2018-2019

Abanti Sankaranarayanan is a University Gold medallist & graduate in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. A considerable part of her career was spent with the Tata Group, as a part of the elite Tata Administrative Services (TAS), managing some of the best-known consumer brands of the Group in India, United Kingdom and the United States In June 2010 she joined Diageo, a global leader in alcohol beverage & was responsible for building Diageo’s iconic global brands - Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, VAT 69, Cîroc amongst others in India. She went on to take the mantle of Managing Director, Diageo India Private Ltd responsible for its business, brands & people in India. She has over 15 years of work experience in Manufacturing and Hospitality Industry. She has with an industry experience spanning over two decades. She serves as Member of The Board of Governors at Advertising Standards Council of India

Her contribution to the business has been recognized by Fortune India (The Most Powerful Women in Business - 2012, 2014, 2015 & 2016), India Today (India’s 25 Most Influential Women, 2013) & Fast Company, New York (100 Most Creative People in Business, 2012).

Aditi is the co-Founder at Pocket Aces, a new age digital entertainment company making highly engaging content for the millennial. The company reaches 40 million people weekly via their channels FilterCopy, Dice Media, and Gobble. As social media becomes increasingly powerful in influencing how people think and act, progressive media companies such as Pocket Aces can have a significant impact in shaping the future of this world.

Before Pocket Aces, Aditi she set up the Intellecap Impact Investment Network, the largest angel network investing in for-profit businesses dedicated to creating a positive social impact across India and East Africa. She worked with entrepreneurs, advising them on their business models and investment approaches.

Prior to joining Intellecap, Aditi spent over 5 years at Goldman Sachs in New York, specializing in quantitative equity research, trading and portfolio management. Aditi graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She is a CFA (USA) charter holder, the Curator of the World Economic Forum Global Shaper Mumbai Hub, and a TiE Mumbai Charter Member.

She currently serves on the advisory boards of Jibu, an affordable clean drinking water enterprise in East Africa, and Impact Business Leaders, an organization dedicated to grooming more talent for the impact space.

With a mission to elevate the Health and Well-Being of the Indian consumers and maximizing returns to shareholders,Alka Goel is the founding partner of Alkemi. Alkemi is a growth investor and supports entrepreneurs who are inspired by a vision and help build companies that can make a difference to consumer wellness and health-care industry. Ms. Goel was also a partner at Mckinsey & Co. for almost two decades, advising healthcare and private equity clients on a range of business outcomes. Ms. Goel also has a Bachelor’s Degree, Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women as well as a MBA from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Ms. Alpana Parida serves as the Managing Director at DY Works, India\'s oldest and largest branding firm headquartered in Mumbai with offices in Delhi and Singapore. Ms. Parida has previously worked as an Independent Director for Nykaa, one of India’s most famous cosmetics retailer and Prime Securities. She graduated from IIM Ahmedabad in 1985 and has a degree in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University

Anisha Singh is the Co-Founder and CEO at mydala.com. She belongs to Delhi. She stepped her way through a checkered academic career in Delhi and Washington D.C., studying art, political communication, management and information systems marketing. She started off working for the Clinton administration in D.C. before moving on to e-learning, and eventually founded her first company. As founder/CEO of Mydala, her true calling, she zips through her days with enough energy to put Hurricane Sandy to shame. And as if that wasn\'t enough work to employ the population of a small town, Anisha also doubles up as a yoga instructor.

Anjali Singh is currently working as a SVP and COO Banking & financial services at Genpact. She has more than 20 years experience in financial services across many roles in Operations, Relationship Management, HR & Training as well as Strategy and PnL Management. She has also worked with broad range of Global clients primarily in the Banking and Financial Services domain.

Anne Hansel is currently the Team Lead at ABB. She previously worked as a Sales Specialist. She has a Bachelors in Engineering.

Anne Heeke has worked at ABB for over half a decade in various capacities. Currently working in the Global Marketing Communication Lead Electrification Products division, Anne has also a degree in marketing from the University of Applied Science and a MA in organization psychology from Donau-Universität Krems.

Anuranjita Kumar, who has been the managing director, Chief Human resources officer South Asia at Citi, since 2012, has now joined RBS as the managing director, human resources for international hubs. Kumar is a Business Management graduate from XLRI, who began her professional journey at Procter & Gamble in 1994, post which she joined Citibank in 1995, and stayed with the brand for over 21 years. She rose up the corporate ladder in Citi, working across geographies —the US, Middle East, Africa, Europe and South Asia.

Archana has been practising PR since 1990. She founded PR Pundit in 1998. Today, it’s a well-regarded consumer and lifestyle public relations company. The company continues to be steered by Archana to offer a value proposition of creativity, efficiency and innovation. She is the principal trainer for PR Pundit’s media training and crisis communications programmes. Archana holds a Masters degree in Business Economics from Delhi University.

