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Piyush Srivastava

Co-Founder & CEO

Piyush has a diverse work experience of 43 years. Starting his career as a lecturer in Economics, moving to Journalism working with The Times of India, switching to Sales & Marketing with Alembic Group, and finally finding his professional roots in NIIT Limited and NIIT Technologies Limited where he spent 30 years.

His association with NIIT group from its early years exposed him to manage diverse key management functions, be part of the organization growth by constantly contributing to development strategies. His previous experience of sales and marketing gave him a unique ability to understand business priorities and insights to sync operations with business initiatives to support growth. His personal contribution to the expansion of NIIT Group spans from setting up Education Centers, Technology campus, and NIIT University at Neemrana. He led the Commercial Services Organization of NIIT Technologies to obtain CMMI level 5 certification for Procurement Processes and ISO 27001 for Information Security. His passion for creating a green and sustainable work environment resulted in obtaining a Platinum rating by the U.S. Green Building Council for the SEZ campus of NIIT Technologies.

Mr. Raju Taneja

Program, Certification & Quality Management System

Raju Taneja is an independent consultant in the area of quality management and an acclaimed trainer & mentor in quality and personal effectiveness.

Raju brings with him 40 years of work experience in organizations like NIIT Limited (IT), EXL Service (BPO) and Escorts Group (Manufacturing) among others. He has managed corporate training and education centers, besides having handled corporate roles in the area of quality and delivery management.

Raju is a commerce graduate from 1976 batch of Delhi University and is professionally trained in areas of Quality, Quality Training, Personal Effectiveness Training, Benchmarking, Information Mapping, Business Continuity Planning and Process Audits (Certified Lead Assessor for ISO-9001).

Mr. Arvind Mehrotra

New Technology strategies

Arvind Mehrotra is a Subject Matter Expert in New Technologies, Cloud & Digital Platforms.

Arvind is also a Strategic Risk & Technology Advisor and Board Advisor with multiple organizations to increase brand value, update vision & strategic plans, development strategies & guide them to scale their business

He is currently associated with Opsramp Inc (a Sapphire Venture), Birlasoft Ltd ( CK Birla Group), Veative Labs Ltd ( Singapore incorporated firm), Cloud FX (Singapore incorporated firm) and Viti Foundation (to Drive AI education).

Arvind has over 34 years of experience of working with Digital platform service providers, Cloud & cognitive services and IT & Automation Services companies. He was President at NIIT Technologies and has worked for various other firms like Business India Group, UDI Yellow page, and United India Periodicals.

Sakti Mukherjee

Global Strategies, Business Systems

Sakti Mukherjee is an Outcome-focused Business Process Strategist (with strong Operational, Project Management, and M&A process experience), trained in nurturing business systems and investments through the design & implementation of Strategies for Turnaround, Restoration, Growth & Value creation.

Sakti is also a CEO and Executive Coach, fondly known as ‘Coach SAM’. He delivers his high-energy flavour of Leadership Coaching, Training following the World’s No1. Executive Coaching program of “Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching”.

He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi, London Business School, and the University of Nairobi. Having worked in India and Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 37 years & across value-streams, he has gained rich experience in sectors like Consumer Goods, Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Industrials, Renewables, Content Delivery, and Technology. He can make significant leadership impact, through a varied range of Management interventions, Turnaround & Restoration actions, Scale-up dynamics & Customer-centric value creation roles.

Soumitra Das

Business Development, Digital Marketing

Soumitra is a corporate business development leader, a consultant, trainer, sales coach, and an academic practitioner.

He has 25+ years of experience in global business development with IT companies like Oracle, HCL, NIIT, Thomson etc.

In his last corporate role he was the Global Director of Software sales at Oracle and has spearheaded software products and services business in US and Europe, besides domestic markets.

He is also a Visiting Faculty at IMT-CDL since 2014 where he conducts industry oriented courses on Digital Marketing and Information Systems for working professionals, besides taking up core subjects like Business Strategy and Marketing Management.

