Anaplan presents The Economic Times CXO Roundtable

Current crisis has created a lot of challenges for organizations across industries and has compelled them to come up with new strategies. Aim of a company now is to control the cost to the company and yield maximum productivity from its resources like workforce. The pandemic has created chaos for many companies, as they are struggling to keep their businesses running. During this time, many companies are taking actions like reducing salaries in order to reduce the cost to the company and sustain in current environment.

Even with all the challenges many companies are positive that things will go back to normal, as the crisis has given a strong push towards digitization. Many tools are now available for data analytics for HR & finance departments to make a path for productivity & profitability.

The round table discussion will bring forth the quality output for the need of proper utilization of capital on resources, challenges in keeping the profitability of the company as many business models were made redundant by the crisis, tools and techniques for ease of work, human resource planning strategies and lastly, managing the costs.

Talk points:

  • Strategies for better productivity in challenging times
  • Input cost reduction and increase profitability techniques
  • Managing the company’s cashflow & liquidity
  • Focus on cash preservation and cost control measures
  • Workforce migration & planning

Speakers

Arnab Roy
CFO
Schneider Electric Infrastructure

Lakshmanan M.
Chief Human Resources Officer
L&T Technology Services Limited

Manoj Sharma
Head HR
Adani Electricity Mumbai

Muthu Thanu
Group CHRO
TAFE

Nishant Vyas
Regional Vice President
Anaplan India

Nitin Parekh
Chief Financial Officer
Zydus Cadila

Sidhartha Ghosh
CHRO
Adani Wilmar Limited

Swayam Saurabh
Chief Financial Officer
Hindustan Zinc

V C Agrawal
Group President HR & Management Board Member
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group

Aggregate professional experience of 23 years primarily with US , British and French MNC’s handling Finance, Accounts, Tax, Operations, Supply Chain, HR, IT, Admin & Regulatory Issues

CFO & Head of Operations for last 14 years with US  & European MNC’s & member of country and APAC leadership team.  Have done 5 P&L CFO roles over this period with organizations like Schneider, GE, Tyco Healthcare, G4S and Herbalife.

Prior to the CFO role worked as Controller for 4 years with US MNC handling entire Finance & Accounts.

Currently Executive Director & CFO for Schneider Electric Infrastructure Limited & Finance Business Partner for the Energy business for last 3 years plus (since March’17) , a listed company responsible for the medium voltage and transformer business of Schneider in India.

Prior to Schneider was CFO – South Asia of G4S Plc, a UK based company and Finance Transformation Director with a global responsibility reporting to the Group CFO for this responsbility

Prior to G4S, with GE as Supply Chain CFO covering the manufacturing and sourcing portfolio of GE for all business with a P&L span of 2.2 Bn USD.  Prior to that as CFO for the Industrial Solutions business of GE in India

Prior to GE , as CFO and Director Operations for Tyco Healthcare with a South Asia responsibility

Prior to Tyco as CFO and Head HR – India for Herbalife a US company

Prior to Herbalife as Controller with Timken. A Tata Group Company

Education: An Economics Graduate and a Professional Accountant by qualification, have done an Executive MBA from IIM-Bangalore. Certified Black Belt in Six Sigma from GE.

Other Interests – A regular speaker in various finance and industry forums. A visiting faculty in past with XLRI Jamshedpur in past for 4 years when part of Tata Group at Jamshedpur.

Previous Board Stints – Executive Director in Tyco Healthcare and G4S India, along with CFO responsibility and part of Board

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M Lakshmanan  is Chief Human Resources Officer of L&T Technology Services.  He heads the Global Human Resources Function for L&T Technology Services.

Lakshmanan has over 25 years of work experience.  Lakshmanan started his career in the Central Government / Public Sector Service and moved to IT Industry 2 decades ago.  Lakshmanan worked for companies viz. Hexaware, Mphasis and Cap Gemini until 2012.  During his career in IT industry, he held Global responsibilities in Human Resources function at Mphasis and Cap Gemini (formerly Patni Computers Limited).  Lakshmanan joined Larsen & Toubro in January 2013.

Lakshmanan is HR Leader and a Global Talent Management professional with extensive experience in Compensation and Benefits, Talent Assessments, Talent Acquisition, M&As, Immigration, Global Mobility, Enterprise Process improvements and Operations.

Lakshmanan is an active member of NHRDN and was the President of NHRDN, Mumbai Chapter (2017-19) and was the General Secretary of NHRDN, Mumbai Chapter (2015-17).  Lakshmanan was also the President and Secretary of HR Infotech Association in the years 2008-10.  Lakshmanan is a regular speaker in various forum and also guest lectures at leading Management Institutes in Mumbai.

Lakshmanan is a Post Graduate specialized in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations and is a Certified OD practioner from National Training Laboratory, USA.

