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Ashok Kaul
Dy. Director-General, NIC, MeitY, Govt. of India.
Ashok Kaul
Dy. Director-General, NIC, MeitY, Govt. of India.
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe
Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe
Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati is currently Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe has held several important Academic, Research and Administrative positions at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Tata Consulting Engineers, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), IIT Guwahati and College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) prior to joining as AICTE Chairman. As an academician and researcher in NERIST and IIT Guwahati, and as Director, CoEP, he has taken up several new initiatives for Academic, Curricular & Co-curricular activities, Entrepreneurship, Research and Good Governance. He has been an architect of reforms in technical education at AICTE, which include mandatory student induction and internship, faculty certification and ATAL faculty development programs, creating first ever India’s MOOC platform SWAYAM, examination reforms, innovation movement, series of hackathons, Indian knowledge systems, new funding schemes for supporting students, faculty and institutes.
He is Chairman, Basic Scientific Research (BSR), Empowered Committee of UGC & SWAYAM Board. He is a Fellow of ISTE, IET, Institution of Engineers (IE), and INAE.
He has been bestowed with several awards which include "Maha-Intrapreneur Award-2011" of Praj Industries, Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar (Life Time Achievement Award) from MIT World Peace University, Pune in 2019, Mahatma Gandhi Leadership award from Indian Achievers Forum and CSR Times (2019). He has also been conferred Ravi J Matthai National Fellow Award by AIMS (2021).
Aditya Natraj
CEO, Piramal Foundation
Aditya Natraj
CEO, Piramal Foundation
Aditya Natraj is the CEO of Piramal Foundation. Aditya is a qualified chartered accountant, holds a master’s in economics and has an MBA from INSEAD. Aditya started his career working with KPMG for 5 years and then joined the start-up team of an internet company in Europe for 2 years. For the last 18 years, he has worked in the Development sector – first with Pratham in Gujarat for 5 years and the Piramal Foundation for the last 13 years. Aditya is an Ashoka Fellow, an Echoing Green Fellow and an Aspen India Fellow.
Aditya also serves on the governing board of the Quality Council of India, the Akanksha Foundation and BridgeSpan India. Aditya was awarded the Times Now Amazing Indian award in the Education category. He was previously the founder and director of Kaivalya Education Foundation (KEF) and the Piramal School of Leadership.
Gopinath Jayaraj
Chief Information Officer, Tata Motors
Gopinath Jayaraj
Chief Information Officer, Tata Motors
Mr. Gopinath Jayaraj is the Chief Information Officer of Tata Motors, India’s leading commercial vehicle and car manufacturer. Gopinath holds the responsibility of leading the IT and digital agenda of the organization across all business units and operating locations on Tata Motors. This includes digitizing and modernizing enterprise business processes across both customer and manufacturing systems, as well as enabling the entire fleet of products with connected vehicle technology.
Prior to Tata Motors, Gopinath was heading Whirlpool Corporation's India Technology Center. His early career was with the Tata group, with a long stint at Tata Technologies, heading global delivery of software and engineering services.
Jagdish Narayanan
Chief Information Officer, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
Jagdish Narayanan
Chief Information Officer, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
Akshay Munjal
Founder and CEO, Hero Vired
Akshay Munjal
Founder and CEO, Hero Vired
Akshay has played a vital role in transforming the landscape of Indian education and training since 2008 He founded the BML Munjal University in 2014 and Hero Vired in 2021, prior to which he headed Hero Mindmine. During his stint at Hero Mindmine, the professional skills development venture of the Hero Group, Akshay had a ringside view of the challenges faced by students in the higher education sector and their difficulties to final meaningful employment.
The vision behind BML Munjal University and Hero Vired emerged from that insight, and are centred around introducing academic and industry-based instruction that is cutting-edge, experiential, application-oriented, employability-centric and with an emphasis on measurable transformation. He has played a pivotal role in the conceptualization, design and development of both education ventures.
