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Pallavi Jha Pallavi Jha
Chairperson & Managing Director
Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd.


Pallavi Jha is the Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Walchand PeopleFirst, a fully-owned subsidiary of the publicly listed company, Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd. has international partnerships with some of the world's leading firms and brands such as Dale Carnegie , USA ( training) and PerformanSe,

Pallavi has diversified exposure to various management practices in areas such as training and development, HR, consulting and business restructuring, and lobbying, covering a wide range of industries from media, entertainment, technology to the financial services sector and the engineering industry. She has been recognized by reputed institutions such as CII and FIE Foundation etc for her outstanding contributions.

She has been a vocal spokesperson for industry associations , and has chaired and moderated panel discussions involving India's leading business leaders. She has played a pioneering role in setting up India's first Finishing School focused on soft -skills training, the missing ingredient in the talent development and employability challenge confronting Indian industry. Additionally, she has been part of women's groups which has encouraged first generation women entrepreneurs into taking business initiatives.

She has singularly led the India operations into the fastest growing region for Dale Carnegie Training, winning several global awards for service and sales excellence. She has been a keynote speaker and a panel member in various forums on business, HR, training and leadership. She has also been Chairperson of CII, Maharashtra Council.

She was Executive Director of India's leading construction company, HCC, an erstwhile Walchand Group company before starting off her own ventures. She also worked briefly in market research at Feedback Ventures and Proctor& Gamble.

Pallavi is an MBA from Syracuse University, New York and a graduate in humanities from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

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Sanjay JhaMr.Sanjay Jha
Executive Director
Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd.

Sanjay Jha is Executive Director of Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd. He has played a key role in the setting up of the Dale Carnegie India operations.

TRAINING :

Sanjay has conducted several training programs on behavioral skills, management development, and corporate communications. The course participants were from reputed companies such as Bharat Petroleum, Philips India, ICICI, UTI, BSE, IDBI, DSP Merril Lynch, Elf Lubricants, Marico Industries, Cummins, Seagram, L&TITL, Rolta India, Mastek, Ion Exchange, J.M. Morgan Stanley, Hikal, SBI Capital Market etc.

Sanjay has conducted professional Management Development Programs in the areas of Marketing, Media Training, Internet Branding, Dot com Funding and Crisis Management which have been extremely well received.

WORK PROFILE :

Sanjay is also Managing Director of Cricketnext.com ; the world’s most popular cricket portal which has over 800,000 registered users and averages over 500 million page views and 1 Billion hits per month.

Sanjay, in his last assignment was Senior Vice President with Zurich Financial ( earlier known as Threadneedle AMC Ltd.) in charge of Marketing & Sales of mutual funds. He successfully launched the Top 200 Fund and the High Interest fund.

His prior assignments include a successful career record as Vice President, Alliance Capital, New York (USA), wherein he was responsible for launching, distribution, sales, marketing and advertising of offshore and local funds.

At Alliance, Sanjay was instrumental in launching the highly successful Alliance 95 Fund, which was followed by Alliance Tax-Relief 96. He had also pioneered a new distribution strategy for mutual funds through the retail network of bank branches.

He was Assistant Vice President, Bank of America and Senior Manager (Marketing) with ANZ Grindlays Bank Plc, where he gained wide experience in both Corporate and Retail Banking.

In his banking career, one of his most challenging assignments was conducting Corporate Training program for the complete management staff in automated banking software. He has also handled deposit mobilisation and operational management of NRI Deposits.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND :

Sanjay is an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, and an MA (Economics) from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, University of Pune.

He graduated in Economics with distinction from Fergusson College, Pune.

COLUMNIST AND WRITER :

Sanjay is a regular columnist and contributor with several newspapers and magazines such as Business Standard, Business Today, Mid-Day, Indian Express etc. and a visiting faculty at several leading business schools including IIM, Sydhenam Management Institute, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management/ Mass Communications etc.

TV ANCHOR :

He has anchored celebrity chat shows with business leaders on Zee TV’s educational channel Zed TV, - having interviewed C. V Bhave of NSDL, F. C Kohli of TCS, R.V. Shahi of BSES, Manoj Tirodkar of Global Tele Systems and Parag Parikh of Parag Parikh Finance etc. He also anchored a Quiz program and a Business Discussion Show on Zee TV.

COMMENTATOR :

He has appeared as an expert commentator on various issues on TV Channels such as CNN, BBC, CNBC, Star, Doordarshan etc.

WRITER :

He has also written a book of poems titled, “When I Wondered About You.”

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Sanjay JhaMr. M. N. Bhagwat - Director

Mr. Bhagwat did his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical & Electricals engineering from the University of Pune, M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) from University of IIinois, USA and Diploma in Business Management from the prestigious Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

He worked in various senior positions both in India and abroad, which includes Blue Star, Yokogawa Blue Star, Total Mechanical Systems Inc., USA, Skidmore, Owings & Merril, Chicago, USA and Managing Director of Tata Honeywell Limited. He is currently advisor to Tata Sons Limited and heading the Corporate Assurance Group, which administers the Tata Brand equity and the Tata Code of Conduct. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee of Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd, formerly, Walchand Capital Ltd.

