The Indian Dream is a series of interviews that we have commissioned where we have a conversation with successful leaders in their fields, about their life journeys. The objective of this series, The Indian Dream, is to try and decipher the success mantras of these leaders, so that our members can benefit from the experience of these leaders and reduce their own learning curve, as they go about building a successful career for themselves.
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Prabhat Kumar Tiwary
Founder, CMD & CEO of YourOwnRoom
Prabhat is the Founder, CMD & CEO of YourOwnRoom, a prop-tech, a residential real-estate asset management company, with operations in Bangalore and Pune,
Subhasish Acharya
Being a life-long learner and a person who believes adaptability is one of the keys to to a successful career, Subhasish’s expertise lie in his ability to design and execute high-growth strategies for organisations, attract and retain top talent, manage large teams and influence all stakeholders to deliver exceptional performance.
Ravi Singh
Chief Executive Officer at SULB Bahrain & KSA
Ravi Singh has multi-functional experience across General Management, Engineering, Operations and Sales & Marketing.
As the current CEO of SULB, Ravi is tasked with profitably driving the business of SULB Bahrain & Saudi Arabia with its Integrated Steel plant, serving GCC & Global markets.
His 32 years of work experience across various companies, Ravi has held the following senior management roles:
- Chief of Business/VP (Operations) & Corporate Quality Head at Tata Ryerson (1997)
- Sr VP (Marketing) Essar Steel
- CEO Essar Steel – Hypermarts & Service Centres and (2013)
- Group CEO Al Nasser Industries
- CEO SULB an Integrated Steel Plant JV with 51% Foulath/GIC shareholding & 49% Yamato Kogyo (2018)
Ravi is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India. He also has attended multiple programs from SIM, ISB and TMTC.
Ravi is a creative thinker, a published author, plays Chess and loves to travel.
Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal
Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal is a retired Indian Army Sapper Officer from the 61st Course National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy 71st Couse IMA. He commissioned into the Combat Engineer Corps of the Indian Army in December 1982.
Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal has degrees in B Tech, Masters of Management Sciences (MMS), MSc (Defence Studies and Strategy).
Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal has more than 35 years of rich experience at senior level positions in operations, logistics, training and HR. At present, he is the Director Operations at Horizon Group India, and international NGO. He works in the field of post conflict management, focusing on humanitarian demining operations. He is currently based in Kuwait.
Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal has experience in working with culturally and ethnically diverse gorups internationally, in highly stressful and dangerous environments like civil strife, natural hazards and humanitarian crisis. He has proven to be a strong, decisive, result-oriented leader with excellent communication and negotiation skills, with a strong achievement orientation.
Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal is an ardent sports person. He was part of an Indian Team for World White Water Rafting Championship at USA, 1990. He has participated and led a number of rafting and sailing expeditions in India. He was also the Dy. Leader of an All India 10,000 Km long motorcycle expedition.
Today, Retd. Col. Navneet Mittal travels extensively throughout the world, overseeing demining operations in various countries, while representing India and his company in various United Nations and Government Forums.
Anu Singh
Associate Partner – Global Supply Chain Transformations at IBM Consulting
Anu Singh, an Associate Partner at IBM Consulting for global supply chain transformations, is one of leading experts in Blockchain technology and supply chain solutions. She specialises in implementation of formalised strategic sourcing, deep-tier forecasting, procurement, and inventory management disciplines. At IBM Consulting, she is driving business growth for supply chain solutions built on Blockchain technology.
Anu is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi and Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune.
Anu’s professional journey began as a Senior Engineer in Larsen and Turbo. Over the last 16 years, she has played crucial role in building the Blockchain business at Accenture and supply chain implementations at Oracle Consulting.
Anu is a visiting faculty at XLRI Jamshedpur.
Anu is passionate about innovation and emerging technology and believes that Blockchain technology will transform the way we do business.
Anu loves to travel and paint.
Ravi Pandey
Ravi Pandey, currently Investor & President at Chemtrols Infotech Pvt. Ltd., has extensive global experience in IT consulting, outsourcing and system integration. Prior to Chemtrols, Ravi has held leadership positions in some of the largest Indian organisations including Tech Mahindra, Rolta, Coforge, HCL Tech and ITC among others in India and across the globe.
Ravi is an an alumnus of NIT, Warangal and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Ravi is also is a member of various Industry bodies and groups like India Group (select group of UK based CEOs of Indian organisations) and UK chapters of CII and NASSCOM. Ravi has appeared on primetime business programs on TV with various broadcasters like BBC, CNN and Bloomberg.
In his professional career spanning 30 years, Ravi has received various commendations and awards for excellence in performance.
Ravi enjoys playing golf and tennis and has a passion for cricket.
