Abhijit Pawar Managing Director Sakal Media

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01 February 2013, Pune
Abhijit Pawar
Managing Director
Sakal Media Group
27, Narveer Tanaji Wadi, Shivaji Nagar
Pune - 411 005.
Tel
: 020 - 66262370
Fax
: 020 - 25513129
Email : app@esakal.com / preeti@esakal.com
Web
: www.esakal.com
Abhijit Pawar is the Managing Director of Sakal Media Group, Printer & Publisher of
Sakal Newspapers, Agrowon, Gomantak ,and also Printer and Publisher of the
English daily from the House of Sakal, Sakal Times. A B. E. graduate, with
specialization in Mechanical Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering,
Sangli. As Managing Director, Sakal Media Group, he has been constantly focusing
on re-engineering the way each task is executed and today the group’s entire focus is
on delivering tangible results and providing value to its readers and advertisers.
Abhijit is qualified in engineering and has been responsible for various turnkey
projects in the areas of technology and electronic media. He, as a Director on the
board has focused on modernization for the newspaper house, implementing best
practices of the industry. This has seen him bring in developmental change in the
areas of content, business process and technology. His understanding of the
International environment is being leveraged successfully to enable Sakal deliver the
state of Maharashtra to audiences across the world.
Besides this, what comes out of the Sakal stable is the General Entertainment Marathi
channel, Saam TV. Saam, the associated television venture between Neo TV Ltd
and the Sakal Group, has unveiled the logo and positioning for its Marathi channel,
Saam Marathi. Saam Marathi is a Marathi general entertainment channel (GEC)
launched on 15th August 2008.
He is also an Executive Committee Member of Mahratta Chamber of Commerce,
Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) for 2012-2014 and also sits on the International
Board of the global YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization). He is an executive
committee member of the Indian Newspaper Society, Delhi. Besides this, he also sits
on the committee of NM Wadia Institute and Media Research & Users Council,
Mumbai. He has also captained state hockey team for Maharashtra during 1988 –
1989
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Anupama Arya
National Chairperson, Young Indians &
Managing Director, Hatch Center
Plot No 5, Sector 28, Chandigarh - 160 028.
Tel
: 0172 - 3042000
Fax
: 0172 - 3042030
Email : anupama@thehatch.in
Web
: www.thehatch.in
Anupama is a Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Business Executive, Technologist and
Mentor.
Anupama is National Chairperson of Young Indians, Managing Director of Hatch
Fund; Managing Director of Hatch Incubators; and Co-founder of Angel Investors
Consortium.
Anupama is an Aspen Fellow under the India Leadership Initiative; the recipient of
the Athena India Leadership Award; Rotary International Young Achievers Award;
“Award for Excellence - Women Entrepreneur” by Software Technology Parks of
India, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India; and “All India
Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur for the year Award” by the Electronics and
Computer Software Export Promotion Council, Ministry of Information and
Technology, Government of India.
As an entrepreneur, she founded and led 3 companies in India and Silicon Valley.
Before starting on an entrepreneurial career, Anupama led many Software
Development and Architecture initiatives at Lucent Technologies and Synoptics / Bay
Networks.
Widely traveled, she has spoken at a number of industry events, symposiums and
standard body meetings worldwide. She has been profiled in a number of media
articles and has been featured on CNBC “Young Turks” program.
Anupama is actively involved as Member of the CII National Micro Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) Council; Member of the CII International Policy Council and
Board Member of Athena Foundation – an international organization focused on
women leadership. She has taught topics on Advanced Communication
Technologies at UC Berkeley and San Jose State Universities. She has a Bachelor in
Electronics and Communication Engineering as well as an MS in Computer Science.
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Arun Maira
Member - Planning Commission
Yojana Bhawan, Sansad Marg
New Delhi - 110001.
Tel
: 011 - 2309 6750
Fax
: 011 - 2309 6577
Email : arun.maira@nic.in
Web
: www.planningcommission.gov.in
Arun Maira is a Member of the Planning Commission chaired by the Prime Minister of
India. In this ministerial level position, he is responsible for facilitating the shaping of
policies and programs relating to industrialisation and urbanisation in the country, and
tourism. He has a combination of hands-on leadership experience, consulting
experience to leadership teams internationally and thought-leadership as an author
and speaker on the subjects of leadership and organisation transformation.
He is a frequent speaker at international forums on the future of India. He writes
regularly in the Economic Times in India and other management and business
journals. He is the author of several books which include "Shaping The Future:
Aspirational Leadership in India and Beyond", “Remaking India: One Country, One
Destiny”, “Discordant Democrats: Five Steps to Consensus” and “Transforming
Capitalism: Business Leadership to Improve the World for Everyone” in 2008.
