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Mr. Satish Kumar stepped down on March 31, 2009, from the position of the Managing Director and CEO of Henkel India Ltd, a subsidiary of the German Consumer Goods Major, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. 

At the age of 39, he was the youngest to become a CEO of SPIC group of Companies. Since then he was on the Boards of Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Amrutanjan Healthcare Ltd., RoyalSoft Services Ltd. 

He is currently on the Advisory Boards of XS Real Properties Private Ltd, Ardor Group, etc. He has advised a number of companies like The Elgi group in Coimbatore, Resil Chemicals in Bangalore, and Cholayil Group in Chennai.

An MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and an Alumni of Columbia University through their Senior Executive Program, he has over 25 years of experience in the Industry. 

His accomplishments have been the startup business for Henkel in India beginning with the implementation of their production facilities and developing a National Sales and Distribution Network. 

Henkel India has received a number of awards in the last 20 years including ‘Most Admired Company’ by Marketing Journal A&M, Indira Award for Marketing Excellence, FMCG Award for Pril Bar in debutant category, FICCI & Green Tech Award for Environment Excellence, Product of the Year Award for Pril and Bref, etc. 

He was awarded the Indira Super Achiever Award for the year 2004 and Bhartiya Shiromani Puraskar Award for the year 2005.

He is in the Management Committee of a number of bodies like the Southern India Chamber of Commerce and was Past President of Madras Management Association (MMA) and Indo-German Chamber of Commerce.

He is in the Advisory Boards of Ralakshmi School of Business, Chennai, Rajagiri School of Management, Kochi, and Academic Council of Chennai Business School.

He is a mentor to a number of entrepreneurs and students. He is in the Governing Council of IIMPACT, a non-profit organization supporting quality primary education to illiterate girl children.

Selvam is the Co-Founder CEO of H S Supply Chain Services Pvt Ltd. He carries with him over 12 years of experience in handling sales, marketing, and supply chain functions across various levels, at Butterfly Kitchen Appliances, a Consumer Durables Major.

Armed with an MBA graduation specializing in the areas of Supply Chain Management and Marketing from Purdue University, USA, he has also interned with Dell Inc. in their supply chain management function at their Nashville, Tennessee plant.

He is certified as an expert in the SCM domain, by the Global Supply Chain Management Institute, and also carries a Yellow Belt Certification in Six Sigma Processes.

A technology enthusiast, Selvam is also a founding member of the Los Angeles-based Intelligent IoT Integrator (i3), a platform that drives IoT adoption through participation among senior experts from the industry, academia, and research backgrounds.

He also co-founded and runs DiscoveryIoT, a Europe based blockchain startup that specializes in supply chain data analytics and modeling.

Selvam is an advisor to a couple of startups in the blockchain space as well, making him one of the leading voices in the blockchain space in India.

More information can be found here: www.selvamvms.com

Shobana’s work experience encompasses banking, credit analysis, rating, offshore operations and consulting. Shobana Anand has worked with multiple industry bodies on policy and regulation issues. Shobana has also worked with governments, both at the state and the centre, in a consultative capacity on creating industry vision, strategizing disinvestment and entity turnaround.

• Graduated from one of the premier Institutes of Asia and India’s best Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1990 batch)
• Experience of over two decades across the financial services spectrum spanning banking, credit rating, and consulting
• Holistic experience spanning internal operations and market liaison and business development
• Has experience in the services sector especially high-end knowledge process outsourcing
• Been working in a consultative capacity with a few large organizations (domestic and multinational) since the middle of 2006
• Engaged in conducting training programs, both public and customized programs primarily in the financial services space
• Was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship for ‘Women in Leadership and Management’ (2004)

Shyam Murali is currently founder and Partner at Winbold Retail LLP, and President of Strikebold Inc, USA. Winbold is a digitally native consumer products firm, that retails through ecommerce channels.

Our primary markets of sale are US, Mexico and Canada. We design, manufacture and retail products in Sports and Home. Our strength lies in our deep understanding of consumer preferences, outstanding product design capabilities and global manufacturing partnerships.

