The Covid Dilemma - Decoding the waves - 6 Jul 2021

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

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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