Speaker Bio:  

Shalini Kamath
MD - HR & Corporate Communications, Ambit Group
Shalini, an MBA graduate from Edinburgh Business School, UK, has a diverse background with around 23 years of experience in the field of Human Resources, Business Development and Social & Community Development. She is currently heading the two functions of Human Resources and Corporate Communications at Ambit. A Business Development person with Raytheon in India, she switched to Human Resources as a career of choice and headed Human Resources for Chevron Texaco, Star India (A subsidiary of Newscorp Corporation) and KPMG. During her tenure in Human Resources, she introduced various HR systems and processes related to Policy Formulation; Performance Management; Talent Management; Succession Planning; Compensation and Benefits Programs; Expatriate Remuneration; Employee welfare schemes & plans; Manpower Planning & Sourcing; Learning and Development; Cultural Integration & Change Management; incorporating Diversity; Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resource Information Systems; etc. She has handled large scale redundancy, including senior level redundancy very effectively. She is also an expert at startup management. As an HR specialist she has also been a Trainer and an HR Strategic Advisor to the organizations she has worked with.
Arup Gupta
Vice President- Corporate HR, Reliance Communications
Arup is a seasoned HR professional with 27 years experience in large, multi-product, diversified businesses in Telecom, Media and Commodities. Currently he is working as the VP- HR for Reliance Communication. He is expertise in Building organisations from scratch, setting up systems and processes, working on tough time and cost budgets, Managing Leadership and Organisational Development interventions, Organization Design, Analysis, Restructuring and Deployment.
Rituraj Sar
Head - Learning & Development, Lupin Pharma
Rituraj is the Head - Learning & Development at Lupin Limited. Rituraj joined Lupin in 2006. At Lupin, Rituraj heads the Learning & Development function for this one of India’s top 3 leading pharma players which employs over 13,000 people worldwide and has operations in over 100 countries. Rituraj has a Bachelor&rsquot;s degree with honors in Chemistry, a Diploma in Pharmacy and Masters in Marketing Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. He has attended several other Advanced Management Programs from premier Business Management Schools. With 24 years of world class experience spanning geographies and industries in India, Rituraj joined Lupin from IBM. Rituraj started his career in Marketing with Voltas where he spent close to 5 years. Thereafter, he worked with Blow Plast and Dabur before becoming the Head Sales & Marketing at Alembic Glass. Rituraj moved from areas in Marketing into areas in Human Resources like Learning & Development when he joined NIS Sparta. Rituraj is a trained facilitator and a certified trainer. Using his business insights clubbed with HR exposure, he has done extensive work in areas of Performance Development, Leadership Development and Organization Development across sectors with large MNCs and Indian organizations.
Vijay Kanbur
Ex- Vice President and Head-HR, Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services
Vijay is the Ex- Vice President and Head-HR with Triamx IT Infrastrcuture& Services Limited, looks after, HR strategy, Compensation and Performance Mgt, and employee development. A veteran HR Professional with more than three decades of experience in Human Resources Management, Vijay has varied experience ranging from Personnel Management, Industrial Relations, and Talent Management to Strategic HR. During last 22 years, Vijay is associated with Software / IT Industry, with companies like: Tata Unisys (Infotech), Mastek , Onward Technologies, and Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Limited. He was part of the exponential growth of Tata Unisys, and was deployed in USA for 2 years to manage their resources in Americas. At Mastek was involved in PCMM certification & were first IT Company in the world those days to get PCMM certification. At Onward Technologies he brought the concept of Business HR along with other initiatives like Performance Linked pay for all employees, Business Reorganization, Executive coaching and mentoring. Vijay is a founder member and past President of HR Infotech Association (An association for HR Professionals in IT Industry) and also associated with many Management and Engineering Colleges as Guest speaker.
Amit Das
Senior Vice President - Group HR, RPG Enterprises
He is an Electrical Engineering graduate & MBA in Human Resources management having 24 years experience of working in Senior leadership roles at various professionally managed MNCs & seminars, conferences, apart from regularly featuring in print & visual media. reputed Indian organisations like Telco, CESC Ltd, ITW Signode, Britannia Industries Ltd, Taj group of hotels, Vodafone & RPG group. He has joined the RPG group 2 months back as Senior Vice President – Group HR, & is responsible for group Human resources function for RPG Enterprises, one of India&rsquot;s largest industrial conglomerate with a turnover of more than Rs. 15,000 crores , having business presence across 21 countries across the globe with 40000 employees & distinguished by its passion for leading edge people practices. Before joining RPG group, he was with Vodafone for 9 years , which is one of the world’s largest telecommunication company. His last assignment with Vodafone was as the HR Director for Vodafone group shared services, managing the Global HR Head responsibility for 12000 employees spread across 4 countries (India, Hungary, Egypt & South Africa).
