Jairo Fernandez

Award Winning HR Executive, Senior Vice President, Human Resources

SAP Asia Pacific Japan

Jairo Fernandez was named SVP, Human Resources for SAP Asia Pacific Japan in April 2013. Based in Singapore, Fernandez is responsible for the overall human resource management across the region to support SAP's accelerated growth. 

As VP of Human Resources for SAP Latin America since 2009, Fernandez led his team in delivering outstanding results through innovative programs in talent attraction, leadership and diversity. Fernandez's leadership drove high levels of employee engagement and generated a competitive advantage for SAP in the region. Fernandez was thrice named in the Excellence in Human Resources Awards of the South Florida Business Journal, in 2008, 2010 and 2011, among other awards. 

Prior to SAP, Fernandez held roles spanning human resources, sales and marketing at technology companies, with global experience at Neoris as Chief Human Capital Officer & Chief Marketing Officer, and at Unisys as Global Talent and Business Effectiveness Director, after managing human resources and marketing in Colombia, then Latin America. 

Fernandez is passionate about the digital economy and its implications for the workforce. A digital leader, Fernandez advises various organizations and SAP Customers on how to prepare for the future. Credited with bringing technological advances to HR , Fernandez has been instrumental in improving employee experience with the HR function and managing workforce through predictive insights. A regular contributor to top publications in APJ region, Fernandez was recently recognized as 'HR professional of the Year' by at HR excellence awards Asia and Top 30 HR professional in South East Asia by HRD Singapore magazine

Fernandez speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. He graduated from University of Los Andes in Colombia majoring in computer science engineering.

Jay Menon

Head - Talent Management Solutions

Wisdom Jobs

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jay Menon is a classic example of someone who focused on one step at a time, and ended up climbing the long staircase from being an Office Assistant in the Cement Manufacturing Company to heading Talent Acquisition for leading companies in the IT Industry.

Jay's beginnings were in the cement industry, where he handled roles such as being an Executive Assistant to managing a branch office with equal aplomb; working closely with senior leaders of the cement industry such as Sri N.L.Hamirwasia and Sri M.K. Chaudhary. Then, he shifted his energies to recruitment in the IT Industry, a completely unknown area. Starting with Intelligroup (now NTT Data) where he spent close to 5 years overseeing the recruitment of SAP professionals for the US market, he continued to make his mark on IT recruiting with stints at Mastek and Polaris (now VirtusaPolaris) where he spent 9 years as Senior Vice President for Talent Acquisition.

His core expertise lies in handling Human Resources Management (specialized in Talent Management and Talent Acquisition). He is also an expert in Campus Recruitment - hiring MBAs Tier 1/Tier II, Engineering Graduates and in large scale off-campus recruitment. He has successfully managed teams across organizations in creative ways by implementing concepts such as Total Football in Recruitment. Jay has been the lead in several recruitment initiatives for IT products & services organizations including Leadership hiring, Campus hiring, Volume hiring (up to 1000 offers per month), quick ramp-ups, and hiring for SMEs. He was instrumental in implementing industry-first best practices to check candidate impersonation and led global rollouts of automation/e-recruitment tools/ATS including scalable processes and procedural frameworks.

He has always strived to add more feathers to his cap by acquiring considerable knowledge and exposure to areas such as Sales & Marketing, Administration, Procurement and Corporate Advertising during his extensive career.

Jay's personal interests include blogging about his experiences as recruitment professional, social media networking and supporting the education of underprivileged children.

Julie Miles Lewis

Director

Mountain High

Julie Miles Lewis is a high-energy catalyst for personal and professional transformation. With over 25 years in the health, sports, adventure and leadership field Julie has established herself as the " go to MOUNTAIN woman" for clients wishing to inspire and enable their employees, teams and organization to challenge the norm, ride with change, push boundaries, reach new heights and stay happy, healthy, resilient in the process.

Julie is a great believer of leading by example and is passionate about helping people to take action with courage and confidence. Julie established Mountain High in 2003 after climbing her first mountain in Malaysia (Kota Kinabalu) ; since this time has trained and led multi-national and cross generational teams of women and men around the globe on 58 expeditions to more than 20 countries to include the Arctic and Antarctica. On a personal level she has climbed 19 high altitude mountains giving her a wealth of " resilience in action " experience.

Her background in Sports Science, Stress Management, Mindfulness, Zen, NLP and adventure travel combine to offer a diverse, dynamic and thought provoking approach to personal and team leadership development.

Julie is the author of the C-Suite and Amazon bestseller book titled " Moving Mountains"- a personal development workbook for 21st century living in business, sports and life.

Originally from the UK, Julie has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East, USA and Asia. She is currently based in Abu Dhabi and loves to travel around the globe to share her wisdom and insights with the corporate and educational world through speaking, delivering workshops and leading tailor made retreats and expeditions.

Kabira Bhatporia

HR Director - MENA

JLL-MENA

Kabira joined JLL-MENA leadership team in August 2014 as the Head of Human Resources. Her key responsibilities include providing leadership and strategic human resources direction for JLL MENA towards fulfilling the vision of JLL being recognized as a premium employer globally. In her role she is working closely with the leadership team towards building a high performing team, driving change, embedding new ways of working and engaging people in order to gain a competitive edge, attract, select, develop and retain talents. She is passionate about leading continuous improvement, culture change to support the growth of the business.

Kabira comes with over 22 years of experience in Human Capital practices including talent acquisition, talent development, organization development and policy governance.

Before joining JLL MENA, she held the role of Head of Human Resources at Dubai International Financial Center Authority, overseeing the Human Resources function. Prior to that, Kabira held the position of Assistant General Manager - Human Resources and Administration at Maersk Kanoo in Dubai, managing UAE, Oman and Qatar. In the initial days of her career, Kabira worked as Manager - Compensation and Training at Kodak India Limited's corporate office.

Kabira holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce, a Diploma in Training and Development and a Diploma in Business Management, specializing in Human Resources. 

Kate Sweetman

Founder & President

SweetmanCragun

Kaushik Chakraborty

Director - HR Business Partner, Head - Learning and Development

Jones Lang LaSalle

Current Responsibilities :
Kaushik heads the Talent, Leadership and Organisational Development function for JLL in West Asia. He also leads HR for North/East India and CSR initiatives within the Organisation. He facilitates Leadership workshop across APAC Countries for JLL and is part of the D&I Council in JLL which drives the Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. Kaushik joined JLL in India in June 2012 and is based in Gurgaon.

Experience :
Kaushik now has over 19 years of experience in the corporate sector and has held a diverse set of roles ranging from general management, strategy and business redesign, HR Management, Learning & Organisational Development and Leadership Development.

Prior to joining JLL, Kaushik has worked with reputed Organizations like ABN AMRO, RBS, Max Newyork Life, ICICI Prudential and Blue Dart.

Personal Brief :
He is involved in the Toastmasters movement in India and has been a Division Governor helping people improve their communication and leadership skills and find the courage to change. He speaks extensively in HR and Management forums in India and abroad. He also does keynote and motivational speaking at conferences and events and have been invited to speak in Top B Schools and multiple TEDx talks in India.

He is an extensive traveller and trekker with special interest in Himalayas and Delhi's Historical Heritage. He loves long distance running, photography and lives in Gurgaon with wife and two daughters.

Education :
• Master of Business Administration, Apeejay School of Management ,Delhi
• Bachelor of Commerce (Honours),Delhi University
• Leadership Executive Program, National University of Singapore
• Leadership Certification, ISB Hyderabad
• HR Licentiate, Asian HR Board

Awards and Recognition :
• MTC Global Top 10 Thinkers in 2014
• 50 Most Influential HR Tech Leaders 2015 by World HRD Congress
• 50 Most Influential Training and Development Professionals by World HRD Congress
• Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) by Toastmasters International

Makarand Tare

Chief Talent Officer - Asia Pacific

McCann Worldgroup Singapore Pte Ltd

Topic : Talent Management & Recruiting and Staff Best in Class

Mak is seasoned Human Resources professional with extensive experience across a range of industries including Consulting, Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare, FMCG; Financial & Services and Paints/Chemicals. He has held roles that were both, hands on, as well as creating value at a strategic and corporate level. He has managed the HR function during business mergers, closures, downsizing, restructuring and change management and he is experienced in organisational development and aligning employees under global HR policies/processes.

Mak also has a Phd in Human Resources and is an accredited coach. Trainer and facilitator in organisational development, change agent, accredited in psychometric tests and advisor to management leadership. Mak is Indian born Australian, working currently in Singapore and has interest in Fengshui, Yoga and Study of Human mind.

Topic : Talent Management & Recruiting and Staff Best in Class

Benefits of having a robust Talent Management Suite, how to identify Critical roles, Critical Talent and Hi-Po in a scientific Way. Health check on are we having right talent in the right roles (Is money invested where the mouth is?). Parallel having a proactive Talent Mapping to attract Talent, a refined hiring strategy process, well communicated to the business and Training for Line Managers. Combined effect helps maximise Human Capital to for Business growth and impact.

Marion Rosemund

Head of Business HR

DHL Post eCommerce Parcel (PeP)

Marion is an international Human Resource Executive with over 20 years of experience in complex multi -cultural work environments in Americas, Asia and Europe. She is responsible for managing the HR function in Management Boards of both DHL eCommerce and DHL Parcel Europe, strategic partnering with the business while increasing the number of employees from globally 2.200 to 30.000 during the last few years.

During her current stint at HR PeP International, Marion was especially successful in building and leading a dedicated global HR organization and team from scratch, collaboratively leading Regions (Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe), setting strategic directions for HR Heads to support business goals, and ensuring that the organization is well positioned in a rapidly evolving and competitive environment. She supported the business globally during rapid transformation times through effective Change Management, Integration Initiatives and M&A projects to help achieve the strategic goals of PeP Internationalization and DHL eCommerce/ Parcel growth.

She was instrumental in setting up and successfully implementing global high potential Talent Management and Employee Engagement Initiatives.

Her experience covers all aspects of HR Management, strategic planning and organizational development, including design, development, execution of HR Strategies in line with Business Strategies and Corporate principles and Policies.

As a certified Expert for Labor Law/ Employee Relations, Marion acts as the divisional Member of the Group Employee Relations Forum, as well as for the European Management Forum to manage social dialogue with European Workers Councils in the DP DHL Forum.

Marion supported the content design of several Leadership Training Programs & Initiatives, like Building greater Employee Relations, Leading Transformations (in vulnerable times), Work & Life@PeP.

She graduated in legal economies, with special certification in Labor law/ Industrial Relations and brings in international experience from several stints in USA, FL (1 year/ Walt Disney World), South Africa, CT (3 months/ Findley & Tait Law Firm), Indonesia (3 months/ studies).

Dr. Mohammad Salem Omaid

President & CEO

Azizi Bank

Dr. Mohammad Salem Omaid is the President and CEO of Azizi Bank. Prior to this, Dr. Omaid has been the DY. CEO of the Bank for more than 5 years since September 2011.

Dr. Omaid has been associated with the bank since 2006 and has been the part of the bank's 10 years of illustrious growth. As a professional entrepreneur, he is progressively establishing a high quality, state-of-the- art private Afghanistan Bank with a vision of "Building the Best Quality Afghanistan Bank with World Class Services" by 2020. Under his leadership, Azizi Bank has steadily evolved as the "Professionals' Bank of Afghanistan" with exemplary business and financial outcomes as evidenced in the results and performance since inception and thus building the largest banking group in Afghanistan.

  Dr. Omaid is a Doctorate in Financial Management from a leading Indian University. He is also a Post Graduate & an MBA with specialization in Banking, Risk Management & Finance. He also possesses a Diploma in Information Technology.

  Dr. Omaid served the bank in various categories including being the Chief Finance Officer. His vision to create a top class bank in Afghanistan has resulted in the bank significant growth and its continuous endeavor to provide the best and effective world class customer service. He has been guiding and influencing the national policies in the diverse areas of financial sector regulation and supervision, development and regulation of financial markets, capital account management, management of government borrowings, forex reserves management and payment and settlement systems. Dr. Omaid has been also associated with maintaining International business relations with key corporates & stake holders.