He is the Chairman of Quality Council of India and Chancellor of Central University of
Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Tata Administrative Services and worked
in several senior positions in the TATA Group in India and abroad for 25 years until
1989. He has advised clients across a wide variety of industries and in many countries
on issues of strategy and organisation. He has worked with clients in North America,
Europe, South America and Asia in industries ranging from automobiles, steel, and oil,
to pharmaceuticals, and financial services. He has also advised Governments and
international agencies on leadership processes to accelerate development.
Arun Maira has served on the boards of several large Indian companies, including
companies in the Tata, Birla, Godrej, Hero and Mahindra Groups. He has been a
Member of The Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) National Council for many
years, as well as Chairman of several of CII's National Councils, including the
National Council for Corporate Governance and Chairman of CII's Leadership
Summit. He was a Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact in New York. He was also
Chairman of Save the Children, India, and Chairman of the Axis Bank Foundation. He
received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from St Stephen's College, Delhi University.
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Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
Member of Parliament
2, Mahadev Road, Near G.P.O
New Delhi - 110001.
Tel
: 011 - 2375 3431
Fax
: 011 - 2332 3355
Email : office@bjpanda.org
Web
: www.jay.panda.name
Baijayant “Jay” Panda was elected to the Lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
from Kendrapara Constituency, Odisha in May 2009. Earlier, Panda had been twice
elected to Parliament, Upper House (Rajya Sabha) in 2000 and 2006, also from the
State of Odisha. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party. Panda represents
the new face of Indian politicians, several of whom have been educated abroad and
have had alternate careers before choosing to serve the nation through politics. He
graduated from the Michigan Technological University and, with a background in
Engineering and Management, worked in the corporate sector before joining politics.
He assisted the late Biju Patnaik and subsequently Naveen Patnaik, who founded the
Biju Janata Dal party, which has found strong acceptance from the people of Odisha
and has been repeatedly voted back in elections.
Panda had helped to form the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) and was its
Convener; he has also been associated with the India-USA Forum of
Parliamentarians and is its Chairman. He was awarded the “Bharat Asmita National
Award” for best parliamentary practices by the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India in 2008.
Since its inception in 2007, Panda has been associated with the Citizens' Alliance
Against Malnutrition, an advocacy group including many parliamentarians across
parties, Bollywood actors, other celebrities, civil society activists and non
governmental organizations.
In his earlier corporate career, Panda was active in industry organizations like the
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the International Chromium Development
Association. In the past he has also been associated with the Govt. of Odisha's
Industrial Advisory Committee and been a Director on the Industrial Promotion &
Investment Corporation of Odisha (IPICOL).
As a parliamentarian, he has been a member of many important committees like the
Parliamentary Committees on Energy, Urban Development and Finance. In
parliament and public life, Panda passionately espouses the cause of his home state
Odisha as well as other national issues close to his heart, such as economic
development, education and information technology.
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Chandrajit Banerjee
Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry
Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23, Institutional Area
Lodi Road, New Delhi-110 003.
Tel
: 011 - 2462 1874
Fax
: 011 - 2463 3168
Email : cb@cii.in
Website : www.cii.in
Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
He has been with the CII for over 25 years and has been the Director General, CII
since May 2008. As Director General, he is responsible for overall operations of CII.
Prior to his appointment as Director General, he held several senior positions in CII.
He has been responsible for important areas of work including the Sectoral Verticals Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences Sectors and the SMEs and
has led key policy work of CII in the areas of Economic Policy, Financial Services and
Corporate Governance (he was also the First Executive Director of the National
Foundation of Corporate Governance - NFCG, an organization set up by the Ministry
of Company Affairs, Government of India). He continues to be in the Board of Trustees
of NFCG as a Founder Trustee.
Earlier, he has served as Head of CII's regional operations in the Northern, Southern
and Western Regions. He was also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of
the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA), which is a state-of-theart centre for training, conventions and trade fairs.
He is in various advisory committees of the Government of India; the Vice Chairman of
the Asia Pacific Chapter of UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry; the
Co-chairman of the Governing Council, Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC), a
not for profit public private initiative of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) and
CII, established in 2007; Member of the World Economic Forum' s Global Agenda
Council on India and a Member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of
Management (IIM), Ranchi.
He has been honored with the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between
India and China. With 63 offices including 10 Centres of Excellence in India, and 7
overseas offices in Australia, China, France, Singapore, South Africa, UK, and USA,
as well as institutional partnerships with 224 counterpart organisations in 90
countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international
business community.
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S Gopalakrishnan
President Designate, CII
Chairman, Apex Council on India@75
Bangalore - 560 100.
Tel
: 080 - 2852 0431
Fax
: 080 - 2852 0352
E-mail : kris_sg@infosys.com
Website : www.infosys.com
S Gopalakrishnan (Kris), along with N R Narayana Murthy and five others founded
Infosys in 1981. He served as the Director (Technical) and his initial responsibilities
included the management of design, development, implementation and support of
information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US.