Binoj Vasu
Group Executive Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, Yes Bank
Binoj Vasu is Group Executive Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at YES BANK. He leads the Talent Management function for YES BANK which is responsible for attracting, nurturing and retaining Top Quality Talent. He heads the YES SCHOOL OF BANKING, which is a Centre of Excellence for Training & Development for YES BANK Executives. He is also responsible for YES BANK’s ‘University & School Relations Program’ which is YES BANK’s Innovative platform for augmenting Industry-Academia Interface as well as a key knowledge initiative that is aimed at creating a sustained top quality Human Capital pipeline for the Bank from premier Educational Institutions. Binoj is a Talent Management Professional with over 18 Years of work experience across varied domains. He is a certified Leadership Trainer & Coach. He is also a visiting speaker across educational institutions as well as a member of Industry forums. Binoj is a core committee member of the CII National Knowledge Council.  Prior to his YES BANK role, Binoj was the Head of Training for TATA AIG General Insurance Company. As a Training & Development Consultant, he has facilitated Learning Projects for Several Blue chip Organizations, prior to his stint at TATA AIG.
Raj Tanwar
Head – Corporate & International HR, Cipla
He brings in an experience of 14 years, in both domestic and International market in the field of Human Resources. Prior to joining us, he was heading the human resources function at Thomas Cook Ltd. as Senior Vice President – HR. He was responsible for heading the HR operations in India, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Before TCIL, he was spearheading Punj Lloyd Ltd & their subsidiaries Sembawang and Simon Carves as Group GM – HR for Entire Middle East, Africa and CIS regions. He also had stints with Eicher Engineering Solutions as their Head – HR (India, China & USA) and also with Hinduja Telecom Media and Technology Ltd as Group HR Manager. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and has also completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Personnel Management & HRD) from Symbiosis Pune. He is trained in Psychometric testing by TVRLS and developing managerial & leadership programs at IIM, Ahmadabad and Indore.
Dhruv Desai
Sr. VP Human Resource & Leadership Academy, Angel Broking
With a rich experience of more than 11 years, Mr. Desai has led Training & Learning initiatives across various industries successfully. His exposure to the Financial, BPO, Aviation, and Telecom industries has given him the opportunity to implement several innovative HR practices. As a Six Sigma Black Belt, he had been associated with Quality Management initiatives in various reputed corporates like Sitel India Pvt. Ltd., Intelenet Global Services and Reliance Infocomm (Infostream). His experience spans numerous functions like HRD, Training & Learning Management, Operations Planning, International Marketing, and Financial Services. As a Sr. Vice President of the Angel Group of companies, Desai manages two key functions: Corporate Human Resources and Training. Angel Broking is one of the leading and fastest growing Retail Stock Broking organizations in the country and known as a pioneer in the industry for its innovative HR and people-centric initiatives. Desai heads a team of 60 and leads the Group’s Learning & Development, and Human Resources initiatives for over 5200 employees.
Ritesh Gupta
AVP-HR, Idea Cellular
Ritesh is working with Idea as Asstt. Vice President-HR at Idea Cellular Limited leading HR Shared Services and People Services practices. Having more than 16 years of diverse experience across industries in HR world. He handled exciting consulting and corporate assignments in various areas of HR in organisations such as Satyam Computers, Ma Foi Management Consultants (currently Ma Foi Randstad), The Oberoi Group, The Hindustan Times and India Today Group. Interest lies in HR transformation, Technology, talent management, metrics, numbers and statistics.
Ajay Oberoi
Chief People Officer, IDBI Federal Life Insurance
Ajay is a HR & Business professional with 30+ years of experience in Automobile, Construction Equipment; ITES; Training; and Education. Proven experience in Leading Human Resource Function; M&A; and Building startup operations / Businesses Won "Outstanding Research Paper Award" at "International Conference on Management Strategies - 2009" organized by Mumbai University. Papers presented on 1) Redefining Role of HR; 2) Strategic Talent Retention.
Sridharan Mahadevan
Senior Vice President - HR, ION Exchange
Sridharan Mahadevan has more than three decades of HR experience, spreading across both Public and Private Sectors. After two decades of Personal Banking and HR experience from State Bank of India, he migrated to Private Sector and worked as Head of HR for Fisher-Rosemount (India) and Emerson Process Management (India). Before joining Ion Exchange group, he was leading the Training division of mantHRas consultants, Mumbai and was associated with more than 40 reputed Corporates in India and Middle East. As a visiting faculty to reputed Management Institutions in Mumbai, he has completed more than 60 semesters of Management Education in the field of HR. As a trainer, he has conducted more than 400 soft skill training programmes in various Corporates for Managers and above.
