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Diversity is hiring people of different backgrounds like language, religion, gender, rural, urban small or big towns.
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Coca Cola, Microsoft & Aditya Birla Group
CONSCIOUSLY BUILDING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: UNIFYING TEAMS, IMPROVING CORPORATE PERFORMANCE
6:00 PM
Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA
Opening Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd
Address by the Speaker Ms Anu Oza HR Director, IMG Talent Management Ford Motor Pvt Ltd, India
Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees Mr D Shivakumar
Ms Anu Oza
Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development
HR Director, IMG Talent Management
Aditya Birla Group
Ford Motor Pvt Ltd, India
Ms Nirmala Menon Founder and CEO
SATURDAY
Interweave Consulting Pvt Ltd
Mr Vijay Rajagopalan
DEC 12, 2020 | 6.00 PM
Head of Products & Engineering Microsoft Azure Commerce & Ecosystem
Mr Kandy Anand CEO, Igniting Business Growth LLC, Seattle, USA
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8:00 PM
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synopsis This program is about the many efforts to increase diversity and benefit from differences. It looks at some of the individual and social challenges in building a more diverse, tolerant and inclusive workplace. It examines the role of diversity and Inclusion in unifying teams and improving corporate performance. It is interspersed with examples and case studies of companies that have made progress in this endeavour. It also looks at the returns on investing in diversity and inclusion. It also has best practices in this field.
DISTINGUISHED
GUESTS
OF
HONOUR
D SHIVAKUMAR
V BALARAMAN
Mr. Shiv Shivakumar is currently the Group Executive President ,
MBA from IIM Ahmedabad
Corporate
Strategy
&
Business
Development
at
Aditya
Birla
Group
Former MD of Ponds’
Mr. Shivakumar joined the Group in January 2018. Before that, he
Former export Director of Hindustan Lever
served as Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo for four years. He also Was independent director on Nokia, Mahindra World city;
worked with Nokia as CEO for India and later emerging markets
Polaris; Mother Dairy New Delhi; Intellect Design Arena Ltd
for a decade.
Chairman of CAMS; Chairman of Footwear Design and
He is currently the Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association
Development Institute.
and Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India. He is also on the board of XLRI and IIM Udaipur.
Currently on Delphi TVS and India Nippon Electricals Ltd Past President of MMA.
Mr.
Shivakumar
was
awarded
‘Distinguished
Alumnus’
by
IIT
Madras and IIM Calcutta.
ANU OZA Anu
Oza
has
been
working
in
NIRMALA MENON public
relations,
Nirmala Menon is a HR professional with over thirty years of experience in varied
marketing, communications, and corporate social
roles across diverse
responsibility for more than a decade. In addition
Founder & CEO at Interweave, her contributions in the field of Diversity and
to working with Unilever, both in Asia and in the United
Kingdom,
she
has
consulted
for
the
UN
organisations both in India and the United States. As
Inclusion has been recognised with her being listed among the "Top 50 Diversity Professionals" in the Global Diversity List.
Global Compact and the UN Population Fund. She
Prior
has also provided a variety of probono services to
IBM, India where
non-profits
diversity management. Her stint as part of IBM’s global diversity team provided
in
Asia
and
elsewhere
around
the
Interweave, she was the Diversity and Employee Relations she gained
wide
leader
for
and specific experience in the area of
her international experience embedding IBM’s diversity philosophy and practices
world. Oza’s
to
HR
companies
background
enables
with
of
issues
her
to
leadership,
assist
change
diagnosis, dialogue, conflict resolution, and labour She
holds
Today,
Nirmala
and
her
team
at
Interweave
work
with
several
marquee
organisations across industries as a one-stop shop for organisational diversity
management, cultural
compliance.
across countries in APAC, Ireland, Canada, Mexico and the United States.
graduate
degrees
from
and inclusion solutions. Recognised
as
a
subject
matter
expert,
Nirmala
is
associated
with
various
Harvard and the London School of Economics, and
industry bodies like NASSCOM, CII, NHRD, SHRM, etc. in India. She was also a
has served as a guest lecturer at Harvard and the
representative
Columbia Business School.
Compact & the UNIFEM to formulate the Women's Empowerment Principles.
in
the
informal
international
advisory
group
of
UN
Global
A certified Corporate Director from the Institute of Directors and a certified coach from the International Coaching Academy, Nirmala also holds a Masters in Business from XLRI, India and an MS from Temple University, USA.
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VIJAY RAJGOPALAN
KANDY ANAND
Vijay Rajagopalan is the head of Products & Engineering
Kandy is an experienced leader focused on accelerating
for Microsoft’s Azure Commerce & Ecosystem. His team is
growth and transforming commercial operations. He has
primarily responsible for the partner & customer growth of
extensive
Microsoft Cloud Platform – Azure.
experience with over three decades of senior leadership
Prior to this role, Vijay head several leadership positions in Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Seattle. Vijay was a founding engineer of Microsoft’s Cloud business -
commercial,
operational,
P&L,
and
M&A
roles at Unilever, Coca-Cola and Molson Coors Brewing Company.
Azure.
His most recent roles include CEO and President, Molson
He was primarily responsible for the early transformation
Coors International; Chief Growth Officer, Molson Coors
of Azure and enabling infrastructure services and turning
Brewing Company; President-Philippines, Coca-Cola; and
it to a multi-billion dollar product.
Global
In the last 20 years that Vijay has been at Microsoft, he
Vice
President
of
Commercial
Leadership
for
Coca-Cola.
has worked across a wide variety of products and services
He has been on the board of retail restaurant companies
ranging
for over a decade--Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Limited and
Studio
from and
Online
Services,
Microsoft
Azure
Windows in
Server,
various
capacities
engineering, product leadership & strategy roles. spends
a
lot
of
time
with
customers,
Visual -
Vijay
partners
&
developers, presenting at conferences, to encourage a
Wingstop
Inc.
He
is
on
the
board
of
the
University
of
Colorado, Denver Business School and is actively involved in several community initiatives. Check out his profile here:
constant feedback loop between Microsoft's customers and product teams. He is very passionate about diversity & inclusion, cultural transformation in organizations. Vijay passionate about music and an avid cricket enthusiast.
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