received an honorary Doctorate in Economics from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, in 2009 and IPADE, Mexico, in 2010.

Dipak Jain has been a member of review committees at Harvard, UCLA, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Northwestern. He serves on international advisory boards and councils such as the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration (Chulalongkorn University), the Carey Business School (Johns Hopkins), and American University in Cairo, and Nyenrode University (Netherlands). He is a member of the American Marketing Association and The Institute of Management Sciences, and has consulted with such companies as IBM, UBS, AT&T, Nestle, Abbott, Boeing, Accenture, Thompson Electronics, and American Express. He is currently Executive Editor of the Sasin Journal of Management (Thailand) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Marketing (Singapore).

Apart from teaching, Jain is currently involved in two social projects: creating a business school in Bangladesh focusing on entrepreneurship and small business management, for women from countries such as Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan; and starting a full-fledged university in Angola. He is a director of John Deere, the Northern Trust, Reliance Industries and Media Bank.

Manjari Jaruhar
Manjari Jaruhar belongs to the IPS and has retired as Special Director-General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in October 2010 after a distinguished 34-year career. She is one of the first five women police officers in India and the first from the state of Bihar. She was selected for the Indian Police Service (IPS), the elite crime prevention and law enforcement cadre of the Indian Civil Service, in 1976 and has held positions in the State Governments of Bihar and Jharkhand, the National Police Academy (NPA), the CISF and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). She has led teams in a wide range of complex and challenging assignments that have prepared her for a career in the private and social sector. From fighting crime to administering a massive organisation, Ms. Jaruhar has shown exemplary leadership in a domain traditionally dominated by men. She is the recipient of the Government of India’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service and the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. She was awarded the Director General’s Commendation Disc for outstanding service twice in the CISF and once when she was with the CRPF.

Ms. Jaruhar currently resides in New Delhi with her husband, who is also a retired IPS officer. After her retirement, Ms. Jaruhar has been working as a Consultant/Advisor. She is at present Advisor, TCS and Chief Coordinator for the Indian Music Industry. Recently, she has been appointed as Chairperson of the Private Security Industry Committee of FICCI.

Sushil Jhangiani
Sushil Jhangiani is a certified executive coach with 21 years of business experience behind him. Sushil has coached senior leaders both in India and abroad across diverse sectors and areas such as manufacturing, offshore services, IT, banking, UN agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations. Besides this, Sushil has worked with numerous senior leadership teams across domains to help them evolve shared visions, manage change, and improve effectiveness.

Sushil’s work derives from a philosophy of service leadership deriving from the three core legs of self-awareness and understanding, role and value appreciation, and impact and legacy. Some clients that he has worked with recently include BASF, Tetra Pak, UNICEF, UNFPA, CARE, McGraw-Hill, Nokia and BAE Systems.

Sushil is also a strategic and brand consultant. Sushil spent the first 13 years of his working life as a marketing professional, with companies such as Procter and Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser in India, Europe, and the Americas, before returning to India in 2004. Among other achievements, he was responsible for resurrecting a global business worth over $ 400 mn through strong product innovation, and achieving sustained profitable growth in geographies he handled.

Sushil is a visiting faculty in the Marketing Area at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. In this role he teaches both first and second year students of the flagship Post Graduate Programme. The subjects he teaches include Advertising, Brand Management, Marketing Research, International Marketing and Sales Management.

Sushil has a BSc from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Deep Kalra
The pioneer of online travel in India, Deep Kalra founded MakeMyTrip in April, 2000. Drawing on his experience from his years at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank, under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip has become the largest online travel company, as well as the largest e-commerce business in India.

Deep is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM and chairs the NASSCOM Internet Working Group. He is also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the Board of TiE, New Delhi. Deep is also a member of CII's Tourism sub-committee and a regular speaker at numerous internet and travel conferences across the world. He currently serves as an independent Director for IndiaMart.com, a leading B2B website. Deep is also a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focused on the improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.

Deep holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1990), and a MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992). His interests include adventure sports, swimming, yoga, quizzing and travelling to places off the beaten path.

Kiran Karnik
Kiran Karnik is a prominent figure and guiding force behind the Indian outsourcing industry. He has formerly been the president of NASSCOM (The National Association of Software and Services Companies), and is now one of its trustees. Mr. Karnik has recently been selected as one of three boards members as well as Chairman of Satyam Computer Services after the Government of India disbanded the Satyam board.

Prior to joining NASSCOM, Mr Karnik was the Managing Director at Discovery Networks in India from 1995 - 2001. He spearheaded the launch of Discovery Channel in South Asia in August 1995 and Animal Planet in 1999.

Mr Karnik worked for over 20 years in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He was deeply involved in the conception and overseeing of the Kheda Communications Project. This pioneering effort won wide national and international acclaim, including the first UNESCO-IPDC Prize for rural Communication. Karnik was a key member of the management team for the India – USA Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE), the first every large scale use of satellite direct broadcasting (1975-76), which took education and development to remote parts of rural India. In 1998, Mr. Karnik was awarded the Frank Malina medal for Space Education by the International Astronautical Federation.

In 1991, Mr Karnik joined the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) as its first Director. CEC is the apex body set up by University Grants Commission to co-ordinate and oversee the functioning of media centres in the universities, and is responsible for ensuring the production and transmission of educational TV programmes for college students.

Mr Karnik has worked briefly with the United Nations in New York and Vienna, serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary-General of UNISPACE 82. He has done an extended consulting assignment for UNESCO in Afghanistan, and has also been a consultant for World Health Organization, The World Bank, UN Institute for Disarmament Research and the Ford Foundation.

Kiran Karnik has authored/edited a large number of publications, and lectures occasionally at major national institutes. His educational background includes an Honours degree in Physics from Bombay University, followed by post-graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Samir Kuckreja
Samir Kuckreja is the Founder & CEO of Tasanaya Hospitality Private Limited which specialises in advisory/ consultancy work for the hospitality industry and as service provider to the industry both in India and other countries. He has done a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a BS in Hotel Administration from Cornell University, USA.

Samir has over 22 years of experience in the hospitality industry. He started his career with the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, USA. He was the Business Development Manager for the Indian Subcontinent with Yum Restaurants in Delhi responsible for setting up over 70 Pizza Hut and KFC restaurants. He was the Joint Managing Director of Mars Hotels & Restaurants in Mumbai for two years and responsible for expanding their hotels, restaurants and cake shops. He was CEO & Managing Director of Nirula’s from June 2006 till April 2012. One of the key achievements was growing the footprint from 35 outlets in two cities to 85 outlets in 8 cities.

Anuradha Das Mathur
Anuradha Das Mathur is a Founder and Director of 9.9 Media (Nine Dot Nine Media) - one of India’s fastest growing niche media companies that offers high-quality, timely knowledge and insights to targeted consumers, business and professional communities through magazines, websites, events, and peer groups. Over the past 4.5 years, she has launched new businesses, turned-around older ones, and focused on either doing different things – or doing things differently; a characteristic that is now identified with her Company.

Prior to running her own company with a group of partners, Ms Mathur ran Businessworld (a part of the Anand Bazaar Patrika Group), India’s most widely-read business magazine. She was responsible for growing the core magazine business and launching a series of new initiatives to supplement Businessworld.

Anuradha brings a unique blend of intellectual insight and intuition to 9.9 Media, building new businesses by leveraging knowledge and human capital. She has strong professional relationships in the Indian CXO community and this makes her ideal for the leadership of 9.9 Media’s community businesses. Specifically, she manages 9.9 Media’s CFO, CIO, CISO, and CEO communities, in addition to its research business and India’s first speaker bureau. She is the publisher and a senior editorial resource for The CTO Forum, CFO India and Inc. India. She is a speaker and chair at many CXO level conferences and her areas of expertise include entrepreneurship, the future of media, and gender balanced leadership.

Anuradha was recently selected for the prestigious FORTUNE magazine & US State Department Global Emerging Women Leader’s Programme. Established in May 2006, the programme identifies young, talented, emerging women business leaders from across the globe to spend a month in the United States and get mentored by top American female executives - FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women - and support them in their professional growth. She participated in the programme in 2009, joining 30 rising star women from around the world.

She spent the early years of her career with the Indian affiliate of the Economist Intelligence Unit where she led the research and advisory business, and conceptualised and managed a series of businesses for CFOs and CEOs. She is a trained economist with a Bachelors degree from Delhi University and a Masters degree from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Estelle Metayer
Estelle Métayer is an expert in Competitive and Strategic Intelligence. Her research focuses on how managers, CEOs, and board members build and improve their strategic planning and/or competitive intelligence function to avoid strategic blindspots. Her best work is done when companies need to drastically change the way they do business and/or grow aggressively. She is a reputed public speaker in international conferences and facilitates strategic workshops around the world. An adjunct professor for McGill University, she teaches with Henry Mintzberg in the International and national Advanced Leadership Programmes and the International Master for Health Leadership. She also introduced Competitive Intelligence into the McGill-Rottman School of Business’s certification program for Canadian board directors, and into the new HEC-McGill Executive MBA. Estelle is also a guest lecturer at International Master’s Programme in Practicing Management led by Lancaster University, McGill, the IMB (India) and INSEAD and at IMD, Lausanne.