Ramesh Menon

Media, Communication

Ramesh Menon is an Author, Journalist, Filmmaker and Corporate Trainer

He is a recipient of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism. He has authored six books, involved in the making of nearly 20 documentaries, a corporate trainer in soft skills, and is presently an Adjunct Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune.

He has been teaching for nearly 30 years now and has mentored thousands of communication, media, and creative writing students. With his innovative workshops, he has helped them see the joy of discovery and the joy of learning. He feels our education system must focus on building holistic youngsters who are confident, have good self-esteem, and a will to take on the world. Education has to go beyond the academics of a classroom. Only then can we have well-rounded happy youngsters who are positive and have the ability to look beyond the obvious. And, most importantly have the perspective to discover the joy in their work.

Poonam Sangha

Marketing, CRM

Poonam Sangha is a Marketing Professional, CRM consultant, Non Executive Independent Director at M/s B L Kashyap & Sons ltd, with over 39 year’s experience in Consumer Durable & Media industry.

She is former Business Head of India Today Group and has worked for serveral other firms - Blowplast Ltd, Corn Products India Ltd, etc.

Ms. Rosita Rabindra

Diversity, Skill Development

Rosita Rabindra is the Co Founder at Diversity Dialogs and an Independent HR Consultant with over 34 years of diverse work experience in Sales & Marketing and in leading a profit center prior to moving to HR equipped her with in-depth understanding of business which helped her to create impactful HR strategies and interventions.

Rosita has had the unique opportunity of working with NIIT and NIIT Technologies Ltd from the inception of the company. Her ability to understand an emerging Industry, develop successful strategies, build goal-oriented teams, create and nurture a high performance culture enabled her to become the Chief People Officer of NIIT Technologies.

Under her leadership NIIT Technologies has won several accolades for its People Practices, the most significant recognition was being ranked first by the American Society of Training and Development.

Rosita Co-founded Diversity Dialogs that helps women take charge of all aspects of their lives and helps Organisations evaluate and change Diversity and Inclusivity mindsets, culture, policies and procedures.

Mr. Vikas Narula

Educationist

Vikas Narula is a generation next educationist, a consultant for teachers, students and parents with over 25 years of experience in education sector.

With over two decades of association, Vikas is current serving as Sr. Associate Director (Sales Operation) of University of Petroleum and Energy studies, which has graduated 18000+ students over the years.

Mr. Santanil Dasgupta

Career Planning & Guidance

Santanil Dasgupta has over 28 years of extensive experience, out of which he spent over 16 years in a specialized medical diagnostics industry, before moving to the education sector in 2007. He was instrumental in leading some of the top national and multinational companies during his medical diagnostics stint, the likes of which include Ranbaxy Labs Ltd., Dr. Reddy’s Lab, J Mitra & Co Limited and Recombigen Laboratories Pvt Limited.

Though Santanil considers his journey in education sector an accident, he has welcomed the prospect with great passion to establish Career Services department at two prominent universities, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies ( UPES) & DIT University ( DITU), before moving to BML Munjal University in 2018, where he is presently the Director of the Career Guidance & Development Centre.

Ms. Alka Madhan

Corporate Relations, Brand Development

Alka Madhan has 20 + years of career spanning top corporations and educational institutions. She has held important responsibilities such as strategic partnerships, Corporate Relations, Career Services, Creating Unique Brand Value Propositions & Business Development and social impact.

She is currently Campus Director at Pearly Academy (Jaipur). Prior to Pearl Alka was Vice President, Corporate Relations & Office of development at Bennett University, New Delhi.

She has also worked with UPES as Director Corporate Relations and Career Services. Alka is an MBA in Marketing.

Alka is passionate about women’s empowerment and well-being and work towards this in every sphere of life.

Mr. Sanjay Kaul

Founder

Mr. Sanjay Kaul, a Subject Matter Expert in Energy, Infra & Higher Education.

