SETTING COURSE FOR THE NEXT SPRINT

IMA India’s Annual CFO Strategy Roundtable

13^th-15^th September 2019, JW Marriott, Mussoorie

Partner List

*In alphabetical order of first name

Ms Anu Singh

Mumbai

Ms Archana Trisal

New Delhi

Ms Deeksha Dwivedi

New Delhi

Ms Harveen Kapur

Gurgaon

Ms Jyoti Jain

New Delhi

Ms Kavita Sriram

Chandigarh

Ms Kirti Dua

Gurgaon

Ms Lakshmi Ganeshan

Mumbai

Ms Neelam Agarwal

Hyderabad

Ms Neena Gupta

Pune

Ms Neetu Gupta

Gurgaon

Ms Padma Sampath

Chennai

Ms Rama Tiwari

New Delhi

Ms Rashmi Churiwala

Bangalore

Ms Rashmi Murthv

Bangalore

Ms Ridhi Bansal

Gurgaon

Ms M Smitha

Hyderabad

Ms Sonali Shah

Mumbai

Ms Sreedevi K

Hyderabad

Ms Sulaja Gaonkar

Mumbai

Ms Suman Goel

Bangalore

Ms Swati Modani

Mumbai

Ms Vasudha Shamasunder

Bangalore

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Neena Gupta holds a bachelor of commerce degree and has principally been a home-maker. Since 2012, she has promoted and successfully run a diagnostics centre, SNG Diagnostics & Medical Centre, in Kandivali, Mumbai. The centre is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and provides a full array of diagnostics tests in pathology and radiology.

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Neelam Agrawal is a housewife and is blessed with two daughters, Nehal and Navya. She holds a bachelor of arts degree and offers home tuition in Hindi for children in the local community. Ms Agrawal loves cooking food and is a keen listener of music . In her free time, she likes to read stories.

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Padma Sampath, wife of Ranganath Sampath, holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Ms Sampath is a homemaker by choice and has taken responsibility for holding fort at the Sampath household and bringing up their three children, Sunil, Subha and Pallavi. Sunil is a qualified engineer and an ISB graduate. Subha is a surgeon and is currently pursuing super-specialisation. Pallavi is currently in the 10th grade in school. Ms Sampath has played and continues to play a significant role in her husband’s personal and professional success. During his early professional years, Mr Sampath travelled frequently, and had long workdays and working weekends. During this time, Ms Sampath single-handedly took charge of the family needs, handling even her children’s medical emergencies by herself. She also looked after her in-laws during their final years. Ms Sampath is deeply attached to her family and strongly believes in ‘family first’. A passionate cook, one of her favourite pastimes is to feed her family and friends lovely vegetarian delicacies from across India. She often prepares and serves ‘Anna Danam’, and constantly helps the needy. She is also deeply religious and spends a large part of her day reading various slokas and scriptures. Her leisure time is spent taking short vacations, visiting holy places, and spending time away from home – which she prefers to do only with family and close friends.

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Sonali Shah is a home-maker and has successfully raised a daughter and a son. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Mumbai and completed her schooling from St Ann’s High School, Secunderabad. Besides her full-time role, she dabbles in spirituality, and her interests include travel and movies.

Born in 1973, Sreedevi had a tough childhood and lost her father at very early age. She received her bachelor’s degree from Andhra University and became life partner to KS Sastry in 1998. Her penchant for further studies led her to pursue a master’s degree in English and she completed a bachelor of education degree after marriage. After working briefly in a school, she had to curtail her career aspirations in order to cater to her family’s needs. Presently, Ms Sreedevi is in complete control of her household affairs and ‘captains her entire team’ by taking good care of their health and wellness.

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Lakshmi Ganeshan is a highly-organised and passionate home-maker. She is also versatile in the art of cooking and has manifested her skills on Instagram, too. She strongly believes in taking care of the family, and is a seasoned personality in all social matters. A proud mother of two sons, Ms Ganeshan holds a bachelor of science degree. Her hobbies include reading and listening to music.

Kavita Sriram was born in Mumbai and completed her schooling there before moving to Bangalore. She holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Bangalore University. Ms Sriram was married immediately after her graduation, and she has a son, Aditya. Encouraged by her husband, Ms Sriram completed a Montessori teachers’ training programme, and presently works as a teacher in Bangalore, which she thoroughly enjoys. She loves sports, particularly cricket and tennis, as well as basketball, which her son plays, representing his school. Ms Sriram’s interests include trying out new dishes, shopping, and spending time with family and friends.

A senior Finance leader, Kirti Dua currently works as Head of Finance at Distributor Logistic Infra. Her prior, multi-dimensional experience includes stints with Fidelity, Fuji Films and Brightstar India. Ms Dua loves motorsports and travelling.

