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V P Kamath, Group Chief Operating Officer, Nova Medical Centers Pvt. Ltd.

Joining as a Management Trainee and choosing to involve himself in cross-functional fields, the past two decades saw him rise swiftly in positions of increasing responsibility. He has handled various assignments in the areas of General Management, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning, Business Development & Healthcare Communications. He has been associated with Healthcare majors - Lakme, Johnson & Johnson, Nicholas Piramal, Mudra Communications, Apollo Hospitals and Wockhardt Hospitals. Currently is the Group Chief Operating Officer at Nova Medical Centers Pvt. Ltd., responsible for General Management of Nova’s Specialty Hospitals, Infertility Clinics, IVIOMICS Genetic Testing Lab and ART Bank businesses at over 20 locations.

Mr. Kamath apart from being a Business Manager, loves to share his knowledge with professionals and students. A sought after speaker and presenter in business forums, seminars and conferences across the world, he is also a visiting faculty member at various Management Institutes, including I.I.M.

For his outstanding and extraordinary achievements in Healthcare and Education, Mr. Kamath was recently awarded the “Bharat Excellence Award” and the “Rashtrya Jewel Award”.

Mr.Kamath holds post-graduation in Science (Microbiology), MBA in Marketing and attended the Advanced Management Program conducted by the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

V S Parthasarathy, President, Mobility Services Sector & Member of the Group Executive Board, Mahindra Group

Mr. V S Parthasarathy (fondly known as Partha) is the President of the Mobility Services Sector of Mahindra Group. Mobility Services Sector houses a range of businesses that provide innovative, technology-driven solutions for efficient movement of people and goods. It includes Mahindra Logistics, Mahindra First Choice Wheels, Meru, Porter and Zoomcar.

Partha is a member of the Mahindra Group’s supervisory board called ‘Group Executive Board’. He is the Chairman of the board of Mahindra Logistics Ltd., Smartshift Logistics Pvt. Ltd. and Meru Travel Solutions Pvt. Ltd., and a Director on the board of listed companies of the Mahindra Group

Partha’s journey at M&M began with an HR stint in organizational transformation and the tractors journey to be world No. 1. In this process, he was also a significant part of the journey towards Deming Prize and Japan Quality Medal.  His next stint was in International Business where he was tasked with taking M&M tractors global.  He acquired two companies in China, consolidated operations, scaled it up in USA, set up operations in Australia, South East Asia, Korea and seven plants and operations in Africa and helped positioned Mahindra on the global map.  He was a key player in Mahindra USA’s journey from 1,000 to 10,000 tractors per annum as Head FES - International Operations, M&M.  In his next assignment as Head M&A, he focused on enabling inorganic growth strategy of business through innovative solutions and set up systems and processes. Under his leadership, the M&A team executed more than 125 transactions across geographies. As Group CIO, he spearheaded digital and IT initiatives at M&M, took charge of ambitious Project Harmony, a Group-wide initiative, and led a team of 400+ professionals to achieve common processes on a single ERP platform (SAP).  He also led initiatives on Information Security, Business Process Management (IT-BPR) and Knowledge Management.  He took over as CFO in November 2013. In his Finance role, he ideated and implemented India’s first ever 50 years unsecured, rated, listed bullet bonds for Rs. 500 cr. which is still in the record of Indian history. In this tenure, he secured many firsts for M&M including AAA rating, establishing new financial models, etc. He later took over as Group CFO in April 2015 until 31st March 2020.  He started his career with Modi Xerox (later know as Xerox India) as Management Trainee and rose to a position of Associate Director rumbling through multiple positions and locations.

He is a much awarded professional, thought leader, and votary of transformational changes with over 3 decades of experience. He is a well-recognized speaker in the fields of finance and IT. He was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Awards for both his CFO and CIO roles. He is also the recipient of the Business World - Yes Bank Hall of Fame Award, Best CFO of India Award by IMA, Corporate Excellence Awards and Digital Icon of India Award by HPE and CIO 100 – Hall of Fame by CIO after winning the awards for 4 consecutive years.

