NEXT100 2017 magazine by Manan Mushtaq

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NEXT100 Award Process

Get to Know Your NEXT100 Winner

F O R T H E N E X T G E N E R AT I O N O F C I O s

Featuring the finest moments from two days of a joyous NEXT100 Awards where 100 IT leaders were felicitated and recognized for their potential to become future CIOs

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his is the time to celebrate! Some of you will glide into 2018 with a new crown on your head—you are now a NEXT100 winner! Some of you may recall your moment of glory in a previous year while some others may take the inspiration and look to the future with hope— spelt N-E-X-T-1-0-0. That is the reason why, for us, putting together this issue is always special. To an outsider—I mean someone not associated with Indian IT—it may look like a collection of celebratory pictures and reports of an event. But for you and us, these pictures are beyond just a memory; they are an experience; beginning of a new journey; the call to take up new responsibility. It is the recognition; it is the celebration. Why, even the coming together at one place and the bonhomie is unparalleled. Now, that bonhomie, that camaraderie will last beyond two days. And what is more, it will not be restricted to the winners of just one batch. We have finally initiated THE NEXT100 CLUB – that brings together the winners of all these eight years—from 2010 to 2017—together on a single platform. You can share your knowledge with each other; call out to each other when you need that extra help while selecting a vendor or fighting the right guy for your vacant security position; share your learnings from a project rollout or simply discuss big and futuristic ideas. Some of you may already have done that in your batch-specific WhatsApp groups. This platform can make it smoother and give you much more. But the features of the platform are not something I want to highlight here. The platform will evolve; there will be new additions; there may be removal too, if you think something is creating clutter. For features, please go and test it yourself by registering—that is if you have not already registered. Just visit http://next100club.itnext.in/ and get going. What I would like to point out strongly is that, it will be a club, not just a ‘platform’ for exchanging what you need for a day’s work. It should be an experience; a feeling; a sense of belongingness and yes, exclusiveness that should define it. To be part of this club, should also mean ‘to be part of a great history’. Now, if that sounds familiar, yes, I just picked the words from Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s comment about Manchester United. For others who have not yet been part of the NEXT100 journey, this should be an inspiration and an incentive at the same time. DECEMBER 2017 | ITNEXT | 1

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Awardees

Awardees Ajay Agrawal

Rizwan Ahmed

Atul Anand

Vijay Anand

Vijaya Anand

Mayank Bedi

Sunil Bhaskar

Atanu Bhaumik

Subhash Bisht

Chirag Boonlia

Nallapa Jegadeeswaran Reddy Arveti Balakrishnan

Subhanil Banerjee

Sujata Barla

Amandeep Singh Bawa

Tejas Mehta

Milind More

V Nagarajan

Nishikant Nair

Malay Nandy

Shailesh Pachori

Satish Pai

Deepak Panda

Sunil Pandey

Toral Desai

Prodipto Dutta

Anand Gaikwad

Anis Pankhania

Prasad Pate

Maulik Pathak

Mahesh Patil

Vinod Pol

Henry Potsangbam

S Prabakaran

Vasanth Prabhu

Vijay Pukale

Rajneesh Rai

Sachin Gavankar

Ravindra Ghuge

Archana Goel

Ankur Goyal

Nitin Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Gopal Jaiswal

Anil Kakkar

Abhinav Kashyap

Supriya Kaul

Amol Kelaskar

Sanjay Khandelwal

Dilip Kukreja

Amit Kumar

Dheeraj Kumar

Muneesh Kumar

Jagdish Joshi

John Rajesh

Anand Rajhans

Tejas Raval

Shashi Rawat

Vishal Roday

Subir Roy

Vineet Sadhu

Dharmesh Sanghavi

Bharat Saroch

SN Sasikumar

Sohil Laad

Siddharth Saxena

Neeraj Sehgal

Rupen Shah

Manish Sharma

Neelima Sharma

Vinod Sharma

Shitanshu

Abhishek K Singh

Amandeep Singh

Apurb Sinha

Prasan Lotlikar

Vineet Love

Sudhir Vijayakumar Madhugiri

Sankar Makkapati

Harshh Makkar

Manish Malik

Kaushik Mamania

Santosh Mankar

Aniruddha Mehta

Rahul Mehta

Lalji Sorathiya

Alok Srivastava

Kuldeep Thakur

Uma Nath Tripathi

Amitesh Tyagi

Gaurav Vij

Dhruva Vijayvargiya

Lokesh Vishnoi

Vinayak Chavan

Mukesh Chauhan

Lakshminarayanan Madhankumar Jayakumar Jayavelu

Venkatraman Bhumeshwar Subramanian Tatikonda

MANAGEMENT

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | ANALYSIS

DESIGN

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size of IT and the budget that they handle, it is their packages that really stand out. In short, it is the leadership abilities, as seen in the test results, not the education— their backgrounds are vey, very similar—age or experience that gives them the extra edge that apparently results in value creation for their organizations. However, there was reversal of change in two of the most-watched categories—gender break-up and multiple-winners from companies. After we saw a peak of seven women winners last year, this year it is reduced to five. So, last year’s high was not really a trend! Similarly, two companies—Mahindra & Mahindra and BHEL—had garnered as many as 11 awards last year-this year’s top company has just three winners, with executives from regular good performers like Systema Shyam, Mphasis and BHEL bagging two each. The industries break-up should not come as a surprise to anyone—with every one out of five awards going to IT/ ITES companies. As far as cities are concerned, the more aggressive NCR-ites did apply in large numbers but Mum-

bai, the business capital, still emerged the leader by bagging the most awards. But the Mumbai-Delhi rivalry and small difference apart, these two cities still account for more than half of the winners. Go through the numbers; make your own discovery and share with us by tweeting marking #NEXT100 #DATA

Age: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

Know Your Winners

NEXT100 Winners Other Applicants

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Get to know the NEXT100 Winner

Gender Break-up:

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NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

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NEXT100 Winners 25%

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Analysis of data from “profiles of NEXT100 Winners and non-winners” reveal what distinguishes them from each other...…

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re NEXT100 winners very different from others? We have already seen the test results which suggest that while most of the skill attributes are similar, some managerial and leadership attributes vary significantly. What do their profile data suggest? While age and experience profiles vary, that by itself, does not say much; as many younger ones who fulfil the minimum criteria, do apply in their enthusiasm. While they may lack in experience, their enthusiasm certainly deserves cheer. While NEXT100 winners, as expected, do lead in most attributes including size of companies, team

