Arjun Malhotra, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Headstrong
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An Alumnus of IIT - Kharagpur and Havard Business School, Mr. Malhotra is currently the Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Headstrong's Board of Directors. Prior to Headstrong, he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which he founded with funding from Goldman Sachs and Walden International in late 1998. He founded and built HCL from a six-person "garage operation" in 1975 to one of India's largest Information Technology corporations. He took over the US Operations of the group in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues. Mr. Malhotra founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur through a personal endowment and is a member of the Board of Governors for that School and the Technology Foundation of IIT Kharagpur. The Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah has honored Mr. Malhotra with the coveted Albert Einstein Technology Medal for 2001. He is also one of the founding members of SPIC-MACAY - Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth. This is today India's largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization. |
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Mr. Pratip Kar is a well known Finance specialist with an experience of over 30 years in the field, a major part of which was devoted to the securities market. An academically inclined professional, Mr. Kar’s interest areas are teaching and research in corporate governance; regulation and development of securities market, establishing regulatory architecture for securities market in emerging market. A key contributor to the transformation of the Indian securities market and in the formulation and implementation of policy for developing, modernising and regulating Indian securities market in his capacity as Executive Director of SEBI, Mr. Kar has also served as the Dean of Finance and Corporate Governance at the Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC). He has also worked with Stern Business School, Harvard Business School and Ross School of Management of Michigan University in delivering programmes on leadership and strategy at TMTC. A prolific writer, Mr. Kar has a number of publications to his name and is a regular contributor to financial broadsheets such as Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard etc. As a member of Globsyn Business School’s Governing Council Mr. Kar will Chair Globsyn Center for Corporate Governance & Ethics. |
Mr. Utpal Sengupta , Ex President & CEO Agro Tech Foods Ltd.
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Utpal SenGupta a Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a MBA Gold Medalist from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad led the US Foods major ConAgra's affiliate in India, Agro Tech Foods Ltd. (ATFL) as President and CEO for eleven years. During his tenure Agro Tech Foods developed from an edible oils company to a Rs. 1,000 crores integrated packaged foods business. Before joining ConAgra and ATFL, he worked for the consumer products giant Unilever in India and abroad for twenty-four years. He was also the Chairman of the AP state chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) during 2008-09. He has also been past Chairman of CII's National Committee on Food Processing and Chairman of CII's Foodpro '99. He has lectured on different topics at the premier management institutions in the country. Mr. SenGupta started a programme called 'Feeding Children Better' while working with ATFL and is actively associated with several institutions engaged in providing education, nutrition and healthcare to underprivileged children in different parts of the country. |
S. B. Ganguly, Chairman Emeritus, Exide Industries Limited.
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A highly qualified individual Mr. Ganguly is a Graduate of Chemical Engineering & Fellow of Plastics & Rubber Institute (London), Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers & Fellow of the Institute of Chemicals. Mr. Ganguly carries with him a vast and rich corporate experience, including being the Director of Research and Technical Services, Dunlop and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exide Industries Limited. On 1st May 2007, Mr. Ganguly was appointed Chairman – Emeritus of Exide Industries Ltd. Apart from being involved in educational and social organisations, Mr. Ganguly is also actively involved in the economic development of West Bengal, particularly in connection with economic reforms announced both by the Centre and the State Governments. |
Aloke Mookherjea, Chairman, Flakt India Ltd
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A Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Chartered Engineer, Mr. Mookherjea, brings along a vast and rich corporate experience spanning across many decades. Currently the Chairman of Flakt India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of a ~1 bn Euro group, Mr. Mookherjea is involved deeply, as chairman/member of various boards, in the industrial activities in the state and the nation. In the past he has held extensive and all-embracing, top management positions, overseeing entire operations and functions. He has had country-wide responsibility for marketing, technology, R&D, Corporate Planning and Communication, Information Technology, HR, Quality Control, Process Improvement, Internal Consulting, etc. |
