Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Initiative supported by Mentee Profiles updated as on February 2015
Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
About the Women on Corporate Boards Programme The WCB initiative is aimed at enhancing corporate governance by improving gender balance and increasing the number of women on boards as independent directors. The Companies Act 2013 prescribes that there should be at least one woman director in a Board, but it may be in the best interest of companies to have more than one woman in the Board and they should be Independent Directors.
Academic research has shown that women make very good Board directors and the Boards’ with women directors make better decisions and are more effective. A major impediment in increasing the number of women serving on Corporate Boards in India is the limited number of women who are well qualified and trained to serve on the Boards. An equally big constraint is the limited number of “Board Ready” women who are well known to the Board Chairmen. Without adequate preparation, personal acquaintance or a strong reference, a Board Chairman or a Nomination Committee is unlikely to consider a woman (or man) for a Board position.
The WCB Mentoring Programme is designed to deal with both of these issues. This is a structured mentorship programme (by-invitation), wherein Board Chairmen, directors and other senior professionals with extensive experience in Boards and areas of corporate governance mentor and coach qualified high potential women to take up board positions. The programme, inter alia, includes, reading designated study material/ articles, one-on-one sessions on corporate governance with the Mentor, workshops and group discussions on corporate governance and attending Board/ corporate meetings as Invitees.
The programme not only prepares women to be placed on corporate boards but also endeavours to ensure that women joining corporate Boards are better prepared to succeed as a corporate Board member.
Supported by 3 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
WCB Mentoring Programme 2013 List of Mentees & Mentors
Sl. No. Mentee Name Mentor Name 1 Ms. Amita Chebbi Mr. Ashok Jha 2 Ms. Amola Jhaveri Mr. Swaminathan D. 3 Ms. Anita Chaudhary Mr. R. S. Sharma 4 Ms. Anuradha Thakur Mr. Anami Roy 5 Dr. Brinda Jagirdar Mr. M. V. Tanksale 6 Ms. Chandrika Pasricha Mr. Pradip Bhide 7 Ms. Gargi Mashruwala Mr. Hemant Luthra 8 Ms. Geeta Mathur Mr. Jyoti Sagar 9 Ms. Gita Nayyar Mr. Nadir B. Godrej 10 Ms. Hiroo Mirchandani Mr. Harsh Mariwala 11 Ms. Ingrid Srinath Mr. V. Thyagarajan 12 Ms. Jasmine Arora Mr. Aman Mehta 13 Ms. Kalpana Sinha Mr. D. A. Prasanna 14 Ms. Kumud Srinivasan Mr. Rashesh Shah 15 Ms. Maya Dani Mr. Subhash Chandra 16 Ms. Mukeeta Jhaveri Mr. Nihal Kaviratne 17 Ms. Mythili Bhusnurmath Mr. Kapil Kapoor 18 Ms. Mythily Ramesh Mr. G. M. Rao 19 Ms. Nandita Vohra Mr. Deepak Parekh 20 Ms. Neera Saggi Mr. Ravi Kant 21 Ms. Padmaja Nair Mr. Pradeep Bhargava 22 Ms. Pratima Ram Mr. K. V. Kamath
Supported by 4 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
WCB Mentoring Programme 2013 List of Mentees & Mentors
Sl. No. Mentee Name Mentor Name 23 Ms. Priti Devi Mr. Sanjay Nayar 24 Ms. Priyamvada Balaji Mr. Puneet Bhatia 25 Dr. Punita Kumar Sinha Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan 26 Ms. Punita Lal Dr. Omkar Goswami 27 Ms. Radhika Haribhakti Mr. Arun K. Nanda 28 Dr. Rajani Ved Mr. Saurabh Srivastava 29 Ms. Rinita Singh Mr. Pradip Shah 30 Ms. Ritu Arora Mr. Deepak Bagla 31 Ms. Rumjhum Chatterjee Mr. Sidharth Birla 32 Ms. S.C. Sharada Mr. S. Vaitheeswaran 33 Ms. Sangeeta Pandey Mr. Saroj Poddar 34 Ms. Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh Mr. V. Balaraman 35 Ms. Sangita Singh Mr. Rajesh Subramaniam 36 Ms. Sarita Nair Mr. Pramod Bhasin 37 Ms. Savita Mahajan Mr. D. Sundaram 38 Ms. Shalini Kamath Mr. Narayan K. Seshadri 39 Ms. Sheela Vadavalli Ms. Ranjana Kumar 40 Ms. Shivpriya Nanda Mr. Hari S. Bhartia 41 Ms. Smita Aggarwal Mr. Ranjit Pandit 42 Ms. Sudha Pillai Mr. M. S. Verma 43 Ms. Sudha Ravi Mr. Uday Khanna 44 Ms. Sutapa Banerjee Mr. Harsh Goenka 45 Ms. Urvashi Saxena Mr. Ravi Kant
Supported by 5 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Amita Chebbi
Ms. Amita Chebbi is Head – South Asia, Strategy & Partnerships at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). In this role, she provides strategic direction in developing CIFF’s investment portfolio in the region across the health, education and nutrition sectors.
She has over 16 years of experience across various management functions in the public and private sectors.
Prior to CIFF, she was with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she led programmes in India as Country Director. In this role, she was responsible for evaluating new opportunities, setting up partnerships, fundraising and managing all aspects of operations in the country. She was responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships with pharmaceutical partners in India and facilitated access to lower prices for pediatric anti- retrovirals (ARVs) to more than 70 countries in the developing world.
She has also worked in the commercial banking and credit rating industry.
She is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Mentor: Mr. Ashok Jha
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9910 022 553
Supported by 6 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Amola Jhaveri
Ms. Amola Jhaveri is a Career & Educational Counsellor and has established QuadMentor as her entrepreneurial venture. She also provides consulting and counselling support services to the Center for American Education at the Jamnabai Narsee School and the DSB International School in Mumbai.
She established the India office of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has worked with several UK Universities in an advisory capacity. She has extensive experience counselling students who are exploring options in India and overseas.
Ms. Jhaveri began her career with ANZ GrindlaysBank and has worked in Retail and Investment Banking. She has also worked with IL&FS Securities in Institutional Equities with clients in India, UK and the Middle East.
Her book “The Study Abroad Handbook” published in 2000 is the definitive guide for Indian students seeking overseas education.
She has completed her B.S. in Management Studies and her MBA from the United States.
Mentor: Mr. Swaminathan D.
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91 - 9820 072 301
Supported by 7 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Anita Chaudhary
Ms. Anita Chaudhary is a member of the Task Force for signing MOU with Public Undertakings and a member of the Task Force for reviewing the Results Framework Documents (RFD) of the Ministries and the State Governments.
She is an IAS of the 1976 batch of Haryana cadre. She has worked in various fields like Finance, Home, Urban Development, Rural Development, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture Marketing. She retired after more than 36 years in service as Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, in September 2012.
She has also held several other important positions including Special Secretary (Centre-State) and Additional Secretary (Centre-State), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India; Joint Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India; Secretary- Institutional Finance, Government of Haryana and Managing Director of Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India.
Ms. Chaudhary has a Master’s degree in Social Sciences (Information Technology) from University of Birmingham, UK, and a Master’s degree in English Literature from University of Pune. She is also doing her Ph.D. from IGNOU. The topic of her research is RTI as a tool for good management of Public Distribution System.
Mentor: Mr. R. S. Sharma
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9899 111 169
Supported by 8 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Anuradha Thakur
Ms. Anuradha Ekanath Thakur started her career as a Probationary Officer, with State Bank of India (SBI) in 1973 and retired in 2007, spanning a career of 34 years.
She was the Chief General Manager (CGM), Corporate Accounts Group (CAG), from 2005-2007. She managed diverse business requirements of top 500 customers of the Bank, including Reliance, ADAG, Tata, Larsen & Toubro, Maruti Udyog, arranging their loan syndications, international banking, project financing, and liquidity requirements, coordinating their total banking requirements with other verticals.
Prior to that, she was General Manager-Mid Corporate from 2004 to 2005. During her tenure, she started a new business vertical to capture the business of mid-sized regional companies with excellent growth potential. She has an experience of diverse industries including petrochemicals, engineering goods and equipment, non-conventional energy, textiles and pharmaceuticals.
