RUBIX: The Corporate Paradigm

DAY 1

Mr. Neeraj Sharma

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Neeraj Sharma is Managing Director at Accenture . With about 15 years of experience as a P&L Owner & Strategy Professional, he previously held leadership role with one of the largest Technology Services firm. He carries in-country experience of working in 18 diverse markets of India, South East Asia & Sub-Saharan Africa. Beyond office, he is an avid writer, with his works having made to the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab and the Global Indian Music Awards.

Day 2

Mr. Kaushik Das

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Kaushik Das has been an L&D Professional with over 12 years of experience in the corporate. He has worked in academia, consulting, start-ups, large promoter driven organisations and multi-national corporations. Currently, he works with Siemens Ltd., - a Fortune 50 company, and has been a part of its Global Learning & Development team. In Siemens India, he drives OD interventions, Leadership Development, Sales & Customer Service Trainings, Digitalisation, and other varied formal business learning interventions. He is a management graduate from IMI, Belgium & M. Com from H.L. College of Commerce. His strengths lie is business partnering, consulting, content development, delivery, e- learning designing, to name a few.

His own life has been a journey of transformation from a Professional Cricketer to Corporate Professional. Before joining the corporate world, Kaushik had represented Gujarat in Rajni Trophy, National level competitions and also played for Reserve Bank of India. He has a penchant for photography, videography, making bite-sized videos, and designing learning programs.

FINANCE PANEL

Ms. Megha Bansal

Finance Panelist-1

Ms. Megha Bansal is Director at Delhivery and has previously worked as Sr. Manager with KEC International Ltd., Deputy Director at Ordnance Factory Board, Ministry of Defense Production and Scientist at DRDO, Bangalore.

She is a dedicated Supply Chain Professional with invaluable knowledge gained over 10 years’ of managing multinational projects, resources and staff in Defense & Aerospace.

Mr. Vinit Bolinjkar

Finance Panelist-2

Mr. Vinit Bolinjkar is an alumnus of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies where he has done his MMS in Finance. Presently he is working as an Equity Research Head at Ventura Securities. He is also a Valuation & Equity Research Coach & budding author of the book Unlimited Abundance - Pathway to Wealth Creation. He is also an avid blogger and features on live shows of ET NOW, BTVI & Bloomberg Quint. He has many publications like these under his name. • Trading with Multiples • Valuation of Indian Banking & Financial Stocks • Valuation of Indian Consumer Stocks • Valuation of Nifty50 Stocks

He takes an active interest in training young minds such as ours by being a visiting faculty at management institutes & also set up his own online financial markets training academy “School of Market Studies.”

Mr. Jayesh Satish Behede

Finance Panelist-3

Mr. Jayesh Behede is a Chartered Accountant and an accomplished Tax professional with a reputation as a leading Tax scholar whose experience varies over 13 years in Direct, Indirect and International Taxation and provides considerable insights into the area of Corporate Taxation, with specific focus on the Financial Services sector. He is presently working with Edelweiss Group and is engaged in Tax advisory, litigations and compliances for its various businesses including Investment Banking, NBFCs, Asset Reconstruction, AIFs, Wealth Management, Broking and Insurance.

He has also implemented FATCA and CRS across the group and ensures that they remain compliant always. He played instrumental role in BEPS, CBCR, Master File, APA and Group Transfer Pricing Policy. He has bagged various accolades such as Reliable Titan, SBU Star, Business Enabler, Extra Mile and Synergy awards and is also a part of Business Leaders Group with Edelweiss. He is an active career counsellor. Prior to Edelweiss, he enjoyed his leadership term with Tata Motors Finance, Reliance Capital Group, Reliance Mutual fund and Alkem Labs specialising into Tax Advisory and Litigation in Direct and Indirect tax domain for India as well as overseas group companies.

Mr. Vishal Ahuja

Finance Panelist-4

Mr. Vishal Ahuja is an India Head - Private Wealth Group, Head - Capital Markets at JLL. He has been associated with CBRE as Director for more than a period of 13 years.

He is an alumnas of Welingkar Institute of Management. He is highly skilled at Real Estate Development, Real Estate Economics and Corporate Real Estate. His domain knowledge in real estate sector coupled with his understanding of client requirements gives him an edge to give right solutions to the clients, resulting in client satisfaction.

Mr. Ajit Kumar Birendranath

Finance Panelist-5

Mr. Ajit Kumar Birendranath, an alumnus of NMIMS is currently working with DB Center Private Ltd, a Deutsche Bank Group company, as Vice President in the Global Prime Finance business.

The Prime Finance business caters to Hedge Funds trading in Equities and equity derivatives. He is responsible for managing Cash and Collateral for Equities business and optimization of Balance sheet usage.

Mr. Birendranath has also worked with ICICI Bank as a Manager, where he was part of Market Risk team and focused on ALM and Forex & Derivative risk of the Bank. He has also worked in areas of stress testing and development of currency trading system for the Bank.