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SALES & MARKETING

NEXT1OO SPECIAL | MEET THE JURY

Bhushan Akerkar,

Jayant Akut

CIO, Hindalco Industries

Sankarson Banerjee

MEET THE JURY | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Tarun Anand

Executive Director (Business Development Initiatives), BPCL

CIO (International), GE India Technology Center

Jagdish Belwal

Pankaj Bhargava

Kiran Chandras

Kaushal Kumar Chaudhary

Mayur Danait

Rupinder Goel

Senior VP & Group CIO, Havells India

Alok Khanna

Bhavesh Lakhani

Puneesh Lamba

CIO, DSP Blackrock Investment Managers

Sanjay Moralwar

Santosh Nair

Global CIO, Cadila Healthcare

Head - IT (India) & Head - User Engagement (AsiaPacific, Middle East, Africa), Siemens

Subrata Dey

Executive VP & Head - Global IT, Godrej Consumer Products

Sachin Gupta

Global CIO & Senior VP-IT, Tata Communications

Executive Director I/C IS, IOCL

Nirita Bose

Sr. VP & Head - IT, Axis Asset Management Company

CIO, Lupin

Group CIO, Uno Minda Group

A Balaji

Group CIO, Jindal Steel & Power

CIO, Pidilite Industries

Executive Director - IT, Lanco Infrastructure

Parna Ghosh

Vipul Anand

Head - Global IT, Dabur

Chief Technology Officer - Projects, NSE

Vice President - IT , Johnson & Johnson

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Rajeev Jorapur

Vice President - MIS, Bajaj Auto

Jagdish Lomte

VP - IT & CIO - BTG, Thermax

Group CIO, CK Birla Group

Venkatesh Natarajan

Atul Nigam

Senior VP - IT & CIO, Ashok Leyland

CIO, Micromax Informatics

Mahesh Kumar Pinnamaneni

Global CIO, UPL

Lalit Popli

Head - IT, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company

Director - IT, Allanasons

Tamal Chakraborty

Gururaj Rao

VP & CIO, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services

VP & CIO, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories

Pratap Gharge

ST Sathiavageeswaran

Dhiren Savla

Kamal Karnatak

Executive Director - IS, HPCL

Ramakrishnan Sudarshanam

Group CIO, JSW Group

Divisional VP - IT, United Breweries

Rajesh Uppal

Ramesh Sharma

Vinod Sivarama Krishnan

Dheeraj Sinha

Balu Srinivasan

Gyan Pandey

Rajiv Sharaf

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Anil Kumar Singh

CIO, Apollo Hospitals

Atanu Roy

Senior VP & CIO, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries

Senior VP & CIO, Reliance Infrastructure

GM (Management Services) & CIO, Krishak Bharati Cooperative

Senior VP & CIO, TVS & Sons

Vijay Sethi

Girish Rao

Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Future Group

Executive VP & Head - IT, UTI Asset Management Company

CIO & Head - CSR, Hero MotoCorp

Rajeev Mittal

CIO, Aurobindo Pharma

S Raghunatha Reddy

VP & Head - IT, Suzlon Energy

Group CIO, Kuoni Group

Senior VP & Group CIO, RJ Corp

CIO, Endurance Technologies

Ajay Rambal

Head - IT, LG Electronics India

Viral Raval

Mukesh Rathi

Director - IT, Ericsson India Global Services

Executive President & CIO, Bajaj Electricals

Jayantha Prabhu

CIO, Essar Group and Head - India Business, AGC Networks, Essar Group

CIO, Indus Towers

Meet the Jury

Joint President & Group CIO, Adani Group

Yashpal Soni

CIO, Intex Technologies India

Chetan Trivedi CIO, Hindustan Zinc

Yogesh Zope

ED - IT & Education & Training Division, Maruti Suzuki India

Group CIO, Bharat Forge (Kalyani Group of Companies)

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Welcome by R Giridhar, Group Editor, 9.9 Mediaworx

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NEXT100 2017: Winners Take All The eight edition of NEXT100, an awards programme from IT NEXT, took place in Amritsar on 2-3rd December, where we identified and honoured India’s top 100 Senior IT Managers with skills, leadership qualities, and the spirit to become CIOs

The host of NEXT100, Associate Editor at 9.9 Mediaworx, Shubhra Rishi, introducing the sessions of Day 1 of NEXT100

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | COMMENTS & QUOTES

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COMMENTS & QUOTES | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Jury speak

Winner speak

The quality of NEXT100 candidates is quite good this year. I must also acknowledge their general knowledge, exposure and awareness to new technologies.”

Being recognized as a NEXT100 winner is a powerful feeling. NEXT100 is a huge brand and winning this recognition is very rewarding.”

The NEXT100 selection process is a great way to validate our footing in professional life. Winning this recognition will motivate me to take more ownership and ask for additional responsiblity in my current organization.”

Quotable Quotes

Kaushik Mamania

Vice President - Engineering, UFO Moviez India

Chief Information Officer & Head - CSR, Hero MotoCorp

NEXT100 is a good opportunity for aspiring CIOs to be evaluated on a number of skills including business acumen and crisis management skills.” Tamal Chakravorty

Anil Kumar Singh

Director - IT, Ericsson India Global Services

Team Lead, Atos India

A platform such as NEXT100 gives new-gen IT leaders an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements. It also gives jury members to sift through the talent and choose the best out of all the applicants.” General Manager (Management Services) & CIO, Krishak Bharart Cooperative (KRIBHCO)

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The NEXT100 platform offers a high level of transparency in its selection process. For me, it is the first step towards becoming a CIO.”

Winning the NEXT100 Awards is a major milestone for me. NEXT100 is a industry recognized platform and greatly respected among technology peers.” Supriya Kaul

Senior Manager, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Vinod Sharma

Manager - IT, CNH Industrial

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Presenting the eighth batch of highly ambitious, energetic and talented NEXT100 Award winners

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | AWARDEES

Ajay Agrawal

Rizwan Ahmed

Atul Anand

Vijay Anand

Vijaya Anand

Mayank Bedi

Sunil Bhaskar

Atanu Bhaumik

Subhash Bisht

Chirag Boonlia

Mukesh Chauhan

Vinayak Chavan

Sachin Gavankar

Ravindra Ghuge

Archana Goel

Ankur Goyal

Nitin Gupta

Vishal Gupta

Gopal Jaiswal

Anil Kakkar

Abhinav Kashyap

Supriya Kaul

Amol Kelaskar

Sanjay Khandelwal

Dilip Kukreja

Amit Kumar

Dheeraj Kumar

Muneesh Kumar

Sohil Laad

Prasan Lotlikar

Vineet Love

Sudhir Vijayakumar Madhugiri

Sankar Makkapati

Harshh Makkar

Manish Malik

Kaushik Mamania

Santosh Mankar

Aniruddha Mehta

Rahul Mehta

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Nallapa Jegadeeswaran Reddy Arveti Balakrishnan