Between 1987 and 1994, he served as the Vice President for Technical Operations of
KSA/Infosys, a joint venture between Infosys and KSA located in Atlanta, US. In 1994,
he returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Infosys.
Before becoming the CEO and Managing Director in July 2007, he served as the
company's Chief Operating Officer, President and Joint Managing Director
responsible for customer services, technology, investments and acquisitions. He took
over as the Executive Co-Chairman on August 21, 2011.
Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was recently
voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking
of Asia's Top Executives. He was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global
business thinkers compiled by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, in association with
the IE Business School, Madrid and the London Business School's Management
Innovation Lab in 2009.
In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the
country's third highest civilian honor. He has also represented Infosys and the country
at various international forums. In April 2012, Kris was appointed as a member of the
reconstituted United Nations Global Compact Board for three years. He is also a
member of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) International
Advisory Board and Fudan University School of Management International Advisory
Board.
He is on the Board of Governors at the IIM, Bangalore; Chairman of Indian Institute of
Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala and International Institute
of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore and a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE
Computer Society. Kris holds master's degrees in Physics and Computer Science
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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K V Kamath
Chairman
ICICI Bank
ICICI Bank Towers, Bandra-Kurla Complex
Mumbai - 400 051.
Tel
: 022 - 2653 8003
Fax
: 022 - 2653 1212
Email : kamath.kv@icicibank.com
Website : www.icicibank.com
K Vaman Kamath is the Chairman of ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank
and Infosys Ltd, one of India's largest technology services companies. He is also on
the board of Schlumberger Ltd, Chairs the Credit and Risk Committees at ICICI bank
amongst others and Chairs the Finance Committee at Schlumberger apart from being
on its Audit Committee. As part of public service, he is the Chairman of the Society and
Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management Indore and a member of the
board of Governors of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.
After graduating from IIMA in 1971, he started his career with ICICI in the Project
Finance division and gained extensive experience within the company, including
setting up new businesses such as leasing, venture capital, credit rating as well as
handling general management positions. As part of his general management
responsibilities, he initiated and implemented ICICI's technology program.
In 1988, Kamath joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, within their
Private Sector Department. He returned to India in May 1996, to take over as
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at ICICI. The strategic initiatives and
structural changes subsequently instituted by him across the ICICI Group have
helped ICICI to redraw its boundaries.
He retired as Managing Director & CEO in April 2009 and assumed his present
position as Non-Executive Chairman.
He was conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian honors in 2008.
He has received widespread recognition internationally and in India, including being
named CNBC's Asian Business Leader of the Year in 2001, Businessman of the Year
by Forbes Asia and Business Leader of the Year by The Economic Times, India in
2007.
He was the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry for the year 2008-09.
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Manish Malhotra
Costume Designer, Stylist & Couturier
Manish Malhotra Design Studio
Linking Road Khar (W),
Mumbai - 400052.
Tel
: 022 - 2605 0723
Fax
: 022 - 2605 0724
Email : store@manishmalhotra.in
Website : www.manishmalhotra.in
Manish Malhotra started his career in 1990 as a Costume Designer in The Indian
Film Industry, popularly known as Bollywood. Having won the first Filmfare Award for
Costume Design in 1995 for the film Rangeela, and styling for over 1000 films, Manish
Malhotra has redefined and contemporized costumes in Indian Cinema and still
continues to win many prestigious awards till date. His label is a hot favourite when it
comes to styling India's most glamorous Bollywood celebrities.
Manish has not only designed clothes for most of the leading actors in Bollywood but
has also designed clothes for International Stars like Michael Jackson, Jermaine
Jackson and wife Halima, Van Damme, Reese Witherspoon, Kylie Minogue and
supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Manish Malhotra's areas of creativity span the broad spheres of Bollywood, design,
styling, diffusion and everlasting bridal and couture. Manish is the first Costume
Designer to have ventured into mainstream fashion in 1999 with his high profile
couture store. He launched his own eveningwear couture label under his name
'Manish Malhotra' in the year 2004.
The label has also taken an initiative to develop and procure Kashmiri embroidery
such as ari and tila from small parts of Kashmir. The beautiful workmanship of the
Kashmiri craft has resulted into a long association with Kashmir and due to the label's
requirements a substantial number of Kashmiri houses have received employment.
Manish has showcased his collections at various International Fashion Weeks like
The South-Africa Fashion Week and the Dubai Fashion Week. His label is
synonymous with opulent, contemporary Indian wear. His intention has been to
create glamorous ensembles with Indian traditional colors, textures, embroideries,
and craftsmanship.
