WOMEN'S BUSINESS COUNCIL
FIRESIDE CHAT
THE COVID DILEMMA -
DECODING THE WAVES
6:00 PM
Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association
Opening Remarks by the Chairman Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd
Ms Sujata Panju TV Personality
In conversation with Dr Susan Marthandan Dr Susan Marthandan
Ms Sujata Panju
Director of HCAS &
TV Personality
Director of Hindustan College of Arts & Science Smart Vision & Diabetes Clinic
Smart Vision & Diabetes Clinic
Concluding Remarks by the Chairman Mr V Balaraman
TUESDAY JUL 6, 2021 | 6.00 PM
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SPEAKERS
profile
DR SUSAN MARTHANDAN The only daughter of late DR KCG Verghese
from the illustrious Hindustan family , Dr Susan has a passion
and dedication to serve her patients and grow her institutions .
EDUCATION : After her MBBS at Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore ,she did her PG at Sri Ramachandra Medical College & RI, Chennai and was
University topper in her MS Ophthalmology in SRMC (DU). She was Senior
Retina Consultant at an eye hospital from 2003-2015 and then began Smart Vision and Diabetes Clinic in 2015
with
many
specialists
working
there.
She
has
attended
numerous
national
and
international
conferences and presented papers. She is a proud Rotarian and has been an active member doing a lot of service during the Covid period and is president of her Rotary club of Chennai Spotlight for 21-22. Director of Hindustan College of Arts & Science, Kelambakkam since 2005. She has been responsible for building the institution started 25 years back by her father
into a much sought after Centre of Excellence
with students from India and Abroad. Seeing the need she started the Hindustan Community College . Through this college she to 300 students every year
educates close
from the marginalised sections and school dropouts for the past 10 years in
vocational courses. She received many awards including the Women Entrepreneur award for her services in the medical and education field
from Raindrops, Womanation, Provoke awards and recently the Skill
Yojana award from the Governor Shri Bhanwarilal Purohitji in Jan 2020. During this COVID pandemic she has been providing many health services and has set up a 30 bed clinic with ICU for the general public to provide medical help. She is also the president of the Indo Australian association. She Is the proud mother of 3 sons and her hobbies are sports, fitness, and networking.
SUJATA PANJU A graduate in English Literature and a diploma in Fashion designing she
has always been into dramatics
and theatre. Born and raised in Jamshedpur she moved to Chennai post her marriage to Panju Mahadevan and has 2 children. Sujata was an English News Reader with Sun news channel and subsequently became a voice over artist. She’s lent her voice to many educational websites and the southern Railway enquiry system, both in Hindi and English. She turned a model and an actor, as her passion for
theatre was prevalent from her Jamshedpur days.
She acted in several tamil movies and a hindi movie She is a popular artist in television and movies. She’s featured in more than 200 commercial advertisements. Her latest is the Asian paints ad, which is being aired now. Sujata was crowned the ‘Mrs Chennai ‘and ‘Mrs Homemaker’ in the beauty pageant that she took part in. She, along with few other ladies, started the Rotary club of Chennai Spotlight, consisting of only ladies. She was the 5th president of her club and is a Paul Harris fellow. She has been assigned as the
Chairperson
for the Women Empowerment for Rotary District 3232, for the
year 2021-22. Sujata is an animal lover, and spreads awareness about their safety. Having a passion for the entertainment media, she started an event management company, Artwaltz, which encourages lesser known artists to come to the forefront and exhibit their talents. She organises large scale musical events and raises funds for causes.
CHAIRMAN
V BALARAMAN MBA from IIM Ahmedabad Former MD of Ponds’ Former export Director of Hindustan Lever Was independent director on Nokia, Mahindra World city; Polaris; Mother Dairy New Delhi; Intellect Design Arena Ltd Chairman of CAMS; Chairman of Footwear Design and Development Institute. Currently on Delphi TVS and India Nippon Electricals Ltd Past President of MMA.
MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION