Amit Chatterjee is the Country Director for HP Software (India). Amit incubated the Software business for HP in 1999, then went on to build and lead the business upto 2007, taking HP to market leading position. Between 2007 and 2009, he moved to HP Singapore and incubated the Alliance business across Asia Pacific and Japan. Most recently, Amit was the Managing Director (India & SAARC) of CA (India) Technologies Pvt Ltd between 2009 and 2011. Amit is a Mechanical Engineer from VNIT Nagpur, who started his career in the IT Industry with HCL Infosystems for a decade and also worked at Microland for a couple of years. He likes to incubate new businesses and undertake initiatives keeping growth as his key mantra.
Chandir Gidwani is Founder of Centrum Investment Ltd. and serves as its Vice Chairman. He also serves as the Managing Director of Centrum Finance Limited. He is the co-founder of Centrum Capital Limited, a diversified financial services company and served as its Chairman of the Board. He serves as a Director of CentrumDirect Ltd., Business Match Services India Private Limited, Casby Logistic Private Limited, Centrum Fiscal Private Limited, Expressit Logistics Worldwide Limited, Ferrari Express Private Limited, Nanikrami Agro Private Limited, Ocean Express Private Limited, Rap Media Ltd. and Sanchajyo Investment & Finance Private Limited. He was an Independent Non- Executive Director of Reliance MediaWorks Limited since September 29, 2005. Mr. Gidwani holds Master's Degree in Commerce from Mumbai University of India and Fellow of the Institute Chartered Accountants of India.
Dinesh N. Awasthi, Ph.D. (Economics), Gujarat University, an Economist with extensive experience in Entrepreneurship education, research and training. Worked extensively on policy issues related to SMEs with several multilateral agencies like ILO, UNIDO, UNDP, as a Consultant on several international assignments. Has four books, over 55 research papers and 14 research reports to his credit. His areas of interest are: policy research, cluster development, sub-sector analysis, social entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and NGOs. Dr. Awasthi is a Member of various Apex Committees and Core Groups of Ministries of MSME, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Department of Science & Technology, etc
Dr. Kamal Kant Dwivedi is the Vice Chancellor of Apeejay Stya University. He is former Vice-Chancellor of Arunachal University, Itanagar now a Central University renamed as Rajiv Gandhi University. He served as Adviser and Head of National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) in the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. During 2003-2008 he served as counselor for Science, Technology, Health and Education in the Indian Embassy at Washington DC and was responsible for developing Indo-US cooperation in various fields of Science and Technology, Health, Environment and Education.
Rajesh Tiwari is founder and CEO of Indian Centre for CSR. Earlier, he founded Tikona Digital. in 2008 and served as its JMD. He was Group Director at Reliance Communications. He was art of the elite government service for 14 years where he was part of the founding team of public sector telecom company MTNL. He also worked as P. S. to Minister of Information and Broadcasting (Government of India). He was Executive Director of Bharat Aluminum. He started his career with Hindustan Lever Limited. He also served as Executive Vice President of Afro-Asian Satellite Communications. He is an alumni of St. Xavier Kolkata, an MBA from University of Hull, England and a Doctorate in Social Administration from USA
Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, Kapil Dev was also India's national cricket coach for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000
Kingshuk Nag has been a journalist with The Times of India for over 16 years and is currently the resident editor of Times of India Hyderabad. Prior to that he was the resident editor of Times of India Ahmedabad. He is a winner of the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence for his coverage of the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Prior to that he was heading the business bureau in the newspaper. While he actively writes on politics and business, he also comments on social movements and causes. He has authored the books 'The double life of Ramalinga Raju' and 'Battleground Telangana: Chronicle of an Agitation'. He is a graduate of Delhi School of Economics and he is authority for on deficit planning.
Mag.Martin Neureiter Is founder and CEO of The CSR Company, a consultancy specialised on Corporate Social Responsibility. He is Chair of the Implementation Task Group within ISO (International Standards Organisation) Working Group Social Responsibility writing the ISO 26 000 standard. He is scientific head of the postgraduate education at University of Applied Sciences Vienna for CSR. He also lectures at the St. Gallen Management Institute (Switzerland) and coaches at CEO level. He has authored several books on CSR, such as Corporate Social Responsibility Leitlinien und Konzepte im Management der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Unternehmen published 2004, which was the first German language book on the issue and Handbuch Corporate Citizenship published 2007. He is also the author of a guidance book on how to implement CSR - together with the Austrian Standards Institute, that has been translated into 6 languages so far. Currently he advises a number of companies worldwide such as SAP, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Vivacell Mobile phone and others. He works with the Austrian Development Agency and with GIZ on implementing projects around ISO 26000. Finally he is convenor within ISO-DEVCO for the Middle East North Africa.
Lou Altman is the CEO and Founder of GlobaFone, USA, an award winning, leading provider of Satellite Phone Solutions and global wireless solutions to Government and enterprise clients for the past 10 years. In his earlier assignments, he was Consultant at Isagenix, Assistant Vice President at Scudder Investments and Customer Service Representative at John Hancock Mutual Funds. He is an MBA in marketing from Southern New Hampshire University.
