Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce & Industry
Government of India
Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce & Industry
Government of India
Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce & Industry
Government of India
He was earlier the Minister of Railways and Coal (2017-19). He has also held additional charge of Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs twice in 2018 and 2019. Earlier he was Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy (2014-2017), and Mines (2016-17).
Mr Goyal’s tenure has seen Indian Railways achieve its best ever safety record in 2018-19.This was achieved through holistic measures such as elimination of Unmanned Level Crossings (UMLCs) from the broad gauge network, production of safer coaches etc. Additionally, Mr. Goyal oversaw the launch of the first indigenous semi-high speed train Vande Bharat Express between Delhi and Varanasi.
The Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy ministries led transformational changes in India’s power sector including the fast tracking of electrification of the nearly 18,000 unelectrified villages in some of the remotest and inaccessible parts of the country, the roll out of the most comprehensive power sector reform ever (UDAY), the success of the world’s largest LED bulb distribution programme (UJALA) for energy efficiency, and massive proliferation of renewable energy through the world’s largest renewable energy expansion programme. Other achievements include the elimination of coal shortages to improve the energy security of India and successful conduct of transparent e-auctions of coal blocks. He also received the 4th Annual Carnot Prize in 2018 recognising the pathbreaking transformations in India’s energy sector. During his 35 year long political career, Mr Goyal has held several important positions at different levels in the world’s largest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is in its National Executive. He has been the National Treasurer of the Party. In the 2019 Indian General Elections, he was a member of the Manifesto and Publicity Committees. He also headed the BJP’s
Information Communication Campaign Committee for the Indian General Elections 2014.
Mr Goyal has had a brilliant academic record – all-India second rank holder Chartered Accountant and second rank holder in Law in Mumbai University. He was a well-known investment banker and has advised top corporates on management strategy and growth. He also served on the Board of India’s largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India and Bank of Baroda. He was also nominated by the Government of India to the Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers in 2002.
His father, Late Vedprakash Goyal was Union Minister of Shipping, and the National Treasurer of the BJP for over two decades. His mother Chandrakanta Goyal was elected thrice to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mumbai. He is married to Seema, an active social worker, and has two children – Dhruv and Radhika, who have both graduated from Harvard University, USA.
Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog
Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog
Chief Executive Officer, FSSAI
Chief Executive Officer, FSSAI
Additional Secretary, DPIIT
Additional Secretary, DPIIT
He has varied experience in land revenue administration, rural development, construction of highways, industrial development and finance. Since 1988 he has worked with the State Government in various capacities as Managing Director, MP Cooperative Dairy Federation, Managing Director, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection Department, Chief Executive Officer, Rural Development Department, Commissioner Commercial Taxes Department, etc. He was called for deputation to Government of India in January 2014
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India
Joint Drug Controller - Commissionerate of Food & Drugs Administration, Government of Assam
Joint Drug Controller - Commissionerate of Food & Drugs Administration, Government of Assam
State Drug Controller,
Food & Drugs Administration, Haryana
State Drug Controller,
Food & Drugs Administration, Haryana
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Awards & Honours
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Chair FICCI FMCG Committee and Chairman and Managing Director - Hindustan Unilever Limited & President, Unilever South Asia
Chair FICCI FMCG Committee and Chairman and Managing Director - Hindustan Unilever Limited & President, Unilever South Asia
Sanjiv Mehta is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited which is India’s largest ‘fast moving consumer goods’ (FMCG) Company and one of the most valuable corporates in the country. Sanjiv also heads Unilever’s business in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Nepal) having a turnover of over $7 billion as President, South Asia. Sanjiv is also a member of the ‘Unilever Leadership Executive’ team.
Sanjiv has done his Bachelors in Commerce (India), Chartered Accountancy (India) and has also completed his Advanced Management Program (Harvard Business School).
A firm believer that ‘doing well’ and ‘doing good’ are two sides of the same coin he propagates the cause of compassionate capitalism. Sanjiv is married to Mona who too is a Chartered Accountant by training. They have twin daughters Naina and Roshni who have studied at MIT, Cornell and Harvard Universities.