Dr. Omaid has been a great influencer & motivator in structuring the bank and guiding the bank to its present zenith. A strong leader in himself and a person with pioneering visionary skills. He has been widely responsible in developing the local human resources.

A highly distinguished person and well respected citizen of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

Moustafa Hamwi

Passionpreneur & Chief Energy Officer

AKA The Passio Guy ( UAE )

Topic : talk title will be Passionate Leadership

Moustafa is an award winning author & speaker and is the world's leading expert on Passion, he has achieved in one year what took others 20 years to achieve in this industry to an extent he got nicknamed globally as The Passion Guy due to his amazing success in empowering leaders to work & live passionately.

He has been selected by world's #1 Executive Coach Dr. Marshall Goldsmith as one of top 100 coaches globally from a pool of over 12,000 applicants to work closely with Dr. Marshall on his legacy program.

He was featured with Dr. Marshall on the blog of Thinkers50 which is the world's most prestigious ranking of the top 50 management thinkers alive Moustafa's talks are described as highly energetic, insightful and engaging" and are guaranteed to give you a dose of passion that lasts way beyond the event. His recent HSBC Ambition Talks video got over 400,000 cumulative views on Facebook. 

Nina E. Woodard

President & Chief "N" Sights Officer

Nina E. Woodard & Associates, a division of NDPendence, Inc.

Prashant Pandey

Country Manager

Right Mangement (India)

Prashant Is the Country Manager for Right Mangement (India).Right Management is a leading Talent and Career Management Expert within the Manpower Group.

Prashant has over 18 years of experience in Consulting and L&D. He has worked with leading corporate houses of India like the Tatas, Reliance and Bharti. As part of his work in Right Management, he has been involved in desiging and deploying large scale Talent Management and Organizational Transformantion projects across multiple countries in the globe.

Prashant has worked on various projects for Indian and multinational clients in a variety of industries including Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing & Engineering, Power, IT / ITES, Telecommunications and FMCG.

On the functional side, Prashant has worked with multiple hierarchies in Sales, Customer Service and Human Resources. He has designed and deployed people development solutions for a target audience ranging from the middle to senior level leaders. He has been invloved in designing and deploying large scale transformation projects through Need Diagnostics Studies, desginign leadership development solutions, designing Assessment Centers, and facilitaton of workshops for senior level audiences. Besides being a coach to his team, he has coached multiple level managers. Some of the specific areas that Pashant has worked on are Performance Management, Coaching, Change Mangement, Leadership Development, Culture Transformation, Sales Management, Customer Service, etc.

Prashant is a Coach and Master Trainer for American Management Association. He is also a guest speaker in Management Institutes.

Prashant is a CFA and has done his Masters in Commerce.

Priyom Sarkar

Head - Growth & Innovation

Viacom18 Digital Ventures

Topic : How to use Balanced Scorecards to transform organizations - stories from the trenches

Priyom Sarkar is a seasoned Strategy professional with deep understanding of and recognized achievements in Mobile, Digital Media and Consumer industries. He is presently working as Senior Director of Corp. Strategy in Viacom18 (50-50 JV between RIL and Viacom) on M&A, Business Transformation and Strategic Initiatives. In his current role, he has led several transformation initiatives and created the group's investment thesis on end-to-end M&A and Corporate Venturing activities. He is presently focussed on defining the growth plan for Viacom18's digital ventures (VOOT and other apps) and optimizing the revenue funnel.

In his previous role, Priyom managed the governance stream in Business Transformation project at Reliance Industries (RIL) across Oil and Gas Businesses. He held workshops with top 100 leaders to create Balanced Scorecards and design the strategy map. He also helped prepare the business plan for pan-India rollout of Jio (4G telecom services). In an earlier avatar, he was a consultant with PwC, advising clients across industries on Strategy and Performance Improvement projects in India and US.

Priyom earned his MBA from the Indian School of Business graduating in the Dean's List, having ranked among top 3% of his batch.

Priyom is a regular speaker at top industry panels including IFLR M&A forum, Unleashing Innovation, etc. on topics related to Media industry trends, M&A, Innovation & Strategy.

Purushotam Savlani

Senior Vice President & Managing Director

First Advantage India

Purushotam Savlani is the senior vice president and managing director at First Advantage India and is based out of Bangalore. At First Advantage, Purushotam is responsible for executing the vision and strategy of First Advantage and drive the next stage of revenue growth for First Advantage's India business.

Prior to First Advantage, Purushotam worked with Wipro where he was general manager and head of sales, responsible for infra managed services business. He has the expertise in sales management, executing mission critical projects, business consulting, general administration and business leadership with primary focus on strategy formulation, service delivery, profit & loss management, business operations and team leadership.

With over two decades of global diversified experience, Purushotam Savlani has held senior leadership position in some of the leading companies like Wipro, DGM (Tata Communications Ltd), Godrej Pacific Technology Ltd among others in India and Middle East. Purushotam has a track record of being a business savvy professional with strong aptitude in developing business strategies and execute them in real time sales environments. As a customer centric leader, Purushotam has handled high-value global & domestic customers; managed C-3 Level relationships in the customer organization through meetings, customer visits and specific events, and C Level Forums.

Known for being people's person, Purushotam has successfully managed large teams while ensuring employee satisfaction, optimal allocation and utilization of available resources and effective management of the skillsets of the people in his team. He has proven skills in providing end-to-end customer service delivery solutions and implementing the service delivery process covering service level agreement, resolution process, knowledge management and procedures & service standards for business excellence and generating value propositions for the customers. Purushotam has always adapted to the changes around and made necessary amendments in his approach to stay ahead of the curve.

Purushotam did his PGDBM in marketing from Birla Institute of Management & Technology. He has keen interest in economic and political affairs - India and Global. In his past time he likes listening to music.

Rahul Jain

Head HR

Uflex Ltd. (Chemical Business)

Rahul Jain is Social Media Enthusiast ranked among #Top100hrsontwitter HR Professional with 16+ Years of post-qualification experience with merit of working with reputed organizations in APAC region based at Singapore and India with diversified industry segment (Media, Agriculture Commodity Trading, Shipping, Electrical & Electronics, Beverages and Industrial Chemicals) in all the rungs handling Corporate, Plant HR, C&B, In house trainer roles.

