CII National HR Conclave

Sanjay is currently the CEO of Raymond Lifestyle and is responsible for Textile, Apparel and Retail businesses. He is also a management board member of Raymond Apparel Limited.

In his current role, his mandate is to transform Raymond from a suiting manufacturing behemoth of over 90 – years legacy into becoming a cutting – edge fashion retail organization by 2020 in India, and selectively globally. Besides 5 year in Textile industry, Sanjay has over two decades of prior work experience with 10-years in FMCG and 10-years in Telecom. He has worked with HUL, Nokia and Reliance in diverse functional and business leadership capacities across all the organizations, in India, Asia-Pacific and Globally. He has led some of of the top Indian and Global brands – Vim, Cif, Domestos, Surf, Rin, Sunlight, Nokia, and Reliance amongst others. Sanjay brings with him a wealth of business and brand leadership experience ranging across consumer goods to serve industry – project set–up, operation scale–up and managing large established brands and businesses. Through his career he has led teams of diverse skill sets, experience, scale, structures, locations, cultures and nationalities. His strong consumer focus, executional excellence, innovative marketing models and entrepreneurial drive have ensured sustainable, profitable and exponential business growth in all his assignments. Apart from numerous industry awards in India and globally, he also has 3 Global IPR’s in Brand & Marketing operations.

Sanjay graduated from IIT BHU (Varanasi) and is an MBA from Sydenham Institute of Management, Mumbai. He is also an avid enthusiast of technology and gadgets, a die-hard cricket aficionado and enjoys painting in his leisure time.

Mr Sanjiv Mehta is the Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited. He also leads Unilever’s South Asia business as President, Unilever, South Asia and is a member of the Unilever Leadership Executive.

Sanjiv Mehta is the Chairman and Managing Director of HUL since 30th June, 2018. He has been leading Unilever’s business in India and South Asia since October 2013 as CEO and Managing Director, HUL and Executive Vice President, Unilever, South Asia. Sanjiv was appointed as President, Unilever, South Asia and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive, effective May 2019.

Sanjiv has been with Unilever for 26 years and during the last 17 years has led businesses in different parts of the world. He has been the Chairman and Managing Director of Unilever Bangladesh Limited (2002-06), Chairman and CEO of Unilever Philippines Inc. (2007-08) and Chairman of Unilever - North Africa & Middle East (2008 – September 2013).

Sanjiv chairs the FMCG Committee of FICCI as well as the national committee on MNCs of CII. Sanjiv also chairs Xynteo's 'India 2022', a purpose-driven business coalition of top Indian and MNC companies formed with an intention to solve some of the intractable environmental and social issues, and is working to create a new model of growth.

He co-chairs the Advisory Network to the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Sanjiv is a member of the India Advisory Board of Harvard Business School and is a Director on the Board of The Indian School of Business. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai.

Sanjiv is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Rajesh Padmanabhan is with Welspun Group - a three and half billion dollar business conglomerate having presence in pipes, plates, coils, steel, infrastructure energy and home textiles sector— as Director and Group CHRO. He is a member of the Group Council.

Rajesh, who has post graduated in HR as well as finance, from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, started his career with the ICICI group, handling systems on mainframes, and went on to become a corporate banker for wholesale banking.

In 1997, he took the big plunge into HR and managed HR start-ups within the group. In 1999, he was elevated as vice president-HR, at ICICI Infotech, where he drove the convergence of business and HR.

Between 2010 and 2014, he worked with Capgemini, as Group Corporate Vice President & CHRO. He was responsible for scaling up size in India and ramped upto over 54000 people by end of 2014. He drove considerable people synergies across businesses and established new centres of expertise and global shared services out of India. He won the prestigious UN Award for building diversity and inclusive practice in Capgemini.

In Vedanta Resources, he created the platform for enabling businesses with cost-effective strategies and effective global leadership. He ensured growth of the people with a clear vision, capability development and high engagement levels across the group.

At Welspun, he focusses on culture building across the group, leadership effectiveness and help create people processes and excellence. He is building up people excellence through centres of expertise and business embedded HR and is keen driver of digital and innovation practices to create new age HR function.

