 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.
Top.
 Mr.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.”
Top.
 Mr.
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.
Top.
 Dr.
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.
Top.
 Mr.
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.
Top.
 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.
Top.
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.
Top.
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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