Dr. (Mrs). Thangam Meganathan is the Chairperson of the
Rajalakshmi Educational Trust. She has over 15 years of experience in the field of
Educational Administration.
As Chairperson of the Rajalakshmi Group of Institutions, she has been ensuring quality
of education in all the five institutions, viz., Rajalakshmi Engineering College,
Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology, Rajalakshmi College of Nursing, Rajalakshmi
College of Education and Rajalaksmi Vidhyashram. The institutions offer merit
scholarships to deserving students and have been organizing several programmes to
promote science education at school level and career guidance programmes for the school
students.
Dr. Thangam Meganathan pursued her Graduate and Post Graduate program in Public
Administration at the Madras Christian College, Chennai. Her research interests
continued and in 2005, she received Ph.D. from University of Madras for her thesis on
‘Technical Education in Tamil Nadu: A Study’. Her commitment to ensure quality teaching
in institutions of higher learning prompted her to pursue the Cambridge International
Diploma for Teachers and Trainers (CIDTT) in 2006.
Mr.Satish Kumar, Former Managing Director, Henkel India Ltd is
an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an alumni of The Columbia
University through their senior executive program. He has over 25 years experience in
the Industry.
His accomplishments include start up business for Henkel in India beginning with the
implementation of their production facilities, developing a National Sales and
Distribution Network. He was awarded the Indira Super Achiever Award for the year 2004
and Bhartiya Shiromani Puraskar Award for the year 2005. He is in the Management
Committee of number of bodies like Southern India Chamber of Commerce, Confederation of
Indian Industry, The Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry, India Soaps and Toiletries
Makers Association. He is the Past President of Madras Management Association (MMA) and
Indo – German Chamber of Commerce. He is in the Corporate Advisory Board of School of
Management in SRM University, Advisory Board of the Rajagiri School of Management.
Currently he is the Chief Mentor, Rajalakshmi School of Business.
K. Jayaramakrishnan, fondly called as JRK is currently a
Consultant in TCS after superannuating from TCS as Vice President, Head – Global
Alliances. He is also a Director of Rajalakshmi Institutions.
Jayaramakrishnan is a post graduate in Management with specialization in Systems
and Marketing from the Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai.
With around 35 years in the IT Industry, he has been with Tata Consultancy Services
for the past 25 years holding various positions both in India and abroad.
At TCS handled following areas:
Ananthanarayanan Subramanian (Ananth) is the Co-Founder & CEO
of Digipropel Corp, a Digital Transformation company headquartered in the Bay Area,
USA. He is an experienced Strategic & Board Level Business Management professional with
very successful track record in international transformational and innovation oriented
strategic business incubation & growth.
Mr. Ananth has 29+ years of experience in global marquee organizations spanning
Management Consulting (erstwhile Indian Affiliate of E&Y, TATA Strategy Consulting),
Financial Services (erstwhile Investment Banking Indian subsidiary of JP Morgan &
Indian venture of Moody’s) and the last 17+ years in business solutions centric IT with
HCL Technologies, Hitachi Solutions India/ America Group and is presently based in San
Ramon, East Bay Area, USA.
With distinguished titles such as the Past Chairman & CEO of Hitachi Solutions India,
Member of the Board – Hitachi Solutions America, Past Board Member – Hitachi Solutions
Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. and Past Vice President – Microsoft Business at
HCL technologies, Mr. Ananth has had roles starting from ground level execution
transforming into senior leadership and board level responsibilities and experience in
execution across Global markets. He has been widely recognized for operational
excellence and innovative business approaches and managing multinational workforce.
Mr. Ananth has a penchant towards business innovation through technology, which has
earned him laurels such as “Elite 100” – The 100 best brains in HCL Technologies in
2010. He was responsible for creating the Hitachi Solutions Offshore GDC for Global
Microsoft Solutions including Dynamics (AX and CRM), Share Point, BI, Managing
outsourcing work from Hitachi Solutions Japan across technologies, Vertical Solution
Development.
Enabling / leading growth to a team size of 700+ across India in less than 4 years in a
sustainable high performance and quality oriented global delivery organization with
balanced diversity and pioneering practice leading to unique academic incubation
program in Engineering and Management programs for great impact to organization are
eminent feather’s in Mr. Ananth’s cap.
Mr.G.D.Sharma is a Gold Medallist of the 1979 Batch from
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was conferred the ITM University
Leadership Award for Professional Excellence. He is currently an independent HR &
Organisation Consultant in Chennai.
With over 35 year’s experience across several industry verticals, his last
corporate role was as President-HR at BGR Energy Systems Ltd., and previous to that
as VP & Head-HR at Larsen &Toubro-ECC Division. He was also Member on the Board of
L&T Infrasatructure Operating Company during his stint at L&T.