As the Deputy General Manager and Chief Financial Officer, Mumbai Circle, she supervised the balance sheet management and statutory audit of the largest circle of SBI covering 667 branches and was responsible for financial planning, forecasting and budgeting for all branches.
She also served as Vice-President (VP), Audit and VP, Accounts and Compliance, at the New York office, responsible for complete internal audit function of the New York branches. She was involved in strengthening of systems of regulatory compliance for the entire U.S. operations of the Bank. The US Federal Reserve appreciated the compliance levels and upgraded the Bank’s rating by 2 levels.
She has a B.A. (English Literature) from Pune University and C.A.I.I.B. from the Indian Institute of Bankers.
Mentor: Mr. Anami Roy
Mentee’s contact details – City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9004 670 425
Supported by 9 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Dr. Brinda Jagirdar
Dr Brinda Jagirdar is currently an Independent Director on the Board of Capital First Limited, Mumbai and Rane Engine Valve Limited, Chennai. She is also a visiting Faculty at National Institute of Bank Management and a member at Research Advisory Committee, Indian Institute of Banking. She retired as General Manager and Chief Economist of State Bank of India.
As part of SBI’s senior Management, Dr Jagirdar tracked economic developments and implications for policy, participated in the Asset Liability Committee and Central Management Committee meetings and conducted research on relevant issues.
Dr Brinda Jagirdar was associated with the Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, was member Planning Commission’s Sub Group on Household Sector Savings for 12th Plan and member Ministry of Finance Group on India’s Household Financial Savings.
She was member Banking& EconomicsCommittee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Monetary Policy Group of Indian Banks’ Association and editorial committee of the IBA journal.
She has a brilliant academic record with a Ph.D. in Economics from Mumbai University, M.S. in Economics from University of California Davis, USA and MA in Economics from Gokhale Institute, Pune. She has attended Executive Programme at Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA and leadership programme at IIM Lucknow.
Shehas participated and presented papers at several conferences in India and abroad. She is regularly invited to speak on the economy and banking, is a panellist on TV business channels, and contributes columns in business newspapers and journals.
Mentor: Mr. M. V. Tanksale
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9833 450 117
Supported by 10 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Chandrika Pasricha
Ms. Chandrika Pasricha is the Founder & CEO of Flexing It, a recently launched marketplace for short-term and flexible skills in India, with a focus on carefully matching qualified and experienced professionals with SMEs or corporates looking for such engagements.
She has been a management consultant for over 17 years and has worked as an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co., in the healthcare and pharmaceuticals verticals. Her areas of client service included growth strategy and business models, assessing new businesses, designing effective implementation approaches and organization building and strengthening.
Over the last few years, she has been operating as an independent consultant working with leading development sector organizations on strategic issues, including implementation, scale-up and monitoring of large-scale public health initiatives.
One of her assignments involved advising the President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) on fundraising strategy, organizational strengthening as well as alliance and partnership opportunities.
She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a B.A.(H) in Economics from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
Mentor: Mr. Pradip Bhide
Mentee’s contact details- City: New Delhi Email: [email protected] Mobile:+ 91- 9811 701 902
Supported by 11 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Gargi Mashruwala
Ms. Gargi Mashruwala is the Vice President of St. Jude India Childcare Centres since 2007. It’s a section 8 Company that creates Centres of Hope to provide shelter and holistic care to children and their families who travel to Mumbai for treatment of Cancer. She has over 15 years of experience of working in the NGO sector.
She is also the Financial Controller at Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) since 1999. She managed the finances for the 5 crore project of Restoration and Revitalization of the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, which was awarded Asia Pacific Award of Excellence in 2005, which is one of UNESCO’s highest award.
She is also the Financial Controller at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Trust since 2003. She assists the Managing Trustee and Director in managing the corpus of the Trust, HRD and liasoning with the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai which owns the Museum.
She is a Graduate in Commerce from Mumbai University.
Mentor: Mr. Hemant Luthra
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected], [email protected] Mobile: +91 – 9820 149 704
Supported by 12 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Geeta Mathur
Ms. Geeta Mathur is currently CFO of Helpage India, one of the largest and oldest non-profit organizations in India. She is also an Independent Director on the Board of Motherson Sumi Ltd., NIIT Ltd., Vardhman Acrylics Ltd., at IIFL Holdings Limited, RSWM Limited and Maral Overseas Limited.
She is an experienced finance professional having worked as a banker both on the asset side and risk side and in large corporate treasuries and investor relations. She specializes in the area of project, corporate and structured finance, treasury, investor relations and strategic planning.
She started her career with ICICI, where she worked for over 10 years in the field of project, corporate and structured finance and represented ICICI on the Board of reputed companies such as Eicher Motors and Siel Limited. She then worked in various capacities in large organizations such as IBM, DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited (DSCL) and EmaarMGF in the areas of Corporate Finance, Treasury, Risk Management and Investor relations.
During her career, she has interacted closely with senior managements of companies, principal shareholders and CFOs and had the ability to gauge the vision as seen by some of the industry leaders.
She is a graduate in Commerce from Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University and did her articles with PriceWaterhouse while pursuing her Chartered Accountancy.
Mentor: Mr. Jyoti Sagar
Mentee’s contact details- City: New Delhi Email: [email protected] Mobile:+ 91-9818 968 061
Supported by 13 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Gita Nayyar
Ms Gita Nayyar is a Senior Advisor at Fulcrum Ventures, an early VC fund, focused on Pharmaceutical, Wellness and Consumer sectors. She is also an independent consultant working with HNIs and Corporates. Gita is an active Angel investor with board experience with fast growing start-up companies.
She has over 26 years of senior management experience in the Financial Services Industry, both in India and U.K. Gita started her career with Citigroup in India where she worked for 18 years, the first 15 of which were in the Global Corporate and Investment bank. In this group, her diverse leadership assignments included, pan India responsibility for the New Client Acquisition team, Group Head of a number of key Industry segments and management responsibility for large client groups. This encompassed both the credit and relationship coverage. She subsequently transferred to Citigroup UK, as a Senior Private Banker focussing on ultra-high net worth NRI clients.
She then worked for several years, as the Regional Head–Asia, Credit Suisse Private Bank, UK. She led a team of senior Relationship Managers, focusing on Ultra HNI Asian Clients based in Europe, UK, Africa and across Asia.
She is involved with a number of philanthropic activities and serves on the advisory committee of a large, national NGO.
Ms Nayyar is an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, USA and holds a B.A in Economics (Hons) from the Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University.
Mentor: Mr. Nadir B Godrej
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9820 183 058
Supported by 14 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Hiroo Mirchandani
Ms. Mirchandani’s career of thirty years has been in customer-facing roles where she grew from Branch Manager to Business Unit Director primarily in consumer and healthcare industries. She has experience in managing business P&Ls and leading sales and marketing teams at Asian Paints, Dabur, World Gold Council and Pfizer. She now consults independently.
Ms. Mirchandani is an independent director on the board of Nilkamal Ltd and has served on the boards of three educational institutions. She brings operational experience and financial literacy combined with an ability to raise strategic issues from her diverse experience and innate curiosity.
As Executive Committee member and Business Unit Director at Pfizer, she led a large team with India wide responsibility of revenue and profits. She was responsible for shaping the division and company’s growth and talent strategy along with driving operational excellence. At Dabur, she was Marketing Head of the Healthcare Division. Prior to that, she was Branch Manager at Asian Paints based in Rajkot. She had responsibility of sales, collections and warehouse operations which gave her first-hand exposure to ‘middle’ India consumers and trade.
Ms. Mirchandani is a Chevening Gurukul scholar and has studied Leadership and Globalization at the London School of Economics. She holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi.
Mentor: Mr. Harsh Mariwala Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9821 008 540
Supported by 15 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Ingrid Srinath
Ms. Ingrid Srinath is presently Chief Executive Officer of Hivos India Advisory Services, a new for-profit venture from the Dutch INGO Hivos. She has been a passionate advocate for human rights, social justice and civil society in the past 16 years.
She transitioned from her career in advertising to the non-profit sector in 1998 with CRY (Child Rights and You), where she was CEO from 2004 to 2008. At CRY, she led the national coalition that successfully campaigned to amend India’s constitution to make education a fundamental right.
Ms. Srinath was Secretary General from 2008 to 2012 at CIVICUS, an influential global network of organizations at local, national, regional and international levels, dedicated to defending and strengthening civil society throughout the world. She served as Executive Director of CHILDLINE India Foundation, India’s free, 24/7, emergency helpline for children in distress.