BML Munjal University seeks to transform higher education in India by creating a world-class and innovative teaching, learning and research environment. This young university which has over 1,600 students has already published over 150 research papers and is on track to filing 30+ patents in this yearIn 2020, the School of Management at the University was ranked 37 by the NIRF, in the same year, the University was also chosen by ET Edge, an initiative by Economic Times as one of the Best Education Brands. BMU seeks to transform higher education in India by creating a world-class and innovative teaching, learning and research environment.
Hero Vired is a startup that offers career-relevant programs, in partnership with leading global universities and institutions, to make learners more competent and industry-ready for emerging jobs and professions under Industry 4.1. With best-in-class short and long-term learning programs, Hero Vired offers overall professional development via skill-based programs and courses that are imperative to a learner’s growth in India’s rapidly evolving digital economy.
Akshay began his professional journey with Accenture in New Delhi and fondly remembers being part of the team that designed the IT infrastructure for Delhi Metro and witnessed the flagging off of Delhi’s first metro train.
Akshay considers the late Dr Brijmohan Lall Munjal, the founder of the Hero Group of companies, as the biggest influence on his personal and professional life. Akshay believes Dr Munjal’s success mantra – Focus on the basics, everything will take care of itself to be his guiding principle in his life. Akshay holds an MBA from Pepperdine University, USA and a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Management from the University of Bradford, UK.
He has been an avid tennis player for over a decade, and he follows the sport passionately. As a marathon runner, Akshay has participated in over half a dozen marathons.
Anil Talreja
, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Anil Talreja
, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Anil is a Partner with the Deloitte Tax group. He has over twenty years of experience in the taxation department and has been seconded to the London office of Deloitte where he has obtained international work experience.
Anil has worked with the Deloitte M&A Tax and Global Oil and Gas Tax team whilst on secondment in London. He specialises in matters under the direct tax laws which have been in force in India, including international taxation. He has also been involved in conducting tax due diligence and tax structuring assignments of various clients including listed companies in India and has been providing tax structuring advise to several upstream companies in India with regard to their outbound investments.
Karan Kalra
Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
Karan Kalra
Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
Karan is the founder of Bombay Law Chambers and has over 15 years of experience in the legal industry, having worked in house as well as with one of Indian most prestigious law firm Nishith Desai Associates, where along with being a leader of the M&A and PE practices, he also led the banking and financial services vertical.
His practice focuses largely on domestic and cross border venture capital and private equity transactions, M&As, JVs and structured finance along with providing regulatory and general corporate advice. Karan works across sectors and has domain expertise in financial services, technology, e-commerce, healthcare, renewables and core manufacturing. Further, Karan also has the experience working with one of the largest private banks in India, working across various verticals.
Karan completed his B.SL. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and has also pursued a masters from Northwestern University – Pritzer School of Law and Kellogg School of Management. He is eligible to practice law both in India and New York, USA.
Karan has regularly been recognised by various legal directories such as IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and the Financial Times - RSG Consulting Survey.
Raja Lahiri
Partner - Transaction Advisory Services, Grant Thornton India LLP
Raja Lahiri
Partner - Transaction Advisory Services, Grant Thornton India LLP
Raja leads the Private Equity Advisory Initiative for the Firm and covers sectors like Technology, Media and Financial Services Sector within Corporate Finance. Raja focuses on various aspects of deal making starting from deal origination and ideation, preliminary deal analysis, due diligence (financial and commercial), valuation, deal negotiation and advise on deal agreements. He also advises clients on post deal integration matters and ideation of exits for Private Equity Funds. Raja has advised and led more than 240+ deals over the past decade of transaction advisory experience and has worked with corporates (India and multinational) as well as leading Private Equity Funds.
Raja spent close to 20 years in one of the large accounting and advisory firms and had co-founded the transaction advisory practice.
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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, founded on a century of legal achievement, is one of India’s leading full service law firms. Our mission is to enable business by providing solutions as trusted advisors through excellence, responsiveness, innovation, and collaboration.