Archana Kumar is an HR professional with over 27 years of experience over multiple industries and organizations. Prior to working as the Chief Human Resource Officer at Ireo for over a decade, she worked at NIIT, CMC Limited and what was then Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. She has received an MBA and a Bachelor in Arts from the University of Lucknow.

A 1989 graduate of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Ashwini is the co-founder of Elephant, India\'s largest independent integrated design consultancy with offices in India & Singapore. Elephant has been ranked as No 1 Design Agency by The Economic Times Brand Equity reckoner for 2014 and in 2017.

She has done award-winning work for global brands such as Daimler, Unilever, P&G and Gillette. Awards include Designomics, AsiaStar Packaging Excellence & Global ReBrand.

Ashwini was invited by Rockefeller Foundation to participate in Global Social Impact summit at Italy & by Danish Design Foundation for the Global Co-creation Summit at Copenhagen. She has also been a jury member for Cannes Lions, Global ReBrand 100 awards, PrintWeek Awards, Spike Asia Awards & Design for Asia Awards.

Ashwini has been advising a Media Conglomerate on user-centric approach across several publications, been on the ColourNextcolour forecast panel as Trends Expert for Asian Paints since 2003 and been a brand ambassador for HP. As part of tDA Asia, she was \"editor\"of an award winning cross-cultural project \"Colours of Asia\" that culminated into a book published with the support of Hong Kong SAR Government.

Avani Kapur has been working in the field of budgetary analysis since 2008. Currently, she is leading the Budget and Public Finance research work at the Accountability Initiative—a research organization based in Centre for Policy Research that works on tracking the governance and implementation of key social sector programs.

Prior to Accountability Initiative, she has worked at the Centre for Development and Human Rights (CDHR), with Dr. Arjun Sengupta. As part of her activities at CDHR, she was responsible for assisting Dr. Sengupta in his reports to the Human Rights Council as the ‘Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ and the ‘Right to Development’. 

She has an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and received a BA cum laude from Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. 

Beena Govindraju is the Vice President and Head of Communications of ABB. Prior to this, she was the Head of Marketing and Corporate Sustainability at India COE, EMC Corporation and is based in Bangalore. With over 14 years of experience in diverse sectors, Beena is responsible for marketing and corporate communications ranging from integrated marketed campaigns, digital marketing, public relations, events and internal communication.

She has been a management consultant with over 17 years of experience. She has recently turned into an entrepreneur with Flexing It™ (www.flexingit.com) which is a curated marketplace that connects organisations to professionals for short term projects and consulting assignments. It provides an organised way for demand and supply of flexible skills to discover each other and connect efficiently. Her consulting experience has spanned healthcare i.e., pharmaceuticals, hospitals, insurance, across India and the US.

The Development/Not-for-profit space is a recent area of focus with an emphasis on diagnosis of issues, program design and scale-up, and understanding policy needs.

Currently the Chief People Officer at SRL Diagnostics, Debjani Roy is Corporate Trainer, Executive Coach, author and motivational speaker. The founder and chief consultant of Wind Beneath the Wings LLP, she has also worked as the Head of Human Resources for Kuoni Travel Group, Bentley Systems, HCL Technology and Bharti Telecom. Ms. Roy has a degree for BA (Honours), History from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and has done her Masters in International Relations, International Politics, History, Economics and Law from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has also done her MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies- University of Delhi.

Ms Roy was recently felicitated by the World HRD Congress for being one of the ‘Top 100 HR Leaders in the country who Made a Difference.’

Ms. Debolia Dutta is currently the Vice President HR and CSR at Schneider Electric-Luminous India. Prior to this she has worked with corporations such as VF corporation, United Spirits Limited and Wipro technologies. She has a BE in Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering Pune as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Management and Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as well as a Phd from IIM Indore. Ms. Dutta is also the Member Board of Directors of Indian Institute of Management, Indore and Sant Singaji of Science and Management Sanalpur, Dewas.

Sunita Maheshwari is a paediatric cardiologist, originally from Hyderabad, where she did her MBBS at Osmania University. Following which she did her post-graduation in gynaecology at AIIMS. Sunita then went on to do Pediatric Cardiology at Yale University.

She has over 25 years of work experience, and was awarded 2014’s ‘Amazing Indian Award’ by Times Now and is a US Board Certified Pediatric Cardiologist. She was nominated as one of the Top 20 women achievers in medicine in India. Apart from her medical and clinical career, she is a medical entrepreneur and co-founder of Teleradiology Solutions where her contribution as the Chief Dreamer has been incorrigibly powerful, along with peering ventures like RXDX multi-specialty acute care clinics in Bangalore and Telrad tech which builds artificial intelligence enabled telehealth software products.

