SANGEETA SHANKARAN SUMESH BUSINESS COACH & BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Discussion on the theme of the Book TUESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
K PANDIARAJAN
R RAMARAJ
CK RANGANATHAN
FOUNDER, MA FOI GROUP, INDIAN BUSINESSMAN AND POLITICIAN
FOUNDER OF SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LTD
CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECOTR CAVINKARE PVT LTD
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PROGRAMME 5:30PM
Registration & High Tea MMA Management Center
6:00 PM
Welcome Address
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, Madras Management Association
Launch of the Book and Address by the Author
Ms Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh
Special invitees in conversation with the author
Mr K Pandiarajan
Business Coach & Bestselling Author
Founder, Ma Foi Group, Indian Businessman and Politician
Mr R Ramaraj Founder of Sify Technologies Ltd
Mr CK Ranganathan Chairman and Managing Director, CavinKare Pvt Ltd
Q&A Session 7:45 PM
Vote of Thanks
Synopsis Worry no more! WHERE'S THE MOOLAH? unlocks the hidden treasures that can enable you to grow your profits and manage your cash flow better. It tells you how to pivot for high financial performance, and how the different functions of a business can contribute to the overall financial growth. You will find takeaways in the form of tools to capitalize on various aspects of the business for enhancing financial growth, maximizing efficiencies, dos and don'ts and scorecards.
Speakers
Sangeeta contributes as a business coach by enabling high performance & enhancing financial growth. As the founder & CEO of Gaintastic, Sangeeta is on a mission to enable, empower and elevate businesses with a purpose to serve entrepreneurs, leaders and teams to shine and succeed. She brings along rich corporate experience of twenty-five years with multinationals and her latest position was as the Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Technologies. Sangeeta is a Chartered Accountant, Management Accountant and completed executive education from Harvard Business
School.
She's
a
High
Performance
Business
Coach
from
International
Coaching
Federation
(PCC),
Professional Speaker and Best selling Author.
Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh
Accolades received: Awarded "Leading Woman Chief Financial Officer in India" "India's most influential women in Finance" "Innovator in Finance" at International Women Leaders Forum Awarded "100 inspiring authors of India" "Outstanding Professional" award by FICCI. Sangeeta is a keynote speaker at many national and international events, forums & Corporates on Business finance, High Performance and Leadership. She believes in value creation for her clients. She is an Independent Director in IFB Industries Limited. Married to Sumesh, mother of two and balances her personal, professional, social and spiritual life as an Art of Living practitioner.
Ma Foi K.Pandiarajan was born in 1959, April 26 in a small village called Vilampatti near Sivakasi. He lost his father, a match factory worker, when he was three months old. He studied through scholarships and completed his Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore in 1981. He did his MBA from the world renowned XLRI Jamshedpur, where he studied Human Resources Management. He started his career in Kolkata after his MBA.
AS A SOCIAL ACTIVIST Active trustee of various Foundations, MaFoi, Ekam, Sornammal Educational Trust & CIOSA. MaFoi
Foundation,
through
Disha
has
supported
more
than
4000
poor
children
through
scholarships. Disha also supports children who are weak in academics through various mentorship programmes.
K Pandiarajan
Disha
Sports
Academy
supports
under
privileged
kids
and
trains
them
in
boxing,
athletics
&
football. More than 2000 children’s lives have been saved through EKAM foundation which works heavily in the Healthcare sector. Sornammal Educational Trust works with more than 4000 women for the empowerment of women by training them in various activities & helping them with loans to create sustainable livelihood. 2000 widows have benefitted through the Sornammal Educational Trust and their children are supported through scholarships. Have motivated more than 1 lakh students through his leadership & entrepreneur speech. He has also authored motivational books in Tamil for youth. Has started & supported go green movement in his constituency in Virudhunagar. He is an active Rotarian.
-2AS A BUSINESSMAN Moved to Chennai & settled in Anna Nagar and started MA FOI, India’s largest HR Services Firm with just Rs.60,000/- in 1992. Created employment opportunities for more than 3,50,000 professionals. Has been instrumental in starting various companies and has nurtured various entrepreneurs. Has actively involved in CII, FICCI and many other associations like Chennai Angels, Native Lead etc., Recipient
of
the
EISENHOWAR
Fellowship
awarded
by
the
United
States
of
America
for
his
contribution to Human Resources & Consulting.
AS A POLITICIAN Has raised more than 60 questions in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Has been part of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and actively contributed. Has taken part in various debates pertaining to education, healthcare, social aspects & economic growth of the State. Has been awarded “Thiruvalluvar Award” for being an honest politician. Has Represented Tamil Nadu at GST Council.
Ramaraj has been a Senior Advisor to Elevar since 2014. Ramaraj works with Elevar entrepreneurs and the Elevar partnership as a mentor and guide. He is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in ventures in IT, cellular technology and the Internet. His last venture was Sify, where he was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Sify was the first Indian Internet Company to list on NASDAQ National Market in the US (NASDAQ –SIFY). He was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000 and was also voted the IT Person of the year (2000 and 2001), in a CNET.com poll in India. In 2010, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recognized him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for nurturing the Spirit of Entrepreneurship and inspiring and mentoring numerous entrepreneurs. Prior to Elevar, he was the Senior Advisor at Sequoia Capital. He is a Member of the Board of
R Ramaraj
Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Ramaraj is on the board of Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ), a Not-for-Profit organization. OGQ is committed to bridging the gap between the best athletes in India and the best athletes in the world thus helping Indian athletes to win Olympic Gold medals. He is the first Indian to be invited to the Board of Directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) where he served for six years as an Independent Director. He was a member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). R. Ramaraj holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He enjoys spending time studying the Vedanta philosophy with a desire to apply this ancient but time transcending philosophy in daily life.
Mr. CK Ranganathan was born in Cuddalore to parents with primary interest in education. He took up his Bachelors in Chemistry and after a short stint in the family business, he set up “Chik India”. The Company began its journey as Chik India and was renamed CavinKare Pvt. Ltd (CKPL) in 1998 with a starting investment of Rs. 15, 000/- The Company manufactures and markets many products under the brand of Chik, Spinz, Fairever, Meera, Nyle, Raaga Professional, Karthika, Indica, Cavin’s
Ruchi, Chinnis, Maa, Bacto V, Saafoo and Garden etc
both in domestic and international markets. The Company has pioneered the concept of 'Unisex Salons' in India with country’s most popular organized beauty salon brands – Green Trends and Limelite under its salon division,
which has a clear-cut focus on providing
personal styling and beauty solutions to everyone in the family. Mr. Ranganathan is the
CK Ranganathan
Chairman of CII Southern Region for the year 2021/22. He is the President of TiE –
Chennai Chapter for the years 2019-21. He is also Vice President of All India Management Association for the year 2020/21. He was the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry, Tamil Nadu State Council for the year 2009/10. He was also the past President of Madras Management Association. CK Ranganathan is one of the founder-members of the Ability Foundation – an NGO working towards the rehabilitation of the disabled. He instituted
CAVINKARE ABILITY AWARDS
to celebrate annually the exemplary
spirit of rare breed of individuals who have risen above their physical limitations to display that attitude is everything. He also instituted an annual
CHINNIKRISHNAN INNOVATION AWARDS
to encourage small entrepreneurs in
memory of his father Shri. R Chinnikrishnan, the man who pioneered the sachet revolution.
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