Mr Jayadev Galla
Vice-Chairman Amara Raja Group
Mr Jayadev Galla (Jay) is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL), a leading manufacturer of Advanced Lead Acid batteries for Industrial and Automotive applications. ARBL is a joint venture between Amara Raja group and US based Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI). JCI is a USD 35 billion conglomerate and the global leader in building efficiency, automotive interior experience and
automotive power solutions. The company owns the brand name “Amaron” which is
the second largest selling automotive battery brand in India today. ARBL is a widely held public limited company listed on the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited. The gross revenue for the year ending March 31, 2012 is more than USD 450 mn.
Achievements
Spearheading ARBL’s automotive batteries (Amaron) venture
Striking a partnership with JCI, U.S.A. for the automotive battery business Winning the prestigious Ford World Excellence Award in 2004 achieved by meeting global delivery standards. ARBL is the 3rd supplier from India to be given this award.
Posts and Responsibilities
Confederation of Indian Industry Young Indians National Branding Chair
Young Indian’s National Immediate Past Chairman
Young Indians Immediate Past Chairman - District Chapter Initiatives Amara Raja Group of Companies Vice Chairman, Amara Raja Power Systems Limited Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Amara Raja Electronics Limited Vice Chairman, Mangal Industries Limited Director, Amara Raja Infra Private Limited Director, Amaron Batteries (P) Ltd. Director, Amara Raja Industrial Services (P) Ltd. Permanent Trustee of the Rajanna Trust The Trust was established in 1999 and is dedicated to rural development and to improve the economic conditions of the farmers in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh. Among other things, Rajanna Trust has executed micro irrigation projects valued to a tune of 1 million US dollars which has benefited over 2000 agricultural families
Advisory Member Wockhardt Foundation
Jay holds a bachelors’ degree in Political Science and Economics from the University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. As an avid sports lover, he has played chess and tennis at a competitive level. He also enjoys golf, motor sports, diving, travel and pop culture in general. Married with two children; in his leisure time he loves spending time with his family and participating in community development initiatives.
Ms. Shobana Kamineni
President, CII & Executive Vice Chairperson Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited
Shobana Kamineni is the Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited and a member of its founding family. Apollo Hospitals is the pioneer of private healthcare in India and is Asia's foremost healthcare conglomerate.
Championing Special Initiatives for over seven years, Shobana had steered the organization's emergence as a proponent of integrated healthcare in India. She heads Apollo Pharmacy, India's largest pharmacy chain with a pan-India network of over 3000 stores, 19000 employees; it serves 3,00,000 customers a day. She is a founder and a Whole Time Director on the Board of Apollo Munich Health Insurance, acknowledged as India's best specialized Health Insurance Company for 6 years, consecutively.
As lead director in Apollo's research and innovation activities and cognizant of the convergence between Healthcare, pharmaceutical & biotech industries and the Academia, Shobana championed the creation and Incubation of a Biobank - a catalogued library of Ethically consented, anonymised bio-samples. The Biobank was recognized as one of the top 10 ideas in Life sciences by the Time Magazine for the decade.
She is an Independent Director on the Boards of Blue Star Limited and Hero MotoCorp. Shobana also served on the Advisory Council of the National Cadet Corps (NCC). In addition, Shobana is Vice-Chairperson of the KEI Group, a diversified logistics, leisure
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An active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Shobana was elected as President for the year 2017-18. She is the first woman to become the President of CII since it began in 1895. Dedicated to ensuring that more women enter the workforce, she has launched the Power of Parity Initiative.
Passionate about inculcating a culture of wellness, Shobana had championed the establishment of 'Billion Hearts Beating' - an NGO dedicated to educating fellow Indians about preventing heart disease and staying heart-healthy.
Shobana has been a recipient of prestigious national awards for Entrepreneurship and Leadership. She was conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Science by the prestigious Bryant University, USA, in recognition of her life's work in healthcare & pharmaceuticals and her Leadership role in business expansion in India.
Mr Onkar Singh Kanwar
Chairman Apollo Tyres Limited
As the Chairman of Apollo Tyres Ltd, Onkar Kanwar is the chief architect of the company’s vision and value-driven business strategy. Under his able leadership Apollo became a professionally managed and a globally recognised tyre manufacturer. As a
visionary entrepreneur, he plays a critical role in the articulation of company’s business
philosophy. Modernisation, excellence and quality are his guiding principals. Registered in 1976, Apollo Tyres under his guidance transformed itself from an Indian manufacturer of commercial vehicle tyres, to a global entity with a full-fledged product portfolio, spanning 3 continents. Onkar Kanwar is highly regarded for his constant emphasis on bettering the lives of people -- be it employees, customers, business partners, shareholders or any other stakeholder -- and responsiveness to change and continuous learning.