Madhavi Lall
Regional Head Human Resources, India & South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank
Madhavi is currently Regional Head of HR, India & South Asia of Standard Chartered Bank and a Director on the Board of Standard Chartered Finance Limited. Madhavi has over 22 years of experience and has held various positions in multi-national organizations like ABN Amro Bank, Colgate Palmolive and HCL Hewlett Packard Ltd. Madhavi is responsible for the strategic People agenda of the Bank. This involves building organisation and leadership agility, reinforcing a strengths-based organisation and delivering a differentiated employee experience in line with the brand promise of Standard Chartered bank ‘Here for good’. Partnering with businesses, she plays a key role in fostering an environment in which our people can excel supported by highly effective managerial and people processes. . Madhavi was conferred the “Women Leadership Award” by the Jury and Council of Board Members of the Institute of Public Enterprise - BFSI
Sakaar Anand
Vice President- HR, CA Technologies
Sakaar Anand heads Human Resources (HR) for CA Technologies, India. Prior to donning the mantle of HR at CA Technologies, Sakaar spearheaded the Centers of Excellence for Globalization, Usability, Accessibility, Securability and Business Intelligence. Additionally, Sakaar drove the CMMI and Six Sigma implementations and led the Program Management Office for the India and China Technology Centers. Sakaar has 16plus years of experience in Information Technology, handling software development and delivery from global locations, working on domains like retail banking, credit cards, inventory management, and portfolio/stock management and after sales service. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a certified faculty for Leadership and Professional Skills courses in Change Management and Six Sigma.
Rahul Kulkarni
VP & Head Human Resources, Accelya Kale Solutions
Rahul in his present role at Accelya Kale oversees the entire HR, Admin, Training & CSR activities across all its locations. He is responsible for building and executing Accelya Kale’s Human Resources strategy and shaping its people policies to enable high employee retention rate, growth and performance. His expertise lies in Talent Management and Talent Sourcing. He has over 15 years of experience in formulating and implementing organization-wide strategies to enhance talent acquisition, talent engagement and development practices. An expansive network across reputed educational institutions, business schools and HR consultants has helped him to source specialized talent against ambitious deadlines. Prior to joining Accelya Kale, Rahul was Head - HR at Stryker Global Technology Center and has a broad industry experience across leading organisations like Cipla, Sun Pharmaceuticals and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. During this time he has successfully addressed the attrition problem in Indian organizations and effectively utilised Training& Development programs and performance management systems to bring about perceptible attitudinal change in his organizations. His work on building a company as an "employer of choice" has been well appreciated.
Rajendra Ghag
Senior Executive Vice President & CHRO, HDFC Standard Life Insurance
Rajendra Ghag, Sr. Executive Vice President and CHRO joined HDFC Standard Life in September 2009 and have been spearheading the Human Resource function since then. Rajendra has completed his Masters in Personnel Management way back in 1986-87 in addition to his commerce graduation and Law (LLB-Gen) degree as an academic qualification. Rajendra has more than two and half decades of rich work experience mostly in large Indian and multinational companies. During his previous employment with DHL Express, as Head of HR for India and Senior Advisor - Quality and Processes (First Choice Programme) for South Asia, Rajendra was one of the important members of the board and has travelled extensively across the globe as trainer as well as participant of various management conferences.
Indrajit Chatterjee
Vice President - HR, Nitco
A HR professional with keen interest and passion for parterning business and enabling employee capability development. He is specialized in Manapower Planning and Budgeting, Talent Acquisition , Managing Performance and Productivity, Large scale HR Operations,Talent Management , Organisation Development, Employee engagement, Leadership and Managerial capability development and Total Quality Management.
Vijay Sinha
Head-HR, JSW Energy
With rich & varied experience of more than 20 years in various gamut of HR across different industries ranging from Manufacturing, Hospitality, Market Research, Animation & Retail, Vijay believes in harnessing true potential of employees by creating a harmonious organization and bridging the gap between minds. While working at Reliance BIG Animation (I) Pvt. Ltd. as VP-HR & Trg., Vijay is credited with starting BIG AIMS, an Animation academy which is one of the leading animation institutes in the country. Relocation of employees from Bangalore to Pune without a single drop out is a significant achievement in the career of Vijay after Reliance acquired a Bangalore based animation company and shifted base to Pune. A management graduate from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Vijay started his career with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). He was awarded with coveted Jawahar Award in the year 2005 in SAIL for his outstanding contributions to HR which contributed to turnaround of Rourkela Steel Plant. During his stint at the Nielsen, Vijay implemented several Talent Management initiatives and was given “Nielsen Award” for demonstrating core values and successfully implementing several change initiatives and global business restructuring at The Nielsen, India. He has been awarded with “HR Leadership Award” during Global HR Excellence Awards 2011-12 as well as well as “Indira Super Achievers Award” in the year 2010 .