Namita Vikas is Sr. President and Country Head - Responsible Banking, YES BANK and spearheads bank's Version 2.0 Vision & Strategy of further strengthening the bank as a commercially viable financial institution with sustainability principles incorporated within its core operations. Namita is responsible for mainstreaming sustainability via a two pronged strategy of Responsible Banking in Thought and Responsible Banking in Action. She brings with her over 22 years of well rounded experience in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Affairs, Communication and Policy Advocacy. She has held leadership positions with Confederation of Indian Industry, Microsoft Corporation and Marico Ltd. Prior to joining YES BANK; she was heading the Marico Innovation Foundation where she led its Innovation and Social development agenda. Here she institutionalized the Innovation Incubation of Social Enterprises for accelerated scale and Innovation for India Awards. She has also been involved in guiding and implementing strategic philanthropy by Marico around Entrepreneurship. Namita serves as a Jury on The World Bank's Development Market Place initiative for India, Tata Group Innovista Awards, and Women Entrepreneurship Awards of Mariwala Foundation. She is a member of National Committees of FICCI and ASSOCHAM. Namita has a Advanced Management Degree in CSR and Leadership from the Swenska Institute, Sweden, a bachelor degree in Economics and Diploma in Business Management from Mumbai University
Ted McFarland has held key leadership positions with major, multinational corporations. He served as the first in-region President for Turner International Asia Pacific. He was President of Hughes Electronics Japan K.K. and Senior Vice President of Hughes’ NASDAQ listed PanAmSat and Director of Hughes’ DirecTV Japan Management Company K.K.. Ted served as vice president of marketing for Lockheed Martin Corporation’s ILS joint venture with the Khrunichev Space Research Center. He is currently on the board of GloCal Media Networks Inc. and a board advisor to The Media Alliance of Asia. Ted earned a BS in Business Administration from San Diego State University and post-graduation in international business diplomacy at Georgetown University.
Suhel Seth is the Managing Partner of Counselage India and founder of Equus. Suhel has several passions: he is a regular speaker at industry meets; is a lecturer at various Indian Institutes of Management. Suhel also writes provocative columns in The Financial Times, London and in Business India, The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express on current affairs and the social landscape of India. Suhel has co-authored two books on Calcutta with Khushwant Singh and R K Laxman. Suhel was also the Keynote Speaker at the Indian Advertising Congress in 1998. Suhel has also been a speaker at all Marketing Summits organised by CII and was the Chairman of the CII Marketing Summits from 2005 to 2010. Suhel was on the global advisory board of British Airways until 2009 and presently sits on the global board of Cavendish and RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London) and on the regional boards of Citibank and Coca Cola. He has addressed the International Executive Committees of companies such as American Express, BMW Foundation and Renault on 'Understanding the Indian Consumer'. Suhel has also addressed the Harvard Business School on Building Brands in India. Suhel is an alumnus of the AMP of Harvard Business School.
Satish Jha is President and CEO, OLPC India. OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veteran. He has served as a global information management executive with two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and as CEO of a consulting firm. A former Editor with The Times of India and the Indian Express Groups in India, Jha also founded, mentored and seeded a couple of dozen social projects with a focus on technology, business strategies and public policy in the areas of universal access to education, healthcare and bridging the digital divide. He is a member of the UN-GAID, Special Advisor to the Kofi Annan Center and co-chairs the World IT Forum (WITFOR). He studied at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and has an MBA from EDHEC/ Thesues in France. His co-edited work with Leon Strous on "ICTs for Development and Prosperity.
Pankaj Pachauri is Communications ex Adviser to the Prime Minister of India. He is a senior TV anchor and journalist. Earlier, he was Managing Editor with NDTV. He was also associated with other international media houses including the BBC, the Department of Journalism at Berkeley and the University of California. He has more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcast journalism. He has won many awards including the prestigious 'The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting' in 1989 for his expose on the practice of female infanticide in Rajasthan. He also received the Srikant Verma Award for journalism in 1990
Nikos Avlonas is cofounders and President of the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE).
He has been distinguished as one of 2010's "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior" by Trust Across America. He specializes in Sustainability, CSR, Corporate Governance and Business Ethics. He has carried out numerous projects in leading organizations (including Fortune 1000 Companies. He is a well-known international speaker and has acted as chairman and advising member for workshops and conferences related to Sustainable Development, CSR and Return on Sustainability (RoS) across globe. He is a contributing author of the book Management Models for the Future released in 2009.
Toby Webb is the founder and chairman of Ethical Corporation.Toby is also co-founder of Stakeholder Intelligence Ltd. SI provides training, facilitation, advice and contract research on sustainability to large companies and other clients. He teaches Corporate Responsibility at Birkbeck College, part of the University of London, on the MSc. Corporate Governance & Ethics and on the Strategic Human Resource Management MSc.From 2006-8 Webb co-chaired the UK Conservative Party's Working Group on Corporate Responsibility, which outlined CR policy, some of which the current UK Government is now implementing