Subhanil Banerjee

Sujata Barla

Amandeep Singh Bawa

Toral Desai

Prodipto Dutta

Anand Gaikwad

Lakshminarayanan Madhankumar Jayakumar Jayavelu

Jagdish Joshi

AWARDEES | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Awardees Tejas Mehta

Milind More

V Nagarajan

Nishikant Nair

Malay Nandy

Shailesh Pachori

Satish Pai

Deepak Panda

Sunil Pandey

Anis Pankhania

Prasad Pate

Maulik Pathak

Mahesh Patil

Vinod Pol

Henry Potsangbam

S Prabakaran

Vasanth Prabhu

Vijay Pukale

Rajneesh Rai

John Rajesh

Anand Rajhans

Tejas Raval

Shashi Rawat

Vishal Roday

Subir Roy

Vineet Sadhu

Dharmesh Sanghavi

Bharat Saroch

SN Sasikumar

Siddharth Saxena

Neeraj Sehgal

Rupen Shah

Manish Sharma

Neelima Sharma

Vinod Sharma

Shitanshu

Abhishek K Singh

Amandeep Singh

Apurb Sinha

Lalji Sorathiya

Alok Srivastava

Kuldeep Thakur

Uma Nath Tripathi

Amitesh Tyagi

Gaurav Vij

Dhruva Vijayvargiya

Lokesh Vishnoi

Venkatraman Bhumeshwar Subramanian Tatikonda

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | AWARDS PROCESS

Awards Process

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AWARDS PROCESS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

5,136 1,931

IT managers registered for NEXT100 awards process

Referee and supervisor feedback reports were received

Popular Qualifications Bachelors: Engineering & Technology, Commerce, Computer Science & Applications Masters: Management Studies, Computer Applications

Popular Business & Management Expertise Project & Program Management, Vendor Management, Budgeting & Financial Management, Customer Support & Service Management

Applicants completed the personality profile and leadership tests

72%

Popular Hobbies Reading & Books, Music, Gadgets, Social Service, Cooking, Movies, Travel, Teaching & Education Popular Technology Expertise Application Development, Business Intelligence, Disaster Recovery and Business, Datacenter Management, Database Management, Connectivity Telecom, IT Operations Management, IT Asset and Infrastructure, IT Compliance and Risk Management, IT Strategy and Planning

315

319

Total interviews conducted by the jury members

76%

Of the winners have 12 to 20 years of total work experience

Of the winners are between the ages of 35 and 45

42%

67%

of the winners have a job role that is international in scope

of the winners report to a C level executive including CEO, CFO, MD, CIO and EVP/SVP

52% 72% 64%

of the winners work in service industries, led by ITES, BFSI and Professional Services

of winners work in organizations with total turnover of INR 1.000 crore or above

of winners work in organizations with IT budget of INR 10 crore or above

44% 54% 74% of winners work in organizations with more than 5,000 employees

winners receive an annual compensation exceeding INR 25 lakhs

of winners are from four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | AWARDS PROCESS

Methodology The selection process for the NEXT100 2017 commenced in June 2017 with a call for applications. The entire IT manager community was informed through a series of e-mails, print advertisements, and the social media. By the third week of August 2017, more than 5,100 aspirants had registered for the process. The selection of the award winners was done through a three-stage process, as in the past years. In the first stage, all award aspirants had to complete a detailed application form—and provide extensive personal and professional information, including education, technical skills and work experience. They also had to nominate referees who could support their claim for consideration for the award. In the second stage, applicants took two psychometric tests to evaluate their personality profiles and leadership styles. Both tests were administered online by Paris-based Central Test International. Every applicant who completed the two tests received a free, personalized copy of the assessment reports for reference. The NEXT100 jury members identified a set of criteria (including education, length and quality of work experience) to prepare a short list of candidates for the interview stage. Every shortlisted candidate was independently interviewed by two NEXT100 jury members. Separately, independent recommendations were obtained for each candidate from the designated referees, including current supervisors. The scores and evaluations assigned to all candidates in every stage of the selection process were input into a proprietary scoring model that assigns carefully calibrated weights to various factors. The final list of NEXT100 award recipients, listed in this book, is an outcome of this scoring model. To ensure that the NEXT100 awards are completely fair and unbiased, no member of the IT Next editorial team was involved in the selection or elimination of the award winners, nor are editors and staff of IT Next magazine a part of the jury panel. As in past years, the NEXT100 awards program draws on the knowledge and support of the CIO community. Fifty-five senior executives who comprise the jury of the NEXT100 awards, collectively represent many hundreds of years experience in IT and corporate management, were involved as advisors, interviewers and selectors this year. The jury panel debated, deliberated and decided on the award winner selection process—and conducted detailed interviews of all shortlisted applicants. 10 | ITNEXT | DECEMBER 2017

Personality Test & Managerial Style Inventory Test All aspirants for the NEXT100 awards take two psychometric evaluations—a personality test and a managerial style test—that are administered by Paris-based Central Test. The results of the tests are factored into the total evaluation of the candidate. All candidates who take the evaluations receive detailed personalized reports that can be used for self development. The Central Test Personality Inventory for Professionals (CTPI-R) test provides an assessment of work related personality traits that play a crucial role in performance. According to the test designers, CTPI-R conforms to the standards of scientific validation set out by the International Test Commission, and the American Psychological Association. The workplace competencies are defined as “clusters of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are predictive of superior performance in a given job”. According to Central Test, the competency scores in the CTPI-R are not a ‘direct assessment’ of competencies but an ‘assessment of proximity’ of the test taker to the profile of others who have demonstrated a high level of that specific competency. The assumption behind this method of evaluation is that people with similar profiles will be more likely to exhibit similar abilities. As the scores are derived from an assessment of proximity to an ideal profile, they give an indication of the extent to which the candidate is psychologically inclined towards high performance on a specific competency. The score on each dimension of competency also provides an indication of the extent to which the person is trainable on each competency. The second psychometric evaluation, the Management Style Inventory Test, assesses a candidate’s aptitude for leadership— and identifies their managerial style. The test uses seven important management dimensions (Innovation, Global Vision, Conceptual, Reflective, Affiliation, Intervention and People-Orientation) to determine the proximity of the candidate’s profile to typical management roles like Chief Executive, Motivator, Project Manager, Entrepreneur, Expert, Strategist and Executive Manager.