Manish continues to create spectacular collections under his label and is one of the
most coveted designers for Brides and Bridegrooms all over the world. His label
currently retails across Mumbai, Delhi, and Dubai amongst others.
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Meher Pudumjee
Chairperson
Thermax Ltd
R D Aga Road, Chinchwad
Pune - 411 019.
Tel
: 020 - 6612 2100
Fax
: 020 - 2747 2049
Email : csg@thermaxindia.com
Web
: www.thermaxindia.com
Thermax Limited is an INR 5,375 crore (USD 1.05 Billion) company, providing a range
of engineering solutions to the energy and environment sectors. We are
headquartered in Pune, India and operate globally through 19 International offices, 12
sales & service offices and 9 manufacturing facilities - five of which are in India and
four overseas. Its presence spans 75 countries across Asia Pacific, Africa and the
Middle East, CIS countries, Europe, USA and South America. Tuning to the needs of
the day, all our solutions are innovative, energy-efficient, environment-friendly and
easy to operate.
Meher Pudumjee is the Chairperson of Thermax Ltd. After her return to India in
September 1996, she was appointed on the Board of Directors of the company. With
her newly acquired interest in Finance, she worked closely with the treasury and the
working capital management functions of Thermax.
In January 2001, she became a Non-Executive Director and was appointed Vice
Chairperson in 2002. During this period, she played an active role along with the
senior management in the turnaround of the company. She had taken over as
Chairperson, Thermax Limited effective October 5, 2004, after the retirement of Ms
Anu Aga.
Meher has a keen interest in music, especially western classical and is a member of a
Pune based choir.
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Naushad Forbes
Director
Forbes Marshall
P B No: 29, Kasarwadi, Old Mumbai - Pune Road
Pune - 411 034.
Tel
: 020 - 3985 8555
Fax
: 020 - 2714 7413
Emai
: nforbes@forbesmarshall.com
Web
: www.forbesmarshall.com
Naushad Forbes is Director of Forbes Marshall, India's leading Steam Engineering
and Control Instrumentation firm. He is the CEO of the Steam Engineering
Companies within the group.
He has also been a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Program in
Science, Technology and Society from 1987 to 2004 and developed courses in
Technology and Policy in newly industrialized countries and the Management of
Technology in Firms in Newly Industrialized Countries. Naushad received his
Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Stanford University and his PhD in Industrial
Engineering was on the Process of Technical Entrepreneurship in India, also from
Stanford.
His book, co-authored with David Wield, From Followers to Leaders: Managing
Technology and Innovation in Newly Industrialising Countries, was published by
Routledge in 2002.
His recent papers include “Doing Business in India: What has liberalization
changed?”, Working Paper No. 93, Center for Research on Economic Development
and Policy Reform, Stanford University, 2001, “Pan Asia Conference: Focus on
Economic Challenges” held at the Stanford Center for International Development
from May 31-June 3, 2006 and “India's National Innovation System-What's new,
What's Old, What do we really know”, Mont Pelerin Society Tokyo, September 2008,
Japan.
Naushad is on the boards of Godrej Industries Limited and the Godrej Family Board,
Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd, Tata AutoComp Ltd (TACO), Board of Governors National
Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, Ruby Hall Clinic Pune, Jump
Associates LLC, California, USA, Stanford Alumni Association, Advisory Council
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Vishwakarma Institute of Technology,
Pune and Member of the Steering Committee on Industry for the Twelfth Five Year
Plan. Naushad also Chairs several commissions in the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) and was the Chairman of CII Western Region for the year 2009-10.
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Neera Nundy
Partner & Co-Founder
Dasra
Relief Road, Santa Cruz (West)
Mumbai - 400 054.
Tel
: 022 - 6120 0400
Email : info@dasra.org
Website : www.dasra.org
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Pradeep Bhargava
Chairman, CII (Western Region) &
Director, Cummins India Ltd
Kothrud
Pune - 411 038.
Tel
: 020 - 2538 5435
Email : pradeep.bhargava@cummins.com
Web
: www.cumminsindia.com
Neera Nundy is the Partner & Co-Founder, Dasra. She holds a Masters in Business
Administration from the Harvard Business School, is an Aspen Institute Fellow and
sits on the Board of Mann Deshi and Jaipur Virasat Foundation.
Dasra is committed to help scale promising non profits and social businesses to
positively impact thousands of lives. Dasra's success lies in its unique ability to work
with both philanthropists and social entrepreneurs and bring together knowledge,
funding and people to catalyze social change. Neera plays a crucial role in bringing
managerial skills, knowledge and analysis to the sector. She incubated the Dasra
Social-Impact program, a highly successful executive education program for social
entrepreneurs, enabling over 150 social organizations to receive over USD 7 million
in funding over the past 7 years.
