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.

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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.”

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