He has worked with Philips India, Coca-Cola, Cargill India, Dainik Bhaskar, SIVA Group and Hindustan Heavy Chemicals and has handled Corporate and Plant HR roles from operational to strategic level. Besides possessing international work experience, employment law and practices knowledge of APAC region, he worked with diversified workforce of various nationalities.

In his professional journey he has handled complete gamut of HR specially HRBP role, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Engagement, Total Rewards, Performance Management, Talent Acquisition, Management and Retention, Organizational restructuring/rightsizing, Employee Communication, Employer Branding, HR Business Excellence Model, Change Management, Process Mapping and Maturity model, HR Projects, Industrial Relations, Union Management, Wages settlement, legal & disciplinary cases and CSR.

He has been an in House Certified Trainer on various subjects including Performance management process, Leading Compensation conversation, Interviewing Skills, Talent Management, Training of Trainers, Building Effective Teams, Social Media and NLP Skills.

Academically he holds full time Masters' Degree in HR & Administration (1998-2000) and graduate degree in Commerce. He also holds PG Diploma in International Business (SCDL) and a Diploma in Software Engineering (Aptech Ltd.).

He has been associated with campus for Panel discussions and delivering guest lectures at IMI, New Delhi, NIAM, Jaipur, MS University Baroda, IILM, Greater Noida, Rai University, Ahmadabad, People's University, Bhopal, Accurate Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida, Sri SIIM, New Delhi, CMS Jabalpur and guided a batch of Ex-Service man at MDI, Gurgaon on "Preparing for Interview" subject in past.

Ramakrishna Movva PhD

Excutive VP and Head, Strategic HR & Organization Capabilities

Emirates NBD Bank, Dubai, UAE

Topic : Developing a High Potential Talent Program

Ramakrishna Movva (Ramki) heads the strategic HR functions within Emirates NBD Group and plays a primary role in providing advisory and facilitation support to the businesses on human capital policies, strategies and programs that can enable business strategy execution. He provides leadership to the HR Centers of Expertise covering Learning and Development, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Performance and Reward and Organization Development.

Ramki has over 30 years of HR and OD experience in South Asia and Middle East. He conceived, developed and successfully executed several human capital initiatives such as job family framework, enterprise performance management, high potential talent and future leaders program for developing leadership bench strength and change management in a M&A scenario. The decade long HR transformation that Ramki led in Emirates Bank was captured as a business case by INSEAD Business School.

Ramki is a HR graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. Subsequently, he obtained a post graduate diploma in Occupational Psychology from University of Surrey, UK and a Doctoral degree with concentration in Learning and Change in Human Systems from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, USA. He is also an International Coach Federation certified leadership/life coach.

He regularly participates in the regional HR conferences as a speaker and a panelist. Outside work, Ramki enjoys playing golf and basketball. He loves spending quality time with family and working in his garden.

Ravi Kingrani

Learning Practitioner; Vice President (Develop Employees)

Deutsche Bank Group

Current Role :
Provide advisory to business groups in India on People Development agenda - Core Learning Strategy, Structured Career Development, Leadership Development & Coaching, and Talent Engagement.

Work Experience :
Ravi is a passionate L&D professional with over 21 years of work experience with leading global organizations in Financial Services, IT Consulting & Manufacturing.

He moved in training role around 6 years back to set-up Functional Training Academy for Deutsche Bank Group in India to follow his passion and calling for people development. He led global initiative on building skills framework for over 30,000+ employees of Deutsche Bank globally. He co-steered award winning solutions of Internal Certifications, dbTeach, Campus Connect, and Train and Hire Models.

Prior to moving in to training role, he spent over 16 years with Deutsche Bank, Reliance Industries, Satyam and Tata Motors across Marketing, Client Services, Franchise Management, and Operations.

Personal Profile :
He is a Mechanical Engineer by qualification, but his favourite subject are economics and human behavior. As a self-proclaimed lifelong student over last two decades he has acquired degrees in Finance, Marketing, Foreign Trade, and Investment Banking Operations. He is also certified NLP Practitioner, DiSC Trainer, Phillips ROI practitioner, certified in Large Scale Change Intervention, certified in Instructional design, facilitation, project management, six sigma etc. and he is currently pursuing his Coaching Certification from ICC.

His hobbies are Reading, Travelling, and Photography, but off late his new found love for MOOC courses through Coursera, and edX keeps him awake. He is an ardent follower of Osho, Sadguru Jaggi Vasudevan and Practices Vipasana Meditation. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two kids.

Ria Ghosh

HR Business Partner - GBO

Google

Ria is a self motivated person with an extremely positive outlook towards life. She believes in solving organisational challenges through people oriented strategies. She currently works as an HR Business Partner with the Sales and Marketing vertical (Global Business Organisation) of Google India since May 2015. In addition to her HRBP role, Ria also heads multiple key projects for Google APAC.

Prior to Google, she worked with the pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, as an HR Business Partner. As part of her role, she managed four of Pfizer's key businesses and have also worked on multiple projects pertaining to Organisational design and development, HR strategy, Change management, Career progression and Compensation and benefits. Ria started her career with Larsen & Toubro as an HR Generalist and worked for their financial services division.

Learning agility, attention to detail and quality, critical thinking, creativity and analytical mindset are some of Ria's key strengths. She thrives in a challenging environment and can handle ambiguity and constant change with much ease.

Outside work, Ria is passionate about dancing, traveling, baking and children's causes. She is a diploma holder in Kathak dance and has also been trained in western dance forms under Shiamak Davar.

Additionally, she has also worked as a volunteer with Teach for India, UNICEF, Soroptimist International and Railway Children, UK.