Neera also has written and published 9 sector research reports in the education,
health and livelihood sectors. She has enabled portfolio organizations such as SMV
Wheels, Sabras and SNEHA to refine their strategies and accelerate their growth by
20 - 30 times.
Neera has also been quoted in revered media channels like The Times of India, The
Hindustan Times, The Hindu, India Today, Live Mint, Inc. India and Alliance magazine.
She has also spoken at events like SOCAP11, Khemka Forum 2010, NSEF Idea
Conference - IIT Bombay and Godrej India Culture Lab's Urban Re (Imagination).
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Prakash Javadekar
Member of Parliament & National Spokesperson
Bharatiya Janata Party
24, Mahadev Road
New Delhi - 110 001.
Tel
: 011 - 2335 2124
Fax
: 011 - 2376 5111
Email : pjavadekar@gmail.com
Prakash Javadekar is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from
Maharashtra. He is also the Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He
has served as a Member of the Legislative Council in Maharashtra from the graduates'
constituency for 12 years (1990-2002). He has also served as the Chairman of the
Maharashtra State Planning Board from 1995-1999.
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Raja Kochar
Chairman, CII Pune Zonal Council
Eaton Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Plot No. 1, MIDC Kharadi Knowledge Park
Pune - 411 014.
Tel
: 020 - 6607 5821
Fax
: 020 - 6633 8585
Eamil : rajakochar@jaanah.com
Raja Kochar is associated with Eaton Corporation - India, a global $11.9 billion
premier diversified industrial manufacturer. In his former role as Managing Director,
Kochar was responsible for working with Eaton's all five businesses to develop
strategies that will build Eaton's overall presence and success in India.
As a Parliamentarian, he is a member of the Standing Committee on Defence, Public
Accounts Committee, Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Committee on Wakf
and Consultative Committee on Power and a member of the Press Council of India.
Prior to this, he was Vice President of Information Technology at Eaton and head of
the India Information Technology Center (IITC) located in Pune. He was responsible
for overall operations and increased IT capabilities to the Electrical & Industrial
sectors as well as corporate functions globally.
He is the President of the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment
(GLOBE), India. In addition, he serves as the President, NOINO (National
Organization of Insurance Officers) and President, KCKU (Khadi Commission
Karmachari Union).
Prior to joining Eaton, Raja worked at Mphasis as Senior Vice President and Head of
Consulting in New York. After its merger with EDS, Kochar played a key role in the
integration and relocated to India in October 2007 with additional responsibilities as
head of Global Alliances.
In his years of experience, he has worked on several social causes. He has served as
Chairman of GRAMSHAKTI, a NGO working in the Rural Development Area.
Kochar started his consulting career with General Foods in 1983 and gained 25+
years of experience with Fortune 1000 companies in a variety of industries including
Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Food Service, Retail,
Telecommunications and Utilities with extensive international experience including
assignments in North America, Latin America, Europe, Far East Asia and India.
Between 1978 and 1980, Javadekar worked in the Tribal area of Thane District for the
revival of a development project launched by the Bank of Maharashtra. From 19962000, he ensured the successful completion of the Government of India's watershed
Development Project in the Kolvan Valley of Mulshi Tehsil of Pune District.
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Rajan R Navani
Chairman, National Committee on India@75
Managing Director, Jetline Group of Companies
101 - 104, First Floor, Metro House
Pune - 411 001.
Tel
: 020 - 2616 4823
Fax
: 020 - 2616 2299
Email : rajannavani@indiaat75.in; rajan@jetlineindia.com
Web
: www.indiaat75.com, www.jetlineindia.com
Rajan Navani is the Managing Director of the Indian arm of the Jetline Group of
Companies with interests in Packaging Manufacturing, IT services and new ventures
in innovative entertainment, and organized consumer retail. Rajan is responsible for
the India strategy and its implementation for all the group companies. The roots of the
Navani group originate back to the 1930’s in Bangkok, Thailand where the group
continues to have its diversified business operations.
Prior to this, Rajan worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland,
USA before returning to Thailand and then to India to enter the family business. Rajan
is currently the Chairman of the National Committee on India@75, the Past National
Chairman of the Young Indians, which is an integral part of Confederation of Indian
Industry and is a member of CII’s National Council. Through India@75, CII is looking
at effectively channelizing the vast youth energy of the country towards building a
Dream India by 2022, seventy five years since its independence. He is also a trustee
of the India@75 Foundation.
Rajan is a fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative 2011 – 2012 and member of
the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is also a BMW Foundation’s young world
leader and part of the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum. He was the Founder Chairman
of the Emerging President’s Group, a forum for second generation industrialists and a
promoting member of the Family Business Forum. He is actively associated various
other business and social organizations in India and Thailand. He holds a Masters
degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA under
a NASA grant majoring in Digital Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing graduating
with the award for outstanding academic achievement. A gold medalist at the
University of Poona, India in the Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunications
program, Rajan also has a diploma in Business Management.