She has served on the advisory boards of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum (UN DCF), the World Economic Forum (WEF), streetfootballworld, Magic Bus and the Prajnya Trust and on the boards of the INGO Accountability Charter, Public Interest Registry and The Rules.
She is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
Mentor: Mr. V.Thyagarajan
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9821 039 083
Supported by 16 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Jasmine Arora
Ms. Jasmine Arora is currently Principal, Family Office Capital Consulting and also a Consul- tant to the wealth business of Old Mutual Plc. Shealso advises some of the largest companies in identifying new markets, distribution channels and products andworks closely with some of the largest Indian families in the world where she advises them on asset allocation and risk assessment of their private wealth.She is a highly accomplished financial service professional with over 18 years of experience in corporate finance, capital markets and in wealth manage- ment at SBC Warburg, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS in London.
Her areas of speciality are Fund raising, Co-investment opportunities and Capital Markets - IPO’s, secondary market issues etc. Her clients have comprised FTSE 100 companies, the largest institutional investors, sovereign funds and the largest hedge funds in the world. She has also worked with large single and multi-family offices globally making her very well con- nected in the U.S., U.K. and Europe.
Apart from being a highly accomplished professional, she is a very successful entrepreneur having built a consulting business from scratch.
She has a proven ability to contribute strategically from top down whilst demonstrating an innate sense of attention to detail, quality control and risk management.
She is currently based in London.
Mentor: Mr. Aman Mehta
Mentee’s contact details- City: London; New Delhi Email: [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)758 236 8528; + 91 9717001081
Supported by 17 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Kalpana Sinha
Ms. Kalpana Sinha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cosmode Consultants. Prior to this, she was Director – People and Organization Capability at Microsoft Corporation for Sales and Marketing in Asia Pacific, and at the MS India Development Center. She has also been the Senior Vice President at McCann World Group in Asia working on a global organization transformation agenda. She is a champion of tangible, measurable and sustainable business transformation through building and delivering a strong people agenda. She has over twenty five years of experience in human capital management, learning and organization developmentand is passionate about aligning the disciplines with business strategy creation and implementation. She has also been an entrepreneur (e-learning start up) and possesses great business acumen. She is an executive coach and trusted advisor to senior business leaders and has facilitated over 500 workshops at senior leadership levels and has operated across the Asia Pacific region including South Asia, South East Asia, Japan and China with extensive project-related travel through the United States. She has to her credit a book edited by her on Empowerment of Women in South Asia, published by AMDISA in 2001 and is currently pursuing a research initiative ‘Accelerating Women in Leadership – India’ to understand what practices accelerate the development of women as leaders, and how having women in leadership roles contributes to organizational results. She has also been a pioneer is applying neuroscience to leadership development and change initiatives. She has just completed her Masters Certificatation in Neuroleadership from Middlesex University, United Kingdom. She has a MBA from Bombay University and a B.A. Economics from Osmania University.
Mentor: Mr. D. A. Prasanna
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon /Hyderabad; Singapore Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9966 237 822
Supported by 18 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Kumud Srinivasan
Ms. Kumud Srinivasan is Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group and President, Intel India. In this capacity, she is responsible for general management of Intel’s operations in India, which includes location’s overall strategy, business-enabling operations, organizational development, engineering and innovation for market development, as well as managing relationships with government, industry and academia.
Previously, Ms. Srinivasan was Vice President and General Manager of IT for Silicon, Soft- ware and Services, where she led the delivery of IT solutions and services for Intel’s hardware and software engineers. She joined Intel in 1987 and has held several business and informa- tion systems positions within Intel’s manufacturing and IT organizations.
She serves on the Executive Committee of FICCI and of that of India Electronics and Semi- conductor Association. She is a member of the India Council of the Anita Borg Institute, the Governing Body of the International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, and the Board of Advisors of the School of Information Studies in Syracuse University.
She is a graduate in Economics from Calcutta University and has a Masters in Information and Library studies from Syracuse University. In addition, she has completed doctoral course- work in Information Science from University of California, Berkeley.
Mentor: Mr. Rashesh Shah
Mentee’s contact details- City: Bangalore Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9591 788 110
Supported by 19 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Maya Dani
Ms. Maya Dani is Consultant to Red Pen, a boutique education advisory company based in Mumbai. She has experience in the fields of finance, consumer products, human resources and has worked in New York, London, Hong Kong and Mumbai.
As a Director at Lehman Brothers based in London, she was the lead equity research analyst covering the European Household and Cosmetics sector, covering companies such as L’Oreal and Reckitt Benckiser. Prior to that, she covered the U.S. beverages and tobacco sector based in New York. She also spent a year as head of recruiting for the Lehman’s Equity and Fixed Income Divisions in Europe, responsible for hiring across the continent.
She started her career as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, where she focused on leveraged finance. She has also worked for a B2B start-up in New York City as the Head of Business Development and at Merrill Lynch, where she focused on convertible debt.
She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Brown University.
Mentor: Mr. Subhash Chandra
Mentee’s contact details – City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9819 267 915
Supported by 20 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Mukeeta Jhaveri
Ms. Mukeeta Jhaveri is currently engaged in art consulting and CSR. She is a seasoned international capital markets professional with a strong interest in art, aesthetics, design and heritage conservation, supported by experience in running not-for-profit and investment companies. She has worked with DSP Financial Consultants in various capacities including VP, Capital Markets, Acting Head of Research, Head of International Equity Sales and Executive Assistant to the Chairman responsible for marketing a wide range of cutting edge international capital market products, developing research and prospectus documentation that later became an industry standard. In anticipation of the opening up of Indian markets, she developed the first- ever international FII client database in India. She was closely involved in nurturing the Merrill Lynch relationship and eventually documenting the shareholder agreement. She has 15 years of experience in managing family investment companies and 30 years of passionate art collecting, which formed the basis of an independent advisory practice with a special focus on investment grade art. Ms. Jhaveri has been regularly invited to present on art as an asset class to the financial investor community. She is closely involved with Citibank India in promoting culture, where art and music are used as specific, measurable tools to promote brand building, customer and stakeholder engagement and CSR. She is educated at Cathedral School, St. Xaviers College and New York University Business School. She is also the President, Cathedral School Alumni Association.
Mentor: Mr. Nihal Kaviratne
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9820 075 650
Supported by 21 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Mythili Bhusnurmath
Ms. Mythili Bhusnurmath is an economist turned banker turned journalist. She is presently Consulting Editor of ET Now and anchors a weekly show called ‘Macros with Mythili’.
She started her career with the State Bank of India (SBI) as a Probationary Officer in 1976. After 5 years in SBI, she moved to the Reserve Bank of India, qualifying as a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.
Ms. Bhusnurmath moved to journalism in 1993 and went on become the edit-page editor of The Economic Times for a number of years. In 2004, she moved to The Financial Express, becoming the first woman editor of a business paper in India.
In September 2006, she moved back to The Economic Times where, apart from writing editorials, she also wrote a regular fortnightly column. In January 2014, she switched over to the electronic medium.
She is a visiting faculty at the Times School of Journalism, Delhi University (Master of Business Economics) and Great Lakes Institute of Management (Gurgaon) and a consultant to the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
She has a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and has recently completed her LLB degree from Delhi University.
Mentor: Mr. Kapil Kapoor
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9818 094 855
Supported by 22 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Mythily Ramesh
Ms. Mythily Ramesh is the Co-Founder and CEO of NextWealth. She has over 20 years of experience and her career spans product management, marketing, business development and quality.
Previously, she was in Wipro, where she grew from a Customer Support Executive to a Senior Vice President. As a certified Black Belt, she drove the Six Sigma initiative in Wipro.
With a passion for entrepreneurship, she headed a start up in Wipro called ‘01markets’ and builta successful business around e-procurement. She then moved to the corporate office to handle Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Development and Innovation. In her last stint in Wipro BPO, she was responsible for pre-sales and solutioning, product management, transition, innovation and part of operations.
She was adjudged one of the 25 most powerful women in India by India Today and Dataquest in 2006 and 2007.
In June 2009, she and a few ex-Wipro colleagues started a social entrepreneurship firm,NextWealth, focusing on IT/BPO services from small towns in a unique distributed delivery model. Their mission is to create 10000 jobs in the small towns.