Our products have around 500,000 raving fans as retail customers, from over 50 countries. We also sell to institutional buyers, including some of the Fortune 500.

Previously: Head of Account Management for Amazon India. Shyam helped set up Amazon’s 3P marketplace in India, with his team handling over 10,000 sellers and a $1 Billion run rate. Managing Director at Carpe Diem, a branded merchandise company serving 175+ brands in 14 countries.

Management consultant with Cognizant Business Consulting, Shyam has worked out of 30+ cities in India, US and China, with industry leading clients including Wal-Mart (US), Wal-Mart (China), Levi Strauss, Marks and Spencer, Duty Free Stores, HEB Grocery and Microsoft. Founder at 15to21.com, a youth portal incubated by Sify.

Education: Schooled in Sishya, Engineering degree in Computer Science from SVCE, University of Madras, MBA from the Indian School of Business

Personal: Shyam loves to quiz, read, travel and teach. Shyam has held membership and leadership positions at the Freemasons, Rotary International (Madras East), Round Table India, Young Indians, TiE Chennai and the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). Shyam is married, with two children.

Siddharth Ganeriwala is an event & experiential management specialist with 18 years of experience. Starting off as a trainee in one of the premier event agencies, he worked himself up to begin an entrepreneurial venture in the year 1999.

Specializing in providing top-notch corporate event solutions with his company Aura Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd, integrating the overall brand communication strategy by way of live moments, has been the USP of the company’s growth.

Having worked with a cross-section of celebrities ranging from pop stars, Bollywood stars, international performers, and cricketers, he has the uncanny knack of building relationships in a short period of time which tend to last forever. 

Siddharth’s key skills lie in his ability to create unique event experiences for his clients, connecting with the audience. He believes in being proactive offering innovative & integrated event solutions with total emphasis on quality & value for money in a time-bound manner, and absolute satisfaction for clients, partners & associates.

His intuitive thought, along with his ability to overcome last-minute challenges & crisis management have over the years held him in good stead. A hands-on approach with sound technical knowledge with an astute blend of business mind has been his forte. 

He is known to be tough as nails and an extremely fair player. His belief that people are the true asset for any organization has made him develop many policies for colleagues generating a sense of ‘intraprenuership’ within the company. 

An innovative thinker, problem solver, with boundless energy, creating businesses from scratch, with frugal resources is a forte.

Siddharth has invested and is half-owner of a premier lifestyle magazine Inbox 1305 from 2013 and angel investor and shareholder of eventjini.com, an online ticketing portal.

He is an active member of CII-Young Indians, having taken up local & regional roles, he was part of the National Committee in 2011-12. He is slated to be the Chairman of the Chennai chapter for the year 15-16.

He uses his entrepreneurial knowledge to mentor and guide young start-ups facing challenges of scaling, advises digital and social companies, guest lectures in college forums on Brand & Marketing using the large canvas of experiential marketing.

Siddharth is a patient listener, an avid reader, and passionate about travel. He has the ability to simplify complex issues. He listens to old rock music and hibernates in his free time gearing himself to scale the next summit.

R.Sivadas is a serial entrepreneur and business leader with particular strengths in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Managing Investments and Business development. 

He is a Postgraduate in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India (1983) and until 2012 was the Co-Founder and Managing director of Scope e-Knowledge Center, Chennai, a global content provider in the scientific and technical space.  

Scope was acquired in 2011 by Quatrro , an Indian company funded by US based Venture fund Olympia Capital.  

He was a key member of the team  that led Scope e-Knowledge Center, one of the first Knowledge Process Offshoring players in India in the publishing and Intellectual Property space. 

He has successfully completed three rounds of exits in entrepreneurial ventures, the latest being the sale of RSI Content Solutions to Orbis, USA ( Feb 2018).  

In the information area, he has worked with Multinationals, Large Indian Private corporations, Government Institutions & not for profits in areas such as market research, consulting, building & promotion of e-content, e-commerce and electronic databases.