He is the founder of Indian School of Petroleum & Energy and University of Technology & Management which has trained over 18000 energy professionals and is also the founder of University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, which has graduated more than 17500 students for the Oil & Gas, Power, Renewables, Infrastructure, Aviation Space, IT and Surface transportation industry.

He is also the founder and Managing Director of Suyog Projects which manages, incubates and supports start-ups, offers management consulting, Project management and Skill development (IESD) construction supervision, and integrated DBOM (Design, Built, Operate & Maintain) services (SPPL) including Asset audit and evaluation services (SEVA).

He has spent over 3 decades with Chevron, Shell, PwC, and Deloitte in India and has provided consultancy services to Govt., Regulators, Energy companies, Investment funds technology providers and start-ups. He is Fellow of Energy Institute UK and has been recipient of various industry awards.

Dr. Lakshmi Vaideeswaran

Advisor

Dr. Lakshmi Vaideeswaran graduated in Chemical Engineering from A.C. Tech in 1990 and completed her doctorate from the University of Manchester in Process Integration in 2001. She has worked in organizations such as Engineers India Limited, GE Plastics, Aspentech, Dow Chemical, SABIC and Gyan Data. Her core strength is in developing technologies and commercializing them, In EIL, she was part of the team that developed NMP based solvent extraction technologies and revamped existing phenol-based plants with the new solvent. She has implemented energy optimization, expert systems-based technologies in the refining, petrochemical and plastics industries. She was global head for process technologies awhile at Dow Chemical and in SABIC she headed the Innovative Plastics R&D in Bangalore.

Her last stint was as the CEO of a Data Science start up in Chennai. Currently, she helps organizations scale up and connect technologies to the industry.

Lakshmi brings leadership in both technology and organization domains and has a successful track record of delivering across Manufacturing / Data Science and in geographies around the world.

George Sebastian

Have had a career spanning 40 years in media marketing, starting from 1980 in Times of India. 23 years of experience was in charge of national teams servicing markets on a pan India level.

Was associated with leading print brands like The Times of India , India Today , Gujarat Samachar, Business Standard, and Mathrubhumi. Familiar with all three modes of television delivery platforms, like Terrestrial, Cable, and Satellite. Worked with Plus Channel (Vice President – Marketing), CVO - Hinduja Group (Senior Vice President – Marketing), & MTV (Director-Ad Sales)

Capt Nand Kishor Sah

A Master Mariner and MBA with 42 years of work experience, Capt N K Sah is 1978-79 batch (marine degree) pass out from Training Ship Rajendra and MBA graduate from Mumbai University.

Apart from sailing onboard ships for 16 years, has vast experience in port operations, ship agency, Logistics, infrastructure, marketing & business development of various shipping and allied activities.

Capt Sah is passionate about providing community services to marine fraternity and has been associated with several fraternal bodies like Company of Master Mariners of India, DRACEA, Royal Bombay Seaman Club etc. since taking up shore job in 1994. Capt Sah is the present PRESIDENT of Dufferin Rajendra Chanakya Ex Cadets Association (DRACEA), an alumni body having over 7500 merchant navy captains as it members spread globally.

DR. SATISH MAHESHWARI

Dr. Satish Maheshwari is an expert in imports, port operations and various aspects of Fertilizers. He has got about 40 years of experience in the fertilizer sector.

He was awarded doctorate in Agricultural Chemistry from Kanpur University. He acquired certificate in Export Marketing from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, and Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from IGNOU. Dr. Maheshwari has more than 30 years’ experience in fertiliser sector. Besides being involved in marketing strategies / planning, he has been one of the pioneers in developing International trade activities, handling of fertilisers on Hazira jetty – a typical tidal port, quality management system i.e. ISO 9001:2000 in marketing division of KRIBHCO.

Devender Gupta

Having diverse experience working with Agro, Food, Pharmaceuticals, IT/ITES and Construction Industry. Expertise in Green & Sustainable Developments/Operations, Design Management, Engaging Architects/Consultants/PMCs, Space Management, SEZ setup & Compliances, having a major focus on Indoor Air Quality, Energy Efficiency, Cost Optimization, Innovation, Value Engineering, and Training & Development.

