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ARUN GUPTA
CUSTOMER CARE ASSOCIATE & GROUP CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER,
SHOPPERS STOP LTD & K RAHEJA CORP
Arun Gupta has been providing IT leadership since 1994 to companies
spread across diversified sectors including Pharmaceuticals, Telecom, Logistics,
Merchant Banking & Asset Management, and Shipping. In 2007, he joined
Shopper’s Stop Limited and is also the Group CIO for K Raheja Corp. Arun has
won various awards globally and is on The Global CIO 50: IT Leaders Changing
the Business World published by Information in June 2009. He is a member of
the CIO Advisory Council of India, Chairman of the Technology Committee of RAI
and President of the Datawarehouse Institute, India Chapter. |
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ARUN MAHAJAN
MD, STYLE SPA
An ex-banker, Arun Mahajan has been credited with turning around Style Spa
and converting into a leading furniture brand across India with a network of 100
stores in 65 cities in India. One of the first ones to see opportunity in the semi
urban markets, Style Spa now has 40 stores are located in these markets. His
eight-year stint at Style Spa has been marked with smooth transition, high growth
and a robust business model. His vision is to make Style Spa the most trusted
furniture brand in India. |
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ARUN SIRDESHMUKH
CEO, APPAREL BUSINESS, RELIANCE RETAIL
Arun Sirdeshmukh has been associated with the apparel industry for almost
two decades. Arun is an Engineer, with a MBA degree from IIM Calcutta. Since
2007, Arun has been the CEO of the Apparel business of Reliance Retail -
Reliance Trends Ltd. He heads a team of more than 200 talented members.
Previously Arun joined Madura Garments at a very early stage of the launch of
brands such as Van Heusen and Louis Philippe. |
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ARVIND NAGPAL
FOUNDER & CEO, TEG BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Arvind Nagpal has 20 years of management experience in delivering a
wide range of Business Analytics Solutions to Enterprise customers. Arvind is
the founder and CEO of a Retail Analytics firm, TEG Business Solutions, with
clients in Latin America, US and India. Arvind has mobilised a team of experts
with industry knowledge, domain expertise and decision sciences background
such as econometrics, operations research, statistics, and mathematics. Arvind
is a frequent speaker at business conferences and a published author. His book
has been the number one selling SAP book for several months. He earned his
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from REC Allahabad and Masters in Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research from North Carolina State University. |
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ASHOK MINAWALA
CHAIRMAN, PROJECTS COMMITTEE, GJF
Born on 21st January 1956 into a family of jewellers, Ashok Minawala
joined business soon after college in 1974. Subsequently, he joined the Danabhai
Group as sales and purchase executive. In 1982, he started the second Danabhai
Jewellers store in Zaveri Bazar, Mumbai; in 1988, he launched the third Danabhai
Jewellers flagship store in Santacruz West, Mumbai, and in 1999, rolled out
Pallazzio – Danabhai, a multi-brand store for jewellery, watches and accessories.
By 2007, he had expanded Pallazzio to Prabhadevi in Mumbai and Pune.
