| Board
of Directors
Pallavi Jha
Chairperson
& Managing Director
Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd.
Pallavi Jha is the Executive Chairman
and Managing Director of Walchand
TalentFirst, a fully-owned subsidiary
of the publicly listed company, Walchand
PeopleFirst Ltd. Walchand TalentFirst
has international partnerships with
some of the world's leading firms
and brands such as Dale Carnegie ,
USA ( training), SHRM, USA ( HR Certification)
and PerformanSe, France ( Assessments)
.
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. In Y 2000, the prestigious
global weekly Newsweek had selected
her among the emerging young women
entrepreneurs of Asia. 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 TalentFirst Ltd.
Sanjay Jha is Executive Director of
Walchand TalentFirst 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.
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