Pallavi Jha is the Executive Chairman of Walchand TalentFirst, a fully owned subsidiary of the publicly listed company, Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd. Walchand TalentFirst has international partnerships with some of the world's leading firms and brands such as Dale Carnegie, USA (training), SHRM, USA (HR Certification) and PerformanSe, France (Assessments). She has played a pioneering role in setting up India's first Finishing School focused on soft-skills training. Additionally, she has been part of women's groups, which have encouraged first generation women entrepreneurs into taking business initiatives. Advanc’edge caught up with Pallavi at the ‘Coffee with CEOs’ event organised by EABS.

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In the minds of all aspirants of managerial careers, if ever there was a “phenomenal woman,” she would be it. A legend by her own rights, Naina Lal Kidwai is Group General Manager and Country Head of the HSBC Group in India, which employs 34,000 people comprising Banking Services, Insurance, Asset Management, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets, HSBC InvestDirect, HSBC Software Development (India) Private Limited and the Global service centres (BPOs servicing HSBCs operations in the UK, EU and USA). Prior to 2009, she has held positions as Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Bank in India and Managing Director and Managing Director of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets India Private Limited.

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N Anand Sri Ganesh serves as the AVP for Analytics at Hewlett Packard. He manages marketing analytics for HP's Enterprise Businesses. Ganesh has over 13 years of experience in marketing and has held operating and leadership positions in marketing roles in consumer products, IT and Technology sectors. He is a graduate from IIT Madras, and a postgraduate from IIM Ahmedabad. Ganesh's interest beyond his professional spheres are reading, traveling, and listening to classical music.

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In conversation with Serena Kallian For a person handling an important profile like that of a Portfolio planning manager for a global Fortune number one company, Karthik Anbunathan is a man without presumptions. His open approach and people management skills have seen him where he is today. Having done his engineering from Annamalai university and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow(IIML) he has held several critical positions in companies like Essar oil, Reliance infocom to name a few.

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Tell us a little bit about your early career. How did you end up going to SPJIMR and how would you describe the lessons you have learned on the way from there to here? I got my degree in production engineering from a regional engineering college (now NIT) in Jamshedpur. Thereafter I joined Tata Motors in 1993 and spent a really interesting stint as a fresh engineer in such a large set up. Tata Motors had a huge emphasis on training. They had a graduate engineer training programme spanning almost two years during which you gained exposure to multiple departments, various projects etc.

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Divya Mittal holds a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Bangalore. Divya received scholarships from the French and German governments, leading her to academic experiences at Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice (France) and Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung, Koblenz (Germany). After her MBA she worked in the Investment Banking industry in London. She has developed complex models to value derivatives and risk-managed a multi-million dollar portfolio of exotic derivatives. Divya Mittal is presently the Chief Executive Officer and the co-founder of Elpis Education which is a privately held company having a focus in education and its related technological aspects. In conversation with Divya Mittal:

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Sandeep Nagpal, Head of Operations - New Business Programs at Nokia

An acclaimed business manager with experience and expertise in managing business operations in multiple industry segments from Automobile, Light Engineering to IT/Software and now Telecom, Sandeep holds double business degrees – an MBA from the Institute of Management Sciences & Productivity Research, Delhi and an Executive Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) in New Delhi. With successful stints in companies such as Microsoft Corporation, Honda and Canon before Nokia, Sandeep has till today successfully met business objectives in rapidly changing & competitive environments and possesses an in-depth understanding of critical business drivers in multiple markets & industries. In an interview with Advanc’edge MBA, Sandeep shares some of his thoughts on management education and practice and leaves some important advice for aspiring management graduates.

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Mr. Sai Puram has over 20 years of global IT experience. Today he heads Indian subsidiary operations as well as global delivery operations of Paradigm Infotech Inc., a global IT solutions provider headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. Besides being a Certified Project management Professional (PMP) Sai holds an MBA in Marketing and Human Resources Management. Throughout his career, he has led large teams of software development and support, marketing and business development.

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7 Head Honchos & their Leadership Secrets

1. Learning does not necessarily happen within the classroom or at the workplace… - Bijou Kurien
2. No one learns to play a game by reading a book… - Avinash Gupta
3. Choose what you enjoy doing... - Alagu Balaraman
4. Managers need to be prepared to be very competitive and nimble in their offerings… - Neil George
5. Leadership as a trait, as a skill and as a sort of visible quality is very important… - Syed Hoda
6. Keep pushing your boundaries... - Shalini Goyal
7. Cut the clutter and focus on a vital few objectives… - Rahul Belwalka

 

Meet Ramesh Gudalur, President, BPO Business Unit at Mphasis, a leader in global Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing, Applications Services Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing services. Ramesh has over 20 years of leadership experience across BPO, Financial Services and Manufacturing Industries and has demonstrated his entrepreneurship and innovation in creating large business platforms for BPO and Consumer Finance in the previous companies that he has worked with, such as TCS BPO, GE, SRF Group and others. Armed with an MBA degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur, he has diverse experience working extensively across geographies in locations such as the USA, UK and India. Ramesh also enjoys teaching and has taught at the GE Finance Program as well as at several business schools.

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