She is a BE (Computer Science) from College of Engineering, Guindy and a MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Mentor: Mr. G M Rao
Mentee’s contact details- City: Bangalore Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9845 058 964
Supported by 23 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Nandita Vohra
Ms. Nandita Vohra is currently working on a start-up in the digital space. She has over 18 years of experience in financial advisory, investment banking, consulting and policy advisory in the Indian infrastructure space.
She has worked as a senior consultant with Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program – South Asia (WSP - SA) and Larsen & Toubro Infrastructure Finance Limited (LTIFL). She has also worked with Kotak Bank (Investment Banking) and Feedback Ventures (Infrastructure Fund). As an advisor to LTIFL, she managed end- to-end transaction management of debt/equity financing in mid-market and fast growing infrastructure companies.
The sectors of her expertise include urban infrastructure (transport, roads, car parks, water supply, waste management, sanitation) and agribusiness.
Her clients and relationships extend to Indian corporate with interest in infrastructure, institutional investors, multilateral institutions and government agencies. She has been engaged in business development and origination to policy formulation, structuring, financing, negotiations and closure.
Ms. Vohra has a MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi.
Mentor: Mr. Deepak Parekh
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9867 660 055
Supported by 24 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Neera Saggi
Ms. Neera Saggi is currently a Director on the Board of several companies like Swaraj Engines, Swaraj Automotives, Tata Robinson Fraser, RPG Life Sciences, SICOM Limited (a Govt. of Maharashtra Undertaking), Tata Projects Ltd and CARE (India). Till recently she was the Chief Executive Officer of L&T Seawoods Pvt. Ltd responsible for project conceptualization and execution, leading highly qualified national and international resources including identification of business partners.
She has an extensive 34 years of varied experience both in the public and the private sector. She has worked with the government for twenty eight years as member of Indian Administrative Service with multiple stakeholders and in different areas including ports, SEZs, export promotion, textiles, area administration and rural development.
She has a rich experience in formulating and implementing national and state level strategies, programmes and partnerships. She can identify multi-level responses to crucial concerns and specific problems especially of infrastructure, social and development sector.
Besides other assignments, she was on the Board of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) and was closely associated with implementing public private partnerships initiatives. She was the CMD of Hindustan Diamond Corporation, a joint venture between De Beers and Government of India. She functioned as Development Commissioner of Special Economic Zones in Maharashtra, Goa, Diu, Daman and Gujarat including SEEPZ.
Ms. Saggi was elected as the first woman President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) during the year 2013-14.
She has been invited to speak at numerous national and international forums. She was invited by the U.S. Consulate, as one of the 10 leading Indian Women business executives to meet the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Mr. John Bryson.
Mentor: Mr. Ravi Kant
Mentee’s contact details - City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9167159596
Supported by 25 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Padmaja Nair
She is currently working as a consultant with Enable India, an NGO working with people with disabilities to set up a Centre of Excellence for persons with disabilities in the BFSI/PSU/Govt sector. She is also an Independent Director on the Board of Nitin Fire Protection Industries Ltd. She has also worked as Director CSR with a start-up consulting company in the sustainability and CSR space.
She has 36 years of work experience in the banking industry. She started her career with the State Bank of India (SBI). She worked extensively in the credit area, assessing risk, quantum and structure and obtaining sanctions of the credit requirements of both large corporates and SMEs. She was a member of the Corporate Centre Credit Committee for sanctioning big ticket loans. She has also served as head of both Bangalore and Chennai Regional offices of SBI Capital Markets, where she was involved in capital raising through public issues, debt syndication, raising private equity and restructuring of debt. She was involved in strategizing and coordinating the development of long and sghort term business plans of the Department and Capital Market Branch.
She was in charge of CSR for SBI and was responsible for allocating the Budget and selecting the programmes for CSR. She helped create customized CSR strategies aligned with company’s values, expertise, products, stakeholder expectations and long-term vision and inclusive of employees and networks.
She has attended several programs such as GRI Certification by KPMG, Strategic Leadership for Transformational Change conducted jointly by Duke University and IIM-A at London and Hyderabad.
She is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College, having done her post-graduation in History from Delhi University.
Mentor: Mr. Pradeep Bhargava
Mentee’s contact details- City: Bangalore Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9972 899 981
Supported by 26 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Pratima Ram
Ms. Pratima Ram is currently an Independent Director on the Boards of HavellsIndia, Nanadan Denims and Curaand is an advisor to India Infoline Finance Ltd. She earlier held Board positions in SBI California Ltd, USA and India Infoline Finance Ltd, Mumbai. She is an experienced banker with three decades in Corporate, International, Investment & Retail Banking. She has worked in India, USA and South Africa. She has held the position of Chief General Manager and Country Head ofthe United States Operationsof State Bank of India and prior to this she headed the South African operations of the Bank based at Johannesburg. At SBI Capital Markets, she led the Corporate Advisory, M&A, & Project Appraisal business. At SBI, she alsoheaded the Diamond Financing business of the Bank. On leaving the public sector, she joined private sector in the infrastructure space as Group President Finance atPunj Lloyd Group having diversified operations in more than 15 countries. She later was the CEO and Whole Time Director of India Infoline Finance Ltd, a Non Banking Finance company focused on lending to small businesses, Real Estate and Health Care sectors Sheis on the Management Committee of Bangalore Chambers of Industry and Commerce and a member of their sub Committees on Banking& Finance and Health Care. She is in the Executive Committee of Bangalore International Centre, an initiative of TERI, set up on the lines of India International Centre. While in USA, she was actively involved with the activities of US-India Business Council & Asia Society and was an elected member of the executive committee of the Institute of International Bankers, USA. She takes keen interest in mentoring and advising medium size corporate using her expertise gained in Corporate Banking & Advisory, Forex management and Risk management as well as experience gained in private sector industry Ms. Ram graduated from University of Virginia, USA and Bangalore University.
Mentor: Mr. K. V. Kamath
Mentee’s contact details- City: Bangalore Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9620 033 318
Supported by 27 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Priti Devi
Ms. Priti Devi is currently a Board member of Artworks For Change, a global not-for-profit educational Arts Foundation and Global Advisory Board Member at Eames Capital (a Singapore based entity). She has led a global professional life that included a recent tenure in Singapore with a global high net worth investor. She was responsible for advising the Chairman on corporate and creative social enterprise development and impact investing. She has also headed a privately funded global Foundation for the Chairman that used the Arts, as an inclusive medium to address social inequity in some of the world’s most challenging countries.
Ms. Devi ‘s career has included over a decade long tenure with international oil major Shell International in several roles across the globe that included Government Relations, External and Public Affairs, Business Strategy, Sustainable Development, CSR and Environment Management. She has held responsibility for owning and managing budgets and responsibility for hiring, training and appraising staff. She was also a representative of the Shell Group’s International Gender Diversity program, having had the benefit of diverse political, cultural and social exposure via the many global assignments held over the years.
She is widely traveled and has had a good exposure to and understanding of, global economic, social and development challenges.
She has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce & Economics from University of Delhi and Business Leadership Degree from INSEAD, Singapore.
Mentor: Mr. Sanjay Nayar
Mentee’s contact details- City: Singapore/ Mumbai Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Mobile: +65-818 152 30; + 91- 9833 967 900
Supported by 28 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Priyamvada Balaji
Ms. Priyamvada Balaji is currently a Whole Time Director in Lucas Indian Service (LIS) Ltd, an auto parts distribution company and a part of the TVS group, with a network across the country of over 1500 dealers covering 650 towns and cities in India.
Prior to working with LIS, she was a Senior Director at Fitch Ratings India (now India Ratings) and responsible for Western Region corporate credit ratings and a part of the National Rating Committee. She also has experience in international bond ratings. During her 8 years of experience in credit ratings, she has covered a wide range of sectors including autos, metals and mining and manufacturing. Prior to this, she has around 3 years of experience in commercial and investment banking.
She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Chennai.
