IBA Banking HR Conclave 2018

Shyam Srinivasan

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Shri Shyam Srinivasan took charge as the Managing Director & CEO of Federal Bank on 23rd September 2010. He joined Federal Bank, equipped with the experience of over 20 years with leading multinational banks in India, Middle East and South East Asia, where he gained significant expertise in retail lending, wealth management and SME banking.

Shri Shyam Srinivasan is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapally. He has completed a Leadership Development Program from the London Business School and has served on the Global Executive Forum (the top 100 executives) of Standard Chartered Bank from 2004 to 2010.

At Federal Bank, he has been instrumental in implementing various path-breaking initiatives which include : Increasing the presence and visibility of the Bank to a national level; creating an inherent capability within the Bank to reinvent and re-implement processes - especially the customer-critical ones, initiating the Total Quality Management Journey of the Bank, focusing on under-writing quality at every stage right from credit selection, incubating the human resource potential of the Bank and so on. He continues his mission to create a culture of Ethics and Excellence in the Bank, which he so believes in.

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T.K. Srirang

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Mr. T.K. Srirang, Chief Human Resources Officer, heads Human Resources function for ICICI Bank Limited. He is also a Member of the Research Advisory Council of IIT Bombay - Monash Research Academy, Member of IMD, Switzerland's Executive Education Advisory Council, Member of Society of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Member of the Governing Body of The International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B ) and former Board Member of the National HRD Network.

Mr. Srirang holds an MBA degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations and Bachelors in Industrial Engineering. He has been with the Bank since 2001.

In his 20 years of work experience at organisations like Coca-Cola India Limited, Ford India Limited, ICI India limited and ICICI Bank, Srirang has handled Industrial Relations, Mergers, Leadership Development, Performance Management and large scale recruitment and employee engagement processes. At ICICI Bank, he has successfully handled integration of Sangli Bank and Bank of Rajasthan with the Bank. He has also been instrumental in establishing Branch Banking Academy and Sales Academy for the Bank.

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Rajnish Kumar

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Shri Rajnish Kumar prior to his elevation, was the Managing Director of the National Banking Group (NBG) at State Bank of India. In a career spanning over 36 years with SBI, he had held various assignments which include Managing Director (Compliance & Risk) and prior to that served as the Head of SBI Capital Markets, the Investment Banking arm of SBI Group.

Shri Kumar held several key positions across various business verticals like Mid-Corporate Group and Project Finance. He also served as the Chief General Manager of North Eastern Circle of SBI. As a part of SBI's overseas operations, Shri Kumar served SBI Canada and later as Regional Head of SBI's UK Operations. Shri Kumar is a Post Graduate in Physics.

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Rajkiran Rai G.

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Shri Rajkiran Rai G. assumed charge as Managing Director & CEO of Union Bank of India today. Prior to his elevation as Managing Director & CEO he was Executive Director of Oriental Bank of Commerce.

Born on 19th May, 1962, Shri Rajkiran Rai G. is an agricultural science graduate and also a certified member of Indian Institute of Bankers.

Shri Rai has more than three decades of rich banking experience including heading Industrial Finance Branch, Regions and Zonal Offices. He started his career in 1986 as an Agricultural Finance Officer in Central Bank of India and has rich experience of heading various branches at different parts of the country for more than 17 years. On his elevation as General Manager, he was given the responsibility of heading Human Resource Development Department. He was the Field General Manager of Mumbai Zone of Central Bank of India, when he was elevated to the post of Executive Director of Oriental Bank of Commerce.

He was also serving on the Board of Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

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Rajesh Padmanabhan

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Rajesh Padmanabhan is an influential senior global HR leader, life coach and leadership builder. He is currently a Director and the CHRO at Welspun group. His career spans over financial services, corporate banking, systems, strategy, consulting and global HR in industries like banking, manufacturing, IT services, hospitality, metals/mining/Oil and Gas (natural resources). Rajesh steered his career into finance at the turn of financial liberation in India, gaining strong foothold in corporate banking at the formative years of his career. In the late nineties, he grew to realise the fantastic convergence between business and HR. This prompted him to take the big plunge into HR. He holds the reputation for being the first successful Indian HR manager to truly globalise Human Resources function across multi-location and cultural set-up covering all continents for over 15 years now. An innovator and a disruptive thinker in the space of leadership and talent, Rajesh weaves cultures easily into businesses and creates impactful business-people solutions in the areas of organisational performance and stakeholder outcome. He has worked as CHRO of multiple prestigious organisations like Patni Computer Services, Capgemini India, Vedanta Resources in the past.

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Vikram Bector

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Vikram Bector is the President and Group Chief Human Resources Officer for the Piramal Group.