Minawala is the immediate Past Chairman of All India Gems & Jewellery Trade
Federation (GJF), and is currently a partner in Danabhai Jewellers & Sons, and
director in Danabhai Arcade Pvt Ltd – Pallazzio and Danabhai Jewellers Pvt Ltd. |
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ASHUTOSH CHAKRADEO
HEAD – BUYING, MERCHANDISING & SUPPLY CHAIN, HYPERCITY
Ashutosh Chakradeo holds a Masters degree in International trade. He
has worked with The Bombay Store as a part of their B & M team, for a period
of seven years. He has also worked for Arcus from 2002 - 2004 as Category
Manager, for their Home Improvement Division. Ashutosh joined Hypercity in
2004 and is currently the Head – Buying, Merchandising & Supply Chain. He has
acquired knowledge and expertise in sourcing of products across Food and Non-
Food categories over the last 15 years of working in the retail industry. He has
travelled widely through Asia and Europe, in his sourcing management role. |
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ASHWIN PURI
CEO, PROPERTY ZONE
Ashwin has over 10 years experience in the Indian retail real estate
industry. He leads a multi-disciplined team at Pioneer Property Zone (PPZ), and
influences the design process of shopping centres from concept level in sync
with property management. Over the last few years, he has been involved in
the conceptualisation and execution of over 7 million sq.ft of pan-India retail
developments. This has included investment advisory services for international
funds on retail-centric opportunities. PPZ is managing R City, Mumbai’s largest
retail destination, and is set to open shopping centres in key cities like Delhi,
Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad under Ashwin’s leadership. |
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ASHISH DIKSHIT
PRESIDENT, MADURA GARMENTS
Ashish Dikshit is currently the President of Madura Garments. He is an
Electronics & Electrical Engineer from IIT Madras and has done his Postgraduate
Diploma in Management (PGDM) from IIM Bangalore. Ashish has worked in
diverse roles across industries and functions of sales, marketing, supply chain
and strategy over the last 18 years. Madura Garments is India’s premier apparel
& lifestyle company, which has a portfolio of India’s most powerful apparel brands
such as Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Planet Fashion, Peter England,
People and Esprit. |
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B. S. NAGESH
VICE CHAIRMAN, SHOPPER’S STOP LTD; CHAIRMAN, RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
Recognised as the pioneer of the retail boom in India, B S Nagesh has been
voted by Business India as one of the top 50 managers in India. In the last 18
years, Nagesh has taken the business of retailing to new heights. As the M.D.
of Shoppers’ Stop Limited, he has been involved in setting up and opening the
country’s largest hypermarket Hyper City and JVs for airport retailing as well as
for Timezone entertainment centres. He has won many accolades including ‘The
Retail Professional of The Year’ by CMAI for the years 2001, 2003, 2005 and
2006. Nagesh has been recognised as an iconic retailer and was inducted into the
‘World Retail Hall of Fame’ in 2008. |
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BHAGIRATH JALAN
CEO, JALANS
Bhagirath Jalan has done his schooling in Varanasi, graduation from
Banaras Hindu University and MBA from Cardiff University, UK. With a year’s
work experience at Future Group – Innovation & Incubation Department, he took
command of Jalans Retail two years back. Under his leadership the retail business
of the group is achieving growth of around 25 per cent every year. He has also
introduced new categories in this apparel business and transformed it into a
successful department store. |
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B. VENKATARAMANA
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER, LANDMARK GROUP INDIA (Lifestyle, Max, Spar, Citymax)
B. Venkataramana, Chief People Officer of Landmark Group India (Lifestyle
International) is a postgraduate in Human Resources Management with over
27 years of experience. His last assignment was with Reliance Retail Limited
as Senior Vice President - Human Resources for over four years. Prior to this
assignment, he was head of the Human Resource function at Reliance BPO,
Henkel India and Brigade Solutions. He was Chairman of the HR Panel for
CII, Southern Region as well as Chairman of Indian Society for Training &
Development, Chennai Chapter during 2008-09. |
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PROF. DR. BERND HALLIER
MD, EHI RETAIL INSTITUTE
Prof. Dr. Bernd Hallier is Managing Director of the EHI Retail Institute
since 1985. He is also the President of EuroShop, the worldwide exhibition for
retail investment goods, chairman of the Board of the Orgainvent, and founder of
EUREPGAP (now GlobalGAP- Good Agricultural Practice). Prof.Hallier manages
also the European Retail Academy as an executive member of the Board of
Trustees. Apart from his teaching activity in Germany he lectures in trade
marketing and trade management at the Moscow Academy of Business and in
Philadelphia. His book,“EuroShop”, published in German/English in 2004 and in
2008 in Russian, became a standard shopfitting literature. |
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BIJAY SAHOO
CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER, RELIANCE RETAIL
Bijay Sahoo has a rich experience of over 23 years with over 12 years at
leadership and Board level in the areas of strategic and talent management and
leadership development in multinational and leading national companies in India