Education
Phd. from BIT Mesra, Ranchi MBA-HR (Hons.) - Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, University of Pune. LLB (Labour Laws and interpretation of Statutes) - Government Law College, Mumbai BSC (Zoology) - Loyola College, Madras Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation Trained Behavioural Analyst from the Institute of Motivational Learning, Singapore. Certified Practitioner of Harrisons, MBTI, Work Place Big Five, OPQ from SHL, FIRO-B, Belbin team role analysis and a facilitator for group processes.

Employment
Dr. Prince Augustin is the Executive Vice President - (Group Human Capital & Leadership Development), of the USD 20 Billion Mahindra Group. Prince has over 30 years of Industry experience in various facets of the Human Resources function with leading Indian and Multinational corporations such as ACC, Burroughs Wellcome, Castrol, Star TV & Morepen, of which the last 2 decades have been in the Senior Leadership Teams of the organizations he has served for. Prince’s work in building the Human Capital in growing organizations, enabling organizational change through Coaching/Mentoring and deployment of HR Processes, empowerment and institutionalization of the Human Resources function and managing large, global, diverse Human Resources has been well acknowledged in India and abroad. He is the winner of the Late Ranjan Ghosh memorial award at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management in Pune, in addition to being awarded as the “Alumnus of the year” in 2011, at SIBM.

Prince has set up and institutionalized coaching as an employee development intervention across the Mahindra Group in various parts of the world through ‘Reflective Conversation’ and an ICF approved coaching program called the ‘Mahindra Certified Reflective Conversationalist’, which has been well accepted both, across the group internally and among its stake holders.

HarshvendraSoin is a Gold Medalist in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from University Business School, Chandigarh. He has also completed his Bachelor of Law from Punjab University. He has 24+ years of experience in Indian and Multinational Companies.

Harsh currently heads the Human Resources function as Chief People Officer at Tech Mahindra Ltd.

Before his current role, hewas heading the Canada Enterprise Business as Senior Vice President and Country Head at Tech Mahindra (Canada), prior to which he led Global Leadership Acquisition and Development & was also the Head - Business HR forAPAC& IMEA (Telecom & Enterprise) for Tech Mahindra.

Prior to Tech Mahindra, Harsh was the Chief People Officer atFortis Healthcare Limited,based out of Gurgaon,looking after all areas of Human Resources.

He was working with Aditya Birla Retail Limited as Chief People Officer before Fortis and was responsible for the rapid scale up of the Organization from no Stores on the ground to 700 Supermarkets & 5 Hypermarkets in two and a half years

Prior to Aditya Birla Retail Limited, Harsh has worked extensively in the introduction of innovative HR Processes and Policies in Bharti Enterprises where he held many senior positions in the Corporate Office where he was designated as Senior Vice President – People Excellence before moving as the Head – HR for Bharti Retail Ltd.

Harsh is passionate about sports, loves to travel and describes himself as a creative and a high energy person.

Harsh is married to Mansi and they have a lovely daughter Inayat.

Madhavi Lall is head HR at Deutsche Bank India since May 2015. She has around 30 years of experience. As a member of Executive Committee at Deutsche Bank, Madhavi is responsible for shaping the people strategy in India and help in building the employment brand for the organization. Prior to this she was Managing Director- HR at Accenture. She has also held several senior leadership positions in Standard Chartered Bank where her last role was Global Head – Employee Relations. Prior to this she was Regional Head of HR India & South Asia. She was also a Director on the Board of Standard Charted Finance Limited since Jan 2007. Madhavi has also worked with other companies like ABN Amro bank, Colgate Palmolive and HCL Hewlett- Packard.
Madhavi has worked across different verticals of the HR Function and has also been involved with number of business assignments. She has been instrumental in building Business aligned HR Strategy, Driving HR Transformation project and building organisational capability through formulation and implementation of HR process and ensuring proactive diversity and inclusion Interventions.
She is an alumnus of from XLRI Jamshedpur and holds an MBA degree in HR and systems and has pursued a Master’s degree in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College. She has also completed a Leadership management course from the University of Oxford.
Madhavi was conferred the “Women Leadership Award” by the jury and Council of Board Members of the Institute of Public Enterprises-BFSI in 2010. She was awarded the ‘GNOSIS Excellence Award’ in 2016 by the Finance Association at XLRI for recognition of her contribution to the BFSI sector and the XLRI brand over the years. She was also the founding member of the HR Committee for FICCI. She has been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by XLRI in 2016.

“To believe in heroic makes heroes” Benjamin Disraeli - Driven by the purpose to strive for excellence, Manu focuses on nurturing ecosystems wherein individuals challenge their own, as well their team’s limits, to drive the growth of the organization and the universe around them.
With a career spanning over two decades, across multiple industries and countries, Manu has steered workplace & people agenda of globally dynamic organizations likes Sony Pictures, Coca-Cola, American Express & GE, specializing in roles like Head HR, Talent & Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, HR Transformation, Change & Digital Innovation. She has also operated in board positions wherein, she was/is entrusted to safeguard the company's interest as it pertains to license to operate and sustain in the marketplace. Manu is a graduate of the GE Human Resources Leadership Program (#HRLP) and started her career as a Finance Analyst with Tata Unisys.
Apart from corporate endeavors, Manu is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – National Leadership & HR Committee, Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) – Asia Pacific Advisory Board, Chandigarh University Corporate Advisory Board and Jombay Advisory Board. She is also an active participant in various country citizenship efforts, such as #Startup India and a regular speaker at industry forums, wherein she passionately delivers insights on Leadership and HR Transformation, Change Management and Human Capital Index, amongst other key topics.
Manu is a qualified MBTI, Six Sigma professional, Instruction Designer & Facilitator on variety of leadership & professional skills subjects. She has acquired her bachelor's in Finance, Statistics & Economics and master’s in human resources from Symbiosis Center of Management & HRD, India.
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Vikram is the Founder & CEO of Abundantia Entertainment, a company formed in 2013 with the vision of being the best and most-admired creator and enabler of content in the Indian media & entertainment ecosystem.
Formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Motion Pictures, one of India’s largest motion pictures studios, Vikram is the name behind some of the industry’s most-loved films in the last few years. At Viacom18, Vikram built an enviable track record for the studio - from critically acclaimed box-office hits like Kahaani, Gangs of Wasseypur, Special 26, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Queen, to mass entertainers like OMG – Oh My God, Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Tanu Weds Manu, to name a few.
Vikram, who has also previously headed the motion pictures business at Balaji Telefilms, set the bar even higher with Abundantia Entertainment after Abundantia’s first title, 'Baby', met with spectacular success in 2015. Abundantia’s next film, ‘Airlift’, released in January 2016, was a massive hit at the box-office and earned unprecedented critical and audience acclaim.
Continuing the success of these two titles, Abundantia also notched up another winner with the recently released ‘Toilet - Ek Prem Katha’. 2017 also saw the releases of two urban-focused, slice-of-life films in the form of ‘Noor’ and ‘Chef’ – the remake of Jon Favreau’s Hollywood indie by the same name.
Led by Vikram, Abundantia made a strong foray in the buzzing digital content world when Amazon Prime Video green-lit ‘Breathe’, one of the platform’s first few original series commissioned for India. ‘Breathe’ has gone to become one of the most-watched shows on the platform globally and has received widespread critical acclaim. There is an active pipeline of premium digital content under development at Abundantia including the series adaptation of the bestseller ‘The Men Who Killed Gandhi’.
Prior to entering the Entertainment industry, Vikram has spent more than a decade building brands and businesses across leading companies such as The UB Group (spirits, airlines, sports), Tata Communications (retail internet) and SC Johnson – Draft FCB (FMCG).
Vikram is passionate about Tennis, a sport that he competitively played at the National level, and finds time for even now. An avid reader, business and biographies are his favorite