Mr. Amol Dethe

Finance Panel Moderator

Mr. Amol Dethe has extensive experience in interviewing and moderating events, delivering guest lectures and conducting sessions on Start-ups/FinTech’s/Media/India’s growth etc. He is currently heading ETBFSI.com and ETCFO.com (By ) as its Editor. A Business/Finance Journalist with over a decade of experience in covering the Indian financial sector at top media houses including CNBC-TV18, Zee Business and Daily News & Analysis (DNA) and FinBizness.

After working as a business journalist for national TV channels for close to a decade and learning global, digital media, he has ventured into generating content (From local to global), media training, moderating events, offering solutions for financial literacy and teaching journalism to degree students.

MARKETING PANEL

Mr. Bijendra Vats

Marketing Panel Moderator

Mr. Bijendra Vats is the Director - HR at MSD India, which is one of the largest US multinational pharmaceuticals company. In his career spanning over two decades across reputed organizations like Novartis and Dr Reddy’s Labs, he has worked on both the sides – Business and HR.

His expertise ranges across managing Mergers & Acquisition scenarios, Organizational Integration, HR Development & Transformation, Leadership Development, Talent Management to Succession Planning. He is passionate about giving back to the society, the pearls of wisdom that he has garnered in his professional journey.

A thought leader who makes audience see through their ears, he has been associated with some of the prestigious B-Schools like NMIMS, Welingkar, IIHMR University to name a few, in varying capacities from being an academic board member, visiting faculty to a mentor. He is also a top-notch speaker at several HR leadership forums.

Mr. Sumit Agrawal

Marketing Panelist-1

Mr. Sumit Agrawal is an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur. He has led the Jharkhand state cricket team for a T-20 tournament organized by ATC, India.

He is currently working as the HR Business Partner for India Sales - North and East division and E-commerce business. Major part of the role is to support the business leaders in managing the sales talent along with leadership coaching and capability building.

He also works closely with our distributors to recommend systems, processes and solutions for their organization to enable faster growth.

Mr. Anil Wanvari

Marketing Panelist-2

Mr. Anil Wanvari is an Indian media entrepreneur who is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of the Indiantelevision.com group, which he set up in 1999.

He is also one of India's most prominent journalists-cum-observers-specialists covering the Indian advertising, marketing, cable TV, satellite TV, terrestrial TV and OTT ecosystems. Mr. Wanvari has also been instrumental in creating properties such as The Indian Telly Awards and The NT Awards.

He has been the producer of Indiantelevision and The Indian Telly Awards which has been televised on general entertainment channels like Star Plus, Sony, Colors and &TV over the years. The NT Awards has been telecast on news channels. He is also a member of the New York-based International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Mr. Harsh Chhajer

Marketing Panelist-3

He is a corporate sales professional, with Corporate Work Experience of 8+ years. He is enthusiastic in understanding the Consumer behavior and ready to challenge the conventional methodology of business.

Passionate supporter of the next-gen thought process & believes in obtaining best results by exposing young minds to complex situations and taking their most interesting views. Accountable for developing incoming multinational business via leveraging the organization’s global network of over 130 in one of his previous roles.

In a humble stint of more than 8 years, he has managed some of the largest clients from the largest sectors in Indian Market.

Ms. Suma Nair

Marketing Panelist-4

Ms. Suma Nair leads the Corporate Marketing team (India) for KPIT. She has 20+ year of experience in building strategic global marketing programs with overall responsibility of growing solution areas and functions within multinational organizations. Suma has been ranked among India’s Top 50 Content Marketing professionals and also among India’s Top 100 Digital Marketers.

She was conferred with the “Most Influential MarTech Leaders” award by World Marketing Congress in 2017 and 2018 and also featured in their ‘Most Influential Content Marketing Professionals Listing in 2019.

Her prior stints were with Grasim Industries, FCB Ulka & Satyam Computers. She actively contributes in community-driven initiatives and is passionate towards teaching young and fledging minds, including under privileged children.

Mr. Abhijeet Tople

Marketing Panelist-5

Mr. Abhijeet Tople has 19 years’ experience, 14 years as an advocate & In-House Legal counsel and 5 years in core sales, marketing, manufacturing as sales manager, production engineer, TV news reader.

He is an expert in Contract drafting, vetting and negotiations including in Joint Ventures, Compliance. He has drafted, vetted, negotiated and got executed 700 agreements in just 2 (two) years i.e. approx. 30 agreements every month. He speaks at various summits including General Counsel Summits, In-House Counsel Summits etc.

Abhijeet was felicitated with many awards to name a few: • The 40 under 40 rising star award, 2018. • General Counsel of the Year, 2019. • “Best News Reader Award 2005”

He was practicing as an Advocate after completing his LLB and was working for companies like Reliance Communication, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, SBI etc.

Mr. Abubaker Maraicar

Marketing Panelist-6

He is an alumna of NMIMS Navi . After completing his engineering in electronics, he worked with Ericsson Global and post that completed his PGDM from NMIMS Navi Mumbai. Currently, he is working with Salesforce as an Assistant Account Partner.

HR SIMULATION

Mr. Amar Chinthal

Mr. Amar Chinthal is an HR professional with overall experience of 12 years in Talent management, L&D, Engagement. Worked with companies like M&M, G&B, L&T, he is currently associated with Allcargo Logistics ltd.