Kiran Karnik describes himself as a ‘public un-intellectual’, a non-academic with a strong interest in public policy and strategy. Columnist and author, his books include “eVolution: Decoding India’s Disruptive Tech Story” (2018), “Crooked Minds: Creating an Innovative Society” (2017), and “Coalition of Competitors: The Story of Nasscom and the Indian IT Industry” (2012). His latest book (“Decisive Decade: India 2030, Gazelle or Hippo”) was released in June, 2021.

He is widely recognized for his work in the IT sector, as President NASSCOM from 2001 to 2008, and for helping to put fraud-hit Satyam Computers back on track as Chairperson of its government-appointed Board. He has been on many key government committees, including the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister and the National Innovation Council.

As CEO of Discovery India (1995-2001), he launched Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in India and South Asia. He was Founder-Director of Consortium for Educational Communication (1991-95), which oversaw production and transmission of UGC’s Countrywide Classroom TV programmes. He began his career in the Department of Atomic Energy, and spent over two decades in ISRO focussing on applications of space technology, especially for education and development, including the path-breaking Indo-US Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE) and the Kheda TV project. He has also worked in the United Nations – in New York and Vienna – and for Unesco in Afghanistan.

Currently, he is Chairperson of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi and HelpAge India, and is also involved with a number of other not-for-profit organizations in the fields of education and development. Earlier, he was Chairperson of Oxfam India (2004-19), and President India Habitat Centre (2006-18). He was a Director on the Board of Reserve Bank of India (2011-15), and chaired its IT subsidiary, Reserve Bank IT Pvt. Ltd. from its inception till September 2021.

Mr. Karnik has been conferred many awards, including the Padma Shri.

Rumjhum Chatterjee is the Co-founder of The Infravision Foundation.

She was a Co-Founder of the Feedback Infra Group and was its Group Managing Director till 2021.

A leading practitioner of the management of human capital in the infrastructure sector, she was recognized as one of the 20 Most Talented HR Leaders in India by the World HRD Congress in 2013.

Rumjhum served as the first woman Chairperson for CII Northern Regional Council (2016-17) – the largest of the 4 Regions of CII, comprising 9 states.

She has a deep interest in women’s empowerment. She served as Chairperson of CII Women Exemplar Program for 2015-17 and has been part of the Jury of the Selection Committee of the same program since its inception. She has represented industry’s views on the subject before Parliamentarians in India. She also participated in a closed-door interaction to discuss women’s empowerment with Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe, during his visit to India in January 2014.

Currently, she is the Chairperson of CII’s National Council on Women’s Empowerment and Inclusion.

She serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Somany Ceramics Limited and C&S Electric Limited. She is also a member of the Governing Body of HelpAge India and its Vice Chairperson.

She serves as a Trustee of ‘3E Education Trust’ (HDFC Schools) and as Chairperson of Feedback Foundation.

Rumjhum is educated in Psychology from Calcutta University.

J.C. Luther has been a lecturer of Economics & Public Affairs at Aitchison College, Lahore (April 1945 – May 1947). He then joined Indian Revenue Service after Combined Civil Services Examination, 1945. He has held important assignments in the Reserve Bank of India and Government of India including Ministry of Finance, Administrative Reforms Commission, Ministry of Steel and Heavy Engineering and the Central Board of Direct Taxes. His specialized experience includes economic, financial and Industrial Policies at Macro and Micro levels, legal, commercial and accountancy framework for Corporate Affairs along with International Collaborations.

He was also the Director at the Ministry of Steel and Heavy Engineering form 1967-72. In the Ministry of Home Affairs he has served as Director, Administrative Reforms Commission – 1966-67. He also has experience in the Ministry of Finance: Department of Expenditure, where he served as Deputy Financial Adviser – 1960-65

He has also worked with the Central Board of Direct Taxes where he had important Assignments including Commissioner of Income Tax and higher level appointments for 8 years.

He has been the Chief Consultant – Planning & Management, Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre, New Delhi, Consultant – Finance & Development, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, and Financial Director for A.B. Hotels Ltd. (Radisson Hotel).

He currently serves as Member of the Governing Body of HelpAge India.