Sandeep Chaudhary was the former CEO for Aon Consulting in South Asia and a Member of the Aon India Board. In his executive capacity, Sandeep also chairs the Emerging Markets Council (China, South East Asia, Middle East & Africa) and serves on the Aon Global Executive Committee.
During his tenure, Sandeep has transformed the organization to a dominant market leadership position. He has led strategic acquisitions and divestitures and is the chief evangelist for the firm’s foray into technology based solutions and providing prominence in the skill India mission.
He has over two decades of consulting experience, of which 17 years are with Aon (including Hewitt Associates) across various geographies and practice areas. Prior to his role as CEO, he successfully led the Performance & Rewards, Corporate Governance and Board Advisory practice for the Asia Pacific region. Sandeep is a trusted advisor to diverse set of organizations, ranging from top Indian multi-national firms to private equity backed businesses in a variety of industries. His role at these organizations specialized in corporate governance, global HR strategy development, global rewards, performance management and M&A. He is retained as an independent consultant by many notable boards/ remuneration committees/ executive teams on executive performance & pay, succession planning, leadership development etc. Prior to Aon, Sandeep spent three years as a Consultant with Watson Wyatt in Singapore and Mumbai offices.
Sandeep is well published on a wide array of HR and Management topics and a recognized speaker across several industry forums, print and electronic media. He is an Advisor on human capital issues to the Government of India. He participated in the discussion called by The Hon. Prime Minister of India on “HRM reforms for Civil Services” and continues to work with the PMO on this topic. He serves on the Advisory Board of Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship at IIM Bangalore and Advisory & Investment Committee of a Venture Capital Firm, Cornerstone Venture Partners.
Sandeep is a fitness enthusiast, a marathoner, and a keen student of Sport. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children.

Anuradha (Anu)is a member of the Management Committee of HUL as Executive Director HR and as Vice President HR, South Asia for Unilever.

She is a business focused HR leader who has had an international career with rich experiences in the operating company and in global leadership roles, partnering members of the Unilever Executive.

She passed out of XLRI in 1999 and joined Hindustan Unilever Ltd. as a Management Trainee.

Anu spent the first 14 years of her career in HUL, working with teams in Customer Development, Employee Relations and as HR Partner to members of the HUL Management Committee in Supply Chain and Marketing. In her role as Leadership Development Director, South Asia, she led the Talent agenda, across 5 markets, and was instrumental in bringing significant external recognition to the company.

She worked at Unilever’s headquarters in London for six years, first as Executive Assistant to the former CHRO, followed by a 4year stint as Vice President HR, Home Care, where she shaped the organisational and cultural transformation of the business globally, to be more agile & consumer connected. She has strong M&A experience having worked with the Unilever Prestige business and has also led the Global Talent Attraction and Employer Brand agenda for Unilever.

Her purpose is to spark magicbetween people, passion and opportunity – for the benefit of the business, of society/our country, and for us all.

She featured in the Spencer Stuart & Economic Times list of Rising Indian Women Leaders in 2015.

She is married to Harsha who is in a Consulting career. They have a son, Rishi who is 10 years old. As a family they love to travel & discover new places and cultures. Anu’s other interests include reading, and she follows tennis passionately.

RR partners with business and technology leaders with an "Experience First" and “Technology Next” framework that shape market making engagements.

He works at intersection of Intelligent Technologies and Human Ingenuity. He combines design thinking, art, storytelling and technology to reimagine and execute possibilities for Enterprise customers and their consumers across digital and physical channels

In a career spanning over three decades, he has engaged with CXOs of global and Indian majors in Automotive, Farm Equipment, Manufacturing, Mobility and Chemicals & Petroleum in large transformation programs.

His recent engagements include innovative digital experiences for auto consumers, connected mobility for an Auto major, creating an innovative NUI experience for customers’ of a high street cosmetic company, transforming an automotive brand leveraging digital and physical experiences and envisioning an intelligent customer conversation and profiling platform of farmers for a Farm Equipment major in India.

His specialties include Digital Transformation, Experience Innovation, Internet of Things, Data & AI Platforms, Connected Mobility Platforms that solve real business problems

He is a recipient of Microsoft’s Platinum Club Circle of Excellence – Outstanding Achiever Award, for his impact on our customer’s digital transformation programs. This is the highest recognition that one aspires for at Microsoft and only a few select employees are given this award

He is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist and has engaged with the industry at CII, ACMA, Telematics India, Commercial Vehicle Forum and Two-Wheeler Forum.

Aside of work, RR is a digital artist, a storyteller and an active blogger.

Advocate Bharat Goyal graduated in Law from the Government Law College, Mumbai in the year 1986. He joined and started his career with the late Mr. F. N. Kaka, a Senior Counsel practicing in the Bombay High Court and worked with him as his junior for about 4 years.

Thereafter, he worked with a Junior to Mr. S. F. Parakh, Advocate & Solicitor who was also associated with Late Mr. F. N. Kaka. On and from the year 1999, he has been practicing independently in Courts, in the field of Labour and Industrial Laws.