She has also been an inspirational speaker with over 200 lectures, including several TEDx talks. Over the past decade her efforts to use technology to successfully educate doctors and help patients in remote areas of India and other parts of the world was recognized, and she was chosen as one of the few innovative entrepreneurs invited to meet President Obama on his trip to India.

Gayatri Vasudevan is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Labournet Services India, a social enterprise that enables sustainable livelihoods for disadvantaged men, women and youth in urban and rural areas. Labournet aims to integrate social and business impact by bridging the gaps in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship. She is skilled in Sustainable Development, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategic Planning, and Rural Development. She has received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Development Economics and International Development from University of Delhi. Gayatri is also working with the Unreasonable Fellowship, which is an organization, investment fund, and private global network dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs. She had previously worked with the International Labour Organization.

Vasudevan was also awarded the Forbes India Entrepreneur with Social Impact 2018, Finalist Telstra Business Women Asia 2017, Skill Development Leadership 2017, Entrepreneur of the year 2015 and was named one of the most Powerful Women in Business in India by Business Today Magazine.

In her current role, Gunjan is responsible for setting the strategic direction for Jabong and leading it to profitability. She also leads Marketing for Myntra.

She has over 13 years of diverse experience in strategy, operations and marketing with a passion for advanced big data analytics. In her previous role as Executive Vice President for Strategy and CEO Office, with Star India, she worked on new initiatives in Content, Sports and Digital.

Prior to joining Star India, Gunjan was a Partner at McKinsey and worked across multiple consumer sectors and geographies, including India, UK, Singapore and Bhutan. She is credited for starting McKinsey\'s Scientific Marketing practice for India.

Hardika Shah is the Founder & CEO of Kinara Capital, a social impact company addressing financial inclusion for small business entrepreneurs in India. Kinara Capital disrupted small business lending in India by providing loans without taking any land or property collateral.

Prior to launching Kinara Capital, she spent two decades as a management consultant with Accenture, driving billion-dollar client projects across multiple industries around the globe. She has a decade of involvement in the social entrepreneurship field as a mentor with Santa Clara University, Stanford University, Accenture Development Partnerships, the Acumen Fund and Columbia Business School.

Recognized for her innovative and pioneering work with Kinara, Hardika was honoured as an Ashoka Fellow by the prestigious Ashoka Foundation, received the Financial Inclusion award from the Sankalp Foundation, won the people’s choice Live Audience award at the Wall Street Journal Financial Inclusion event, and received support from the Gates Foundation and the Dell Foundation.

Hardika earned her MBA from Columbia Business School and Haas School of Business. She earned a B.A. in Computer Science from Knox College in Illinois.

Jahnavi Phalkey is a filmmaker and historian of science and technology. Formerly at the India Institute, she is now the Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru. She has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskollegzu Berlin (2013-14) following which she was on secondment to the Science Museum London as external curator (2013-2015). Jahnavi is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India (2013) and has recently co-edited Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century (2016). She is on the editorial board for the British Journal for the History of Science and History and Technology. She is director of the documentary film Cyclotron (2017). Jahnavi continues to supervise three doctoral candidates at the India Institute.

Kruti Bharucha is currently the Managing Director for ARK India—an international organisation, headquartered in London, whose purpose is to transform children\'s lives. ARK India\'s interventions are focused on improving the quality of education provided and available to children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Prior to ARK, she was Senior Director and Leader of the Finance Practice for CEB, advising CXOs in the areas of corporate finance, internal controls, talent management, finance function productivity and information risk management and mitigation. Her previous work experience includes McKinsey and Co., where her expertise was in the field of consumer goods, retail and agri-business. She has also worked at The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where she specialized in fiscal policy and financial sector reform.

She has an MSc in Development Studies (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and a BA (with Honors) from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

Ms. Larisa Dhawan is currently the Director of Sales and Marketing, Renepay where she has worked over half a decade. She has held senior leadership positions across multiple corportaion and MNC’S such as American Express.

LavangKhare has over 18 years of hands on experience and understanding of communications from both client and the communications agency. Currently, the Senior Vice President at Adfactors PR, she had previously worked as Executive Vice President at LINOPINION Golin Harris and IPAN Hill and Knowlton. Prior to this, she also worked at Bharti Walmart, Lintas India Pvt. Ltd and the Business Software Alliance. She has worked across several categories including FMCG, technology, telecom, power, infrastructure, transport, financial, healthcare, hospitality, retail and public affairs.

