Abhijeet is the Founding CEO of Sustainable Sciences, a Specialty Chemical + Materials company based out of Mumbai. He has 21 years of business & entrepreneurial experience founding & running companies across 3 verticals, namely Specialty Chemicals + Materials, Mobility & Telecom Software, and Renewable Energy.

He is an active Angel Investor & Mentor to hi-tech emerging technology start-ups in India & US and actively engaged in identifying hi-tech, disruptive & sustainable technologies that can help India drastically improve its resource efficiency. Abhijeet is currently on the CII’s National Committee of Science & Technology and is an advisor to two international tech-funds

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Anila Ahuja is the Market Head, North at Sanctum Wealth Management, and a part of the Founding Management Team. Based in New Delhi, Ms Ahuja heads a team of wealth managers and associates who manage clients in Delhi and other parts of the Northern region in addition to Kolkata. She has over 20 year of experience in the wealth management industry in India and was part of the RBS Group for over 12 years. Prior to joining the RBS group, Ms Ahuja worked with Standard Chartered Bank and Mashreq Bank. Born in India, she holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Lady Shriram College, Delhi University. She completed her master’s in management studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai University.

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Makoto Nishimura is the Managing Director of Nitto Denko India, based in IMT Manesar. Mr Nishimura is from Japan and recently arrived in India. He joined Nitto Denko in 1996 and worked in Japan and the US in the sales, marketing and business planning of a wide range of products, such as engineering plastics and electronics-related materials. Mr Nishimura graduated from Nagasaki University with a specialisation in economics. Nitto Denko India, a subsidiary of the 100-year-old Nitto Denko, was established in 2009, and is expanding its business of automotive-related products. Mr Nishimura has been the firm’s MD since April 2019. He is currently working on growing new businesses for Nitto, in addition to its automotive client base.

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G Raghavan is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of extensive experience in sales, marketing, product management, business development and general management. He has held the positions of Managing Director and Chief Executive at several globally-reputed organisations, including Carrier, Ingram Micro and NIIT. Mr Raghavan is currently responsible for all operations and strategic matters of Bhartiya Urban, including the current upcoming Bhartiya City. He has also spent time as a member of both South Africa’s E-skills Council and as Consultant to the Government of Wuxi New District, China. Mr Raghavan holds an MBA from IIM – Ahmedabad and a bachelor’s of science degree in agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore.

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Manish Agrawal has been associated with AutoDesk for the past 11 years. Previously, he served as Technical Lead at Geometric Software from July 2003 to July 2008. An inspiring leader with a strong focus on continuous learning and growth, he is highly results-oriented while maintaining high quality standards and best practices in delivery. One of his core responsibilities is to mentor teams of software professionals who deliver cloud, web and mobile solutions. He also plays a vital role in shaping the company culture, which is a good mix of fun and collaboration. In the past, Mr Agrawal was deeply involved in software development, specialising in software architecture and framework designing, delivering solutions in cloud, web and mobile while working in the CAD and graphics domains.

Anish Bafna was named the CEO of Healthium Medtech in August, 2018. He is responsible for taking the company through its transformational growth path powered by process excellence and strategic execution.Prior to joining Healthium Medtech, Anish was the President Japan for Baxter Healthcare. In his earlier stints he served as the Regional Head- Emerging Asia at Baxter, overseeing the operations of India and South East Asia from 2015 to 2017. Anish joined Baxter in 2006 as Country Manager of Malaysia. His responsibilities expanded to Indonesia in 2008 and he was briefly the interim country manager for Vietnam. Anish took upon the mantle of GM – India in October 2009. He has over 25 years of operational and general management experience in the healthcare industry and a large part of his assignments were in managing emerging markets. He has lived in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Japan. He has a proven track record of building sustainable and profitable businesses, with a strong focus on continuous business improvement. Anish plays tennis, is an avid reader and likes to delve into history. https://healthiummedtech.com/about/

