GUEST SPEAKERS FROM INDUSTRY

The programme aims to prepare industry-ready managers. Guest speakers from the industry are often invited to deliver talks and share their expertise as of regular and elective courses in the programme. The list of guest speakers who delivered talks as part of PGPM courses in the academic year 2015-2016,2016-2017, 2017-2018 , 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 are as follows:

Academic Year 2020-2021

S. No.

Name of the Guest Speaker

Organization and Designation
1 Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty DTDC Express Limited , Executive Director
2 Mr. Alok Pande MHRD, GoI , Joint Secretary at Ministry of Finance
3 Mr. Anand P Tata Steel Limited , Chief Services and Solutions Business
4 Mr. Anuraag Saboo FinTech Pvt. Ltd , Co-Founder, Fund Expert
5 Ms. Aparna Barade Jayakumar Amazon , Regional Change Leader-Europe
6 Mr. Archisman Majumdar AI at Mphasis , Associate Vice President - Applied
7 Mr. Avadhoot Jathar Kantar , Senior Data Scientist
8 Mr. Babu Krishnamoorthy Finsherpa Investment Services , Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
9 Mr. Ganapathy Seetharaman Renault-Nissan , Head, Vehicle Cost Management
10 Mr. Ganesh K McKinsey & Company , Senior Knowledge Expert
11 Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan VYMO , Head of Product
12 Mr. Harsh Pathak Supreme Court of India , Advocate
13 Mr. Jayaram Kasi Visweswaran Pikkol , Vice President, Product and Data Sciences
14 Mr. Karthikeyan R Gemba Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd.,, , Founder and Managing Director
15 Mr. Laxminarayanan Consulting Deloitte , Associate Director
16 Mr. Manish Makhijani Unilever , Global Consumer Insights Director
17 Mr. Pankaj Srivastava Oil and Natural Gas Corporation [ONGC] , Deputy General Manager (E&T)
18 Mr. Pawan Kumar Oil and Natural Gas Corporation [ONGC] , Chief Engineer
19 Mr. Pradeep Goirola The Hindu , VP & Business Head, Digital
20 Mr. Pradeep Kumar V Hewlett Packard Enterprise , Senior Director, Marketing Function
21 Ms. Pritimukta Sarangi Avaya , Forbes Finance Council, Senior Director - Corporate Strategy at Avaya, Official Member
22 Mr. Rahul Gupta Tech Mahindra , Function Head, Corporate Development
23 Mr. Rajul K Universal McCann, , Vice President, Media Services
24 Mr. Ram Chakravarthy Tiger, Britannia Industries Limited , Group Product Manager
25 Mr. Rohith S Swiggy , Assistant Vice President, Operations Strategy
26 Mr. Sachin Sharma HSBC , Head - Regional Sales, Global Trade Finance
27 Mr. Sanjay Kumar Deloitte India , Senior Director (Partner)
28 Mr. Santhanam P M/s. Transbiz Consulting Pvt. Ltd., , Director
29 Mr. Santosh K Misra E- Governance , Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency and Commissioner of e-Governance, Commissioner
30 Mr. Shailesh Pathak L&T IDPL , Chief Executive Officer
31 Mr. Shanmugavel Mani S.M. Twin Health , Chief Business Officer
32 Mr. Sharad Dhawale Timken India Limited , Head of Distribution
33 Mr. Siddiqui S.Y Maruti Suzuki India Limited , Chief Mentor & Executive Advisor
34 Mr. Sreejith Chellappa Flipkart , Food, Nutrition & Healthcare, Category Head, Director
35 Mr. Venkatesh Natarajan Ashok Leyland , Senior Vice President - IT & Chief Digital Officer
36 Mr. Vignesh Radhakrishnan The Hindu , Senior Reporter
37 Mr. Vikram Venkateswaran Delloitte India , Director
38 Mr. Vivekanand R M/s. Wilson Consulting Private Ltd.,, , Operations Director / Corporate Trainer
39 Mr. Yash Saxena AI Company , Founder of poshaQ