Vikram has over 27 years of professional experience across diverse sectors like IT, Consulting, Automotive and Healthcare. He has previously worked with big global Indian conglomerates and MNCs like – Cipla, Reliance Industries Limited, Tata Motors, Deloitte, Satyam Computers and Aditya Birla Group.

In addition to core HR practices, he has expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions and leading change initiatives globally in countries such as Brazil, United States, China, Japan and the Middle East. He has worked on building world class e-enabled practices in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Leadership development, Succession planning, managing high potentials, Employee Engagement, Learning and Organizational Development. He has steered initiatives to enhance the employer brand and has helped many organisations become an employer of choice.

He is a distinguished coach and facilitator and has presented papers at the ASTD International Conference and Exposition in San Diego and also been awarded as the best speaker at the Global Learning Summit at Singapore.

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Renny Thomas

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Renny Thomas is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and leads McKinsey Financial Services Practice in India and the Retail Banking service line in Asia. He had been a thought leader on the Future of Banking and future business models and has led several knowledge initiatives on this front globally and in Asia. He has worked with over 25 leading financial institutions from across North America, Europe and Asia on issues related to Strategy, Organization, People, Sales & Marketing, Risk, IT and operations to help grow and transform institutions.

Illustrative relevant experience:

Renny is leading a large leadership development programs for the top leaders of two Public sector banks in India

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Leadership development and capability building of top 25 leaders at an Asset management company. Scope included leadership survey, one to one coaching and capability building forums

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Organization-wide long-term transformation involving business process re-engineering, human resource development, business analytics design and alternate channel enablement at a leading PSB in India Leadership development for leaders from retail and corporate divisions at a PSB bank

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Productivity and profitability transformation with focus on Sales and Marketing, Credit Risk management, Key Processes Centralization, Leadership development, Organization structure, performance management and HR strategy at a leading Private Sector bank

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Development of HR performance systems for capability building at a Large financial sector regulatory body

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Faridun Dotiwala

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Faridun Dotiwala is a Partner at McKinsey. He leads the Leadership and learning service line for Asia and is core leader of the Global Organization practice. He has 16 years serving clients across Asia, focused on Organization & Leadership topics. He has touched over 2,500 clients, 60+ organizations in last 3 years, personally shaping journeys of 25+ top teams.

Illustrative relevant experience:

Set up a Leadership Engine for a large Steel player. This includes leadership development for 200 senior leaders in the context of business projects. Program delivered significant financial impact and resulted in the new leadership development approach being ingrained at the organization

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Leadership development of the top 60 leaders of one of India's fastest growing company including embedding a new culture in the organization; Engagement with 3 banks at Thailand and Indonesia

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Architecting a large scale transformation across functions at a Chemicals client, Including in depth leadership development of the top 120 people. Program has a strong performance focus with stretch targets of 20% and more improvement across parameters

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Authored 7 articles in The Mint on CEO leadership ("Creating meaning: a pillar of the CEO mandate", "How CEOs learn"; "How CEOs can manage organizational and personal energy", "Family owned businesses: Standing the test of time", "Creating a family governance", "How business owners can create alignment among family members", "Developing the next generation of leaders")

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Speaker at marquee events - Conference Board "State of Human Capital" events in Malaysia, India; OPPI; People Matters LD Summit, etc

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Playing a role in shaping the Organizational Health of a large conglomerate with 8+ companies. Efforts include diagnostics, top team alignment, leadership development of top 100 people

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Mrinalini Mirchandani

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Mrinalini is a Partner in McKinsey's Mumbai Office. Mrinalini leads McKinsey's Organization Practice in India. She works with leading Indian and global companies on organization design, leadership development, linking talent to value and driving transformational change. Other areas of focus include Strategy, marketing and sales and post-merger management. She brings over 15 years of consulting and M&A experience.

Prior to re-joining McKinsey she was a practice leader for Egon Zehnder- focused on leadership assessment and CXO recruiting. Earlier, she led was leading an investing banking team at Merrill Lynch in India, where she advised Indian and international clients on a wide range of M&A and capital raising transactions.

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Manipal Global Academy of BFSI

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Manipal Global Academy of BFSI (MGA-BFSI) (https://bfsi.manipalglobal.com/) is India's leading talent development and employee productivity solutions provider to the BFSI Industry in India. Over 45 leading Banks, Insurance and Non-Banking Financial Services Organizations have partnered with Manipal Global Academy of BFSI. Over the years, the Academy has enabled over 70,000 professionals for leading banks, insurance and financial services organisations. Today, the Academy of BFSI trains over 15000 BFSI industry professionals every year for its industry partners.