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Sanjay JhaDr. Satish C. Jha - Director

Dr. Satish C. Jha has done his M.A. from Patna University and M.Sc. & Ph. D., in Agriculture Economics from the prestigious Stanford University and University of Illinois, USA.

Dr. Jha was a Consultant to the Economic Commission for Asian and Pacific (UN) during 1995-96. Prior to this, he was Director of Research – Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Bombay during 1963-68 and Director & Chief Economist
– Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines during 1968-1994.

He was on the Board of The Delhi Stock Exchange Association Ltd. He is also active in various industries forums and has delivered number of keynote addresses in various forum of topical interest.

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Sanjay JhaMr. V.K. Verma - Director

A veteran of human resources function, Mr. V.K. Verma began his career at Tata Motors over 3 decades back as a Technical and Management Trainee and worked on many line assignments in the company’s various Production & Engineering departments. Since then, he has held position of increasing responsibility, culminating with his appointment as the Head Corporate HR in 1996. In this role, he has been responsible for the design and implementation of HR enable change management and Turnaround, which includes restructuring of workforce and amicable VRS of over 550 bargain-able employees.

His contribution in planning and implementation of the growth linked HR strategy including restructuring of commercial functions and strengthening of Product development function was well recognized at Tata Motors. His other notable achievements were Development of the competency Framework, institutionalising Leadership Dev processes including Talent Management & Fast Track systems.

Mr. V.K. Verma holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Bhopal and has Post Graduated in Business Management form X.L.R.I., Jamshedpur. He was a rank holder both at the University level and the B-school. He was a Member of the National Technical Training cell of CII and was the Chairman of the Western Regional Technical Training Group. He continues to be a visiting faculty at several B Schools and TMTC.

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Mrs. Poonam Barua - Director

Mrs. Poonam Barua, a trained Economist from the prestigious Delhi School of Economics, is a Whole-time Director of Public Affairs Management, an independent firm specializing in corporate and institutional diplomacy and public affairs based in New Delhi. She is also concurrently Regional Director – India, The Conference Board, New York. Ms. Barua has been closely involved with leading debate and thought-leadership on the important issues of Corporate Governance, enterprise risk management, business ethics & transparency, global leadership development, human resource strategies and diversity enhancement.

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Dr. V.N. Gupchup - Director

Dr. V. N. Gupchup is a Civil and Structural Engineer with degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Bombay in 1958 and Master of Science & Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering obtained in 1959 & 1963 respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in USA.

He has been active in the field of Technical Education for more than thirty five years and has provided leadership in this field in the State of Maharashtra. He has contributed to various aspects of the development of Technical Education at the National level through his association with the All India Council for Technical education and the University Grants Commission.

He was the Principal of VJTI from January 1983 to June 1992 and May 1995 to January 1997, when he retired after spending nearly three decades in the field of Technical Education.

He was the Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Mumbai from June 1992 to May 1995. He was also the Chairman of the 'National Board of Accreditation' set up by the All India Council for Technical Education in India from July 2000 till June 2003.

He has presented invited lectures at several Universities in the USA including Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT), Northwestern University, Drexel University, Kansas State University, Texas State University, And Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville.

He continues to be an active member on various academic bodies of the University of Mumbai, AICTE and UGC. He is also a Director on several company boards and consults on a wide range of academic and engineering areas.

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Mr. Rajeev Dubey - Director

Rajeev Dubey studied Economics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, and at the Delhi School of Economics. He went on to do his MBA from the Yale School of Management, USA as a J N Tata scholar, and was selected as a Distinguished Alumnus of the School. He has recently acquired the GPHR (Global Professional in Human Resources) certification from the Society of HR Management USA

As a Member of the Group Management Board of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Mr. Dubey's key focus areas are HR / IR initiatives for the Mahindra Group, the After Market Sector, Corporate Communications and Corporate Infrastructure & Services.

He is the Chairman of Mahindra Insurance Brokers and Mahindra First Choice Services Ltd. In addition he is on the Boards of several Group companies including Mahindra Ugine Steel, Mahindra Intertrade, Mahindra First Choice and Mahindra Retail. He is Chairman of the CSR Council and Sustainability Council of the Group, and a Member of the Corporate Governance Cell.

Mr. Rajeev Dubey joined Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. in January 2004 after a career spanning 29 years in the Tata Group, of which 7 years were as Managing Director and CEO, first of Tata Metaliks and then of Rallis India.

He is on the Governing Board and Advisory Council of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and a member of the Advisory Council of Population First, Mumbai Chapter.

 
 
 
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