He ideated and helped implement the first Indian database on the chemicals and petrochemicals sector (1990).

In the late 90’s, he ideated on the concept of “Content for portals” and for 3 years (till the end of the Dot com era), Scope was the largest B2B content provider to major B2B portals in India  including ICICI, Shapoorji Palonji, IPF online, etc).

In 2000-01, he spun off e-chem.com a chemical trading portal (promoted in collaboration with the Indian Chemicals Manufacturers association) which had over 30  chemical manufacturers as prospective members/investors. This was acquired by Sify, a Satyam group company.

2002-2012 – He was Managing Director & co-promoter of Scope e-knowledge Center , one of the first Knowledge Process Offshoring companies in India.

2015-18 – He was Managing Director of RSI content Solutions ( A US company in which I co-invested) which was acquired by Orbis Technologies, USA in 2018.

Sivadas is the author of the book “Failure to Millionaire – You Too Can !” – published by Sage in Dec 2016.

Sivadas is keenly interested in badminton, trekking and yoga and spends significant amounts of time learning from nature and from exploring the inner realms through meditation. 

He is a strong advocate of Yoga & Meditation for all round personal growth. He has authored a book on entrepreneurship, “From Failure to Millionaire: You too can.” that was published by Sage in Dec 2015 and is now available on Kindle and Amazon. His second book “The Lemurian Revival” will be published in January 2021.

Sivadas is married with two children.

Founded in 1994, Pan Asia Group is a privately held family business of several companies with worldwide business operations and headquartered in Singapore. Pan Asia’s service offerings span diverse areas such as Energy, IT consulting, IT solutions, providing outsourced IT services, and investments in Real estate.

• Pan Asia Resources (Consulting): Director, Singapore | with branches in Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, USA
• Pan Asia HR Solution (9Staff Augmentation): CEO, India
• Pan Asia Ventures (Commodities Trading): Director, Singapore
• Pan Asia Software Solutions (Professional & Managed services): Director, Malaysia

Srikanth has over 35 years of experience as an investment banker, chief financial officer of the first greenfield water and wastewater public private partnership project in Asia (in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu) and now as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank.

Srikanth has been involved in several pioneering initiatives in the field of leasing and public private partnership projects. 

Since 2008, Srikanth has been a consultant involved in the implementation of projects in various sectors including water and wastewater, urban transport and energy, including transmission, distribution and renewable energy. 

Currently he consults for the Asian Development Bank.

Srikanth is currently also a Director in a startup company catering to the FinTech community by building a digital platform that empowers people to take control and improve their lives. 

His other interests are listening to music and investing.

Education Qualification: B.Com., PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad), AICWA

Born November 8th, 1969, Srini completed his schooling in 1987 from Vidya Mandir, Mylapore, Chennai, and received his Bachelor’s in Commerce in 1990 from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi.

When he joined his family business soon after, the Vikatan Group was a print-only Magazine Publisher with its flagship weekly Ananda Vikatan widely respected.

He spearheaded Vikatan’s diversification to magazines in multiple genres, expanded head-on into the internet publishing space in 1997 when titans in print were writing-off the medium as a hoax, ventured into TV production when satellite TV took off in 1998. 

All this, while Tamil reading in general and the print medium in particular, were both being written off by pundits as a ‘sunset industry’.

24 years later, today, he oversees a truly diversified Media house with 13 magazine titles in Tamil boasting of a combined sale of over 1 million copies every publishing day, enlarging its footprint into Book Publishing, TV Production, a formidable presence in Digital and the social media has grown the group turnover 35 times over @ a CAGR of 16.5%!

He met Radhika the same year he joined the business and they have been happily married since 1994. She is his better half not only at home but also being the Creative force behind the TV production business that has been producing the #1 TV Daily Soaps in TN for over 10 years in a row!

In his spare time, Srini loves to play Tennis (but his knees protest), Cycle, Yoga, and play the Guitar (but is woefully short of practice) and watch movies with the family.