Anshul Jain is responsible for Cushman & Wakefield’s business in India. He focuses on the firm’s strategy and growth, and much of his time is spent in sales, building new client relationships and solidifying old ones, for both the transactional and the annuity business. Holding a leadership position in India for the last 10 years, Mr Jain has developed deep personal relationships with developers, real estate funds and occupiers. He leverages his experience and relationships to resolve complex real estate problems for the clients. Previously, he led DTZ in India from a small start-up company in 2008 to an established national service provider at the point of merger of the two firms in India. He has had various international stints before, working in Indonesia, Singapore and London. His experience spans leasing transactions, capital markets and GOS businesses. He has been a career real estate professional, having now spent 22 years with leading real estate service providers across the world.

A self-taught, inspirational leader, Anurag Agarwal serves as the Managing Director and CEO of Natural Remedies. With almost 30 years of experience, he has been central to the company’s 10-fold growth over the past decade. Mr Agarwal believes in leading by example and has driven an innovation-based mindset at the company, which has led to the launch of several unique and successful products in the animal and human healthcare segments. While his contribution to the firm is integral to its success, it is his ability to stay grounded and humble that makes him hugely popular with both employees and customers.

Josh Foulger is the Managing Director and Country Head of Foxconn International Holdings India, a key investment holding company of a Fortune Global 24 organisation with annual revenues in excess of USD 150 billion and employing over 800,000 people worldwide. Foxconn is principally engaged in providing integrated smart manufacturing services to the world’s leading electronics companies, which rely on Foxconn’s scale and speed of execution in delivering quality products. Mr Foulger assumed the role of Managing Director in 2015, and currently Foxconn India’s mega day-to-day operations, counsels and guides leadership teams, engages customers and manages government relations. Under his stewardship, Foxconn India has come a long way, and is currently the largest contract electronics manufacturer in India. Its workforce of 30,000 (95% of whom are women) churn out over 50 million handsets annually, with revenues topping USD 5 billion.

Prior to Foxconn, Mr Foulger spent nearly two decades with Nokia, where he led the Americas and Global operations from the US, later becoming the President of Nokia SEZ and launching Nokia’s manufacturing operations in India and Vietnam. He is often credited by his industry peers for putting India on the global map of smartphone manufacturing hubs. For his tireless efforts, he was named as the ‘Electronics Man of the Year’ in 2016 by ELCINA. Currently, Mr Foulger is on the PM’s Council of Industry Advisors, which consults the PMO on strategic decision-making, particularly in terms of developing a manufacturing ecosystem within India. He also serves on the Boards of several esteemed educational institutions, including at the American International School, Chennai, where he also serves as Treasurer. Being a former track-and-field athlete, he now coaches middle and high school children in shot put and discus throw. Mr Foulger completed his master’s degree in industrial engineering, specialising in robotics, from the University of Texas, Arlington. He presently resides with his family in Chennai, and before moving to India, lived and worked in the US.

Chandradip Dass is Senior Vice President (R&D) and Managing Director of NextGen Healthcare India. Mr Dass is a healthcare product veteran, having held leadership roles with Philips, Allscripts, Misys and GE. He takes great pride in the product development ecosystem in India and enthusiastically contributes to its growth. Mr Dass’ current focus is to accelerate global ownership of product and services from India.

Derek Nazareth is a senior executive with international experience, having lived and worked in Europe, Asia and the US for global financial services organisations. He joined XL (P&C Insurance) in October 2014 and in May 2015 was appointed the Head of Enterprise Shared Services and Country Head India. In April 2016, Mr Nazareth was appointed as Global Head of Operations and Country Head with responsibilities for the global support services of XL Catlin. In 2018, XL Catlin was acquired by the AXA Group and renamed AXA XL. Prior to this, in 2012, Mr Nazareth was appointed Head of Retail and Commercial Banking, RBS India. Before his move to India, he served for 3 years, starting in 2009, as Executive Vice President, Consumer and Business Banking at Citizens Bank in Boston, USA.

