Speaker Bio:  

Raman Deep Singh Bawa
Group CFO, Network18
RDS Bawa is a Chartered Accountant with over three decades of experience in Industry. He has been in his current job for 15 years and has been responsible for converting a small start up company into one of the largest media conglomerates in India. He is a recipient of IMA India The India CFO Awards 2007 as well as CA Business Leader Award conferred upon him by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is an alumni of the prestigious Sri Ram College of Commerce and has been honored by the college with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011.
Joy Basu
Chief Financial Officer, Times Internet Limited
Joy has over 25 years of experience in organizations including Tata, Sterlite and RPG Group. He has earlier served as CFO of Go Airlines, Sterlite Technologies & the NASDAQ listed Rediff.com. He has a rich background in management of public companies and has wide experience in corporate governance, business turnarounds, capital raising, investor relations, operational & risk management, and mergers & acquisitions. A Chartered Accountant, he has also studied Management at the Manchester Business School where he attended a Senior Executive Program. He has won India CFO of the year award in 2006 in the ‘Excellence in Finance in an SME’ category. He has also been awarded the British Government Chevening Scholarship in 1999.
Gaurav Sundaram
Country Director, Egencia India
Gaurav, with over two decades of executive leadership experience in the Business Travel Industry, with prior stints with ProKonsul Thought Leadership, Lionel India, Rosenbluth International, Utell International & Thomas Cook, has established Egencia India as the market leader & innovator with introduction of global best practices to the Indian Business Travel Industry. Currently, he is the Country Director, India at Egencia.
Dharmender Chhabra
Vice President - Finance, EXL Service
Dharmender is having more than 16 years of industry experience. He is very good in Implementation of Global Accounting Functions shared service center for centralized accounting operation for all group entities [multi-location operations], Global Consolidation and reporting for multiple units, locations, and multiple currency. He provides Cross-functional leadership support in documentation, evaluation and improvement of processes. Tax Administration, Transfer Pricing Mechanism and Management of Tax Litigation. Dharmender has an Accelerated Management Program – Increasing Managerial Effectiveness from Indian School of Business (ISB).
Sumit Sood
Director Finance (Head Business Finance/ FP&A), Convergys
Sumit is a Finance and Audit Professional with almost two decades of post qualification experience in spread over IT/ ITES/ services and manufacturing sector. At Convergys, Sumit leads annual/ quarterly planning/ Budgeting, management reviews (short term Forecasts & review of actual performance against targets), provides support to improve revenue & profitability and pricing to remain competitive. He also supports off-shored Finance teams – Accounts Payable, Assurance/ Billing teams and US Sales and Use Tax. Sumit has extensive experience of working in consulting (~ 8 years in Big 4 CA firms – PwC and EY). Sumit has specialized in providing risk based auditing services through conducting/ managing delivery of Risk Assessment, Internal Audit and SOX engagements. He has also worked with multiple companies in improving performance of Audit Function by conducting Performance Reviews, advising/ designing processes across the organization and conducted process benchmarking studies to help clients implement industry best practices. Sumit is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and a Certified Internal Auditor (Institute of Internal Auditors, Florida, USA). He is also a Member of the Board of Institute of Internal Auditors, Delhi Chapter.
Aakash Moondhra
CFO, Snapdeal
Aakash has over 15+ years of diverse experience in Banking, Corporate Finance and M&A, Strategy consulting and Private Equity. He has also been an entrepreneur and has worked extensively across Telecom, Technology and Retail industries. Aakash has been a part of the project team that concluded Bharti’s Alliance with Wal-Mart for Retail, and was also a part of the corporate strategy team during the merger of AT&T with SBC in USA. He held key roles in various teams at Barings Private Equity, Accenture, AT&T (Financial Leadership Program) Bharti Airtel & Bharti Retail, Nokia and I-Farm Ventures. Aakash has an MBA degree from Southern Methodist University – Cox School of Business, Dallas, TX, USA in Finance & Strategy, is a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary, and has completed Advanced Strategic Management course from the University of Michigan.
Sunil Sayal
CFO, Nokia Siemens Networks India
Sunil is a thorough Bred Finance Professional with over two decades of experience spread evenly between MNCs and Indian Corporate Houses. He is an expert in Tax/Regulatory Compliances and Treasury with Hands-on Experience in Accounting and Financial Management. Prior to joining Nokia Siemens Networks Sunil was associated with Ericsson India and Montari Industries.