Partha is the Chairman of the FICCI Council on Sustainable Mobility. He runs for Nanhi Kali (the Girl Child Education NGO) at the Mumbai Marathon and awarded as Change Legend for 2019 creating history in terms of the largest collection that year. This year Partha is supporting SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) at the Mumbai Marathon.

Partha is a CA from ICAI and ICAEW and an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s AMP (2011).

 

V Sivaramakrishnan, Managing Director, Oxford University Press India

Sivaramakrishnan Venkateswaran (Siva) is the Managing Director of Oxford University Press (OUP) ? India Branch, with regional responsibilities including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Middle East.

Siva has extensive experience in the Education Services, e?commerce, automobile and FMCG domains. In his previous assignment, Siva was Executive President – Education Services at Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), one the country’s largest privately owned higher education and training services providers. In his seven plus years at MaGE, he successfully led teams to deliver strong business development, improve quality assurance, and expand education and training delivery with supporting technology platforms.

Siva’s wide?ranging work experience includes running a successful online news, shopping, and gaming portal. He also spent nearly ten years with the Ford Motor Company?including me based in the UK and US?and held various consumer branding roles within Proctor and Gamble.

Siva is a member of the FICCI Higher Education Committee and in the past years has been on the CII Primary Education Council.

He holds a Bachelor in Engineering degree from Bangalore University and is a Post Graduate in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. Siva is a sports enthusiast and follows cricket and soccer keenly. He also likes to watch movies in his spare time.

Sivaramakrishnan Venkateswaran (Siva) is the Managing Director of Oxford University Press (OUP) ? India Branch, with regional responsibilities including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Middle East.

Siva has extensive experience in the Education Services, e?commerce, automobile and FMCG domains. In his previous assignment, Siva was Executive President – Education Services at Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), one the country’s largest privately owned higher education and training services providers. In his seven plus years at MaGE, he successfully led teams to deliver strong business development, improve quality assurance, and expand education and training delivery with supporting technology platforms.

Siva’s wide?ranging work experience includes running a successful online news, shopping, and gaming portal. He also spent nearly ten years with the Ford Motor Company?including me based in the UK and US?and held various consumer branding roles within Proctor and Gamble.

Siva is a member of the FICCI Higher Education Committee and in the past years has been on the CII Primary Education Council.

He holds a Bachelor in Engineering degree from Bangalore University and is a Post Graduate in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. Siva is a sports enthusiast and follows cricket and soccer keenly. He also likes to watch movies in his spare time.

V Vaidyanathan, Founder and Chairman, Capital First Ltd

Mr. V. Vaidyanathan is the Chairman of Capital First Limited (CFL). He worked with Citibank from 1990-2000, and with the ICICI Group from 2000-2010. In order to take an entrepreneurial role, he acquired a stake in an existing NBFC, then secured an equity backing of USD 150 million from Warburg Pincus in 2012, and thus formed Capital First Limited. Warburg Pincus is a large Global Private Equity player with funds of over US$ 40 billion. Post the transaction, he holds shares and options totaling 14% of the company on a fully diluted basis through personal holdings and related entities.He believes that financing India’s 30 million MSMEs and India’s emerging middle class, with a differentiated model based on new technology platforms, offers a unique opportunity in India.

He joined the ICICI Limited in early 2000 when it was still a Domestic Financial Institution and helped the transition of ICICI as a DFI to a Universal Bank.During his career, he and his organization have received a large number of domestic and international awards including “Best Retail bank in Asia 2001”, “Excellence in Retail Banking Award” 2002, “Best Retail Bank in India 2003, 2004, and 2005 from the Asian Banker”, “Most Innovative Bank” 2007, “Leaders under 40” from Business Today in 2009, “Greatest Corporate Leaders of India, 2014”, and was nominated “Retail Banker of the Year” by EFMA Europe for 2008.