Ria is a Bachelor in Technology in Electronics and Communication from West Bengal University of Technology and has an MBA degree in Human Resources from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

Richa Pande

Chief People Officer

Inatech

Topic : Employer Branding

Doctorate (PhD) in Organizational Behaviour from University of Delhi and have 24 years of experience in the field of HR. As an interest in Academics, I have also been visiting faculty for MBA course in HR in premier Management Institutes. My current assignments are with IIM Trichy and LIBA, Chennai. My interest also lies in contributing to HR fraternity. I'm in the taskforce committee of CII - HR for Southern region. Recently I participated in a case study competition organized by CII, Mumbai and was awarded second prize. Current Role - Chief Performance Officer, Inatech - A Glencore Company. Inatech is an ERP product company with expertise in oil & gas, marine industry. As a technology company, people capabilities are at the core of Business.

Topic : Employer Branding

There is growing concern among CEOs about finding and keeping the best talent to achieve Business growth plans. Different surveys show that in 2014, 36% of global employers reported talent shortages, in a more recent 2015 survey, 73% of CEOs reported being concerned about the availability of key skills.

In a war of talent, employer branding is a powerful tool.

Look at how you're hiring: think candidate experience. Do you force job seekers through a maze-like microsite for career opportunities, then fail to acknowledge their applications with an email or letter (approximately 70% of hiring companies are in this camp)? Do you put people through tests and five phone screens, then never follow up?

Then look at the employee experience – What employees do everyday, the actions they take, and how they perceive the actions of their managers and top management. There have been enough studies that have reported that on an average only 30% of the employees are engaged. The remaining are partly engaged or disengaged.

How does this impact our ability to attract and retain people?

Today our thoughts, experiences are not private, anymore. We cannot ignore that online media and social networking is changing the employment landscape in many subtle but fundamental ways. Our ability to enhance employee/ candidate experience and leverage social media would go a long way in establishing employer brand.

The presentation would focus on some of these aspects to enable audience
-> Appreciate how they are responsible for creating a right image of the Organization
-> Sensitize HR professionals to identify suitable strategies for employer branding in their Organization

Ron Thomas

Managing Director

Strategy Focused Group

Ron Thomas is the founder of the Strategy Focused Group an international consulting firm based in Dubai. He has been identified as one of the top 5 HR/Leadership thinkers in the Middle East by CIPD. He received the Outstanding Leadership Award for Global HR Excellence at the World Human Resources Development Congress in Mumbai, and was named as one of the 50 Most Talented Global HR Leaders in Asia

His work has been featured in the Wall St. Journal, Inc. Magazine, Workforce Management and numerous international HR magazines covering Africa, India and the Middle East. He is a columnist/blogger for magazines such as Insight magazine, HR People of Africa, SHRM, etc.

He has been contributing author to numerous books.
It's Time for High-Performance Government: Winning Strategies to Engage and Energize the Public Sector Workforce-Howard Risher
Learning to Lead: Lessons in Leadership for People of Faith_Rev. Willard Ashley
Effective Onboarding programs-Doris Sims

His work has been featured in the Wall St. Journal, Inc. Magazine, SHRM Magazine, Workforce Management and numerous international HR magazines covering Africa, India and the Middle East. As a consultant and management educator, he has worked with companies such as Central Bank of Nigeria, Iran Cell, King Faisal Hospital-JeddahSaudi Electric Company, BASHRM, JLT [Saudi Arabia], Dubai Tourism, American Hospital of Dubai, Dar Al Riyadh, Gulf Bank-Kuwait

Prior to consulting, he worked in senior level roles for IBM, Martha Stewart Living, Xerox HR Services

Board memberships include the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, McKinsey Quarterly Executive Online Panel, and HCI's Expert Advisory Council on Talent Management Strategy. He is a sought after speaker throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific Region.

S. V. Nathan

Partner and Chief Talent Officer

Deloitte India

Nathan is a Partner and the Chief Talent Officer of Deloitte India. He serves on the Executive Leadership of the firm and is a member of Deloitte's Global Talent Council.

Nathan has over 30 years of experience in HR management, across diverse industries including Manufacturing, Services, Telecom, and Information Technology. He is an industry leader, mentor and an advocate of ethical leadership and developing future leaders through coaching. He has vast experience in building and leading high-performance teams in both multinational and Indian organizations, developing leaders across levels, and serving as a trusted business advisor focused on transforming Talent as a strategic growth enabler

Nathan has been serving Deloitte for over 11 years and has played a crucial role in architecting the rapid growth and transformation of the India region of the Deloitte firms into a truly global organization. Besides implementing robust Talent processes and focusing on acquiring and growing talent, Nathan focused his energies in building a strong brand for the firm that complements Deloitte's strategic priorities in India.

A respected voice of the HR profession in India, Nathan speaks regularly at several national and global forums on contemporary HR matters. He is a Behavioral Specialist in Sensitivity Training. He was recognized as a 'Distinguished Alumnus Award' by XLRI by his Alma Mater. Recently he was acknowledged as one of the top 25 thoughts leaders in the Digital space by SAP. He was also recognized as one of the top 3 Power Profiles in HR by LinkedIn. He has also been conferred several awards by the Asia Pacific HR Congress.

Nathan serves on the Board of the National HR Development Network (NHRDN) as its National Secretary. He also serves as a Fellow at Sumedhas, a not-for-profit education and research body on organization development.

Nathan is an avid reader and writer, Nathan also loves cooking for family and friends. He is a regular blogger and has an active presence on social media.

Sambit Kumar Ghosh

Chief Human Resources Officer

BMA Wealth Creators Pvt Ltd

A University Topper and a Gold medalist in Management, Mr. Sambit Ghosh, a versatile Strategic HR Practitioner, has been contributing in creating Performance - Driven - Target Oriented Cultures, Piloting Competency Driven Strategic HR Interventions, Engaging Employees Proactively and Building Learning Organizations across various Industries like Construction, Retail Banking, Stock Broking, Telecommunications and Financial Services.

BACKGROUND -
Sambit has worked in various Leadership positions in organizations like Reliance Money, (A Reliance Capital Company), Reliance Communications, Destimoney Securities, BMA Wealth Creators etc and have played vital role in designing the H.R architecture, managing the design and delivery of H.R and Training programs to support business priorities, expanding the capacity and efficiency of the work force, planning and driving the creation and implementation of the Organisation's Learning Strategy, in integrating cross functional teams, partnering with business teams in achieving top line and bottom line profitability targets, and guiding teams in organisations during economic down turns and turbulent times and helping to increase resilience in individuals and teams in various organisations.