Leena Wakankar is the Head - Human Resources, ASK Group Leena plays a crucial role of management and development of human resources at ASK Group. Prior to this, she was the Head of Human Resources at ICICI Venture. She has over 15 years of experience across various organisations like ICICI Bank, Sony Entertainment Television and Syntel India Limited, managing key areas including HR generalist, staffing, talent management, compensation, training and development.

Lopamudra Banerjee is an experienced HR professional who comes from a HR Generalist background. She has over 10 years of experience in Human Resource Consulting working in global professional services organisations, project managing delivery of complex and diverse HR projects with both public sector and private sector clients.

Lopamudra has worked extensively in the areas of developing and deploying HR solutions aligned with business strategy. This spans the area of HR Strategy, Organizational Development, Talent Management & Effectiveness, Performance and Total Rewards Management.Organization Design, HR Process Design, both as a team member and in a project management role.

Currently the Head HR India of Mondelēz International (Erstwhile Cadbury’s), Mahalakshmi is responsible for leading the HR function for approximately one billion dollar Indian business of the world’s largest snacking company. Her role at Mondelez International involves defining & delivering HR strategy to unlock the true growth potential of their business and people.

Mahalakshmi has over 21 years’ experience spanning HR leadership roles with conglomerates like Bharti Airtel, BILT and Ranbaxy. Prior to which she has worked as a business consultant with Global Consulting majors like Hewitt, Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young.

Mahalakshmi holds a graduate degree in Physics (major) and a Masters in Human Resources. She is a certified coach, and passionate about unlocking the true growth potential of individuals and organisations.

Malini MM is currently the Group Manager at ABB. She is in charge of the Process Automation Dept and the deployment quality. She was previously the Senior Quality Engineer at Dell and the QA Lead at Real Soft Internation. She has a BE from Sri M. Vishweswaraya Institute of Technology.

Mansharan Seth leads the public-private partnerships portfolio for the Nutrition Team at Tata Trust. Her work spans from product development, research and efficacy testing, down to designing the right distribution and marketing channels via innovative solutions. Prior to working at the Trusts, she was the Co-founder and CMO at Yummade.

Mansharan has an extensive career rooted in the FMCG industry spanning nearly a decade at Glaxo SmithKline and also 2 years at Procter & Gamble. At GSK she led brand marketing, working across the Horlicks portfolio for several years, spanning across brands such as Junior Horlicks, Horlicks, Horlicks Lite and the launch of Women’s Horlicks. She also led Global marketing for Sensodyne, based at Weybridge, U.K.

At P&G, she led portfolio sales for Mumbai region working with their local distributors. It was her career in the FMCG industry, particularly her work on Horlicks that led to a keen desire to work in the area of nutrition where she could make a lasting impact towards the alleviation of malnutrition in India.

Meenu is a feminist and a social entrepreneur who has pioneered the idea of ‘Women on Wheels’. Women on Wheels has received several recognitions and awards for its innovative business model as well as for the transformative impact made on lives of resource poor women.

With a postgraduate degree of Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and a Masters degree in Social Development and Public Policy from London School of Economics, she has been working on women’s issues—nationally and internationally—for over 20 years. She has been involved in development initiatives as the Country Director of Actionaid in Uganda (1998-2003). Having returned to India afterwards, she has led an innovative initiative of Aagaz Academies, Schools of Leadership for elected women panchayat leaders, before founding Azad Foundation and Sakha Cabs for Women. She now acts as CEO and Secretary of the Trustee Board for Azad and CEO of Sakha Cab.

Neeta Revankar is the CFO and member of the Board of Directors at Sasken Technologies Ltd (formerly Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd). As an active member of the leadership team, Neeta has been instrumental in helping Sasken drive Fiscal discipline and profitability since inception. She successfully led the company’s IPO in 2005. She has earned a reputation in the industry as a leader who has been committed to establishing and maintaining the highest standards of transparency in financial management, reporting and corporate governance at Sasken.

She is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary. Besides, she has participated in the Program for Global Leadership (PGL) in 2001 and the Advanced Management Program (AMP) in 2007 of the Harvard Business School and more recently participated in the Women on Boards program at the Harvard Business School in 2016.

Apart from playing a stellar role as CFO at Sasken, Neeta has also won laurels from external accredited CFO forums. She was conferred the India CFO Award 2005 for ‘Excellence in Finance in SME’ by IMA India in recognition of her contribution towards enhancing the strategic scope of the finance function and her exemplified excellence in the domain.

Neeta is part of the CFO Board, which is a community-led initiative of senior CFOs in the country. One of the primary objectives of the CFO Board is to help provide a reasoned, long term and unbiased view on a few, critical policy issues to government and to help effect policy change through dialogue, information and insights, best practices and international benchmarks. She is passionate about promoting Alternative Dispute Resolution in India, as a means to cost-effective dispute resolution and reduction of the backlog in the judiciary.