He is the Past President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI) and a former Chairman of the Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’
Association. Currently, apart from being a member of the Trade Advisory Committee to the Government of India, he is also a Member of the Board of Governors for the Indian Institute of Management (Kozhikode) and the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing (IIITDM).
Onkar Kanwar has a keen interest in the field of education and health care. Artemis Health Sciences, promoted by him, is an enterprise focusing on state-of-the-art medical care and runs a cutting edge multi-specialty medical facility which focuses on holistic treatment. An initiative close to his heart is Apollo Tyres' HIV-AIDS awareness and prevention programme for the commercial vehicle driver community, implemented through Apollo Tyres Foundation's Health Care Centres located in large transhipment hubs across India.
A Science and Administration graduate from the University of California, Onkar Kanwar is a widely travelled individual. He devotes a large part of his time to reading and is passionate about learning modern management practices and their successful application in business.
He has been conferred with ‘Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award – Manufacturing’ for the year 2012.
Mr P S Jayakumar
Managing Director & CEO Bank of Baroda
Mr. P. S. Jayakumar, 53 years is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and additionally holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI Jamshedpur. He also has the distinction of being a Chevening Gurukool Scholar through the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Prior to his appointment as MD & CEO of Bank of Baroda, he was the Co-founder and CEO of VBHC Value Budget Housing (VBHC), a leader in housing for low and moderate-income household from 2009 onwards. He was also the Co-founder and Non-Executive Promoter Director for Home First Finance Company, a housing finance institution regulated by the NHB, focused on financing customers who are not able to access mortgage loans from the banking sector.
He is a career banker and has spent over 23 years in Citibank in India and Singapore starting in 1986. He has contributed to several innovations in retail banking in India. In addition, he was associated with the first asset securitisation in India in 1991 and the first multi-lingual biometric ATM for the financially excluded in 2006.
Mr. Jayakumar has held diverse assignments while at Citibank such as Treasurer - Consumer Bank, Business Development Head covering deposit and lending business, Managing Director for Citifinancial Ltd, Managing Director and Head of Citibank Consumer Loan for Asia Pacific Countries (covering Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Korea), Country Head - Citibank Consumer Business and Head of Balance Sheet Management - Asia Pacific. Mr. P. S. Jayakumar has also
served as a Board Member in many of Citibank’s subsidiaries in India.
Mr. Jayakumar is an avid cyclist and plays squash and golf in his spare time.
Naushad Forbes
Co-Chairman Forbes Marshall Private Limited
Dr. Naushad Forbes is the Co - Chairman of Forbes Marshall, India's leading Steam Engineering and Control Instrumentation firm. He chairs the Steam Engineering
Companies within the group. Naushad was an occasional Lecturer and Consulting Professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 2004 where he developed courses on Technology in Newly Industrializing Countries. He received his Bachelors, Masters and PhD Degrees from Stanford University.
Naushad is on the Board of several educational institutions and public companies. He is the Chairman of Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research. Naushad has long been an active member of CII and was President of CII for 2016 – 17. He has at various times chaired the National Committees on Higher Education, Innovation, Technology and International Business.
Forbes Marshall is a leading manufacturer of steam engineering and control instrumentation solutions. Their products and services help its customers save energy, improve process quality and throughput, and run a clean and safe factory.
Their long and deep customer relationships, over 70 years, enable development of unique and innovative products and services that solve real problems. Over 700 engineers located in five continents take it to market through a technical direct-sales approach of daily contact with customers from core and process industry. They value
each of their industrial customers, from a regional food-processor or garment factory, the world's leading manufacturers of consumer products to the world's largest refineries.
Forbes Marshall takes great pride in their family of 1500+ members. They have been
listed several times among the top “Best Workplaces in India”, and first in the
manufacturing industry by surveys conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute in association with Economic Times. It has recently been ranked 11th Best workplace in Asia 2016, and are the highest ranked true engineering company. The company’s
diverse social initiatives support health, education and women’s empowerment. These
initiatives have resulted in long-term benefits to many families and communities. They also support several leading academic institutes in India and Sri Lanka by setting up research labs.
