MR SATISH PRADHAN

Executive VP - Group HR Tata Sons Ltd. Mr. Satish Pradhan is Executive Vice President Group HR Tata Sons. he Heads the Tata Group HR function. Prior to joining the group in April 2001, he was with ICI Plc in London at their Head Office as Organization Design & Development Manager (Group Human Resources). He has a Masters in History from Delhi University and has worked in Public Sector and Private Sector companies. During the last 24 years he has worked with Steel Authority of India Ltd, CMC Ltd, ICI India Ltd, Brooke Bond Lipton India Ltd, ICI Plc. in various capacities in the HR area. He has worked extensively in the areas of global leadership development and competency frameworks. He is a keen 'bird watcher' and wild life enthusiast. He is also closely involved with community development activities. He is on the Board of :

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd. (and member of Remuneration Committee) Tal Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. Automotive Stampings and Assemblies Limited (and Chairman of the Audit Committee) Tata Services Ltd. Computational Research Laboratories Pvt. Ltd Advanced Computing Solutions Pvt. Ltd

He is also a member of :

The Technical Advisory Committee on HR of Reserve Bank of India The Board of National HRD Network The Executive Committee of the Bombay Natural History Society Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) National Committee on HRD and Women's Empowerment

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Laszlo Bock

Senior Vice President of People Operations, Google Inc.

     Mr. Laszlo Bock serves as Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google Inc. Mr. Bock joined Google from the General Electric Company, where he served as Vice President of Human Resources within GE Capital Solutions. He had earlier served as Vice President of Compensation and Benefits for GE Commercial Equipment Financing. Before GE, he served as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey and Company, serving clients in the technology, private equity and media industries on issues of organizational design, talent acquisition and development, and cultural transformation. Earlier, he served as a compensation consultant at Hewitt Associates, an HR consultancy. He served as Management Consultant at McKinsey and Company. He serves as Board Member at Agilone LLC. 

     He has been a Director of Evolv, Inc., since January 2011. He serves as Member of Western Region Advisory Board at Catalyst, Inc. Mr. Bock earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Yale University School of Management, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Pomona College.

During Bock's tenure, Google has been named the Best Company to Work For more than 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. In 2010, he was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Executive Magazine.  He is the author of "WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead"

Source: LinkedIn, Investing.businessweek.com, Google+

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Profile of Anurag Verma - Flipkart

Anurag Verma

Director - HR

 

Profile:

HR professional having 17 years of experience in the core areas of HR viz. Strategic HR, OD, Change Management, Talent Management , Employee Engagement, Learning and Development, Designing and Implementing HR Operations &, HRMS, Employee Communication.

Specialties:

Strategic HR, OD, People Strategy, Employee Engagement, Change Management, HRMS, Talent Acquisition & Management, Learning and Development, Power Coaching

Key Professional Skills:

Internal Communications,Strategy,Deferred Compensation, Talent Management, Change Management, Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, HRIS, Talent Acquisition, Performance Appraisal, Performance Management, Strategic HR, Coaching, HR Policies, Personnel Management

Experience:

Director- HR                                                  Flipkart                                                 Oct 2012 – Present

CHRO                                                            ITIL ( A TVS and ILFS JV)                 Sept 2008 – Oct 2012

Corporate Manager-HR                                 Visisht Group                                        Jun 2004 – Jun 2006

Sr. Manager- HR                                           Sylvan Inc.                                            Aug 2003 – May 2004

Head- HR/Corporate Communications         Maharishi Group                                   Jan 1996 – Jul 2003

Marketing Executive                                     BPL Sanyo                                            Aug 1994 – Dec 1995

Education:

UIM, Jabalpur                     M.B.A., Marketing, Finance, Human Resource                       1992 – 1994

Govt. Science College        B.Sc., Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry                                   1989 – 1992

Christ School                      HSSC, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English, Hindi        1977 – 1989

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Rangaraj K S

Head HR & Compliance at Texport Overseas Pvt. Ltd.

Bengaluru

He is an HR generalist with varied industry exposure of more than 20yrs. Presently, working in Texport Overseas Pvt. Ltd., as Head HR & Compliance, since 1year.

He even has experience in various industries, to name a few; he worked at Bombay Rayon Fashion Ltd (BRFL) as Vice President CSR, Personnel & Industrial Relations – Garment Division. As Group Head HR at EPIC Designers Ltd, AVP – HR at Texport Syndicate India Ltd, Head Compliance South at T Group Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Country Head-HR at Tyco fire & Security, and many more.

Education Background:

He has his schooling from Swami Vivekanand High School Sindhi society Chembur, Mumbai and Airport High School, Mumbai

Interests & Achievements:

He has done few stage shows and won awards in singing. He is very much interested in Professional Management training and held centre stage in conducting programs with excellent communication and language skills. He also has his liking towards Cricket where he played lot of matches in his younger days.