Mr. Arun Seth was the Chairman of BT India and Alcatel-Lucent for 20 years. Owing to his industry expertise and leadership in the IT services arena, Mr. Arun Seth also served as a member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM, India’s leading industry association for IT and BPO. He was the founding chairman of the BPO Forum for NASSCOM. Mr. Arun Seth has over 30 years of commercial and technical expertise in the IT and telecommunications industry in India. Prior to joining BT in 1995, he was the senior vice president with the UB Group’s Corporate Management division in Bangalore and Delhi. He headed the commercial operations of Unitel Communications, the telecommunications arm of the UB Group, for five years.

Mr. Seth is an alumnus of India’s prestigious institutions, IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta. He is on boards of various institutions and organisations such as TERI, TERI University, IIM Lucknow, Dominos India, Cadista Pharma, and Avendus Capital. Mr. Seth’s interests include charitable and educational initiatives in India.

Radhika Bharat Ram is the Founder of KARM Fellowship for Young Indian Women, which works with driven young women from underserved homes in the area of higher education & Joint Vice Chairperson of The Shri Ram Schools in Delhi-NCR. She leverages her active contribution in the education space by serving as a member of the Board of SRF Foundation. Under the aegis of Shri Educare Limited, an education consultancy company, she has been instrumental in setting up The Shri Ram Millennium Schools in NCR & The Shri Ram Early Years.

Lending her name and voice to pertinent social causes, Radhika currently serves as the Chairperson of the Indian Blind Sports Association & the JPM Senior Secondary School for the Blind. She is also the Jt. Secretary of The Blind Relief Association, a non-government organization working to empower visually impaired persons by imparting education and skill development training.

With a keen eye and interest in reviving the rich heritage of Indian arts and culture, she has served as the Hon. General Secretary of Delhi Crafts Council from 2016 to 2020. As a part of her engagement at Delhi Crafts Council, a number of initiatives were undertaken that were directed not only towards the survival of crafts but with the livelihood prospects of the artisans as well.

Radhika is also a Trustee of CAPED – Cancer Awareness, Prevention and Early Detection that has been working in the area of awareness creation for women-centric cancers with a focus on cervical cancer. Radhika is a firm believer and strong advocate of women’s health and well-being.

Radhika is a Trustee of the Ananta Aspen Centre, a board member of Teach For India, Delhi and the Chairperson of the CII National School Education Council. Additionally, Radhika has been a member of the Steering Committee of CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Program since 2014, which promotes women’s empowerment at grassroots level. As a Founding member of AVPN Asia Gender Network supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she hopes to help further the cause of gender equality and improve outcomes for women and girls in Asia. She has also co-founded ‘Theatre for a Cause’ to raise funds for NGO’s through Theatre.

She was conferred by Mahatma Award for Social Impact 2021 and Women Economic Forum as Women of the Decade in Community Leadership in December 2019. She was also mentioned as one of the change makers in the book ‘Why People Give’ by Ratna & Suhasini Vira.

She currently serves as a member on the Governing Body of HelpAge India.

Ms. Nayyar is a seasoned finance and strategy professional. Her career spans multiple years of diverse experience, having worked in various senior positions in India and the UK with multinational banks. In addition to this, she has over a decade of experience serving as a board member/advisor and is recognised as a seasoned angel investor.

She currently serves on the board of various large corporate boards including, ASK Investment Advisors, Transport Corporation of India, PNB Housing Finance Ltd. amongst others and is the chairperson of the Audit, NRC, SRC, CSR, Investment committee across these organisations. She also serves on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management-Udaipur.

Ms. Nayyar is deeply committed to philanthropic causes and giving back to society, particularly to the causes of helping the aged and to promoting gender diversity. She works actively to promote these causes across various organisations.

Ms. Nayyar is an MBA Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, USA, and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics Honours) degree from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi.

Kaushik Dutta is the founding co-director of Thought Arbitrage Research Institute (TARI) which a not-for-profit organisation set up under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act. TARI is one of the few privately-funded, independent and non-partisan Indian think-tanks on Corporate Governance, Sustainability, Economics and Public Policy.