We are one of India’s most well recognised firms, and are known globally for our integrated approach. We are one of India’s most well recognised firms, and are known globally for our integrated approach. Our 520 lawyers including 111 partners provide exceptional services across practice areas which include General
Corporate, Merger & Acquisition, Private Equity, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Competition Law, Dispute Resolution, Projects & Project Finance, Capital Markets, Tax, Intellectual Property and Venture Capital.
We are at the forefront of global and Indian M&A and private equity transactions, cutting edge high risk litigation and advice on strategically important matters across a spectrum of practices and industries for our multi-jurisdictional clients.
We have a pan India presence, with offices in seven cities across India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
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Brescon & Allied Partners LLP
MISSION
Help businesses tap their inherent potential to overcome adversities by the application of intellect, creativity, rigour and empathy.
OVERVIEW
Brescon, founded by Nirmal Gangwal, is India’s first and largest independent special situation advisor, with an established track record of over 20 years. Our reputation as an advisor of choice stems from our acumen in offering innovative solutions together with our strong relationship with the leading banks, international investors, private equity funds, special situations funds, and regulatory authorities.
We provide strategic and tactical orientation with solutions across entire business life cycle viz special situation advisory, turnaround advisory, strategic advisory (M&A and recapitalization) and distress advisory.
We are independent and not encumbered by any potential conflicts of interest.
Brescon, with the help of its large pool of experienced professionals with diverse skill sets, has executed transactions over USD 15Bn for more than 100 corporate clients with deal size varying from USD 20Mn to USD 2.5Bn, across a broad range of industry sectors. Brescon’s association with the prominent corporates including but not limited to infrastructure, steel, power transmission and distribution, textiles, real estate and education, as advisors, stems from its extensive experience, commendable track record of creating value for its stakeholders and close to 100% success rate in transactions handled.
Some of the firsts to its credit include:
First case referred in restructuring space – viz., under Corporate Debt Restructuring Forum formed by RBI
First case advised for exit from the CDR forum
First to structure a debt settlement based on rights on future built-up of the project properties
First to structure “Risk Return Matrix” (multiple options to lenders with differential terms) to meet varying perspective of the lenders on risks & returns of the borrower
First to provide advice in the context of early separation plan for over 500 workers on a self-liquidation basis
OUR OFFERING
We offer full service Investment Banking Services, with our core areas being Debt Resolution, Recapitalisation, Divestment Advisory, M & A Advisory, Structured Finance and Corporate Restructuring.
AD FACTOR
Market leader: Adfactors PR is India’s largest PR firm by revenue. The Holmes Report, in its global rankings 2018, ranked us amongst the top ten Asian PR firms and among the top 75 in the world.
Multi-specialist firm: We are a multi-specialist firm. Our principal practice areas are Corporate Reputation, Financial Communications, Issues and Crisis Communications, Public Affairs and Marketing Communications. In most practices and sector verticals, the firm enjoys a market leading position. The key sectors that we serve include Banking & Financial Services, Energy & Natural Resources, Auto & Engineering, Infrastructure & Construction, IT & ITeS, Pharma & Healthcare as well as Travel, Hospitality & Leisure.
Diverse clientele: We work for over 300 retained clients including some of the most reputed Corporations and Financial Institutions, both Indian and multi-national. We also work for number of Government bodies and Public Sector undertakings. Some of our strategic clients include State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered, Tata Group, Godrej Group, Mahindra Group, Larsen & Toubro, CISCO and many more.
Expertise and Experience in Financial Services: Adfactors PR has an unmatched bandwidth of senior consultants with expertise in financial services sector and capital markets. A team of over 15 senior consultants who have previously served as Editors, Bankers, Asset Managers, Financial Analysts and as marketing professionals in the BFSI sector. We work with over 75 Banks and Financial Institutions on a retained basis.