Co- Chair FICCI FMCG Committee and Managing Director, Hershey India
Co- Chair FICCI FMCG Committee and Managing Director, Hershey India
Herjit S. Bhalla is the Managing Director of Hershey India since January 2018. In his role at Hershey, Herjit brings his extensive experience from Unilever in building consumer, food and retail brands. His in depth understanding of the FMCG business has contributed towards unleashing the growth potential of the US based snacking food giant in India.
It has been under Herjit’s leadership that Hershey India has entered the fast-growing Indian chocolate market with the launch of the iconic Hershey’s Kisses in 2018. Driving product innovation, he has also driven Hershey India’s entry into the ‘Better For You’ segment in the biscuit category with the launch of Sofit Protein Cookies.
Prior to Hershey India, Herjit had spent more than 18 years in various leadership sales, marketing and management roles at Unilever in India, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. In his last position, Herjit served on the Board of Directors with Metro Cash & Carry handling operations for North and East India.
Herjit has repeatedly demonstrated his unique proficiency in effectively leading teams, turning around and building businesses, driving employee engagement and positively impacting revenue growth.
An accomplished industry leader, Herjit currently serves as the co-chair for the FMCG committee at FICCI.
Chair - FICCI Retail & Internal Trade committee, President & CEO - Walmart India
Chair - FICCI Retail & Internal Trade committee, President & CEO - Walmart India
Krish has over three decades of rich experience in varied fields such as finance, marketing, retail & general management. In the field of retail, he has gained significant global experience over the last sixteen years in various countries such as Hong Kong, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and USA in addition to India.
He joined Walmart International as a Senior Vice President in 2012. Prior to this, during his over six years’ tenure with A.S. Watson Group, a leading international health, beauty and lifestyle retailer, Krish handled the business in Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand as Country Head & Managing Director. Concurrently, for over 3 years, he served as Regional Director of Store Design and Development for Asia and Eastern Europe.
Prior to that, Krish was Managing Director and CEO of Piramyd Retail Limited. During his 7.5 years tenure, Krish was also CEO of Retail Business of Piramal Enterprises comprising of Shopping Malls, Department Stores, Supermarkets and Entertainment Centres, during this period, he was also a member of several industry associations, notable among them being the role of Founding Member of Retailers Association of India.
Krish is Chairperson of National Executive Board of AMCHAM India (American Chamber of Commerce in India), Member of Advisory Council of USIBC, Chairperson, India Food Forum, Chairperson of FICCI Retail & Internal Trade Committee, Member of FICCI National Executive Committee, Member of CII committee on MNCs, Member of the National advisory Council of RAI (Retailers Association of India), Member of National Advisory Council of Enactus India and Advisory Council Member of Smile Train India.
Krish has a Bachelor’s of Commerce (Hons.) degree from the University of Mumbai, India and is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Krish lives in Gurgaon. During leisure, he loves to read and spend time with his family.
Co-Chair FICCI E-Commerce Committee & VP- Finance and CFO, Amazon India
Co-Chair FICCI E-Commerce Committee & VP- Finance and CFO, Amazon India
In his current role, he is in the center of India’s hottest industry and a senior leader in a team that is building Amazon’s customer franchise in the strongly contested e-commerce battle. He is also a guest speaker at various industry fora, management institutes and professional gatherings.
Group Executive president at Aditya Birla group for Strategy and Business development
Group Executive president at Aditya Birla group for Strategy and Business development
Prior to this, Shiv was Chairman and CEO for PepsiCo for four years and before that with Nokia as CEO for India and later Emerging markets for nearly a decade. Shiv has been a CEO for half his career and was one of the youngest CEOS in India. Shiv worked in HUL for a number of years, mostly in marketing. Shiv has worked with over 50 brands in his career and seen many business transformations.
Shiv writes and teaches regularly on Innovation, leadership, Followership, Business Models, Digitization etc. across the leading business schools in the world.
Shiv is an avid sports watcher, a great fan of Manchester United and Barcelona football teams, John Mc Enroe and Roger Federer in tennis.