Prior to selling the company in 2004, Estelle was the president and founder of Competia, the leading training organisation for executives and analysts in Strategic Intelligence. Competia launched in 1998 Competia.com which became the world's largest community, portal and magazine for strategy professionals, receiving over 1 million hits each month.

A former consultant at the international Strategic Consulting firm McKinsey & Company, she gained first-hand practical experience while managing the competitive intelligence, business development and strategic planning function at CAE Inc. She started her career at the ING Bank in the Netherlands and in Poland, studying the financial risks of expanding into emerging countries.

She received in 2000 the Arista Sunlife Award for "Entrepreneur of the Year" and was a finalist in 2001 for the Award "Women of Merit" from the YWCA. She sat on the board of the Grands Ballets Canadiens and of World Canada Youth. She was trained in the Netherlands, where she obtained her MBA and Drs. from the University of Nijenrode.

Estelle speaks French, English, German, Dutch, Italian and Arabic. She is also a mother, a commercial pilot and flight instructor.

Anoop Prakash
Anoop Prakash is the Managing Director for Harley-Davidson India where he is responsible for sales, business development and marketing for motorcycles, parts and accessories and general merchandise.

Prakash formerly served as a Senior Executive Service appointee in the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush. He served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and has worked as Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development at the U. S. Small Business Administration. Prakash has actively participated in U.S.-India trade promotion as a vehicle for economic development and growth for both countries.

Prakash previously held senior private sector roles in strategy, marketing and business development, including Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at LexisNexis, Director of Business Development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) and consultant at McKinsey & Company.

A former U.S. Marine Corps Officer, Prakash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Public Policy from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prakash has served on several non-profit boards in Washington D.C., including the Indian American Leadership Initiative and Brainfood.

Ankur Puri
Ankur is on his journey of discovery. In the last decade, he has explored building robots, serving clients as a management consultant, launching an institution for academics and research, managing a restaurant and providing health services using cell phones in rural India.

He is part of the India office of McKinsey & Co. He has been with the Public Health Foundation of India, as part of the launch team and Head of Partnerships.

Ankur recently completed his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He has received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degress in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Ajit Rangnekar
Ajit Rangnekar is presently the Dean and Member of Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB). As the Dean, Rangnekar steers the School’s vision to be among the globally top-ranked, research-driven management institutions. He believes that his role is to attract top quality research faculty to the School, create an environment in which research of high impact to academia and society is carried out, and to support the transformational development of the School’s students and alumni. In his own words, “nothing gives me a greater thrill than to see our alumni succeed”. Prior to taking charge as Dean, he was the Deputy Dean of the ISB from March 2003 to January 2009, and was instrumental in strengthening the School’s relationships with the external stakeholders - industry, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and experts.

Rangnekar has a background spanning over thirty years in Consulting and Industry across different countries in Asia. Before joining the ISB, he was the Country Head, first for Price Waterhouse Consulting and then for PwC Consulting, in Hong Kong and the Philippines. He was head of the Telecom and Entertainment Industry Consulting practice for PwC in East Asia (China to Indonesia). He worked with Associated Cements Companies, India (1970 to 1981) prior to moving to Hong Kong. Rangnekar holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, before completing his post- graduation in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Ajay Relan
Mr. Relan is one of the most well-known names in the Indian private equity space. Before founding CX Partners in 2008, he was head of the Indian operations of CVCI, Citibank’s private equity arm. As head of CVCI, from 1995 to 2008, he built and managed a team that has invested over $ 1billion in approximately 40 Indian companies.

He has also served as Vice President and Head of Saudi American Bank's Corporate Finance Division and thereafter as Senior Consultant of Swiss Financial Services Company, where he was involved in the restructuring of financial institutions. Mr. Relan has also held Directorships in companies such as Jubilant Organosys, Suzlon Energy, HT Media, and Yes Bank, among others.

Mr. Relan holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and graduated with Honours in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. He has also done an Owner/President Management Programme from Harvard Business School.

Sanjiv Sachar
Sanjiv Sachar has a Bachelor degree (Honours) from Delhi University Hindu College (1978) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (1982). He was previously with A.F. Ferguson (1982-85) as a Auditor, Senior Consultant and thereafter worked as Senior Manager Finance in SRF Nippondenso (1985-86) before setting up independent consulting practice (1986-1995). Sanjiv is the founding Partner of Egon Zehnder International, IndiaPractice since1995. He was the India Country Head from 2003 to 2008. He is also a core member of the Firm’s Global Financial Services and Industrial Practice and leads the CFO practice in India and has extensive experience of handling cross border Non Executive Director, CEO and Senior Functional Head mandates.

Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, environmentalist and urbanist. He is Founder and President of the Sustainable Planet Institute. He is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and is Deutsche Bank's Global strategist. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination and is the author of the bestselling book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (Penguin).

The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader for 2010.

Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well -regarded environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in recognition for his work on urban systems. He is a member of the Steering Committee of "Urban Age" at the London School of Economics and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project - an environmental accounting project. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar Micro Venture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore, in 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.

He writes a regular column for Business Standard, India's second largest business newspaper. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Parth Shah
Parth J. Shah is the founding president of the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), an independent, nonprofit think tank in New Delhi. CCS offers public policy solutions within the framework of the rule of law, subsidiarity, community engagement and competitive markets. It is currently focused on education reforms through the School Choice Campaign: Fund Students, Not Schools!and on livelihood deregulation through the Law, Liberty, & Livelihood Campaign and Jeevika Documentary Festival.

Parth taught economics at the University of Michigan before returning to India to start CCS. He has published academic articles in the areas of development economics, welfare economics, business-cycle theory, free or laissez-faire banking, and currency-board systems. He has edited Morality of Markets, Friedman on India, Profiles in Courage: Dissent on Indian Socialism, Do Corporations have Social Responsibility?, and co-edited Law, Liberty, and Livelihood, The Terracotta Reader, and Agenda for Change. He writes regularly in newspapers and magazines. He is also the youngest Indian member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the premier international association of classical liberals.

Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar joined Star TV India as its Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and oversaw Star TV's business ventures in India. In the past, Mr. Shankar has worked as the head of the Hindi news channel, Aaj Tak and also as the Chief Executive Officer of the Star News channel and Head of Sahara TV's news television channel business.

He has been a Director of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd since September, 2009. He serves as a Director of several media companies such as Tata Sky Limited, Media Content and Communication Services (India) Private Limited and Asianet Communications Limited.

He holds an M Phil in Economics from the University of Delhi. Mr. Shankar is also a graduate in Journalism from the Times of India Media School.

Sunish Sharma
Sunish Sharma is Managing Director at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. He works out of the Mumbai office and focuses on opportunities in India and the Asia-Pacific region. Sunish has extensive experience in investing in India, and focuses his efforts within GA on the firm's Business Services & Technology, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Energy & Resources sectors. In addition to identifying potential investment opportunities, he was a Director on the Sharekhan and Infotech Enterprises board, and currently is a Director on the Hexaware board.

Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2004, Sunish worked at McKinsey & Company Inc. for over six years. He spent the majority of his time on strategic issues serving several Indian and MNC clients on multiple engagements and M&A transactions. Sunish has co-authored the first two NASSCOM-McKinsey reports on the IT and BPO sectors.

Sunish is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, where he did his MBA. He also received a degree in Cost and Work Accounting from the Indian Institute of Cost and Work Accountants and a B Com degree, with honours, from Delhi University.

Harsh Shrivastava
Harsh Shrivastava is a policy and communications expert with a deep understanding of the links between business, government, and civil society. Harsh is the Planning Commission’s Consultant (Planning), where he managed the process of making India’s 12th Plan. He’s also on the board of the Meghalaya Institute of Entrepreneurship. Harsh was also on Prime Minister Vajpayee’s personal staff as his deputy speechwriter. Harsh has also been the head of the agribusiness secretariat of the Confederation of Indian Industry, been the head of marketing at Feedback Infrastructure, and a Vice President at Reliance Capital. He’s also been a journalist and co-written India’s first book on corporate social responsibility. Harsh is a regular guest lecturer at leading business schools, and been an Emerging Leaders Fellow at the Australia India Institute, Melbourne. Harsh did his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad in 1995.

Akhilesh Tiwari
To gain a deeper understanding of the various dimensions of life and to have a wide range of exposure Akhilesh Tiwari has engaged himself in multifarious activities. He has established successful enterprises in the field of agriculture, dairy, real estate, construction, and manufacturing and has simultaneously worked in the cultural and socio-political arena of our country. At the same time, he has also carried out interdisciplinary studies in the field of psychology, philosophy, religion, economics, political theory, Indian culture, and education policy.

His multifarious activities and interdisciplinary studies have converged towards a point that has led him to seek an understanding of the nature of the evolutionary crisis to become an apprentice of the movement of the new world. The ideal of human unity and the concept of the future evolution of the human race inspire and drive him.