Mentor: Mr. Puneet Bhatia
Mentee’s Contact details – City: Chennai Email:[email protected] Mobile: +91- 9820 131 089
Supported by 29 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Dr. Punita Kumar Sinha
Dr. Punita Kumar-Sinha is the Founder and Managing Partner, Pacific Paradigm Advisors, an independent investment advisory and management firm. Dr. Kumar-Sinha is also a Senior Advisor to a few leading Indian companies and serves as an Independent Director on many Boards. Dr. Kumar-Sinha has deep investment expertise, extensive corporate governance insights, and broad based relationships in , USA and Asia, particularly in India. Prior to founding Pacific Paradigm Advisors in 2012 was a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Group, leading Blackstone Asia Advisors as the business unit head and Chief Investment Officer. Dr. Kumar- Sinha was also the Senior Portfolio Manager for The India Fund (NYSE:IFN), the largest India Fund in the US for almost 15 years, The Asia Tigers Fund (NYSE:GRR), and The Asia Opportunities Fund L.P. Dr. Kumar-Sinha has more than twenty years of experience in fund management in international and emerging markets, being one of the first foreign investors into India.Before joining Blackstone, Dr. Kumar-Sinha was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc., and CIBC World Markets, where she was also the Portfolio Manager for The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund.At CIBC World Markets, Dr. Kumar-Sinha was instrumental in opening one of the first India advisory offices for a foreign firm. Prior to joining Oppenheimer, Dr. Kumar-Sinha was Portfolio Manager on the emerging markets team at Batterymarch (a Legg Mason company), which she joined after four years at Standish Ayer & Wood (a BNY Mellon company). At Standish Ayer she helped build the international equity business and alsodeveloped country allocation models and strategies as well as researched investments in international markets. She also interned at J.P. Morgan and IFC/World Bank where she worked for a year. Dr. Kumar-Sinha has frequently featured in the media and has also anchored TV series on ET NOW on various global economies, key Indian policy issues and their impact on equity markets. Dr. Kumar-Sinha has a Ph.D. and a Masters in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering with distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She has an MBA and is also a CFA Charter holder. Dr. Kumar-Sinha is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a Charter Member and was a Board Member of TIE-Boston. She is on the Board of Rallis India, JSW Steel, Srei Infrastructure Finance, Sobha Developers, Mahindra Intertrade, Finopaytech and Jagran Prakashan. Dr. Kumar-Sinha has recently been awarded the prestigious “Distinguished Alumni Award” from IIT Delhi.
.Mentor: Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan
Mentee’s Contact details – City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9833 363 533
Supported by 30 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Punita Lal
Ms. Punita Lal holds various advisory positions including being on the board of CeatTyres, Cipla Pharmaceuticals and Mobile Creches. She is also engaged in Leadership Coaching and Consulting practice focusing on Strategy and Marketing. She has over 25 years of experience in Strategy, Marketing and Leadership in the FMCG sector. She has been recognised as India’s top 20 Business Women in 2006 and awarded Corporate Woman of the Year in 2009 by FICCI.
Her work experience spans multiple disciplines, geographies and cultures. She has been the CEO and MD for NourishCo, a strategic joint venture between PepsiCo and the Tata group. She was in-charge of drawing up JV strategy and business plans, staffing and building full functional and co-pack operations. She launched two new products in the first year of JV operations.
Prior to this, she was the Executive Director, Marketing at PepsiCo Beverages in South Asia, where she was responsible for complete portfolio management for PepsiCo beverage line up, with strategy, innovation and commercial functions. Earlier, she has worked with The Coca-Cola Company and has spent 12 years in advertising at JWT and Lintas and launched many FMCG products in India.
She has done B.A. (H) Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and MBA from IIM Calcutta.
Mentor: Dr. Omkar Goswami
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9871 396 231
Supported by 31 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Radhika Haribhakti
Ms. RadhikaHaribhakti has over 30 years of experience in Commercial and Investment Banking with Bank of America, JM Morgan Stanley and DSP Merrill Lynch. She has advised several large corporates and led their IPOs, FPOs, GDR and ADR offerings. She now heads RH Financial, a boutique Investment Banking Firm focused on M&A and Private Equity. She serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of EIH Associated Hotels Ltd, ICRA Ltd, Navin Fluorine International Ltd, Rain Industries and Vistaar Financial Services Pvt Ltd. MsHaribhakti is also closely involved with issues of women empowerment, financial inclusion and CSR.She serves on the Governing Council of Citigroup Micro Enterprise Award and Chairs the Board of SwadhaarFinaccess, a non profit which is engaged in providing financial education to urban low income communities. She is the former Chair of Friends of Women’s World Banking (FWWB) that has supported several start-ups grow into leading Micro Finance Institutions. At FWWB, she was instrumental in introducing the highest standards of governance in the sector. She has also been a member of CII’s National Committee on Women Empowerment and Bombay Chamber of Commerce’ Task Force on ‘Mumbai as Offshore Financial Centre’. Ms. Haribhakti was named among the top 50 business women of India by Business Today. She holds a post graduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Mentor: Mr. Arun K. Nanda
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9821 131 817
Supported by 32 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Dr. Rajani R. Ved
Dr. Rajani R. Ved is Advisor, Community Processes at the National Health Systems Resource Center, which provides technical support to the National Health Mission. She also works with the state governments on district level pilots for Universal Health Coverage.
Her work focuses on community processes within the broader health systems context, strengthening institutional platforms for improved governance and people’s engagement with the health system and addressing social determinants of health.
Dr. Ved has over 20 years of grassroots experience in the area of women and child health, nutrition and health systems while working with NGOs, governments, donors and private foundations. She has been involved in programme implementation, evaluation, research and policy formulation.
Her special interest lies in the study and documentation of scaling up innovations to government health systems and she has conducted seminars and workshops for scaling up training.
She has a degree in Medicine from Madras University and a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard University.
Mentor: Mr. Saurabh Srivastava
Mentee’s contact details- City: New Delhi Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9810 333 771
Supported by 33 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Rinita Singh
Ms. Rinita Singh is the Group Managing Director of Quantum Consumer Solutions and is actively involved in crafting the group’s growth strategy across divisions and geographies. She is also a shareholder in the parent company and is on the board of all the group companies.
In 1987, she joined JWT, foraying into the world of brand strategy. She participated in JWT’s new strategic planning initiatives across Bombay and Bangalore, which was her first real exposure to qualitative research.
She joined Quantum Market Research to set up the Calcutta office in 1992. Her role moved very quickly from that of a qualitative researcher to one of business development and she actively participated in the expansion and restructuring of the group across new geographies - especially operations in Bangladesh, Singapore and Indonesia. She became the Managing Director in 2007 after serving as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Quantum Group.
She has been invited to speak at various forums, written several articles for media and participated in strategic discussions as an expert at various branding and strategy events.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Bombay University and then a Masters in Organic Chemistry from Northwestern University, Illinois.
She is based in Singapore.
Mentor: Mr. Pradip Shah Mentee’s contact details- City: Singapore Email: [email protected] Mobile: +65 - 9168 5203; + 91- 9987 020 565
Supported by 34 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Ritu Arora
Ms. Ritu Arora is a Founder Member, Director and Chief Investment Officer of Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company. She also looks after the investment governance of HSBC insurance business in China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
She leads a team of highly qualified fund managers and analysts who manage assets invested in Indian equity and debt markets. She has a deep understanding of global and domestic economics and its impact on financial markets.
She has a rich experience in BFSI and FMCG industries and is the founding member of two very successful start-ups in India, MetLife Insurance and Canara HSBC Life Insurance. In the past, she has shouldered diverse finance, strategy and treasury responsibilities with reputed companies like Coca Cola India, Gillette India Ltd and Marico.
She was awarded “Leading Women in Finance” by Women in Leadership Forum India 2012 and “Women Leader of Choice” award by WILL (Forum for Women in Leadership) in 2013. She is frequently interviewed by electronic and print media as an economy and capital markets expert.
Ms. Arora is deeply passionate about coaching and mentoring and as an Executive Coach, coaches CEOs and senior professionals.
She completed PGDM from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai (1996), got 32nd rank (all-India) in ICWAI (Institute of Cost and Works Accountants), and was University gold medallist and lady topper. She has also done a Post graduate programme in Executive Coaching from CFI (Coaching Foundation of India) in 2013.
Mentor: Mr. Deepak Bagla
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9958 399 441
Supported by 35 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Rumjhum Chatterjee
Ms. Rumjhum Chatterjee is one of the co-founders of Feedback Infra Group. She serves as the Group Managing Director – Human Capital Development, Chairperson of the Feedback Foundation Trust and is a Director on the Board of Feedback Infra Pvt. Ltd. She also serves as a member of the Governing Body of HelpAge India and has been nominated as a Trustee in ‘3E Education Trust’ that will set up the HDFC Schools in India.
