MY JOURNEY - FROM A CORPORATE LEADER TO AN ENTREPRENEUR 6:00 PM
Welcome Address Mr Kimsuka Narasimhan CFO, Kimberly - Clark Asia Pacific
Introductory Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd
Address by the Speaker
Ms Zia Hajeebhoy
Ms Zia Hajeebhoy
Director, Aquasail Pvt Ltd &
Director, Aquasail Pvt Ltd &
Former Business & Marketing Head,
Former Business & Marketing Head
Monsanto India Ltd
Monsanto India Ltd
Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees
MONDAY SEP 28, 2020 | 6.00 PM
Mr R Gopalakrishnan Former Executive Director, Tata Sons Ltd
Ms Virginia Roche Founder and Managing Director Nawras Solutions LLC, Oman
Ms Gayathri Suresh Entrepreneur
7:45 PM
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Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA
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ZIA HAJEEBHOY Zia is from Mumbai. Her first job was at Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), where she started as a management trainee; her career spanned companies such as Unilever, Reckitt Benkiser, IL&FS and Monsanto. She then became an entrepreneur, setting up Aquasail, a leisure sailing business in India. She worked and succeeded in building a market around this team sport, linking corporate dynamics to managing uncertainties in sailing.
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VIRGINIA ROCHE
R GOPALAKRISHNAN R.
GOPALAKRISHNAN
is
author,
speaker and corporate advisor, with a career spanning over 50 years. He
Limited, where he rose to be vice chairman,
Gayathri Suresh is the quintessential
the Jardine Group of Hong Kong and played a
entrepreneur, a woman who refused
leadership
role
1996.
She
Services
handled
first
company
the
global
in
to stay confined within the secure portals
of
a
well
paying
job.
A
real
estate needs of the top Fortune 100 accounts
Chartered
Accountant
by
profession, she ran through an entire
award winning professional and one of their
gamut of jobs as she moved from
serves as non-executive chairman of
top employees in the Asia Pacific Region. As a
Audit to FMCG to IT to Banking to
strategic thinker, she played an advisory role to
finally finding her niche in a start-
Castrol
a
director.
India;
an
years
Property
the
now
as
19
in
establishing
across various real estate services. She was an
Sons
by
India
in
in
Tata
followed
GAYATHRI SURESH
Virginia Roche started her career in India with
International
spent 31 years in Hindustan Unilever
INVITEES
He
independent
director of Hemas Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka; S.P.
executive-in-residence
Jain
Institute
of
of
Management
and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai and distinguished Kharagpur.
He
professor has
of
IIT,
authored
nine
A Comma in a Sentence, Six Lenses and Doodles on Leadership. books so far, notably
the Tamil Nadu Government in the late ‘90s in setting up Tidel Park, one of the first IT parks in India, and also advised them on the entire IT
up,
she
wanted She moved to the Middle East in 2002. With her
forward
thinking
orientation
she
was
instrumental in establishing a secondary CBD in
and
insight
dreams.
world
of
business
and
government, made her a sought after advisor to senior civil servants as well as ministers.
journey
that
to
knew
that
do
something
need
along
she
exciting
with
the
confidence her superiors vested in her,
the
always
this
one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Her into
professional
spanned over 26 years. But
corridor.
a
empowered
her
to
chase
her
Today her ability to achieve coupled with a capacity to face all problems
With her strategic and unconventional thinking
with determination and courage has
with an appetite for risk taking, she established
helped Gayathri Suresh forge ahead
a construction company which she grew to a $250
million
industries.
organization
She
is
the
spanning
only
Indian
in her field.
multiple women
entrepreneur to foray into construction in the Middle East. Now she has moved back to India, and is also including continuing
her her
focus
to
advisory
entrepreneurial
roles
interest.
while Her
world view is that traditional approaches won't fuel growth anymore given the rapid change in consumer
behaviour,
only
a
deeper
understanding of the needs of the millennials will keep organizations relevant and profitable.
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