In the near future he aims at deepening and expanding his sphere of cultural and socio-political activities from the point of view of bringing glory to Mother India and working towards the realisation of India’s true role in the world. Towards that end, while working on ground, he is also studying Sri Aurobindo’s works titled “The Renaissance in India,” “The Human Cycle,” and “The Ideal of Human Unity.”

He obtained his Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA2) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from University of Durham, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) from Cardiff University. He studied towards obtaining his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics, Political Science, and Philosophy at Rajasthan College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.

NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan
“Tiger” Tyagarajan is credited as one of the pioneers who transformed Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) into a global leader in business process and technology management, offering a broad portfolio of enterprise and industry-specific services. Today, Genpact serves its global customers from 50 operations centers in 16 countries with over 49,000 employees, managing over 3,000 processes for more than 500 clients worldwide. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Tiger was CEO of Genpact from 1999 to 2002 and led the business through a critical growth phase as a subsidiary of GE. In October 2002, he transferred within GE to its multibillion-dollar Commercial Equipment Finance division, serving as SVP, Six Sigma and Global Operations. When Genpact became an independent company, Tiger rejoined Genpact from GE Capital U.S. as EVP, Sales and Business Development from 2005 to 2009. Thereafter, he took on the role of Genpact’s Chief Operating Officer.

Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in India, and then worked with Citibank, India. He joined GE Capital in 1994 and held a variety of leadership roles in both India and the U.S. until 2005. He is a mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Arjun Uppal
Arjun is currently Head of Agri Business at Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar. This is a rural retail initiative of DSCL (DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited) and works with the objective of delivering goods and services to the rural community across India. It is the largest organized sector enterprise engaged in rural retail in India. He is directly responsible for several businesses such as Dairy, Fruits and vegetable, Seeds, Cattle Feed, vocational training, telecom etc.

Prior to this Arjun was an Advisor to ICICI Bank’s Rural Credit Businesses: (2005 to 2007). There were two phases in this role. First was to interface between ICICI Bank and potential customers that operated in the rural space. This entailed working with large corporates such as ITC, Godrej, Hindustan Unilever, Reliance, Fabindia, Tata Chemicals etc with the objective of understanding their business models. Based on their needs, the Bank would create relevant products to cater to specific requirements. Creating a producer company model for Fabindia was one of the highlights.

During the second phase, he worked closely with Dr Nachiket Mor and ICICI Foundation. The objective was to build businesses that had social impact. This covered several sectors such as food processing, handicrafts, skills, rural tourism, energy, etc. It essentially involved understanding the sector, identifying successful models, preparing business plans, funding such enterprises and then mentoring these to reach scale.

Arjun was Managing Director of Mother Dairy Foods Ltd in its formative days. (2002-2003). The company’s mandate was to build a contemporary brand, form joint ventures with state federations and run the business in a commercially viable manner.

Arjun spent 19 years with Hindustan Unilever Ltd till 2002 and worked in various commercial and general management roles. Two major achievements were in turning around the Seeds business and Kimberly Clark Lever Limited from losing operations to profitable ones.

Arjun’s two major interest areas are agriculture and social entrepreneurship. He has experience in these areas having worked in this space for over twenty years. He is associated with the BASIX group as well as several NGOs.

Smita Vats
Smita Vats is the Founder and Director of ITIHAAS, a Delhi based educational trust active in the area of heritage education.She strongly advocates Heritage Education at the school level and works with many schools to make tangible and intangible heritage accessible and age-appropriate. She studied Psychology at Delhi University and then went on to do her Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia. After 20 years in documentary film making she founded ITIHAAS. Smita has also been very deeply involved with theatre and has acted at the helm in over 30 major productions. She now brings all her experience and energy to ITIHAAS.

Adil Zainulbhai
Mr. Zainulbhai is currently the Managing Director of the Indian Practice of McKinsey & Company, Inc. He moved back to India in 2004 after 24 years with McKinsey in the United States, where he started the Minneapolis Office and led the Washington D.C. Office of McKinsey & Company. Since joining McKinsey in 1979, he has served a wide range of clients (including large corporates, MNCs, PSUs, and family-owned businesses) across sectors including telecommunications, consumer electronics, energy, banking, infrastructure and health care.

Over the last five years, he has led McKinsey in India through a phase of significant growth and helped it maintain its status as the employer of choice and its reputation as the leading management consulting firm. Mr. Zainulbhai advises not only the CEOs of current and emerging industries, but also several government agencies on issues related to nation building.

Mr. Zainulbhai obtained his BTech degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. He also holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Sanjeev Aga
Mr. Sanjeev Aga is Managing Director of Idea Cellular Limited, which is among the top four mobile telephony players in India. He is a Director on the Board of the Aditya Birla Management Corporation, and is the Vice-Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India.

In a business career commencing in 1973, Mr. Aga has held senior positions in Asian Paints, Chellarams (Nigeria), and Jenson & Nicholson. In 1987, he joined Blow Plast to head the furniture business, was made Chief Executive of Mattel Toys in 1990, and in January 1993 was appointed Managing Director of Blow Plast with multi-business responsibility including the flagship VIP luggage business.

In November 1998, he was appointed CEO of the Aditya Birla Group's telecom JV, Birla AT&T Ltd. He led the company through a period of fast-paced change, through expansion and acquisition, and merger with Tata Cellular Ltd., to be CEO of what became Idea Cellular. From May 2005 until October 2006, Mr. Aga was Managing Director of Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited, a diversified conglomerate with manufacturing and service sector businesses.

Mr. Aga is an Honours graduate in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Ajay Bahl
The Founder and Senior Partner of AZB & Partners, Ajay is one of India’s foremost corporate attorneys. In addition to being a lawyer, he is a qualified accountant and prior to setting up of the Firm, he practised in the areas of direct tax as an accountant. He qualified as a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1978 and went on to become a Bachelor of Law from the University of Delhi in 1985. He has been associated with various important leading tax rulings. Ajay has also served as an independent expert on behalf of the Government of India on matters of accounting and tax issues before the International Court of Justice at the Hague. The Chambers Asia: Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2008, has mentioned Ajay Bahl as a Band One individual for Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions practice. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Chambers have named Ajay a leading attorney in the fields of Taxation and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has also been referred to as a linchpin of AZB’s corporate, M&A, private equity and finance practices. He is extremely well respected in India and overseas for being an astute lawyer and an acknowledged point of reference for difficult questions of law.

Bobby Bedi
Bobby is the founder and MD of Kaleidoscope Entertainment and has produced over 10 feature films including the award winning films Bandit Queen, Fire, Maqbool, Saathiya and The Rising.

Bobby Bedi is an MBA in finance, with over 15 years of experience as a Producer, including all of Kaleidoscope productions, and has received several national and international awards. Bobby is on the executive of most major film industry bodies and is one of the advisors to the Minister of Information & Broadcasting.

Ashok Belani
Ashok Belani is Chief Technology Officer of Schlumberger Limited, a position he assumed in March 2006. Based in Paris and Boston, Belani leads the effort to align Schlumberger product development and marketing, in addition to oversight of the company's vast research organization.

Belani joined Schlumberger as a field engineer in 1980 and worked for 10 years in different field positions. He then transferred to product development and held positions in engineering, marketing and technique, and technology management. He served as vice president of marketing and product development for Wireline and later as vice president of marketing and product development for Oilfield Services. He moved to Test and Transactions in 1999 and served as president of Semiconductor Solutions. He later held the position of CIO of Schlumberger Limited. From 2003 to 2005, Belani led the effort to divest the semiconductor equipment business from Schlumberger, listed the subsequent company on the Nasdaq stock exchange and then merged it with Credence Systems.

Belani studied Electrical Engineering in India and holds a Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University. He is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University.

Arjun Bhagat
Arjun Bhagat is the Chairman and CEO of the PE firm, Calibrated Group. Prior to this, he was the President and CEO of R.M. Software India (Pvt.) Ltd (RMSI). Arjun was responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of RMSI, and was personally responsible for building strategic customer relationships and opening offices in the U.K., Belgium, Japan, Canada and Australia. Starting with 5 employees, he grew the company to an 800-person operation with an additional network capacity of 500 seats. In 1999, he negotiated the sale of the company to DMGI, the technology investment arm of the Daily Mail Group out of the U.K.

Arjun currently sits on the board of PipeIn, Inc. and on the advisory board of Yodlee, Inc. Mr. Bhagat did his MBA from UCLA in 1988, specializing in Finance and Marketing, and was a Riordan scholar. Prior to that he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT, Delhi.

Vivek Bhandari
Dr Vivek Bhandari was the Director and Professor of Social Science at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) in India. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his doctorate from UPenn, he became a faculty member at the School of Social Sciences at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. In this capacity, Dr Bhandari also taught and researched collaboratively at academic institutions in the Five College Consortium located in Massachusetts. He had been in this present role since 2007, when he moved to India after fifteen years in the US.