Mr. Jayesh Parekh, Founder, MobiApps and Sony Entertainment Television
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Mr. Jayesh Parekh is a Founder and on the Board of Directors of MobiApps, and has served on the Board since the company's inception in August 2000. He is also a Founder and Director on the Board of Sony Entertainment Television, a major cable & satellite television channel launched in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainments, a division of Sony Corporation of Japan. He is the founder of ProPoor, a non-profit portal for NGOs (Non Governmental Organisations) in South Asia, and now a service of CharityFocus. Mr. Parekh served on the Board of United Way International for 6 years. Mr. Parekh is an active angel investor, with investments in major Venture Capital Funds in Silicon Valley and start-up enterprises across the broad technology space. Prior to the above ventures Mr. Parekh spent 13 years at IBM in various positions based out of Houston (USA) and Singapore, where he was involved in technical, sales and marketing roles. Mr. Parekh holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. |
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Mr. Ghosh is a pure science graduate from Allahabad University, who strayed into Finance and Accounting because of his abiding interest in economics and mathematics. He went on to become a Fellow of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Glasgow and an associate of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, London. Mr. Ghosh, a distinctive business executive and an industry professional with over 40 years of work experience in India and overseas with the ITC group and parent British American Tobacco in UK and their subsidiary in Hong Kong. He set up ITC's Corporate Planning & Diversification division and headed it as Director, Corporate Strategy, until his retirement as Vice Chairman, ITC. His innovative deployment of ideas is too many to recount. He has had stints with Bank of America's Local Advisory Board, is a past President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce, served in Employers Federation of India, Tyre Manufacturers Association and many more. Today he is a Management Consultant engaging primarily in Corporate Governance & Strategy and top management issues. |
Mr. Pradeep Kar, Managing Director Microland Ltd
| Mr. Kar is the Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of Microland. A visionary and industry pioneer, he understood the power of networking and e-business technologies long before they were recognised as critical business enablers. Under his leadership, Microland has emerged as India's leading provider of offshore Infrastructure Management and Technical Support Services for global customers. Mr. Kar is also the Founder and Chairman of Planetasia (www.planetasia.com) a premier enterprise application integration services company. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Kar founded Indya.com (www.indya.com), India's leading online service, which was acquired by News Corporation. He also founded NetBrahma, an embedded software company that was acquired by a US telecom equipment company in 2001. Mr. Kar is a frequent speaker on industry trends and his leadership acumen has been recognised with numerous accolades. Notable among these are the India Young Business Achiever award and the World Economic Forum's 100 'Global Leaders for Tomorrow'. |
Mr. Pravin Gandhi, Director-Infinity Investments Pvt. Ltd., Chairman-Schiller Healthcare
| A graduate in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, Mr. Pravin Gandhi is a Managing Partner of "Infinity Venture Fund", an early stage fund launched in year 1999-2000. With operation experience spanning 30 odd years, he was one of the early IT entrepreneur having promoted Hinditron in 1972 and a successful IPO in 1988. Mr. Gandhi has been an angel investor in various IT Companies and serves on the board of several public and private organizations in India. He is at present, President of TIE, Mumbai. He also is an active advisor of Aavishkaar (a social venture fund). |
Mr. Sujit Poddar, Independent Consultant
| After studying Law from Calcutta University, Mr. Poddar was enlisted as an Advocate with Calcutta High Court in 1975. He joined the Govt. of West Bengal in the Finance Dept. in 1977 on a special assignment and was attached to the Finance Minister and continued till 1982. In 1982, Mr. Poddar joined Indian Research Institute as an Executive Director and continued for one year upto June 1983, again joining the State Government in the Finance Dept. on a Special Assignment attached to the Finance Minister. From 1987 onwards he continued to be engaged with the State Government as Special Assistant to the Chief Minister till July 1996. Since 1996 he has been working as Advisor to 'Peerless'. |
Mr. Ramesh Maheshwari, President & CEO Texmaco Limited
