• B.E (Hons) from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
• M.B.A. in PM & IR from Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur.
• Founded and built Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd into the first Public Limited HR Service provider in India with about 2100 professionals operating from 122 offices in India, Malaysia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Hong Kong, U.K. and U.S.
• Played a crucial role in the evolution of HRD as an industry in India by offering a basket of innovative HR products through Ma Foi.
• Generated career opportunities for above 2,00,000 professionals in 35 countries over the last 15 years - pioneered HR Business Process Outsourcing in India - Presently deputing over 49,600 personnel with over 400 blue-chip companies.
• Founder-Trustee of Sornammal Educational Trust (SET) that runs a school in Chennai for the underprivileged and has adopted 2010 children in Sivakasi and Chennai – Promoted micro finance & micro livelihoods through Self Help Groups for over 18,000 women.
• Director in Chennai Online, Kumaran Systems, AxisV Creatives, Tamil Maiyam, Goodwill Communications, Sresta Natural Bioproducts, Anugrahaa Qualitech Services, Mango Digital, Rudi Multi Trading Co. and Naethra Technologies.
• Member of Governing Council in Kalasalingam University, Ethiraj College, Velammal Institute of Management, A.D.M. College for Women and Center for Social Initiatives and Management.
• Founder-Trustee of Confederation of Indian Organisations for Service and Advocacy (CIOSA), a forum representing over 220 NGOs in Chennai.
• Trustee of Koothu-p-pattarai, a pioneer theatre group in Tamil Nadu.
• Active Rotarian, Madras Temple City.
• Eisenhower Fellow from India – Member of the prestigious Eisenhower network of 1800 global leaders from over 100 countries
• Member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) global forum for young achievers in industry
• Charter – Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Chennai, a global forum comprising over 6000 entrepreneurs of Indian origin.
• Author of " You are Appointed ", a career guidance book in Tamil for Youth

Mrs. Jayati Chandra currently serving as Principal Adviser in Planning Commission, joined the I.A.S. in 1975. She has served both the Government of U.P. and Government of India in various capacities.

She had the opportunity of getting some exposure to corporate functioning during her stint with the Tea Board of India and the Tea Trading Corporation of India both under the Ministry of Commerce.

She was also exposed to issues of social inclusion during her previous stint with the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.

Deep is co-founder of teamlease and drives the business development function. Based out of Mumbai in his current assignment but has worked across the country over the last 12 years. He grew up in dehradun and mussoorie where he did his schooling. He is a graduate in computer science and MBA from the pune university.

Present Position:

Managing Executive Officer
Administration (HR, Finance & IT)
Maruti Suzuki India Limited

• Also responsible for Corporate HR for Suzuki Powertrain (Engine Company) and Suzuki Motorcycles
• Part Time Director on The Board of Suzuki Motorcycles
• President of National HRD Network - Delhi Chapter

Mr. S.Y. Siddiqui graduated in Social Work and Post Graduate in HRM from Jamia Millia University, N. Delhi and has a career track of around 29 years in the HR Function of top Indian corporates as well as MNCs such as:

• Escorts Limited
• DCM Group - DCM Toyota Ltd, DCM Daewoo Motors Ltd, DCM Benetton India Ltd
• New Holland Tractors India

Widely traveled abroad, he has handled global and multi cultural HR issues in highly competitive business environment in India & Europe. He is thus well-versed on Global HR Policies, Systems & Processes.

He has the unique experience of working Multi Culture – Multi Nationalities i.e. Indians, Japanese, Koreans, Italians, Britishers, Americans & others. Mr. Siddiqui has made significant HR contributions in various facets of HR.

Mr. Siddiqui firmly believes that HR function should provide pro-active leadership in transition /change management to create a high connect with the changing global business scenario while retaining focus on People Development, People Motivation & People Performance for value creation.

Mr. R. P. Yadav is a B.sc. from Calcutta University; MBA (Marketing) from IISWBM, Kolkata; MIMA & a certified lead auditor for iso-9001:2000. He has a vast & enriched experience of 16 eventful years in the companies like Johnson and Johnson, JAI Engineering limited, HCL, Business Forms Limited. He has handled portfolios for sales & marketing and has been positioned as general manager & profit centre head in these companies.

Mr. R. P Yadav is the founder & chairman of M/s Genius Consultants Limited.

He has started the journey on 27th July in 1993 with one table & one chair and with the dream to establish Genius Consultants Limited “a leading manpower solutions company”…….after 15 years he has achieved his dream to take genius to its pinnacle of success with a projected gross turnover of Rs. 160 Crores for the year 2008-09, 300 direct employees and 21 offices on a pan India basis.

Has been actively involved in the areas of Marketing, and expansion strategies of new and incubating ventures. Coming from a background of the Indian Air Force, he brings in a rich experience of Marketing and Management from his exposure in management of BPO operations for GTL limited, and as head of various telecom & IT business units. He was an Independent Consultant to various mid-size Call Centres advising on formation, technology, and business practices to various corporates. He was also Director & COO of JasCall Connect, a mid-sized call centre based at Mumbai.

Sandeep Tyagi currently heading HR for Haier India has around 17 years of experience in HR fields

Sandeep, alumnus of FMS Delhi has worked with companies like NTPC, Delphi, Sony, Xerox, Airtel and now with Haier for last 3 years.