Born on March 4, 1970, Dr Bhandari is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He did his BA (Honors) in History from St. Stephen’s College, and then a Master’s in Modern History from the University of Delhi. He went on to do a second Master’s in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and proceeded to complete his PhD in History from the same university.

Most recently, as a co-author of "The State of Panchayats Report: An Independent Assessment, 2007-08,” India’s first macro-study of institutions of local self-governance in India, Dr Bhandari has taken a particular interest in the study of social and community mobilizations in India, and explored strategies for mediation between the state and extremist movements. His work as a professor and the director of IRMA involves an in-depth engagement with the changing character of rural India, and the role that academic and civil society organisations can play in shaping the country’s fast-unraveling rural transformation. In 2008, Business Today magazine included him in its list of “India’s Top 25 Young Executives under the age of 40.” Most recently, on a short break from IRMA, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pramod Bhasin
Pramod founded Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) in 1997. Under his leadership, Genpact pioneered the Business Process Management Industry in India. This industry now employs over a million people in India, directly and indirectly. Genpact has also been the pioneer of this industry in China and Eastern Europe. Today, it is acknowledged as a leader in the globalization of services and technology. Genpact serves its global customers from over 39 operations centers in 13 countries, with over 43,000 employees across a wide range of business processes, technologies and industries. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Pramod was earlier an Officer of General Electric (GE). His career with GE and RCA spanned 25 years across the US, Europe and Asia. He was most recently the head of GE Capital in India and in Asia, having earlier worked with GE Capital's Corporate and Finance Group in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.

Pramod is a Chartered Accountant from Thomson McLintock & Co., London, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Delhi University. He was the past Chairman of India's National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM), and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of NASSCOM Foundation. Pramod is the current Chairman of the CII Services Council. He serves on the boards of NDTV and SKS Microfinance. He is also Chairman of the Junior Achievement India Founders Board, and is on the governing boards of several educational institutions including IIM Lucknow, Lady Shri Ram College, and Shri Ram School.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Sanjeev Bikhchandani is the Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman of InfoEdge, the company that runs the popular job portal Naukri.com. Mr. Bikhchandani obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management ("PGDM") from IIM, Ahmedabad in 1989. His work experience includes an advertising position at Lintas India Limited, a marketing position at HMM Limited (now known as Glaxo SmithKline), and a senior management position at CMYK Printech Private Limited (owner of The Pioneer newspaper). Sanjeev, along with his partner Hitesh Oberoi, won the "Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2008 for Business Transformation. He also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award & the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Business in 2008. Sanjeev is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at conferences and at business schools.

Raj Biyani
Raj Biyani is the head of India operations for Microsoft IT and the CIO/Product Group Strategic Initiatives organization. Microsoft IT-India is Microsoft's largest IT operation outside of corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington - an eight year old organization with talented IT professionals who consider it a great place to build their career dreams and aspirations.

Raj is an entrepreneur with a string of high-impact incubations at Microsoft. In his 12 year career at Microsoft, he has worked in the Office, Developer Division, Windows and Online Services business groups. As General Manager for CIO/Product Group Strategic Initiatives, he is helping shape the cloud adoption strategy for Microsoft IT in moving the first generation of enterprise applications on the cloud.

Raj has demonstrated an ability to see opportunities early and generate executive support for initiatives to capitalize on those opportunities. Raj led the envisioning and successful creation of the Windows Marketplace - an electronic software delivery platform for Microsoft.

Raj uses a fact-based, analytical approach to complex business challenges, but is quick to credit his accomplishments to the high-performance teams he has built over the years. By combining cutting edge management thinking with a start-up mindset, he has led nimble teams to deliver results. A living example of 'servant leadership', Raj is consistently ranked as a top people leader at Microsoft.

Raj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Accounting from Goshen College, Indiana, where he serves on the President's Advisory Council. Raj has an MBA with Honours from the University of Chicago. He is an avid consumer of cutting-edge business thinking reflected in his vast collection of business books, many autographed by their authors. He holds one EU and seven US patents.

Raj recognizes the role that the educational institutions have played in his life and considers it his privilege and duty to give back. He has set up endowed scholarships at his alma mater that have benefited students from twelve countries.

Raj loves racket sports and enjoys his time on the tennis and squash courts. During his school days in Pilani, he was a table-tennis champion. He has moved from Bellevue, Washington to Hyderabad with his wife and their two young children.

Amit Chandra
Mr. Chandra joined Bain Capital in early 2008 to found the Mumbai office and today is the Managing Director of Bain Capital Advisors. Mr. Chandra spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch, India's leading investment bank. At the firm, he had direct oversight of its Global Markets & Investment Banking business. He retired from DSP Merrill Lynch in 2007 as its Board Member & Managing Director. Previously, Mr. Chandra was a partner, since inception, of NSR Advisors, which advised NSR Private Equity, a $1.3 bn fund focused on the sub-continent. Prior to his MBA, Mr. Chandra worked for over two years at India's leading engineering & construction firm, Larsen & Toubro. Mr. Chandra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007. He is active in India’s not- for- profit space and serves as a Trustee/Board Member of The Akanksha Foundation (providing education to less privileged children), GiveIndia (India's leading philanthropic exchange), and Creditibility Alliance (working towards uplifting standards of NGOs).

Mr. Chandra received his MBA from Boston College, on a full research scholarship, and was awarded the school's Distinguished Alumni in 2007. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay University.

Sanjeev Chatterjee
Dr Sanjeev Chatterjee is Vice Dean, Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami, where he has taught classes in studio and field production, media and society, writing and documentary production at the University of Miami. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002 and has been nominated two more times since.

Professor Chatterjee is producer, co-director and writer of a global motion picture project about potable water entitled “One Water”. An earlier short version of the film won two awards at the Broadcast Education Association and has been screened at special United Nations conferences in 2004 and 2005.

Prof. Chatterjee’s earlier documentary work explores issues of identity among people in the Indian diaspora. His films on the topic are “Bittersweet” (1995) about Asian Indians in the United States and “Pure Chutney” (1998) about people of Indian origin in Trinidad. “Pure Chutney” won second place at the Film South Asia competition in Kathmandu in 1999. In 2005 Professor Chatterjee completed “Dirty Laundry” - an essay film about people of Indian origin living in South Africa.

In 1999-2000, Professor Chatterjee was commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to produce television reports about environment and culture in India. The topics of these reports ranged from deforestation and habitat fragmentation to the survival of folk and classical dance in India.

Professor Chatterjee has served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy since its inception in 2003. In 2006 he accepted the responsibility to advise the global online enterprise databazaar.com on their philanthropy aimed at supporting American and Indian students in the fields of Visual Journalism. Professor Chatterjee earned his M A in English Literature from Delhi University and his M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College.

Keki Dadiseth
Mr. Dadiseth is a former Chairman of Hindustan Levers Limited (now Hindustan Unilever Limited) and former Director, Home and Personal Care of Unilever, the parent company of HUL. Currently, Mr. Dadiseth is the Chairman of Sony India.

Starting in 1973, he held various accounting and commercial positions with HLL and Unilever in India and London respectively. He became executive director and head of detergents for HLL in 1991, vice-chairman and managing director of HLL in 1995, and chairman of HLL in August 1996. At present, he sits on the boards of Nicholas Piramal India Limited, The Indian Hotels Company Limited and the Indian School of Business, among others.

Mr. Dadiseth did his schooling from Bishop's School, Pune and studied at Sydenham College in Bombay before qualifying as a chartered accountant in London.

Ashish Dhawan
Ashish is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who guides the Foundation with his strategic vision, values and fresh approach to philanthropy. Prior to founding Central Square, Ashish was Sr. Managing Director, ChrysCapital; a private equity firm that he co-founded in 1999.

Ashish serves on the board of several non-profits including Akanksha Foundation, 3.2.1 Education Foundation, Teach For India, Centre for Civil Society, Janaagraha and GiveLife. He is also a member of the HBS India Advisory Board. Previously Ashish has worked with leading investment institutions such as Goldman Sachs, GP Investments and MDC Partners. He is an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and a dual bachelor's (BS/BA) holder in applied mathematics and economics with Magna Cum Laude honours from Yale University.

Manisha Girotra
SHE clinches the most talked-about deals and has a mean golf handicap too. She also finds the time to be a mother, work out and occasionally wave the ladle. That’s investment banker Manisha Girotra for you. A Delhi School of Economics topper, Girotra is quite an eyeful too, having been judged ‘Rose Princess’ in Chandigarh few years ago.

Now ex- managing director and ex- chairperson, India, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), she is known to have said her biggest competitor in the business was her husband, Sanjay Agarwal of Deutche Bank.

Credit to her the management of the Vodafone acquisition of Hutch-Essar and the Hindalco buy-out of Novelis.

Before UBS hired her, Girotra did stints at ANZ Grindlays and BZW Investment Banking where she spearheaded the team that secured the GAIL privatisation deal. Patience and tenacity are what you need to crack these deals, feels the pro. It’s been a steep climb up for this ace negotiator from the time she was mistaken for the secretary to the “Sahaab” when she visited ministries.