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Personality Profile Workplace Competencies According to Central Test, the CTPI-R test has been standardized on an international group of 5000+ working managerial professionals. The test uses a continuous scale of 0 to 100% to deduce 21 competencies that are relevant in the workplace. The conclusions are based on statistical studies and theoretical models. This year’s NEXT100 award winners exhibited high scores on work competencies like Mentoring, Resilience and Team Building Challenge and low (like last year) on Supervision and Caution. The biggest difference in scores between the NEXT100 winners and other applicants was in Mentoring. In Caution, the winners are significantly lower than the rest. Challenge 80

Authenticity

Stress Tolerence

Quality Oriented

Surpassing

Caution

60 50

Flexibility

Emotional Stability

Decision Making

Developing Others

Tactical

Conflict Resolution

Control

30 Optimism

Assertiveness

Influencing

50 Self Confidence

Affiliation 80

Networking

40 Innovation

The CTPI-R test provides an assessment of work-related personality traits that play a crucial role in performance. The test uses 114 questions to measure work personality across 19 dimensions. These dimensions are organized into four groups: People Management, Perception Mode, Self Management and Change Management. The test results are reported on a scale of 0 to 10. The overall analysis of the personality characteristics of the NEXT100 award winners indicates that they scored high on attributes like Experimental, Optimism, Surpassing and Self Confidence, while scoring relatively lower on Control. When compared to other applicants, the NEXT100 winners exhibited noticeable differences in being Rule Conscientious, Trust and being Experimental. Unlike Competencies, there is not too much of a difference between the winners and nonwinners when it comes to Personality Profile.

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Reliability

Trust

Team Building Commitment

Resilience

Conscientiousness

Understanding Others Visionary

Business Accumen

Rational

Intitiative

Mentoring Others Conducting Change

Supervision

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n Other Applicants

Affiliation Assertiveness Control Developing Others Tactical Trust Conscientiousness Rational Rule Conscientious

Experimental

Strategic Planning

The tendency to be kind, affectionate and open towards others at work The tendency to express and defend one’s opinions and rights in an open, yet correct manner The tendency to seek control of the course of events and have one’s own way of doing things The desire to support, mentor and encourage others to help them reach their potential and become more efficient The tendency to be tactical and diplomatic when dealing with others The tendency to be trusting towards others Carry out tasks in a thorough, meticulous and organised way Refers to the way information is perceived and judgments made To strictly follow the rules and moral standards established by society

Action-oriented Adaptability Experimental Visionary Commitment Lively Optimism Self Confidence Emotional stability Surpassing

Rule Conscientiousness Adaptability

Action Oriented

n NEXT100 Winners

n Other Applicants

To take initiative and risks, choose action over reflection even if there is uncertainty The ability to accept change and novelty The desire to explore and innovate, sometimes to the detriment of existing solutions Tendency to understand trends and patterns, and anticipate future events To draw satisfaction from being dedicated and committed to one’s job Energetic, outgoing, cheerful and full of life Tendency to hold positive expectations and to easily recover from failures Believe in one’s potential The ability to recognize one’s own emotions and to control emotional reactions The tendency to be ambitious, driven and competitive

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Management Style The Management Style Inventory test assesses a person’s preferred style of leadership and management on seven dichotomous dimensions. Attributes like Innovation, Global Vision, Conceptual and Reflective Thinking, Affiliation, Intervention and People- Orientation are measured on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 indicating a low level and 10 indicating a high level. The test has 49 questions in forced choice format, and the outcome is a graphical presentation of the inherent leadership qualities and management style. Overall, the NEXT100 group recorded relatively high scores on Innovation, Reflective and Conceptual Thinking, and People Orientation. The biggest difference between the NEXT100 winners and other applicants was seen in Affiliation.

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The Management Style test also provides an indication of how closely a candidate’s profile conforms to a seven salient management roles viz. Chief Executive, Strategist, Entrepreneur, Motivator, Project Manager Executive Manager and Expert. The proximity to each role is measured on a scale of 0 to 100%. The management profiles exhibited most frequently by the NEXT100 award winner group are that of Strategist, Project Manager and Motivator. The profile that was least commonly displayed was of that of Chief Executive. When compared with other applicants, the NEXT100 winners tended to more strongly exhibit the characteristics of Motivator and Strategist.

Global Vision 90%

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Chief Executive

Conceptual

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Strategist

Entrepreneur

50%

3.0

40%

2.0

30% 20%

1.0

10%

0.0

0% Reflective

People Orientation

Intervention

Affiliation

n NEXT100 Winners

Global Vision

Conceptual

Reflective

Project Manager

Motivator

n Other Applicants

To approach situations from a generalist rather than a specialist angle. Look at a project’s objectives first before examining the technical, financial and human resource requirements. The priority is to develop a response, integrating the overall parameters To use theoretical concepts and analytical models to approach a problem or situation. This type of manager knows how to prepare for the future, plan for tomorrow, and thereby can anticipate problems To exhibit a calm and collected composure, and maintain equanimity by controlling emotions. Since controlling the emotions is one of the keys to successful negotiations, the manager who is high on Reflective dimension sets a good example

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Executive Manager

Expert n NEXT100 Winners

Affiliation Intervention

People Orientation Innovation

n Other Applicants

Endowed with a spirit of openness and a charisma that generates enthusiasm and motivation for the team A tendency to work and make decisions independently, often with a managerial perspective. This type of supervision is perfectly suited to projects in their early stages, or in the event of structural changes or a crisis Places on priority the satisfaction of employees, team harmony, individual progress and, in general, the integration of a certain code of ethics in the enterprise The ability to anticipate, to adapt and to “think outside the box” in order to come up with new approaches

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Age: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants NEXT100 Winners Other Applicants

43%

Gender Break-up:

30%

NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

29%

NEXT100 Winners 25%

Other Applicants 21%

5% 3 % 13%

11% 11%

97% 6%

95% 97%

4% 7%

51-55

46-50

41-45

36-40

55+

31-35

Women

26-30

Men

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Cities: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

11% 22%

27%

11% Mumbai/Navi Mumbai/Thane National Capital Region Bangalore

25%

6% 11%

25%

31%

Chennai Pune Kolkata

NEXT100 Winners

Other Applicants

Vadodara Hyderabad Others

Arts Business Studies

0% 1% 11%

Commerce 7% 7%

Computer Applications

Graduation Specialization: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

17% 18%

Computer Science Economics

2% 7%

Electronics

9% 30% 28%

Engineering & Technology 7%

Mathematics Operations Research

NEXT100 Winners Other Applicants

Others

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Physical Sciences Statistics