Sandeep has strong experience in recruitments, organization development, change management and industrial relations.

Geetanjali is currently the Corporate Head of Human Resources at The India Today Group. She has over fourteen years of experience in implementation and strategy of Human Resource Development and Employee Relations across high-performance sectors – manufacturing, consulting, services including Hospitality and more recently, Media

An alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur, she has two bachelors including a degree in Law from Delhi University. She also has studied towards a Masters degree in the US.

She has authored and edited several published works. Her writings so far have been in the domain of Career Management both in Law and Management. She is currently working on her third - a seminal work on Human Resources as a business contributor.

She is passionate about the HR cause of being a strategic business partner and about bridging the gaps that exist between management education and what is required out there in the real world……

Ashutosh heads recruitment and talent branding for Convergys as the Director for India Recruitment. Prior to joining Convergys, Ashutosh has worked as a Recruitment & HR professional across multi-geo industry segments such as executive search, IT/ ITES industry with firms like H&S and Sapient. He carries the unique experience blend of volume driven hiring to strategic resourcing, both in the consulting and corporate sectors. In the past he has led Quality Engineering function in the automotive & steel manufacturing sector where he made valuable contributions to process improvement using the Kaizen and Six Sigma techniques.

Ashutosh is a strong advocate of adopting innovative methods to bridge the gap between the talent demand and supply pool. In his more recent experience at Convergys he has strategically worked towards aligning the recruitment function close to the business goals by rolling the Premium Candidates program to enhance quality of the Talent pool, Standardization & automation of the hiring process, opening of Direct Hire Centers to enhance candidate experience, Last mile training to prospective hires, Temp train & staff methods, Co-Branded advertisements with some key clients, usage of new mediums for recruitment advertising and so on.

Ashutosh is well networked globally and keeps track of global best practices. He continues to be on various HR & IT industry forums involved in developing & driving thought leadership. He is an Engineer and MBA by qualification.

I have completed my schooling from Kolkatta and have a master degree in English Literature along with a PG diploma in HR. I started my career with Lacoste as an HR executive and worked there for five years. I then did freelance training for three years with various management institutes like FMS, hotels like the Park hotel, and with many of the wee known boarding schools like Mayo, Scindia, Welhams etc

I then Joined Innodata Isogen, a KPO with over 2000 employees as head of Training where I was also responsible for the implementation of ISO and ISMS certifications.

I moved to Levi’s last year in feb, looking after only North and then took over responsibility of west and east as well

I am a mother of three kids, one of them who is an HR consultant at Hewitt associates, and another who works in Hospitality with The Hyatt Regency. My son studies in 2nd year college at DCAC

Pritha holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Political Science and a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Having worked for nearly 20 years in Human Resources in senior positions in large corporates and multinationals both in India and abroad, she made the move to the Development Sector and is currently President of Capacity Building Division at Feedback Ventures Pvt Ltd.. She combines her areas of expertise in Change Management, Performance Management Systems, Career Pathing, Learning and Development etc., in Project Management and Capacity Building Interventions in this sector. She is currently leading a team of experts for Resettlement and Rehabilitation implementation for various SEZ projects such as BFL, AES, etc.

She is a recipient of the British Chevening Young Manager’s Award for scholarship to Leeds University, UK for the year 1997. Pritha is on the Board of the Delhi Chapter of the National HRD Network a visiting faculty to several MBA institutes and is associated with several social causes and NGO’s.

Born on 25th August 1960, in Puri, Orissa, Dr SK Mahapatra received his Bachelors Degree in Political Science Honours from Utkal University, and with a National Scholarship he went on to complete his masters in Political Science from Hindu College with top honors from Delhi University in 1981.

He began his career teaching Political Science in College for a short span before migrating to a career in Personnel Management with Steel Authority of India. Joining as a Management Trainee, he rose to the level of Senior Manager within a short span of 13 years and while in service, he took brief sabbaticals to academy for educating himself in Social Work, Public Administration and Management.

He was invited to join the B’ School Faculty at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar in 2000 and he joined XIMB as a full time faculty in HR&IR, in 2001. During his Professorship of 4 years, he completed his Ph.D in Human Resource Planning under Utkal University, and also completed a prestigious consulting assignment as lead consultant partnering with M/s PA Consultants, Indonesia who were engaged by Asian Development Bank for designing a module on communication for Assam Power Sector Reforms. He also worked as a OD trainer for management development and worked on an unusual OD assignment to maintain high morale of scientists at a defence establishment continuously.

He continued in academics till 2004 November, when he migrated back to Industry, to head the HR function at Tata Metaliks Limited. He helped develop HR implementation strategy to double green-field production capacity and manpower productivity with a fractional increase in direct rolls. He also helped the company to acquire an existing brown-field production facility in Western India by successfully leading one of the most remarkable, trouble-free and seamless transitions in Indian corporate sector. He designed, developed and implemented innovative manpower staffing strategies to help the Company grow from a turnover of Rs.300 crores with 275 direct employees, to a turnover in excess of Rs.1,000 crores with about 750 employees, in less than 3 years time.

Currently Dr SK Mahapatra heads the HR department of POSCO-India project, which is the biggest FDI in India till date at US$12billion for setting up 12 million ton capacity - the largest single-location integrated steelworks in India. His portfolios of assignments include populating the project with quality staffing solutions.