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Srikantan Moorthy

Senior Vice President,

Group Head - Human Resource,

INFOSYS.

Mr. SrikantanMoorthy, also known as Tan has been the Head of Human Resources at Infosys Ltd. since April 1, 2013 and serves as its Senior Vice President.

With over 28 years of global experience in the professional services industry, he now leads and drives all the human capital development programs across Infosys.

He joined Infosys Ltd. on December 7, 2000. Prior to taking up this role in April 2013, Tan was the Group Head of Education & Research (E&R) at Infosys, where his primary responsibility was talent development through competency building. Before taking up business enablement roles, Tan was heading service delivery for the telecommunication business at Infosys. Tan has worked in several facets of the business encompassing both strategy and operations during his career in the professional services industry.

Tan is an active representative of Infosys in several professional bodies, including the Professional Development Committee of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), NASSCOM Education Council and IFEES (International Federation of Engineering Education Societies). As a member of IFEES, Tan has played a key role in the launch of the IFEES award for Engineering Education.

In July 2010, Tan was inducted as a founding director of the International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) Global Industry Council (IP3-GIC). Tan is also part of several domestic and global task forces dealing with education.

Tan is engaged in youth- and education-related voluntary activities and is an advisory member of a non-profit called Youth for Seva, which focuses on harnessing the power of youth for voluntary activities.

Career bio:

·       Mr. Moorthy served as Head of Education and Research of Infosys BPO Limited until April 1, 2013.

•      He served as Delivery Head of Infosys' Communication Service Providers and Vice President of Communication Service Providers for Delivery.
•        Served as General Manager of the Southeast Region of Inventa Technologies Inc. since November 1999.
•        He served as General Manager of Inventa Corporation. He served as Inventa Technologies Inc.'s Director of Operations from May 1996 to November 1999, as a Practice Director from January 1996 to April 1996, as a Consulting Practice Manager from August 1994 to January 1996, and as Technical Staff Manager from August 1993 to August 1994.
•        Mr. Moorthy joined Inventa Technologies Inc. as a Principal Software Engineer in January 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bangalore University, India.

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Smriti Irani - HRD Minister

Millions of arguments…. this week on Smiriti Irani… who is she? What’s the problem? Let’s have a detailed look at:

Smriti Zubin Irani (née Malhotra, born 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician and former model, television actress and producer. She represents the Bharatiya Janata Party and is the incumbent Minister of Human Resource Development of Government of India.

EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION

Smriti was born in Delhi to a family of Punjabi–Bengali background, and was eldest amongst three sisters. Before finding modeling stardom, she worked as a waitress at McDonald's. She studied up to class 12 at Holy Child Auxilium School and discontinued further education

POLITICAL CAREER

Irani joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003. She became vice-president of the Maharashtra Youth Wing in 2004.In the 2004 general elections for the 14th Lok Sabha, she contested unsuccessfully against Kapil Sabil from the Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi. She was nominated as executive member of the central committee of the BJP. In December 2004, Irani threatened to "fast unto death" until then Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi resigned, blaming him for BJP's electoral losses. However she later retracted this demand after BJP's central leadership threatened to take action against her. In early 2010, Irani was appointed as the National Secretary of BJP and on 24 June, she was appointed as All India President of the BJP's women's wing, BJP Mahila Morcha. In August 2011, she was sworn in as a Member of Parliament from Gujarat to the Rajya Sabha.

Irani contested the 2014 general elections against Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi held the seat with a reduced margin of victory of 1.07 lakh compared to 3.70 lakh votes in the previous 2009 election.On 26 May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed her as the Minister of Human Resource Development in his cabinet. At 38, she was the youngest member of the cabinet.

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Anand Nayak

Head of Human Resource Development for ITC has been with the Company for 40 years.

 Anand Nayak, passed out of St.Joseph's in 1967. He completed his BSc from St.Joseph's College. Later, he completed Post graduation in Personnel Management and Industrial relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He was awarded Abdul Bari Gold Medal.

Right from school, Anand has been a people's man and has rightfully found his passion in the field Human Resources.

Mr. Nayak has handled senior HR assignments in the ITC's Tobacco Division, Packaging & Printing Division and the erstwhile Tribeni Tissues Division. He has spent his entire career with ITC in Human Resource development since 1996.

Anand has been very supportive of OBA Activities; he was the OBA President 1985-86. He was conferred the OBA Life Time Achiever's Award in the year 2005.

He is also responsible for overall supervision of ITC's Social Development Initiatives. He is also a Director on the Board of ITC Infotech

Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, he served a farmers` cooperative in the oilseeds sector for six years before joining ITC. He is on the Boards of ITC Infotech India Ltd., Agro Tech Foods Ltd. and the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).He is also on the Management Committees of several industry bodies and has served on the Human Resources and Industrial Relations Committees of the CII.