Academic Year 2019-2020

S. No.

Name of the Guest Speaker

Organization and Designation
1 Mr. K.Srihari Saint-Gobain India Pvt. Ltd. , Business Manager
2 Mr. Indranil Roy Chowdhury Strategic Risk Consulting-DELOITTE Advisory , Manager
3 Mr. Babu Sivalingam Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , Associate Vice President, Head - Strategic Initiatives, Governance &amp Marketing for Market Research ISU
4 Mr. Anand Rao Galvantrix Pte Ltd., , Director
5 Mr. Vivekanandhan Somalingam Cochlear India , Marketing Director
6 Mr. Giri Ganesh Gramener , Senior Manager - Data Science
7 Mr. Navneet Ranjan Mediversal Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.., , CEO, Director & Co-Founder
8 Mr. Hari Balaji Egregore Labs , Co-Founder
9 Mr. Anshoo Sharma MAGICPIN , CEO & Co-Founder
10 Mr. Diwakar R Saint-Gobain Glass India, Chennai. , Head - Marketing
11 Mr. Anand Nair TAG Vinnatti Private Limited , Managing Partner and Creative Director
12 Mr. Jayant Kaim The Finance School , Co-Founder
13 Mr. Parameshwaran Krishnan Transfer Pricing Practice-DELOITTE India , Partner
14 Sathish Kumar CAV Access Livelihoods Consulting India Ltd , Head Enterprise Support Services
15 R Vivekanand Consultant , Consulting in Consultant Specializing in visual business intelligence
16 Rajendran Dhandapani Zoho corporation, Business Solutions Evangelist, Chennai , Director
17 Raman Aggarwal Co-Chairman , Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) Sr. Vice President, Head - Corporate Affairs with SREI Equipment Finan
18 Dr. V. N. Rajesh Head , Data Science in the Center of Excellence in Emerging Technologies of TNeGA
19 Laxminarayanan G Deloitte , Associate Director, Consulting
20 Mr. A Laxman MGM Entertainments Pvt. Ltd., Chennai , Director (Finance & Operations)
21 Mr. Ramakrishnan K South Asia, Kantar World Panel, Mumbai , Managing Director
22 Mr. Subrat Baral Tata Steel , Chief - Alliances and Ventures
23 Dr. Rajendra Ganatra Professional , Insolvency Professional
24 Mr. Damini Gupta Mphasis NextLabs , AVP & Lead - AI & Fintech
25 Mr. Rajmohan Krishnan Entrust Family Office , CEO
26 Mr. Varadharajan Ragunathan Agency Development at Amazon , Senior Manager
27 Mr. Rohit Kumar Kellogg India & South Asia , HR Director (CHRO)
28 Ms. Ainara Kaur Canvilicious Creative Tech , CEO & Co-founder
29 Mr. Santhanam M/s Transbiz consulting Pvt. limited , Director
30 Mr. R Venkatanarayanan Rane Group Chennai , President, Corporate Services
31 Mr. Vikaran Venkateswaran Deloitte India, Deloitte India , Director
32 Mr. Babu Krishnamoorthy Finsherpa Investment Services , CEO & Co., Founder
33 Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan VYMO , Head of Product
34 Mr. Suresh Ramadurai TNS India , Ex Managing Director
35 Mr. Avadhoot Jathar Kantar Millward Brown , Senior Data Scientist
36 Mr. Shailesh Pathak L&T IDPL , CEO
37 Mr. Santosh K Mishra Govt. of Tamil Nadu , CEO & Commissioner of E-Governance
38 Mr. Ameer Shahul IBM , Director and Govt. of Regulatory Affairs
39 Mr. Vardhana Pawaskar Clearing Corporation of India , Vice President