She is a leading practitioner of the management of human capital in the infrastructure sector and was recognized as one of the 20 Most Talented HR Leaders in India by the World HRD Congress in 2013.
She has a deep interest in the subject of women’s empowerment. She is Vice Chairperson for CII’s National Council on Women Empowerment and the Co-Chair for the Jury of the Selec- tion Committee for CII’s Women Exemplar Award.
She has represented the industry’s views on the subject before Parliamentarians in India and also participated in a closed door interaction to discuss women’s empowerment with Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe, during his recent visit to India in January 2014.
Her paper on ‘Sustainable Rehabilitation Interventions through Community Engagement’ was published in the India Infrastructure Report 2009, published by 3iNetwork.
She has graduated in Psychology from Calcutta University.
Mentor: Mr. Sidharth Birla
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile:+ 91- 9811 025 626
Supported by 36 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
S.C. Sharada
Ms. S.C. Sharada is the Founder Director of Lex Valorem India Pvt. Ltd., a corporate consult- ing company offering legal and company secretarial services. Her clients belong to various sectors such as IT, ITES, Engineering, Aerospace, Retail, Manufacturing and Healthcare.
She is on the advisory Board of a technology company in the agri-business space.
Ms. Sharada’s professional experience spans more than two decades as Company Secretary. Prior to setting up her firm in 2006, she was the Company Secretary and Legal Counsel of Buhler India Pvt. Ltd., a Swiss MNC for 11 years and was responsible for Board processes, regulatory compliances, legal matters and indirect tax management.
Elected in 2014, she is the first Woman Chairperson of the Bangalore chapter of ICSI. She is also on the Manthan and Corporate Affairs Committee of FKCCI.
She is a commerce graduate from Osmania University and holds a degree in law from Ban- galore University. She is an Associate Member of ICSI and has also completed the Fast Track General Management Programme from IIMB.
Mentor: Mr. S Vaitheeswaran
Mentee’s contact details- City: Bangalore Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Mobile: + 91 9980 533 405
Supported by 37 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Sangeeta Pandey
Ms. Sangeeta Pandey is the Global BU HR Director at Akzo Nobel Powder Coatings B.V. and is based out of Amsterdam.
Sangeeta’s previous role was within AkzoNobel, as Director HR, Decorative Paints India and South Asia and Country HR Director India, based out of Gurgaon. Sangeeta joined AkzoNobel in 2009. She was responsible for steering AkzoNobel’s delivery on the transformational people Agenda and bringing to life the AkzoNobel People Strategy in India and South Asia. She provided a strategic direction in the area of Human Resources to AkzoNobel’s diverse business portfolio in India & South Asia.
She has over 21 years of experience in Human Resources in Durables, Oil & Gas, and Office Automation and Automobile organizations.
Before AkzoNobel, she was the Senior General Manager HR, with the Automotive Sector at Mahindra & Mahindra. She joined M&M in 2006. Within six months of her joining, she was nominated as a member of the elite Shadow Board for the Automotive Sector. She commenced her HR career with Bharat Petroleum, followed by Shell and Xerox.
Ms. Pandey was awarded the Women Super Achiever by the World HRD congress in 2009 and 2010. She was awarded the Indira Super Achiever in 2007 and was conferred with ‘Innovative HR Practice/ Best Re-invention of HR Function’ at the Midday Big Break Awards in November 2005.
She holds a graduate degree in Chemistry Honours and a Management Degree from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Mentor: Mr. Saroj Poddar
Mentee’s contact details- City: Amsterdam Email: [email protected] Mobile: +31 - 650 617 493
Supported by 38 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh
Ms. Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh is Vice President Finance/CFO at Dun & Bradstreet Technologies and Data Services.
Her wide areas of experience of over seventeen years includes Cost and Management controls, Enhancing shareholders’ return, Corporate Governance, MIS reporting & Budgeting, Preparation and Execution of policies and procedures, Internal Controls, Risk mitigation, Audits, Financial Analysis, Forecasts, Projections and Variance Analysis, Project review and profitability, Strategic Management, Implementation of Best practices, Operations Management, Business Administra¬tion and CSR activities.
She has previously worked with multinationals like Alstom, Tupperware and Thales. She has also acquired eight years of international experience during her tenure with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
She has been ranked as ‘India’s most influential women in Finance’ and has also won the ‘Leading Women Chief Financial Officer’ at Women leaders in India awards. She has also been awarded ‘Innovator in Finance’ at International Women Leaders Forum.
Ms. Sumesh has been a speaker at various forums like Indo-French Chamber of Commerce, ICAI Corporate Forum, ICAI Webinar, KPMG Seminar, Rotary clubs, ICICI Bank, leading colleges etc.
She is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Certified Public Accountant by profession.
Mentor: Mr. V. Balaraman
Mentee’s contact details- City: Chennai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9940 501 420
Supported by 39 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Sangita Singh
Ms. Sangita Singh is the Chief Executive of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of Wipro.
She has the distinction of being the senior-most Indian woman executive among the Big-3 IT services companies in India and has a vision of making the Healthcare and Life Sciences a billion dollar business unit within Wipro by 2016.
She has spearheaded multiple top management roles including SVP and Head of Enterprise Applications Services (EAS) - one of the largest technology service lines of Wipro’s global IT business. During her tenure as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Wipro, she was instrumental in establishing Wipro’s brand as a leading IT service provider globally.
Ms. Singh is passionate about nurturing people and driving people engagement. As executive sponsor for Wipro’s diversity initiatives, she has represented and championed the cause of diversity in multiple global forums, including the World Economic Forum at Davos, Fortune Women’s Forum, FICCI, NASSCOM and the Cisco-CEO Forum.
She was recognized as the Young Global Leader 2010, by the World Economic Forum. She was also christened as the ‘Outsourcing Wunderkid’ by Time magazine. She is a recipient of Stevie Award for ‘Best Asian Woman Executive’ and ‘Excellence in Information Technology’ award by FLO, the women’s wing of FICCI. Her perspectives on ‘Accountable Care and Analytics at its Core’ published in the Knowledge@Wharton have received great reviews by industry and analysts alike.
She holds an engineering degree from the Regional Engineering College-Durgapur and is based out of New York.
Mentor: Mr. Rajesh Subramaniam
Mentee’s contact details- City: Bangalore; New York Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1- 408 398 4810; +91- 9845 027 254
Supported by 40 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Sarita Nair
Ms. Sarita Nair is currently GM Finance at L’oreal, Mumbai. She has played a variety of roles over the last two decades including COO, CFO in top global brands such as GE, Reckitt Benckiser, Actis and ANZ Grindlays Bank (now Standard Chartered) to drive innovation initiatives that transform organizations, achieve operational excellence and capture breakthrough gains in revenue, profit- ability, production and efficiency.
She has been exposed to best practices in corporate governance and enterprise risk management across emerging markets. Evolving role and responsibilities of corporate boards and directors has been an area of interest for her over the years.
In today’s environment of dramatic changes in business models, she brings a fresh perspective to build and hone competitive intelligence and strategic planning to avoid blind spots and capitalize on strengths to excel. She actively follows and studies new developments in multiple sectors such as consumer goods and services, lifestyle, healthcare, education, digital and telecom etc. to better understand global customer preferences, technology and business model innovation.
As an active champion of corporate social responsibility, diversity and inclusion, Ms. Nair led GE’s female talent development efforts in many parts of the world, achieving considerable success. She also provided management and funding support to Salaam Baalak Trust to run shelters for under- privileged children in India.
She is an alumnus of Modern School in Delhi, studied Economics at Lady Shri Ram College and holds an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.
Mentor: Mr. Pramod Bhasin
Mentee’s contact details- City: New Delhi Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 704535 1033
Supported by 41 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Savita Mahajan
Ms. Savita Mahajan is the Deputy Dean at the Indian School of Business, India. She has been associated with the ISB since its inception in 2001, and was responsible for building itssecond campus at Mohali, Punjab, as its CEO, from 2009-2013. She is also an independent Director on the Board of IFCI ltd, nominated by the Government of India.
Previously, she has worked in several Indian organisations, including MarutiUdyog Limited, Bharat Technologies, Karvy Consultants, and Intergraph India, in diverse industry sectors, including automobiles, engineering, financial services and software. At Karvy and Intergraph, she was Head of Strategy and Organization Development.