Srinivasan H.R, 46, is the Vice Chairman & Vision holder of TAKE Solutions Limited (founded 2001), a technology-enabled business solutions company with leadership in Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Life Sciences. 

Take Solutions Ltd is a 110 million dollar public company listed on the Bombay and National Stock exchanges specializing in software in Life Sciences and Supply Chain Management.

Srinivasan started his professional career as a Civil Servant serving with the Ministry of Railways, Government of India. Post that, he moved to the Private Sector where he held several leadership roles amongst others, Executive Director – Shriram Group; Managing Director, South Asia – Sembcorp Logistics; Managing Director, India – Temasek Capital.

He has been very active in various industry fora, having served both on the State and Regional council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He is also the Past President of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Chennai Chapter. 

In 2008 he was conferred the CII Connect ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award’� and recently was awarded the ‘CII- Hindu Business Line Tamilnadu Emerging Entrepreneur Award’�. 

Srinivasan is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

Mr. Srinivasan holds a degree in Mathematics and two post-graduate degrees in Public Administration and Management.

Sriram Subramanya is the Founder, Managing Director & CEO of Integra Software Services, an 1100 employee Company and one of the top Digital, eLearning, and Content Service providers to the Publishing Industry, globally. 

As the chief visionary and architect behind the growth of Integra, Sriram conceptualized and implemented operations to realize Integra’s vision, by building an organizational culture that is recognized worldwide for delivering innovative and high-quality services to global Publishing Companies.

With a deep commitment towards working for the welfare of the underprivileged, Sriram launched the ‘Sriram Charitable Trust’ which has benefited thousands of poor, sick, needy, and underprivileged people in areas of healthcare, women empowerment, funding of education, social rehabilitation, and rural upliftment. The Trust also works in helping the Government for better Governance as well as in the area of the environment, carrying out tree planting on an extensive scale.

Website: http://sriramcharitabletrust.org/

Under the leadership of Sriram, Sriram Charitable Trust had also launched Puducherry Vision 2025, in collaboration with CII, for the development of Pondicherry, involving all stakeholders.

Passionate about sustainability and organic farming, Sriram has started his own organic farm, spread over more than 150 acres. Working on sustainability, through rainwater harvesting on his farm, Sriram is also interested in afforestation and is in the process of creating an arboretum of a wide variety of plants and trees for the greening of the earth and also to provide a source of nature education to school and college students.

Sriram has just ventured into the business of fresh, organic, fruits and vegetables, sorted and packed, under the brand name of ‘Farmerie’. The brand addresses the needs of the consumers seeking safe food and also provides a sustainable livelihood for farmers. Also on the cards, is the launch of natural, traditional, organic, and wellness food products, the R&D for which is underway.

A Mechanical Engineering Graduate of the 1982-86 batch of Annamalai University, Sriram has a passion for technology and new gadgets. Deeply spiritual in nature with an interest in Carnatic Classical Music, Sriram is also an active sportsperson, who enjoys table tennis, swimming, and has recently taken up golf.

During the course of his exciting journey as an entrepreneur, a plethora of awards and recognitions have come his way and that of his Company. Starting with the Vocational Excellence Award from the Rotary Club, as early as 2002, and Trailblazer Awards from the Times of India Group in 2008 and 2011, Sriram was featured recently by best-selling Author and Entrepreneur, Rashmi Bansal, in her book ‘Take me Home’. 

His Company, Integra, too, has been raking in Awards from organizations as diverse as MAIT, Star News, inc. India and NASSCOM which had recognized Integra with the Gender Inclusivity Award.

A past Chairman of the CII, Puducherry, 2008-09, Sriram is on the Southern Regional Council of CII and on various committees of the CII as well. A member of NASSCOM as well as Chambers of Commerce such as the Indo American Chamber of Commerce, the Indo Japan Chamber of Commerce, and the Indo German Chamber of Commerce, Sriram is also on the CII National Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council.