Sambit is a widely recognized Leadership trainer and offers various programmes to enhance Leadership capabilities, Team Management and Development, Emotional Intelligence, Understanding and Managing Group Behaviour, Performance Improvement of individuals and Teams, Managing Teams and Organizations during economic down turns etc. His Corporate Workshops on Leadership and Team Building and Management has been highly appreciated by the Industry professionals. His multiple workshops on Attitude Building for Personal and Professional success and various Employability Enhancement programmes have been of much help to the student fraternity. He has also been associated with various management institutions as a Faculty and speaker in various Human Resource Management forums

AWARDS & ACCOLADES -
- Recipient of the "Most Influential HR Leaders in India" award by World HRD Congress in February, 2016

- Honored with the "Top 100 HR Professionals in Asia" award by Asia Pacific HRM Congress in November, 2015

- Was part of the Reliance Money Team as a recipient of Indira Excellence Awards for Creating Opportunities for the Youth in India in the Financial Services Domain in the year 2008.

- Recognized as the Best Emerging HR Talent across Reliance Capital in the year 2007

- Received the All India Second Prize in Paper Presentation Contest in the National HRD Congress held in Mumbai in 2000.

He is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer, leading the HR and Learning and Development functions at BMA Wealth Creators Pvt Ltd, a financial services organization and pursuing his Fellowship in the area of HR & OB from IIM Indore.

Sandeep Mehra

Director & Country Head ( Collaboration)

Cisco

Sandeep heads Cisco's Collaboration business across the India and SAARC region. In his current role, Sandeep is responsible for driving strategy for the India & SAARC geography. In addition to sales, he also focuses on forging strong partnerships with industry players to jointly develop solutions and go-to-market strategies for driving Collaborative solutions.

  An industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in Technology, Collaboration & SaaS industry, Sandeep has a unique blend of experience from creating and working in high performance startups to leading sales/marketing organizations of large organizations.   Sandeep's range of experiences include co-founding India's first service provider for Conferencing to leading the WebEx Collaboration business for Cisco for Asia Pacific & Japan region.

  Prior to joining Cisco, Sandeep worked as VP for Business Development at Moxtra, Inc. a silicon valley startup in the Mobile Content Collaboration space.  Sandeep holds a B.S. (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research) from the University of Massachusetts

Shachi Kaul

Head- Develop Employees

Deutsche Group, India

Shachi Kaul is Head- Develop Employees, India  at Deutsche Group, India. Her current role encompasses leading design and delivery of varied development interventions, leadership development, coaching, and partnering with business leaders for the 12,000 plus employees in India.

She has previously worked with Oberoi Hotels and HSBC, and served in a variety of roles in her 18-year long career. These include client & revenue management, graduate/under-graduate recruitment, systematic development programs, content development, and leadership development. She is deeply passionate about the impact great leaders have on their teams and organizations, and advocates an ecosystem based approach for employee development. 

Shachi won HSBC's award for best training intervention in Asia Pacific (2007) as the content development head. She is also a Commonwealth Short Story Award winner (2010).

Shalini Nair

Senior Director -HR, Communications & Branding and Facilities

Amadeus

Shalini Nair oversees three key functions - HR, Communications & Branding and Facilities at Amadeus India. Shalini has long exemplified a level of commitment with Amadeus. She has made a significant contribution to the organisation, going above and beyond the normal call of duty and delivering exceptional results.

At age 29, Shalini joined Amadeus and some of the key areas that she has passionately developed over the last 4 years have been:
- Laying the foundation for Amadeus Labs in India and driving the growth. Today with 1600 employees, Amadeus Labs is the second largest centre for Amadeus globally
- All policies, programs and practices at Amadeus Labs are "Made in India" keeping in mind the local talent market and Amadeus' business strategy.
- Building a high performing HR team of 40 professionals, by focusing on competency building and strong business partnering model. In 2015, Shalini launched HR Academy which focuses on key areas of developing business understanding, deepening functional knowledge and building skills like consulting, coaching and influencing.
- With her impact on business and people practices, Shalini has earned herself a seat at the Global HR leadership team at Amadeus, influencing global decisions.

Shalini's leadership style, combined with her integrity and commitment to ethics helps to make her an incredible leader, worthy of recognition. She loves people, works hard, and always tries to lift the spirits of those around her.

Amadeus Labs has 6 industry awards to its credit, including "Top 25 Dream Companies to Work For".

Shivalika Harish Patil

HR Mentor

Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited

Shivalika is a Human Resources Practitioner and Consultant specializing in Organization Development (OD) and Change Management with over 23 years of industry experience. She has worked in diverse industries being FMCG, NBFC, IT, Banking, Chemical and Consulting. As an Organisation Development practitioner she has contributed in helping organization towards building Engaged Cultures, integrating diverse cultures in merger and acquisition scenarios and has strived towards developing Leadership quotient in the organization through Coaching leaders and creating a learning organisation.

Some significant roles as HR practitioner are Head-Organization Development -HDFC Bank and Head-Western Region Research- Gallup Consulting. As a Business consultant, she has helped large business groups through the Gallup Q12 model in understanding the key engagement challenges impacting the business outcomes. She has closely worked with these groups towards crafting a strategic path to improve engagement.

Shivalika is an "Executive Coach" and she coaches senior leaders to discover their inner potential towards achieving personal and business outcomes. She is Sensitivity/ T- Group facilitator. She has extensively used this framework in outbound methodology to help Leadership teams unleash their team potential to create togetherness. She has worked on Competency Mapping in the organization thus developing Leadership frameworks and Development Centers to formulate a base for setting up a Leadership pipeline in the organization. Through Management development programmes and Skill development programmes she has helped several managers work across cultures and create integrated teams.

Shivalika has done her M.A. (Social Work) with specialization in Labour welfare and Personnel management from DAVV, Indore University. She has studied "Change Management" from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.

She is passionate about music and is a trained vocal Hindustani classical singer. She is a trekker and trained mountaineer from Nehru Institute of mountaineering, Uttarkashi, India.