Anuj Aggarwal
CFO & Director - Finance, Canon India
Anuj is a Chartered Accountant with two decades of industry experience. He is a dynamic professional and has been working with Canon India as Director Finance & CFO since June 2007. His major contribution in this duration has been scaling up of finance function with business growth. Revenue has grown four times since he joined (Rs. 380 Crores in 2006 to 1600 Crores in 2011) hence, providing risk free environment to business and enabling sufficient money supply to enable growth of business. Bad Debts have been at the lowest in the history and DSO has improved over the last four years in spite of increase in business. Being a trading organization, management of current asset and ensuring compliance have been a key challenge to Anuj in this period.
Gulshan Dua
Country Controller, Freescale Semiconductor India
Gulshan, a CFO with two decades of experience, successful at building & leading a high performance finance organization for a top semiconductor company. Combines strategic & tactical financial expertise with strong qualifications in business development, operations P&L management and corporate governance. Record of reversing financial declines and capturing significant cost reductions through process redesign & performance enhancement. Skilled at partnering finance with core operations & developing productive cross-enterprise alliances.
Kulwant Singh Hora
Chief Financial Officer, Amplifon India
Kulwant has over 17 years’ experience in financial, operational& strategic roles with public listed companies in the Manufacturing, FMCG, ITES, Retail & Healthcare sector. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer for Amplifon India, a role he has held since September 2009.Before joining Amplifon India, Kulwant was the Assistant Vice President –Finance at Encore Capital Group. Other roles Kulwant has held include Financial Controller for UK Capital Investments Group and Manager Finance for a manufacturing company. Kulwant holds a Master of Commerce and LL.B. degrees and is a CA, CMA & CS.
Varun Gupta
Managing Director, American Appraisal India Pvt. Ltd
Varun has about 18 years of experience in valuation and corporate finance services. He took over as Managing Director of American Appraisal India in 2008 and is responsible for overall management of American Appraisal’s operations in India, including technical direction and client management on complex engagements. He is also a member of the firm’s global Strategic Advisory Board as well as the Technical Standards Committee. His experience spans a wide range of industries, including energy, infrastructure, IT, media & entertainment, pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining American Appraisal, he has worked with Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Varun has been a speaker at several seminars/ workshops, including workshops organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) where he normally talks about valuation of intangible assets as well as valuation of early stage companies. He has also spoken at workshops organized by India’s major business schools like IIM Kozhikode, FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon and ICFAI Hyderabad. Varun was a key speaker on Valuation of Trademarks at a recent INTA Roundtable. Education: Varun is an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
Loknath Mishra
General Manager & Head Commercial Banking, ICICI Bank
Loknath has over 15 years of experience with ICICI Bank Limited primarily in the area of Corporate and Commercial Banking. He has handled large corporate relationships for the Bank and is a well known corporate banker. He has structured and concluded several large corporate funding deals. His area of expertise are structured corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions funding and restructuring & recovery of stressed assets, trade finance and cash management services. He is currently a General Manager & Global Head – Commercial Banking for ICICI Bank and is based in its head office in Mumbai. In his current assignment he is responsible for developing and implementing strategy for growing the commercial banking business of the bank including cash, trade and remittances.
Vijay Deshwal
Zonal Head – Commercial Banking, ICICI Bank
Vijay is the Zonal Head – Commercial Banking at ICICI Bank and takes care of a large part of transaction banking business for ICICI Bank. Deshwal is an engineer and post graduate in management from IIM Ahmedabad. He has a diverse experience in the fields of manufacturing, export, corporate finance and banking. He is also a member of various committees steered by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He has been a speaker at various events including Global Transaction Banking Congress at Amsterdam in June 2012 convened by the Euromoney Seminars.
Ashutosh Dhawan
CFO, STMicroelectronics- India
Ashutosh has over two decades of broad experience in in all aspects of finance. His expertise lies in Financial Management & Operational improvement, GAAP reporting, Tax & Startegic Planning, M&A, FP&A including Deal structuring & Contracting. Internal Audit & Compliances. Prior to STMicroelectronics, he was associated with HCL Technologies Ltd, Aricent Technologies, DLF Group & many more.