CRY Corporate Responsibility Summit

John Elkington

John Elkington is the Founding Partner & Executive Chairman of Volans (2008), and Co-founder of SustainAbility (1987).
He is responsible for coining the term “TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE”.
He is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development.
In 2004, BusinessWeek described him as “a dean of the corporate responsibility movement for three decades.”
In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John 4th: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, and alongside Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank.
John co-authored The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets to Change the World with Pamela Hartigan.

Ola Lohman

Ola Löhman is Country representative of AccountAbility in Sweden, CEO of Frontlobe.
He has extensive experience as a manager at the “SEB” Bank, as an international lecturer focused on CSR and sustainability, and as a writer of award-winning books on strategy and CSR.
Ola was responsible for the development and marketing of KPA Insurance & Funds strategy on ethical investments.
Ola is the country representative of AccountAbility in Sweden and a member of several advisory councils. He serves on a number of advisory boards related to SRI and CSR.
He has worked with global companies such as Nestlé, Microsoft, SEB, Skandia and government led projects.

Dr. Meena Kaushik

Meena has created a number of analytical models for understanding a brand’s equity and archetype, profiling a consumer or understanding the sensory code of a brand.
She has been in the business of understanding and analysing consumer behaviour since 35 years. She explains this as a process of endless discovery and new insights.
Meena started with a brief stint with IMRB as a consultant, which soon became a full fledged interest and she helped to found the Qualitative division for MARG as a Director of Qualitative Research.
In 1990 she moved on to begin Quantum with Srilekha Agarwal and Meera Vasudevan. It was the creation of a pure qualitative research company the first of its kind in India and Asia, which also resulted in a new consciousness and value around the discipline in India.
Recently she established an ethnography division and a consumer consultancy division

Kishor Chaukar

TIL is one of the two principal holding companies of the Tata Group. Kishor provides strategic direction and support to the Tata companies that have been promoted by Tata Industries. He is involved in strengthening TIL's role as a catalyst for the introduction of new businesses within the group.
Kishor is a member of the Group Corporate Centre at the House of Tata. He also chairs the Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) - the nodal forum of the Group on matters related to corporate sustainability.
He is a member of the Board and Advisory Board of some national and international organisations in the Corporate Sustainability and Human Rights space, viz. Social Accountability International (SAI) Advisory Board, based in New York, Shell Foundation Breathing Space India Advisory Board - New Delhi, and the Tata Memorial Centre - Mumbai.
He served ICICI Securities & Finance Company Limited as the Managing Director for 5 years. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited.
For 10 years, he was the Executive Secretary of Bhartiya Agro Industries Foundation, extending relevant technology into rural India for generating economically remunerative employment.

B S Nagesh

Nagesh has been with Shoppers Stop Ltd since its inception in 1991. He was instrumental in acquiring of the Crossword chain of bookstores in the year 2000. He has also been involved in setting up and opening the country's largest hypermarket HyperCity in 2006.
In 2009 he flagged off Train Foundation - a charitable trust to empower people in retail by helping them through financial literacy, skilling and education.
In his prior role as the Managing Director of Shoppers Stop, Nagesh infused the latest retail techniques into the business. NASSCOM in association with Economic Times awarded Shoppers Stop the Best IT User in the retail vertical.
Nagesh's induction in the World Retail Hall of Fame 2008, made him the only Indian retailer to take a significant place alongside more than 100 stalwarts of the global retail industry.
Ernst & Young nominated him for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2005 as one of the top 30 finalists. He also received the Top CEO Award 2001 instituted by Institute of Marketing Management.
In November 2006, Nagesh was awarded the Entrepreneurship Award in the Enterprise Scions Awards instituted by DNA Money and the Visionary Award by ICFAI.