Shiv is a believer in giving back to society. Shiv has been on the Board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad between 2012 and 2017, he was on the Godrej Consumer products Board between 2009 and 2017. He was the president of the All India management association in 2012-2013. He is currently the Chairman of the mobile marketing association and Chairman of the Advertising standards council of India. He is currently on the board of XLRI and IIM Udaipur.
Shiv has been awarded many times in his career – Best CEO, Best brand builder, for leadership, for Turnaround etc.. The awards most dear to him are the two distinguished Alumnus awards he got from IIT madras and IIM Calcutta. He is one of twenty people in India to have distinguished alumnus awards from both IIT and IIM.
Shiv is married to Hamsini, who runs her own brand, innovation and Semiotics consulting company.
Co-Chair FICCI Food Services Retail & Founder & CEO, Chai Point
Co-Chair FICCI Food Services Retail & Founder & CEO, Chai Point
He is passionate about building brands. He strongly believes that businesses by design should also be making a positive impact in the societies in which they operate. Technology, product design, and incentive structures have a critical role to play towards this. He believes that his loved ones are the pillars of support in his life.
Managing Director & CEO of Spencer’s Retail Limited
Managing Director & CEO of Spencer’s Retail Limited
He has been a part of different committees of FICCI for many years and has spoken in FICCI Massmerize many times in the past. DC takes keen interest in the development of start up ecosystem and in his spare time also teaches at Management Institutes including Economic Times master classes and recently one with Professor Ramcharan.
Founder & Managing Partner, Fireside Ventures
Founder & Managing Partner, Fireside Ventures
Kanwal has been passionate about mentoring and helping build consumer brands in India
and has been involved as an investor with brands like Paper Boat, ID Fresh, Epigamia,
Yogabar, Licious, Mama Earth, Vahdam Teas, boAt etc. Kanwal has been investing in the
early stage ecosystem in India for the past 19 years, first as a Director of Carlyle Group,
India and later as a Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Helion Venture Partners.
Prior to his investing career, Kanwal spent over 13 years in consumer marketing with
Hindustan Unilever and Intel India. He has over 30 years of experience in venture
investing, marketing, sales and business development across diverse sectors.
Mr Singh holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Marketing and Finance
from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi; and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical
Engineering from Punjab University
Founder & CEO, Rivigo
Founder & CEO, Rivigo
Deepak holds a master’s in business administration from IIM – Lucknow (2006) and bachelors in technology from IIT – Kanpur (2003). Prior to starting RIVIGO, Deepak worked with McKinsey & Co from 2006 to 2014. He has extensive experience in working with large clients on complex supply chain issues and has worked with clients across geographies in Asia, Australia and Africa
He speaks regularly at global forums on data, technology, supply chain and leadership topics. Deepak has also recently won The Economic times 40 under 40 award. In his free time, he enjoys reading and travel and is passionate about new ideas and creating impact at scale.
About RIVIGO:
Within just 4 years, RIVIGO has emerged as the largest and the fastest growing technology enabled logistics company in India, owning a fleet of over 3000 trucks. It uses an innovative ‘driver relay’ model that enable trucks to cover 3 times more distance while making the life of truck driver human. Rivigo serves firms across all major industries in India with its full-truck load, part-truck (express cargo), cold chain logistics as well as digital freight aggregator services. For more info: www.rivigo.com
Co-Founder & CEO, Epigamia
Co-Founder & CEO, Epigamia
Rohan grew up in the United States and moved to Mumbai in 2013. Before moving to India, and becoming one of the youngest leaders in the FMCG space, Rohan led a career in the finance sector with S&P’s Corporate Valuation Group (now a division of Duff & Phelps Investment Bank) where he spent time in Tokyo working on one of the largest M&A transactions in history. He then joined his family owned company, the Ross Group, where he was responsible for re-branding the logistics business and supply chain-based solutions.
