Speaker Bio:  

Ravi.B.S.
Vice President - Human Potential Development, Nagarjuna Oil Corporation
Ravi is having over 30 Years Experience in People Management. Currently he is working with NOCl as a Vice President - Human Potential Development. He is specialized in the area of recruitment, Performance Management, Compensation & Benefits, OD Interventions, HR Policies and Systems, employee Engagement, Industrial Relations, including Legal Management and training. He is having a strong exposure to Manufacturing Sector, and IT. And worked for 21 Years in Brick & Mortar, and 9 Years in Knowledge Industry.
Sumendra Chakraborty
VP- HR & Admin, Renault India
Soumendra is a seasoned HR profesional with over 23 years experience in Talent Management, Talent Acquisition , Competency Mapping vide Lominger Cards, Performance Management and Balanced Score Card has worked in ME, sub Saharan Africa and Turkey. A proactive Business HR partner with experience in strategic HR roles across Manufacturing, Engineering, Banking, Pharmaceuticals, Automobile, IT and ITES organizations. Extensive experience within organizations which are internationally matrix and a deep understanding of the behaviors, values and processes which make a matrix both dynamic and effective. Experienced in designing and facilitating OE interventions. Facilitate senior Strategy and Leadership workshops. Focused on HR Governance and HR Analytics.
Sumithra Mathew
Vice President & Head HR, Indiaproperty.com
Sumithra Mathew has over 22 years of experience in HR, playing coveted roles within the scope of a Global HR team. She has facilitated Talent Engagement initiatives to large groups with multi-region HR coverage across UK, Europe, IMEA, APAC and Australia. Her passion for people has led to her to conceptualize and drive to closure strategic initiatives related to performance assessments, HR operations and Employee Engagement. She has formulated & administered HR Policies and processes in leading IT organizations, taking special interest in spearheading diversity & training initiatives. An active member in various HR Forums, Sumithra has been a speaker in several thought leadership sessions.
Venkatanarayanan R
President - HR, Rane Holdings
As Group head of HR, IT and Education for the US $ 500 million Rane Group, he leads strategic initiatives in HR and IT to support long term organizational capability building, leadership development and Innovation for business growth. He has extensive experience in HR, IR, Learning & Development, OD and Change Management in SAIL and Mascon Global. He graduated from the University of Madras, and did his PG from the Calcutta University. An alumnus of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, London, he has also undergone the Business Leaders Program at IIM, Calcutta. He has many recognized certifications to his credit. He is associated with professional forums such as CII, NHRD, SHRM, ACMA, EFSI and ISTD. He is on the Board of Studies of University of Madras, Department of Psychology.
Aashish Singh
Vice President and Head HR , Sutherland Global Services
Aashish joined the Sutherland family couple of months back and he is designated Vice President and Head HR – India. In his current association with Sutherland he is responsible for the entire gamut of HR Operations in India. A seasoned professional with diversified and rich experience of 19 years in the HR function, Aashish joined Sutherland from Convergys India, after serving the company as Director India HR. During his successful tenure with Convergys, he handled the complete spectrum of HR operations, systems and programs across India for approximately 12,000 plus employees. A strategic planner, he joined hands with senior business leaders across the globe to create HR policies and procedures, to create group benefit databases and developed orientation, training and sales incentive programs, among other strategic innovations. He successfully participated and played a key role in several International rebadging M&A activities apart from initiating the Six Sigma black belt attrition project . Aashish began his career with HCL-HP as an Engineer Trainee in 1993 and went on to join the Indian Army as an Officer in the Technical wing. In the year 2000 he took over as Director HR at Bizmax Itech Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India and served the company for five long years. In 2005 he moved on to DATA Inc. as its Country Head- HR before his previous assignment with Convergys.
Natarajan B
Head HR, Amrutanjan Health Care
Natarajan is an Engineer by qualification from Madras Institute of Technology, started the career with M/s Larsen & Toubro as a Process Development Engineer. Did Masters with specilisation in HR from Narsee Moonje Institute of Management and shifted to HR department in L&T. Later re-located to Chennai and joined M/s KONE Elevator India as a Training Manager. Had 12 years stint with KONE and rose to the position of General Manager HR. For the last 2 years working as Head of Corporate HR with Amrutanjan Healthcare Ltd. Overall 20 years of experience out of which 15 years in the HR field. Has been an Individual member of Madras Management Association, Life member of ISTD and part of FICCI Expert HR & IR panel. Currently working on an implementation of Online Performance Management process.