Mr B V N Rao
Chairman – Transportation & Urban Infrastructure GMR Group
Mr B V N Rao is currently serving as the Business Chairman – Transportation & Urban
Infrastructure. He is responsible for the Group’s Transportation, EPC and SEZ
Businesses. In addition, he also oversees Corporate Relations, Legal, Management Assurance Group, Ethics & Integrity, Business Excellence & Knowledge Management, Human Resources & Facilities Management Services, LIDAR Survey Business (GEOKNO) and is in charge of RAXA Security Services.
A Graduate Engineer, B.V.N Rao has nearly 40 years of rich experience, of which 12 years have been in the banking sector with specific experience in Industrial Finance and Foreign Exchange.
He is one of the founder Directors of the Group since 1988, associated with all the businesses promoted by the group like Ferro Alloys, Sugar, Brewery, Power, Transportation and Airport businesses and currently, he is the Group Director on the Board of Directors of the Company (GIL).
Prior to his current role, Mr. B.V.N Rao served as chairman of Energy and Corporate sector of the Group.
“Our journey as a Company has been synchronous with building national assets and
also building and institution that gives back to the society. My personal belief is that every day is a journey of learning and caring about all those who help in realizing the larger Dream.
Mr Rahul Munjal
Chairman & Managing Director Hero Future Energies Pvt. Limited
Mr. Rahul Munjal is the Chairman & Managing Director of HFE. He represents third generation in the Munjal family headed by Mr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal. Rahul is the son of Late Shri Raman Kant Munjal, the founder Managing Director of (Hero Honda Motors Ltd.) Hero MotoCorp Ltd. Rahul is a dynamic leader who firmly believes in the Group’s philosophy of doing businesses that have high moral value and are good for mankind at large. The growing environmental concerns and alarming rate of depletion of natural resources inspired Rahul to work towards a greener tomorrow which led to inception of HFE.
Rahul is also the Managing Director of Easy Bill Ltd., Director of Rockman Industries Ltd. He is also a member of ADaRSH, an independent body set up by MNRE and
TERI to facilitate unbiased and transparent process of implementing ‘GRIHA’.
With a degree in Economics from the University of Rochester, USA, he has done stints in Manufacturing and Sales & Marketing at the Honda Motorcycles, USA and Hindustan Levers Ltd, India.
Mr Satish Pai
Managing Director Hindalco Industries
Mr. Satish Pai is Managing Director of Hindalco Industries. He took over as the CEO
of Hindalco’s Aluminium Business in August 2013; his main focus being the ramp-up
of the three mega Greenfield projects that took alumina capacity to 2.7 MT and aluminium capacity to 1.3 MT.
In February 2014, he was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director of the company
and was entrusted with Hindalco’s copper business. Mr. Pai became the Managing
Director of Hindalco (including the Novelis business) in August 2016. Prior to joining the Aditya Birla Group, Mr. Pai worked with Schlumberger based out of Paris. Over the course of his illustrious career of 28 years with Schlumberger, he held various important positions and was responsible for all aspects of operations for Schlumberger globally.
Mr. Pai serves as Director on the boards of Aditya Birla Management Corporation Pvt. Ltd. and ABB, Zurich. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Metals and is a part
of CII’s Task Force on China. He holds the position of Vice President and Chairman
of the Government Affairs Committee of the Aluminium Association of India.
Mr K Ramchand
President & Chief Executive Officer IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited
Mr K Ramchand is the Chief Executive Officer of IL&FS, and Managing Director of its subsidiary IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited (ITNL). He has more than 35 years of experience in infrastructure development using Public Private Partnerships, innovative project financing, current engineering and planning practices, and in working with governments to improve policy frameworks.
Mr Ramchand has been on the boards of various companies within and outside of the IL&FS Group, and on committees of various Industry Associations including FICCI and CII. He is the currently the Chairman of FICCI Infrastructure Committee and BRICS
Business Council Working Group on Infrastructure. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Civil Engineering from Madras University and a post-graduate degree in Development Planning from the School of Planning, Ahmedabad.
Mr Ramesh Bawa
Managing Director & CEO Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited
Over three decades of experience in the banking sector, Mr Ramesh C Bawa has built successful relationships with banks, finance organisations and insurance institutions at the domestic as well as international level. His focused, innovative and goal-driven approach keeps the company on a constant path of growth.
Mr Bawa holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations as well as a Masters Degree in Political Science.
Mr Vipin Sondhi
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer JCB India Limited
Mr Rajan Navani
Managing Director Jetline Group of Companies
Mr Rajan Navani is the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of the Indian arm of the Jetline Group of Companies with interests in packaging manufacturing, IT services, digital media and new ventures in innovative entertainment and organized consumer retail.