Robert Greenhill
Robert Greenhill is Managing Director and Chief Business Officer of the World Economic Forum.

With a strong interest in global issues, Robert has combined a career in international business with a commitment to international public policy. He started his career with McKinsey & Company. In 1995, he joined Bombardier Inc., Canada's leading aerospace and rail-transportation manufacturer. He became President and Chief Operating Officer of Bombardier International in 2000. In 2004, he joined the International Development Research Centre as Senior Visiting Executive. In May 2005, Robert was appointed President of the Canadian International Development Agency, Canada's premier international development and humanitarian assistance organization. He also serves as Alternate Governor for Canada on the Board of Governors of the World Bank Group and sits on the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Robert received a BA from the University of Alberta, Canada, and an MA from the London School of Economics. He also has an MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.

Vineet Gupta
Vineet Gupta is the Managing Director of Jamboree Education, a leading education services provider. Vineet graduated in mechanical engineering from IIT, Delhi in 1991. But his passion is creating companies and setting up new businesses. He started his entrepreneurial career in 1992 by setting up a successful packaging company. In 1995, he co-founded Jamboree Education Pvt. Ltd., a company that provides training for exams like the GMAT, GRE, SAT, TOEFL and IELTS. With twelve centres across 6 cities, it is the largest company of its kind in India.

Rakesh Jaggi
Rakesh Jaggi joined Schlumberger in 1992 in its Wireline divsion. As a field engineer he worked on challenging projects in Bombay, San-Fernando and Galeota (Trinidad) after which he was assigned to management positions in Yopal and Bogota (Colombia). As the Field Service Manager he was responsible for setting up the new Wireline base in Bogota. He managed the profitability of his division during the downturn in the oil industry in the late nineties as the Country Manager & Oil Field Services Manager for Wireline & Testing in Trinidad. As the Operations Manager for Mexico in 2000 he restored the profitability of the Wireline division in the country and led the division of the NSA geomarket from August, 2002 to 2004. He is currently the VP, Reservoir Production Group at the Abu Dhabi office of Schlumberger.

Dipak Jain
Dipak Jain is the current Dean of INSEAD, one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools, a post he has taken over just recently.

Jain, an American citizen and native of Tezpur, Assam, was the Dean of the Kellogg School of Management from 2001-2009, where he was the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing. He is a graduate of Guwahati University in India and received a Master’s in management science and a PhD in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.

A noted scholar in marketing and entrepreneurship, Dr. Jain has published some 60 articles in scholarly and professional journals, and three books. He has presented and lectured at universities throughout the world, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and scholarship. Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister of Thailand (2002-2006), Jain also received an honorary Doctorate in Economics from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, in 2009 and IPADE, Mexico, in 2010.

Dipak Jain has been a member of review committees at Harvard, UCLA, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Northwestern. He serves on international advisory boards and councils such as the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration (Chulalongkorn University), the Carey Business School (Johns Hopkins), and American University in Cairo, and Nyenrode University (Netherlands). He is a member of the American Marketing Association and The Institute of Management Sciences, and has consulted with such companies as IBM, UBS, AT&T, Nestle, Abbott, Boeing, Accenture, Thompson Electronics, and American Express. He is currently Executive Editor of the Sasin Journal of Management (Thailand) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Marketing (Singapore).

Apart from teaching, Jain is currently involved in two social projects: creating a business school in Bangladesh focusing on entrepreneurship and small business management, for women from countries such as Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan; and starting a full-fledged university in Angola. He is a director of John Deere, the Northern Trust, Reliance Industries and Media Bank.

Sachit Jain
Mr. Sachit Jain is Executive Director, Vardhman Group one of the largest textile houses (Vardhman.com) in India. He studied Electrical Engineering at IIT, New Delhi, Management at IIM, Ahmedabad and Financial Management at Stanford, USA. He was awarded gold medal at IIM, Ahmedabad in 1989. Before joining Vardhman Group in 1990 as Executive Director, he started his management career with Hindustan Lever in 1989.

He led the IT Group of Vardhman for implementing ERP making Vardhman to be one of the first textile organisations to have done so. His accomplishments in implementing IT project at Vardhman have been showcased by IBM for global audience. He has also helped steer the implementation of TPM across Vardhman Group. He currently heads the finance function of the Group.

He has been active in various business forums as well.He was the Chairman of CII, Himachal Pradesh State Council,Chairman of HRD Sub-Committee, CII, Northern Region,President of Northern India Textile Mills' Association and the founder of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industries Association. He has also been a member of the advisory board to the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission and advisory board to the Minimum Wages Board. Valuing his contributions, he was honoured by the Govt. of Himachal Pradesh and was awarded the Prerna Stotra Puruskar.

Deep Kalra
The pioneer of online travel in India, Deep Kalra founded MakeMyTrip in April, 2000. Drawing on his experience from his years at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank, under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip has become the largest online travel company, as well as the largest e-commerce business in India.

Deep is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM and chairs the NASSCOM Internet Working Group. He is also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the Board of TiE, New Delhi. Deep is also a member of CII's Tourism sub-committee and a regular speaker at numerous internet and travel conferences across the world. He currently serves as an independent Director for IndiaMart.com, a leading B2B website. Deep is also a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focused on the improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.

Deep holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1990), and a MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992). His interests include adventure sports, swimming, yoga, quizzing and travelling to places off the beaten path.

Kiran Karnik
Kiran Karnik is a prominent figure and guiding force behind the Indian outsourcing industry. He has formerly been the president of NASSCOM (The National Association of Software and Services Companies), and is now one of its trustees. Mr. Karnik has recently been selected as one of three boards members as well as Chairman of Satyam Computer Services after the Government of India disbanded the Satyam board.

Prior to joining NASSCOM, Mr Karnik was the Managing Director at Discovery Networks in India from 1995 - 2001. He spearheaded the launch of Discovery Channel in South Asia in August 1995 and Animal Planet in 1999.

Mr Karnik worked for over 20 years in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He was deeply involved in the conception and overseeing of the Kheda Communications Project. This pioneering effort won wide national and international acclaim, including the first UNESCO-IPDC Prize for rural Communication. Karnik was a key member of the management team for the India – USA Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE), the first every large scale use of satellite direct broadcasting (1975-76), which took education and development to remote parts of rural India. In 1998, Mr. Karnik was awarded the Frank Malina medal for Space Education by the International Astronautical Federation.

In 1991, Mr Karnik joined the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) as its first Director. CEC is the apex body set up by University Grants Commission to co-ordinate and oversee the functioning of media centres in the universities, and is responsible for ensuring the production and transmission of educational TV programmes for college students.

Mr Karnik has worked briefly with the United Nations in New York and Vienna, serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary-General of UNISPACE 82. He has done an extended consulting assignment for UNESCO in Afghanistan, and has also been a consultant for World Health Organization, The World Bank, UN Institute for Disarmament Research and the Ford Foundation.

Kiran Karnik has authored/edited a large number of publications, and lectures occasionally at major national institutes. His educational background includes an Honours degree in Physics from Bombay University, followed by post-graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Vinati Kastia
Vinati Kastia is currently a Partner with AZB & Partners, one of the top law firms in the country. An advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi, she has over a decade of experience as an Advisor in diverse areas such as Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Private Equity Funding, Real Estate, Telecom, Media & Information Technology, and Financing & Securitisation. Her other areas of experience include Disinvestments and Privatisation, Project Finance, Industrial Laws and Environmental Laws.

Vinati has also assisted in drafting legislations on Information Technology Enabled Services and Data Protection for the State of Andhra Pradesh. She has advised on setting up “Industrial Parks” in India under the foreign investment guidelines and the scheme issued by the Income Tax department for granting tax concessions to Industrial Parks.

C. V. Madhukar
C. V. Madhukar is Founder and Director of PRS Legislative Research, a not-for-profit research initiative that publishes “Legislative Briefs” (short commented summaries) of Bills in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and publishes other articles about the work of the Indian parliament. The aim is to strengthen the legislative debate in India by making it better informed, more transparent and participatory. Madhukar set up PRS in September 2005. Prior to this, Madhukar had worked at the World Bank in Washington DC with a group focussed on parliamentary capacities in various countries.

Madhukar started his professional career as an investment banker with ICICI Securities and Finance Company in Mumbai, where he worked on disinvestment of large public sector enterprises. Officially an ICICI employee, he spent significant time as a volunteer with Pratham in its formative years, now a large not-for-profit organization focused on basic education in urban areas in India : he was part of the original Executive Group of Pratham.

At the invitation of the Government of Karnataka in early 2000, he co-founded and managed Akshara Foundation, a basic education initiative focussed on Bengaluru’s children. He concurrently helped set up the Azim Premji Foundation, an initiative of Mr. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro. The initiative supports technology in rural schools in India.

Madhukar was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University, where he earned his Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also has an MBA from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bangalore University. Madhukar is an Echoing Green Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow.

