Shravani Dang
Mentor – Corporate Outreach at Narayan’s Bharat
Fulcrum Lifetime achievement awardee,CAF India Board member, Online Reputation specialistA policy, industry/govt relations, communications and CSR leader, Shravani is a reputation and brand de-risker, analyst and expert. A trusted advisor and counsel to boards and leadership, she serves as a board member to international NGO Charities Aid Foundation (CAF India), and as Advisor to Agastya International Foundation, Thapar varsity (internationaly ranked and India’s 8th best Engineering and Technology university) and Avantha. She is an independent member of the board of CyberMedia- an IT industry media group. Shravani has had a career utilizing policy, communications, stakeholder management, brand positioning and change management strategies to transform organizations and positively influence the conversations and perceptions about them. Her experience is in multinational companies across Technology, Financial, Education, Not-for-profit and Industrial sectors, in both complex and large organizations with staff strength ranging from 10,000 to 100,000. Previously, Shravani was Vice President at the Avantha Group, one of India’s largest and broad-based industrial conglomerate. She led the enterprise-wide Communications and marketing function globally, focused on reinforcing Avantha’s strong corporate values and driving business outcomes as the organization continually strengthens its engagement and trust with stakeholders, including customers, employees, media, government officials and regulatory agencies. She also provides counsel and operates as a devil’s advocate to CXOs.
Previously, Head & Associate Director Fidelity in India. Worked with internationally reputed brands like IT giants CSC ($17b billion) and HCL ($ 6 b) and international relief and development MNC CARE India ($ 100 m).Specialties: Policy, Stakeholder outreach, CSR strategy and implementation, Reputation risk analysis, Broad experience in all aspects of business leadership, policy, sector and industry outreach, CSR, with extensive experience in corporate positioning and programs designed to establish and sustain stakeholder trust.
Mr. Arun Murthy Battula, FRSA, Senior Advisor, Project and Program Management at Narayan’s Bharat
CEO of CREACTOS PALMYGA with a wealth of knowledge and wisdom in business strategy and planning, he is a business strategy expert with global experience. His other prominent roles include, Vice-Chair Marketing at Europe India Centre for Business and Industry. Arun carries the vision of a philosopher and an ardent philanthropist. An artist in the making, change maker and Leadership Coach, Arun M Battula comes with 23 years of Industry experience in Information Technology, Project, Program and Stakeholder Management for Fortune 100 clients and Startups. An alumnus of GIM, Panaji, he has also learnt from the Executive programs at IIM Calcutta and London School Economics, London.
Sumathi Rao
Senior Advisor – CSR Advocacy and Government Outreach at Narayana’s Bharat
Public Health Advocacy, Media, Development Sector Leader,
with experience in advising Corporate, and NGO’s to manage social sector programs with good social return on investment and measurable impact. Former journalist and Director Communications and Sustainability Philips India. Experience in leading, mentoring and monitoring healthcare programs for women and child health, non -communicable diseases, sanitation, education, nutrition and skill development. Driven award winning media advocacy and awareness programs on breast cancer, sleep awareness, respiratory, nutrition and women and NCD prevention. Work closely with companies, government and industry bodies. Some key achievements Healthcare: – Created programs for access to Healthcare for women and children, aligned to UN SDG goal 3. Managing several projects across India. Focus on women and child care, in RMNCH&A cycle, driving initiatives and measuring them to reduce infant mortality through uptake of institutional deliveries, better reproductive health , immunization, sanitation, pre -natal and post- natal care. Education and Skill Development: Adopted and worked with government schools for WASH initiatives and science education, conceptualized “Philips Paatshala” worked on science sensitization modules, adolescent workshops, training against child abuse and computer training. Leadership Training –Diversity coach and mentor, media training and strategy across traditional and new age media both for B2B and B2C, storytelling, personal branding and gender sensitization. Good Success and specialty in Leadership Communication.
Venkatesh Murthy
Mentor – Corporate Relations and Human Resource Management at Narayana’s Bharat
Venkatesha Murthy is the founder and Chief Mentor of ‘Youth for Seva’, a forum to empower youth to become selfless change agents in the society. After completing his B.Tech in Computer Science from KREC(now NIT), Suratkal in 1990, Venkatesha worked for 15 years with IT industry in India and USA. Apart from professional engagement in USA, he was actively involved with many voluntary organizations like Sewa International, India Development & Relief Fund and Balagokulam in USA. He took time off for two years and volunteered full time in West Indies (Trinidad and Guyana) working with children and youth addressing the issue of teenage suicides among Indian origin youth. In January 2007, Venkatesha relocated back to Bangalore and was working at EMC Data Storage Systems. He started “Youth for Seva” in April 2007 to provide a platform for youth to give back to the community. Looking at the overwhelming response to the initiative, In 2008, he left EMC and started to work fulltime with Youth for Seva. Since its inception, YFS has attracted over 80,000 volunteers across the country and has spread its wings to 35 towns across 12 states. In recognition of Youth for Seva’s contribution to corporate volunteering, YFS has been recognized as official NGO partner by # Self4Society, a central govt initiative under myGov. YFS has partnered with over 150 corporates for CSR projects as well as employee volunteering programs. In recognition of the valuable contribution, Youth for Seva was conferred the prestigious “Rajyotsava Award” by the Karnataka State Government in 2020. Venkatesha has been mentoring many NGOs across India in their organisation development initiatives and has nurtured many young changemakers to start their own organisations. Until October 2020, Venkatesha was the Executive Director and has recently taken up the role of Chief Mentor at Youth for Seva
Johnson Mathew
CHRO – IRM Group
Mentor – Corporate Relations and Human Resource Management at Narayana’s Bharat
Having 25+ years of experience in HR domain. His main forte is Talent Acquisition & Talent Management. He believes in nurturing, moulding & shaping right talent for the organization. His punch word always remains to Be Positive. His integrity, Intelligence & energy makes him the very best in the HR Domain. He always brings simplicity out of the clutter, harmony out of discord and opportunity out of difficulties. He is designed for accomplishment, engineered for success and endowed with the seeds of greatness and always believed in the ideology of “Innovation,Transformation and Inspiration”.