Nirmala Menon, Founder and CEO of Interweave Consulting, is a HR professional with global experience of over 30 years across multiple industries. Educated in India and the US, combined with her exposure to international work experience has made D&I a personal area of interest. Her last corporate job was with IBM as the Employee Relations and Diversity leader for India where she gained wide and varied experience in the area of Diversity and Inclusion management, including opportunities to work on and facilitate interventions in several locations – Asia Pacific region, Ireland, Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Nirmala is listed as a Subject Matter Expert by SHRM India and is an active member of Nasscom’s D&I Steering Committee. She was also a representative in the informal international advisory group of the UN Global Compact & the UNIFEM to finalise the Women’s Empowerment Principles.

An alumnus of XLRI India, Nirmala holds an additional masters in HR from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Nirmala is also a certified coach from the International Coaching Academy.

Nirupa is a Director of Brigade Group’s Hospitality division, Brigade Hospitality & a Director of Brigade REAP. She oversees the operations & strategy for the company’s self-managed assets. She also asset manages the group’s hospitality ventures. Nirupa conceptualized and successfully launched a unique lounge bar atop the World Trade Centre, Bangalore, called HIGH Ultra Lounge, the highest point for food and beverage in South India. Prior to joining Brigade, she worked as a Senior Business Analyst with Ernst & Young LLP out of the New York, Washington DC and North Carolina offices. She has bachelors in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Management in Hospitality from Cornell University. She has been identified as one of CNBC’s “Young Turks” and was listed in Hotelier India’s Top 50 Power List 2014. She is the only woman advisory board member for the “Hotelier India” publication. She has been awarded the Young Woman Entrepreneur of the Year, 2014 at the Infra & Realty Sutra Awards, Rising Star Award 2015, South Asia by the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, Restaurant Owner of the Year and India 2016 at the Hospitality Leaders’ Industry Choice Awards.

Pooja Marwah, currently the Director HR at Weber Shandwick, is an HR professional with over 12 years of experience. Recently awarded the HR person of the year by Indian Agency Awards, Ms. Marwah has also worked with corporations such as Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd for 8 years.

Poonam Bagai, colon cancer survivor, is the founder President of CanKids…KidsCan, and the Vice Chairperson of Pallium India, Joint Secretary Indian Cancer Society, Delhi Branch and Member Cancer Sahyog, an emotional support group of survivors and caregivers. She loves children and is passionate about making a difference to the causes of Childhood Cancer and Palliative Care in India. Her motto also the motto of CanKids: “Because I am Able…Because I Can”

Preeti Reddy has been named the president and CEO of global market research agency, IMRB and is also the CEO of Kantar Insights, which is home to some of the world\'s leading research, data and insights brands. She has close to three decades of experience in research and consulting, working with leading Indian and multinational companies. Preeti has also headed Mindscape – the strategic consumer consulting division of India’s leading consulting firm, Technopak and has been a Senior Vice President with TNS – one of the largest marketing information groups in the world. Preeti has earlier worked with the BAT group in India and in management consulting with Besant Raj Consultants. She holds an Honours degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India.

Preeti began her journey with Asia’s premier Design school, the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad. Specializing in Graphic Design and Visual Communication, she embarked on a dual career path, gliding through Advertising while powering Specialized Design projects.

After being a Creative Director with Contract and Enterprise, she joined the Trikaya Grey Dream Team as Executive Creative Director, producing impressive, cutting edge work for the clients. In 1997, she pooled her learnings to form VGC. As Chairwoman and Chief Creative Officer she has expanded the Mumbai team and extended the base to Bengaluru.

Preeti has been invited to be on the jury for the Cannes Festival twice, the New York Festivals, and Sri Lanka’ s first International creative awards. She has represented India, showcasing Indian Creativity in Advertising by SemanaInternacionaleDaCriacaoPublicitaria in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Preeti is recognized as one of the 50 most influential women by Verve magazine, and ranked amongst the 50 most influential women in media, marketing and advertising by Impact Magazine. She is also ranked as one of the top creative minds by The Economic Times, and named as one of the 25 most powerful women in Indian business by Business Today, and ‘Creative Professional of the Year’ at the Indira Awards for Marketing Excellence.

Priya Krishnan is the Founder & CEO of Founding Years Learning Solutions, parent company of The Little Company and KLAY Prep Schools &Daycare, together India’s largest chain of Premium Corporate Daycares with presence in Delhi NCR, Bangaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad & Guntur. Priya is an MBA from London Business School and has worked in various leadership positions with Anderson Consulting and Mphasis across Singapore, New York, London and India.