Mr. Bharat Goyal has been appearing on behalf of several Companies in their matters before the High Court at Mumbai, Industrial Court, Labour Court, Central Government Industrial Tribunal as well as in Courts outside Mumbai. Some of the prominent Companies that he has been representing and on behalf of who he has been appearing in Courts and/or advising are Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., and all its group Companies, Larsen and Toubro Limited, Voltas Limited, ACC Limited, DHL Express (India) Pvt. Ltd., Fedex, Castrol (India) Limited, JSW group of Companies,Colgate Palmolive Ltd, Piramal Healthcare Ltd., Lupin Ltd., Franco Indian Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., Lintas India Ltd, FDC Ltd, Abbott Healthcare Ltd, Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Zuventus Healthcare Ltd, Troikaa Pharmaceuticals Limited, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland, BNP Paribas Bank, Development Credit Bank, Asian Heart Institute and Research Centre, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Research Centre, Fortis Hospitals Ltd, Anchor Electrical Pvt Ltd, Sodexo Facilities Management India Pvt. Ltd and Indian Express Newspapers.

Mr. Bharat Goyal has also been an advisor to Companies on how to innovatively and proactively handle employee relations so that organizations can adapt to the changed environment where the law, particularly in Maharashtra, the MRTU and PULP Act, 1971 has been very restrictive. He has also been updating Companies in respect of various amendments/ notifications issued by the appropriate Authorities under the Labour Laws as well as significant/ landmark judgments pronounced by the Supreme Court and various High Courts in the field of Labour laws.

As Vice President of the Industrial Relations Institute of India, he has been active in professional forums addressing Conferences and Workshops organised by the Institute and giving an update of the law and case law in Industrial Relations, updating the academic knowledge and skills of HR/legal professionals in the Industry and also contributing to articles in the monthly Journal Arbiter.

Mr. Goyal is also an Honorary Member in the Executive Committee of The Employers Federation of India.

Dr. P. V. Ramana Murthy (PV) is qualified in Law, Advanced Human Resources, Executive Coaching and Psychoanalytical aspects related to Leadership and Change. He is an alumni of INSEAD and has a Ph.D in Strategic Human Resource Management. PV currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Global Head – Human Resources at the Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), the finest hospitality chain and the oldest company of the prestigious Tata Group. As member of the Senior Leadership team at IHCL, PV handles a broad spectrum of initiatives aligned to Leadership Development, Organizational Culture, Strategy and Business Excellence across 145 hotels spanning 4 continents. He also heads Human Resources for other Group Companies like, Roots Corporation (Ginger Hotels) and Taj SATS, which is a JV partnership company with Singapore Airlines. Before joining IHCL, PV served The Coca-Cola Company in various capacities for a period of 15 years. At the time of leaving the company, he was the Executive Director – Human Resources for Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), India and Bangladesh, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Bottling Investments Group of the Coca-Cola Company. This was a board level position and during his tenure, HCCB served as a strong exporter of leadership talent within the global Coca- Cola company. In his career spanning three decades Dr. Murthy’s in-depth knowledge of management practices across the globe, comes with his multi-cultural experience in countries such as Asia, Europe and America. PV has been active in social and professional networking forums like National HRD Network (NHRDN) and served as the President of the Delhi/NCR Chapter of this forum from 2012 - 2014. He also actively participates at The International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations – ISPSO, USA. He currently serves as a Board Member on the Board of Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, USA. He is also on the Board for Sri Lankan Tourism Advisory Committee.

Experience:
Yogi Sriram is Senior Vice President – Corporate Human Resources & Member of the Executive Committee, Larsen & Toubro Limited, a USD 18 billion technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services conglomerate, with global operations. He also leads a world class Institute of Project Management.

I am a self-driven and focused HR leader with 41 years of experience in multiple HR functions across diverse industries right from Manufacturing, Hospitality, Finance, FMCG, Engineering, Petroleum, and now, Construction.

Few of the brands that I have closely worked with are Asea Brown Boveri Limited, British Petroleum, Taj Group (Tata) and the Shriram Group (Earlier DCM).

Proven expertise in the areas of : Talent spotting, succession planning, career sculpting, organisation development, talent management and change management.

