Speaker Bio:  

Paritosh Basu
Group Controller, Essar India
Paritosh Basu is the Group Controller at Essar Investments Ltd. He has Graduated with Honours in Advanced Accountancy from Goenka College of Commerce, Calcutta University in 1973. He been awarded with the Founder’s Memorial Merit Scholarship by Goenka College of Commerce, Kolkata during three years’ period of graduation. Obtained his Post Graduate Degree in Master of Commerce form the Calcutta University in the year 1975. He has also been awarded with a Ph. D. Degree from Calcutta University in 1999. He is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 1979, where he secured 35th rank in the all India intermediate examination.
Sumeet Ahluwalia
GM Finance, Steria
Sumeet Ahluwalia is the General Manager Finance at Steria and works on Finance & Commercial matters of the India Domestic business to support the India CFO’s office as well as the Investor Relations activities of Group Steria, listed and headquartered in Paris. Groupe Steria is a French IT services organization with presence in 16 countries and a FY10 revenue base of Eur 1.6 bn. It is ranked amongst the top 10 IT service providers in Europe. Steria India (erstwhile Xansa) is a 100% subsidiary of Groupe Steria. With about 10 years’ experience, Sumeet has played key roles in Business Planning Strategy, Corporate Finance and M&A. Prior to joining Steria, Sumeet has worked with Bharti Airtel, Deutsche bank and ABN AMRO bank.
Yunus Bookwala
VP Finance, Capgemini India
Yunus is a qualified Cost & Chartered Accountant with over 27 years of rich experience in India and Overseas. At Capgemini, with annual revenue of around $ 12 billion is headquarter in Paris. In India, during the last 10 years Capgemini has seen head count grow from 100 to 31,000+ and revenues also increasing in the same proportion. Yunus has been a part of the India Strategic Business Unit Leadership Team, which led to successful acquisitions of Kanbay and Unilever Shared Services. Post the acquisitions, the key focus was on mutualising resources in India by way of an effective integration of acquired businesses. Besides legal restructuring, there were several initiatives on the integration of the business models, support functions and financial reporting. Yunus has been an extremely vital member responsible for the integration initiatives. He successfully led the integration of infrastructure management, facility management, procurement alongside the transitions and challenges of integrating the 6000+ financial service business. With over two decades of experience in the industry he is also an experienced Business Auditor with a focus on cost savings and process improvements. Industries audited by Yunus include Iron & Steel castings, Rayon Manufacturing, Healthcare, Dyes & Chemicals, IT, etc. Prior to joining Capgemini, Yunus has explored overseas assignments at Taiwan and United Arab Emirates. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Committee for Members in Industry, conferred Yunus with “The CFO – IT/ Media Communication/ Entertainment Sector Award” for 2009.
Hariharan Iyer
Chief Financial Officer, APM Terminals Pipavav
Hariharan Iyer is the Chief Financial Officer of Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd, a division of APM Terminals, since May 2009 He currently leads the Finance & Accounting, Legal, Compliance and Risk Management teams. As a member of the senior management team he is also involved in project funding, major business development and investment decisions and drives cost management initiatives at GPPL. Prior to this, Hariharan Iyer was the Chief Financial Officer of Maersk Line – India and South Asia. He is with the A P Moller Maersk Group for over 19 years and has held various positions in Finance and Information Technology in UAE, India and Denmark. He has over 25 years of experience in various aspects of Finance, both in India and overseas. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant from India and Chartered Management Accountant from London and has attended Management Programs at INSEAD.
Anurag Jain
Business Head - GRC, MetricStream
Anurag has the responsibility of marketing GRC product and services at MetricStream – A global leader in Enterprise GRC solution that has been rated as a leader by leading independent analysts and has been validated by customers across all verticals spread out globally. Anurag has more than 15 years of experience of working within the risk and compliance space that includes a decade of experience of working with top wall street clients in New York. Anurag is a graduate of Schulich school of business and IIM Bangalore.
Sunil Sapre
CFO , CEAT
Sapre comes with a rich heritage of experience & expertise spanning over 24 years across different verticals and has exhaustive finance knowledge including Corporate Governance and Mergers and Acquisitions.He also worked for Godrej Consumer Products where he was the Executive Vice President (Finance & Commercial) and Compan Secretary.He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants, A.I.C.W.A from The Institute of Cost and Work Accountants and A.C.S from The Institute of Company Secretaries.