Rohan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and International Business from NYU’s Stern School of Business and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FableStreet
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FableStreet
Unable to find well-fitted and comfortable western work-wear for herself in the Indian market Ayushi had the vision of manufacturing and delivering international quality work-wear especially designed to fit body types and cater to the like and preference of Indian women. Having completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta, she worked with McKinsey & Co. for over six years where she was a Senior Engagement Manager. After working on several public health and welfare projects in Bihar and U.P., she wanted to establish her own venture, one that would create a positive impact and alleviate the challenges associated with fit and sizing for women’s western work-wear. She observed that there was untapped potential in the professional work-wear space for women in the Indian market.
Founder & Managing Director of Veeba Food Services Private Limited
Founder & Managing Director of Veeba Food Services Private Limited
After completing his Industrial Engineering from Singapore, Viraj Bahl started his career at his family’s food business. From which they later made a complete exit by selling their shares to a German Food company. In 2013 he founded Veeba Food Services Pvt. Ltd.
Viraj Bahl in his entire career has been awarded various awards from the industry & various organisations.
Founder & CEO, GotoChef
Founder & CEO, GotoChef
Since the company’s inception in 2013, Kavneet has always challenged the status quo and introduced new ideas and concepts in the industry. She was instrumental in taking the first Indian Chef, Chef Vikas Khanna on the globally most watched TV food show – Master Chef Australia’s Season – 6 as a guest Judge. She repeated this feat in 2018, when she took Chef Saransh Goila as a judge for the 10th season of the show, and in this process Culinary Communications became the only company to place Indian Chefs on World Stage, twice!
Under her leadership, Culinary Communications has now forayed into food technology, by introducing a one of its kind platform called – GoToChef, which aims to bring simplicity in the confusing world of packaged food. GoToChef helps users to learn about nutrition and ingredient details of any packaged food, by just one scan of the product. Additionally, it also gives personalised product or recipe recommendations, based on user’s dietary preferences and allergies. All of this is made possible by the platforms revolutionary AI and Machine Learning capabilities.
GoToChef already has more than 13,000 food products and 5,000 ingredient details and is on its way to become one of the largest food platforms in the country.
Partner and Head , Consulting-Consumer Busines, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
Partner and Head , Consulting-Consumer Busines, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
Specifically, Rajat has managed the EMEA business of a global cosmetics company, through its affiliates and distributors across 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Central and Eastern European countries (CEE), Scandinavia and Israel. He has also set up a top-line sales and distribution organisation in India to launch a leading cosmetics brand through department stores and modern retail formats, while also managing the international business in Canada, the U.S. and Latin America. Further, he has aided another global cosmetics company across Russia and Eastern Europe.
Areas of expertise: Corporate and business unit strategy, RTM and market entry strategy, channel segmentation and strategy, joint business planning with modern trade, sales and trade marketing capability development, and sales force automation, distributor assessment and management, shopper insights and category management, and supply chain efficiency and effectiveness through range harmonisation and assortment management.
Education and qualifications:
Professional associations:
CEO- LODESTAR UM
CEO- LODESTAR UM
Chief Executive Officer
TCI Supply Chain Solutions
Chief Executive Officer
TCI Supply Chain Solutions
TCI Supply Chain Solutions is a single window enabler of Logistics and Supply Chain
encompassing all the needs right from conceptualization to implementation for high
value industry segments like Automobile, Retail & CP, E-Commerce, Telecom & Hitech, Chemical, Life Sciences and Healthcare.
He is an alumni of Harvard Business School, Amity Business School and Punjab
University, Chandigarh, besides courses with NITIE (Powai), National University of
Singapore and MDI (Gurgaon).
He is currently serving as:
He has a deep interests in Supply Chain / Logistics Industry with keen
interest in technology and a digital transformation enthusiast.
Co-Founder & ex-CEO, foodpanda India
Co-Founder & CEO, Meddo (Arctern Healthcare)
Co-Founder & ex-CEO, foodpanda India
Co-Founder & CEO, Meddo (Arctern Healthcare)
Retail Strategy Consultant & Leadership Mentor
Previously MD: Lacoste India, Barista Coffee
Retail Strategy Consultant & Leadership Mentor
Previously MD: Lacoste India, Barista Coffee
Jayant now heads India’s leading retail consulting practice – GO FISH. He also mentors some
highly regarded Retail CEO’s, and some exciting new retail and e-tailing concepts.