Jaison Thomas leads Midland Credit Management (MCM) in India and is responsible for global service delivery and business support out of the country. A firm believer in inclusion, he has built an organisation-wide culture that focuses on business, people and the community. In his decade plus at MCM, he has successfully led a large-scale diversified operation and brought in sharper focus on cost-to-collect and on the holistic development of talent within the company. Mr Thomas has been pivotal in developing a strategy focused on business growth and service lines across the call centre, internal legal and international businesses, including at Cabot in the UK and Baycorp in Australia. He also spent two years at Baycorp as an advisor lending sharper focus to core operations. Yet another feather in his cap has been to create a culture where decision-making is a direct result of strong analytics, process power and people possibilities. In a career that spans over 20 years, Mr Thomas has worked with organisations as diverse as Aegis BPO, GE Capital International Services, IBM Daksh, Global Vantedge and United Airlines. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce graduate from the University of Delhi, and enjoys a good game of golf in his leisure time.

Jehangir Ardeshir, who resides in Pune, presently serves as a non-executive / independent Director at the unlisted companies, Forbes Marshall and Sarotam Industrial (a start-up), and also at Walchand PeopleFirst, which is listed. He also serves as a Trustee of a reputed hospital in Pune. In his executive career, Mr Ardeshir was Group CEO at Forbes Marshall, prior to which he was President and MD at Terex India, President of Tata Teleservices and CEO at Tata Quality Management Services. Mr Ardeshir worked his way upwards at Tata Steel, where he spent 17 years, rising to the position of Principal Executive Officer. He started his career in the Tata Group as a Tata Administrative Service (TAS) Officer in 1983, after graduating from IIT – Kharagpur and IIM – Bangalore.

Mr Ardeshir has been involved in the Eastern, Southern and Western regions at CII, and in the Eastern region at AIMA. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Metals and was a global Board Member of the QuEST Forum for quality in the telecom industry.

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Harold D’Souza has worked in the executive search industry since 1998, when it was still developing into an important part of the corporate world. He has been part of the evolution of the executive search industry in India and has contributed to its current stature and positioning. Before co-founding WalkWater, he was responsible for building the technology industry practice in India for Accord Group India and DHR International. Earlier experiences have included ones with E&Y and PSS. His key expertise is building revenue- and profit-generating search business from scratch; and developing long standing relationships with leaders across industry sectors. A special area of focus is Indian business houses and entrepreneur-driven companies. Mr D’Souza also leads CEO and leadership searches, especially in technology and related sectors. He also works closely with many start-ups and founders. Mr D’Souza is a firm believer in the power of instinct in both one’s personal and professional life. He is also an avid foodie, loves to cook and travel, and is a keen squash player. He is also a non-fiction book lover and owns a diverse collection of books at his home in Bangalore.

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Balfour Manuel is the Managing Director of Blue Dart, part of Deutsche Post DHL Group’s DHL eCommerce Solutions. He has been instrumental in the success of Blue Dart since its inception. Prior to his appointment as Managing Director, Mr Manuel was the company’s CEO, in charge of Blue Dart’s B2B business, which is a cornerstone of its customer base. Prior to that, he was responsible for the growth and development of Blue Dart’s business in India’s Western region. Mr Manuel holds a bachelor’s degree from Mumbai University and an MBA. A father to two successful young adults, he is widely travelled and takes interest in all art forms, music and people.

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Manoj Soni, Managing Director of Mirka India (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mirka Finland), is a seasoned engineering management professional with over two decades of industry experience. Mr Soni is a highly-skilled entrepreneur with expertise in managing diverse businesses, and has strong industry insight in Finance, production, logistics, sales and marketing. A certified coach, he is a strong believer in a culture of employee and customer centricity as a cornerstone of a sustainable and profitable organisation. His areas of interest include entrepreneurship, people development and financial modelling. Mr Soni is a marathon runner and a reader.

Mankiran Chowhan is a technology business leader with 17 years of experience in driving a high-performance growth culture. Prior to her current role, she was the Managing Vice President and Country Manager for India at Gartner. She has been recognised by The Economic Times as being one of India’s Top 20 Corporate Women Leaders. Ms Chowhan has been a Board member of Gartner’s global diversity and inclusion programme, and an advisor and mentor to many growth-stage start-ups in the enterprise B2B space.

