Theme: 'Dream'- Changing the face of the World

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International Management Institute
Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi, Delhi, 110016
India

Apurva Chamaria

Author

Currently heading Global Brand & Digital Marketing - responsible for brand marketing, employer brand, employee marketing, thought-leadership marketing and digital marketing. Under his leadership HCL debuted at: 1) InterBrand Top 100 Brands at 19 and grew 35% y-o-y on the brand value 2) Brand Finance Global 500 '15 at 497 with a brand value of 3.1 Bn US$. Other roles @ HCL includes Sales Director at HCL America responsible for managing the global relationship. Prior to taking over as the Sales Director - Healthcare, Apurva was the Global Head of Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications (SAP, Oracle to name a few) leading a geographically distributed team of marketing managers. He has pharmaceutical industry experience having worked in various sales and marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories (now Sun Pharma). He's also a sought-after speaker at industry conferences like Sales Performance Management , LinkedIn Tech Connect, Microsoft Leaders Speak.

Cyrus Broacha

TV anchor, Comedian

His schooling was done at Cathedral and John Connon School and graduation from St. Xavier's College, both from Mumbai. After graduation, Cyrus joined Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York to study acting for theatre. Cyrus Broacha is a celebrated host of Indian television most known for his comic appearances. He is better known as political satirist, star host and also an author. MTV’s most successful show on prank, MTV Bakra made Cyrus a celebrated personality of Indian television during 2000’s wherein he interviewed all big stars of Bollywood as MTV host and has always remained in limelight as well. He has also hosted many cricket shows and interviewed celebrated cricketers. He is also a columnist who writes for two leading national papers and two magazines. He is also a star anchor and theatre personality. His show The Week That Wasn't on CNNIBN with its comic flavours also needs special mention.

Ginnie Mahajan

Radio Jockey

A veteran in the media industry, Ginnie Mahajan is Radio City's Award Winning RJ. She played an instrumental role in the launch of India’s first talk station – MEOW where she sensitized the audience about urban issues and news. This proved to be a milestone in the history of the country as this was the first time that the educated middle class found a vent through the radio. Meow continued for about five years and then she joined Radio City. From there she moved to the management side where she took the office of Regional Programming Director monitoring all content that went on air in the North Indian circle. After four long years, she returned to her RJ console and won an award for the best RJ across the country in less than a year. Currently, she hosts the morning show 'Suno Na Dilli' on Radio City 91.1FM. The show brings to life the vibrancy and colour of Delhi and attempts to educate the listeners about a plethora of current happenings in the country.

Khurshed Batliwala

Senior faculty - Art of Living

With a postgraduate degree in Mathematics from I.I.T., Bombay, Khurshed Batliwala is a senior faculty at the Art of Living. Mr. Batliwala is a firm believer in the power of self-identified aspirations and this led him to follow an unconventional and challenging career path. He has been instrumental in designing the Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES!+) series that inspires the youth to break free from the shackles of society expectations and follow their dreams courageously. With this course he aims to propagate the vision of the Art of Living, which is to see a smile on every face on the planet. A blend of intellect and innocence, mind-blowing wit yet unconditional warmth, he continues to be a favourite among youth, and is committed to utilizing every moment of his time in enriching the lives of people around.

Madhukar Sabnavis

Brand Planner

Madhukar started his advertising career with Clarion Advertising in 1985 and moved to Ogilvy & Mather in 1988. He currently looks after consumer knowledge and brand planning in India. In the last 26 years, he has worked on a number of national and multinational clients. He has also helped create a new agency brand for O&M India - Brand David - in the Indian advertising market space. He has been associated with creative campaigns for many brands including Asian Paints, Cadbury, Coca Cola, ITC, Star, Titan, Unilever, Yum Foods, to name a few. Under his leadership of planning in India, O&M has become the most awarded Indian agency at the Indian Effies and Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards, thus conquering the twin peaks of advertising – creativity and effectiveness. An avid writer, he contributes a monthly column on the editorial page of Business Standard. Besides writing and advertising, his passions are cricket, Hindi movies and teaching.

Nipun Malhotra

Social activist

Nipun Malhotra was born with Arthrogryposis, a rare congenital disorder leading to a lack of muscles in arms and legs and thus commutes on a wheelchair.  The World Economic Forum has recognized him as a Global Shaper. Nipun Malhotra is the co-founder and CEO of the Nipman Foundation. The Nipman Foundation works in the areas of Health, Dignity and Happiness for Persons with Disabilities. It supports People with Disability get access to wheelchairs and easy financing so that they become self employed and live an independent life. He provided recommendations for disability friendly infrastructure including Delhi Metro, Delhi Haat, Supreme Court, successfully lobbied with Zomato to add Wheelchair access filters to restaurants and played an integral role in getting the Disabled exempted from the Odd-Even rule for cars in Delhi by filing a PIL to make the Delhi High Court intervene.

Piyush Mishra

Actor, Lyricist, Singer

Piyush Mishra is an Indian film and theatre actor, music director, lyricist, singer, scriptwriter. Mishra grew up in Gwalior, and went to graduate from National School of Drama, Delhi in 1986. Thereafter, he started his career in Hindi theatre in Delhi. Over the next decade he established himself as a theatre director, actor, lyricist and singer, screenwriter. He has received acclaim for his acting in Maqbool (2003) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). As a film lyricist and singer, he is noted for his songs "Arre Ruk Ja Re Bandeh from the movie Black Friday, Aarambh Hai Prachand from the movie Gulaal, "Ik Bagal" from the movie Gangs of Wasseypur and "Husna" from MTV Coke Studio.

Subramanian Swamy

Economist, Politician

Dr.Swamy holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he also taught for ten years, and has published famous joint papers on the Theory of Index Numbers with Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson. He is recognized internationally as an authority on the economy of China. He has been elected five times to Parliament since 1974 [three Lok Sabha, two Rajya Sabha] and has held senior Cabinet rank position twice [1990-91&1994-96]. He was the President of the  Janata Party . He merged his party on 11 August 2013 with  Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP).Dr.Swamy had served as a member of the  Planning Commission of India  and  Cabinet Minister  of India. He is also a published author. In 1994, Swamy was appointed as Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade by then Prime Minister  P. V. Narasimha Rao . This was perhaps for the first time that an Opposition Party member was given a Cabinet rank post by the ruling party.