Ms. Rajkamal Vempati is the Head of Human Resources at Axis Bank, one of India’s largest private sector banks. In a career spanning more than 17 years, she has donned various hats successfully and has managed to carve a niche for herself in the industry. Having started her career in HR as a Consultant with Hewitt Associates, she went on to be a part of the Global HR Leadership Program at GE Capital. Prior to Axis Bank she was heading Human Resources for ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited.

She has worked extensively in the area of Learning and Organization Development. At ICICI Lombard, she led organization-wide change interventions which have received global accolades such as the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) Award and the Golden Peacock award to name a few.

Ms. Vempati is the Chairperson, CII (Western Region) of the Indian Women Network and is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the “Young Achiever Award” in Asia’s Best Employer Brand Awards and “Women Super Achiever” by the World HRD Congress.

As the CRO, Rashmi Dastidar is responsible for internal controls and risk assurance at MMTC-PAMP India. Before this, she was a senior risk management manager with Deloitte where she provided risk mitigation consulting services to clients in the private equity, metals, liquor and e-commerce sectors in the country. Before Deloitte, she was based in Control Risks\' New Delhi office, focusing on providing bespoke strategic consulting, comprehensive risk mitigation strategies in India, Nepal and Bangladesh and risk assessment services, including complex problem solving assignments, fact-finding and investigative interviewing, compliance-driven training, market-entry management advice, stakeholder power mapping, business intelligence and due diligence exercises in India and South Asia with a focus on developing client, industry and service provider networks in the region.

She worked for more than 9 years in security risk analysis domain where she managed a global team of 25 analysts where she was responsible for the overall management of the Global Information Centre, International SOS and Control Risks, to deliver the highest quality information services for clients through Travel Security Online that provides 24/7/365 global security and travel disruption information to business travellers and expatriates to provide context, identify risks and assess them for clients.

She has a master’s degree and an M. Phil degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in Ancient Indian History. She has completed her bachelor’s degree in History from St. Stephens College, Delhi University.

Reshma Anand is the founder of the Earthy Goods Foundation; a venture that supports agriculture based enterprises in remote parts of India to help them grow into competitive and viable businesses. Reshma graduated from IIM Bangalore in 1997. She worked with Hindustan Unilever Limited and then transitioned to the social sector to work with Development Alternatives and ICICI Bank. Reshma has worked extensively in rural India in areas including Bundelkhand, UP, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Reshma is a TED India Fellow and an Aspen Fellow.

With an extensive experience of 16 years in the industry, Rubeena Singh is currently the Chief Executive Officer at iProspect India. Under her leadership, iProspect India aims to achieve its goal of becoming the advisor of choice to its clients (both new and existing), helping them navigate the ever changing digital world and achieve maximum possible return on investment basis their marketing spends. Her deep understanding of traditional as well digital media will boost efforts of winning new business from clients as well as reinforce iProspect India’s goal of increasing market share as marketing monies continue to move from TV and print to digital media faster than ever before.

Prior to this role, Rubeena was the Chief Operating Officer of moneycontrol.com, wherein she spearheaded business strategy, marketing, sales, operations and P&L. In her 12-year stint with Network18, she has held various senior positions across its print and TV properties including Forbes India, CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN News 18 and News18 India.

Before joining Network18, Rubeena spent four years at Star TV India, where she had the opportunity to work across brands of tzhe STAR bouquet – STAR Plus, Star News, NGC, Channel V, which included re-launch of Channel-V and Star News Hindi.

Rubeena has completed her Masters in Statistics from Mumbai University.

Ms. Rumjhum Chatterjee co-founded Feedback Infra Private Limited (formerly Feedback Infrastructure Services Private Limited) in 1990 and serves as its Managing Director and Head of Human Capital. Ms. Chatterjee is the Chairperson of the Feedback Foundation Trust. She serves as a Director of Feedback Infra Private Limited. She started her career with Indian Market Research Bureau and has been involved in the growth and evolution of Feedback Infra since the start up days. She holds key responsibilities in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and has served as the Chairperson for the Delhi State Council for October 2009. She is a member of the HRD committee and the National Committee for Women\'s Empowerment. She is educated in Psychology from the Calcutta University.

Ms. Irde is the Chief Consulting Partner at Interweave. She has over 20 years of work experience and has led business, and human resource functions.

She is a recognized community leader and public speaker with expertise in topics of gender sensitization, networking, sponsorship, engaging men, unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, diversity councils, work-life effectiveness, and women’s career trajectory.

Ms. Irde led Catalyst India WRC as Vice President and Executive Director, Catalyst India WRC, a leading not-for-profit organization with a mission to expand opportunities for women and business. Ms. Irde has been instrumental in building Catalyst’s presence in India and support member organisations in creating inclusive workplaces.