Ms. Mahajan has carried out consulting and training assignments for corporations and devel¬opment organisations, including GE Capital, the Planning Commission, the World Bank, and the Tibetan Government in exile of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Her professional interests include Strategic Management, Institutional Values, Leadership and Organisational Change.
She featured in Business Today’s 2013 list of ‘30 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business’.
She has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Delhi University and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She has also done a fellowship programme from Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, at Princeton University, USA.
She has recently joined as Independent Director on Board of Orient Green Power Limited
Mentor: Mr. D. Sundaram
Mentee’s contact details- City: Hyderabad Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91-9849 201 350
Supported by 42 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Shalini Kamath
Ms. Shalini Kamath serves on the Advisory Board of TRRAIN (Trust for Retailers and Retail Associates of India–an NGO) since 2011.
She has close to three decades of work experience in three distinct fields–Human Resources, Business Development and Social & Community Development, across India and Africa. She began her working career in Zambia and Botswana where she worked with the Governments of both the countries on several Tripartite Developmental projects. She has held HR Head positions for Chevron Texaco India (Oil & Gas), Star India (Media & Entertainment), KPMG India (Consulting, Audit & Taxation) and Ambit Holdings (Financial Services & Investment Banking). She has been a key member of the Executive Leadership Team in each of her assignments.
She has provided strategic direction to Human Capital Management to enhance business performance and productivity through design of various innovative programs related to Organizational design and structure, ‘Start-Up’ Management, Cultural Integration, Change Management, Redundancy Programs, Capability building, Leadership development, Corporate Social Responsibility, etc. She is a trained CEO Coach and her additional responsibility in managing the Corporate Communications function at Ambit Holdings has given her the experience in building a strong Corporate Brand, both externally and internally. She was awarded the ‘Women Super Achiever Award’ at the India Human Capital Summit, 2011.
Prior to her roles in Human Resources, she was the Deputy Marketing Director at Raytheon India.
She is a member of the HR Sub-Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-West, and of the HR Committee at Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI).
She holds an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School, UK. She has been trained at Harvard Business School in Change and Transformation. She is an Alumni of the CSC Global leadership Program.
Mentor: Mr. Narayan K. Seshadri
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9820 520 069
Supported by 43 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Sheela Vadavalli
Ms. Sheela Vadavalli is Vice President (Legal) and Chief Compliance Officer at Mylan Pharmaceuticals Private Limited (subsidiary of Mylan Inc.).
Her key responsibilities include setting up robust processes and systems for the emerging markets to ensure compliance with the Indian and extra-territorial laws and working closely with the global Policy & Regulatory teams on strategic and policy matters pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry in the India and emerging markets.
She has around 18 years of experience and in-depth exposure to the entire spectrum of activities in Corporate Legal and Compliance including cross border M&A, Corporate Restructuring, Corporate Governance, General and Commercial Laws, Litigation and Compliance.
She has completed her MBA (Finance) from Osmania University; LL.B from Kakatiya University; LL.M from Osmania University and B. Sc (Chemical Technology) from Osmania University. She is a Chartered Associate of the Insurance Institute of India and a Company Secretary.
She has attended Senior Management Programme from the IIM, Kolkata in 2010 and an Executive Management Programme on ‘Influence and Negotiation Strategies’ at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2009.
Mentor: Ms. Ranjana Kumar
Mentee’s Contact details - City: Secunderabad Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9848 966 884
Supported by 44 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Shivpriya Nanda
Ms. Shivpriya Nanda is Partner, J. Sagar Associates.
She has extensive experience in all aspects of Corporate Commercial practice including Mergers & Acquisitions, representing multinational corporations and enterprises in large scale cross-border transactions, advice related to the establishment of new business operation, corporate structuring, joint venture agreements, asset and share acquisition, divestment, franchising, real estate, employment and commercial contract issues, employment law and anti-corruption law.
She advises International majors on large Infrastructure projects in the Transport, Aviation and Mining sector.
She has advised the airport operator in the privatisation of the Delhi airport and has also advised one of the largest multinational cargo companies in setting up their operations in India. She has also been involved in assisting with the entry strategy structuring in the largest Foreign Direct Investment in the Mining sector.
Having worked with one of the premier litigation firms of Delhi prior to her current practice, she has substantial experience in Litigation & Arbitration, including International Arbitration.
She has done her LL.B. and B.A. (Honours) fron University of Delhi.
Mentor: Mr. Hari S. Bhartia
Mentee’s contact details- City: Gurgaon Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91-9810 017 772
Supported by 45 Women on Corporate Boards Mentoring Programme 2013-14 (Batch I)
Smita Aggarwal
Ms. Smita Aggarwal is the Senior Program Director (CGM) at Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India. She is all India second rank-holder Chartered Accoun- tant with nearly 25 years of financial services and banking experience.
She has been a senior faculty, instrumental in designing, developing and delivering advanced programs for Bank CEOs, Executive Directors, and Independent Directors covering a range of issues on Leadership, Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Business Strategy. Programs conducted by her on contem- porary issues of Financial Inclusion, Banking Structure, Distressed Assets Management have served in providing policy inputs to regulators.
She started her career at ICICI Bank, where she held several senior management positions and led ini- tiatives with significant scale and geographic spread, in areas of international resources, retail banking, project finance and rural business. She was part of the core team responsible for setting up insurance joint ventures with foreign partners. She then joined Fullerton India Credit Company as Executive Vice- President and successfully designed and led a unique rural finance business model.
In her role at Indian Cancer Society, a public charitable trust, she heads the Cancer Cure Fund, which is the largest pan-India project for funding treatment for needy cancer patients.
Her experience across varying banking businesses, banking regulation and academics, combined with her strong analytical, communication and leadership skills provides her an edge in lateral thinking. She has featured in the ‘Frontrunners’ column of Business India.
She has attended executive management programs at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, USA. She is a visiting faculty at NMIMS School of Business Management for Advanced course on Microfinance.
She is also a member of the National Managing Committee of Indian Cancer Society. She is currently serv- ing as an Independent Director on the Board of Gokuldas Exports Ltd.
Mentor: Mr. Ranjit Pandit
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9821 065 105
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Sudha Pillai
Mrs. Sudha Pillai is an Independent Director on the Board of Jubilant Life Sciences Limited, International Travel House and Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd. She is also on some of the Board sub committees in these companies.
Mrs. Pillai joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1972 at the age of 22 with all India Second Rank. She has served as Joint Secretary, Department of Company Affairs, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Mines and held other positions under Government of India. She was promoted as Secretary to Government of India in 2005. She served as Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India and Secretary, Planning Commission before being elevated as Member Secretary.
She has contributed immensely in promoting reforms and legal system in India and liberalization of industrial licensing regime. She has also contributed in drafting of the Companies Bill, 1993 and has rich experience and expertise in policy formulation relating to Technology Transfer, Foreign Investment and Safety, Health and Environment at Workplace.
She was an ex-officio member of National Highway Authority of India, Indian Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd. and the Central Councils of the ICAI, ICSI and Institute of Cost Accountants of India. She has also served on the Boards of National Skill Development Corporation and Apollo Tyres and on the Board of Trustees of the Skill Development Trust Fund housed in the Ministry of Finance.
She is a post graduate in Psychology (gold medalist), Punjab University and Public Administration, Harvard University, USA with special areas of interest in Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Employment & Growth, Macro Economic Policy, World Food System, Equity in Rural Development Policy and Leadership and Mobilization of Group Resources.
Mentor: Mr. M. S. Verma
Mentee’s contact details- City: New Delhi Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9899 696 546
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Sudha Ravi
Ms. Sudha Ravi is Executive Director, Piramal Fund Management Pvt Ltd. providing expo- sure to real estate across the entire capital stack i.e. private / mezzanine equity, structured debt and construction finance.
As the Chief Executive Officer, she had set up Piramal Finance Pvt Ltd (PFPL), a Non-Bank- ing Finance Company (ND-SI).
Prior to joining Piramal Group, she had a successful stint of over 30 years in State Bank of India (SBI), having joined as a Probationary Officer and risen to become a General Manager. She has worked across varied functional areas at the Bank, including International, Corpo- rate, Retail and Rural banking. As a General Manager, she was heading the Enterprise Risk Management vertical of the Bank facilitating alignment of risk with strategy at the Bank-wide level.
