Speaker Bio:  

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.
Raja Shanmugam
Chief People Officer, Happiest Minds
Raja Shanmugam has experience in the IT industry for over 24 years. He has successfully executed diverse roles including Internal Audit, Operations, Program Management, Sales, Large Account Management, Practice Building, Profit Center head and CSR initiatives. He has enjoyed setting up new roles, practices and businesses, and scaling them to become the mainstays of the organization. His success in these roles has always been through strong internal and external relationships and extensive learning from peers, team members and mentors. Before establishing Happiest Minds, he was the first CEO of MindTree Foundation and established their formal charter and goals. He envisioned and implemented challenging and innovative initiatives for Persons with Disabilities and Primary education. He established the MindTree Foundation as the thought leader in Assistive Technologies in India within two years.
Paneesh Rao
CPO, Aditya Birla Minacs
As the Chief People Officer of Aditya Birla Minacs,Paneesh Rao is responsible for leading the global human resources strategies of the IT/ITES businesses.Paneesh has been with Aditya Birla Group (ABG) for over seven years and is a management graduate in human resources management, with over 18 years of experience in the field. He worked with companies such as Hewitt, Ford Motor Company and Mattel Toys before joining ABG. Paneesh received the Aditya Birla Exceptional Performance Award for the year 2004. Paneesh has also received numerous other awards and recognition, including HR Excellence Awards (2004 and 2005) and Great Places to Work (2004 and 2005), as well as the Best in Class Recruitment Award in 2005.
Chandra Shekar
Sr. HRBP, HR Lead - Organisational Effectiveness, ANZ
Chandra brings more than 20 years of experience from diverse fields such as HR Consulting, Learning and Leadership Development and Sales & Marketing. With multi-cultural and multi-geography experience, he brings proven capability in stakeholder management across all leadership levels and geographies.
Raj Reddy
Associate Vice President and Head - HR, Infosys BPO
With 18 years rich experience, Raj has been instrumental in conceptualization, design and implementation of Talent strategies, not only during growth phase, but also during recession times to build higher productivity people processes through Corporate & Regional leadership roles. Raj has led complex Organizational Change Management programs spanning across geographies and diverse business portfolios. Raj’s passion lies in integrating Business with HR through building optimized Organizational pyramids, High Productivity and utilization programs, Building flexible Career Architectures/competency models and Skill optimization frameworks in high growth complex organizations. Has extensive experience across all HR processes i.e., Business Development, Workforce planning, Recruitment, Talent Retention, Organizational Development, Total Rewards and Compensation, Competency design, Succession planning, Talent branding, Regulatory Compliance and Employee relations.
Tuhin Biswas
Vice President HR and Admin, MTR FOODS
Tuhin Biswas - Vice president HR and Admin with MTR Foods India Ltd ( 100% subsidiary of Orkla Brands International)has been engaged in Senior Leadership position from past 15 years. He worked with reputed organizations like BAIL Ltd, TNT India, Tyco Heading the Human resources function with sound experience in Transformation and Integration of organizations,Organizational development and Talent management.As an individual highly motivated, Influential leader with empathetic approach and assertive attitude.
N R Srikanth
Chief Human Resources Officer, Sonata Software
N.R. Srikanth is the Chief Human Resource Officer of Sonata Software with overall responsibility of people management, talent development and transformation of HR practices and functions. In his role, he works closely with the Sonata leadership team to foster a culture of growth and innovation in the organization. Srikanth has extensive HR experience and has been instrumental in building high performance teams for growing organization. Prior to assuming his latest role in Sonata, Srikanth was responsible for setting up the offshore delivery platform for a leading European advanced engineering services and innovation consulting company, Altran Technologies. Over the past two decades, Srikanth has held a variety of leadership positions at Infosys Technologies, IBM and EDS. While at Infosys, he secured PCMMi level 5 certification for the firm and redefined the performance management process.
Sailesh Menezes
Country Manager & Head - Human Resources, HP India Sales
Sailesh Menezes is currently the Country Manager – Human Resources, HP India where he Heads HR for HP India sales and is responsible for people strategy, engagement & development, employee relations and talent management for the India business. Prior to joining HP in December 2011, Sailesh had worked in two other organizations for 14 years both in India and the US, first at IBM India and more recently at Wipro Technologies as a General Manager where he had a global responsibility for people processes and capability building. He is a management post graduate from the Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship.