Co-Chair FICCI Young Leaders Forum & Managing Director- Puma India
Co-Chair FICCI Young Leaders Forum & Managing Director- Puma India
In 2006, Abhishek joined PUMA’s founding team in India as the Director – Sales & Marketing. He set up the sales, marketing, retail, product, sourcing and planning functions in the company. Prior to this, he had a successful stint with Reebok where he led the business operations in South India. From Supply Chain and Planning to Sales and Retail, his expertise spanned across the value chain.
Known to have an Operator’s Insight, Abhishek is focused on leveraging current market potential while always looking for opportunities to remain future relevant. A strong advocate of people-led success stories, he believes that building the right culture in the organisation is the most critical contribution of a leader.
An active Angel Investor, he invests in and mentors promising start ups in his individual capacity. He is a part of the Indian Angel Network and an LP in Stellaris Venture Partners. Other than Sports and Retail, he is interested in technology, new age media and content-based start-ups.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, Abhishek was recognized by The Economic Times on their 40 under Forty list of India Inc.’s top business leaders in 2018.
Partner, A.T. Kearney Head, Consumer and Retail, India
Partner, A.T. Kearney Head, Consumer and Retail, India
CEO Domestic Broadcast Business at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL)
CEO Domestic Broadcast Business at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL)
Under his leadership over the last three years, ZEEL has been India’s fastest growing entertainment network – both on viewership as well as Revenue. His incessant focus on consumer centricity, and on building strong institutional strengths across the entire content ecosystem have led to this consistent and broad-based growth for the organization. One of the cornerstones of his strategy to drive growth has been to build a stronger footprint across all regional markets, driven by his belief that in story-telling, it’s the lens of culture and not language alone that is the key to success across the beautiful mosaic that is India. ZEEL regained its position as the number one entertainment network of India under his leadership, and has been strengthening that position over the last 30 months, consistently growing in share across genres and markets.
In his stint at Hindustan Unilever Ltd, where he joined as a Management Trainee, he held various responsibilities across key business functions including Sales, Marketing and General Management, working across a varied range of categories from Skin Cleansing to Laundry, to Ice Cream. He has worked across 18 markets globally, helping Unilever countries to build strong Route To market capabilities in their quest for growth. In his last role at HUL, he was the Executive Director – Sales and Customer Development and a member of the organization’s Management Committee. He was also part of the Global Sales Leadership Team of Unilever.
Punit currently also serves on the board of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the industry body for broadcasters, and on the CII National Committee on Media and Entertainment, and was also on the broad of the Media Research users Council (MRUC) till recently.
Co-Chair FICCI Cosmetics Working Group & General Regulatory Affairs Manager, Johnson & Johnson Pvt. Ltd.
Co-Chair FICCI Cosmetics Working Group & General Regulatory Affairs Manager, Johnson & Johnson Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Sonal is passionately involved in various industry forums working mainly for shaping
cosmetics regulations in India. She is a member of various committees and working groups in Indian and International Industry Associations like IBHA, FICCI, ISCC, IPA, AFSTI, HADSA, CE-India Task Force, PCPC-India Task Force and also supports work of NGO-Inner Wheel of Mumbai Parleshawar when time permits. Currently she is Co-Chair of Cosmetics Workgroup of FICCI and Chair-Technical Committee of IBHA. She also represents J&J on Cosmetics Sectional Committee, PCD 19 of Bureau of Indian Standards.
Dr. Sonal is a Doctorate in Pharmacy and additionally completed PG Dip. in Administrative
Management from Mumbai University. She contributes avidly in policy shaping activities for
bringing cosmetics and OTC regulatory reforms in India. She has authored few articles on the subject.
She is based in Mumbai and happily stays in a joint family with her entrepreneur husband and an architect son. Dr Sonal also has keen interest in dramatics and music.