Ravi Mishra
Vice President – HR & Admin, Birla Carbon
Ravi has career span of more than nineteen years in practicing human resource management, public relations and liaison functions in some of the most respected and diversified organizations like Nicholas Piramal Group, Mardia Group and Aditya Birla Group. Equipped with good exposure of working in cross-cultural environment and made visible and significant contributions for all employers by virtue of extensive deployment of HR interventions, diagnostic tools, proactive HR strategies and sincere efforts with new ideas. Ravi is qualified in MSW, LLB, Diploma in Training & Development, PGDHRM and graduated in MBA from Universitas, U21 Global, Melbourne University. He is blessed with Capabilities for building teams and getting best out of them. Excellence in interpersonal relations, networking and sourcing. In-depth understanding of root causes of HR issues and remedies. Experience in designing and execution of HR diagnostic tools and HR strategies, Maturity for understanding business perspectives, linkages and strategic orientation in actions. Passion for driving culture of continuous improvements and excellence. Experience of working in cross-cultural environment. His Achievements are: Certified Examiner for IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj National Quality Award, Certified Assessor for World Class Manufacturing system, Certified trainer for Career Assessment and development discussion, Certified facilitator for Writing Individual Development Plan, Certified facilitator for Problem Solving Tools.
Srimathi Shivashankar
Associate Vice President – Diversity & Sustainability, HCL Technologies
Srimathi has considerable experience in the areas of human capital strategy and diversity. Her core work areas in Human Capital include diversity and inclusion, employee engagement and retention, culture institutionalization, training and assessments, leadership development and counselling. Srimathi is one among the Future Leaders Team set up by World Business Council for Sustainability Development. She is a member of the advisory council of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a working committee member of the Global Gender Parity Group of the World Economic Forum, and is an active member of the Diversity & Inclusion core committee of NASSCOM - India. Srimathi is a member of “WILL Mentoring Council” that brings together the collective thought-leadership of women from across companies in corporate India. She is the Co Chairperson for the CII Women Empowerment Council for Tamilnadu. She has assisted in preparing the first Affirmative Action Council report lead by Confederation of Indian Industry
Chandrasekhar Chenniappan
Country HR Manager Application Services Global Delivery – India, HP
Chandru as he likes to be called is the Country HR Manager in Hewlett-Packard supporting their Application Services Global Delivery Organization in India. Chandru has been with HP for over 8 plus years now and had donned multiple roles. In his current role, he Partners with the Business leaders to provide Consultation on People Practices, Leadership Development, Employee Engagement and Implement People initiatives working with the HR COE’s. He has been involved in effectively Managing Change, Retaining the right talent and Redeploying talent across Business entities which had a positive impact on employee satisfaction and resulted in a significant cost saving to the Organization. Chandru has been recognized as Most Valuable Person (MVP ) in 2012 which is a coveted employee recognition in HP for his HR leadership and contribution to his Business unit. He is a firm believer of Team Work and dedicates this award to his HR Team. Prior to joining HP, Chandru was with IGATE Global Solutions, Polaris Software, Kumaran Systems and The CHILDS Trust Hospital in Chennai. Chandru has over 17 plus Years of experience in the field of Human Resource Management in Service Industry and IT Industry. He has played variety of roles spanning Resource Management, Employee Relations, Recruitment and General Management. He holds a Masters Degree in Life Sciences from Madras University and Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel management and Industrial Relations from the Madras School of Social Work and a PG Diploma in Hospital Management from The Center of Management Studies, Apollo Hospitals - Chennai.
S. Raghuraman
Head HR, Sundaram Infotech Solutions
He is a seasoned administrator with16 years of experience in Strategic HRM; Recruitment, Resourcing & Development; Performance Management; Training; Compensation & Benefits; Welfare, Organisational Development and General Administration with well known organisations. He is experienced in implementing HR Systems and Policies; steering Change; organising & conducting Training Programs geared towards enhancing employee productivity and building committed teams.