Manipal Global Academy of BFSI has established exceptional benchmarks in working with industry partners towards enhancing employee productivity and building a highly productive workforce. Our unique industry-academic connect and superior pedagogy provides experiential learning to the learners and equips them with domain-specific expertise. With over 200 industry professionals as faculty, 5 tech-enabled campuses across Bangalore and Jaipur, real life simulated environment based training, the academy ensures professionals are enabled and equipped to be productive from day one.

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Yashwant Mahadik

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Yashwant Mahadik (Yash) is a seasoned global HR professional with over 29 years of experience across industries/sectors and geographies in top-class companies viz. Sun pharma, Crompton Greaves, Colgate Palmolive, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Royal Philips, currently is the Global CHRO of Lupin. He has established a track record of success in all his roles and assignments. His experience is diverse and varies across industries/sectors (Technology, Consumer and Healthcare) and geographies (India, UK, Japan, USA, ASEAN and Europe). His strengths and areas of expertise include; Strategy (Business, Workforce and HR functional), HR and Business Transformation, Leadership Development, Organization and Culture building, Capability Building, Workforce Design & Planning, Talent Management and Succession Planning, Merger/Acquisition Integration and Executive Coaching. He has led transformation programs and initiatives in J&J and Philips at enterprise level. He is proficient and enthusiastic about evolving social and digital technologies and has a strong presence on social media platforms such as Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, etc and has a blog of his own (www.yashmahadik.com). He is recognized amongst top 50 most powerful HR professionals coming from India and is a leading HR thought leader who has worked in association with leading academicians in USA for conceptualising and executing global strategic initiatives in areas of Human Resource Management.

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Nikhil Desai

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Nikhil Desai is an International Speaker, Motivator and Trainer. He is passionate about enabling people to excel in their personal and professional lives.

A powerful presenter with an energetic speaking style, Nikhil inspires and motivates his participants to produce lasting change. More than a quarter million people have benefited from his presentations in 53 cities of theworld in the last 27 years.

Nikhil graduated with an MBA from USA where he stood first in his university. Thereafter he worked in New York.

After returning to India he set up manufacturing facilities and industries in the textile and automobile sectors.

In 1991 when India liberalized the economy Nikhil started The Centre For Excellence which was recently honored as the HR & Training Company of the Year by the CEO Magazine.

Nikhil Desai received a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at the WORLD HRD CONGRESS. Delegates all over the world attended this conference.

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Arundhati Bhattacharya

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Arundhati Bhattacharya is an Indian banker and former Chairman of the State Bank of India.[1] She is the first woman to be the Chairman of State Bank of India . In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[2] She is the only Indian listed on Fortune's world's greatest leaders list ranked at 26.

Bhattacharya joined SBI in September 1977. She is the first woman to lead an India-based Fortune India 500 company. Initially, she joined SBI in 1977 as a Probationary Officer at the age of 22 years.[5] She has held several positions during her 36-year career with the bank including working in foreign exchange, treasury, retail operations, human resources and investment banking. This included positions like the chief executive of the bank's merchant banking arm- State Bank of India Capital Markets; chief general manager in charge of new projects. She has also served at the bank's New York office. She has been involved with the launch of several new businesses such as SBI General Insurance, SBI Custodial Services, SBI Pension Funds Pvt. Ltd. and the SBI Macquarie Infrastructure Fund.[5] She succeeded Pratip Chaudhuri, as Chairman, who retired 30 Sep. 2013[6] She introduced a two-year sabbatical leave policy for the bank's female employees to use either for maternity or elder care. On Women's day, she announced free vaccination against cervical cancer to all the bank's female employees.

In 2016, she was named the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, which was her first time being ranked on the list.[2] In the same year, she was ranked among the FP Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine [7] She was named the 4th most powerful women in Asia Pacific by Fortune.[8] In 2017, India Today magazine ranked her at 19th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.

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Nandita Mohan Gurjar

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Ms. Nandita Mohan Gurjar served as Head of Education Training and Assessment at Infosys Ltd. since April 1, 2013 and served as its Senior Vice President until Sep 30, 2014. She joined Infosys in December 3, 2007 and has 18 years of experience. She established and headed the Human Resources department at Infosys BPO.

Ms. Gurjar held the mandate to build the internal capabilities for current and emerging technology, domain and workforce landscape of Infosys. She was also responsible for establishing learning as a competitive advantage for the enterprise. She served as the Group Head of Human Resources at Infosys Ltd. since December 2007 until April 1, 2013 and its Senior Vice President until March 1, 2013. She was instrumental in scaling up the HR department as the business grew to US$ 250 million with 16,000 employees, five centers in India and six global centers. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of Information Technology and Human Resource. She has worked with organizations like Wipro and Infosys. She is an advisor to start-ups in the HR technology space and to Great Place Research & Consultancy Private Limited. She served as PR, Vice President and Senior Head of HRD at Infosys BPO Ltd. She has been Non-Executive and Independent Director of Galaxy Surfactants Limited since January 18, 2015. She 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. She was awarded the Human Capital Business Leader of the Year Award by the Singapore Society of Human Resource Management.