Lakshmanan is passionate about the Skill India mission and supports an NGO working the field of Education for under priviledged children in India.

Lakshmanan is married and his spouse is a HR Professional too.  His son is MBA student at IIM, Raipur.

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Mr. Manoj Sharma brings with him an experience of over 3 decades working in Corporates having Multi-Unit-Location level pan India in Strategic HR, Organizational & People Development, IR & Governance, World Class Manufacturing (Quality Systems), CSR, Corporate Communication (inc. Branding) & Environment Mgt. He is Graduate in Economics & Public Administration from Punjab University and holds two Post Graduate diplomas in PGDIR&PM, Rajendra Prasad Institute of Management, Mumbai and ISTD, New Delhi. He has continued his professional studies and holds North Star Leadership – a prestigious one-year executive program from Harvard Publishing, USA and is currently pursuing Fellowship from Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad.

His rich experience spans across multinational & national businesses like, Pharmaceuticals; Starch & Chemicals; Distillery & Bottling; Textiles: Yarn & fabric manufacturing; Aluminum – non-ferrous metal & Captive Power; Graphite & Power; Packaging Business, Cold Rolling, Infra, Mining, Thermal Power, Transmission, Renewable Energy & Solar Manufacturing. Adani Group forayed into Electricity distribution business and had acquired Rinfra’s GTD business at Mumbai. Presently he heads the same business m/s Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd., as Sr Executive Vice President & Head – HR since Sept 2018 having strategic responsibility of steering the company’s post acquisition transformational people practices.

What makes him distinct among fellow HR fraternity is being HR Business Partner he brought up Adani’s largest thermal power plants in India, Largest Solar PV Module Manufacturing facilities at Mundra and largest multi-location Renewable Energy generation plants PAN India with varied HR/Business Operating models and now actively involved in the integration process of post-acquisition of Adani Electricity business in Mumbai with 12000 plus employees.

Mr Sharma feels humbled even after receiving many recognitions and awards at various professional forums. He is a Recipient of Transformational Leadership award from National HRD Network, Nagpur in 2011; Conferred Gold Award in Training Excellence in Behavioral & Technical Training in 4th Annual Greentech HR Award 2014 for Adani Power. Under his leadership, company won 05 top awards in unique business communication for Adani in Oct 2016, by ABCI, Mumbai. He distinctly appeared in 100 top CHROs of India in April 2018 and was conferred leadership award by Global Achievers forum in Mumbai. He was nominated for 101 Top HR Minds – 2019 by HRD Congress in India.

Mr Sharma’s dedication and passion in HR has positioned Adani Power in Great Place to work among top 100 club companies in India, in first attempt itself.

His research article on “The Changing Role of the Human Resource Professional in the Asia Pacific Region” was published in book in Australia with a forward of Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan, USA. His contribution in writing many articles on contemporary themes in HR sets him apart among many in the country and poses him as a role model for many budding  professionals. He had been the Chief Editor of business magazine HRishta by IIMT Studies, which was launched with the forward of Mr Narendra Modi the then CM of Gujarat, in 2013.

As a professional contribution at the highest level of the country’s apex body in skill development, he feels proud to be a Member of Governing Council of Power Sector Skill Council (NSDL- Govt of India), since 2014.

As a passion to contribute for the professional upliftment of HR fraternity, he has nurtured different chapters of National HRD Network at incipience stage at Lucknow as Joint Secretary, Bhopal as a Promoter Patron and Nagpur as a President. As a responsible social citizen, he has led the NGO as Executive Director on the board of M/S Liv Life International Organization.

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Completed his Masters from Madras School of Social Work in early 80’s.

His career graph spreads across BHEL, Whirlpool, Bharti, Murugappa Group & presently heading Human Resource function for TAFE Group of Companies.

The industry spectrum ranges from Power Sector, Engineering, FMCG, MNC, Telecom, Fashion and auto industry

Certified assessor in Malcolm Baldrige Award, CII (Business Excellence Model), Gallup Strength Finder & Job Evaluation techniques like “Hays’’ & “Mercer”

Has completed certificate course in “Advanced Human Resource Executive Program” from Ross School of Management, Michigan

Has been the recipient for best HR Practices from Bharti, Whirlpool & Murugappa group

Has held the positions of Southern Regional Chairman for HR with CII & Vice President of HRD Network

Loves travelling, reading contemporary philosophy & Gardening.

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Nishant Vyas is Regional Vice President for Anaplan India, In his current role he is leading growth of Anaplan business across Indian subcontinent driving digital transformation initiative with enterprise customers with Anaplan connected planning platform.