Academic Year 2018-2019

S. No.

Name of the Guest Speaker

Organization and Designation
1 Mr. Srihari K Saint-Gobain India Ltd. , Manager
2 Mr. Indranil Roy Chowdhury Deloitte Advisory , Manager
3 Mr. Raghavshyam Ramamurthy Wilson Consulting Private Limited , Co-founder & Principal Consultant
4 Mr. R Vivekanand visual business intelligence , Consulting in Consultant Specializing
5 Mr. Reena Gade Mahindra & Mahindra Limited , Brand Head - International Operations
6 Mr. Sumant Sood Titan Company Limited , Head - Innovation
7 Mr. Nishant Chandra Temasek India , Director
8 Mr. Sunil Tirumalai Credit Suisse , Director
9 Mr. Mayank Jain Indus Ind Bank , Deputy Vice President
10 Mr. Amruta Shah Isagro Asia Agro Chemicals Pvt Ltd , Treasury Head
11 Mr. Prasad Srinivas Advanced Analytics , Program Manager
12 Mr. Sandhiya Thiruvengadam Tata Consultancy Services , HR Digitization Consultant
13 Mr. Kumar Shanmugam Tata Consultancy Services , Associate Vice President
14 Mr. Lokesh Arora knowlvers consulting , Founder and CEO
15 Mr. Anirban Chaudhiri J Walter Thompson , Senior Vice President and Executive Planning Director
16 Mr. Supriyo Sircar Singapore , CEO Digileap
17 Mr. Nikhil Jha Delhi , CEO goSporto
18 Mr. Rajkiran Kanagala Transport Corporation of India , Senior Vice President and Group Head - Business Development
19 Mr. C. S. Ramachandran Preferred Hotels & Resorts , Director - Revenue Account Management, South Asia, Middle East, Africa
20 Mr. Sivananth Ramachandran Morningstar Indexes , Director
21 Mr. Rahul Mukim The Carlyle Group , Vice President
22 Mr. Sathis Kumar CAV Access Livelihoods Consulting India , Senior Project manager
23 Mr. Hari Ganapathy Pick Your Trial , Co-Founder
24 Ms. Nalini Ganesh Ogilvy One(Network Analytics) , Managing Director
25 Mr. Kuldeep Indeevar Mekta - EGN/ Mytillineos Holdings , Head of Investments - M&A/ Development APAC
26 Mr. Abid Ali Corestack , Senior Director Product Marketing
27 Mr. K RamaKrishnan Kantar World Panel, Mumbai. , General Manager and Country Head
28 Mr. A Laxman MGM Entertainments Pvt. Ltd. Chennai. , Director (Finance & Operations)
29 Mr. Murali Vodafone, TN Circle. , Executive Vice President & Business Head
30 Mr. Seshadri P R The Karur Vysya Bank Ltd , Managing Director & CEO
31 Mr. Anirban Chaudhiri J Walter Thompson , Senior Vice President and Executive Planning Director
32 Mr. P Anand Tata Steel , Chief Services and Solutions
33 Mr. Balachandra N Human Resource, Coffee Day Group , Group Director
34 Mr. Babu Krishnamoorthy Finsherpa Investment Services , Co-Founder
35 Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan VYMO , Head of Product
36 Mr. Suresh Ramadurai TNS India , Ex Managing Director
37 Mr. Ramkumar Nambirajan Ford India Pvt. Ltd , Data Scientist
38 Mr. Ramu Angappan Track & Trail Performance store , Business Proprietor, Ramsun
39 Shri Shailesh Pathah L&T IDPL , CEO
40 Mr. S H Soonee Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. , Presently Advisor POSOCO, Former and Founder Chief Executive Officer
41 Mr. Venkatesh Natarajan Ashok Leyland Limited , Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer
42 Mr. Santhosh K Mishra, IAS Govt. of India, Commissioner, e-Governance , Tamil Nadu Govt , IAS