Saumil Majmudar
Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Director of Sportz Village
Saumil Majmudar is also the Co-Founder & Managing Director of EduSports,
Saumil holds a B-Tech degree & is a Distinguished Service Alumnus from IIT-Bombay, a PGDM from IIM-Bangalore, a Basic Mountaineering Degree from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (Uttarkashi) and a Black belt in Karate.
Prior to starting Sportz Village, Saumil was the Founder-CEO of QSupport (one of India’s first remote tech support businesses) and worked with Wipro (Global R&D) in the International marketing team.
Saumil represented EduSports on India’s leading Social Activism Platform on Television – Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate Sports episode – where EduSports was chosen as the sustainable & scalable model of getting children to play. He has also received the CII Emerging Entrepreneur Award and has been recognized as one of the “Top 50 Leaders influencing Education” by Education World.
Sportz Village today is India’s leading youth sports organisation that aims to get 100 million children to play.
Saumil is a core committee member of the CII National Committee on Sports and regularly builds the case for a more inclusive and fun-based approach to Sports at forums involving school boards, parent forums, federations, brands, ministries and regulatory bodies
In his student days, Saumil was selected for the Maharashtra Badminton team and represented IIT Bombay & IIM Bangalore in Football. He continues to follow his passion for sports & outdoors through regular karate, Himalayan treks, badminton, football & cricket.
Siva Ganapathi
Siva Ganapathi is the Managing Director of Gokaldas Exports Ltd., one of the leaders in design, manufacture and export of a wide range of apparel products. He leads the company, sets its strategic direction and nurtures its leadership team to excel.
Siva has more than three decades of diverse industry experience with credible knowledge of business strategy and transformation. He has led several high-growth businesses in diverse industries like telecommunications, technology, consulting and manufacturing across several countries in Asia, North America and Europe.
Siva has earlier worked with the Aditya Birla Group for 21 years. He was the Chief Operating Officer of Idea Cellular and was responsible for driving strong growth, market share gain and profit in a highly competitive market.
Siva was also involved in building a $400 Mn BPO business with global operations.
Siva has spearheaded several mergers and acquisitions. He has also worked with DSP Merrill Lynch, ICICI, and Uhde India.
Siva earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from IIM and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT.
Siva is passionate about sustainable growth and creating high business impact, with a particular focus on empowering people.
Arjun Sundarram
Co-Founder of Woolwork Films
Arjun Sundarram is the Co-Founder of Woolwork Films, a production house based out of Delhi and Mumbai. His clients include Apollo Tyres, TVS, Goibibo, Dainik Bhaskar, Millies Cookies and so on. His work runs the whole gamut from advertisements, web shows, music videos, short films to feature length documentaries.
The films he has worked on as a camera person, have won significant awards at various events including the Sundance Film Festival and recently The Cannes Film Festival.
He is an Alumnus of LV Prasad Film & TV Academy, Chennai.
While studying in Delhi University, he chanced on the Hindi language theatre club, and that one simple incident changed his course to the one he is on today. He started with Sri Venkateshwara College, Delhi University. He shifted to Kirori Mal College, Delhi University and continued his journey in theatre. In what he describes as a pivotal experience, he watched a college senior click pictures. Intrigued by the lens and the pictures, he asked his senior a million questions. He was deeply into camera work and the behind the scenes in making films, so when the opportunity came to work as an Assistant Director on a documentary, he applied and got the job. From there, his mind was made-up on the field he wanted to be in.
From Assistant Director to a Cinematographer, he explored the different aspects of bringing such projects together. Finally, he and his friend founded their own Production House, Woolwork Films (https://www.instagram.com/woolworkfilms/?hl=en), which brought in new perspectives and challenges.
Today he enjoys the accolades and success brought on by his passion, hard work and perseverance, while he continues to bring the same amount of energy in every new project he takes up.
Meenalochani Rajnish
Meena works with Unisys’ global engineering teams in defining the product strategy and vision, and actively contribute in evangelising the execution strategies of the India technology lab.
Meena has more than three decades of experience in software development and managing large global teams.
Prior to Unisys, Meena has worked with companies like Mphasis, TCS and HPCL.
Meena is an alumnus of College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and possess a Post-graduate Diploma in Computer Software engineering from Harvard Extension School, and an MS in Computer Software from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Shubhenjit Chaudhuri
Sr.Vice President (M&S) – JSW Steel
Shubhenjit Chaudhuri has rich corporate experience spanning more than 3 decades in the areas or engineering and marketing in global roles.
Shubhenjit is currently Sr. Vice President with JSW Steel, responsible for marketing and sales of long products. Prior to JSW, Shubhenjit had a long stint with Tata Steel, in India and China. In 2015, Shubhenjit moved to Tata Pigment as Managing Director.
Shubhenjit is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.
Asit Sinha
In December 2022, Asit moved out from DXC Technology to co-found VizionForge, that is focused on facilitating the digital transformation of corporates to make them future ready.
Asit is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, and SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.