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Rashmi Murthv holds a bachelor of engineering degree from VTU Bangalore. She currently works as a Senior Business Consultant/Project Manager at SAP Ariba in Dubai. Her key responsibilities there include managing budgets and project implementation for SAP Ariba in the Middle East, and being an active stakeholder in the firm’s ‘services transformation’ for the entire EMEA region. Previously, she was Procurement Manager – Ariba Management at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (2013-17); Senior Product Engineer/Consultant at SAP Ariba in Bengaluru (2006-13); and a Software Engineer at Tavant Technologies, Bengaluru (2004-06) and at CA-TCG, Kolkata (2004-06). Ms Murthv is married to Pavan, and they are blessed with an 8-year-old son, Pranav Kashyap

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Harveen Kapur is a published author and has just written her first book of poems, ‘Ephemeral Musings’. She is a corporate trainer by profession in the areas of leadership, emotional intelligence, stress management and soft skills.

M Simitha, an engineer by qualification, is a homemaker. She spends her free time in CSR activities run by Bharat Vikas Parishad.

Rashmi Churiwala is a housewife and is blessed with two daughters, Samiksha and Advika. She holds a bachelor of commerce degree.

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Suman Goel is a practicing Chartered Accountant with 18 years of experience dealing with a wide array of clients, and in the fields of taxation, audit and corporate laws.

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Swati Modani has previously worked with Airtel and Vodafone. Ms Modani is currently a stay-at-home mom with two girls. She has a passion for traveling, experimenting with food, fitness and spirituality.

Vasundha Shama Sunder holds a bachelor of arts degree and has worked with the Central government for almost 25 years. Originally from Mysore, she likes to read books during her free time.

Ritu is a versatile, highly adaptable professional with over 20 years of experience and has a demonstrated track record of leading multi-function and cross-border teams to impactful, high-calibre delivery. She has had two broad avatars in her professional life:

In her first avatar, from 1996 to 2012, she was the business development and operations leader for a large telecom company. In this role, she was responsible for managing functions and leading operations with scale. She developed deep experience in partner management, strategic account planning, leading cross-border teams and delivering multi-programme portfolios. Ritu worked extensively in India, Asia-Pacific as well as Europe.In her second avatar, she used the skills developed during her corporate experience in the not-for-profit sector, with a focus on education. Her experience in this sphere covers the entire spectrum from fund raising to grassroot-level programme delivery, giving her a unique perspective on the space.

Sadhna Mehta is a Co-Founder of SheMatters, a first-of-its-kind, women-focused technology platform providing holistic solutions for the most prevalent health and beauty conditions. She is the CEO of Windows Consultants, a leading HR Consulting firm in India and a Founder Member of The Quantum Institute for Wellbeing (TQIW), an intentional community of seekers in search of holistic and integrated approach for personal wellbeing. Ms Mehta is a Trustee for Adhikaar, a non-profit trust focused on providing medical care to under-privileged children.

Mrs Khaitan enjoys reading and listening to spiritual songs. She also enjoys cooking.

Shaliney is an educationist and teaches English.

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A Human Performance Improvement pioneer who helps drive business results through performance effectiveness, Sheila Vasan Singla is the Principal Associate of Chrysalis HRD, a result-based learning solutions firm she started in 1995. Ms Singla is passionate about art and is a patron of upcoming Indian artists. Not able to draw a straight line with a ruler, she admires the talent that is available within our country, and looks at opportunities to encourage artists from all over India.

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A senior IT executive, an alumni of IIM Calcutta & NIT Kurukshetra, with 24 years of corporate exposure, Soojata quit the IT industry to follow her passion and dabble with garment design. After understanding the basics of the design process from Pearl Academy, she has launched her own label – Nandni. She has a keen interest in handwoven fabrics, handwork and subtle details which is well reflected in her work. Minimal and functional are the two best ways to describe her work.

Trupti Shekhar Wagh is a native of Mumbai and holds a bachelor’s degree from St Xaviers College. Ms Wagh is an artist, painter and homemaker, and is extremely passionate about yoga, nature, and leading a healthy lifestyle. She has accompanied her husband in all of his overseas assignments over the last two decades and has lived in the United States, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. In her spare time Ms Wagh likes spending quality time with her family, and cooking.

Urmila Lohia was born in 1952 in Nagpur, Maharashtra, where she completed her education. Married to OP Lohia, Chairman and Managing Director of Indo Rama Synthetics, Mrs Lohia has two children, Ritika and Vishal. She is a Member of the Rotary Club of Delhi Midtown and the Samagam Foundation. Mrs Lohia is also an active social worker and is associated with NGOs working for old age homes and various other activities. He interests include music and travelling.