In March 2008, Madhukar was one of the Indians to be named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Arjun Malhotra
Mr. Malhotra served as Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors before its acquisition by Genpact in May 2011. Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Mr. Malhotra founded TechSpan in 1998 with funding from Goldman Sachs and Walden International. The merger of TechSpan with Headstrong had built an end-to-end services organization. Mr. Malhotra led the seamless integration across businesses and cultures, resulting in Headstrong’s recognition as one of the fastest-growing IT-based Financial Services companies.

Mr. Malhotra has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded the HCL group in 1975, taking it from a six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest Information Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur to relocate to USA, Mr. Malhotra took over HCL’s US operation in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues. In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996 he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation. He consolidated and grew HCL operations in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Malhotra studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He graduated from IIT with B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering and received the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. In 1985, he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Malhotra is a Member of the Board of Governors, IIT (Kharagpur) Foundation, Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Member of the Board of Governors of Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong and Member of the Indian Public Schools Society, which runs The Doon School. He is currently Co-Chair of the Pan-IIT Alumni Association. He founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur through a personal endowment. In “recognition of his outstanding contribution and services to the Institute”, Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur in February 2003.

Mr. Malhotra was awarded the Albert Einstein Technology Medal for 2001. The Award salutes the high tech industry’s vanguard who “with their vision…have revolutionized the perception of time and space, linking mankind with ever growing speed and ingenuity. Their cutting-edge breakthroughs have empowered countless others.” The Institution of Engineers (India) has named Mr. Malhotra an Eminent Engineering Personality.

Mr. Malhotra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, India (FIETE), and a Member of the Institute of Engineers, India (MIE). He has served on the Board of Governors for the Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, and as Vice President of The Doon School Old Boys Society.

He is currently a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM which is India’s representative organization for the IT & ITES industry.

Mr. Malhotra is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit network with over 10,000 members across 44 chapters in 9 countries. He is currently serving as a member of the Global Board of Trustees, having previously served as the Chairman of the Board. TiE fosters global entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education.

He is also one of the founding members of SPIC-MACAY, the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth and is presently on their Advisory Board. SPIC-MACAY is today India’s largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.

Estelle Metayer
Estelle Métayer is an expert in Competitive and Strategic Intelligence. Her research focuses on how managers, CEOs, and board members build and improve their strategic planning and/or competitive intelligence function to avoid strategic blindspots. Her best work is done when companies need to drastically change the way they do business and/or grow aggressively. She is a reputed public speaker in international conferences and facilitates strategic workshops around the world. An adjunct professor for McGill University, she teaches with Henry Mintzberg in the International and national Advanced Leadership Programmes and the International Master for Health Leadership. She also introduced Competitive Intelligence into the McGill-Rottman School of Business’s certification program for Canadian board directors, and into the new HEC-McGill Executive MBA. Estelle is also a guest lecturer at International Master’s Programme in Practicing Management led by Lancaster University, McGill, the IMB (India) and INSEAD and at IMD, Lausanne.

Prior to selling the company in 2004, Estelle was the president and founder of Competia, the leading training organisation for executives and analysts in Strategic Intelligence. Competia launched in 1998 Competia.com which became the world's largest community, portal and magazine for strategy professionals, receiving over 1 million hits each month.

A former consultant at the international Strategic Consulting firm McKinsey & Company, she gained first-hand practical experience while managing the competitive intelligence, business development and strategic planning function at CAE Inc. She started her career at the ING Bank in the Netherlands and in Poland, studying the financial risks of expanding into emerging countries.

She received in 2000 the Arista Sunlife Award for "Entrepreneur of the Year" and was a finalist in 2001 for the Award "Women of Merit" from the YWCA. She sat on the board of the Grands Ballets Canadiens and of World Canada Youth. She was trained in the Netherlands, where she obtained her MBA and Drs. from the University of Nijenrode.

Estelle speaks French, English, German, Dutch, Italian and Arabic. She is also a mother, a commercial pilot and flight instructor.

Zia Mody
Zia Mody is a prominent Indian legal consultant and is considered an authority on corporate merger and acquisition law, securities law, private equity and project finance.

Mody's initial education was at Elphinstone College, Mumbai. She then went on to study law at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, followed by a Master’s degree from Harvard Law School. She then passed the New York State Bar examination and worked for five years with Baker & McKenzie in New York City, before returning to India. She started her own practice in Mumbai in 1984, which she merged twice with other firms to form AZB & Partners, now India's second-largest law firm, where she is a senior partner. She is also a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India's Standing Committee on Mutual Funds, and of the Capital Market Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Business Today listed Mody as one of the 25 most powerful business women in India in September 2004 and again in February 2006. She is a recipient of the Financial Express Knowledge Professional of the Year Award. She was also named one of India's 100 Most Powerful CEOs by The Economic Times in 2004 and 2006. She is also the recipient of The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence as the Businesswoman of the Year, 2010.

Vishakha Mulye
Ms.Mulye joined the ICICI Group in 1993 and has vast experience in the areas of strategy, treasury & markets, proprietary equity investing and management of long-term equity investments, structured finance and corporate & project finance. She led the team that planned and executed the merger of ICICI and ICICI Bank in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, she was responsible for the Bank's structured finance and global markets businesses, and its financial institutions relationships. She is credited with being a key driver and enabler of the debt securitization market in India, and with building the Bank's global markets business. From 2005-2007, she was the CFO of ICICI Bank. Under her leadership, the Bank raised close to US$ 7 billion in equity capital and several billion dollars of debt financing. She led landmark fundraising deals like ICICI Bank's US$ 5 billion equity offering in 2007, and the first hybrid capital issuance by an Indian bank in 2006. In October 2007, she was elevated to the Board of ICICI Bank's general insurance subsidiary, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company. Ms.Mulye has been selected as a 'Young Global Leader' for the year 2007 by the World Economic Forum and named one of the "Most Powerful Women in Indian Business - 2007" by Business Today. She was awarded the India CFO Award, 2006 instituted by IMA for excellence in finance in a large corporate. Ms. Mulye is a member of the Aspen Institute's 'India Leadership Initiative'.

N. R. Narayana Murthy
Mr. Murthy is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor at Infosys Technologies, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Mr. Murthy founded Infosys in 1981 and under his leadership Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India and is an IT advisor to several Asian countries.

He serves on the boards of HSBC, Ford Foundation, UN Foundation, Cornell University, Wharton School, Singapore Management University, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and INSEAD.

The Economist ranked Narayana Murthy among the ten most admired global business leaders in 2005. He topped the Economic Times list of India’s most powerful CEOs for three consecutive years: 2004 to 2006. He has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, the Legion d’honneur by the Government of France, and the CBE by the British government.

Deepak Parekh
Mr. Parekh is the Chairman of the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), one of India's leading housing finance and banking companies. Mr. Parekh, a Chartered Accountant by training, started his career with Ernst & Young Management Consultancy Services in New York. He later returned to India to work for Grindlays Bank and subsequently joined Chase Manhattan Bank as its assistant representative for South Asia.

He joined HDFC in 1978 and was promoted to the position of Managing Director in 1985 and then Chairman in 1993. He has been instrumental in making HDFC one of the biggest housing finance companies in India. Apart from his role in HDFC, he also became the Non-Executive Chairman of Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd (IDFC), a Government of India enterprise for infrastructure projects in 1997. He is also the Non-Executive Chairman of Glaxo India Ltd & Burroughs Wellcome (India) Ltd and is on the Board of Castrol India Limited, Hindustan Unilever, Siemens Ltd, Mahindra & Mahindra, Indian Hotels Company and SingTel.

Rajendra Pawar
Mr. Rajendra S. Pawar is Chairman and co-founder of the NIIT Group, that encompasses two businesses—NIIT Technologies Limited, the software and services arm, and NIIT Limited, the leading Global Talent Development Corporation.

Set up in 1981, NIIT pioneered the computer education market in India, creating a completely new industry segment. Mr. Pawar has played a leadership role in nurturing NIIT and building it into a leading Global Talent Development Corporation.

Mr. Pawar led NIIT’s foray into the software and services market, creating NIIT Technologies, a global IT Solutions organization. Assessed at SEI-CMMi Level 5, NIIT Technologies serves clients across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Mr. Pawar is a member of the Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development; has served on the PM’s National Taskforce commissioned to develop India into an IT Superpower; is an advisor to the Hunan province of China; and was a member of PIAC (Presidential International Advisory Council) of the Government of South Africa for IT.

Actively involved in India’s key Chambers of Commerce, Mr. Pawar has led several ICT industry initiatives, giving voice to the sector’s aspirations and goals. He has been a Founder Member of NASSCOM (the National Association of Software & Service Companies). He is currently a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Pawar graduated from IIT, Delhi in where he did his B Tech in electrical engineering and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT in 1995.

Anoop Prakash
Anoop Prakash is the Managing Director for Harley-Davidson India where he is responsible for sales, business development and marketing for motorcycles, parts and accessories and general merchandise.

