My Journey - from a Corporate Leader to an Entrepreneur 28 Sep 2020

MY JOURNEY - FROM A CORPORATE LEADER TO AN ENTREPRENEUR 6:00 PM

Welcome Address Mr Kimsuka Narasimhan CFO, Kimberly - Clark Asia Pacific

Introductory Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd

Address by the Speaker

Ms Zia Hajeebhoy

Ms Zia Hajeebhoy

Director, Aquasail Pvt Ltd &

Director, Aquasail Pvt Ltd &

Former Business & Marketing Head,

Former Business & Marketing Head

Monsanto India Ltd

Monsanto India Ltd

Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees

MONDAY SEP 28, 2020 | 6.00 PM

Mr R Gopalakrishnan Former Executive Director, Tata Sons Ltd

Ms Virginia Roche Founder and Managing Director Nawras Solutions LLC, Oman

Ms Gayathri Suresh Entrepreneur

7:45 PM

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Vote of Thanks

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA

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SPEAKER

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ZIA HAJEEBHOY Zia is from Mumbai. Her first job was at Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), where she started as a management trainee; her career spanned companies such as Unilever, Reckitt Benkiser, IL&FS and Monsanto. She then became an entrepreneur, setting up Aquasail, a leisure sailing business in India. She worked and succeeded in building a market around this team sport, linking corporate dynamics to managing uncertainties in sailing.

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VIRGINIA ROCHE

R GOPALAKRISHNAN R.

GOPALAKRISHNAN

is

author,

speaker and corporate advisor, with a career spanning over 50 years. He

Limited, where he rose to be vice chairman,

Gayathri Suresh is the quintessential

the Jardine Group of Hong Kong and played a

entrepreneur, a woman who refused

leadership

role

1996.

She

Services

handled

first

company

the

global

in

to stay confined within the secure portals

of

a

well

paying

job.

A

real

estate needs of the top Fortune 100 accounts

Chartered

Accountant

by

profession, she ran through an entire

award winning professional and one of their

gamut of jobs as she moved from

serves as non-executive chairman of

top employees in the Asia Pacific Region. As a

Audit to FMCG to IT to Banking to

strategic thinker, she played an advisory role to

finally finding her niche in a start-

Castrol

a

director.

India;

an

years

Property

the

now

as

19

in

establishing

across various real estate services. She was an

Sons

by

India

in

in

Tata

followed

GAYATHRI SURESH

Virginia Roche started her career in India with

International

spent 31 years in Hindustan Unilever

INVITEES

He

independent

director of Hemas Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka; S.P.

executive-in-residence

Jain

Institute

of

of

Management

and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai and distinguished Kharagpur.

He

professor has

of

IIT,

authored

nine

A Comma in a Sentence, Six Lenses and Doodles on Leadership. books so far, notably

the Tamil Nadu Government in the late ‘90s in setting up Tidel Park, one of the first IT parks in India, and also advised them on the entire IT

up,

she

wanted She moved to the Middle East in 2002. With her

forward

thinking

orientation

she

was

instrumental in establishing a secondary CBD in

and

insight

dreams.

world

of

business

and

government, made her a sought after advisor to senior civil servants as well as ministers.

journey

that

to

knew

that

do

something

need

along

she

exciting

with

the

confidence her superiors vested in her,

the

always

this

one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Her into

professional

spanned over 26 years.

But

corridor.

a

empowered

her

to

chase

her

Today her ability to achieve coupled with a capacity to face all problems

With her strategic and unconventional thinking

with determination and courage has

with an appetite for risk taking, she established

helped Gayathri Suresh forge ahead

a construction company which she grew to a $250

million

industries.

organization

She

is

the

spanning

only

Indian

in her field.

multiple women

entrepreneur to foray into construction in the Middle East.

Now she has moved back to India, and is also including continuing

her her

focus

to

advisory

entrepreneurial

roles

interest.

while Her

world view is that traditional approaches won't fuel growth anymore given the rapid change in consumer

behaviour,

only

a

deeper

understanding of the needs of the millennials will keep organizations relevant and profitable.

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