With a large vision to play a key role in the digital lives of 1.3 billion Indians, the group has recently made significant investments and is building businesses in powering varied consumer-facing digital platforms, products and services with a deepened technology focus on digital marketing and data analytics through its group company JetSynthesys with operations in India, MENA, SE Asia and USA.
The roots of the Navani group go back to the 1930’s in Bangkok, Thailand where the
group continues to have its diversified business operations. Rajan worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, USA before returning to Thailand and then to India to enter the family business. Rajan is currently the Chairman of the CII National Council on India@75, the Past National Chairman of CIIs Young Indians and is a
member of CII’s National Council. Rajan is a founding trustee of the India@75
Foundation which is working to help create an inclusive, developed India of 2022. He
is a trustee of Aspen’s Ananta Centre in India, fellow of the Aspen India Leadership
Initiative 2011–2012 and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is also
a BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation’s Young World Leader, a CNBC India’s Young
Turk and part of the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum. Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the government and business US‐India partnership and is a member of the Singapore-India and Israel-India Track II strategic dialogues. He works closely with various stakeholders in the Indian ecosystem to see how India can emerge as the Frugal Technology Innovation Hub of the world. He is a board member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India.
Dr. Raghupati Singhania
Chairman & MD JK Tyres Limited
Dr. Raghupati Singhania is the Chairman & Managing Director of JK Tyre & Industries Ltd. – Pioneers of Radial technology in India and leaders in the Indian Tyre Industry,
and the manufacturers of the well-known “JK Tyre”, “Vikrant” and “Tornel” brand of
Tyres. He is also the Chairman of JK Tornel, S.A.de C.V., Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of JK Tyre.
JK Tyre & Industries Ltd. is a member unit of J.K. ORGANISATION, one of the oldest large business houses in India. Group Companies are engaged in manufacture and exports of a wide range of products such as Automobile Tyres & Tubes, Paper, Cement, Woollen Textiles, Cotton Textile Yarn, Hybrid seeds, Dairy & Food products, Cosmetics, Insurance, Power Transmission systems including - V-Belts, Oil seals, Industrial rubber products, apart from generating power using wind & solar energy, Healthcare and Education. It has overseas manufacturing operations in Mexico, Kenya and Portugal and also has offices in USA, UK, Hong Kong, Dubai and China.
Dr. Singhania is also Chairman, J.K.Fenner (India) Limited; Director , JK Lakshmi Cement Limited and JK Agri-Genetics Limited; President - Managing Committee, Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer &Tyre Research Institute (HASETRI); Member – Managing Committee, Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute(PSRI); besides, Director of various other public limited companies. He is Pro-Chancellor of JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur
Dr. Singhania is serving various leading Apex Chambers and Government bodies of India, like, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – Member of National Council; PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) – Past President & Senior Member of Managing Committee; Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) – Past President of North India Council, and Member – Executive Council; Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association (IRMRA) – (A Govt. of India body) – President; Asia-New Zealand Foundation - Honorary Advisor. He has served Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) as Chairman; Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM), as Deputy President; Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) – (A Government of India body), as Member; Rubber Board - Kottayam - (A Government of India body), as Member; Chemical & Allied Products Export, Promotion Council (CAPEXIL), Government of India, as Chairman of Auto Tyres & Tubes Panel; Indian Wire Rope Manufacturers Association (IWRMA), as Chairman; Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubaneshwar, as Member of Board of Governors; Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Chennai, as Member of Board of Governors; Various apex bilateral bodies of Indian and International Business community, as Chairman. His illustrious career is studded with numerous prestigious recognitions and awards. He is a technology savvy business leader and also keeps himself tuned with changing times. His remarkable visionary abilities blended with innovative & entrepreneurial zeal have been best demonstrated in his pioneering effort of ushering radial technology in India way back in 1977 when all other tyre companies in the country were grappling with intricacies of conventional technology.
Under his stewardship, JK Tyre has been actively promoting Motorsport in the country
for over three decades, as it’s the perfect platform to test the potency of our products
in extreme conditions. JK Tyre played the most significant role in developing Motorsport in India and promoted Car Rallying for almost a decade and a half. The company launched and instituted the National Karting and Racing Championships in 1997. JK Tyre is the first Indian company to acquire a FIA accredited series Formula BMW Pacific and
rechristened it as the JK Racing Asia Series. India’s pride and world class race drivers
like Narain Karthikeyan, Karun Chandhok, Armaan Ebrahim, Aditya Patel have all
graduated from JK Tyre’s karting and racing programs.