Gajendra Menon
Associate Director -Talent Acquisition , NTT Data
Gajendra has close to 14 years of rich experience in the Human Resources and Talent Acquisition function. His last assignment prior to joining NTT Data EAS, he was as the Talent Acquisition Lead for the Assurance & Enterprise Risk Services (AERS) at Deloitte U.S. India office. Additionally, he also played a key role as ‘National Talent Acquisition Lead’ for the Enterprise Risk Services, collaborative venture across 13 locations in India. During his 7 year long stint (Approx.) with Deloitte, Gaj’s focus has been on handling multiple engagements across the firm and he was one of the key individual instrumental in ramping up employee strength from 700 to over 12000 people. Gaj has also contributed in refining and driving various projects on process improvements for the business. In addition to working in the Talent Acquisition team, he has also actively involved in Community & Social Responsibility group, WIN (Women’s Initiative) mentor for Talent Individuals and is an active coach for Talent professionals. He was awarded as the Super Achiever of the year (2006-07) in the industry forum.
Sujitesh Das
Head - Human Resources, Microland
Sujitesh is an XLRI alumnus with 12 years of HR experience in the IT & ITES sector, having traversed “people business” roles across Microland, Cognizant, HCL and passionately executed diverse portfolios spanning Recruitment & Selection, Staffing & Deployment Planning, Pyramid Optimization Drives, Performance & Progression Management, Global Rewards Design, Compensation & Benefits Administration, Reward & Recognition Programs, Process & Workflow Optimization, Information Systems & Digitization Implementation, Talent Engagement & Retention, People Due-Diligence in Domestic as well as International Mergers & Acquisition, Career Model Development, Policy & Metrics Benchmarking, Employer Branding & Marketing, Change & Transformation Initiatives, Consulting Assignments.
Mridula Sankhyayan
Vice President - Human Capital Management, Goldman Sachs
Mridula Sankhyayan is the current Vice President - Human Capital Management of Goldman Sachs.Mridula has over 18 years of experience in the areas of Learning, Development, Coaching, Performance Management, Diversity, recruitment, HR consulting and Business Development.She has worked in the field of Financial Services, IT, ITES and Management Consulting spread over Geographies of India, UAE, UK.Prior to Goldman Sachs,Mridula also worked in Nomura,Lehman Borthers,Genpact,Vertex,IBM Daksh,JHP Training,Aptech Learning Services and ABC Consultants.
Sheela K.L
VP-Global HR, Collabera
Sheela K.L heads the Global Human Resources function at Collabera. In the current role, she provides direction for Staffing, Human Resources, Learning & Development, Compensation and Benefits and Employee Relations for Collabera worldwide. She has over 15 years of business, leadership and consulting experience in Human Resources within the Information Technology space.In her last stint, Sheela spent over 4 years with Motorola. She held a range of HR portfolios at both India and Asia Pacific level beginning with Motorola University Manager, Leadership Development for Asia Pacific and Head of HR function of their Hyderabad R&D center. Before joining Motorola, she was with Dell International for a couple of years focusing on Organizational Development. Prior to Dell, she spent over 7 years with Satyam Computers where she performed a wide variety of HR related roles in India and abroad.
Ramesh S
VP - Business & Corporate HR, Sasken
Ramesh has over 20 years of experience in HR field.He has rich experience in creating and implementing HR frameworks that help organizations transition through periods of growth and change.At Sasken, as Vice President ( HR) Ramesh is responsible for creating an employee and leadership proposition to support Sasken become an employer of choice . He is also responsible for creating and executing a talent management strategy, spanning talent acquisition, development and engagement.Prior to joining Sasken, he was the country HR Head at CA India Technologies limited and had also worked in Infosys Technologies for 10+years.
Venkataramana B
President - Group HR , Landmark Group India
Indian Corporates and MNCs like Reliance Retail,Brigade Corporation,Henkel India,Tamilnadu Petrochemicals etc.He has experience in a wide range of industries such as Manufacturing,Petrochemical,FMCG,Consulting,BPO& Retail.Venkataraman also served as Chairman for HR&ER Panel -CII Southern Region, ISTD Chennai Chapter and Former Managing Committee Member Madras Management Association, RAI HR Committee.
Shashir Shetty
Regional Head - South, Pearson TalentLens
Shashir Shetty heads the South India division of Pearson TalentLens and leads strategic delivery of Talentlens’s consultative and sales goals for this region. Mr Shetty is an authorized trainer for TalentLens’s Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (W-GCTA), a measure of critical thinking skills, is trained on Golden Personality Type Profiler – for leadership development and also trained on the SOSIE personality test, a TalentLens - owned internationally acclaimed test of personal values and workplace motivators that is being introduced in India for the first time.
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 Limited-Oberoi group of Hotels & resorts,GMR Hyderabad Airport Resource Management Limited,Denso Haryana and Enercon India Limited.
Padmaja Alaganandan
Executive Director, PwC Consulting
Padmaja Alaganandan is Executive Director in the Business Advisory Services of PwC India. In her 20 years of consulting experience across Business and Human Capital consulting, Padmaja has worked with several leading Indian and global organisations across diverse industries. Before joining PwC, she worked in leadership roles in organisations such as Mercer Consulting and A.F. Fergsuon.