Speaker Bio:  

Pramod N Fernandes
VP HR, Logica
Pramod is a human Resources professional - with experience in HR and other functions in different Corporations- ranging from Manufacturing, Infra-structure Development, IT Services, IT product Development & Solutions. Has been responsible for providing HR leadership & Strategy to steer the HR initiatives & processes in addition to being accountable for a wide range of HR functions such as Talent Acquisition & Management, OD interventions, Rewards Management & Employee Relations. His Primary goal is to be a change agent and be a driver of organizational change/development initiatives. He is specialized with HR Consulting, Organization Development, Coaching & Mentoring, Change Management and Mergers & Acquisitions.
S.Suresh
Senior Vice President HR & IR, Zuari Cement
He has done Masters in Social Work from Madurai Kamaraj University in 1986 and The Strategic Human Resources Management from The Open University of UK in 2004.He started his career with Indian Telephone Industries Limited,a public sector company and worked in various Indian and Multinational companies before joining Zuari Cement. Prior to joining, he was working with Sanmar Group as General Manager- HR at its corporate office in Chennai. He has worked in both Human Resources and Industrial Relations functions at various manufacturing and trading industries. He joined Zuari Cement in January 2006 as Head of HR & IR.
RaviShankar B
Executive Vice President and Chief people officer, MindTree
Ravi currently heads the People Function at MindTree. With over 30 years of varied experience across multiple fields in HR, ranging from founding a company (Lister Technologies) to heading HR at Crompton Greaves Ltd & Deutsche software Limited. Pervious to MindTree, Ravi was heading the Core software Division, Global Recruitment, Diversity & Sustainability and HR Innovation Lab at HCL Technologies Ltd. Ravi is well known in the industry for this expertise in HR and also has a tremendous breadth and insight on broad range of subjects - Business Strategy, Information Technology, TQM & Service Quality. An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur and Harvard Business School in Information technology, Ravi is an Executive Coach at ISB, Hyderabad for their Senior Management Leadership Program.
Poornima SP
Director – HR, Tejas Networks
Poornima is a high energy human resource professional with 15 plus years of progressive experience in planning, developing and implementing state of the art HR solutions and facilitating corporate growth. Action oriented and customer focused who follows through on every project with skill and finesse. Lead cross functional teams with diverse business backgrounds. Exceptional ability to understand business needs and build rapport with stakeholders. A go-getter with a can do attitude, passionate, highly energetic and some one who drives for results. An alumni of IIM Bangalore and a Commerce graduate from Bangalore University has experience of working in ambiguous environments. Partnered with both R&D and Sales Team in Product development companies and experience of working in ambiguous environments.
TV Prasad
Vice President HR India & APAC, Misys
Prasad brings over 19 years of qualitative experience in HR across Manufacturing, Engineering, Hi-Tech industries. His specialties include Strategic Human Resource Management, Change Management & Organisation Development, Designing and Executing HR Strategy, Staffing, Performance Management, Compensation and Benefits Management, Talent Management and Development and Executive Coaching. Prasad is currently associated with Misys as VP - HR India & APAC. Prior to Misys, Prasad was HR Director for Cypress Semiconductor, Head-HR for Mentor Graphics India and played significant HR Management roles at Satyam Computer Services, Thermax and Mafatlal Industries. Prasad holds a Bachelor&rsquot;s Degree in Engineering from Marathwada University and an MBA degree from Mumbai University.
Maheswari Jagan
Director – HR, Schneider Electric
Maheswari has completed her Masters in Social Work with specialization in Personnel Management, Industrial Relations and Labor Welfare from DG Vaishnav College, Madras University in year 1995. She holds the distinction of University III rank in her Post Graduation. Her first entry into a corporate full time role commenced with Cholamandalam Investments and Finance, entity of Murugappa group. From thereon, she moved along in various organizations including Honeywell and Nokia R&D during the span of 17 years till date. While employed with Honeywell, she has contributed immensely to the successful assessment of Honeywell at PCMM Level 5. At Nokia R&D, she has built the HR team, groomed them and successfully enabled business growth and success. She is a HR generalist with special focus on coaching managers, business leaders, enabling diversity and mentoring budding HR professionals. Enhancing and sustaining employee engagement initiatives and facilitating career development workshops have been her strong forte. Her paper titled “Innovative Talent Management practices” which was presented at Bangalore HR Summit, 2005 organized by Institute of HRD; annual conference was adjudged as the best paper and also published in the book titled “Talent Management” released by the Institute of HRD in year 2006.
