Hema Ravichandar

Neelima Burra

Shiv Shivakumar

Aditya Agarwal

Akhil Gupta

Arushee Aggarwal

Gayathri Parthasarathy

Lokendra Sethi

Manoj Shikarkhane

Nikhil Kolur

Nikhil helps organizations make their strategy blueprints a reality by unlocking the full power of their human capital. His areas of expertise include operating model design, strategic workforce planning, performance management, M&A, leadership development and change management. He has led and successfully delivered engagements across Media and Entertainment, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Telecom, Financial Services and Heavy Manufacturing sectors. Besides his primary work areas, Nikhil has an interest in start-up incubation and corporate governance excellence. He has conducted primary research in these areas which have been published in leading Indian business publications (ET, Mint, Business Standard, NHRDN etc.).

Paras Kaushik

Before joining HT Media, Paras was Head, Group HR at Motherson Group. He was responsible for managing the Human Resources function for the Group’s 1,35,000 employees across 41 countries.

Prior to this he worked for 17 years at Aditya Birla Group. His repertoire of experiences range from working for global to local, start-up to mature, manufacturing to retail, listed to not-for-profit organizations of the Group. He worked in various HR leadership roles at Hindalco, Group HR, Minacs Philippines, Madura Fashion & Lifestyle, Pantaloons, BITS Pilani, Columbian Chemicals and the Fashion & Retail Business of Aditya Birla Group.

Postgraduate from Symbiosis International University, Paras is passionate about telling stories and sharing his experiences in variety of conferences, webinars, B-School events and social media.

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Raghav Gupta

Saransh Agrawal

Saransh Agrawal is Global Head of Learning & Development at Cognizant, leading an award-winning team to drive capability development for the company’s associates. His team is focused on implementing talent development strategies aligned to business growth and creating an agile learning ecosystem for associates to fuel their continuous professional development – whether it’s to stay up to date with the latest emerging technology skills, get ready for the next project, or pursue growth aligned with their personal or professional ambitions. The Cognizant L&D team regularly earns industry recognition through Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards and the Association for Talent Development.

Saransh has more than 20 years of experience spanning talent development, performance consulting and learning technology. He holds an MBA in Industrial Management from NITIE (IIM-Mumbai). He has also achieved credentialed coach (ACC) from International Coaching Federation (2015-18).

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Shalil Gupta

Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.

Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.

A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.