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Sneha Shanbhag, currently a home-maker, has 12 years of experience working with a placement firm and has a record of placing close to 500 associates at the top-management level across organisations. Ms Shanbhag is closely associated with St Catherine’s Home and currently spends time with the less fortunate, educating them on values and academics. Her hobbies include cooking, running and practicing yoga. She firmly believes in the healthy mind-healthy body concept. She runs 5 km every day and has a more hectic schedule today than during her professional days. She also does the most difficult job of parenting and learning with her kids.

Well before India became a liberalised economy, in 1989, Madhavi Desai was at the vanguard of education and academic counselling, and created the first-ever such advisory firm in India. Ms Desai, who is Founder and CEO of Madhavi Desai Consulting, guides parents and children from age 10 towards building robust resumes that get them into the world’s top colleges. To date, she has counselled over 25,500 students. An arts aficionado, Ms Desai holds a master’s of science degree from Purdue University.

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Shilpa Rajwade is an Electronics engineer and has seven years of experience in controls and automation of packaging and special purpose machines. She took a break to look after her family for a couple years, and retrained herself later as a Remedial instructor for children with specific learning disability. Shilpa has also worked in a special school in Chennai for three years. Currently, a stay at home mom of two children, she loves traveling, outdoors, and music.

Shikha – a Master in Computer Application – has spent a couple of years working for Ruchi Soya, developing software. Realising the need for better education for her kids – which involves an inclination towards practicality, getting into basics and less classic theory – she took an off to spend full energy towards this on priority. In parallel, she balanced to continue on software development and testing, and freelancing. She enjoys cooking food, listening music and supporting her family.

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Dr Shalini Mirchandani is a practising orthodontist who trained at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine, Boston. She has been practising for the past 30 years, formerly in the US and now in Mumbai. Dr Mirchandani completed her BDS from the Rafiq Ahmed College of Dentistry, Kolkata, where she was a gold medallist and the top ranker in the final university examination. She then completed her DMD (Doctor of Medical Dentistry) at Tufts, where she graduated as the best international student of her class. After that, she was accepted into the highly competitive and prestigious post-doctoral programme in orthodontics at the Tufts Dental School. Dr Mirchandani practiced in the Boston area before she and her family relocated to India. She prides herself on her ethical practise and keeping a punctual schedule respecting every individual’s time. Her primary clinic in on Pedder Road in Mumbai, and she has a satellite practice in Juhu.

Anu Singh is a marketing and business development professional who has spent much of her career working with IT companies. She received her education across various cities in India, and her management degree from Mumbai. Currently with Blazeclan Technologies, she heads the company’s partner alliances. Ms Singh is passionate about travel, and oscillates between the mountains and the beaches.

Archana Trisal holds a master’s degree in botany from Delhi University and works as a biology teacher at one of the most renowned school of Delhi. She is in charge of the Eco and Science Groups at the school and teaches the middle- and high-school classes. A keen environmentalist, Ms Trisal actively participates in the ongoing Clean Delhi/Noida initiative. She also has a strong interest in gardening. Outside of academics, she is fond listening to old Hindi songs and Boney M. Among other things, Ms Trisal is a great cook of Kashmiri food.

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Padmapriya Sridhar holds a bachelor’s of commerce degree and is a beautician by profession. She is an expert in bridal make-up. Ms Sridhar is interested in cultural and social activities and has studied Carnatic music.

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Dr Karunaa Paal Gupta holds a bachelor’s degree in botany and a master’s degree in microbiology, both from Delhi University. She completed her PhD in medical microbiology from AIIMS and for some years served as a lecturer at colleges in Delhi and Faridabad. Dr Gupta is also a 3D ceramic contemporary artist, and has been part of 19 shows (either solo, with two other artists, or in groups) in various art galleries in Delhi. For the last 15 years, she has run a boutique in Delhi, and is also an avid garden planner and developer, providing consultation for garden projects. Dr Gupta currently also offers home-based foundation classes for children on a freelance basis.

Sulaja Gaonkar holds a bachelor’s degree in home science from SNDT, Pune, and has competed at the state level in in basketball. Ms Gaonkar has also completed a one-year residential course from a yoga institute in Mumbai. She currently works as a professional freelance yoga teacher.

Savita Agarwal is a homemaker and has a Bachelor degree in Arts. She is fond of travelling, reading and wildlife. She has done a course in teaching Dyslexic Children. She is also a certified counsellor.

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Shalini Sawhney holds a Master’s degree in applied mathematics and operations research, and has over 25 years of teaching experience. She enjoys traveling, and has keen interest in meeting people and learning about different cultures.

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