Most awarded firm in India: Adfactors PR is India’s most awarded PR firm for each of the last three years. In 2016 we won every single ‘Agency of the Year’ award for PR firms in India. The firm was recognized as the Holmes Report Asia-Pac Financial Consultancy of the Year in 2013 and 2015. In 2015, we were also recognized as the Global Financial Communications Consultancy of the Year.
Key strengths: Our principal differentiators are domain knowledge, a sound understanding of Indian complexities, acknowledged capability in engaging media and other influencers, and a large bench of senior consultants. The firm is acknowledged for managing issues, crisis and complex media situations.
National program delivery: A truly national platform for delivering integrated communication programs right upto the farthest districts of India. We have a network of offices in 14 key states and resident representatives in all the other State capitals of India.
International capability: We have our offices in Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka. We work with partner firms for global campaigns in about 60 markets in the world.
New age competencies: Adfactors PR has sound capability in new age competencies like data analytics, video and rich media solutions, experiential PR & events, digital media monitoring and influencer engagement.
TransUnion CIBIL Limited
We are India’s leading credit information company with one of the largest collections of consumer information.
We aim to be more than just a credit reporting agency. We are a sophisticated, global risk information provider striving to use information for good. For consumers, we provide information and tools for gaining a clear understanding of their credit history and financial reputation, and guarding against the theft of personal information and potential fraud.
For businesses, we provide powerful information solutions, backed by professional service and current, comprehensive data, for making better, more informed decisions.
Our solutions help build credit economies worldwide
TransUnion has been operating internationally for over 30 years in over 30 countries. We connect businesses and consumers through data, technology and analytics, to help build credit economies worldwide. We’re a leader in risk and information solutions within the markets we serve.
Our technology and analytics platform expansion enables rapid and effective transfer of our most advanced global solutions (CreditVision®, IDVisionSM, DecisionEdge® and our newest groundbreaking PramaSM suite) across regions, while offering local solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. We offer specialized solutions to serve a broad variety of industries, such as financial services, insurance, retail, telco, and government, to help businesses operate, compete and grow within each vertical. Our consumer empowerment solutions continue to expand outside the U.S., currently offering consumer products in India, Hong Kong, South Africa and Canada through direct and indirect channels.
As a global risk information provider, we strive to use Information for GoodSM to help communities everywhere achieve great things. It's our mission to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions, and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Our mindset is global, but every day we act on a local level to ensure we continuously provide the means to improve and strengthen societies all over the world.
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Indium Capital
Indium Capital is an Investment Bank focusing on Fund-Raising and Mergers & Acquisitions. We provide end-to-end services across our focus sectors: Healthcare, Consumer Brands & Technology. Indium has had significant depth of experience in these sectors, with expertise across all segments of Healthcare Delivery, Consumer Brands & Digital/Technology.
The Indium team comes from a diverse background with experience across Corporate Finance, Business Consulting & Strategy; and in the past have advised on multiple M&A and Fundraising transactions with total transaction value of over US$ 3 billion.
https://www.indiumcapital.com/
AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is one of the prominent Indian law firms in India. It was founded in 2004 with a clear purpose to provide reliable, practical and full-service advice to clients based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment within which our clients operate and a full understanding of their overall business objectives. The firm now has 6 offices across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune, with a driven team of 450+ lawyers.
The firm has been involved in advising in the field of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate, regulatory practice and securities laws, private equity, capital markets, funds practice, banking and finance, infrastructure and project finance, real estate, media and entertainment, employment, insurance, intellectual property, taxation, aviation, competition law, and litigation and arbitration.
The Firm has received wide national and international acclaim within the legal sphere, some of which include ‘Ranked No.1’ by RSG Top 40 India law firm ranking, 2017; ‘Best Law Firm of the Year – India’ by Corporate USA Today – Law Awards 2018; ‘Law Firm for the Year 2017-18’, and ‘Best Overall Law Firm – 2017-18’ by India Business Law Journal.
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