K. Shyaam Sunder
Chief Knowledge Officer, Ramco Systems
Shyaam Sunder has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Over years, he has played a variety of roles such as consulting, sales, product management, and practice management. He has honed his skills through successful participation in solution co-creation, by abstraction and application from the deliveries of industry experts and colleagues, and business oriented reading. His primary interest is to acquire and disseminate knowledge and enable the process of monetization of such knowledge.
Dr. A V Sivarama Prasad
Vice President- HRD & Services , The KCP Limited
Dr. A.V. Sivarama Prasad holds doctorate in Management from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore after graduating in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University. He has more than one decade rich experience in consultancy at Tata Consultancy Services and handled various functional areas such as Perspective and Corporate Planning, Technology Management, Project Management, Human Resources Management, Business Process Reengineering and Techno-economic feasibility studies. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer in the Engineering college for a year Dr. Prasad is a national resource person in the area of Technology Management. He has been actively involved in disseminating knowledge and experience in the field of technology management to many educational institutions and industries. He has vast experience in working with Multi-lateral funding agencies like World Bank, ADB, UNDP, DFID and UNICEF and executed successfully many social and infrastructure development projects through community participation. He has experience in various sectors such as Social, Education, Infrastructure, Irrigation, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Engineering, Aviation, Energy, Environment, Forestry, Biotechnology and Dairy. He has been a professional trainer and has conceived and conducted a number of training programmes for variety of organisations and educational institutions. He has attended many national and international conferences and submitted papers. He has published papers in international journals.
Niranjan kumar
Assistant Vice president HR, HDFC
Niranjan has around 12 years experience in HR. He is currently heading HR for around 40 business verticals in South India for HDFC Bank. Earlier he was associated with the Apollo Hospitals Global Projects Consultancy Division of Apollo Hospitals Group where he was involved in the planning, commissioning and operations management of international projects in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Yemen & Nigeria.
Sukumaran Mariappan
Head HR, Trimble Group
Sukumaran Mariappan is currently, the Head of HR at Trimble Group of Companies for SAARC Region, Dubai and Thailand. Prior to Trimble, Suku was employed with amazon.com and Virtusa Inc. Suku was awarded the Most Valuable Employee, the highest honor for any employee, by Lucid Technologies, his first employer and a recipient of “HR Leadership Award” by Asia Pacific HRM Congress 2010. He is also a guest lecturer in some of the well-known Engineering and Management Institutes. He is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and a life member of National HRD Network and Indian Society for Training & Development.
D.Soundararajan
Head-HR, Nokia India
Currently Soundararajan is working as the Head-HR for Nokia India. He is having 19 years of rich experience in Human Resource. Some of the companies he worked with is LMW, Associated cement cos, Madura Coats, Tube Investments and Apollo Tyres.
Mohan Kumar
President, NHRD Chennai Chapter
Mohan brings in over 26 years of rich experience. He has worked across the spectrum spanning different sectors and has also worked across the country-South, West, North and East. He has worked with companies like SRF, Levers, Sanmar Group, C.K.Birla Group Reliance and Cairn Energy. Prior to AM International, he headed HR for the Essar Energy Group based in Mumbai.He has been involved Organisational transformation and change management all along his career.He along with the strategic planning Head in the CK Birla Group, presented a paper in the HRD Network conference in 2000 on "Metamorphosing Corporations". Mohan was selected for a Senior Management Program in 2010 by the Swedish Government from India. Mohan is currently assists in the managing the assets of AM International Holdings in India
Sabita J
Associate Vice President - HR, Steria
Sabita is working as the Associate Vice President - Human Resources for Steria Limited. She is responsible for the Human Resources Portfolio at the Chennai Centre and in her current capacity, as Centre HR Business Partner, she plays a strategic advisory role apart from her responsibility for HR Operations.. Sabita’s endeavor at Steria, is to position HR as a trusted advisor in strategy formulation and a strong partner in execution . Sabita was recently recognized by the Employer Branding Institute, India and conferred the “Woman Super Achiever Award” for individual contribution in the field of Human Resources. She is also the proud recipient of the Special Recognition Award from NASSCOM, for her contribution to the HR Fraternity in the IT/ ITES space. She is the Chair Person of the Nasscom HR Forum, Chennai Chapter and in this capacity has been responsible for launching various leadership sessions through the HR Forum.