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-HR courses in the academic year 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 are as follows:
|
S.No. |
Speaker |
Organization |
| 1 | Mr. Rakesh Borah | Head of Total Rewards for Volvo Group India |
| 2 | Ms. Sandhya Ramesh | Head, DEI, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd |
| 3 | Ms. Priyadharshni Sivasankaran | HR Practitioner, Nurturing Talents Coach & Mentor, Strategist - AI & ESG Enthusiast |
| 4 | Mr. Rahul Kalia | Head of Health, Wellness, and Medical Services, BOSCH India |
| 5 | Ms. Rajpreet Kaur | Fair & Square, an emerging start-up in the Sustainable HR-tech space |
| 6 | Shri Babu Krishnamoorthy | Chief Sherpa at Finsherpa Investment Services |
| 7 | Mr. Kunjvihari Jandhyala | Chief-Strategic HR, TATA Power |
| 8 | Ms. Regidha Delphin | HR Transformation & Change Management Lead at Deloitte |
| 9 | Mr. Alok Ranjan | CEO, Flipcarbon |
| 10 | Mr Babu Vittal | HR & People Practice at RTP Global |
| 11 | Mr. Anand Shankar | Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer for Deloitte South Asia |
| 12 | Mr. Ram Chakravarthy | Category Manager - Foods, Wipro Enterprises Limited, Bengaluru |
| 13 | Mr. Sriram Joshi | Business Group HR Head – Communication Media Information Services, Tata Consultancy Services Limited |
| 14 | Dr. Israel Inbaraj | Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer |
| 15 | Ms. Priyadharshini Sivasankaran | Alumni, Associate Director - HRD, Global Learning & Development Head, Agilisium Consulting. |
| 16 | Ms.Monika Halan | Chairperson Advisory Committee for Investor Protection and Education Fund |
| 17 | Mr. Kartikay Rustagi | Indus Insights – Associate Manager |
| 18 | Ms. Madhavi Chalamalasetti | Leader in Technology and Analytics, Deloitte - Intelligroup, Hyderabad |
| 19 | Mr. Kathiresan M | Senior Data Scientist – People Analytics Lead, Shell |
|
S.No. |
Speaker |
Organization |
| 1 | Mr. Rohan Chinniah | Founder and Master Trainee, Gakushu Training and Consulting LLP, Bangalore. |
| 2 | Ms. Sandhya Ramesh | General Manager, Diversity and Inclusion, Godrej Consumer Products Limited. |
| 3 | Mr. Alok Ranjan | CEO and Co-Founder, Flipcarbon Integrated Solutions Private Ltd., Bangalore. |
| 4 | Mr. S. C. Srinivasan | Co-Founder, Treeties Network Private Ltd, Bangalore. |
| 5 | Mr. Hemant Kumar Ravi | Principal Consultant & Strategic People Advisor, Mediversal Hospitals. |
| 6 | Dr. F. Israel Inbaraj | Head IR/ ER/ HR Compliance, Adani Group. |
| 7 | Mr. Sivanand S | Marketing Manager, Domestic Aurolab Trust (Aravind Eye Hospital’s Manufacturing Arm), Madurai. |
| 8 | Ms. Rucha Sahasrabuddhe | Head, People Development and Talent Management for India, Middle East and Africa, Alfa Laval India Private Ltd., Mumbai. |
| 9 | Mr. Samit Patil | Associate Vice President – HR Systems & Talent Management, Cyient Ltd., Hyderabad. |
| 10 | Mr. C. G. Sethuram | Group CEO, Thirumalai Chemicals Ltd., Chennai. |
|
S.No. |
Name of the Guest Speaker |
Organization and Designation |
| 1 | Mr. Karthik Chandrashekar | Chief Diversity Equity &Inclusion Officer, Bosch Limited |
| 2 | Mr. Subramanian Krishnan | Consultant, Disruption Consulting Practice for TBW India |
| 3 | Ms. Trisha Hegde | General Manager, Swiggy Instamart, Bengaluru |
| 4 | Mr. Israel Inbaraj | HR Compliance and AVP-HR, Adani Group |
| 5 | Mr. A.K. Parameswaran | Chairman of the CII, Chief Strategy Officer Forum |