As Deputy General Manager, Ms. Ravi was a Representative of the Bank at Washington D.C and also Executive Assistant to the Chairman, giving her a ringside view of the dynamics of banking business and thereby widening her perspective on business strategy, economy and the financial sector.
She is a Science and Law graduate and an avid reader and has keen interest in Education, with focus on Education for autistic children.
Mentor: Mr. Uday Khanna
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: + 91- 9619 665 165
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Sutapa Banerjee
Ms. Sutapa Banerjee is an Independent Director on the Board of JSW Holdings Ltd, Oxfam India and Lend-a-Hand, an NGO doing innovative work in the area of vocational skilling in Government aided schools largely in Maharashtra. She is also a nominee Director of the ISIS Fund promoted by the New York based Women’s World Banking (WWB) and the Netherlands based Triodos, on the Board of the NBFC Ananya Finance which pioneered lending to microfinance companies (MFIs) in India She is also involved in a Strategic Advisory capacity with the Intellecap Group and works as a Senior Consultant with the Singapore based Simitri Group.
Her professional career spans 24 years in the financial services sector largely across 2 large multi- national banks –ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO Bank. She built and headed several businesses in banks and is known well in the space. She is a well recognised thought leader in the Wealth Man- agement industry having headed and successfully built from scratch the Private Wealth businesses in both ABN AMRO Bank and Ambit.
She was voted as one of the ‘Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management’ by the Insti- tutional Investor Group in 2007, being the only Indian and one of only two winners from Asia. She led Ambit Private Wealth to ‘Best Private Bank in India’ in the 2013 Asia Money polls. She was also shortlisted in the 50 most Powerful Women in India by Fortune India in 2012.
She has been a speaker in many national and international seminars and has been actively profiled and quoted in both the print media and television.
Mentor: Mr. Harsh Goenka
Mentee’s contact details- City: Mumbai Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9820 282 881
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Urvashi Saxena
Ms. Urvashi Saxena is a Consultant, specializing in the fields such as International Taxation and Transfer Pricing. She is also associated with a Delhi Law firm, Associated Law Advisers, looking after their Mumbai work.
She is an Independent Director on the Boards of Gammon India Ltd., Elder Pharma, Elder Health Care and Sharda Worldwide Pvt. Ltd. She is also a member of their Audit Committees, Shareholders’ Grievance Committees and Remuneration Committees. She is committed to good and ethical governance and is also interested in Corporate Social Responsibility issues.
She joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1968 and after the initial training in Mussoorie and Nagpur, was posted in Kanpur and Lucknow. She spent the major part of her career in Mumbai, Thane and Pune, where she made a mark in various fields like investigation, judicial, training and audit.
She retired as Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax (CCIT) Mumbai, the first lady to occupy that office, in June 2005. During her long career of nearly four decades with the Income Tax Department, she won several citations, awards and rewards for her meritorious service.
After retirement from the Income Tax Department, she was selected as a Member of the Income Tax Settlement Commission, Mumbai Bench and was later elevated to the post of Vice-Chairman. She retired as Chairperson of the Settlement Commission in June 2007.
She completed her graduation and post-graduation from the University of Allahabad. Later on, she obtained her Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Lucknow.
Mentor: Mr Ravi Kant
Mentee’s contact details - City: Thane, Maharashtra Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91- 9820 432 259
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Founders’ Profiles
Arun Duggal
Mr. Arun Duggal is Chairman of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) Centre for Corporate Governance focused on enhancing Corporate Governance in India through multiple programs including a Mentorship initiative to get more women on Corporate Boards. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he teaches a course on Venture Capital, Private Equity and Business Ethics.
Hel is Chairman of Board of Directors of Shriram Capital, Shriram Transport Finance Company, Shriram City Union Finance. He is also Chairman of International Asset Reconstruction Company.
He is on the Boards of Directors of Sanlam Life Insurance, South Africa, Jubilant Energy, Netherlands (Chairman, Audit Committee), Zuari Agro Chemical Ltd (Chairman, Audit Committee), Info Edge (Chairman, Audit Committee), Dish TV and Adani Port.
Mr. Duggal had a 26 years career with Bank of America, mostly in the U.S., Hong Kong and Japan. His last assignment was as Chief Executive of Bank of America in India from 1998 to 2001.
A Mechanical Engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Mr. Duggal holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award).
Mr. Duggal is a U.S. national and resident of India. A theatre enthusiast, he also plays tennis and enjoys trekking in the Himalayas.
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Founders’ Profiles
Anjali Bansal
Ms. Anjali Bansal is Managing Director of Spencer Stuart India, which she was instrumental in establishing. Based in Mumbai, she also co-leads the firm’s Asia Pacific Board & CEO practice.
Anjali works in various geographies across the United States, Europe and Asia, advising companies on Board governance, CEO and senior executive search and succession planning.
Earlier, Anjali was with McKinsey & Company in New York and Mumbai. She is a recognized expert and a frequent commentator on Corporate Governance, Board and CEO succession.
Anjali serves on the boards of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Pharmaceuticals India and Bata India Limited. She is on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Global Centers and a trustee of the United Way of Mumbai. Previously, she chaired the board of FWWB, a leading development and livelihood promoting institution.
She chairs the FICCI Women on Corporate Boards programand is a Charter member of TiE. She serves on the Managing Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the CII Women Empowerment Committee.
She has been listed as one of the ‘Most Powerful Women in Indian Business’ by Business Today and by Fortune Magazine.
She received a Master’s degree in International Finance and Business from Columbia University, New York and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University.
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About the FICCI Centre for Corporate Governance
The FICCI Centre for Corporate Governance has been set up by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) with the support of the industry to contribute to enhancement of corporate governance standards in India and provide services in this area internationally.
The major initiatives of the Centre are:
• Women on Corporate Boards (WCB) - The initiative is aimed at enhancing corporate governance by improving gender balance and increasing the number of women on boards as independent directors. In this programme, senior professionals with extensive experience in Boards and areas of corporate governance, mentor and coach qualified high potential women to take up board positions.
• Directors’ Forum - Recognizing the need for continued education for Directors, this peer group forum of Independent Directors (ID) and Non - Executive Directors (NED)would enable Independent Directors to meet quarterly and participate in sessions that would include guest speakers, discussions on issues of common interest and networking opportunities.
• Board Support Centre - The Centre will provide a confidential help desk for Board members when they want to get advice on any Board Agenda item or any Governance issue. It will draw upon a panel of experts in various fields: experienced Board Chairs, Audit and other Committee Chairs, Lawyers, Accountants, Bankers, Consulting firms, HR and compensation specialists, IT specialists, Brand and marketing professionals, social sector experts, CSR consultants, retired regulators, etc.
• Directors’ Corporate Governance Programmes - The Centre will organize corporate governance programmes for Board Members in partnership with academic institutions.
• Think Tank - The Centre will, in collaboration with academic partners, endeavour to undertake academic research, publish papers and promote scholarship in the area of Corporate Governance and Board Effectiveness.
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• Regulatory Interface - The Centre will interface with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Reserve Bank of India, Competition Commission of India and other government organizations on issues relating to corporate governance.
• Expert Advice - The Centre will provide to the Board Chairmen and Boards, expert advice on a range of Corporate Governance matters, such as various new provisions under the new Companies Act. This would include establishing CSR framework, Directors’ Evaluation & Feedback, Committee Charters, Prevention of Sexual Harassment, Whistle Blower mechanism, Insider Trading issues, etc.
• Board Effectiveness - The Centre will provide advisory services to the industry, in partnership with an academic institution, on improving Corporate Governance processes and Board Effectiveness to companies in India and overseas.
• Investor Information Centre - The Centre will provide information and comfort regarding corporate governance in India to international financial and strategic investors, private equity and venture capital firms, sovereign funds, etc. and thereby help attract additional foreign investment into India.
• Sector Focus - Besides general issues of Corporate Governance, the Centre will focus on specific issues concerning the following: Foreign Multinational Boards; Indian Multinational Boards; PSU Boards; Banks Boards; Other Financial Institution Boards; Boards of Companies with large private equity holdings; Boards of Companies in CDR (corporate debt restructuring) or in financial stress; Boards of companies in Specific Industries (such as Pharma, Steel, Cement, Telecom, Media, etc.); Boards of NGOs and Boards of Educational Institutions.
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Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 1, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi - 110001 T: +91-11-2373 8760 - 70 (11 lines) Please visit our website: www.ficci-ccg.com