Prakash formerly served as a Senior Executive Service appointee in the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush. He served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and has worked as Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development at the U. S. Small Business Administration. Prakash has actively participated in U.S.-India trade promotion as a vehicle for economic development and growth for both countries.

Prakash previously held senior private sector roles in strategy, marketing and business development, including Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at LexisNexis, Director of Business Development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) and consultant at McKinsey & Company.

A former U.S. Marine Corps Officer, Prakash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Public Policy from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prakash has served on several non-profit boards in Washington D.C., including the Indian American Leadership Initiative and Brainfood.

Ramesh Ramanathan
Mr. Ramanathan is one of the founders of the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, a Bangalore based not-for-profit organisation that works with citizens and government to change the quality of life in India’s cities and towns.

He is the National Technical Advisor with the government of India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission and also a trustee of the PROOF Trust and Bangalore City Connect Foundation. Additionally, he is the Principal Advisor to the Government of Rajasthan with regard to the state urban reforms.

His professional experience includes a successful stint as Member, Global Markets Leadership Team, and MD and Head, European Corporate Derivatives, Citibank, aggregating a revenue of $1billion annually.

He did his MS in Physics from BITS Pilan and an MBA from Yale. He is also a Certified Financial Analyst.

Yash Rana
Yash Rana is a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP and the chair of its Hong Kong office. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Clean Technology and Energy Groups, and leads the firm’s Asia Practice.

He has represented clients in such diverse industries as media, financial services, real estate, hotels, consumer goods, manufacturing, energy and technology, including software, internet services, video and internet game development, online advertising, electronic trading platforms and hardware. Mr. Rana has extensive knowledge of the communications industry, including communications services, fiber builders and related construction services. He has 15 years of experience advising companies, sponsors and promoters in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. Among other clients, he has represented AIG, General Catalyst Partners, Goldman Sachs, Highland Capital Partners, John Hancock, J.P. Morgan, Lincolnshire Management, TA Associates and Viacom (and its MTV Networks division).

Mr. Rana has participated as a speaker in a number of major conferences and has been featured in several publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Deal, American Lawyer, the Asian Venture Capital Journal and the India Business Law Journal, which named Goodwin Procter one of the leading law firms for private equity in India in 2008.

Mr. Rana joined Goodwin Procter’s New York office in 2005, and relocated to Hong Kong in January 2009 to start the firm’s first international office. Before joining the firm, Mr. Rana worked for Qwest Communications International Inc. and was a transactional lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in New York, where in 1997 he represented the sponsors in the formation of TCW/ICICI India Private Equity Fund.

Mr. Rana’s prior law firm experience also includes representation of the Anschutz group, Ford Motor Company, TCW and GTE/Verizon.

Ajit Rangnekar
Ajit Rangnekar is presently the Dean and Member of Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB). As the Dean, Rangnekar steers the School’s vision to be among the globally top-ranked, research-driven management institutions. He believes that his role is to attract top quality research faculty to the School, create an environment in which research of high impact to academia and society is carried out, and to support the transformational development of the School’s students and alumni. In his own words, “nothing gives me a greater thrill than to see our alumni succeed”. Prior to taking charge as Dean, he was the Deputy Dean of the ISB from March 2003 to January 2009, and was instrumental in strengthening the School’s relationships with the external stakeholders - industry, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and experts.

Rangnekar has a background spanning over thirty years in Consulting and Industry across different countries in Asia. Before joining the ISB, he was the Country Head, first for Price Waterhouse Consulting and then for PwC Consulting, in Hong Kong and the Philippines. He was head of the Telecom and Entertainment Industry Consulting practice for PwC in East Asia (China to Indonesia). He worked with Associated Cements Companies, India (1970 to 1981) prior to moving to Hong Kong. Rangnekar holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, before completing his post- graduation in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Jerry Rao
Jerry Rao is the founder and former CEO of the software company MphasiS. Prior to that, he held various leadership positions (including Former Country Head, Citibank Consumer Banking India) in Citibank across Asia, Europe, South America and North America.

In 1998, Rao started MphasiS Corporation, a software company based in California, which subsequently merged with BFL Software in 2000 to form Mphasis-BFL with twin headquarters in Santa Monica, California, and Bangalore, India.

Mr. Rao is actively involved with the Confederation of Indian Industry and with the Government of India’s Software Technology Park initiatives, and has been Chairman of NASSCOM. MphasiS Vice Chairman Jeroen Tas and Mr. Rao were named the Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneurs of the Year 2004' for the New York region, which followed his being similarly awarded in India two years previously.

Mr. Rao is a regular writer and speaker with interest in technology strategy, customer relationship management (CRM), financial services, and e-commerce – a subject on which he has testified before the US Congress.

He is a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Ajay Relan
Mr. Relan is one of the most well-known names in the Indian private equity space. Before founding CX Partners in 2008, he was head of the Indian operations of CVCI, Citibank’s private equity arm. As head of CVCI, from 1995 to 2008, he built and managed a team that has invested over $ 1billion in approximately 40 Indian companies.

He has also served as Vice President and Head of Saudi American Bank's Corporate Finance Division and thereafter as Senior Consultant of Swiss Financial Services Company, where he was involved in the restructuring of financial institutions. Mr. Relan has also held Directorships in companies such as Jubilant Organosys, Suzlon Energy, HT Media, and Yes Bank, among others.

Mr. Relan holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and graduated with Honours in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. He has also done an Owner/President Management Programme from Harvard Business School.

Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, environmentalist and urbanist. He is Founder and President of the Sustainable Planet Institute. He is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and is Deutsche Bank's Global strategist. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination and is the author of the bestselling book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (Penguin).

The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader for 2010.

Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well -regarded environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in recognition for his work on urban systems. He is a member of the Steering Committee of "Urban Age" at the London School of Economics and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project - an environmental accounting project. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar Micro Venture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore, in 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.

He writes a regular column for Business Standard, India's second largest business newspaper. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar joined Star TV India as its Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and oversaw Star TV's business ventures in India. In the past, Mr. Shankar has worked as the head of the Hindi news channel, Aaj Tak and also as the Chief Executive Officer of the Star News channel and Head of Sahara TV's news television channel business.

He has been a Director of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd since September, 2009. He serves as a Director of several media companies such as Tata Sky Limited, Media Content and Communication Services (India) Private Limited and Asianet Communications Limited.

He holds an M Phil in Economics from the University of Delhi. Mr. Shankar is also a graduate in Journalism from the Times of India Media School.

Sunish Sharma
Sunish Sharma is Managing Director at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. He works out of the Mumbai office and focuses on opportunities in India and the Asia-Pacific region. Sunish has extensive experience in investing in India, and focuses his efforts within GA on the firm's Business Services & Technology, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Energy & Resources sectors. In addition to identifying potential investment opportunities, he was a Director on the Sharekhan and Infotech Enterprises board, and currently is a Director on the Hexaware board.

Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2004, Sunish worked at McKinsey & Company Inc. for over six years. He spent the majority of his time on strategic issues serving several Indian and MNC clients on multiple engagements and M&A transactions. Sunish has co-authored the first two NASSCOM-McKinsey reports on the IT and BPO sectors.

Sunish is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, where he did his MBA. He also received a degree in Cost and Work Accounting from the Indian Institute of Cost and Work Accountants and a B Com degree, with honours, from Delhi University.

Analjit Singh
Mr. Analjit Singh is the Founder & Chairman of Max India Limited; and Chairman of Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited, Max Healthcare Institute Limited and Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited. He has been the driving force behind the Max India Group’s sustained growth and success since the mid '80s.

Today, Max India Limited is a multi-business corporate, focused on People and Service-oriented Businesses of ‘Life’. Max India Group is present in the areas of Life Insurance through Max New York Life Insurance; Healthcare through Max Healthcare; Health Insurance through Max Bupa Health Insurance; a Joint Venture with Bupa Finance Plc, U.K. Clinical Research through Max Neeman Medical International; BoPP & Speciality Foils manufacturing through its division, Max Speciality Films.

As one of India’s leading business-persons, Mr. Analjit Singh is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Joint Indo-US CEOs Forum. He is the non-executive Chairman of Indus Towers Ltd., India’s leading ‘Shared Telecom Infrastructure’ Services Company. He is also a Director on the board of the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI Ltd.), Vodafone Essar, Hero Honda Motors Limited, Moser Baer Solar Plc., Tata Tea Ltd. and Dabur India Ltd.

Keenly interested in enhancing India’s academic standards, he is currently an Executive Board Member of the Board of Governors, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Chairman, Board of Governors, The Doon School; and Member, Board of Management, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.

Mr. Analjit Singh is actively involved in social service through his role as the Chairman and Chief Patron of Max India Foundation (MIF), the Social Service arm of Max India Group. He is also the Life Chairman, Bhai Mohan Singh Foundation and Member, Governing Board of Bharti Foundation.

Mr. Analjit Singh is the Consul General (Honorary) of the Republic of San Marino in India.

Mr. Analjit Singh is an alumnus of the Doon School, Dehradun; Shriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi; School of Management and the Graduate School of Management, Boston University, Boston, USA.