Currently one of the longest serving HR leaders in the country.

Academic Qualifications:
Masters in Personnel Management & IR, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
M.B.A. in Organization Behaviour, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi
L.L.B. University of Delhi
B.A (Honours) degree in Economics, Shriram College of Commerce
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, ITM University.
Diploma in Training and Development from ISTD.

Certifications:
Accredited in psychometric testing techniques such as MBTI at NTL Maine US, FIRO-B.
Extensive training in personal counselling (Karkuff Model).
Certificate Course on "Appreciative Enquiry" delivered by a Faculty of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio.
Admitted as the first HR professional in India as Fellow All India Management Association (AIMA).

Other accomplishments:
All India Management Association (AIMA) - Admitted as the first HR professional in India as Fellow.

Membership in professional fora:
Member of the Executive Committee, National Board of Accreditation
Member of the Advisory Committee of Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay.
Member of the Governing Board of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.
Member of the Advisory Board for PGDM (HR) program of T A Pai Management Institute
Member of the HR committee to advise the board of NMIMS.
Past President of the Bombay Management Association (BMA) & NHRDN Mumbai Chapter

Noteworthy speaker sessions in 2018:
Emotional & Social Intelligence, 27th January 2018 at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)
L & D Roles & Competence - NHRDN - KPMG Annual Signature Event 'Learning on Point 2018' on 21st February, 2018 at ITC Grand Central, Mumbai.
Next Wave of Leadership Excellence - NHRDN Summit, Hyderabad on 17th August 2018 Role of Industry in Technical Education - World Summit on Accreditation - 8th September 2018
Recruitment Best Practices Latest Trends – IEDC Bled school of Management, Slovenia – 11th October 2018
Competencies For Business And Social Challenges - IEDC Bled school of Management, Slovenia -12th October 2018
Panel discussion on Agile HR: Flexible Performance Management and Rewards- How Technology can help? TecHeart Conference Bangalore, 8th December 2018

Other interests:
I like to collect HO/OO Scale Model Trains and I enjoy conversion of analogue trains into digital trains.
I am also a wild life photography enthusiast particularly interested in clicking shy mammals, accipitriformes, owls and other birds in flight.

Avijit joined The Tata Group in 1996 as a TAS Officer in Tata Administrative Services and has worked on various assignments in the areas of automotive and financial services.
Currently Avijit is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at Tata Capital. As CHRO, Avijit oversees all aspects of People Management, Infrastructure & Administration, Safety and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Avijit was the founding CEO of Tata Cleantech Capital Limited (TCCL), a joint venture between Tata Capital Limited and The International Finance Corporation, Washington from 2012-2015. TCCL is a specialized lender for Renewable Energy Projects, Water Management Projects and Energy Efficiency Projects. Prior to TCCL, he was the founding CEO of Tata Securities Limited (TSL) from 2007 to 2012. The primary businesses of TSL are Equity Broking, Investment Banking and Distribution. Both TCCL and TSL are subsidiaries of Tata Capital Ltd. of which Avijit was one of the founding members.
Prior to Tata Capital, Avijit worked with Tata Motors Ltd, the leading automobile manufacturer of India, from 2003 to 2007 in the Passenger Car Business and Corporate Finance. From 2003-2005, he was Head - Systems & Process and Business Excellence for the Passenger Car Business (PCBU) and Engineering Research Center (ERC) and was a member of the office of the Executive Director - PCBU & ERC. Thereafter Avijit moved to the office of Executive Director - Finance & Corporate Affairs as DGM - Corporate Affairs looking after Mergers and Acquisitions and Subsidiary Relationships.
As a TAS Officer, Avijit was involved in various assignments like the Launch of the Tata Indica, setting up of an online equity trading portal and retail broking business for Tata TD Waterhouse Securities and setting up of Concorde Motors, a captive car dealership chain.
Avijit is a B.Tech from IIT - Kanpur and MBA from IIM - Bangalore. He is a Fulbright Scholar, having undergone the Fulbright Program at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Avijit was recognized as a Young Leader by the British High Commission in 2013.

