‘Key Persons’
AMBARISH DASGUPTA SENIOR PARTNER
A seasoned management consultant with more than 30 years of experience, he was a member of the India leadership team in PwC. He managed a practice of 2000 people in Digital and Analytics with USD 60 million revenue. After PwC, he has been the national consulting leader in KPMG and a part of the leadership team as well. In his professional career, he served global and multinational clients in India and abroad, advising C-level executives in the fields of corporate and business strategy, global business model innovation, business transformation, organizational strategy and governance, change management and organizational dynamics, business performance improvement, and leadership development. Currently he is serving in the Board of few companies. He is also associated as an advisor with few companies. He is serving as a Member of the Strategic planning and program implementation board of the West Bengal Government and appointed as the Principal Advisor to the State Government Department of IT and Technology.
EDGARDO PAPPACENA CHAIRMAN, GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD
A consulting leader with 35+ years of global experience in the professional services industry during which he worked in over 50 countries around the world providing consulting advice to large global companies and, as a senior partner in PwC and Arthur Andersen, holding multiple senior executive and leadership roles at global, regional, and country levels. Between 2004 and 2017, he has served as a member of PwC’s global and US leadership teams. Prior to PwC, he was a partner at Arthur Andersen, where he held numerous leadership roles, including Global Managing Partner of the Strategy, Organization & Change practice. He has served as Global Chairman in the Board of multiple companies and governance bodies around the world (US, Argentina, India). He is a regular keynote speaker and lecturer on global strategy and globalization at numerous global business conferences and academic programs, including Harvard University, the Florida International University Graduate School of Business, the Thunderbird School of Global Management (Arizona), the University of South Carolina’s School of Business, and the IAE Business School (Argentina). He is a member of the MBA Advisory Board and lecturer in Global Political Economy and Global Strategy at Florida International University’s Chapman Graduate School of Business.
‘Strategy’
Tamil Selvan
Tamil Selvan holds a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Mechanical engineering from Anna University Chennai. He has 4 years of experience in operations management in the Manufacturing industry (Steel plant). He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and has worked on an international expansion strategy project for a recreational firm with a global team. Currently specializes in operations and strategy.
Radhika Goyal
Radhika graduated from Indian School of Business with a dual MBA specialization in Marketing and Finance. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign where she also certified as a Personalysis behavioural profiler. She has administrative & executional experience in the South East Asian Leadership Academy network, rated by Forbes as the #1 Leadership boot camp in the ASEAN Region. With Aplos Global Ltd, a boutique management consulting firm, she has three years of experience working on business transformation projects for textile and apparel manufacturing clients & a process optimizing software service for various industries clients across Asia.
ANISHA ADITYA
Anisha has completed her Bachelors in Law from Lloyd Law College, after which she studied International Business Strategies from Harvard University. She has 3 years of work experience in strategic planning and management of TMT companies and social enterprises. She has been a Social Innovation Fellow at StartingBloc Washington DC Institute in 2015. At present, she specialises in market research, development of Global Value Chains of International Organisations and analysis of various trade agreements required to form the Go-To-Market Strategy.
RAJARSHI CHOWDHURY
Rajarshi holds a Master in International Management & Digital Business from IE Business School, Madrid and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. He has 2 years of experience in channel management and business development in the Consumer Electronics industry, along with several months exposure in private equity and market research.
Rajarshi inculcates a Design Thinking approach in problem solving with a focus on sustainability. He has project management experience with Fortune 500 clients as well as start-ups. Recently, he also undertook various projects advising companies on digital transformation, UX, digital marketing strategy.
ARANYA KALIA
Aranya holds an MBA in Strategy & Leadership and Marketing from the Indian School of Business and a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from PEC University of Technology. She has almost four years of work experience in the field of market research and advisory.
Her experience includes advising cross-sector clients on market intelligence projects related to topics such as business opportunity assessment and competitor analysis. She also has consulting experience in designing offshoring & outsourcing strategies for enterprises through location & sourcing model optimization, competitive bench-marking, and trends analysis in the global sourcing domain.
AKHIL ASHOK
Akhil holds the Master’s of Strateic management from HEC Paris and a Bachelor of Mechanical engineering from NIT Warangal. He has 3 years’ experience in operations management in the Automotive industry and 1 year experience in Strategy consulting. He has worked on turnaround projects for Indian companies and is currently specialising in operations and strategy.
‘Advisors’
NIDHI SINHA
Nidhi brings with her 13 + years of experience mostly in Technology domain which spans across Verizon, PwC, Trident Group and her own entrepreneurial venture. She has more than 10 years of Consulting experience in PwC, where-in she has worked on several domestic and international assignments in the areas of Digital Transformation, End-to-End Technology architecture and Solution implementation, Process optimization and restructuring, Change Management, Competitive and expansion strategy. During her entrepreneurial days, she provided technology solutions to some highly premium clients. As CDO of Trident Group, she was focused on Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. She has a BE(ECE) from BIT Mesra, a fulltime PGP (MBA) from Indian School of Business and is also an alumnus of ESADE, Spain. She specializes in Agile methodologies, Lean Frameworks, Microsoft Solutions, Mobile and Cloud solutions, Analytics and AI solutions, and Industry 4.0
SANJAY KUMAR MANDAL
Sanjay brings more than 30 years experience in Enterprise Risk Management, IT Delivery Risk Management, IT project and process management, Information Security, Business Continuity and Internal controls compliances. across different industry segments. In his 16 years stint with global IT service provider Cognizant, Sanjay was responsible for driving delivery and operations excellence across Indian and global delivery centres in the capacity of Senior Director. He was also active in imparting consultancy on software engineering process streamlining for global clients in Banking, Insurance and Retail Sector.
Prior to joining Cognizant, Sanjay served companies like RS Software as Head of corporate quality , Globsyn as head of emerging technologies delivery , CDAC as deputy director of industrial automations etc. During his tenure in CDAC he led a team to modernise the Kolkata Telephone billing system. An M. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, Sanjay undertook a short research work on a NASA project at Carnegies Mellon University, USA in 1990 as an UNDP fellow from India. He is a six sigma black belt.
Sanjay served as a convener of India mirror committee for ISO 9000 standards in the area of IT Governance during 2009 – 2012. He used to take classes at IIM Kolkata on Project Management as a visiting faculty from Cognizant.
‘Research’
ANTARA MUKHERJEE
Antara is a Post Graduate in Economics from University of Calcutta. She has 5 years of work experience in global macroeconomic research. She has previously worked with Deutsche Bank Group and Crisil Limited. She has also served in the Project Team of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
‘International Law’
SUCHARITA BASU
A practising attorney advising clients in infrastructure, real estate, utilities, chemicals, engineering, commodities, technology, media and entertainment, finance, and retail. She has an LL.B from University of Calcutta. She is an expert in International Law. She has 15 years of law practice and extensive work experience in commercial and corporate law, capital markets, financing transactions, real estate, infrastructure, trust laws and litigation and has been involved and led numerous transactions involving the above, both domestic and cross-border.