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G Venkataraman has spent 29 years in financial services and has been at the TVS group in Chennai for the last 6 years at the helm of its retail NBFC. Mr Venkataraman’s career path has included stints with Standard Chartered Bank, IDBI Bank, ICICI Bank and Fullerton. He has been married for 27 years and has two sons, aged 26 and 21. An amateur theatre person and a bad guitar player, he loves stand-up comedy and live sports. He is still writing his first book and is yet to write his bucket list.

Govind Khetan serves as Managing Director of Kraton Polymers India. He earlier worked at such global organisations as Royal DSM and Solvay. An accomplished business leader with robust technical and commercial experience in challenging multinational and multicultural business environments, Mr Khetan is highly result-oriented and entrepreneurial, with strong networking and inter-personal skills and the capability to think ‘outside-in’. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

Adwait is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a Diploma in business management. He has hands-on experience in design and development, marketing, sales, contract management and general management over his 25 years of professional career. In the past 15 years, Adwait has helped many small and medium sized companies based in the EU and US develop and roll out strategies to grow their business in Emerging Markets. Currently, he works as Director for AROL (India & APAC), helping the company grow its business in the Indian sub-continent. He stays in Pune along with his wife Shilpa and two kids – Mihir and Radhika.

In a corporate career spanning 29 years, Ajay Kaul has worked at companies such as American Express, Lufthansa, TNT (India and Indonesia), and as the CEO of Jubilant FoodWorks for twelve years. Jubilant FoodWorks operates Domino’s Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts in India, and under Mr Kaul’s direction, became India’s largest and fastest-growing food service company, while India became Domino’s second-largest market in the world after the United States.

Mr Kaul is currently Senior Director/Advisor with Everstone Capital Advisors and Executive Chairman of Burger King and Domino’s Pizza in Indonesia. He also works in an advisory capacity with various companies with interests in India and abroad, and actively mentors a few start-ups in his personal capacity and through the Indian Angel Network. Mr Kaul founded a charitable trust to undertake socially responsible work. In 2014, he was awarded the 'Distinguished Alumnus of the Year’ award by XLRI Jamshedpur, the 'Outstanding CEO of the Year' award by CEO India Inc., and was recognised as one of the 'Top 100 CEOs in India' by Ernst and Young. He won the 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2010' and 'Professional Leader of the Year 2013' awards. Mr Kaul holds a bachelor of technology degree from IIT - Delhi and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.

Amit Goenka, Founder of Nisus Finance, manages AIF Funds with an AUM of Rs 950 crores in real estate, and runs an NBFC and corporate finance practice. Mr Goenka was the Founder, MD and CEO of Essel Finance, part of the USD 7 billion Zee Group. He held senior roles at Knight Frank India, Alghanim and Adeem Group in the Middle East; and Ernst & Young and the Aditya Birla Group in India. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering, an MBA, an MRICS and a CCF.

Dilip Vaswani is currently Chairman & Managing Director of Total Oil India Pvt Ltd. He is in charge of the entire Operations & Development of Total’s Downstream activities in India and South Asia. His additional role as Country Chair entails facilitating the entry and operations in India of other business units of Total.His prior assignment was President & Managing Director of Total (Philippines) Corporation, where he was responsible for the P&L of a fully integrated downstream operation comprising of fuel storage, supply, importation, and sales through a network of retail stations, combined with consumer, bulk, along with speciality product lines.

Dilip started his career with the TOTAL Group as Director and CEO of Elf Lubricants India where he was responsible for Elf’s successful entry into the Indian market followed by a two year stint in Paris as Vice President – International, after which he was Managing Director of Total South East Asia. He has been with the TOTAL Group for 27 years and has worked in various assignments in Asia and Europe. An Indian National by birth, Dilip is now a Singaporean Citizen

Narayan Krishnamohan is Managing Director of BASF India and Head, BASF South Asia. Mr Krishnamohan has been with BASF for over 24 years, having started his journey at BASF India, subsequently handling various regional and global leadership responsibilities in Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong. His leadership experience spans multiple divisions within BASF, including leather chemicals, specialty chemicals, acrylics and dispersions, paper chemicals, human nutrition and intermediates, among others.