Founder & CMD V-Mart Retail
Founder & CMD V-Mart Retail
Further, climbing from strength to strength, V-Mart has won several accolades and prestigious awards:
· “Transforming India Through Retail” Award, recognised by the Ministry of Textiles, GOI and presented by the Hon. Union Minister of Textiles, in 2019
· “IMAGES Most admired Affordable Fashion Retailer of the Year” at IMAGES Fashion Awards 2019
· “India’s Retail Champions Awards at Retail Leadership Summit (RLS) 2019
· Chosen as “The world’s best-performing departmental store chain” by Bloomberg in 2018
· “The Best operating model in India” by Jefferies Research
· Indian Power Brand- 2012-2013 by Planman Media
· “Most Admired Retailer of the Year”:- “Discount Retail” by Images Retail Award 2011
· “Most Admired Retailer of the Year”:- “Concept Store” by India Retail Forum 2011
· India’s No. 1 Brand Awards 2016: India’s Best Retail Fashion Store Chain Category by International Brand Consulting Corporation, USA
As a leading industry voice, Lalit holds the role of the Chairman of Retailers Association of India (RAI) for the Northern Region. He was invited as a speaker to the World Retail Congress (WRC), 2019, the foremost annual gathering of retail industry who’s who globally. In 2017, he was also nominated to the Niti Aayog’ Champions of Change initiative by the Government of India.
Lalit earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Bombay University, and Diploma in Financial Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.
Founder, Editorji Technologies
Founder, Editorji Technologies
In his earlier avatar, Vikram was the CEO of the NDTV Group, and the person who steered NDTV Convergence from launch to becoming one of India’s leading digital destinations. Along the way, he helped pioneer innovations such as news on mobile phones, the live streaming of video on the internet and the first major news app in India.
Vikram has been named ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’ by the World Economic Forum in Davos; and has won the Indian Television Academy Award for “Best Anchor for a Talk Show”, the Hero Honda Award for Best Anchorperson and the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Communication, along with featuring in the top 20 on the Impact list of the Digital Power 100. He was educated at Oxford University and St Stephen’s College, before attending the Mass Media Institute at Stanford University.
CEO and Co-founder- Klevu
CEO and Co-founder- Klevu
President - South Asia, NIELSEN
President - South Asia, NIELSEN
Prior to this, Prasun was Managing Director for South Asia region at Millward Brown, and previously MD for Middle East, North and East Africa. He has also worked with the Gallup Organization in the US, India, and Thailand, heading their consulting division. He has also had a stint at IMRB International as Vice President.
Prasun holds an MBA as well as an MS from University of Rochester, New York and a Masters in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute.
Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson, Consumer Health, India
Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson, Consumer Health, India
He has deep expertise in building brands, businesses and organizations for the long term in emerging markets from his time in Asia across positions of increasing responsibilities with the company.
In the last 5 years, he has led the successful acquisition, integration and growth of ORSL, a market leading electrolytes drink, and building a unique Professional capability that combines best practices from both the consumer and health care industries. He is leading the transformation of our portfolio towards Consumer Health with iconic brands endorsed by health care professionals, accelerating growth in India and building talent, leaders and culture needed to meet future needs.
Vikas leads the Consumer Health Sector at Johnson & Johnson in India since 2014 and has been with company ever since he joined the first batch of Management Trainees in 1994, except for a brief fifteen-month spell in 1996-97 outside the company.
Vikas has led the company with purpose inspired by the values of Our Credo, ensuring every strategy and action is meeting the needs of patients, doctors, nurses, mothers, fathers and all others who use our products and services must of be high quality. As a proud corporate citizen of India for over 70 years, the company has several long-term partnerships with Health Care Professionals, Communities and the Government focused on delivering better access to health and education to those who need it the most. Vikas leads a number of these in addition to the efforts on sustainability, environment and encouraging employees to volunteer their time and contributions to the communities in which we live in.
Vikas is a deep sports lover, following, supporting, learning from and inspired by several sporting greats across cricket, soccer, chess, bridge and tennis. Reading is another area that inspires him, invokes curiosity and connects the dots across many areas of human life.