| 6 | Mr. Rohan Chinnaiah | Founder & Master Trainer, Gakushu Training & Consulting LLP |
| 7 | Ms. Sandhya Ramesh | Head-Diversity, Equity &Inclusion, Great Place to Work |
| 8 | Mr. Kishore Sambasivam | Senior HR Professional, OnMobile Global Limited |
| 9 | Mr. Kiran Steven | Corporate HR, Page Industries (Jockey) |
| 10 | Mr. Subramanian N N | Director, UK, Europe & Global Acc Maveric Systems Ltd., |
| 11 | Mr. Kunjvihari Jandhyala | Head-Strategic HR & Org Effectiveness, Tata Power |
| 12 | Dr. Jagatheesh Jayanand | Head, Learning & Leadership Development, BOSCH India. |
|
S.No. |
Speaker |
Organization |
| 1 | Mr. Ram Babu Jagatha | Director (HR), Oracle |
| 2 | Mr. Goutam Datta | Chief General Manager (HR) Eastern Regional Office, IOCL |
| 3 | Prof. Debolina Dutta | Professor of Practice, OBHR, Chairperson, Career Development Services, IIM Bangalore |
| 4 | Dr. Vikram Venkateswaran | Director at Deloitte India |
| 5 | Mr. Satya Narayan Maharana | Head - OD, TM & Corporate HR, Haier Appliances India Pvt Ltd |
| 6 | Mr. Renu Chowdhary | Chief Staff at PEPSICO |
| 7 | Mr. Leo Arun Kumar | Director, BLR Corporate Services |
| 8 |
Mr. Santhosh Mishra, IAS |
Ex-CEO, Tamilnadu e-Governance Agency and Commissioner of e-Governance |
| 9 | Mr. Jeeva Balakrishnan | SVP & Chief Talent Officer, Reliance Retail Limited |
| 10 | Ms. Sandhya Ramesh | Head-Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Great Place to Work. |
| 11 | Ms. Nedra Dickson | Managing Director, Leads Accenture’s Europe Market Lead and Global Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability Lead |
|
S.No. |
Speaker |
Organization |
| 1 | Mr. P Anand | Chief Services & Solutions, Tata Steel |
| 2 | Mr. Vikarm Venkateswaran | Director, Deloitte India |
| 3 | Mr. Aparna Barade Jayakumar | Regional Change Leader - Amazon Development Centre, Prague, Europe |
| 4 | Mr. Abhishek Kumar | DGM (Institutional Business) Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. |
| 5 | Mr. S.Y. Siddiqui | Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki India Limited |
| 6 | Mr. Jeeva Balakrishnan | SVP & Chief Talent Officer, Reliance Retail Limited |
| 7 | Mr. Gaurav Saini | Director (HR), HMD Global (Nokia Phone) |
| 8 | Ms. Vinutha Kadaym Venkatarman | Sr. Manager HR, Talent & Development, Larsen & Toubro Limited |
| 9 | Dr. Sandhya Shekhar | Knowledge & Innovation Strategies, Management Consultant & Corporate & Education |
| 10 | Mr. Jeeva Balakrishnan | SVP & Chief Talent Officer, Reliance Retail Limited |
|
S.No. |
Speaker |
Organization |
| 1 | Dr. Pallab Bandyopadhyay | Founder HR Plus, Bangalore, India |
| 2 | Mr. Anil Kalaga | Group Head - L&OD, Adani Group |
| 3 | Mr. Jeeva Balakrishnan | SVP & Chief Talent Officer, Reliance Retail Limited |
| 4 | Shri. Babu Krishnamoorthy | CEO & Co-founder, Finsherpa Investment Services |
| 5 | Mr. Kunall Majgaonkar |
Head of Media & Communication, Bengaluru Football Club |
| 6 | Dr. Vikram Venkateswaran | Director, Deloitte India |
| 7 | Shri. Harish Vaidyanathan | Head of Product, Vymo |
| 8 | Shri. Ramanand Puttige | Senior Vice President HR, Cyient Technologies |
| 9 | Ms. Shreya Prakash | CEO & Co-founder, Flexibees |
| 10 | Dr. P.Subburethina Bharathi | Asst. General Manager, L&D Kauvery (Hospital) Academy |
| 11 | Dr. Hasit Joshipura | Senior Vice President, L&T |
| 12 | Mr. Jeeva Balakrishnan | SVP & Chief Talent Officer, Reliance Retail Limited |