Speakers 2019

SanjayBehl

SanjayBehlChairman, CII National Committee on Leadership & HR and, Chief Executive Officer – Lifestyle Business, Raymond Limited

Sanjiv Mehta

Sanjiv MehtaKeynote SpeakerChairman & Managing DirectorHindustan Unilever Limited and PresidentUnilever, South Asia

RajeshPadmanabhan

RajeshPadmanabhanChairman, CII HR Conclave Core Group & Director, Group CHRO, Welspun Group

Dr. PrinceAugustin

Dr. PrinceAugustinCo-Chairman, CII HR Conclave Core Group & EVP- Group Human Capital and Leadership Development, Mahindra Group

HarshvendraSoin

HarshvendraSoinChief People Officer, Tech Mahindra Limited

JaspreetBindra

JaspreetBindraThought Leader & Founder of Digital Matters

SushilBaveja

SushilBavejaExecutive Director – HR, DCM Shriram Ltd.

KevinFreitas

KevinFreitasCHRO, Dream 11

MadhaviLall

MadhaviLallManaging Director,Head - HR, India Deutsche Bank

BhogendraMishra

BhogendraMishraHead of HR Asia & ACC LafargeHolcim

SumitMitra

SumitMitraHead - Group Human Resources and Corporate Services.

ManuWadhwa

ManuWadhwaCHRO, Sony Pictures Networks India

MohitGundecha

MohitGundechaCo-Founder & CEO, Jombay

PankajBansal

PankajBansalCo-Founder and CEO, PeopleStrong HR Services Private Ltd.

MrinaliniMirchandani

MrinaliniMirchandaniPartner, McKinsey & Company

VikramMalhotra

VikramMalhotraProducer & CEO, Abundantia Entertainment

EmranaSheikh

EmranaSheikhEnterprise HR Head - India & South Asia, Johnson & Johnson

SanjayLakhotia

SanjayLakhotiaFounder, Noble House

SandeepChaudhary

SandeepChaudharyPresident and Member of the Board PeopleStrong HR Services Private Ltd

VijayKalra

VijayKalraCEO - Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturers Ltd. & Chief Manufacturing Operations at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited

R.Mahalakshmi

R.MahalakshmiHead HR India, Mondelez International

PrakashRao

PrakashRaoFounding Member & Chief Experience Officer PeopleStrong

AnuradhaRazdan

AnuradhaRazdanExecutive Director HR, HUL and Vice President HR, South Asia Unilever

PramodMahatme

PramodMahatmeVice President – Employee Relations, Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting.

AjayMK

AjayMKExecutive Vice President & Head – HR, Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited.

N.V.Balachandar

N.V.BalachandarPresident - HR, Communication and CSR, Ashok Leyland Limited

VistyBanaji

VistyBanajiChief Executive Officer, Banner Global Consulting

R RDasgupta

R RDasguptaChief Digital Advisor Automotive | Mobility | Manufacturing | Agri & Farm Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Limited

BharatGoyal

BharatGoyalAdvocate, Bombay High Court

Dr. P.V.Ramana Murthy

Dr. P.V.Ramana MurthyExecutive Vice President and Global Head - Human Resources, Indian Hotels Company Ltd.

YogiSriram

YogiSriramSVP – Corporate HR & Member of Executive Committee, L&T

SVenkatesh

SVenkateshManagement Board Member & President-Group HR RPG Enterprises

PaulChapman

PaulChapmanManaging Director, Chair of the DBOI Leadership Council' & Head of COO DBOI, India

ShaliniPuchalapalli

ShaliniPuchalapalliDirector, Amazon.com

Dr. D.Prasanth Nair

Dr. D.Prasanth NairAdvisory Board Member ZingHR

AvijitBhattacharya

AvijitBhattacharyaCHRO, Tata Capital Ltd.

D. RajivKrishnan

D. RajivKrishnanManaging Director India Korn Ferry ( Advisory )

RajendraAbhange

RajendraAbhangeSenior Director, Gabriel India Limited

AkashLal

AkashLalSenior Partner McKinsey & Co.