Ms. Irde was invited to share her views on the amendment to Companies Act 2013 for inclusion of women on board by BBC & CNN. Ms. Irde has featured in the 2016 edition of Vodafone’s “Women of Wonder” for building communities. She has been recognised by ALL Women Economic Forum as “Iconic Woman in Leadership”. She has been honoured with “Global Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award” by World HRD Congress in 2017.

Prior to joining Catalyst, she served as the Head of Diversity at Infosys, where she developed and managed the organization’s D&I initiatives including the first leadership development program for women and D&I Councils. She also played an integral role in launching the organization’s ground-breaking employee resource group (ERG) for India-based LGBT employees. In addition, she conceptualized and delivered successful employee engagement programs focusing on communication, health and safety.

She has also held HR leadership roles within Wipro e-Peripherals Ltd. She was a member of the Advisory Council of D&I at NASSCOM.

In addition to writing articles for leading newspaper and blogs for magazine she has also co-authored a book chapter in the book Globalization of Professional Services published by Springer. A strong advocate for women’s empowerment, she works with voluntary organizations supporting under-privileged women in her spare time.

Ms. Sarah Dovlo is the Head of Global Employer Branding and HR marketing at Deutche Telekom. She was previously the Head of Employer Branding Europe and Head of HR marketingat ABB. Prior to this she has also worked with Schweizerische Bundesbahen SBB and Blue Spirit Communications AG. Ms. Dovlohas studied Media and Communication Management from the University of St. Gallen.

Seema Padman is the Vice President, Human Resources at Epsilon (past of Alliance Data, a Fortune 500 Company). Prior to this, she was with ARM, India for 7 years where she held multiple roles including heading the HR organization for ARM in Asia (spanning 5 countries in the region) and Director, Organizational Effectiveness (OE). In her OE role, she was a part of a core leadership team that aimed at positively disrupting the status quo with progressive approaches to managing talent and creating an effective and sustainable organization.

Seema has only worked at AstraZeneca and McDonald\'s in the UK as well as at two IT organizations in India at the start of her career. She has worked in the areas of Strategic HR, Organizational Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Succession Planning, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development and Performance Management, in a career spanning 16 years.

Seema has a first degree in Physics, and an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management which is ranked 12th amongst top business schools in Europe by The Economist. Seema is a Licentiate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel &Development (CIPD), which is the world\'s largest Chartered HR professional body.

Shobhini Mukerji is the Executive Director of J-PAL South Asia’s regional center, hosted by the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR). Shobhini is based in New Delhi and provides strategic, technical, and administrative oversight to the pan-India research and multi-sector policy and training engagements in the South Asian region. She works closely with donors, policymakers, civil society partners, and research institutions to promote collaborations to increase the use of evidence in decision-making and scale-ups of successful social programs. She has extensive research and evaluation experience, ranging from designing and managing large scale primary data collection and analysis, to providing advice to organizations and governments on research design, monitoring, and evaluation strategies. Her research includes recently published papers on primary education interventions in India found to be highly impactful and at the stages of being scaled up across several Indian states.

Prior to J-PAL, Shobhini worked at Pratham, a pan-India non-profit initiative working towards universal quality primary education for the underprivileged. She is on the Board of Directors at CARE India, a large non-profit in India focusing on empowerment of women and girls through programs in health, education, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness and response. Shobhini holds a master’s degree in social research methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with a concentration in development economics and social policy.

Shubhra Chadda co-founded Chumbak, a design brand, in 2010 with Vivek Prabhakar. Chumbak was founded as an idea for creating a range of fun souvenirs for India and Indians. 10 years later they’ve evolved into a lifestyle brand spanning stores across the country. They retail over 100 categories across 40+ stores pan India. Chumbak also retails through their web store, which has evolved into a highly interactive and fast-growing online business with a heavy focus on building a powerful brand through engaging content and memorable buying experiences.

Simar Deep Kaur is the head of Human Resources department at MaxSkill First. As the head of People function, Simar is responsible for design, delivery and execution of world class processes and systems. She manages to impact business outcomes and helps in building a value driven culture. She has more than 13 years of HR experience with corporations such as Larsen and Toubro Limited, Dr. Reddy’s Limited and Kotak Mahindra group. She closely works with the CEO and Board of directors to create to impact the bottom line and future growth of MaxSkill First. Simar is an MBA graduate from SCMHRD, Pune.

Ms. Pillay has worked at African Health Placements for over half a decade, first as the recruitment manager and then as the Chief Innovation Officer. She studied at the Varsity college.

Supria Dhanda is a senior Human Resources Leader focused on strategic business partnering and excellence in driving HR strategy across the business. An Action oriented Leader with proven ability to lead organizational change and deliver business results. She expertise in excellent understanding of functions as Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Management and Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Payroll and Operations management, Transition Management and above all Team dynamics and People Management.