Lokendra Singh is Managing Director of Ross Process Equipment Pvt Ltd – a 100% owned subsidiary of Charles Ross & Son Company, USA. He has 20 years of experience in industrial sales, product management, operations and strategy planning and 13 years of experience in leading, growing and managing an American capital equipment business in India.Lokendra Singh has successfully established both Green and Brown field projects for industrial manufacturing sector in India, and driven business operations in tandem with the organisational maxims of revenue growth and market leadership.Lokendra Singh is an IIMA Alumni with BE-Production ad PG Diploma in International Business.

Deepak Shanbhag, COO at Property Solutions India (PSIPL), has over two decades of experience in the services industry, and has led large integrated facility management enterprises in India and the APAC region. He has achieved excellence in developing tailor-made solutions and generating long-term value for clients. In his free time, Mr Shanbhag pursues his interests in sports and cooking.

Established in 2000, PSIPL is part of the renowned Kalpataru Group. One of India’s largest indigenous companies in the integrated facility management Services (IFMS) segment, with over 13,000 employees, PSIPL represents a differentiated approach to facilities management in India. Its offerings include solutions related to technical and soft services, business support, and other specialised services.

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Kosturi Ghosh is a partner in Trilegal’s Bangalore office and her primary areas of practice are general corporate advisory, M&A, private equity and TMT. Ms Ghosh has been actively involved in several high profile inbound and outbound acquisitions and joint ventures. She has also represented a number of domestic and multinational clients on numerous IT, telecommunications and outsourcing transactions. Ms Ghosh specialises in advising multinational clients on their entry into India, advising on commercial, regulatory and strategic matters. She has assisted various companies, including several highly regulated entities, on setting up processes and procedures to ensure compliance in India. She has also conducted FCPA and UKBA trainings in conjunction with global compliance teams for Indian employees, and participated in investigations and audits for non-compliances.

In the TMT space, Ms Ghosh has advised on complex matters including software development and licensing, data protection and technology transfers. She also regularly advises clients on outsourcing related matters including some of the pioneers in the business process offshoring industry in India. Her advice to clients has ranged from structuring technology deals to negotiating large multiparty outsourcing contracts.

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Neeraj Bahl was appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive officer of BSH Household Appliances Manufacturing in July 2019. He is responsible for running the firm’s household appliances manufacturing business in India and other South Asian markets. Prior to this, Mr Bahl worked as Director – Sales and Marketing at Panasonic India. He was responsible for increasing Panasonic’s market-share in TV panels from a mere 3% to over 10% within a span of 6-7 years. His significant achievements included the successful launches of the XXXL panel in 2016, the OLED range, the Viera Shinobi pro series panels, and the relaunch of Panasonic’s urban audio offering in 2017. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, Mr Bahl has also worked with other leading global organisations, including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Electrolux India, bringing vast industry experience to the table.

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Sanjeev Sharma has been with ABB for about 30 years and has grown his leadership perspective in diverse global roles with base in Europe and Asia. He assumed ABB India Country Managing Director role in January 2016. Sanjeev headed ABB Global Business Unit prior to current assignment. Sanjeev is an electrical and telecommunications engineer with management education at IMD Switzerland and INSEAD. He is known for having shaped many ABB businesses into high growth trajectory in his tenure. He is a relentless change driver with current focus on Industry 4.0, Digitalisation, Electric Mobility and Smart technologies for smart grids and cities.

ABB in India has its stock exchange listed company with a revenue of 1.6 B$ and has around 11,000 employees in 47 manufacturing plants, 22 customer centric offices and 6 development centres. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 135,000 employees. www.abb.com