Speaker Bio:  

Bindu Venkatesh
General Manager - Human Resources , IBM Global Services
Bindu has 16years of experience with various aspects of Human Resources she has extensive experience of partnering with business and in customer facing roles she has Managed the various dimensions in the M&A process Bindu has Worked with geographically dispersed teams in different time zones she has also Worked in vertical, matrix and hybrid organizational structures.
Mahesh Jain
GM- Head of Talent Acquisition, Collabera
Mahesh Jain is the GM- Head of Talent Acquisition, Collabera, a US headquartered IT Services company. Mahesh carries extensive experience in varied industry segments such as Manufacturing, Consumer Durables, Automobile, and IT Industry spanning over 15 years of professional career. Prior to Collabera, he was heading recruitment for the Enterprise Application Services unit at HCL Technologies. He has also worked with leading Indian business conglomerates such as iGATE, Videocon International, Hindustan Motors and Pentamedia Graphics Ltd. in various HR roles. Mahesh has significant experience in building large teams for these organizations in a very short span of time. He was also part of a start up team with a leading Japanese Multinational Consumer Goods major to setup their base in India successfully. Mahesh is a Post Graduate in Personnel Management from the University of Madras.
Dr. Pallab Bandyopadhyay
Director-HR, Citrix Systems
Dr. Pallab Bandyopadhyay currently heads the country HR function for India for both R&D and Sales as Director-Human resources for Citrix based at Bangalore. Citrix Systems (NASDAQ listed 2 billion US$ revenue) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and software as a service (SaaS) technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Citrix customers include the world’s largest internet companies, ninety percent of fortune global 500 enterprises and the hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Citrix India R&D centre is among the first companies in India to set up a model where the team in India plays an integral part of the global R&D team at all levels, concentrating on the core development of the flagship products instead of offering only software services. A doctoral fellow in HRD from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and Dr. Bandyopadhyay has also been trained at various human process and organization development interventions at NTL, USA as well as adult learning theories at Interactive consultants, Canada. Dr Pallab has more than twenty four years of professional experience in the areas of Institution, Organization and Human Resources Development. Before joining Citrix, he was the global HR Business Partner for Application and Business Process Delivery and was part of the global organizational design team that spearheaded the M&A of Perot system into Dell to create 42000 strong 8 billion US$ revenue Dell services.
Narendra M Agrawal
Professor, Leadership and Human Resource Managemen, IIMB
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Richa Dubey
Director,Human Resources, Praxair
Richa has been with Praxair since 2009 as Director, Human Resources. Praxair is Fortune 300, 10 billion $ industrial gases organisation. Earlier to Praxair she was heading Human Resources for Broadcom India Pvt Ltd since 2004 to 2009. she is an XLRI graduate with 15 years of experience.
Nayana Prabhu
Lead Consultant Corporate HRD, Wipro
Overall 25 years of experience in Human resources: spans across human resource development, learning and organization development. Has extensive experience in Leadership development, Culture building, talent management, mentoring and career design.She Had worked across manufacturing, IT, consulting and ITES domains. Strong track record in achieving targets, excel at building teams and initiating team and group involvement activities. Networking and nurturing networks. Education and Professional Qualifications Masters in Personnel Management from Symbiosis , Diploma in Training and Development, Certified in BEI (behavioural event interviews), 3 Phase Internship, at ISISD: in facilitation of human growth labs, MBTI and FIRO- B Practioner, Developing competency in coaching.
Rohit Rawal
Director, QuadMo Solutions
With an MBA from IIM Calcutta, Rohit has rich experience across various roles such as Strategic Marketing, Product Marketing and Business Development for software solutions. In his current avatar, Rohit is a passionate evangelist for Employee Rewards & Recognition and the adoption of novel solutions and technologies to ensure tangible impact on Employee motivation & retention. In his earlier role, while at Subex, a 100 M $ Telecoms product firm, Rohit conceptualized and implemented strategic initiatives for Subex in areas such as Customer Experience Management, SaaS related offerings and Customer Community building While at Cognizant, Rohit was in the Business Development team, where he was assigned to work on strategic account acquisition.
Prithvi Shergill
Senior VP, HR ,Inclusion and Diversity, Accenture India
Mr. Prithvi Shergill is the Lead India Human Resources (HR) at Accenture. Prior to this he was the Senior Executive in the Human Capital Strategy Practice in Accenture Singapore. Mr. Shergill has more than 18 years of experience in HR. He has been involved in various projects, including human capital transformation, human performance capabilities, leadership capabilities, talent management, organizational effectiveness and career development. Mr. Shergill holds a Bachelors degree in commerce and has a Masters in Business Administration (Specialization in HR Management) from the University of Mumbai, India.
N M Agrawal
Professor & Chairperson, IIM Bangalore
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