Speaker Bio:  

Mritunjay Singh
President, Hinjewadi Industries Association
Mritunjay Singh is the President of Hinjewadi Industries Association. He is the Associate Vice President at Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) Unit of Infosys. He has over 19 years of professional experience in various capacities. He heads FSI ADM delivery globally. Prior to this role, he was head of Service Delivery Head for all Financial Services client in UK& Ireland, managing a team of 1200+ people. He had complete responsibility of client satisfaction, operational excellence and employee satisfaction for the unit. He has been the key anchor for one of the first large outsourcing deals and then worked as Global Transition Manager. Prior to joining Infosys, worked for 9 years in different companies (TATA Steel, Infosys, Kanbay, Quinnox) in India and US. A graduate from India Institute of Technology (IIT) – Banaras Hindu University in 1992.
Munish Suri
SVP & Zonal Business Head, Religare Finvest
Munish Suri is the SVP & Zonal Business Head for Religare Finvest. Is a post graduate in MBA. Has worked for Citifinancial, Citicorp, Avco & Associates. Munish has an experience of 13 years. His professional awards include: Outstanding contribution in Citicorp in 2003-04 (8 out of 92 employees) and Division head with highest biz delivery in 2007-08 in Citifinancial.
Dipankar Banerjee
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Tata Toyo Radiator
Professionally a Chartered and a Cost Accountant. Also a Master degree holder in Commerce from Calcutta University. Presently working as a Vice President & CFO with Tata Toyo Radiator Ltd. Having a total Industrial experience of 27 years & had worked for various Industries like Engineering, Turn key Construction, Paints & Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals & presently with Autocomponents. Started Career with Mather & Platt India Ltd. Prior to Joining Tata Toyo Radiator had worked as Sr. Vice President with Nicco Corporation Ltd at Kolkata for 11 years. Having experience in entire gamut of Finance and accounting activities ranging from Fund raising, treasury management, planning , strategy formation, development of Business model, Designing & Implementation of several financial processes across the organization, Risk management, Corporate Governance, Climate Change etc. Has been awarded Silver medal in TBELP (Tata Business Excellence Program). Has been a faculty member with ICWAI, TACO Learning Center etc. Has been speakers, coordinators in various seminars organized by several Management & other Institutes namely CII, Calcutta University, IMM, etc. Presently active in skill development initiative and on behalf of TACO Group participates in a public private partnership in this field.
Harinder Jeet Singh
Principal Counselor, CII-AVANTHA centre for competitiveness
Harinder Jeet Singh is B.E., MBA & Six Sigma Black Belt with more than 15 years of experience in manufacturing Industry. He has designed and delivered more than 100 programs on Lean and Productivity improvement and is actively involved in the implementation of various initiatives in key plants of India on manufacturing Excellence. His key contribution is formation of clusters in various parts of India which excels in Energy Efficiency, Cost Management, HR and Manufacturing Excellence. More than 3000 SMEs across the country had achieved significant improvements from the services provided by his leadership in last year. The centre under his leadership is working very closely with more than 700 SMEs on improving Energy Efficiency under the project by Indian Govt. Mr Singh has been to Japan and Thailand to interact and study various SMEs from time to time. He visited Osaka, Japan in May 2008 to study SME university concept. He was also invited as keynote speaker at an International Annual National Automotive Conference 2008 held at Pretoria, South Africa. In 2010 he went to AOTS Japan along with other Asian chambers of commerce and Industry for discussions on improving competitiveness. In 2011 he had been to GIZ Germany to work closely on setting up of new initiatives for SMEs. The CII-AVANTHA Centre for Competitiveness established in 2004 offers advisory services on a wide range of critical issues such as Manufacturing Excellence, Energy management, cost management and Corrosion prevention. Apart from offering consultancy services, the Centre is also committed to helping SMEs via cluster approach and remains abreast of contemporary issues of the industry. He has been closely associated with Prof. Shoji Shiba, Mr. C. Narasimhan & Dr. Baldev Raj on various themes of SME competitiveness from time to time.
Sanjay Kulkarni
Chief Financial Officer, Fleetguard Filters
Sanjay Kulkarni is the Chief Financial Officer of Fleetgaurd Filters. He is a B.Com. graduate and has also completed his LL.B. He has an experience of over 25 years. He started his career with Caltherm Thermostats Pvt Ltd for a tenure of 10 years. He is working with Fleetgaurd Filters Pvt Ltd since 1999. He is the Director for Sardesai Movers Pvt.Ltd.
Shailendra Jha
Chief Financial Officer, Mather And Platt Pumps
Shailendra Jha is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Mather And Platt Pumps Limited which is a subsidiary of WILO SE a German multinational and 5th largest Pump and Pumping Systems Company in the world. He is a B.Tech (Honours) IIT Kharagpur, Cost and Management Accountant (AICWA), and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He was awarded Institute’s Silver Medal – by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for standing first in order of merit, and the best performance amongst final year students of B.Tech (Honours) in Mining Engineering graduated in 1991. He was selected through a nationwide competition for the Scholarship for young achievers in Indian Industry awarded by the Government of Japan, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship in the form of one month management training in Japan. He has about 20 years of experience in managing Finance & Accounting, Strategic Planning, Management System Development, IT System and ERP (SAP), Legal & Secretarial, Direct and Indirect Taxation matters, and other Senior Management functions of business organisations in India and abroad. He has successfully completed projects on merger & acquisition, delisting from stock exchange under SEBI guideline, business restructuring, right issue etc. In his earlier assignments, he worked for ACC in Mumbai and Jumbo Group in Dubai. In his current assignment, apart from finance, accounting, taxation and strategic planning functions, he is also responsible for legal and secretarial and IT Network and ERP (SAP) in the Company. Mr. Jha has several articles published in National Newspapers like The Economic Times, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times to name a few.
Anurag Manocha
Territory Sales Manager - West & North, Novell
Anurag Manocha is the Territory Sales Manager - West & North with Novell. He has got his B.E. Civil Engineering degree from Nagpur University and his MBA from Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management. His past employers include IBM India, Honeywell International India Pvt. Ltd, Redington India Limited, Targus Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Shekhar Agharkar
Past Chairman, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce Pune
Mr. Shekhar Agharkar graduated in Commerce from BMCC College in the year 1979 and as a Chartered Accountant in May, 1984.After a brief stint of service for 19 months with Western India Erectors as an Accounts Officer, started practice as Chartered Accountants in Partnership under the name Agharkar & Rayarikar, Chartered Accountants . He has a rich experience of over 27 years in the field of accounting, finance and management consulting. He is the Promoter Director of Arthtech Consultants Pvt.Ltd. (ACPL) a Management Consulting & Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) Company which was set up in 1998. The company provides management outsourced services whereby the entire accounting and finance function of a company is managed as a single window solution both as an offsite and onsite model. ACPL has promoted the unique Integrated Management Outsourcing Solutions (IMOS) and the Virtual CFO concept. ACPL caters to foreign companies setting up their operations in India as well as the domestic Companies .SME is a special focus area for ACPL. ACPL is headquartered in Pune and has operations in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. He is on the Board of Directors of many companies He has been the Past Chairman of the Pune Branch of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and is currently on the West India Council of the Chamber and is associated with CII & MCCIA .He has also been nominated on the MSME sub-committee of CII Western Region