Ajith Kumar B
Director-Global Human Resources , UST Global
As the Director - Global Human Resources, at US Technology International(UST Global),Ajith is responsible for the global HR business partner function including Talent Management, Productivity & efficiency improvement , Retention management, Employee engagement, Change management and full cycle of HR Operations. Prior to joining UST, Ajith was part of HR at Lenovo and IBM. During his time at Lenovo as VP Human resources, he was instrumental in building a high performing team and set high performance culture for aggressive growth for Lenovo in India . He has also introduced various innovative initiatives in talent management, employee engagement and efficiency improvements in IBM/Lenovo. The team under his leadership won the best HR team award globally in Lenovo. Ajith has worked in a number of management roles in human resources over a period of 19 years in sectors as varied as IT, Manufacturing and Services. Ajith has also held management positions at Owens Brockway (India) Ltd and Parry’s Confectionery Ltd, to name a few. Ajith holds an MBA degree from the International University, USA and a Post graduate degree (MBA) in Personnel Management from National Institute of Personnel Management.
Sudhakar Rao
Senior Director- Global LoB HR Sales, SAP India
Sudhakar is a global leader, having more than 20 year of rich experience in the field of Human Resource. Expert in Cloud, on-premise sales, HR solutions, shared services, GTM (APJ and North America). Looks at relationships as strategic and long-term. Service centric and able to create win-win situations. Speaker at local/global conferences focusing on HR and Shared Services Strategy. Managed, supported implementation strategy, expert advisor and steering committee member for global projects such as Coca Cola Enterprises, Valero, Rohm & Haas, Energy East (now eon), Home Depot, Ryder, Westinghouse, Deluxe, ACS, Kraft, P&G, Nestle, State School Districts, Boeing among others. He is Specialized in People Strategy, IT, Shared Services, Business Transformation, Program Management, Product Strategy, SAP Large Implementations, Go-to-market and in sales/marketing also.
Raja Radhakrishnan
Senior VP and Head- HR, ABB
Raja Radhakrishnan is the Head of Human Resources for ABB India having over 16 years of experience. He is also the Member of Corporate Management Committee at ABB in India. He worked with ABB for over five years in different capacities within the HR function, in various locations. Raja was also the HR Head for the Peenya location in Bangalore where he was closely involved in setting up the HR Center in India and served as Head of the Center for two years. Raja also served the same role in ABB, China in 2009 where he had an opportunity to work with Korea, Japan and Taiwan in facilitating workshops and in the talent management function. He started his career with ABB, as a management trainee, HR in 1996. Raja is an avid runner and enjoys taking part in marathons.
Krishna Bhagavan
Country Head HR , Motorola Solutions
Krishna Bhagavan Graduated with Honors in Electrical Engineering and commenced career in TELCO at Jamshedpur. Leaving Telco Krishna Joined IIM at Calcutta and completed Management degree. After IIM C he joined the Sundaram Clayton group of companies - served Sundaram Clayton in different capacities as Manager Business Planning and Head of manufacturing Systems. As an internal transfer Krishna shifted to TVS electronics in different roles as head of sales in East Zone, West zone and as All India sales Manager. Krishna rejoined Tatas to head services in mechanical engineering and industrial design. Later as General Manager HR & Business Transformation krishna was responsible for Tata Elxsi emerging as a technology leader in product design services. Krishna is now country head for HR in Motorola solutions. He takes pride in the experience of having inducted thousands of employees, nurturing their careers, aligning their intellect with business and contributing to their success.
Somnath Baishya
Director and Head HR, Nokia India
Somnath has had a rounded career covering all core areas of HR with a Global scope. He has had led HR in Regional offices as well has been in the Corporate set ups. Currently as Director and Head HR for Nokia in India, Somnath heads up the people agenda for Nokia in one of its key markets. Prior to this position, he led the talent agenda for Nokia’s Services business focusing in Emerging Markets and growth economies. He started his career with the TATA’s, and then joined Infosys. During his 11 years with Infosys, he saw it grow from 3000 to over 100,000 employees – a true lifetime experience. Somnath enjoys the challenges of conceptualizing and designing new programs and practices in the HR arena aligned to the organization&rsquot;s need in an environment of high growth and complexity. He has led various talent branding interventions internally as well as externally with Stanford, Harvard, SHRM etc. Key focus has also involved competency and capability development at a strategic level and driving productivity and efficiency through outsourcing and automation. Post his Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) at IIT Kharagpur, he pursued his Post Graduation in Human Resources from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Som as he is fondly called by friends and colleagues, is married and has two young children.