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Mr. Maheshwari has been President and CEO of Texmaco Ltd. since 1970. Texmaco is a premier Engineering Complex in India, and has grown in diverse fields for over six decades. Mr. Maheshwari was the National President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) during 1985-86 and Chairman of Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) during 1975-78. He was a member of 'Tandon Committee' set up by Reserve Bank of India in 1975 to frame guidelines for Bank Credit. He also served on various Task Forces set up by the Planning Commission and Development Councils of the Government of India. He led several high-powered official delegations to various countries and multilateral international institutions. Besides this, he has been closely associated with various Management and Technology Institutes. He served on the Board of Governors of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. Currently, he is on the Board of Governors of Birla Institute of Management Technology, New Delhi. |
Mr. Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman and CEO, Globsyn Group
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An alumnus of Harvard Business School and IIT Kharagpur, Mr. Bikram Dasgupta is an entrepreneur of repute – a man with a vision. An innovator, thinker and a passionate speaker, Bikram was among the core group of professionals who joined HCL in its infancy and his contributions, as one of the key Market Development Managers, have gone a long way in establishing the market presence that HCL commands today. A passionate, out-of-the-box thinker, who strongly believes in 'ordinary people can do extraordinary things…' wetted his formative entrepreneurial zeal by helping build Pertech Computers Limited (PCL), in 1984. As the Promoter-Director, he steered the company through the initial difficult years and took a leading role in managing a diverse set of functions ranging from Sales & Marketing, to International Business Development and new strategic projects, elevating the company to the position of the No.1 PC manufacturer in India. With the fast changing IT landscape Bikram Dasgupta foresaw the need for a business model built around the fundamental concepts of Infrastructure and Institution to service the knowledge economy and in 1997 conceptualized Globsyn as a group of companies, which embodied that vision. On the institution building front, it has been Mr. Dasgupta’s lifelong zeal to develop young minds to enable them to face the challenges of the modern workplace and be productive from day one. It is in this mission that he conceptualized and pioneered the Globsyn Knowledge Finishing School SystemTM which bridges the growing gap between academics and industry through industry relevant programs in a world class infrastructural setting. This, early innovator approach and concept, found expression through Globsyn Software Finishing School (GSFS) programs at TECHNOCAMPUS in 1997, the then IBM Center for Excellence. Today under Mr. Dasgupta's tutelage Globsyn has faculties teaching over 42 different management areas, in his B-School, addressing and training engineers in over 50 technology domains through the Finishing School system and addressing multiple domains in Business Process training, coupled with Human Excellence programs in Behavioral Sciences, Voice & Accent, and other critical areas through Globsyn BPO Academy. This huge repertoire of multidimensional training and teaching capability, facilitated by over 100 teaching professionals, is a unique and the first ever Campus of such integrated learning on Alternative Education in India. |
Prof. R. C. Bhattacharya, Vice Chairman, Globsyn Business School
| Prof. Bhattacharya is a Metallurgist by profession and an MBA from Cranfield Business School, UK. Prof. Bhattacharya has also completed a program on "Strategic Thinking and Management" from Wharton Business School, U.S.. Prof. Bhattacharya joined Indian Oxygen Ltd. (now BOC India Ltd.) initially as General Manager-Operations and finally rose to the level of Chief Executive, Eastern Region. He was also the Senior Vice President-Marketing, with one of the Aditya Birla Group Companies before switching over to Academics and Consultancy. He carries more than 30 years of industrial management experience in Operations, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Strategy and General Management. Prof. Bhattacharya has been teaching Marketing, Industrial Marketing, Marketing of services, Strategic Marketing, Strategic Management and other topics as visiting Professor in many renowned business schools. He has been a visiting professor at IIM-Calcutta for about 20 years. He has conducted more than 30 Management Development Programs and has published and presented a number of papers in India and abroad. He has 1st hand experience in Strategic Alliances, Brand Building in Industrial Markets, Corporate Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Loyalty Building etc. He has been a Consultant in the area of Strategic Management with both national and international assignments. |
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An alumnus of the prestigious IIT and IIM system in India, Prof Mazumdar completed his Ph. D in Business (Marketing) from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, US. Prof. Muzamdar has a rich and varied teaching experience spanning across many decades, and has taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, US, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He is currently Professor and Chair of Marketing Director, Earl V. Snyder Center for Innovation Management, Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Research Martin J. Whitman School of Management, at Syracuse University. |
