 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.”
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