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V. Balakrishnan, Partner and Chairman – Investment Committee, Reservoir Investment Managers

V Balakrishnan is a Member of the Board of Infosys. With over 22 years of experience in leadership positions in the finance domain, he heads Infosys BPO, FinacleSM, and India Business Unit. He is also the Chairman of Infosys Lodestone, the management consulting arm of Infosys.

Prior to his current role, he served as the Chief Financial Officer at Infosys. His areas of responsibilities included Corporate Finance, International Taxation, Risk Management and Mergers & Acquisitions for the whole group.

He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India.

V. Ganesh Ram, MD, Amoha Education Pvt. Ltd.

V. Hari Krishna, Director, Kotak Realty Fund

Hari joined Kotak Realty Fund in May 2005 as a co-founder of the real estate investment fund management business at Kotak. As a part of the founding team, Hari has gained experience in the full lifecycle of investments and exits across four different funds.

 

Hari has nearly 17 years of overall experience in Indian real estate in investment management and corporate finance including his prior stints with CB Richard Ellis and Jones Lang LaSalle. Hari has completed his Masters in Finance from Delhi University.

V. Srinivasa Rangan, Executive Director, HDFC

Mr. Rangan holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. Mr. Rangan joined the Corporation in 1986 and has served in Delhi and was the Senior General Manager - Corporate Planning & Finance at Head Office since 2000. Mr. Rangan has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Corporation for a period of 5 years with effect from January 1, 2010. He is also a member of the Investors’ Grievance Committee of Directors with effect from May 4, 2010. He is responsible for the Treasury, Resources and Accounts functions of the Corporation. 

V. Vaidyanathan, Managing Director & CEO, IDFC FIRST Bank

With over two decades in financial services in India, V. Vaidyanathan has seen India through many lens – first as a banker (1990-2010, Citibank), then as an entrepreneur (2010-2019, Capital First) and a professional banker again (2019- date, after merging Capital First with IDFC Bank). He worked with Citibank Consumer Banking from 1990-2000, then set up ICICI Group’s retail banking from 2000-2009 since its inception, built ICICI Bank’s branch network to 1411 branches and 28 million customers, built a large CASA and retail deposits franchise, and built the retail lending businesses including mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and personal credit businesses to Rs. 1.35 trillion ($30 bn). He was appointed at the Board of ICICI Bank in 2006 at age 38. In 2009, he became the MD and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company in India.

In 2010, he quit ICICI Group for an entrepreneurial opportunity to acquire an NBFC with an idea to convert it to a bank focused on consumer and MSME lending. On acquiring equity stake, he shut down all non-core businesses like broking and real estate financing, and instead used the NBFC platform to build MSME and Consumer Financing businesses, based on new technologies and algorithms. Between 2010 to 2018, he grew the loan book from start-up stage to Rs. 29,600 crores (US$4.05 bn), grew the equity capital from Rs. 691 crores (US$118 mn) to Rs. 3,993 crores (US$600 mn), reduced Gross NPA from 5.28% to 1.94%, reduced Net NPA from 3.6% to 1%, acquired 7 million customers, got the long-term credit rating upgraded from A+ to AAA, turned around the company from losses of US$5 mn (2010) to profit of US$50 mn (2018), increased ROE from -6% to +15%, and increased the market cap 10 times from Rs. 780 crores (US$120 mn) to Rs. 8,200 crores (US$1.2 bn) in 8 years. Capital First was growing at a 5-year CAGR of loan growth of 30%, and 55% in PAT between 2013-2018.

Then, in order to secure a commercial banking license, he agreed to merge Capital First with IDFC Bank in December 2018 and took over as the MD and CEO of the merged entity. Since then in seven quarters, between December 2019 to September 2020, he has increased retail loan book from 13.16% pre-merger to over 60% (Rs. 59,860 crores, US$8.14 bn) of the total funded assets, increased Net Interest margin from 1.68% pre-merger to 4.57%, increased CASA from 8.68% to 40.37%, turned the bank into profitability, and is currently busy converting the bank into a world- class retail bank in India. The bank now has over 10 million customers and loan book of more than Rs. 1 lac crores (~US$14 bn). He believes India provides unlimited opportunity in financial services in India.