Siddhinath Vishwakarma
Senior Advisor – Campaign: Strategy & Process at Narayan’s Bharat
Siddhinath Vishwakarma is a stalwart in the media industry of India.
Siddhinath served as the Editor- Output at Zee Media Corporation Limited. At ZMCL, Siddhinath drove the channel into the top-3 of the Hindi news segment for a continuous period of 3+ years and worked extensively on the prime-time show DNA. Devised strategies for content monetization, co-branded events and revitalized the channel’s branding and positioning for different user segments. Drove the channel to the top-3 channels in hindi news for a continuous period of 3+ years, along with primetime show DNA as a market leader in the late evening segment for 250+ continuous weeks. He was also involved with some of the most ground-breaking news coverages, like the JNU protests, the Ram Mandir coverage, the COVID-19 coverage, and Taal Thok Ke. He has served as the Senior Producer at Aaj Tak where he was in-charge of two prime-time shows. He played a major part in Delhi Aaj Tak’s launch, managed content, production, and scheduling of 3 India Today conclaves, and reformatted the popular show 10Tak with structural, content, and design changes. CNN Young Journalist Award, 2013: Child trafficking story NT Awards, 2020: Khakee ke janbaaz: Best brand partnerships for news television ENBA Award, 2019: 360 degree coverage on Delhi pollution.
Meenakshi Patil
Associate Partner , IBM Latin America
Senior Advisor, Corporate Relations, Technology Integration & Global Community Outreach at Narayana’s Bharat
A very passionate tech enthusiast, Meenakshi comes with 20+ years’ experience in Software Industry – inclusive of Sales, Business development, Setting up CoC, Business & technology Consulting, Business & Process Automation, Program and Delivery management, Commercial off the shelf (COTS) product implementation. Prior to joining IBM, she worked as Program Director – Testing Services with Mindtree based out of London, heading UK & Continental Europe.
Meenakshi is currently heading the IGNITE Practice & Sales for Latin America, based out IBM Brazil. Prior to this – she was heading the Emerging Technologies GNITE Practice (AI, Blockchain, Microservices, Salesforce & Quantum computing). She has worked with the cream of fortune 500 clients, to name a few – Southwest Airlines, Sabre, PepsiCo, Boeing, Elance, RCI, IATA, Volvo, Citrix, Bell Canada, Unilever, TIM, ITAU, Santander, CEMEX, Copco, Deutsche Bank, to name a few. She is a highly energetic & enthusiastic person, with key strengths being in customer facing, engagement, and sales pursuits having worked 10+ years in US/UK/Europe/LATAM. She has been a recipient of various awards across the organizations she has worked in.
She holds an Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) – Civil and a certification in “Blockchain architecture and use cases” from IIT, Kharagpur. She has ventured in Intraprenurship in Regulatory assurance services to meet growing regulatory needs & as an Entrepreneur for mobile app for food orders (Hungry Bells). She is an investor in ‘Gratis Energy’ which is into manufacturing of hydrogen cylinders for commercial vehicles.
She serves on the Advisory Board of Vision Karnataka Foundation which is working towards the Digital Transformation of the Karnataka State. She is a Council Member of STEP-IN Forum, a leading Asia Pacific Conference. She has been a key speaker in various conferences across the world on Emerging Technologies, key one being IBM THINK 2019 in San Francisco which had 30k people from all over the world.
Meenakshi is passionate about CSR initiatives and was part of the Pinkathon & Times Women’s Drive Car Rally in May 2018 from Bangalore to Goa to raise Breast Cancer Awareness. She has initiated the OXFAM-UK 100km walkathon in London. She has successfully done the 100-km walkathon twice in Bengaluru (2014 & 2015) and raised funds for the fight against poverty and social injustice.
Vinay N
Chief Visionary Officer – Corporate Engagement The Narayana’s Bharat
Vinay N is a Visionary Entrepreneur Founder & CEO Global Brands Connect & Curator of Purposeful Summits for – Luxury & Lifestyle Brands / CXO Exclusives /SmartCity & Future City Exclusives. Awarded by the Citation – TOP RETAIL MINDS from Asia Africa GCC Retail Shopping Center Congress – 2019 / 2020 & he is also the Global Ambassador for GSFI – CXOconnect, empowering the Future Technology & Solutions across the Globe. Holding 20+ Years of Experience in Brand Promotion & Development , have a cross industry experience covering Mobile Advertising , Sales Promotions , for IT-Telecom, Fashion & Luxury Retail & Automobile & in a Mission to Support & Empower Brands by his unique skill sets. Mr. Vinay , is an expert in curating Collaborative Techniques with the Unique WiN WiN WiN Strategy to make Brands Connect with the Right Demographics & Enhance Value for the Brands & specializes in New Client Acquisition & Retention Programs which are embedded with larger than life Experiential Strategies. Focused & result oriented Individual with a never-ending desire to excel in the domain of Brand Positioning, Development and Brand Advisory with Innovative concepts. Vision & Mission: To support 50,000 Enterprises across the globe by accelerating Sales by the power of effective collaboration enabling & building Credible Human Relationships, impacting on consistent Smarter & Sustainable Innovation delivering 10 Lacs employment opportunities and to contribute 5,00,000 Billion Dollars for the Global Economy resulting WiN WiN WiN opportunities for everyone.
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