Academic Year 2017-2018

S. No.

Name of the Guest Speaker

Organization and Designation
1 Mr. Aashish Chopra Content Marketing , Video Marketer
2 Mr. Ajay Mohanty Anand Rathi Financial Services , Vice President/Head-Forex Consulting
3 Mr. Anand Rao Galvantrix Pvt Ltd , Director
4 Mr. Aniraban Chaudhuri J Walter Thompson Worldwide , Senior VP & Executive Planning Director
5 Mr. Ankur Khurana Wipro Consumer Care , Group Manager-Strategy& Innovation
6 Mr. Ashok Ramachandran Aditya Birla Group , Group Executive President - HR
7 Mr. Babu Krishnamoorthy Finsherpa Wealth Management Services) , CEO & Co-founder
8 Mr. Badri Veeraraghavan Smart Kredit Tech , Cofounder and CEO
9 Mr. Dharmakirti Joshi CRISIL Ltd. , Chief Economist
10 Mr. Dharmendra Yashoyardhan IXIGO. Com , Founder
11 Mr. Dheeraj Praxis , India Responsible Business Forum
12 Dr. Dhiraj Naygar NITI Aayog , OSD, Head, Economics, Commerce and Finance
13 Mr. Ganesh Balakrishnan Shop clues , VP Seller Services
14 Dr. Ganesh K McKinsey & Co. , Senior Knowledge Expert
15 Mr. Ganesh T N Kaizen Institute Asia Pacific Pvt. Ltd , Freelance Professor
16 Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. , Director - ISV Business
17 Mr. Himanshu Bhangre KPMG Global Services , Manager
18 Mr. Jalaj Dani Supply Chain & Chemicals, Asian Paints Ltd , Former President-HR
19 Mr. Jayaram Kasi Visweswaran Pikkol , VP-Product & Data Sciences
20 Mr. John Devason Apollo Tyres Ltd. , Unit Head
21 Ms. Kanika Kalra Freecharge , Snapdeal
22 Mr. Karthikeyan C Accenture , Senior Manager
23 Mr. Kaushlendra Kaushalya Foundation & KMID Green Promotor -Samriddhi , Founder
24 Mr. Kishore Sambasivam Renault- Nissan Technology & Business Centre , GM-HR
25 Mr. Kumar S TCS , Associate Vice President
26 Ms. Kalpana Subbaramappa Freelance Analytics , Consultant
27 Ms. Khyati Shah Inflexion Point Consulting , Design and Technology Lead
28 Mr. Lakshmana Perumal MGM Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, Chennai , Director-Finance and Operations
29 Mr. Malhar Barai Hi-Tech Vertical Tech Mahindra , Head of Marketing
30 Mr. N Venkitesh Corporate Planning and Strategy- Stovekraft , Head
31 Mr. Natarajan Sankar Boston Consulting Group , Principal
32 Mr. Rajeev Thakkar Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services , Director and CIO
33 Dr. Rajendra M. Ganatra India SME ARL Limited , Former MD&CEO
34 Ms. Rajashree Natrajan Cognizant Foundation , Chief Operating Officer
35 Mr. Ram Chakravarthy Britannia Industries Limted , Product Manager
36 Mr. Ramesh Mangaleswaran Mckinsey and Company , Senior Partner
37 Mr. Ramakrishnan K Kantar World panel South Asia. , GM & Country Head
38 Mr. Ranjan Sethuraman Latent View Analytics , Chief People Office
39 Mr. Ravindra Godase Advanced Analytics Accenture , Senior Manager
40 Ms. Rupali Rane Sutures India , Head-HR
41 Mr. Sampath Rengachari Hansa Cequity , Board Advisor
42 Dr. Sasipriya M Karumanchi Laico , Senior Faculty
43 Mr. Saul Ahuja GMETRI , Founder
44 Mr. Siva Paramsivam Deloitte's Strategy & Operations Consulting Practice. , Director
45 Mr. Shailesh Pathak L & T Infrastructure Development Project Limited , CEO
46 Mr. Srihari K Saint Gobain , Business Manager
47 Mr. Sunil Tirumalai Credit Suisse, Mumbai , Director
48 Mr. Supriyo Sircar APAZ , Executive Vice President & Strategic Business Head
49 Mr. Suresh Ramadurai Independent Marketing , Research Consultant
50 Mr. Venkatesh Natarajan Ashok Leyland Group , Senior Vice President-IT / CIO

Academic Year 2016-2017

S. No.

Name of the Guest Speaker

Organization and Designation
1 Dr. Indranil Roy Chowdhury Strategic Risk, Deloitte Advisory , Business Manager
2 Mr. B Viswanathan IIT Madras , Research Scholar
3 Mr. Alok Pande Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India , Director
4 Mr. M Narendra Indian Overseas Bank , Former Chairman and Managing Director
5 Mr. Ram Chakravarthy S Britannia Industries Ltd. , Product Manager
6 Mr. Umesh Sharma Business Consultant , Independent Strategic
7 Mr. Karthikeyan Chandran KPMG , Manager
8 Mr. Ajit Kumar ICICI Bank , Manager
9 Mr. Sunil Tirumalai Indian Telecom and Financials Research, Credit Suisse , Director
10 Mr. Sunjay Govindaraj ESPN Cricinfo , Senior Manager
11 Ms. Avantka Susan Nigam Pepsico , Associate Director
12 Mr. Suhas Nath Misra Hector Beverages , Co-founder
13 Mr. Namit Agarwal Private Sector Engagement, Oxfam India , Lead Specialist
14 Dr. Manu Mathai Azim Premji University , Assistant Professor
15 Mr. Sharath Chand G Barclays Investment Bank , Assistant Vice President
16 Mr. K Ganesh McKinsey & Co. , Knowledge Expert & Global Head of SCM Center of Competence
17 Mr. Chetan Danivas Infosys Ltd. , Principal (Education and Research)
18 Mr. Dharmendra Yashovardhan Co founder Ixigo , Angel Investor
19 Mr. Pankaj Garg Daily Objects , CEO
20 Mr. Amit Chadha Dell Inc., USA , Director
21 Captain J Raghuram Vodafone , Former Vice President
22 Mr. Sashikiran Chandrashekharan Asian Paints , Manager (Supply Planning)
23 Mr. Tony Sebastian Taj Hotels and Resorts , Head (Digital media buying)
24 Mr. Biju Dominic Final Mile Consulting , CEO and co-founder
25 Mr. Babu Krishnamoorthy Finsherpa Investmet Service , Founder & CEO
26 Mr. Arjun Mohan Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd. , Vice President Marketing
27 Mr. Gaurav Teltia J P Morgan Chase , Chief Investment Officer
28 Mr. Ashok Pandey Consultant , Independent
29 Prof. Venkatesh Chakravarthy L V Prasad Film and TV Academy. , HOD (Direction & Screenwriting)
30 Mr. M K Raghavendra Film Critic , National Award Winning
31 Mr. Kumar Ramanathan Positive Integers, Chennai , CEO and MD
32 Mr. Rajendra Nath Mehrotra Novartis India Private Limited , Non-Executive Independent Director
33 Mr. P N S V Narasimhan Cyient Ltd , Global Head HR & Senior Vice President
34 Mr. Asit Kumar Barma Value Labs , Chief Marketing Officer
35 Mr. Raghavshyam Visual Business Intelligence , Independent Consultant
36 Mr. Vivekanand Visual Business Intelligence , Independent Consultant
37 Mr. Sujoy Kumar Roy Chowdhury IBM India , Group Manager
38 Mr. Rajneesh Pathak Accenture , Senior Manager
39 Mr. Rajesh Agrawal ICRISAT, Telangana , Assistant Director General of Finance
40 Mr. Sumit Neogi CIPLA , Head (Corporate HR)
41 Mr. Suresh Ramadurai Research Consultant , Independent Marketing
42 CA. Pradeep Kumar Senthilkumar & Co Chartered Accountants , Partner
43 Mr. Navneet Ranjan Bhusari Cold Storage and Director (Mediversal) , Managing Director
44 Mr. S K Soonee Power System Operation Corporation Limited , Advisor
45 Mr. Shailesh Pathak CityInfra Capital, New Delhi , CEO
46 Mr. N Venkatesh Ashok Leyland , CIO
47 Mr. Sundar Srinivasan IT Professional , Business