16%

5% 3%

1% 1% 6%

12%

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38% 38% 37%

Experience: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

27%

16%

16% 14%

NEXT100 Winners

Other Applicants

<10

11-15

Less than INR 10 lakhs

16-20

21-25

Annual CTC: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

INR 20 to 25 lakhs

21% 8%

Other Applicants

23% 18%

7% 5%

INR 35 to 40 lakhs

INR 40 to 45 lakhs

4% 3%

> INR 50 lakhs

17% 16%

INR 25 to 30 lakhs

INR 45 to 50 lakhs

18% 13%

INR 30 to 35 lakhs

NEXT100 Winners

31<

INR 10 to 15 lakhs INR 15 to 20 lakhs

26-30

9% 8%

11%

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2% 3% 5%

6% 6%

14%

Team Size: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

20% 9% 13%

14%

15% 24%

More than 200 101 to 200 51 to 100

19%

21 to 50 16 to 20 11 to 15

29%

21%

6 to 10 1 to 5

NEXT100 Winners

Other Applicants

12%

<INR 50 cr INR 50 to 100 cr

Organization Size: NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants NEXT100 Winners

7% 7% 7%

INR 100 to 250 cr 5%

INR 250 to 500 cr

6% 9% 9%

INR 500 to 1000 cr INR 1000 to 2500 cr

Other Applicants INR 2500 to 5000 cr

11%

INR 5000 to 10,000 cr

11%

> INR 10,000 cr NA

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37%

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24%

Organizational IT Budget:

15%

13%

>INR 50 cr

INR 25 to 50 cr

INR 10 to 25 cr

INR 5 to 10 cr

INR 1 to 5 cr

INR 50 lakh to 1 cr

<INR 50 lakhs

19%

15%

13%

Other Applicants

NEXT100 Winners

14%

17%

19%

20%

NEXT100 Winners Vs Other Applicants

17%

22%

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Companies with Multiple Winners

Syngenta

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd

Collabera, Inc.

FIS Global

JSW Steel

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

Mphasis

Panasonic India Pvt Ltd

Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL)

Industries they come from

IT/ITES Consumer Goods BFSI Automotive Manufacturing Professional Services Oil & Energy Telecommunications Chemicals Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Others

27% 16%

33% 3% 3% 3% 4%

20%

NEXT100 Winners

5% 7% 2% 3% 2% 3%

17%

11%

Other Applicants

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10%

11% 2%

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Meet The Jury The NEXT100 awards program draws on the expertise, contributions and support of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CIO community. Fifty-five senior executives from Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading companies were involved in reviewing and validating the NEXT100 process, determining the selection criteria, and interviewing the aspirants.

Business & Management Expertise

Technology Expertise 69% 64%

22%

64%

IT Project & Program Management

64%

Vendor Management

More than

250 people

IT Security

64%

Budgeting & Financial Management

0 to 20 people

Technology Evaluation & Selection

67%

Project & Program Management

22%

53%

20 to 50 people

Application Development & Management

44%

Supply Chain Management

Team Size Managed

45%

28%

IT Operations Management

33%

40%

Human Resources & Talent Management

IT Asset & Infrastructure Management

31%

22%

100 to 250 people

40%

Operations Management

50 to 100 people

Data Center Management

25%

29%

Customer Support & Service Management

Connectivity & Collaboration Management

22%

27%

Training & Education

Hobbies & Interests

Website & e-Commerce Management

11%

24%

Sales Management

65%

IT Compliance & Risk Management

22%

Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing

Total Work Experience 36-40 years

49%

Industry Sector 36%

Less than

20 years

31%

5 7% % 15%

27%

31-35 years

20% 20%

42% 20 to 25

31% 26 to 30

years

15%

16% 16% 16% 16%

11%

13%

4% 4% 2%

2% 2% 2%

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | MEET THE JURY

Bhushan Akerkar, CIO, Hindalco Industries

Sankarson Banerjee

Jayant Akut

Tarun Anand

Executive Director (Business Development Initiatives), BPCL

Head - Global IT, Dabur

Chief Technology Officer - Projects, NSE

CIO (International), GE India Technology Center

Jagdish Belwal

Pankaj Bhargava

Kiran Chandras

Kaushal Kumar Chaudhary

Mayur Danait

Vice President - IT , Johnson & Johnson

Parna Ghosh

Executive Director - IT, Lanco Infrastructure

Rupinder Goel

CIO, Pidilite Industries

CIO, Lupin

Sachin Gupta

Group CIO, Uno Minda Group

Global CIO & Senior VP-IT, Tata Communications

Senior VP & Group CIO, Havells India

Alok Khanna

Bhavesh Lakhani

Puneesh Lamba

Santosh Nair

Venkatesh Natarajan

Executive Director I/C IS, IOCL

Sanjay Moralwar Global CIO, Cadila Healthcare

CIO, DSP Blackrock Investment Managers

Head - IT (India) & Head - User Engagement (AsiaPacific, Middle East, Africa), Siemens

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Group CIO, CK Birla Group

Senior VP - IT & CIO, Ashok Leyland

Vipul Anand

Group CIO, Jindal Steel & Power

Nirita Bose

Sr. VP & Head - IT, Axis Asset Management Company

Subrata Dey

Executive VP & Head - Global IT, Godrej Consumer Products

Rajeev Jorapur

Vice President - MIS, Bajaj Auto

Jagdish Lomte

VP - IT & CIO - BTG, Thermax

Atul Nigam

CIO, Micromax Informatics

A Balaji

Global CIO, UPL

Tamal Chakraborty

Director - IT, Ericsson India Global Services

Pratap Gharge

Executive President & CIO, Bajaj Electricals

Kamal Karnatak

Senior VP & Group CIO, RJ Corp

Rajeev Mittal

CIO, Endurance Technologies

Gyan Pandey

CIO, Aurobindo Pharma

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Mahesh Kumar Pinnamaneni

Lalit Popli

Director - IT, Allanasons

Head - IT, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company

Gururaj Rao

Mukesh Rathi

Jayantha Prabhu

Ajay Rambal

CIO, Essar Group and Head - India Business, AGC Networks, Essar Group

Head - IT, LG Electronics India

Viral Raval

S Raghunatha Reddy

VP & CIO, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services

VP & CIO, Dr Reddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laboratories

ST Sathiavageeswaran

Dhiren Savla Group CIO, Kuoni Group

CIO & Head - CSR, Hero MotoCorp

Senior VP & CIO, Reliance Infrastructure

Anil Kumar Singh

Dheeraj Sinha

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Vinod Sivarama Krishnan

Executive Director - IS, HPCL

GM (Management Services) & CIO, Krishak Bharati Cooperative

Balu Srinivasan Senior VP & CIO, TVS & Sons

Rajesh Uppal

ED - IT & Education & Training Division, Maruti Suzuki India

Group CIO, JSW Group

Ramakrishnan Sudarshanam Divisional VP - IT, United Breweries

VP & Head - IT, Suzlon Energy

Vijay Sethi

CIO, Apollo Hospitals

Girish Rao

Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Future Group

Atanu Roy

Executive VP & Head - IT, UTI Asset Management Company

Senior VP & CIO, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries

Rajiv Sharaf

Ramesh Sharma

CIO, Indus Towers

Joint President & Group CIO, Adani Group

Yashpal Soni

CIO, Intex Technologies India

Chetan Trivedi CIO, Hindustan Zinc

Yogesh Zope

Group CIO, Bharat Forge (Kalyani Group of Companies)