He has held several positions in leading management and industry bodies like CII,
MMA, EFSI and Chambers of Commerce & Industry at the National & State levels. He is
currently on the Panel of Mentors at the Centre for Incubation, Innovation &
Entrepreneurship (CIIE), an IIM-Ahmedabad initiative, for helping start-up
ventures.
He is a Master Trainer with a high degree of conceptual clarity, and is a powerful
& passionate communicator. He is a motivational speaker appealing to people across
age and career boundaries.
He is an Advisor on the Academic Council and/or Board of Studies of several leading
Educational Institutions across Tamil Nadu. He is also an Associate & Advisor with
several leading Management Consulting firms in Chennai. He is a Visiting Faculty in
IFMR, LIBA, SSN School of Management & BIM-Trichy, teaching International Human
Resources Management & Strategic HR Management. Mr. Sharma also serves on the
Selection Panel for BIM-Trichy.
Mr.Sharma has widely travelled across the Globe. His professional interests range
from Consulting, Training, Teaching & Mentoring to Writing on HR & Management, and
doing Talk Shows on TV and Radio.
Dr. L. S. Ganesh (LSG), a 1977 pass out in Mechanical
Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani,
Rajasthan. In 1979, he received the M. Tech degree in Maintenance Engineering and
Management and a Merit Prize from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.
During 1980-84, he pursued the doctoral research programme in the Industrial
Engineering and Management Faculty at IIT Madras.
He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Education Management Sector at the Indian
Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, during 1986-87.
Since 1987, he worked in the Industrial Engineering and Management Faculty at IIT
Madras, as Assistant Professor till 1993, then as Associate Professor till December
1996, and then as Professor until April 2004, when the Department of Management Studies
was established in the Institute. Later, he served as the Head of the Department of
Management Studies at IIT Madras from July 2004 till July 2008. In this role, he
coordinated the location and development of the complete academic, laboratory, office
and utilities infrastructure for the new premises of the Department. He also
coordinated the establishment of strategic academic relationships through MoUs between
IIT Madras and leading national and multinational institutions (Indian School of
Business at Hyderabad; Universities of Mannheim, Passau, and Bremen in Germany;
Management Center at Innsbruck in Austria; State University of New York, Binghamton)
and business organizations (Caterpillar; LIC of India; @Road Software; SCOPE
International).
He strongly believes that India and Indians have exceptional capabilities that require
well directed and intensely focused organizational efforts to enable them to fully flow
and result in inspiring, peerless and timeless achievements.
Honors
Bharathan Kandaswamy is the Executive Director of
Kavithalayaa Productions Pvt. Ltd. He is one of the finest minds in the Indian
entertainment arena. Bharathan plays a challenging and multi-layered leadership
role at the company where he is responsible for the development, strategy and
management of its varied interests and associate entities. He has played a key role
in the growth and maturing of Kavithalayaa as a corporate entity, ably pivoting it
through the challenging times the industry has been through. His innovation and
creativity in developing the Japanese and Korean markets for Indian films which
resulted in the phenomenal success of the film “MUTHU–Dancing Maharaja’ deserves
special mention.
An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIMA), Bharathan began
his career with Ashok Leyland Ltd. in Chennai as Senior Executive – Business
Planning & Development. During his eight year stint, he developed computer-based
project management and financial appraisal systems for the company. Post Ashok
Leyland, Bharathan joined Kavithalayaa serving the company in various leadership
roles for the past 18 years.
Bharathan’s in-depth knowledge and understanding of the entertainment industry has
led to him being a sought after advisor. He was Business Advisor to US-based
Silicon Image Inc. engaged in the design and development of High Definition
Multimedia Interface (HDMI), a content protection technology for multimedia
content. He also served as an Advisor to Multimedia Development Corporation – a
Government of Malaysia undertaking, on E-village, an entertainment and multimedia
initiative project. In his individual capacity, he advises many companies in the
areas of strategy, leadership and Innovation.
Bharathan is a Visiting faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad and played a key role in designing
India’s first management course on film industry for the institute. Mr Bharathan is
also engaged in writing Case-studies on the Indian film industry, highlighting the
business challenges in a creative industry. He regularly speaks at the events of
CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and
Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, on topics related to the entertainment
sector. He is currently on the Governing Council of Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce
& Industry and has participated in two industrial delegations to Japan,
representing the sector.
Bharathan was an invited speaker at the international seminar “Hollywood meets
Bollywood” hosted by the University of Southern California Annenberg School of
Communication in collaboration with American India Foundation (AIF) in 2003. He was
a member of the FICCI Entertainment delegation to Japan and the USA in 2001 as well
as the CII delegation to the American Film Market 2003 (AFMA) Santa Monica,
California besides presenting a paper at the first International Advisory Board
Meeting in Malaysia on Globalization of Entertainment industry in 2001.