Academic Year 2015-2016

S. No.

Name of the Guest Speaker

Organization and Designation
1 Ms. Akshata Samant Percept Pictures , Senior Creative Executive
2 Mr. Ananta Kumar Giri Madras Institute of Development Studies , Associate Professor
3 Mr. Aswath TP Mumbai , Independent HR Consultant
4 Mr. Devendra Kumar Pant India Ratings and Research, Fitch Group , Chief Economist & Senior Director (Head-Public Finance)
5 Mr. Digant Dwivedy Standard Chartered Bank , Regional Head-South Asia, Credit Initiation and Fraud Risk (Retails)
6 Mr. Harish H V Grand Thornton , Partner
7 Mr. Jayant Kaim Edelweiss , Derivatives Trader
8 Mr. Jeetendra Singh MGM Beach Resort , Manager (Training)
9 Mr. Kalidas Ashok Marketing and Planning System , Chief Marketing Scientist & Managing Partner
10 Mr. Kaushal Shah Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited , Associate Director
11 Mr. Manoj Haridas ITC Limited , Principal Scientist, Head of Intellectual Property
12 Ms. Marie Banu Centre for Social Initiative and Management , Director
13 Ms. Nalini Guhesh Ogilvy One , Managing Director ,Network Analytics
14 Mr. Prakash Dharmarajan HR , Independent Consultant
15 Mr. Praveen Raj CSIR Trivandrum , Principal Scientist
16 Mr. Raghuram J Vodafone Essar , Associate Vice President
17 Mr. Rajamani Srinivasan SAP , Vice President
18 Mr. Ram Mohan menon Inatech Info solutions - A Glencore Company , Advisor
19 Mr. Ramprasad Jaganathan Tractors & Farm Equipment Ltd. , Senior General Manager
20 Mr. Rangan T S Rupajan Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd. , Managing Director
21 Mr. Rao M B N Indian Bank & Canara Bank , Former Chairman & Managing Director
22 Mr. Sanjiv Aundhe Fire Luxur Developers Pvt. Ltd. , CEO
23 Mr. Shreenivas Kunte CFA Institute , Director (Content)
24 Mr. Subhash Thomas KPMG Global Services , Director
25 Mr. Sundar Raj Max Hyper Market India Pvt. Ltd. , Senior Vice President
26 Mr. Sunil Tandon MGM Beach Resort , General Manager
27 Mr. Sunil Tirumalai Indian Telecom and Financials research, Credit Suisse , Director
28 Mr. Suresh Ramadurai Marketing Research, Data Analytics , Independent Consultant
29 Mr. Swaminathar Ramaswami MIPP International , Member, Board of Directors
30 Prof. Venkiteswaran N IIM Ahmedabad , Professor (Retired)
31 Mr. Vishal Shah Leadership and+A1:C82 People Science, Wipro , Vice President