He retired in July 2010 from PricewaterhouseCoopers after spending over 22 years in the practice out of which 17 years were as a partner. He has been a member of the India Leadership Team of PricewaterhouseCoopers, national IFRS leader, Corporate Governance Practice leader, deputy assurance leader amongst other national and global roles. He was earlier a partner with the Global Capital Markets Group of PwC International, NYC and oversaw risks in capital markets.

Mr. Dutta has worked with the lndian lnstitute of Corporate Affairs under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as an expert on corporate governance and with the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) as a senior expert after retirement. He has been a member of the committee of SFIO on the report on early warning signals for predicting fraud in India.

He has authored the following books: Corporate Governance – Myth to Reality (LexisNexis, 2005), India Means Business – How the Elephant Earned its Stripes (Oxford University Press, 2012), Handbook for Independent Directors -¬ Upholding the Moral Compass (LexisNexis, 2015) done in collaboration with EY LLP (now in its 2nd Edition), Contributing Author of over 1000 pages of CR Datta on Company Law (LexisNexis, 2018) and Ministry of Corporate Affairs – Corporate Governance¬ Change and Continuity (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has written over 100 thought papers on corporate governance, sustainability, business and policy issues in newspapers, journals and business magazines.

Mr. Dutta serves as the Chairman of Zomato Limited and as a Director including Chair of Audit and other committees on the Boards of HCL lnfosystems Ltd, Newgen Software Technologies Limited, Policy Bazaar (PB Fintech) Limited and Resilient Innovations Private Limited (BharatPe).

He sits on the Board/Management committees of not-for-profit organisations – HelpAge India, PSI and DPS Society and is an audit committee member of the Akshay Patra Foundation.

He has been a visiting faculty in IIM Calcutta for over 10 years and other engagements of teaching governance, risk and compliance include institutes like llM Lucknow, llM Bangalore, ICAI, llCA, Asian Institute of Technology, and NIFM, etc.

Education
Fellow Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Bachelor of Commerce, St. Xavier’s College.

Sanjeev Kapur is Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Asia, MetLife. Currently, he is responsible for leading the Marketing, Product and Value management teams across Asia Pacific including Japan. He is also the business lead for managing customer facing digital platforms and has commercial accountability to deliver digital sales, service and engagement outcomes for our Asia business. In addition to the Asia responsibilities, he is responsible for scaling the award-winning 360Health solution and digital ecosystems across regions. He is a member of MetLife’s Asia Leadership Group as well as the Global Marketing Leadership team. He also serves on several boards of MetLife entities in Asia. He is based in Singapore.

Kapur brings a wealth of business and transformation experience to MetLife. Over his career, he has held various management roles in sales, marketing, digital, product management and business P&L roles through which he accelerated business growth and modernized capabilities in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and financial services industries.

He joined MetLife in 2017 from Citi where he was the Regional Head of Marketing and Digital sales, responsible for leading its regional and country teams across 17 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle-East & Africa. Prior to joining Citi, he led the brand and product strategy at Unilever.

Kapur holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology and is a distinguished alumnus from the XLRI, India from where he holds an MBA in marketing and finance.

He currently serves as a member on the Governing Board of HelpAge India.

Rohit Prasad has 20 plus years of experience in general management and organisation building both across the corporate and development sector, with focus on healthcare and public health. This includes leadership roles in business planning and execution, program and initiatives implementation, operations and performance management.

Rohit worked as Director-Development & Strategic Initiatives with Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a non-profit public private initiative. Earlier, he was with McKinsey & Company for over eight years in practice building and growth roles (across two stints) with its Asia Healthcare Practice and Organisation Practice. He served Ernst & Young India for over two years in its Markets Group and early in his career, he has done assignments with the India unit of Economist Intelligence Unit, Exim Bank of Korea, and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited.

Rohit has an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi and Bachelors in Arts (Economics Honours) from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi.

He joined HelpAge India in October 2017, as Chief Operating Officer (COO), and was responsible for program strategy and implementation in the area of healthcare, age care, livelihoods, and advocacy for the cause and care of the elderly.

On 1st July 2020, Rohit took over the reins as Chief Executive Officer of HelpAge India, post the retirement of his predecessor Mr. Mathew Cherian.