VP, Seller Services, Amazon India
VP, Seller Services, Amazon India
He heads the India Marketplace and manages all aspects of seller ecosystem in India including seller offline and online marketing, seller acquisition channels, seller education/enablement services, fulfillment channels, seller experience, seller success and Global Selling initiatives. Amazon India currently has over 430K sellers, 170M products and is growing rapidly. Through amazon, over 50K Indian sellers are selling more than 120M products to customers in 185+ countries.
Prior to this role, he managed the US Home Entertainment business, US Mobile Electronics business, and US Heavy Bulky Delivery Experience.
Prior to Amazon.com, Gopal was the Director of Digital Products for BusinessWeek (including businessweek.com and BusinessExchange, a social media site for business professionals). Before that, his roles included co-founding an early stage technology startup and leadership roles in Non-profit, Healthcare, Insurance and Energy sectors.
Gopal has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras, India.
Vice President and Managing Director, Facebook India
Vice President and Managing Director, Facebook India
Prior to Facebook, Ajit was the Chief Executive Officer at Hotstar. He launched and built Hotstar into India’s leading premium video streaming platform. Ajit spent five years at McKinsey & Company, first in New York in its media practice, where he worked with media companies in North America, Europe, and Latin America, and two years as a Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, where he co-authored India’s Urban Awakening, a 2010 report that outlined a new policy approach to India’s rapid urbanization.
Ajit has worked extensively in the social sector including initiatives in child nutrition in Bihar, anti-sex selection programs in New Delhi, public school reforms in Cincinnati in the United States, and in improving access to government welfare in New York for a program run by the Robin Hood Foundation.
He is a graduate of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BASc in Computer Engineering from NTU in Singapore.
Managing Director, Perfetti Van Melle India
Managing Director, Perfetti Van Melle India
An accomplished business leader and a seasoned marketing professional, Rajesh has worked across categories like Personal Care, Household Care, Foods & Beverages, Confectionery and Media. Rajesh is well respected for his extensive skills and knowledge across management functions. Under his leadership, Perfetti Van Melle, Bangladesh delivered sustained growth and achieved market leadership in 2016.
Prior to joining Perfetti Van Melle in 2014, he was the Marketing Head at HT Media Limited. He has also held senior positions in diverse corporations including Pepsico, Marico Industries and Reckitt Benckiser. Post his graduation in Engineering from BITS Pilani, Rajesh pursued his masters from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Rajesh is an award- winning photographer. His work has been featured at Cannes and has also been published in several publications in India and outside. He is also passionate about travelling and has been on expeditions to Everest Base Camp and Kilimanjaro. Rajesh along with his wife and teenage daughter started an initiative- My Daughter is Precious [MDIP] in March 2015 to raise awareness about gender equality and support the education of the girl child.
Executive Director- Sales & Customer Development, HUL
Executive Director- Sales & Customer Development, HUL
He joined the company as a Management Trainee in 1999 after completing his MBA from IIM, Kolkata. Over the past 20 years, Srinandan has had stints spanning Customer Development (CD) and Marketing across a number of categories. He has held leadership roles in CD across General Trade and Modern Trade and has led several categories in the Personal Care business including Oral Care, Deodorants, Hair Care and Skin Care.
Srinandan champions embedding the role of CD as a service organisation that serves the needs of brands on one end and customers on the other leveraging three interdependent ecosystems of Demand Capture, Demand Generation and Demand Fulfilment. In doing so, pivoting CD to a High Tech – High touch function on the two pillars of digital and people, including partners.
His vision for CD India is to build CD as a competitive advantage for the company by embedding transparency across all operations leading to a Kaizen way of working and be a beacon in generating future GMs for Unilever by empowering and unleashing the teams potential. From a longer term perspective, it is to create a leadership legacy by personally committing to and creating capable, future-fit leaders who are amazingly curious, ecosystem thinkers and have the ability to create cutting edge capabilities on digital and analytics.
Srinandan is a big buff of Bollywood movies, Cricket and enjoys experimenting with gadgets.