Rajarathnam Kannan
Head of Corporate Performance Management, Hinduja Group
Rajarathnam Kannan is an expert in Finance and Strategy with more than 25 years experience and during his career as a Management Consultant and a Key member of Corporate Head Quarters in Various corporates including Hinduja Group as VP and Head of Strategy, ICICI Bank as EVP Strategy, carried out assignments relating to Corporate Finance, Fund Raising , Treasury Management, Strategy Formulation/Implementation, Organisation Restructuring, Performance Management, Business Development and Mergers/Acquisitions. At present he is heading the Performance Management Function at the Group level in Hinduja Group dealing in aspects relating to Planning, Budgeting , Performance Monitoring, Business Development and M&A. He was a member of Expert Committees in CII/ Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Indian Merchant&rsquot;s Chamber on Committees relating to Industry, Economy, Banking, Transportation, Environment, etc. He had attended programmes organized by World Bank , IIF and Asian Development on International finance and spoken in Seminars on Union Budget, Indian Economy, Banking and Management as a speaker in various forums. He has delivered guest lectures in Leading Management Institutes on Finance, Strategy, Organisation Restructuring and Turn Around Management.
Hiranya Ashar
Chief Financial Officer, Rolta India
Hiranya has earned huge experience in finance, accounts, taxation and audit. He is a commerce graduate and an Associate member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has extensive experience of managing corporate finance, project management, financial planning & analysis, budgetary control, fund management, taxation, audit, mergers & acquisitions and investor relations. He possesses strong analytical and management skills and is an effective leader in rapid growth situations.
Hariprakash Pandey
V.P- Finance and Investor Relations, HDIL
Hari heads the Finance department and part of business strategy team.He Successfully lead the team for QIP funding of 350 Million USD & 250 million USD. Involved in IPO of company and raised over 400 million USD. Part of Corporate strategy Team. He raised more than 5000 crores as working capital and project finance. Structured & project finance, Long term working capital funding, business analysis, formation of business models and strategies. Interaction with FIIs, hedge funds, and investors across the world. His experience include of Due Diligence process, business valuations, business presentation for investors, and interaction with Merchant Bankers and Law firms. Hari is being nominated for Best CA Award 2008 & 2009 under Infrastructure & Real Estate Category in India from Institute of Chartered Accountant of India.Speaker at FICCI International Real Estate Summit 2009 and various Real estate seminars globally and in India
Jitendra Mehta
CFO, Cinemax India
Jitendra is a dynamic professional with more than 25 years of rich experience in Finance, Accounts, Secretarial, Taxation and Investment Management. He graduated from the University of Mumbai. Presently he is associated as Director – Finance with Kanakia Group comprising four verticals viz. Real Estate, Entertainment, Hospitality and Education. His expertise lies in supervising & managing the finance department operations in adherence to various policies & procedures. He was nominated for several awards like Man of the Year 1998. He was the winner of Outstanding Achievement Award in 1996. He was also awarded Certificate of honour by Krantikari Janta for contribution to economics, Industrial and Social sphere.He also published a book on Techniques to Secure More marks published by Institute of Cost and Works accountants of India. He is a Gold medalist - First class first in First Year L.L.B in University of Bombay. His Bio-data is included in “MSPI Outstanding personalities".
D R Dogra
Managing Director, Care Ratings
Dogra has over 31 years of rich and varied experience in commercial banking and extensive knowledge about the functioning of the corporate sector. Mr. Dogra, one of CARE’s first employees, has been an integral part of the top management team of CARE and plays an active role in shaping the strategic direction of CARE. He is involved in all aspects of the business including planning, development, operations and marketing. His contribution is greatly responsible for the successful growth and development of CARE into a leading credit rating agency in the country. Mr. Dogra holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Management (Finance) from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He is a gold medalist in his Post Graduate Degree in Agriculture from Himachal Pradesh University. He is also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. Prior to joining CARE, Mr. Dogra held several senior positions in a public sector bank for over 15 years.
A K Bansal
CFO, Cocoberry Retail
Has more than 27 years of rich working experience. Corporate Finance executive with experience in all aspects of Business Planning, Commercial Practices, Tax planning, Risk Management, Business Expansion, Financial Management, financial consulting and venture capital. He is qualified as a B.Com (H) Graduate and Post Graduate in Advanced costs and Strategic Management. He is Ranked as top 10 CFOs in India in Retail / Business Growth category and Top 100 CFOs in India in the year 2010.His area of expertise are business planning & competitive analysis, strategic expansions, financing, medium and large investments franchising set ups, business models, market expansion investments, Credit Collections, ERP and software set ups, Triple Bottom Line Accounting, Corporate Radar (Risk management & Long Term Analysis), Strategic Vendor Management.