C K Venkataraman

A post graduate from IIM Ahmedabad, Venkatraman has been the head of Titan's Jewellery Division since 2005.
He became a part of the Titan Industries in 1990 to work in Advertising and Marketing functions and became the General Manager - Marketing in 2000.
Venkatraman was made the Head of Sales & Marketing for the Titan brand in 2003. He has been a key contributor to brand Titan's success, skillfully steering it through very challenging times as the Indian market opened itself up to global watch brands. Titan is India's largest and most respected specialty retailer, with number 1 position in India's Watches and Jewellery industries.
Venkatraman's marketing and promotional strategies implemented for the flagship brand Tanishq have been trendsetting that uses a 360⁰ approach to create brand equity and a persona of purity, style and exquisiteness.
Prior to his long stint with Titan Industries, Venkatraman worked for 5 years with advertising agencies like MAA Bozell and Mudra Communications.

Arvind Sharma

Arvind is leading KPMG Climate Change and Sustainability Services in India. He is the subject expert on Corporate Sustainability and Carbon Strategy. He is Masters in Environmental Engineering and has over 18 years experience in the field of Climate Change and Sustainable Development.
Arvind has led the team for assuring sustainability reports for Indian Clients from different sectors including; Automobile; Banking & Finance; Cement; Chemicals; Crop science; Heavy engineering; Mining; Non-Ferrous Metals; Oil & Gas; Pulp and Paper and Steel.
He has been actively working with corporate houses on developing sustainability strategies and mainstreaming sustainability agenda. He has also contributed to development of CSR and SD guidelines for public sector.
As a key team member under the European Union's 'Socially Responsible Business' project, Arvind has developed the Social Responsibility framework with a special focus on SMEs.
Arvind has immense interest in teaching and he is the Guest Faculty at India's Premier Institute "Indian Institute of Technology Bombay" and "National Institute of Technology and Industrial Engineering".
He is currently working on developing sustainable cities framework as part of KPMG global expert team and leading a mega project that involves developing monitoring and reporting framework for GHG mitigation actions in India.

Prof. Parasuraman

Prof. Parasuraman has long been in the field of Social Sciences and is currently the Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai.
He is a seasoned writer with many books to his credit, namely, 'Listening to People Living in Poverty' and 'The Development Dilemma: Displacement in India'.
He has also written over 50 research articles; many of them published in journals at the national and international level.
Prof Parasuraman has previously worked with Action Aid and Oxfam GB.

Jean-Michel Dumont

In 2012, Jean-Michel Dumont marked his 26th year in Asia, and his expertise has helped Ruder Finn to become one of the top 3 international PR agencies in China and a recognised leader in several areas in Asia, including automotive, healthcare and corporate programs.
To provide counsel on communication issues, Mr. Dumont draws on his knowledge and experience from many different types of campaigns for a broad spectrum of clients. In the arena of corporate communication and CSR, he was involved in numerous strategy development and led accounts that included Challenge Bibendum, the Global Michelin Green Mobility event as well as the Audi “Green Driving” and “Driving Dream” projects, the latter still recognised by UNICEF as the best Public Private Partnership in China. He was also involved with the Beijing 2000 Olympic Bid Committee and Beijing government communication support during the SARS period.
He has been involved in positioning and product launches for global clients, including Danone and Procter & Gamble, as well as the repositioning of Audi in the Chinese market and the launch of the TT in China.
His long experience in Asia gives Mr. Dumont a thorough understanding of how to create and implement image-building and CSR programs throughout the region. A native of France, he is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese and has a working knowledge of Mandarin, Italian and Indonesian.

Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani is Founder-Chairperson, ARGHYAM, a foundation she has personally endowed to fund initiatives in ‘safe, sustainable water for all’. She is also Founder-Chairperson, Pratham Books, which seeks to democratize the joy of reading for children with ‘A book in every child’s hands’. As a committed philanthropist, she also funds work in education, health, microfinance, governance, and the environment.
Rohini Nilekani spent several years as a journalist, and has worked or written for many leading publications such as Bombay Magazine, India Today, Sunday and the Times of India . Her first novel, Stillborn, a medical thriller, was published by Penguin Books. In 2008, she anchored a television show called Uncommon Ground for NDTV, which created a rare dialogue between top leaders of the corporate and social sectors in India. Penguin Books India will release a book based on the show in September 2011. She recently conceptualised and guest-edited a series on Indian philanthropy for Mint, a financial daily, which is also being published as a book.
Rohini Nilekani has been appointed as the member of the Audit Advisory Board of Comptroller & Auditor General of India for the year 2011-12.