Nishant has a rich experience working with CXOs and positioning business transformation project using analytics around use cases in sales, finance and supply chain He has a strong background in Corporate Performance Management with an experience of 15+ years and earlier leadership stints at IBM and Oracle for their Enterprise performance Management Business. Nishant is based out of Mumbai

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Shri Nitin D Parekh possesses brilliant academic track record. He has consistently earned number of prizes, medals and certificates in several exams. He possesses six qualifications like B. Com., LL.B., CA, CFA, MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad and MBA in Pharma Management from ICFAI University.

Shri Nitin Parekh is serving as the Group Chief Financial Officer in Cadila Healthcare Limited, the 4th largest Pharmaceutical Company of India with an annual turnover of more than Rs.14000 crores and has 35 years of post-qualification experience.

A winner of 16 different awards in last 10 years, Shri Nitin Parekh is recipient of “League of Excellence 2020” award from CFO, India. He was declared as the Best CFO in Healthcare sector for 2012 and also for 2017 by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.  He is chosen amongst the top 100 CFOs of India for eight times in succession by CFO, India. SAP has selected him amongst the top 25 Digitalist Thought Leaders of India for 2015. He has also received Business World-Best CFO of India Award 2017 for Healthy Balance Sheet Management-Large Corporates.

He has penned a number of articles, related to academics and professional topics, which are published in leading newspapers and magazines. He is a regular speaker at several forums including Big 4 firms, Dun & Bradstreet, ET Summit, CFO India, IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Udaipur, Adani Institute, CA Institute, ICFAI business school, Nirma University etc.

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People & Organization leader with more than 3 decades of experience in core sectors like Coal, Oil & Gas, Steel & Power, Chemicals, Hydrocarbons and FMCG industries. Has proven ability to shape the strategic direction of the business and deliver value through strong subject knowledge and principles. Has commendable track record in successfully driving organizational efficiency and effectiveness as well as large-scale change initiatives. Agile and resilient with the ability to navigate complex business and people challenges across business units, cultures and geographies.

Mr Ghosh is alumni of, Xavier Institute of Social Service. He has started his professional journey with Coal India Limited (A Govt of India Undertaking) in 1987 after a short stint of a year with Reliance Jute & Industries Limited. He has spent close to 20 years with Coal India and contributed in areas like Human Resource, Industrial Relationship, Legal, Administration, CSR and Corporate Liaison.

Currently Mr Ghosh is holding position as Senior Vice President and CHRO with an FMCG conglomerate – “Adani Wilmar Limited” and instrumental in Leading HR strategy and transformational agenda for the organization keeping a close view of asset acquisitions, greenfield and current manufacturing operations, workforce integration etc.

Before joining Adani Wilmar Limited, he has also worked for colossal Corporate Houses like Reliance Industries Limited, Aditya Birla Group, Jindal Steel and Power Limited and Coal India Limited in Leadership Roles and spearheaded the HR function.

He is the recipient of Chairman’s Individual Award for his exceptional Contribution to the organization by Aditya Birla Group.

He is a motor sports enthusiast and participated in various national and international car and bike rally events organized by Federation of motorsports, India (FMSCI), like Desert Storm, Raid ‘D’ Himalaya and other regional events.

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Mr. Saurabh briefed us about the event. The following bio and the attached picture can be used in the creatives you will be developing. Also, Maitreyee (reading in copy), HZL’s Communications Head has also expressed interest in remaining updated about the event so that she can use it via her channels. Hope that is fine.

Mr. Swayam Saurabh is a chartered accountant and Chief Financial Officer at Hindustan Zinc Limited (flagship entity of Vedanta Group). He is an accomplished senior Finance leader with consistent track record of fuelling growth of multinational & multicultural organizations like L&T, Asian Paints and Philips across Asia & Europe regions. Mr. Swayam has led crucial change management, Finance transformation and performance improvements programs through the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and processes.

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Mr. V.C.Agrawal brings over 40 years of professional work experience which includes large diversified conglomerates both in Public and Private Sector. He has the experience of working in line functions as well as HR. He joined the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, formerly the RPG Group, as President – Corporate HR in 2010. He is also the Group’s Management Board Member.

RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group is a diversified Business Group having interests in businesses like Power, Carbon Black, Retail, FMCG,  Entertainment, Plantation, BPM and Management Education. After joining the Group, he has taken a number of People related initiatives to align with high growth in various businesses. Major highlights include creating a culture of coaching and mentoring, crafting new vision and core values for the Group, redefining new competency framework aligned with new Core Values and Succession Planning for senior leadership positions.

Before joining the Group, VC was Director-HR and Board Member of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL). During this tenure, he was also Managing Director of IBP Company, a subsidiary of IOCL and also on the Board of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited.

VC is a Fellow Member of All India Management Association and a certified CEO Coach. He is also a Member of Board of Governors of International Management Institute.

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