and abroad. In his earlier assignment, Bijay was the Senior Vice President and
Global Head – HR at Wipro Technologies and a Director on the Board of Wipro
Spectramind. He has good experience of setting up HR practices for startup
organisations – IDBI Bank, Coopers and Lybrand, several business divisions of
Wipro Technologies and now Reliance Retail, Reliance Power & Telecom. Bijay is
an Economics (Hons.) graduate with Masters in Personnel Management. |
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BIJOU KURIEN
CHAIRMAN, IRF 2010; PRESIDENT & CE, RELIANCE RETAIL, LIFESTYLE
Bijou has been associated with marquee brands in the consumer products
industry for over 29 years. In his stint with Titan Industries, he helped build
powerful brands like Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, Tanishq, etc and also create India’s
largest exclusive brand retail chains. In his current stint with Reliance Retail, he
is at the forefront of one of the most ambitious retail ventures ever. Bijou has been
associated with the IRF and World Retail Congress and is also a member of the
National Retail committee of FICCI and CII. |
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BINDU SETHI
CHIEF STRATEGY PLANNING OFFICER, GREY ASIA PACIFIC
With over 25 years in the industry, Bindu’s experience spans from market
research, developing and heading strategic planning departments of JWT India to
being a chief architect in redefining HLL’s hair care strategy. Bindu’s contribution
to planning has shaped many brands, developed important strategic tools and
influenced a generation of planners. She began her career at the Indian Market
Research Bureau (IMRB) before moving to JWT, where she developed and headed
the Strategic Planning department for eight years. Instrumental in building JWT’s
reputation for deep consumer sensitivity and brand building, she also developed
the thinking behind how communication works with rural consumers, which led to
the formation of the social communication division of HTA. |
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BRENDAN DORRIAN
CEO, GLOBAL RETAIL NETWORK, UK
Brendan is described by Andrew Jennings, CEO, Woolworths South Africa,
as ‘The master networker in retail today’. Following a previously successful career
with Sears Corporation, Arcadia Group and BAA, Brendan formed the Global
Retail Network in 2002 to create a truly global network where the currency was
relationships, not revenues. Eight years later, the results speak for themselves:
Over five thousand retail executives worldwide, connected through one
organisation; not online but face to face. The most telling affirmation comes from
Retail Guru George Davies, who says: ‘It is friends like Brendan and the Global
Retail Network that give that different angle often needed; he is my secret asset!’ |
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B.V.K. RAJU
PARTNER, Q-MART ENTERPRISES
Currently a partner of Q-mart Enterprises, Raju handles the overall
management along with another partner. He is a marketing professional and
entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in handling diverse products such
as office automation equipment, satellite reception and distribution systems,
stationery and paper products and fast moving consumer goods. Along with a few
colleagues, he took over Q-mart in 2001 and turned it around. Q-mart is now
considered one of the most successful lifestyle supermarkets in Andhra Pradesh. |
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CHRISTIAN RIKKERS
MD, JOS DE VRIES
Christian has worked for several architects and after a retail assignment his
interest in this area was awakened. Thereafter he started to work for Jos de Vries,
The Retail Company. Together with Jos de Vries and his colleague he built an
international leading retail company with branches in Austria, Spain and Germany.
Since 2002 he is the MD of this company. The basic concept of the company
is to combine creative developments with commercial processes to ensure the
customer of a unique and distinctive feature for his/ her branch. |
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C.Y. PAL
CHAIRMAN, FRANCHISING ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
C. Y. Pal has worked in top multinationals for over 40 years. He was with
Hindustan Lever for 17 years in a number of senior management positions and
in Cadbury India as an executive director and then as managing director and
chairman as well since 1987. He continues to be associated with the company
as non-executive chairman. Besides his long association with Cadbury India, he
is on the Board of a number of companies, which include United Breweries and
Aptech. He is also the promoter and chairman of Renfro India, an Indo-American
JV. He is past president of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was
for five years a member of the Management Committeee of Assocham and is
currently the National President of Franchising Association of India. |
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CHETAN SHAH
MANAGING DIRECTOR, PJL CLOTHING INDIA LTD
Chetan has been heading the Indian and South Asian operation of Pepe
Jeans since 1991. His foresight and insightful strategy have catapulted Pepe
Jeans to the market leadership position in the premium jeans and casual wear
segment. Chetan is a recipient of various industry awards including the Best
Brand Professional award at the Images Fashion Awards. Born and brought up
in Nairobi, Chetan graduated with a Masters in International Management from
Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, USA. |
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