During his career, he and his organization have received a number of domestic and international awards including the prestigious CNBC Awaaz Entrepreneur of the year 2020, CNBC Asia’s "Innovative company of the year" India Business Leader Awards-2017, "Most Inspirational Leveraged Management Buyout, India 2018" by CFI Awards, "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award at Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2017, "Transformational Leader 2018" by CFI Awards UK, "Financial Services Company of the Year, 2018 - VC Circle", "Outstanding contribution to Financial Inclusion, India, 2017" from Capital Finance International, London, "Most Promising Business Leaders of Asia" 2016 by Economic Times, 'Outstanding Entrepreneur Award' in Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2016, Greatest Corporate Leaders of India- 2014, Business Today - India's Most Valuable Companies 2016 & 2015, Economic Times 500 India's Future Ready Companies 2016, Fortune India's Next 500 Companies 2016, Dun & Bradstreet India's Top 500 Companies & Corporates 2016 & 2015. During his prior stint, awards included "Best Retail bank in Asia 2001", "Excellence in Retail Banking Award" 2002, "Best Retail Bank in India 2003, 2004, and 2005" from the Asian Banker, "Most Innovative Bank" 2007, "Leaders under 40" from Business
Today in 2009, and was nominated "Retail Banker of the Year" by EFMA Europe for 2008.

He is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School. He has run 23 half-marathons and 8 full marathons.

V.P. Nandakumar, MD & CEO, Manappuram Finance Limited

Mr. V.P. Nandakumar is the MD & CEO of Manappuram Finance Ltd., one of India’s leading NBFCs and the pioneer of the institutionalised model of the gold loans business. Mr. Nandakumar took over the reins of a single branch family business in 1986, and over the next three decades presided over its growth and transformation into a financial sector powerhouse. His vision, values and leadership were instrumental in scripting this story that today touches millions of lives in India.  

Manappuram’s origins go back to 1949 when it was founded by the late V.C. Padmanabhan, father of Mr. Nandakumar. In those days, the firm was into money lending, and pawnbroking carried out on a modest scale at Valapad, a backward coastal village in Thrissur district of Kerala. After taking over in 1986 (the year his father expired), Mr. Nandakumar soon set about expanding the business in line with his ambitions and vision.

In 1992, he incorporated Manappuram Finance Ltd., and within three years (in 1995) managed to get the company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Since then, he has led from the front to transform Manappuram Finance Ltd. into a leading NBFC present across India with 4,616 branches in 28 states and UTs, with Assets under management (AUM) of about ?25,300 crore, and a workforce of over 26,000.

In recent years, Mr. Nandakumar has resolutely steered the company’s diversification into microfinance, home loans, vehicle finance, SME and personal lending to reshape the company into a full-spectrum NBFC. Today, about 30 per cent of the company’s total business comes from the non-gold side.

Mr. Nandakumar’s achievements in business have earned him national recognition. On May 26, 2018, a special issue of the Business World magazine profiled him as one among 40 of India’s most valuable CEOs. Besides, Manappuram Finance Ltd. has emerged as one of the leading wealth creators in the Indian stock market. In December 2019, the Economic Times newspaper published the ET500 list of Top Wealth Creators of 2019 with Manappuram Finance Ltd. as the chart topper.

Other than the focus on business, the cause of the wider community is central to his vision. He established the Manappuram Foundation at Valapad in 2009 to drive the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme of the Manappuram group, even before the Companies Act made it mandatory. Today, the Manappuram Foundation oversees a wide range of projects in education, health care, and overall development of the rural communities.

Mr. V.P. Nandakumar was born in 1954, holds a post-graduate degree in science and additional qualifications in Banking and Foreign Trade. He is a managing committee member of leading trade and industry associations such as FICCI, Assocham and FIDC.  In January 2019, he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. In July 2019, he was elected as an International Director of the Association of Lions Clubs International at its Milan (Italy) convention.