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Rasika Wakalkar
National Co-Chair (Education), Young Indians
Managing Director - Renee Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Rudraksh, 104, Anand Park, Aundh
Pune - 411 007.
Tel
: 020 - 2588 2255
Fax
: 020 - 2588 2256
Email : rasika@studiorudraksh.com
Web
: www.studiorudraksh.com
Rasika Wakalkar holds a BA (French) and has done her Masters in Marketing
Management from the Pune University, besides an Advanced Diploma in French
iterature.
With a work experience of about 11 years in different areas and capacities, Rasika is
currently the Managing Director at Renee Enterprises Pvt Ltd and founded Pune’s
first and largest multi-designer store, Rudraksh that has put Pune on the country’s
fashion map and has been the launch pad for over 130 Indian designers.
She is also a Trustee at The Vishweshwar Education Society that runs under
graduation & post graduation courses of the Mumbai University. In her previous role
as a Trustee with the Pune based Indira Group of Institutes, she was responsible for
founding 3 schools.
In her free time, Rasika loves to read, travel and cook.
She was recently awarded the “Star Youth Achiever Award in Fashion” at the 3rd
Global Youth Marketing Awards in Mumbai. She has been listed in “The Power Club
Women in Pune” by the Femina magazine and was also felicitated by the Royal
Western India Turf Club for her contribution to fashion.
The love for travel that she has, Rasika has been to the US, UK; France, Italy, Austria,
Spain, Portugal and a few other countries in Europe & Hong Kong, Singapore,
Thailand etc in Asia.
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01 February 2013, Pune
Rati Forbes
Director
Forbes Marshall
Kasarwadi
Pune - 411 034.
Tel
: 020 - 27145595 / 39858555
Fax
: 020 - 27147413
Email : ccmidc@forbesmarshall.com
Web
: www.forbesmarshall.com
Rati Forbes graduated with Psychology and Sociology from Bombay university - and
has further done special courses in Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour.
She has been a Director at Forbes Marshall (FM); and has been involved in
overseeing the Human Resources function till 2010. During this time, Forbes Marshall
was thrice selected one of India's Top 25 Great Places to Work; most recently bagging
11th rank in 2011 and 5th rank in 2012.
Today, Rati focuses full time on the social initiatives the company has been developed
and grown over the last 30 years. Rati also heads the Foundation which Forbes
Marshall set up three years ago. She has initiated several programmes for underpriveleged women and children from neighboring communities; the focus areas being
health, education and women's empowerment.
The social initiatives team at Forbes Marshall is involved with several programs some of them are a reading/learning enhancement programme in a hundred
municipal schools in Pune; catalysing 200 self-help groups for women, a gender
sensitisation programme for 8th and 9th standard students which continues to run
each year in about 30 to 40 municiapl and low cost private schools. FM was also the
first company in India to be recognised by the Social audit network of UK and awarded
a certification after a rigorous process in 2010.
Rati chaired CII Western region's cell for Social development from 2002 to 2006; the
main objective being to sensitise corporates to their social responsibility. She
continues to be actively involved with CII's outreach programs for skill development,
leading to employability. Rati is also on the board of several foundations - some of
them are Mobile Creche Pune, the advisory board for Akanksha Pune, Centre for
Learning Resources, the Centre for the Advancement of Philanthropy, etc.
Rati is currently pursuing a part time two year Masters in Sustainability Leadership
from Cambridge UK; she will graduate in June 2013. She has two children - Riah who
works for Google in their corporate office in Mountain View and Darius who is a Junior
at Stanford university, California.
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Nurturing
the Positive
Powers of
India
Revathi Roy
Head-Investor Relations
Brick Eagle
2012 One India Bulls, Elphinstone
Mumbai - 400 025.
Tel
: 022 - 24314648
Email : info@revathiroy.com
Web
: www.revathiroy.com
Revathi Roy graduated from St Xaviers Mumbai, is a post graduate from Mumbai
University and has a doctorate from University of Toronto. She is the pioneer of the
first ever women's taxi service in Asia called FORSHE which was subsequently sold,
and started another company called VIIRA. A completely novel profession was
created for the women below poverty line, who only had an aspiration to become
drivers. She has a dream of training 10000 women in 5 years and creating a
residential school.
She is a pioneer in the Women's Fleet Taxi Service which is a large platform for
providing employment to women from below poverty line families in this unique
profession. She Started Forsche pronounced as FORSHE by driving a taxi herself
and getting a first hand experience in real life. She started another brand called VIIRA
and has exited from that as well.