Shantanu Brajesh

Mr. Shantnu Brajesh is a Senior Reservoir Engineer having more than 8 years of National and International work experience within Oil and Gas domain. He Graduated in Applied Earth Science with specialization in Petroleum Engineering (Reservoir Engineering , Drilling and Production Engineering) from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Currently with Reservoil - India ,working as a technical & marketing strategist for KAPPA Engineering software and upstream consultancy services for the Indian market. Also, analyzing, evaluating & development of main fields offered in DSF-I and DSF-II as a part of core work profile.

Neeraj Rajvanshi

Prof. Neeraj Rajbanshi is a Professional Pharmacist with over four decades of experience in various facets of the Pharmaceutical Profession both national and international. Currently working with a UN agency as Procurement and Supply Chain expert for international assignments. He has 40+ years of experience.

Henry Scriven

Henry Scriven is a creative and filmmaker. After his first short film premiered at the BFI London Future Film Festival, he shot How to Become a Criminal Mastermind, his debut feature film, at the age of 25. The film won the Best Director award at the Green Bay Film Festival & the Best Low Budget Film Award at the London Independent Film Festival. These films led him to commercials & branded content where he directed for organisations including Coca Cola, Barclays, Boeing, Glenfiddich, Harley Davidson and WWF. His latest short film The Fox was funded by Film Earls Court and screened at Vue cinemas as part of a scheme in association with the BFI & Film London.

Latika Tandon

Leadership Coach and Strategic Consultant to SMEs & Social Sector

Over 27 years of multi-functional experience across Banking, Management Consulting, and Coaching.

Work with business organizations to build leadership capability across levels, through Coaching and research in leadership development.

Partner with SMEs to develop business strategy and research-based business and consumer solutions. Work closely with Social Sector in co-creating business solutions around livelihood, skill development, and financial inclusion.

Previous roles include- Lead Practice-BFSI - Kantar IMRB, Adviser-Strategy & Operations - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Director- Kairos Mgt. Consulting/Positron Advisory, Lead-Banking IPG - ACNielsen ORG-MARG, Trader- Currency (FX) & Money Markets- American Express Bank.

Supratik Mukherjee

Expert in Investment Banking and Corporate Finance

He is a dynamic Corporate Finance Professional who brings on board diverse work experience from Investment Banking and Management Consulting. He is presently associated with a management consulting firm that covers sectors like Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning, Food Beverage, Housing Finance, Automotive Retail, Manufacturing, and Solar projects. Mr. Mukherjee holds key responsibilities in Deal Screening, Fundraising, M&A, Preparing Collaterals, IMs, Teasers, Business Plans, PE/VC funds, Valuations, Business Modelling, and Liaising in mentioned sectors. He has worked in multiple geographies, mainly emerging markets such as India, Kenya & Ethiopia.

Supratik Mukherjee is Charterholder from CFA Institute, Virginia, USA, and is also a Certified FRM, Global association of risk professionals, USA. He is an Entrepreneur and co-founded IPIX Movies (Mumbai) and Procon Operating Partners (Kenya).

Pradeep Dikshit

Subject Matter Expert in Finance

Pradeep Dikshit, a B. Tech from IIT Kanpur, specialized in Finance from IIM Calcutta and is an expert in multiple domains. He marks his strong presence in the field of Finance, IT Operations, Consulting as well as Infrastructure. He has been associated with organizations like Velocis Systems, SmartAnalyst, Steria, Genpact, Escorts Finance Limited & SRF Finance Ltd. during his long span of career since 1982.

He has expertise in financial monitoring, productivity, profitability, budgeting, planning through which he has driven timely completion and increased profitability of projects. He also has experience in overall organizational management, change management, and people responsibilities and has contributed to institutional strengthening and mentoring.