Personal Vision is "Impacting the World around her". Keen inclination is to connect with the society around her and continuously strive to make it a Magical place to live in where all can Blossom and be Happy.

Shobha Vasudevan

Head - Corporate Communications & PR

Dell

Shobha Vasudevan, a 19 year veteran in communications and PR, joined EMC (now part of Dell) in 2014 as Head- Corporate Communications and PR for India. In this capacity, Shobha is responsible to execute the planning, development and execution of strategic communications programs including analyst relations, public relations, executive communications, and internal communications in India with the goal to enhance awareness and understanding of EMC and its vision, solutions, strategies and value propositions.

Prior to her role in EMC, Shobha served as Marketing Communications Lead for Events at Microsoft India Corporation Pvt Ltd. She also spent almost 11 years at Canon heading the corporate communication charter and managing portfolios across PR, branding, event management, internal communications and CSR.

Her work has been recognized across all the organisations she has worked with and she has won many accolades for the same. She was awarded as a Super Achiever by the World Women Leadership Congress for PR and Corporate Communications in 2016 and the Corporate Communication professional of the year at the National Awards for Marketing Excellence. She has also won the award for Best practice in Global Comms at EMC in 2015 for innovation in PR campaign. She has also won 2 gold and 2 silver awards for Innovation and Success at EMC. In 2013, she was awarded as Best Individual Contributor at Global Event Marketing Awards and won the SMSG India Collaborators award twice in a row (2012 and 2013) at Microsoft.. During her role in Canon she bagged 2 awards- President Award in 2011 & Best Marketing Manager in 2009.

Shobha is graduate in Bachelors of Arts from Delhi University with a Business English Communication certificate from Cambridge University.

Executive Coach, Sr. Consultant and Facilitator

Stéfanie Vallée is an Executive Coach, Sr. Consultant and Facilitator. She is a public figure on the Canadian scene in Shanghai, based on her unique combined profile of former athlete and artist, which differentiates her from her fellow corporate coaches.

Her past performances both in sport as a National Team athlete in white water kayaking (she achieved 10 National Championship titles, 3 World Class top 5 against all odds in between 2003-2012), and International Artist (she sold an artwork to Ma Huateng in 2013 for RMB1,9 M) all demonstrates her high capability to merge diverse talents and inspire others developing their full potential.

Based on her achievements, she believes everyone has unique skills set to develop and share amongst global organizations. This makes her passionate about accompanying Top Leaders and F100 companies growing to their full leadership potential.

Sumathi Sampath

Head - Talent Acquisition

Infosys BPO

HR professional and have been in the realm of HR for more than 20 years. Held various leadership roles in Talent Management & Development, Employee Relations and Retention, Global talent experience with deep knowledge in Banking, IT, BPO. Passionate about bringing the best talent and right fit for the organizations. Key focus areas are building TA capability and collaboration, as well as ensuring the business is best supported by TA to meet its objective. Have managed the Resourcing hiring for 14 countries like UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America.

Specialties : Talent Management, Resourcing, Training & Development, Compensation and Benefits and developed high performing team, end to end resourcing, EVP, Project management, Strategic resourcing, D&I.

Been recognized as 16 powerful Indian Women HR of 2016.

Started career with ANZ Grindlays Bank and then moved on in career with Wipro, ABB, Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Bank.

As Head of Resourcing - Standard Chartered Bank - GSSC and was in this role for close to 5 years spearheading the rapid headcount growth of the organization in a challenging environment. In this role, was also involved in supporting the global resourcing services of Standard Chartered Bank. Also, played a key role within the group in re-engineering the recruitment processes, group projects and led the transformation agenda for Chennai.

Had a short stint with Thomson Reuters as Head of TA - South Asia - Reorienting focus in strategic hiring, talent intelligence and Branding.

Worked in ANZ as Global Head - RSO & RST.

Proven track record on delivery, good people management, relentless execution and continuous improvement. Significant and relevant experience with global TA responsibility.

Post graduate in Marketing Management and have done various courses in Psychology, NLP and related areas. An avid wild life enthusiast, traveled across the globe and love to interact with people of diverse culture.

Suraj Narain

Vice President - Talent Acquisition

AXA Business Services

Suraj Narain has led some high power teams in the talent acquisition world across IT, ITeS and Consulting. He has demonstrated leadership across organisations such as Genpact, Accenture, Syntel, eClerx and AXA. His recruiting acumen has allowed the organizations to attract large scale top talent from across the industry. His recruiting initiatives has proven that HR can lead from the center and help secure business growth.  Suraj Narain is a name to reckon with when it comes to building a highly skilled workforce in quick turnaround. He strategies across the board playing hard on existing strengths of the organizations and presenting a strong value proposition for attracting the right talent.

Suraj also champions and firmly believes that campuses form the rock bed of emerging talent, and he has left no stone unturned to ensure that this channel is harnessed to the maximum. He has been regularly hiring from a variety of campuses from across India starting from top IITs and IIMs to the lesser known institutes. In his own words, "No student is weak or bad, if anything, your assessment tool is not strong enough to identify his/her strengths."

Suraj is one of those rare leaders who advocates and practices radicle moves. When giving an assignment to his team he never looks at the experience they carry or the level at which they are operating. He has been a mentor to hundreds of recruiters who he has nurtured under his supervision. He is always talking abstract, disruption and new methods of  hiring. Most HR leaders find it difficult to keep pace with him but that's his mettle and it is one of the strongest.

TAI-KIT HUA

APAC TALENT RECRUITMENT LEAD & SUB-REGION HR LEAD GLOBAL HR SOLUTIONS

Cargill

Tai-Kit Hua is the APAC Talent Recruitment Lead and Sub-region HR Lead for Cargill. He is responsible for talent acquisition strategy and delivery for all 15 countries across the Asia Pacific. In his Sub-region HR role, he is responsible for overall guidance on HR strategic matters as well as HR service delivery in Vietnam and Malaysia. In his added role as the APAC Business Relations Lead role, his key responsibilities include setting up processes and CRM tools to build consistent positive experience for our business leaders and their managers when using HR services. Over the last 16 years, he has performed a wide range of activities across all HR functions in the Asia Pacific region, including recruiting senior positions at the VP and CXO levels. Prior to Cargill, Tai-Kit held key HR roles at IDA, Gartner, Microsoft and Morgan Howard.