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS

NEXT100 2017: Winners Take All The eight edition of NEXT100, an awards program from IT Next, took place in Amritsar on 1-2nd December, where we identified and honoured Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top 100 Senior IT Managers with skills, leadership qualities, and the spirit to become CIOs 24 | ITNEXT | DECEMBER 2017

EVENT SNAPSHOTS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Welcome by R Giridhar, Group Editor, IT Next

The host of NEXT100, Associate Editor at IT Next, Shubhra Rishi, introducing the sessions of Day 1 of NEXT100 DECEMBER 2017 | ITNEXT | 25

NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS

The NEXT100 event kickstarted with a panel discussion titled “Getting Ready to be a CIO” that was moderated by R Giridhar, Group Editor, IT Next. The four panelists from (L) to (R) were Keyur Desai, CIO- Essar Ports & Shipping, Head Info-Security, Network & Communications- Essar, Bharat B Anand, Chief of Technology, NATGRID, Ministry of Home Affairs, GOI, Deepak Aggarwal, Executive Director - Corporate IT, Indian Oil and Ashok Jade, CIO, Shalimar Paints (R). All of them are NEXT100 Winners from previous years

The session on ‘The Power to Innovate -- No Matter How Complex Your IT Environment’ was given by Avinash Joshi, General Manager - Global Technology Services, IBM India & South Asia

The first session on ‘Build What’s Next with Google Cloud’ was delivered by Mohit Pande, Country Head - India, Google Cloud

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EVENT SNAPSHOTS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Nilesh Kulkarni, Solution Architect, QlikTech India, delivered a session on ‘A Cloud Ready Analytical Platform’

The session on ‘Next Generation Security’ was delivered by Ashish Sud, Head - Western Region, Sophos

A roundtable on ‘Navigating the Journey from Data to Machine Learning’ was hosted by Rohit Gupta, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud and moderated by IT Next Group Editor, R.Giridhar DECEMBER 2017 | ITNEXT | 27

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A roundtable on ‘Build What’s Next with Google Cloud’ was hosted by Shaista Aliya, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud and moderated by Shubhra Rishi, Associate Editor, IT Next

The roundtable session titled ‘Unleash Innovation with IBM to Drive Peak Performance’ was hosted by Avinash Joshi, General Manager, GTS, IBM India & Dinesh Sharma and moderated by Sachin Mhashilkar, Director - Community Engagement, IT Next

The roundtable session titled ‘Mitigating Threats for Business Continuity using eScan’ was hosted by Rushikesh Chitre, Senior Manager Technical Support & Pre-sales, eScan and moderated by Vikas Gupta, Director and Publisher, IT Next 28 | ITNEXT | DECEMBER 2017

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NEXT100 2017 Award Ceremony:

Celebrating the Future CIOs

Ninety-five winners attended the grand award ceremony of NEXT100 Awards 2017. Decked in business formals, the winners awaited their turns to be felicitated with a NEXT100 trophy and citation DECEMBER 2017 | ITNEXT | 29

NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS

Welcome and introduction to Next100 Awards by Vikas Gupta, Publisher & Director, IT Next

The evening keynote session was given by VS Parthasarathy, Group CFO & CIO, Mahindra & Mahindra. Parthasarathy captivated the audience with his session titled ‘The Future Role of the CIO’ that was immersed in Indian mythology

A leadership talk was given by Mohit Pande, Country Head - India, Google Cloud 30 | ITNEXT | DECEMBER 2017

The winners and jury listen intently as Vikas Gupta, Publisher & Director, IT Next, gets nostalgic about the NEXT100 Awards and narrates a touching story

EVENT SNAPSHOTS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

THE WINNERS

NEXT100 Awards (Batch 1): Presented by Mohit Pande, Country Head - India, Google Cloud

NEXT100 Awards (Batch 2): Presented by Jaydeep Deshpande, Head of Marketing, QlikTech India

NEXT100 Awards (Batch 3): Presented by Avinash Joshi, General Manager - Global Technology Services, IBM India & South Asia

NEXT00 Awards (Batch 4): Presented by Sunil Kripalani, Senior Vice President - Global Sales & Marketing, eScan DECEMBER 2017 | ITNEXT | 31

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NEXT00 Awards (Batch 5): Presented by Ashish Sud, Head Western Region, Sophos

Snapshots from the NEXT100 award ceremony

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EVENT SNAPSHOTS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL A group of energetic and colorfully dressed artists performed Bhangra and Gidda dance routine for the audience. Some key highlights from their performance

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS

THE WINNERS

NEXT00 Winners (Batch 6): Presented by NEXT100 Jury

NEXT00 Winners (Batch 7): Presented by NEXT100 Jury

NEXT00 Winners (Batch 8): Presented by NEXT100 Jury

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THE WINNERS

NEXT00 Winners (Batch 10): Presented by NEXT100 Jury

The NEXT100 Book 2017 was launched by R. Giridhar, Group Editor, IT Next, and the Jury members of 2017

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS

Candid moments at the NEXT100 Awards ceremony 2017

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Vote of thanks to jury and presentation of mementos to jury members by Shyamanuja Das, Managing Editor, IT Next

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Vote of thanks to Jury & Presentation of mementos to jury members by Shyamanuja Das, Managing Editor, IT Next

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A total of 55 jury members vetted the candidates during the NEXT100 Awards selection process

Vote of thanks to sponsors by Sachin Mhashilkar, Director - Community Engagement, IT Next

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS Day 2: The second day of NEXT100 Awards 2017 was indundated with an interesting case study workshop and ideas cafe session

The host of NEXT100 introducing the sessions of Day 2 of NEXT100

Day 2 kickstarted with a riveting session by NEXT100 Winner 2010, Deepak Agarwal, Executive Director - Corporate IT, IOCL titled ‘Next Generation CIOs: A Perspective’

The audience listening intently to the session on Day 2 of NEXT100 Awards

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EVENT SNAPSHOTS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Vikas Gupta, Publisher and Director, IT Next, annoucing the rules and guidelines of Ideas Cafe

Ideas Cafe session in progress where our partners Google, Sophos, eScan sprearheaded a few group discussions

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS We organized a Tweet Contest at the #NEXT100 Awards and a few winners emerged for engaging with us during the two days of the event. The winners were NEXT100 Winners, Nallapa Reddy Arveti, Uma Nath Tripathi, Rizwan Ahmed, Vinayak Chavan and Vishal Roday, Vineet Love and Kuldeep Singh Thakur