She is a recipient of many awards, the latest being the Godfrey Philips National
Bravery Award. Revathi has also won the Entrepreneur of the Year 2007-08 by
Bombay Management Association, the Indian Merchants Chambers, Inner wheel
Club of Mumbai Airport 2009, Parmanand Foundation Certificate of honour and the
Veerangana award.
Revathi was invited by Hillary Clinton to participate in the Summit conducted by the
Hillary Clinton Foundation last year. She was also recently awarded the Lions Gold
Award for 'Favourite Woman Social Entrepreneur' at a glittering award ceremony. An
episode of 30 minutes has been made on Revathi Roy, which was anchored by
Anurag Kashyap and aired on Samay Mumbai several times in the show entitled
'Rags to Riches'. She is a regular speaker at Forums and is invited by many Business
Schools, including ISB Hyderabad, Mckinsey, TCS etc to speak and guide students
on Entrepreneurship.
Revathi wants to change the way women travel and make roads safe. She is
associated with many NGOs and not for profit organizations in empowering women
and issues which have social impact, and has represented India in many events.
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01 February 2013, Pune
Ritu Nathani
Chair, Young Indians (Pune Chapter) &
Director, Cybage Software
Kalyani Nagar
Pune - 411 014.
Tel
: 020 - 2665 9718
Fax
: 020 - 2565 6518
Email : ritunathani@gmail.com
Web
: www.cybage.com
A thorough-bred Puneite, Ritu Nathani is a Dentist by qualification and an Elocution
Teacher by passion. Ritu had started her active participation in theatre and drama
during her school days. And eventually, her sabbatical from dentistry after the birth of
her second child drove her back to her childhood passion.
For over a decade, she has been a communication teacher running her own speech
and drama classes and training children for speech exams conducted by The Trinity
College of London. She has, in the past, taught in many schools like St Mary's and
Primrose, trained May Queen contestants at local clubs, hosted Times of India's
Spelling Bee contest for several years, compered many corporate events,
interviewed celebrities from different walks of life, and has played lead roles in various
professional plays such as Careful Rapture, Where There is a Will by Mahesh Datani,
Plaza Suites by Neil Simon.
Ritu is the wife of Arun Nathani, founder and CEO of Cybage, an emerging IT services
leader with global footprint supported by over 4200 professionals. Ritu heads
CYBAGE KHUSHBOO, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing which
provides financial aid to deserving needy students for professional college education.
Since its inception in 2009, Khushboo charitable trust has sponsored over 250
students for medicine, engineering and other professional courses, and also supports
rural schools around Pune. In recognition of her contribution, Ritu was honored as
one of the Women Leaders of India 2011 in the CSR category at an awards ceremony
that celebrates the remarkable achievements of India's successful women leaders.
Nurturing
the Positive
Powers of
India
Sam Pitroda
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information
Infrastructure & Innovations
Planning Commission, Yojna Bhawan
New Delhi - 110 001.
Tel
: 011 - 23096622
Fax
: 011 - 23096767
Email : s.pitroda@nic.in
Web
: www.iii.gov.in
Sam Pitroda is an internationally respected development thinker, policy maker,
telecom inventor and entrepreneur who has spent over four decades in Information
and Communications Technology and related human and national development
initiatives. Credited with having laid the foundation of India´s technology and
telecommunications revolution in the 1980s, he has been a leading campaigner to
help bridge the global digital divide.
During his tenure as Adviser to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s, Pitroda
headed six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy,
immunization, dairy and oil seeds. He was also the Founder and first Chairman of
India´s Telecom Commission. In these roles, he helped revolutionize India´s
development policies and philosophies with a focus on access to technology as the
key to social change.
Pitroda was the Chairman of India´s National Knowledge Commission (2005- 2009),
an advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, set up to provide a blueprint for reform
of the knowledge related institutions and infrastructure in the country. The
Commission has offered a series of recommendations on various aspects of the
knowledge paradigm to help India meet the challenges of the 21st century.
He is currently Adviser to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information
Infrastructure and Innovations and has undertaken the ambitious task of providing a
plan for creating digital infrastructure in the country for enhancing governance and
improving delivery of public services. He is also the Chairman of the National
Innovation Council (NInC) which is working on several initiatives to boost innovation
performance in the country. He is also the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force set
up under the aegis of the Ministry of Power, Government of India. He has also been
appointed as one of the founding Commissioners of the United Nations Broadband
Commission for Digital Development.
He holds close to a 100 worldwide patents and has published and lectured widely in
the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
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01 February 2013, Pune
Sarathbabu Elumalai
Chief Executive Officer
Foodking
3/5, Bajanai Koil Street
Near Baliah Garden Bus stop
Chennai - 600 091.