Tai-Kit holds a B.Eng. degree from Nanyang Technological University, a GDip.BA from Singapore Institute of Management and an MBA from Deakin University, Australia. He is certified in Leading Others by SMG and Leadership Architect 101 by Lominger Int'l, a Korn Ferry company. In 2014, he completed the High Performance Management leadership training from Cargill's High Performing Leadership Academy.

A list of his recent achievements is as follows:
- Led Cargill Asia Pacific Recruitment Team to win Silver for Best Diversity & Inclusion Strategy at the 2016 Asia Recruitment Awards.
- Co-led Cargill's nomination as a Finalist of the Hays Award for Employer of Choice at the 2016 HRM Singapore Awards.
- Led Cargill Asia Pacific Recruitment Team to win Gold for Best Regional Recruitment Programme and Silver for Best Use of Recruitment Technology at the 2015 Asia Recruitment Awards.
- Received Cargill HR Excellence Award in 2012 for participation on the development of Global Delivery Model for Talent Recruiting.

Urvi Aradhya

Sr. VP - HR & Admin

K Raheja Corp

Driven by the belief that 'a great vision without great people is irrelevant', Urvi has been the torchbearer - instilling professionalism and inducting the best talent pool at the K Raheja Corp. Leading the Group's HR function at K Raheja Corp, Urvi's perseverance over the last 10 years of her association, has led the Company to being recognised as people friendly, flexible work place and one which has policies - handpicked to include the best from across industries. 

A statistics graduate and a post graduate in Human Resource Management with 19 years' experience, Urvi headed the HR function at Parle Bisleri Pvt. Ltd., before joining the K Raheja Corp in 2007.

Since her engagement with the Group, Urvi has introduced a multi-channel, innovative, technology driven recruitment approach whose benefits are seen at the bottom line. Successfully weaving in transparency and accountability into the system, she has designed learning and development programs to suit respective business requirements. Under her able leadership K Raheja Corp was the first Real Estate Company to implement SAP HR module, which also won them the Best Implementation Award to the company,  by SAP India.

Having built K Raheja Corp into an aspirational work place, across its brands, Ms. Aradhya also devotes time to mentoring others. She is a sought after speaker at management schools, and has penned regular columns in well reputed industry publications like Human Capital and appeared in cover story in DNA, Construction Week and Consturction World.

As one of the finest places to build careers, under Urvi's able HR leadership, the Company has also won laurels at Asian HR Leadership Awards, World HRD Congress, and the Asia Pacific HRM Congress to name a few. Company has featured in India's Top 100 Companies by `Great Place to Work' Institute. Recently the Company was recognised as India's Top 100 companies for Women by ''ÀVATAR' and `Working Mother Media'-USA due its progressive people practices.

Vandana Sharma

Chief People Officer

HolidayIQ.com.

Major Vandana Sharma is a woman leader, a mentor , coach and an ex military officer. She has twenty years of diverse experience across multiple sectors. Her contributions include many value chain projects and people initiatives across organizations like Indian Army, Wipro Ltd, GMR Group, TNT, Teamlease and Myntra. She is currently the Chief People Officer at HolidayIQ. She has led operations roles as well as Org transformational people practices across government, Infrastructure, Logistics, education retail, Indian e-commerce and M-commerce companies. She continues to learn as she moves, adapts from one industry to another and gladly shares her learnings on Entrepreneurial leadership, creativity, innovation and people practices with young startup enthusiasts , young companies and the future leaders of India Inc. Vandana has attended an executive management degree from IIM Lucknow post a decade's stint with Indian armed forces and also a couple of certifications and diploma in Thomas profiling, OPQ 32, material management. She is based in Bangalore. She has a life beyond work which includes passion for travel, fashion, marathon running, trekking, writing cooking and being a happy mom to two boys aged 12 and 16

Wriju Ray

Chief Revenue Officer

IDfy

Wriju is the Chief Revenue Officer at IDfy.  He has held various positions in Sales and Business Development at Oracle in Asia Pacific and North America between 2002 and 2007. He completed his MBA from INSEAD in 2008. He joined the Corporate Strategy team at BT in London in 2009. He left BT as Director of the Life Sciences practice in 2015 to join IDfy as its Chief Operating Officer.

During his stint at BT for Life Sciences, Wriju launched world's first cloud service for the Life Sciences Industry. It was the beginning of his love affair with data. Data is used everywhere in Life Sciences, from describing organisms and tissues through genetic sequencing, to understanding the effect of drugs on populations through the study of patient records.  Today at IDfy, he is on a quest to make HR decisions such as screening, hiring and retention more data driven.

 What Data Says - rough sketch of the content 

By virtue of being one of India's largest Background Verification Companies, IDfy manages lot of people data. Analysis of this data reveals a lot about the workforce in India - the demography, hiring trends, career progression, compensation and benefits. By using concepts of deep learning, we are able to discover hitherto hidden connections between data, and learn deeper truths of how HR processes work today and how we could improve its outcomes   

Dr. Yossef ElBromboly

Group Talent Manager

Wadi Group

Dr Yossef ElBromboly  Group Talent / HR Manager for a holding group consisting of 16 companies working in different business fields (Poultry, FMCG, Industrial Manufacturing, Commodities Trading and Agriculture) operating in four countries (Egypt , Lebanon , Sudan and Turkey )  with headcount of 5000 Employees and turnover of  300 M USD  

Achieved to be one of the main change catalyst for Wadi corporate governance exercise  implementing a Talent Management strategy "Attract , Develop and Retain best talents in Africa and Middle East "

  Handling five function with a team of 10 Talent Professionals and 3 Senior HRBP  

Holding an MBA and CIPD Associate member

Laurence Smith

Multi-Award winning, Chief Talent & Learning Officer. Advisory Board Member, StartUp Co-Founder & Mentor

Mona Thangaraj

Head - HR

Roposo

Rohit Agrawal

Director - Talent Acquisition

WalmartLabs India

Yudi Bahl

New Business Ventures & Operations

Laureate - Online Education