Prabhat Khare

Expert in Energy Audit and the Green Energy field

He is the industry expert in plant O&M, planning & execution of large-scale green-field engineering projects, capital purchasing & environment/ energy Management. He has rich experience in the development and deployment of various front-end systems of O&M, Quality, EHS, EMS, and Support Systems such as Kaizen, TPM, SGA, Quality Circles. He is BEE Certified Energy Manager & BSI Certified Lead Assessor for ISO 9001;2018, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 & ISO:50001:2015 Management Systems. He also carries a strong understanding of Legal Compliances & Regulations.

Mr. Prabhat Khare is the Gold Medallist from IITR and brings in more than 40 years of experience in varied sectors.

Praveen Chaudhary

He is an innovative professional with over 22+ years of progressive management and marketing expertise in diverse marketing arenas along with demonstrated initiative, creativity, and success. He is proactive, a multilingual manager with experience in multi-cultural and global environments. He has a proven track record of increasing revenues, streamlining workflow, and creating a team environment to increase productivity.

Mr. Praveen Chaudhary is an expert in Supply Chain Solutions including sourcing, pricing, and logistics. He is highly successful in building relations; resolving critical problem areas and delivering on client commitments. He has leadership skills gained from managing a large Trading Centre, managing a multi-million dollar business as well as developing commercial spaces.

P.K. Jain

Subject Expert in Oil & Gas

Mr. Jain is a veteran with over 35 years of rich experience in the Oil & Gas Sector working with Indian Oil Corporation at various refineries, in Projects Departments, Maintenance, Shut Down, Engineering Services, Contracting, Inspection, and Planning. He has handled responsibilities of mega refinery projects from inception to commissioning i.e, Detail engineering, Contracting & procurement, construction/ execution, Quality & Safety, project monitoring/expediting, startup, commissioning & Test run of the refinery plants and facilities.

He has successfully executed and commissioned various Refinery Projects/ facilities, complying with requisite Statutory Rules & Regulations, Quality & Safety standards, Internal & External Quality & Safety Audits including, ISO-9001, 14001, 45001, ISO: 17020, PESO, OISD, PNGRB, ASME, API, and ASTM Standards, Codes, and practices. He is B.Tech (Mechanical) and possesses PMP Certification from PMI and Project Management Certification – Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Jain has worked in a diverse and challenging work environment which needed Technical & Commercial acumen skills, problem-solving, leadership, and team player qualities with excellent interpersonal & communication skills.

Chesler Thomas

Subject Expert in Space Technology

Subject expert in Space Technology, Innovation, and Business. He completed his B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Some of his achievements include winning the Best Space Mission in 2011 during his training in the U.S. Space and Rocket Research Centre at Huntsville, Alabama, co-discovered 1 Provisional Asteroid out of 17 Discoveries Worldwide in Pann-Starrs IASC 2017 (Only Indian Team to discover Provisional Asteroid), led the team to win Rank 2 in Singapore Space Challenge 2018 country-wise, selected and trained by COSPAR with 35 other experts worldwide for capacity building in Nanosatellite technology in 2019 and the youngest Analyst to join Skyroot Aerospace, India's leading rocket company. He has co-authored 10+ research papers in the Space sector including but not limited to Innovative Small Satellite Applications in Earth Observation, Lunar Resources, Wireless Power Beaming, Martian Experiments, Spaceports, Rovers, and Space Stations.

Sonal Shukla

Subject Expert in IT technology

A lecturer in Mody University, Laxmangarh, Rajasthan with teaching experience of more than five years in the IT/CS field. In her academic career, she has published papers on “A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS SEARCH ENGINE PRESENT TODAY” in “International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering” (IJCSE), “Security Challenges in Cloud” in “IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), “Public Auditing Services in Cloud Networks for Data Sharing Including Privacy Preserving” published in Reliability, Infocom Technologies and Optimization (Trends and Future Directions) (ICRITO), International Conference IEEE and proudly awaits a patent in Blockchain technology. She is an Engineer by qualification and an eminent teacher by passion. With command over computer proficiency in C, C++, JAVA, Python, etc. She aspires to pivot her journey in Machine Learning and AI to transform the field as we know it today.