Email : sarath.iima@gmail.com
Web
: www.sarathbabu.co.in
Nurturing
the Positive
Powers of
India
Srikant Suryanarayan
National Vice Chairman, Young Indians
Managing Director, Tradelinks Ventures Pvt Ltd
Veekshanam Road
Kochi - 682 018.
Tel
: 0484 - 2354579
Fax
: 0484 - 2370725
Email : ss@pixetra.com
Web
: www.pixetra.com
Born and brought up in a slum in Madipakkam in Chennai, Sarathbabu E is not
ignorant of difficulties and poverty in his life. Citing his mother to be the most
successful entrepreneur who brought up her kids working several jobs, he is a person
who we can take lessons from. He completed his matriculation form King's
Matriculation Higher Secondary school in Chennai and graduated in Chemical
Engineering from BITS Pilani.
Srikantan Suryanarayan on completing his Bachelor in Commerce from St. Alberts
College in Kochi, Kerala in 1993, proceeded to University of Canberra, Australia for
his Masters in Business Administration, specializing in International Business. In
2003, he became part of the Wharton Fellows Program, University of Pennsylvania,
USA. As part of the Fellows program, attended Master Classes in Los Angles,
Shanghai, Milan, Copenhagen and Mumbai.
He worked in Polaris Software for three years and pursued his MBA from the Indian
Institute of Management - Ahmedabad. It was post his MBA, that he started Food King
food catering service in 2006. His vision was to offer employment to illiterate and semiilliterate people through Food King. In 2010, he started the HungerFree India
foundation and his vision is to see a hunger free India in his lifetime. He declared 10th
of October (10-10) as HungerFree day across India.
Tradelinks is entering its 5th decade of operation in 2012-13, a family run business
organization that specializes in trading, distribution and marketing of products
catering to diverse industries like – Education, Audio-Visual, Photography, Printing,
Textiles etc. The brand portfolio includes most of the leading global and Indian
brands. Tradelinks Ventures, the flagship company of the group also runs a chain of
retail stores – both virtual and physical, under the brand Pixetra. A new initiative of the
group – Ishka Renewables in the coming years will be venturing in Agriculture and
Renewable Energy.
One of his biggest achievements is becoming an Honorary Rotarian. He has also won
the CNN-IBN Award for Young Indian Leader 2011, RITZ Chennai Youth Icon 2010
and many more youth awards. A real icon for the youth in India for success in the face
of hardships, he believes in putting values before money and power.
As Managing Director of the Tradelinks Group of Companies, a second-generation
entrepreneur, primary responsibility is to drive growth and explore new business
opportunity.
His other interests include Travel, Photography, Driving, Cooking, Running, learning
history and politics.
He joined Yi in Kochi during its early years in 2002-03. And has been passionate
about its core value systems and headed the chapter in 2006-07. He has been
actively involved ever since at the National Level on areas like Education and
Planning.
He is currently the National Vice Chairman of Young Indians.
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Supriya Sule
Member of Parliament
(Baramati Constituency)
Yashwantrao Chavan Centr, Bhosale Marg
Mumbai - 400 021.
Tel
: 022 - 22852385
Email : supriyassule@gmail.com
Web
: www.supriyassule.com
Supriya Sule is a politician and a social initiative leader, and is currently a Member of
Parliament (MP) in the 15th Lok Sabha. She was also elected to the Rajya Sabha in
2006. Supriya is also a member of various Committees such as the one on
Empowerment of Women, External Affairs, and Ethics as also a member of the
Consultative Committee, Ministry of Rural Development. She was educated at Jai
Hind College in Mumbai, earning a B.Sc degree in Microbiology.
Supriya initiated a campaign in Maharashtra to have its first youth policy. Along with
demanding the State Government to declare its First Youth Policy, she conducted
state-wide consultations with youth from various sections like Navmaharashtra Yuva
Abhiyan, Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthaan etc. and presented a draft youth policy
to the State Government which was accepted as a basic document to formulate
official State Policy.
She also initiated a State-level campaign for public awareness against female
foeticide mainly through rallies where thousands of young girls had participated. This
campaign highlighted the issue in media and with policy makers.
Supriya is involved with educational activities in various capacities. She is engaged in
education of tribal children through many schools and is also a board member for the
schools of the Pawar Public Charitable Trust. She is also associated with Vision
programme for career guidance to school children and youth and initiated the
Yashswinini Abhiyan for upliftment of women below poverty line. It organises women
into SHGs, providing them training for entrepreneurship, value addition and
marketing.
She is also the convener of the first political wing for young girls in the country, the
Rashtrawadi Yuvati Congress (RYC); and she has travelled all over the State and has
had direct dialogue with more than 2.5 lakh girls. RYC provides a platform for these
girls to express their feelings and raise their issues.
Supriya has wide-ranging interests in the socio-cultural arena, especially in paintings,
literature and science.
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