Ms. Gurjar holds a degree in Literature from Nizam College, Hyderabad and a master's degree in Psychology from Osmania University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Arts from Osmania University. She is also an alumnus from the Harvard Business School having completed the Advanced Management program in 2014.

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K. K. Vohra

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Sh. K. K. Vohra started his career with the RBI in 1981 after serving as a Lecturer and PO SBI. He has acquired a wide range of experience across various functions of central banking and has served in all four zones besides a stint with Central Bank of Oman.

He served as ED HR and Regional Director Bihar and Jharkhand in RBI. He was Convener of Committees on Specialization and transfers, Performance Management System and 'Customer Service and HR Management - Issues and Challenges'.

He was part of the team to implement re-organisation of Clusters in RBI, to strengthen HR units at central office and regional office levels, to initiate measures to attract talent and prepare guidelines for mentoring, among others. He was a speaker at Annual Conference of HR Heads of Central Banks organised by Banque de France, Paris and has been a speaker at few other national and international events. He participated in Advanced Management Programme on 'Leading Change' organised by MDI Gurgaon in association with BIS Switzerland and ESCP France / UK.

Sh. Vohra had been Chairman of Member Relations Council Committee of Int'l Association of Deposit Insurers and Member Governing Council Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF). He is Fellow of IIBF. He completed International MBA from the Netherlands Business School.

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Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin

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Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin is the Vice President and Head - Enterprise Business at Manipal Global Education Services. Bimal has played a key role in establishing Manipal Global as a leading talent development and employee productivity solutions provider to the Banking Industry in India. Manipal Global Academy of BFSI has established exceptional benchmarks towards building a highly productive workforce for over 35 Banks in India. Bimal brings in close to 20 years' experience and has held multiple leadership roles during in his career. He is an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune and an alum of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Accelerated Development Program (ADP).

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Sandeep Sabharwal

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Sandeep has 20+ years of professional experience in the financial services sector. Sandeep currently works as a Client Director at McKinsey & Company and is a part of McKinsey's financial sector leadership team in Asia. In this role, Sandeep is responsible for developing and serving banking sector clients on strategy and transformation related engagements. In addition, Sandeep also leads McKinsey's initiatives with financial sector regulators and policy makers.

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B.S. Shekhawat

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Shri B.S. Shekhawat has been appointed as Executive Director in Central Bank of India by Government of India with effect from 09.10.2017. Shri Shekhawat is an Agriculture Science graduate with Hons., CAIIB and have completed post graduate certificate course in Management from IIM Bangalore. He started his career with Central Bank of India in the year 1986 as an Agriculture Finance Officer. During his long career of 31 years, he has worked in different geographies and locations in branches, as Regional Head at Jaipur and Ranchi Regions, Zonal Heads at Pune and Delhi Zones. He also headed Human Resources Department of the Bank for two years at its Corporate Office. Immediately prior to his elevation, he was heading Priority Sector and Financial Inclusion Departments of the Bank.

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Mervyn Raphael

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Mr Mervyn Raphael is one of the founder members of People Business in India. Over a 30+ year career, Mervyn worked with Hindustan Unilever, AT&T and Mercer Consulting as their founder-Managing Director.

Mervyn has led several consulting assignments over the last 19 years, primarily in the areas of Organizational Transformation, Employer Branding, Employee Engagement and Leadership Transformation for companies such as STAR TV, RBS, Yum Restaurants, PWC, GSK, HDFC Bank, Accenture, Novartis, Medtronic, Fab India, Genpact, Credit Suisse etc. He has also worked in Asia Pacific & Middle East-Africa including companies like Henkel, 3M, Accenture, Singapore Technologies, British gas etc.

Mervyn is an experienced facilitator for top management teams and is an Executive Coach for CXO's & Business Heads at several Organizations like 3M, Piramal group, Accenture, Pernod Ricard, Medtronic, GSK consumer, United Technologies, UB group, Stonehill International school, etc. He also conducts Coaching and Mentoring workshops for companies. Mervyn uses the GROW model as the framework for coaching engagements.

Mervyn received his postgraduate degree from XLRI in 1983 and an under-graduate degree in Statistics from the Loyola College in Madras. Mervyn has also been a speaker at several forums across Asia, Europe and the United States of America. He has been trained in Employer Branding by the pioneers of the concept People in Business, London and in Employee Engagement by Curt Coffman, the author of 'First Break all the Rule's'. He is also on the board of a reputed NGO.

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