Government Affairs Officer at Tata Sons Limited
Government Affairs Officer at Tata Sons Limited
Earlier Tanmoy was the Vice President & Global Head – Government Industry Solutions Unit (ISU) at Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) and was based in New Delhi, India. He built the Government Business for TCS worldwide from January 2004 until 31st March 2018. He has over 35 years of experience related with Business Development, Sales and Delivery of Integrated IT Solutions and Services to the Government sector and has led many enterprise wide, mission mode and holistic transformational projects in the area of e-Governance in India and other parts of the World. Tanmoy currently manages more than 180 active clients in the Government Sector for TCS globally and has a team of over 8500 Associates in TCS across 7 Countries. Key projects that he drove include Department of Posts as the Core System Integrator, Passport Seva Project, UK Home Office, Income Tax, Central Board of Excise & Customs, GST readiness, Tax Automation across various cities in North America (under the TaxMantra umbrella), and e-Migrate along with several transformational projects in State Governments and tax automation programs in East Africa. Tanmoy’s 1st major eGov program at TCS for the Govt. of India was the Mission Mode Project – MCA21 for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs which won the Prime Minister’s award for Service Delivery Excellence.
A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS has over 362,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 45 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $17.5 billion for year ended March 31, 2017.
Prior to TCS, Tanmoy was Head – India Sales and Operations at EDS: Electronic Data Systems, India where he served between 1999 and 2004. He was responsible for Sales & Business Development & Delivery in the Indian Market. The sectors that he was focusing on included Corporate, Government, Defence, Railways, Telecom, Energy, Travel & Transportation, Manufacturing and Health Care. EDS was a US $ 22 billion Global IT Services Company with over 140,000 employees in 60 Countries.
Widely travelled in India and all over the World he has worked at Kolkata, Bengaluru and New Delhi. He started his career in 1982 – 1996 with Bradma of India Ltd in Calcutta (Tata Company) as a Sales Executive and progressed to handling the Eastern Region through to managing All India Sales & Marketing functions, leading various teams of highly motivated team members to successes in the stints.
Tanmoy joined Siemens Nixdorf, India in 1996 – 1999 as Vice President – Sales & Marketing at New Delhi and was responsible for All India Sales & Marketing of the various Information Technology Products and Solution and Services.
He is a member of the IT Sub-Committee at Assocham, CII, FICCI and PHDCCI. He is on the Defence IT Sub Committee for FICCI. Additionally, he is a Member of the IT Task Force of the Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force and a Member of the IT Think Tank for the Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council for 2015-17. He is a Member of the FICCI Inclusive Governance Council Committee and the NASSCOM Domestic IT Council. He is also on the Board of Management of the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women. He is a member of the Digital India Committee at CII and member of CII National Committee on Telecom and Broadband for the year 2015-16.
He did his schooling from La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta and is an MBA from IMM, Calcutta. He has completed an Executive Development Program from The Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
He resides in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India with his wife Priti and their two children – Tanushree and Pranoy.
Head Regulatory Affairs, ITC Personal Care Products
Head Regulatory Affairs, ITC Personal Care Products
COO, Modicare Limited
COO, Modicare Limited
Rahul comes with a solid corporate experience of over 20 years across leading MNCs like PepsiCo, Wrigley’s-Mars, Philips & Avon. Prior to joining Modicare he was the Managing Director of Avon India, a key international player in the Direct Selling industry. At Avon, he was responsible for a strong turnaround of the business, putting the organization on track for unprecedented growth, post consecutive years of slowness.
Rahul has worked on both established & start-up brands and has proven capabilities of a turnaround specialist. Along the way, he has had exposure to varied consumer categories (Cosmetics, Personal care, Snack-food, Confectionery, Lighting, and Fertilizers). He has been a specialist in setting up the right cost structures & has championed transformational leaps in route-to-market processes & business models. He has been instrumental in creating exponential trajectories on brands across youth & kids space, on the back of some defining marketing execution involving celebrities, aggressive new product launches, mega entertainment/sports properties, aggressive advertising communication, etc.
Chief Executive Officer
24Seven Retail
Chief Executive Officer
24Seven Retail