Jayant Sinha
Jayant Sinha is the Managing Director of Omidyar Network India Advisors, where he leads overall investment strategy and operations in India. In his role, Jayant helps Omidyar Network manage and develop the India-based portfolio across Access to Capital and Media, Markets & Transparency initiatives.

Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Jayant was Managing Director of Courage Capital Management, where he led technology and India-related investing for a global special situations hedge fund. Prior to joining Courage Capital in 2006, Jayant spent 12 years with McKinsey & Company as a Partner in the Boston and Delhi offices. During his career with McKinsey, he led a variety of strategic, operational, and transaction-related projects with corporations in North America, Europe, and India. Jayant’s experience also includes serving as President of Internet Business Capital, an early stage VC firm, and consulting positions at Stone & Webster and Synergic Resources Corporation. Jayant has an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School, an MS in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Technology with distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha
Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha is a Senior Advisor of India of Albright Stonebridge Group (also known as Stonebridge International LLC). He is currently Founder and Managing Director of 9.9 Mediaworx Pvt. Ltd., a diverse media business, spanning print, online, research, conferences and events. He was also the MD &CEO of the Ananda Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (also known as ABP Pvt. Ltd. and also ABP Group), one of India’s leading and most diversified media conglomerates with leading properties in the newspaper, magazine, and TV genres. Prior to joining ABP, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. He spent 12 years with McKinsey and Company, initially in the North American Practice, but in 1997, he moved to India to help develop the Indian Practice. He led McKinsey India’s telecom, IT, and media practices as well as its Organisation Practice, where he focused on issues of transformation and leadership.

Pramath took a year off from McKinsey to be the Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB), an initiative led by McKinsey and a group of leading Indian business leaders, in partnership with Kellogg and Wharton, to establish a world-class business school in India. He has been associated with the project right from its inception and continues to be actively involved in the School as a Member of its Executive Board. Pramath is on the Board of Directors of BILT, India’s largest paper products company; DLF-Pramerica, an insurance JV between India’s leading real estate company and Prudential of USA; and Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., a prominent film and TV production business. He serves as a Director of Welham Girls' School Society and International Foundation for Research & Education. He is at present the dean of the Young India Fellowship Programme.

Pramath received M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech. in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Mallika Srinivasan
Mallika Srinivasan has recently taken over as the new chairperson of Chennai-based tractor manufacturer Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) and of TAFE Motors and Tractors Limited. So far, she had been holding the vice chairperson's office in the two companies, but was unanimously elected as the Chairperson by the board.

She was instrumental in modernising and introducing technologically advanced products, which helped the company to grow to the current level. TAFE, which was a $20-million company in 1986, today has crossed a consolidated turnover of over $1 billion. It has not only found a niche for itself as the leading tractor manufacturer, but also expanded its area of operations into others businesses like engineering plastics, panel instruments, automotive batteries, gears, hydraulic pumps and farm implements.

Economic Times Businesswoman of the year 2006, she is a well known Indian entrepreneur and at present, is serving as the president of premier industrial bodies like the Tractor Manufacturers Association and the Madras Management Association. She is the first lady to have assumed the role of a president of the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is also a prominent member of the governing board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Mallika Srinivasan completed her MA (Econometrics) from Madras University and did her MBA at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Saurabh Srivastava
Saurabh Srivastava is an Angel investor, Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur and a leading figure in the Indian IT space. He has worked extensively in the US, UK, India and Singapore and has held senior executive positions with leading international companies such as IBM and Unisys before becoming an entrepreneur and then a VC.

In 1989, he founded IIS Infotech, which went on to become one of India’s most successful IT companies and was ultimately merged with Xansas in 1998. Mr. Srivastav continued to serve as the Executive Chairman of Xansas India and eventually oversaw its acquisition by Steria in 2007.

An entrepreneur himself, he has been instrumental in helping other start-ups and companies achieve growth. He co-founded and is Chairman of Infinity Ventures, India’s first and leading early stage fund, which performed really well, creating some land mark companies such as IndiaBulls, IndiaGames, BrainVisa and Avendus.

Mr. Srivastava co-founded NASSCOM and is currently its Chairman Emeritus. He was Chairman of the Indian government’s Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council and also was on the IT Committee of FICCI. Additionally, he founded the Delhi chapter of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), the world’s largest organization devoted to entrepreneurship, with 16,000 members in 48 chapters across 12 countries.

Mr. Srivastava has also been a member of the Prime Minister’s Working Group on “Fostering Innovation and Sustaining Competitiveness” and was a member of the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) Committee on Venture Capital. He also chairs the IT Ministry’s Committee on software exports, which develops strategies for the growth of the industry.

NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan
“Tiger” Tyagarajan is credited as one of the pioneers who transformed Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) into a global leader in business process and technology management, offering a broad portfolio of enterprise and industry-specific services. Today, Genpact serves its global customers from 50 operations centers in 16 countries with over 49,000 employees, managing over 3,000 processes for more than 500 clients worldwide. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Tiger was CEO of Genpact from 1999 to 2002 and led the business through a critical growth phase as a subsidiary of GE. In October 2002, he transferred within GE to its multibillion-dollar Commercial Equipment Finance division, serving as SVP, Six Sigma and Global Operations. When Genpact became an independent company, Tiger rejoined Genpact from GE Capital U.S. as EVP, Sales and Business Development from 2005 to 2009. Thereafter, he took on the role of Genpact’s Chief Operating Officer.

Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in India, and then worked with Citibank, India. He joined GE Capital in 1994 and held a variety of leadership roles in both India and the U.S. until 2005. He is a mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Arjun Uppal
Arjun is currently Head of Agri Business at Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar. This is a rural retail initiative of DSCL (DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited) and works with the objective of delivering goods and services to the rural community across India. It is the largest organized sector enterprise engaged in rural retail in India. He is directly responsible for several businesses such as Dairy, Fruits and vegetable, Seeds, Cattle Feed, vocational training, telecom etc.

Prior to this Arjun was an Advisor to ICICI Bank’s Rural Credit Businesses: (2005 to 2007). There were two phases in this role. First was to interface between ICICI Bank and potential customers that operated in the rural space. This entailed working with large corporates such as ITC, Godrej, Hindustan Unilever, Reliance, Fabindia, Tata Chemicals etc with the objective of understanding their business models. Based on their needs, the Bank would create relevant products to cater to specific requirements. Creating a producer company model for Fabindia was one of the highlights.

During the second phase, he worked closely with Dr Nachiket Mor and ICICI Foundation. The objective was to build businesses that had social impact. This covered several sectors such as food processing, handicrafts, skills, rural tourism, energy, etc. It essentially involved understanding the sector, identifying successful models, preparing business plans, funding such enterprises and then mentoring these to reach scale.

Arjun was Managing Director of Mother Dairy Foods Ltd in its formative days. (2002-2003). The company’s mandate was to build a contemporary brand, form joint ventures with state federations and run the business in a commercially viable manner.

Arjun spent 19 years with Hindustan Unilever Ltd till 2002 and worked in various commercial and general management roles. Two major achievements were in turning around the Seeds business and Kimberly Clark Lever Limited from losing operations to profitable ones.

Arjun’s two major interest areas are agriculture and social entrepreneurship. He has experience in these areas having worked in this space for over twenty years. He is associated with the BASIX group as well as several NGOs.

Ireena Vittal
Ireena Vittal is a partner in the world's best known consulting firm, McKinsey & Co. She works across emerging markets (Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil) in retail and consumer goods. She serves leading retailers in India in both specialty and broader retail. According to Ireena Vittal, the more the competition, the more the noise and better the results; perhaps that’s why she continues to encourage her clients to welcome all competition. “The job, despite having spent 10 years on it, is still fun” says Ireena, because she is ‘still learning’. Even her stints with Nestle (her first job) and Max (she helped launch Max’s mobile telephony service in Mumbai) she claims were good learning experiences.

Her philosophy of life is very simple. As a person she emphasizes more on the present and feels proud to be a part of present-day India, an India which is poised to take off And in an age when every business is looking at ways to conquer the Indian consumer, she has worked on bringing out exemplary McKinsey reports on the growth of Indian consumerism and suggested ways for MNCs for “Winning the Indian Consumer.”

Adil Zainulbhai
Mr. Zainulbhai is currently the Managing Director of the Indian Practice of McKinsey & Company, Inc. He moved back to India in 2004 after 24 years with McKinsey in the United States, where he started the Minneapolis Office and led the Washington D.C. Office of McKinsey & Company. Since joining McKinsey in 1979, he has served a wide range of clients (including large corporates, MNCs, PSUs, and family-owned businesses) across sectors including telecommunications, consumer electronics, energy, banking, infrastructure and health care.

Over the last five years, he has led McKinsey in India through a phase of significant growth and helped it maintain its status as the employer of choice and its reputation as the leading management consulting firm. Mr. Zainulbhai advises not only the CEOs of current and emerging industries, but also several government agencies on issues related to nation building.

Mr. Zainulbhai obtained his BTech degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. He also holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.