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EVENT SNAPSHOTS | NEXT1OO SPECIAL eScan gave away a few prizes through a lucky draw

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NEXT1OO SPECIAL | EVENT SNAPSHOTS R Giridhar, Group Editor, IT Next announced the rules of the ideas cafe session and assigned the case studies to respective teams. They worked on the case study solution and presented their cases in a span of one hour

Team 5 emerged as winner of the case study workshop. They won the Jury Choice Award as well as the Popular Choice Award 44 | ITNEXT | DECEMBER 2017

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Ajay Agrawal, Head - Security Governance, Risk and Compliance, Wipro | Rizwan Ahmed, President of Technology, QM Computech | Atul Anand, Global Application Service Manager, Syngenta | Vijay Anand, General Manager - IT Infrastructure & Communications, Matrimony.com | Vijaya Anand, Senior Manager (MS), Krishak Bharati Co-Operative | Nallapa Reddy Arveti, Senior Manager - Information System Administration, Agro Tech Foods (Conagra) | Jegadeeswaran Balakrishnan, Assistant General Manager, TVS Automobile Solutions | Subhanil Banerjee, Manager - IT Infrastructure, ABP | Sujata Barla, Deputy General Manager, Lupin | Amandeep Singh Bawa, Head - IT Infrastructure, Panasonic India | Mayank Bedi, Head - IT, VST Tillers Tractors | Sunil Bhaskar, Senior Manager - IT Operations, Allianz Managed Operations & Services India | Atanu Bhaumik, General Manager, Hewa Holding | Subhash Bisht, Assistant Vice President, Innodata India | Chirag Boonlia, Vice President - IT, Virtuous Retail | Mukesh Chauhan, Deputy Manager, Engineers India | Vinayak Chavan, Manager - Digital Banking and Innovation, GP Parsik Bank | Toral Desai, Team Lead, Atos India | Prodipto Dutta, Senior Manager - IT, Balmer Lawrie | Anand Gaikwad, Senior Manager/ Program Manager, Volkswagen | Sachin Gavankar, Head - IT (Senior Manager), EsselWorld Leisure | Ravindra Ghuge, Chief Manager - IT, KEC International | Archana Goel, Chief Manager - IT, JK Paper | Ankur Goyal, Associate Vice President and Head - Technology Solutions, DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Company | Nitin Gupta, Global IT Head, Collabera | Vishal Gupta, Senior Lead, Application Development # BSS & MIS Operations Division, Sistema Shyam TeleServices | Gopal Jaiswal, Senior Manager - IT, JSW Steel | Lakshminarayanan Jayakumar, Director - IT, CSS Corp | Madhankumar Jayavelu, Senior Manager - IT, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Engineering India | Jagdish Joshi, Deputy General Manager - IT Data Center, Mahindra & Mahindra | Anil Kakkar, Head - IT (CIO), Escorts | Abhinav Kashyap, Assistant Vice President - IT, Godrej Consumer Products | Supriya Kaul, Senior Manager, Boston Consulting Group | Amol Kelaskar, Manager - Infrastructure, Fujitsu Consulting India | Sanjay Khandelwal, Assistant Director, Sistema Shyam Teleservices | Dilip Kukreja, Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer, Bennett Coleman & Co | Amit Kumar, Senior Manager - IT, Manipal Health Enterprises | Dheeraj Kumar, Associate Director, PepsiCo | Muneesh Kumar, Vice President, XcelServ Solutions | Sohil Laad, Head - Platform Development & Operations, Syngenta | Prasan Lotlikar, Technical Program Manager, Amazon | Vineet Love, Manager - Technology, KPMG | Sudhir Vijayakumar Madhugiri, Client Technology Director, Thomson Reuters | Sankar Makkapati, Senior Vice President - IT, CADD Centre Training Services | Harshh Makkar, Senior Manager - IT, Boston Scientific India | Manish Malik, General Manager - IS, IOCL | Kaushik Mamania, Vice President - Engineering, UFO Moviez India | Santosh Mankar, Assistant Vice President, SBI Life | Aniruddha Mehta, Head - Quality Informatics, Alembic Pharmaceuticals | Rahul Mehta, Senior Solution Architect - Security, LTI | Tejas Mehta, Executive Vice President, India Infoline | Milind More, Associate Director II, IDFC Bank | V Nagarajan, Head - Service Delivery, Infrastructure, Britannia Industries | Nishikant Nair, Senior Manager & Lead - Business IT, Mphasis | Malay Nandy, Head - IT, APL Logistics Vascor Automotive | Shailesh Pachori, Assistant Vice President - Technology and Board of Director, Euclid Infotech | Satish Pai, Head - IT Infrastructure, Marico | Deepak Panda, Head - IT, Century Plyboards India | Sunil Pandey, Director - IT, Institute of Technology & Science | Sunil Pandey, Deputy General Manager - IT, Adani Green Energy | Anis Pankhania, General Manager - Technology (Products and Apps - Customer Experience), Vodafone India | Prasad Pate, Head - ITS (Corporate), KSB Pumps | Maulik Pathak, Manager - PMO, Collabera | Mahesh Patil, Deputy General Manager - IT, Mahindra & Mahindra | Vinod Pol, Associate Vice President and Lead - Enterprise IT Infrastructure Services, Mphasis Ltd | Henry Potsangbam, Manager - CDC Infra, BPCL | S Prabakaran, Head - IT, Express Infrastructure Pvt Ltd | Vasanth Prabhu, Assistant General Manager, Tata Power Delhi Distribution | Vijay Pukale, Project Manager, Tieto India Pvt Ltd | Rajneesh Rai, Deputy Manager, BHEL | John Rajesh, Head - IT Applications, Birla Sunlife Asset Management Company | Anand Rajhans, Head - Technical Integration & Shared Platform Services, Syngenta | Tejas Raval, Senior Manager - IT, Dell | Shashi Rawat, Senior Scientist, ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute | Vishal Roday, Senior Manager, BHEL | Subir Roy, Project Manager, FIS Payment Solutions and Services India | Vineet Sadhu, Engineering Manager, Dell EMC | Dharmesh Sanghavi, General Manager - IT, Bajaj Corp | Bharat Saroch, General Manager - IM, Hella India | SN Sasikumar, Assistant General Manager - IT, TVS & Sons | Siddharth Saxena, Associate Vice President, Kotak Mahindra Bank | Neeraj Sehgal, General Manager, PI Industries | Rupen Shah, Assistant General Manager - IT, Arohan Financial Services | Manish Sharma, Senior Manager, UHGIS | Neelima Sharma, SAP Lead - Operational Modules, Hindustan Zinc | Vinod Sharma, Manager - IT, CNH Industrial | Shitanshu, Deputy General Manager - IT, HPCL | Abhishek K Singh, Manager - IT, Pernod Ricard India | Amandeep Singh, Delivery Manager, Ford Motor | Apurb Sinha, Deputy General Manager - Sales Governance and Systems, Tata Teleservices | Lalji Sorathiya, Deputy Manager - IT, GEA Process Engineering India | Alok Srivastava, Manager - Technology, Quatrro | Venkatraman Subramanian, General Manager - IT, JSW Steel | Bhumeshwar Tatikonda, Senior Manager - IT Infrastructure, Essar | Kuldeep Thakur, Solution Architect, Genpact | Uma Nath Tripathi, Project Director, EICE Consultants & Engineers | Amitesh Tyagi, Director - Buy CTO, The Nielsen Company | Gaurav Vij, Chief Technology Officer, Caressa Solutions | Dhruva Vijayvargiya, Senior Manager, JLT Group | Lokesh Vishnoi, General Manager - S&T, RVNL