Anand Nayak is actively involved in several social development initiatives. He is a Trustee on the Board of "Samraksha" an NGO working in the field of HIV/AIDS. He also works closely with educational institutions, helping the management of these institutions in their planning processes and building their leadership teams. He is also the Government of India's nominee on the Society of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Board Memberships and Affiliations

Board Member: Agro Tech Foods Limited

Board Member: National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development

Board Member: National HRD Network - Kolkata chapter

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Mr Amitava Saha

Head - Human Resource , Biocon

Amitava is the Head of Human Resources at Biocon. With over 17 years of work experience with  companies like Firstsource Solutions, Mashreq Bank, Accenture and Infosys in the Human Resource space across geographies covering Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement and related areas of Employee Life Cycle.

Amitava started his professional career in Sales and Marketing with Coats Viyella Plc handling Business development for Home Furnishings followed by Regional Sales for Fabrics business for North India. He moved into HR with Infosys handling various Talent Acquisition responsibilities followed by managing HR for the Global Sales Force for the company. He was responsible for setting up the Recruitment practice for Accenture BPO voice business in India before moving to Dubai with Mashreq Bank managing HR for the Corporate Bank. Prior to joining Biocon in December 2013, Amitava was heading Talent Acquisition and HR for APAC business for Firstsource Solutions.

Amitava is a BE (Electrical Engineering) graduate from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University and PGDM from IIM, Kolkata.

 reference: biocon.com

              

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Mr. Steve Price

  Steve Price serves as senior vice president, Human Resources, for Dell. In this role, he is responsible for overall human resources (HR) strategy in support of the purpose, values and business initiatives of Dell. He is also responsible for developing and driving people strategy and fostering an environment in which the global Dell team thrives. Steve is also responsible for overseeing global facilities.

Steve joined Dell in 1997 and has played critical leadership roles throughout the HR organization, including vice president of HR for the global consumer business, global talent management and Americas human resources.

During his tenure, Steve also relocated to the United Kingdom to lead HR in the Europe, Middle East and Africa organization.

Prior to joining Dell, Steve spent 13 years with SC Johnson Wax, based in Racine, Wisconsin. Having started his career there in sales, he later moved into HR where he held a variety of senior positions.

Steve is a member of the Executive Advisory Board for the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University and also serves on the Executive Advisory Board for The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
                                                                                                                      Reference:dell.com

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Mr. P K Joshi

Director- Human Resources

             Mr. Pushp Kumar Joshi took charge as Director - Human Resources effective August 01, 2012. Prior to this he was holding key portfolios in Human Resources viz. Executive Director – HRD, and Head – HR of Marketing Division.

A Bachelor of Law and an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur, Mr. Pushp Kumar Joshi joined HPCL in 1986. Since then he has held various key positions in Human Resources and Industrial Relations functions at HQO, Marketing and Refineries Divisions of HPCL.

He has been responsible for the design and deployment of key HR policies and practices that are employee oriented and aim at building high performance culture.

He spearheaded various HR practices with strong business focus in HPCL viz; Project Akshay – the leadership development programme,Productivity Improvement Initiatives, leveraged the IT Platform for Internal Customer care, various Technical & Behavioral training programs, HR- Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Implementation of JDE (HR), Health Management System, HR Green Credit.

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HR Profile - 5

Nandita Gurjar

Senior Vice President
Group Head of Education Training and Assessment
Member, Executive Council
 

      Nandita Gurjar is currently a Member of the Executive Council and Group Head of Education Training and Assessment (formerly E&R). In her current role, which she took over in April 2013, she holds the mandate to build the internal capabilities for current and emerging technology, domain and workforce landscape of Infosys. In addition, she is responsible for establishing learning as a competitive advantage for the enterprise.

Prior to this, Nandita was Group Head of Human Resources since 2007, where she focused on making Infosys the preferred choice of global talent. In this role, she led the Infosys HR strategy and its global footprint for over 150,000 employees. She was appointed Member of the Infosys Executive Council in 2011 and helps drive the strategic imperative of the Infosys vision of Building Tomorrow's Enterprise.

Nandita was awarded the Human Capital Business Leader of the Year Award by the Singapore Society of Human Resource Management. The HR practices she instituted have been recognized by international forums such as American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and Workforce Optima.

Nandita is a member of the World Economic Forum – Global Advisory Council on New Models of Leadership. She has also been featured among the Most Powerful Women in India by the Business Today magazine. Nandita is often invited to speak on HR strategy, workforce management, and business leadership. She has addressed several prestigious forums such as Great Place to Work, Conference Board, and the World Bank.

Nandita holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from Nizam College, Hyderabad, India, and has a master's in psychology from Osmania University, India.

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