Nitin Paranjpe

Nitin Paranjpe is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hindustan Unilever Limited since April 2008. He is also Executive Vice President (EVP) of Unilever Companies in South Asia.
He joined Hindustan Lever as a Management Trainee in 1987 and worked in a number of Sales & Marketing roles. In 1996 he was appointed Branch Manager for the South Region and in 1999 became a member of the Project Millennium Team.
In 2000, Nitin moved to London and was involved in a review of the Organisational Structure. During 2001, he was the Assistant to the Unilever Chairman & Executive Committee in London. On return to India in 2002, he became the Category Head-Fabric Wash & Regional Brand Director (Asia) for some Laundry and Household Cleaning brands. In 2004, he became Vice President - Home Care (Laundry & Household Care) India. From March 2006 to March 2008 he was the Executive Director for the Home & Personal Care business.
Nitin has a BE Mechanical Degree from College of Engineering Pune, India and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
The leading industry chambers have benefitted enormously from Mr. Paranjpe’s wisdom and astute leadership. He is currently on the Managing Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry, a honorary member of the National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a member of the Executive Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industries (FICCI) and a member of Managing Committee of ASSOCHAM.

Rama A. Iyer

Founder, Director of White Kettle Consulting Pvt. Ltd, a firm that partners Corporates, Government and Civil Society to create Sustainable Corporate Social Investment (CSI) Initiatives through use of strategic business and marketing principles. Areas of collaboration for the firm include developing CSI Vision, Strategy & Roadmap, CSI review and Audit, Mass level Behaviour Change Communication, Project Management and Employee Engagement Programs.
Rama has partnered corporates like Unilever, ICICI, Star TV, Bloomberg, Pepsi, TFK (tobacco Free Kids) a Michael Bloomberg forum, Synergos; Civil Society like UNICEF, Bhavishya Alliance, I-Volunteer, CSO Partners and State Level Government bodies in creating sustainable social development agendas.
Currently working with Maharashtra State Government in overseeing all information, education and communication material related to WCD (women and Child development) issues, she has also been appointed as an expert trainer for consultants in India by the Dutch Government (CBI- External Affairs Ministry)

Gaurav Rajput

Mr. Gaurav Rajput is part of the leadership team at Aviva India and is responsible for the overall Product, Online & Marketing strategy at Aviva. His role encompasses brand marketing, communications, research, channel marketing, analytics, cross sell and product development. He brings with him over 15 years of rich experience in building brands across categories in both national and international markets.
Gaurav has been instrumental in driving the brand strategy for Aviva. He was involved in developing the Child space brand proposition at Aviva and has recently driven the initiative to expand the proposition from the education platform to overall protection. The earlier aspect of the campaign focused on educational well being of the child; the new positioning takes this to the next level focusing on the overall well being of the child.
Gaurav joined Aviva in 2009 as the Head of Channel marketing and was responsible for developing effective marketing campaigns for the key distribution channels - Direct Sales Force and Bancassurance. He was also responsible for driving the customer communication initiatives, before taking over as Marketing Director in 2010.

Gourav Jaswal

Gourav Jaswal is the founder and Director of a cluster of companies, including Synapse (www.Synapse.co), which are based in Goa but serve clients across the world.
These companies work in dashboard software, Digital Interaction Architecture, Visualization and business Communication. A holding company also runs an Art studio and a company that makes hand-made products for everyday use.
In addition, he oversees the work of a self-funded, not-for-profit foundation that is working to develop an ecologically and economically sustainable rural employment platform on a nine-acre farm.

