The Right Choice - 10 Mar 2021

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Welcome Address Mr K Mahalingam Honorary Treasurer, MMA & Partner/Director, TSM Group of Companies

Launch of the Book Address by the Author Mr D Shivakumar Group Executive President Aditya Birla Group

Address by the Guest of Honour Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd

Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees Mr Balaraman Jayaraman

President & CEO, Congruent Solutions President, IIMC Alumni Association Chennai Chapter

Ms Asha Unnikrishnan Partner, Lodestar Consulting, USA

7:30 PM

Vote of Thanks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Mr D Shivakumar Group Executive President Aditya Birla Group

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AUTHOR

D SHIVAKUMAR Shiv as he is popularly known is currently Group Executive President at Aditya Birla Group for Strategy and Business Development. He joined the ABG in January 2018.

Prior in this, he was Chairman and CEO for PepsiCo India and before that the Nokia as CEO for India and later Emerging markets.

Earlier on, Shiv worked in HUL for a number of years, mostly in marketing. He has worked with over 50 brands in his career and seen many business transformations.

He is a Past President of All India Management Association and Past Chairman of Advertising Standards Council of India. He is currently the Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association and is on the board of XLRI and IIM Udaipur.

Shiv has been awarded many times in his career - Best CEO, Best Brand Builder, for Leadership, for Turnaround etc. He is one of twenty people in India to have been awarded Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both IIT and IIM.

GUEST OF HONOUR

V BALARAMAN MBA from IIM Ahmedabad

Former MD of Ponds’

Former export Director of Hindustan Lever

Was independent director on Nokia, Mahindra World city; Polaris; Mother Dairy New Delhi; Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Chairman of CAMS; Chairman of Footwear Design and Development Institute.

Currently on Delphi TVS and India Nippon Electricals Ltd Past President of MMA.

SPECIAL INVITEES

BALARAMAN JAYARAMAN Bala has over three decades of experience in the high-tech industry. As a CoFounder

and

President

of

Congruent

Solutions

since

1999,

he

has

steered

Congruent through diversification and growth to emerge as one of the pioneers in the

retirement

services.

technology

Congruent

also

solutions launched

and

outsourced

CORE

retirement

Retirement

administration

Solutions,

a

suite

of

Enterprise Technology Solutions for Pension Providers in the US.

ASHA UNNIKRISHNAN Asha

started

her

career

in

Madras

holding

various

positions

in

finance,

manufacturing & marketing before moving to the US where she was in marketing communications for several years. She is now a consultant and also focuses on community service.

Incidentally, she is Shivakumar's batchmate from IITM & IIMC

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