Mr. VenkatraghvanC A

Sanjay
Behl

Sanjay
Behl

Chairman, CII National Committee on Leadership & HR and, Chief Executive Officer – Lifestyle Business, Raymond Limited

Sanjiv
Mehta

Sanjiv
Mehta

Keynote Speaker
Chairman & Managing Director
Hindustan Unilever Limited and President
Unilever, South Asia

Rajesh
Padmanabhan

Rajesh
Padmanabhan

Chairman, CII HR Conclave Core Group & Director, Group CHRO, Welspun Group

Dr. Prince
Augustin

Dr. Prince
Augustin

Co-Chairman, CII HR Conclave Core Group & EVP- Group Human Capital and Leadership Development, Mahindra Group

Harshvendra
Soin

Harshvendra
Soin

Chief People Officer, Tech Mahindra Limited

Jaspreet
Bindra

Jaspreet
Bindra

Thought Leader & Founder of Digital Matters

Sushil
Baveja

Sushil
Baveja

Executive Director – HR, DCM Shriram Ltd.

Kevin
Freitas

Kevin
Freitas

CHRO, Dream 11

Madhavi
Lall

Madhavi
Lall

Managing Director,Head - HR, India Deutsche Bank

Bhogendra
Mishra

Bhogendra
Mishra

Head of HR Asia & ACC LafargeHolcim

Sumit
Mitra

Sumit
Mitra

Head - Group Human Resources and Corporate Services.

Manu
Wadhwa

Manu
Wadhwa

CHRO, Sony Pictures Networks India

Mohit
Gundecha

Mohit
Gundecha

Co-Founder & CEO, Jombay

Pankaj
Bansal

Pankaj
Bansal

Co-Founder and CEO, PeopleStrong HR Services Private Ltd.

Mrinalini
Mirchandani

Mrinalini
Mirchandani

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Vikram
Malhotra

Vikram
Malhotra

Producer & CEO, Abundantia Entertainment

Emrana
Sheikh

Emrana
Sheikh

Enterprise HR Head - India & South Asia, Johnson & Johnson

Sanjay
Lakhotia

Sanjay
Lakhotia

Founder, Noble House

Sandeep
Chaudhary

Sandeep
Chaudhary

President and Member of the Board PeopleStrong HR Services Private Ltd

Vijay
Kalra

Vijay
Kalra

CEO - Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturers Ltd. & Chief Manufacturing Operations at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited

R.
Mahalakshmi

R.
Mahalakshmi

Head HR India, Mondelez International

Prakash
Rao

Prakash
Rao

Founding Member & Chief Experience Officer PeopleStrong

Anuradha
Razdan

Anuradha
Razdan

Executive Director HR, HUL and Vice President HR, South Asia Unilever

Pramod
Mahatme

Pramod
Mahatme

Vice President – Employee Relations, Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting.

Ajay
MK

Ajay
MK

Executive Vice President & Head – HR, Colgate Palmolive (India) Limited.

N.V.
Balachandar

N.V.
Balachandar

President - HR, Communication and CSR, Ashok Leyland Limited

Visty
Banaji

Visty
Banaji

Chief Executive Officer, Banner Global Consulting

R R
Dasgupta

R R
Dasgupta

Chief Digital Advisor Automotive | Mobility | Manufacturing | Agri & Farm Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Limited

Bharat
Goyal

Bharat
Goyal

Advocate, Bombay High Court

Dr. P.V.
Ramana Murthy

Dr. P.V.
Ramana Murthy

Executive Vice President and Global Head - Human Resources, Indian Hotels Company Ltd.

Yogi
Sriram

Yogi
Sriram

SVP – Corporate HR & Member of Executive Committee, L&T

S
Venkatesh

S
Venkatesh

Management Board Member & President-Group HR RPG Enterprises

Paul
Chapman

Paul
Chapman

Managing Director, Chair of the DBOI Leadership Council' & Head of COO DBOI, India

Shalini
Puchalapalli

Shalini
Puchalapalli

Director, Amazon.com

Dr. D.
Prasanth Nair

Dr. D.
Prasanth Nair

Advisory Board Member ZingHR

Avijit
Bhattacharya

Avijit
Bhattacharya

CHRO, Tata Capital Ltd.

D. Rajiv
Krishnan

D. Rajiv
Krishnan

Managing Director India Korn Ferry ( Advisory )

Rajendra
Abhange

Rajendra
Abhange

Senior Director, Gabriel India Limited

Akash
Lal

Akash
Lal

Senior Partner McKinsey & Co.

Mr. Venkatraghvan
C A

Mr. Venkatraghvan
C A

Director Employee Relations and Policies – India GU Accenture India