Srinath G
Head HR & Administration - South, Tulip Telecom
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Praveen Kamath K
General Manager & Global Head - Talent Transformation, Wipro BPO
Praveen Kamath is the General Manager & Global Head of Talent Transformation for Wipro BPO. Prior to this role - he was head of Global Talent Acquisition at Wipro BPO. A Business Partner working closely with senior leadership management teams and providing sound and effective HR practices in alignment to business goals and objectives. He has over 16yrs of post qualification work experience with Global Conglomerates like AV Birla, Praxair & Tyco Healthcare. Prior to joining Wipro he was, the HEAD of HR of Cambridge Integrated Services India Pvt Ltd (BPO division). He is also closely involved in strategic leadership hiring, training & host of various new initiatives across the function. A ranker & a gold medalist – he holds a Masters in Human Resources & a Diploma from ISTD. A passionate trainer & teacher, his hobby is to teach young Business Leaders as a visiting faculty in many B Schools.
Dr Pallab Bandyopadhyay
Director-HR, Citrix Systems
Pallab 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.
Samit Deb
Head HRD - Global Financial Services and Insurance, Infosys
Samit has more than 16 years experience primarily in the areas of Organization Design, Performance Management, Career Architecture & Development, Employee Engagement, Business Partner HR, Recruitment , Compensation & Benefits, International HR and HR diagnostics. Currently Samit heads HR globally for the Financial Services and Insurance ( FSI) vertical for Infosys Limited, managing HR for 35000+ employees working globally for FSI. He is also responsible for managing HR for the India Business unit and the Health Care Business unit.
Rajkamal B
Global Head - OD, Measurement & Rewards , Aditya Birla Minacs
Rajkamal B is a seasoned HR executive with over 12 years of experience focused on talent development, organization effectiveness, leadership development, employee engagement, talent and performance management, compensation and benefits. In his current role at Minacs, Raj is globally responsible for talent development, talent and performance management, and compensation and benefits. He has designed and deployed various successful strategic HR interventions, including the “Next Practice” and "Altitude" initiatives, which recently played a key role in Aditya Birla Minacs being named one of the top employers in Asia. Prior to joining Minacs, he headed HR at Indo Gulf Fertilisers (Aditya Birla Group). Raj is a mechanical engineer from the Nagarjuna University and holds a PGDBM in Human Resources and Marketing from MDI, Gurgaon.
Sreekanth K Arimanithaya
Chief Human Resources Officer & VP, Britannia Industries
Sreekanth is working as Vice President & Chief of Human Resources. He is also in charge of Information Technology. Sreekanth is a passionate HR professional, with a diversity of experience across industries, geographies and roles, having worked with TVS Motors, Phillips, General Electric and Toyota. He joined us from CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates) where he last served as Senior Vice-President - Global HR Operations & HR Business Partner based in the USA. Sreekanth is qualified in TQM and Six Sigma and is passionate about the comprehensive role that HR can and must play in delivering business results.
Sagar Chaudhuri
CEO and Co-Founder, HiFives
Sagar has nearly 15 years of experience in varied fields such as banking, analytics, online media and CRM. He worked with Genpact, ICICI Bank, Infosys and Ozone Media in the past. He was a Vice President at Genpact. He has an MBA from IIM Lucknow and an Engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur.
Jagadish Velagapudi
COO and Co-Founder, HiFives
Jagadish has nearly 17 years of experience in finance, technology and program management. He worked with JP Morgan Chase, Infosys and Reliance Industries in the past. He was a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase. He has an MBA and CFA from ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and an Engineering degree from NIT, Warangal.
Kasi Viswanath
Head of HR (Asia Pacific), Symphony Teleca Corporation
Kasi Viswanath has more than 14 years experience in the HR domain covering the 3R’s of Human Capital Management namely Recruitment, Retraining & Retirement. He has exposure working in India & the Asia-Pacific Geographies. His professional interests include Coaching & Mentoring, People transitions in Outsourcing deals, Leadership development & building a customer centric culture in organizations. He is also a part-time faculty at Symbiosis Institute of management where he teaches the subject of cross-cultural management. He currently Heads HR for the Asia Pacific Region for Symphony Teleca Corporation.
Anil Kumar Misra
Head-Business HR, IT Services, ES&OD, Tesco HSC
Anil Kumar Misra is a university topper and gold medalist in HR with about 15 years of work experience in training,teaching and Corporates.He is currently working as the Senior Manager & Head-Business HR,IT Services,ES&OD in Tesco HSC Bangalore.Before joining Tesco,he had worked with Patni computer Systems Limited,EIH Oberoi group of Hotels & resorts,GMR Hyderabad Airport Resource Management,Denso Haryana and Enercon India.