Advisory Council
Advisory Council members are there to help nurture tomorrow’s Leaders. As Advisory Council members:
- They will appoint senior team members in their organization to conduct Insutry Guru Talk either face to face or on Online format
- Help re-design Program structure as Industry evolves in future
Rajneesh Singh
Group Head of Human Resources
Network18
Rajneesh Singh, 45 years, is the Group Head Human Resources. He has around 21 years work experience in the field of Human Resources. He has varied experience spanning the Consulting, Manufacturing, Telecom, Hospitality & the FMCG industries. He has had stints with firms like Hindalco, Eicher, Hutchison Essar & Gillette. His core competencies lie in strategic HR with focus on culture building, team building, learning and employee engagement. In his last assignment with Gillette, he was in a regional role handling talent acquisition for the AMEE Asia regions.
He is a Post Graduate in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XISS, Ranchi.
G Subramaniam
Director - Finance
Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd.
25 years post qualification working experience in the corporate sector with companies such as L&T, RPG Group, BPL Mobile, Star, Maxis (Malaysia) and Bennett, Coleman (publishers of Times of India, Economic Times etc.). Of this, 13 years have been in the Telecom & Media sectors, providing functional and strategic leadership to the finance, commercial, legal & secretarial and IT functions.
Currently providing leadership to the Finance function in Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (a GVK group venture with SA Consortium)
Abhinav Chopra
Vice President, Human Resources
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd.
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B, world's leading entertainment content company, comprising brands like BET, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures) and the Network18 Group, (one of India's leading full play media conglomerates with interests in television, internet, filmed entertainment, mobile content & allied businesses, comprising brands like CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz, Newswire18, moneycontrol.com, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, Homeshop18 and E18 amongst others).
Prof. P J Philip
Professor of Management at National Institute of Technology,
Kurukshetra (Haryana)
Prof. P J Philip, MA, MBA, LLB, PhD, is a Professor of Management at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (Haryana). He is presently the Head of the Department of Business Administration. He has over thirty years of teaching and research experience. He has supervised research for PhD, has undertaken projects and has published a number of research papers. He has also attended many national and international conferences, seminars, workshops etc. Human Resourse Management and Intellectual Property Rights are his areas of interest.
Shankar Prasad
President-Telecom
Trilogy
Mr. Shankar Prasad, is currently the President-Telecom at Trilogy. Previously he has been President - Broadband & Retail Business at Tata Communications (formerly VSNL), Chief Operating Officer at Bharti Airtel Limited ,AGM Marketing at BPL Mobile.
This XLRI graduate has great industry experience and has been associated with many large corporations in the past including Wiltech, Pagepoint Services India Ltd, Blow Plast Ltd amongst others in various senior management positions.