Swati Rustagi is currently the Director of Human Resources in Amazon. Formerly Max Healthcare’s Chief People officer, she was responsible for designing and implementing differentiated, best in Class People & Leadership practices for the 15000 people of Max healthcare with a view to enabling them to succeed both professionally and personally. With the support of her team, Swati is reinvigorating leadership and talent practices to create the most truly human work environment. Swati Rustagi has a very strong background in HR, Executive Leadership & Change Management and is a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity.Prior to joining Max Health Care, Swati was the Global Head of Human Resources at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, managing the HR function across 32 countries & 10,000 employees.Swati is an Economics graduate from RamnarainRuia College, Mumbai University and holds a postgraduate qualification in Human Resources from TISS Mumbai. She is a Dorab Tata scholar and holds several certifications such as OD certification from NTL USA, certification in ISO 9002 Audit, Total Productivity Maintenance Instructor from Japanese Institute of Plant Management, Coaching Skills certification from Hay group as well as an Executive Coach certification from ICT.

Sylvia Schnider has worked with ABB for over 35 years in various positions. She is currently in charge of directing cash management operations which includes daily cash administration, management of current accounts and bank relations preparing cash flow reports and assisting with project assignment and financial reporting among other things.

Tanja Vainio is Country Managing Director Czech Republic and Slovakia at ABB, a pioneering technology leader and a fortune 500 company. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia ABB employs around 4000 employees in 8 factories, 4 R&D centres, 2 Engineering centres and domestic sales and service. Tanja is an inspiring and engaging business leader with 20 years of global leadership experience across the whole value chain of ABB with a unique blend of expertise across utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure segments. She has proven ability to lead teams and drive results in global and multi-cultural environment having lived and worked in 7 different countries. Tanja has passion for people and technology – innovations, better future of our society and planet. She is an advocate of sustainable development, digital technologies, automation and an ambassador of gender equality. Tanja holds MBA and MS in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in US.In addition to her role at ABB Tanja is a member of the board at Impact Coatings AB in Sweden and the Aspen Institute Central Europe.

Vaishali Neotia is an engineer, entrepreneur, speaker and revolutionist. She is also the cofounder and CEO of Merxius, a company that solves real world business problems using Extended Reality (Augmented,Virtual,Mixed). Its flagship product is an Extended Reality Authoring Software RED aimed at non coders.

Merxius has received awards and honors from Global Entrepreneurship Summit, IBM, Tata Elxsi, IET, UKTI Tech Rocketship, Aegis Graham Bell, Nasscom among others. Merxius has been featured across media for its groundbreaking work, including The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, TOI, Sakshi, Eenadu, Hans, Telangana Today, The Week, Vogue, CNBC among others.

Vaishali is an alumnus of La Martiniere, Osmania University, Indian School of Business -Goldman Sachs 10000 women, Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite, Startup Leadership Program and Sonder Connect. She was selected for a mentorship program conducted by the US State Department with Fortune 500 companies where she was mentored by Ms Dina Powell, currently the deputy national security advisor to U.S President Trump for Strategy.

Vaishali has been a TEDx speaker and also speaks at various conferences and educational institutions on technology, innovation, augmented and virtual reality, entrepreneurship and feminism. She was recently invited to represent India at a conference held in Nepal, on changing the business climate of South & Central Asia for women.

She is a mentor for various initiatives including Girls in Tech, US Exchange Programs, Sheroes and Startup Leadership. She is a board member of the GS-ISB-10000 women alumni and president of the Hyderabad chapter. She has previously chaired the Women in Engineering committee at VLSID, been a committee member at Grace Hopper conference and HYSEA SME, and is a member of Fortune Most powerful women, Vital Voices, U.S Exchange alumni, 10,000 Women, Startup Leadership, COWE, ALEI ,Nasscom Women in Tech and Weconnect International networks.

Vidhya Srinivasan is an executive director and CEO at Puma India. As member of the leadership team, she helps in understanding business environment, develop a clear business strategy and execution plans and a comprehensive business plan. Subsequently, she is currently working with the management plan in achieving the desired outcomes. Her previous experiences over the last 17 years of post qualification includes the areas of Strategy, Business Planning, Commercial, Finance & Accounting Management.

Zoya Brar is a Delhi based entrepreneur active in the Indian healthcare delivery ecosystem. Prior to venturing out in this space, she worked at Google in various roles in business development and customer outreach. This was preceded by a stint in the education sector, where Zoya worked in WLC College in business development and HR roles. She also has considerable experience in the Not-for-Profit sector working both as a hands-on individual contributor as well as in management and governance. Zoya holds a degree in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College and advanced training in technology roll-out strategies from National University of Singapore.