The Art of Management - 26 May 2022

Discussion on the theme of the book THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | MMA MANAGEMENT CENTER D SHIVAKUMAR GROUP EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT ADITYA BIRLA GROUP

PROGRAMME 5:15 PM

6:00 PM

High Tea Welcome Address Introductory Remarks

Mr K Mahalingam Vice President, MMA & Managing Director, TS Mahalingam Financial Services P Ltd

Mr Balaraman Jayaraman President & CEO, Congruent Solutions, President, IIMC Alumni Association, Chennai Chapter

Launch of the book by the Dignitaries Address by the Author

Mr D Shivakumar Group Executive President, Aditya Birla Group

Author in conversation with Special Invitees Mr R Ramaraj Founder, Sify Technologies Pvt Ltd

Ms Gowri Mukherjee CEO & Co-Founder, CreditMantri

Q&A Session 7:25 PM

Vote of Thanks

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

Speakers Shiv as he is popularly known is currently Group Executive President at Aditya BirlaGroup 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 Nokiaas 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.

D Shivakumar

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 MobileMarketing 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 beenawarded Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both IIT and IIM.

Ramaraj has been a Senior Advisor to Elevar since 2014.

Ramaraj works with Elevar entrepreneurs and the Elevar partnership as a mentor and guide. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in ventures in IT, cellular technology and the Internet. His last venture was Sify, where he was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Sify was the first Indian Internet Company to list on NASDAQ National Market in the US (NASDAQ –SIFY). He was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000 and was also voted the IT Person of the year (2000 and 2001), in a CNET.com poll in India. In 2010, the Confederation of Indian Industry

(CII)

recognized

him

with

a

Lifetime

Achievement

Award

for

nurturing

the

Spirit

of

Entrepreneurship and inspiring and mentoring numerous entrepreneurs. Prior to Elevar, he was the Senior Advisor

R Ramaraj

at

Sequoia

Capital.

He

is

a

Member

of

the

Board

of

Governors

of

the

Indian

Institute

of

Management, Calcutta.

Ramaraj is on the board of Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ), a Not-for-Profit organization. OGQ is committed to bridging the gap between the best athletes in India and the best athletes in the world thus helping Indian athletes to win Olympic Gold medals. He is the first Indian to be invited to the Board of Directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) where he served for six years as an Independent Director. He was a member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs).

R. Ramaraj holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He enjoys spending time studying the Vedanta philosophy with a desire to apply this ancient but time transcending philosophy in daily life.

25

years

of

experience

in

Financial

Services

&

Banking,

spanning

Marketing,

Digital

Sourcing,

Payments

&

Product

Management.

CreditMantri simplifies credit decision-making and facilitates financial growth for the

Credit invisibles

in India. Close to

80% of India’s credit seeking population is underserved and typically end up getting rejected for a loan. CreditMantri’s aim is to help this underserved, credit invisible consumer to take charge of their credit health, get access to better credit choice and thereby make better borrowing decisions.

With a user base of over 12Mn consumers on the Demand side, CreditMantri is a financial services intermediary and works with 60 plus lenders on the Supply-side across PSU Banks, Private & Foreign Banks, NBFCs, Fintech lenders and P2P lenders.

Data and technology help in delivering the proposition at scale. The platform profiles the consumer, using data from consented

traditional

and

alternate

sources.

The

proprietary

profiling

algorithm

besides

assessing

every

user’s

credit

worthiness, classifies users into 4 broad segments and ensures only products/ services best suited to the consumer’s risk profile are made available.

Gowri Mukherjee

Awards/Honors

Edward W Claugus Award 2020 for Financial Inclusion leadership. The award recognizes leaders from around the world who have made important contributions towards Financial Inclusion

Chairperson of the RBI Committee on Securing Credit Card Transactions

Fintech Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 by DLAI Board Membership / Independent Director – Past Boards BNP Sharekhan Ltd BNP Sharekhan Financial Services (NBFC) CARE India

Education IIM, Kolkata, ‘97 BITS, Pilani - 1995

Past Experience Standard Chartered Bank (2012 to 2014) Global Head of Digital Marketing Citibank India (2002 to 2012) Director & Head of the Digital Business SIFY (2000 to 2002) HSBC (1997 to 2000)

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