Rajni Bakshi

She is a prolific writer, speaker and organiser currently working on a book, titled 'Market: From Master to Servant', which challenges the neoliberal world view without falling for extreme alternatives. She has previously published four books, notably Bapu Kuti on Gandhian experiments today, and articles in leading journals in India and abroad. Her scholarship has been recognised by prestigious Fellowships from the Tata Trusts and others. Rajni Bakshi has also been invited as a speaker on platforms ranging from Bhutan through Delhi, and Mumbai. As an activist, Rajni has worked on many of the issues of our times including poverty, the environment, communalism, women's and Dalit rights and globalisation; where necessary, this activism has gone beyond writing and debating to demonstrating in the streets and raising funds for immediate and long term action. Gandhian influences are displayed in Rajni's preference for dialogue and synthesis in the face of opposition. Widely traveled, Rajni maintains a vast and disparate range of friendships reflecting her wide interests and education in Jamaica, Delhi, Washington DC and Jaipur. She is in touch with some of the leading, and most celebrated, thinkers around the world. In spite of which Rajni enjoys nothing more than charming, and being charmed by, children of all ages, classes and achievements.

Dr. Armida Fernandez

Dr. Armida Fernandez has had an excellent academic career having stood first in the university at both the MBBS and the M.D examinations and securing 5 gold medals and the President’s silver medal.
After completing her post graduation in pediatrics from the G.S Medical college and K.E.M. hospital Mumbai she joined the LTMG Hospital and LTM Medical College, one of the premier medical colleges in the city of Mumbai.
She pioneered the cause of Neonatology in the country and started the first NICU in the city
She also set up the first Human Milk Bank in the country. After retirement from the medical college she has started an N.G.O SNEHA ‘Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action’ that works on replicable, sustainable projects of health for women and children in the slums of Mumbai.
She was awarded the Senior Commonwealth Fellowship and has participated in the senior leadership training course in Chicago ,University of Illinois and the Lactation Management training program of Wellstart, International, San Diego of Illinois on a Neonatal fellowship in 1987.

Shubhra Chatterji

Shubhra Chatterji is Director of Vikramshila - a Kolkata based resource organisation (founded in 1989) that works in the field of elementary education in India (www.vikramshila.org) and advocates actively on the issues of quality and equity. The organisation was founded on the belief that a powerful nation can only be built on the foundation of a society that is just and equitable. She is one of the founders and has been its Director since 1993.
Her organization has so far reached out to more than 18000 teachers and education workers and through them to about 500,000 marginalized children. Her organization has been supporting teachers in a variety of ways – be offering short courses, organizing seminars and workshops for their intellectual growth, and providing on-site support in schools.
Vikramshila runs an experimental school for children from scheduled caste, schedules tribes and Muslims, in a village called Bigha, in Burdwan district of West Bengal. Due to the innovative pedagogical practices followed in the school, the entire village has switched to organic farming practices.

Indrajit Gupta

Indrajit Gupta, 43, is the Editor of Network18’s premium business magazine, which was launched in May 2009 in alliance with Forbes. Within a short span, Forbes India has emerged as the most influential business magazine in the market and set new benchmarks in journalism. Indrajit has been able to assemble some of the finest editors, writers, designers and photographers in the business and also create a newsroom culture that rewards initiative and a deep passion for the craft of journalism.
Before joining the group, he was the Resident Editor of the flagship edition of The Economic Times in Mumbai. He served as National Business Editor at The Times of India during the big newspaper war in Mumbai in 2005.
Indrajit was nominated for the British Chevening Fellowship for Print Journalists awarded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999. He also won the Polestar Foundation Award for the Best in-depth feature Story of the Year last year.
He is an alumnus of the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai and also holds a B.Com (Honours) degree from St Xavier’s College, Calcutta.

R. Balakrishnan

R. Balakrishnan, better known as R. Balki, is Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of the advertising agency Lowe Lintas & Partners and an ad filmmaker. He has also written and directed two successful Hindi films - Cheeni Kum and Paa.
He started his career with Mudra at the age of 23. During his successful advertising career, Balki has been the driver of successful campaigns like Daag Achche Hain for Surf Excel, Jaago re for Tata Tea and the "walk when you talk" campaign for Idea Cellular.

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