2017 AWARD WINNERS

Bhushan Akerkar, Chief Information Officer, Hindalco Industries | Jayant Akut, Executive Director (Business Development Initiatives), BPCL | Tarun Anand, Head - Global IT, Dabur | Vipul Anand, Group Chief Information Officer, Jindal Steel & Power | A Balaji, Global Chief Information Officer, UPL | Sankarson Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer - Projects, NSE | Jagdish Belwal, Chief Information Officer (International), GE India Technology Center | Pankaj Bhargava, Chief Information Officer, Pidilite Industries | Nirita Bose, Senior Vice President & Head - IT, Axis Asset Management Company | Tamal Chakraborty, Director - IT, Ericsson India Global Services | Kiran Chandras, Vice President - IT , Johnson & Johnson | Kaushal Kumar Chaudhary, Executive Director - IT, Lanco Infrastructure | Mayur Danait, Chief Information Officer, Lupin | Subrata Dey, Executive Vice President & Head - Global IT, Godrej Consumer Products | Pratap Gharge, Executive President & Chief Information Officer, Bajaj Electricals | Parna Ghosh, Group Chief Information Officer, Uno Minda Group | Rupinder Goel, Global Chief Information Officer & Senior Vice President - IT, Tata Communications | Sachin Gupta, Senior Vice President & Group Chief Information Officer, Havells India | Rajeev Jorapur, Vice President - MIS, Bajaj Auto | Kamal Karnatak, Senior Vice President & Group Chief Information Officer, RJ Corp | Alok Khanna, Executive Director I/C IS, IOCL | Bhavesh Lakhani, Chief Technology Officer, DSP Blackrock Investment Managers | Puneesh Lamba, Group Chief Information Officer, CK Birla Group | Jagdish Lomte, Vice President - IT & Chief Information Officer - BTG, Thermax | Rajeev Mittal, Chief Information Officer, Endurance Technologies | Sanjay Moralwar, Global Chief Information Officer, Cadila Healthcare | Santosh Nair, Head - IT (India) & Head - User Engagement (Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa), Siemens | Venkatesh Natarajan, Senior Vice President - IT & Chief Information Officer, Ashok Leyland | Atul Nigam, Chief Information Officer, Micromax Informatics | Gyan Pandey, Chief Information Officer, Aurobindo Pharma | Sanjiv Pant, Chief Information Officer, Motherson Sumi Systems | Mahesh Kumar Pinnamaneni, Director - IT, Allanasons | Lalit Popli, Head - IT, ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company | Jayantha Prabhu, Chief Information Officer, Essar Group and Head - India Business, AGC Networks, Essar Group | Bhavin Purohit, CIO & Group IT Head, Welspun Group | Ajay Rambal, Head - IT, LG Electronics India | Girish Rao, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Future Group | Gururaj Rao, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services | Mukesh Rathi, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Dr Reddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laboratories | Viral Raval, Vice President & Head - IT, Suzlon Energy | S Raghunatha Reddy, Executive Vice President & Head - IT, UTI Asset Management Company | Atanu Roy, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries | ST Sathiavageeswaran, Executive Director - IS, HPCL | Dhiren Savla, Group Chief Information Officer, Kuoni Group | Vijay Sethi, Chief Information Officer & Head - CSR, Hero MotoCorp | Rajiv Sharaf, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Reliance Infrastructure | Ramesh Sharma, Joint President & Group Chief Information Officer, Adani Group | Anil Kumar Singh, General Manager (Management Services) & Chief Information Officer, Krishak Bharati Cooperative | Dheeraj Sinha, Group Chief Information Officer, JSW Group | Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Chief Information Officer, Apollo Hospitals | Vinod Sivarama Krishnan, Chief Information Officer, Indus Towers | Yashpal Soni, Chief Information Officer, Intex Technologies India | Balu Srinivasan, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, TVS & Sons | Ramakrishnan Sudarshanam, Divisional Vice President - IT, United Breweries | Chetan Trivedi, Chief Information Officer, Hindustan Zinc | Rajesh Uppal, Executive Director - IT & Education & Training Division, Maruti Suzuki India | Yogesh Zope, Group Chief Information Officer, Bharat Forge (Kalyani Group of Companies)

JURY

NEXT1OO SPECIAL | COMMENTS & QUOTES

Jury speak

The quality of NEXT100 candidates is quite good this year. I must also acknowledge their general knowledge, exposure and awareness to new technologies.” Vijay Sethi

Chief Information Officer & Head - CSR, Hero MotoCorp

NEXT100 is a good opportunity for aspiring CIOs to be evaluated on a number of skills including business acumen and crisis management skills.” Tamal Chakravorty

Director - IT, Ericsson India Global Services

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General Manager (Management Services) & CIO, Krishak Bharart Cooperative (KRIBHCO)

COMMENTS & QUOTES | NEXT1OO SPECIAL

Winner speak

Being recognized as a NEXT100 winner is a powerful feeling. NEXT100 is a huge brand and winning this recognition is very rewarding.”

Vice President - Engineering, UFO Moviez India

Toral Desai

Team Lead, Atos India

The NEXT100 platform offers a high level of transparency in its selection process. For me, it is the first step towards becoming a CIO.”

Winning the NEXT100 Awards is a major milestone for me. NEXT100 is a industry recognized platform and greatly respected among technology peers.” Supriya Kaul

Senior Manager, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Vinod Sharma

Manager - IT, CNH Industrial

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Thank You Partners Platinum Partner

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Gold Partners

From all of us at IT Next, a sincere thanks to our partners for their invaluable support in making the NEXT100 Awards a great success

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