He was a member of the Tata Administrative Service and worked in several senior positions in the TATA Group in India and abroad for 25 years, including as executive director on the board of Tata Motors from 1981 to 1989. He worked with Arthur D.Little Inc, the international management consultancy, in the USA from 1989 to 1999, and consulted with companies across the world on issues of growth strategies and transformational change. He returned to India in 2000 and was Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India. Arun Maira was appointed a Member of the Planning Commission in the Government of India in July 2009.

Arun Maira is Chairman of the Quality Council of India, and Chancellor of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh. He has served on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry for many years and chaired several of its national committees. He has served on the boards of several large corporations, as well as social work organizations and educational institutions in India and abroad.

and evaluated, Val is a member of the British Psychological Society, holder of Level 1 & 2 EFPA Certifications, and a delegated assessor for delivery of Training certified by Psytech International. She has developed a Certificated learning route in Behavioural Assessment, based on the global norms of the ORCE method.

With a total experience of more than 25 years in the UK, USA and India, Val has worked with small, medium and large companies across all sectors, including: ITC, Airtel, Wipro, Thomson Reuters, Target, Infotech Enterprises, Godfrey Phillips, Ford, Barclays Bank and many more. to transform the way they measure people. All her business has come through personal referrals.

Project Team.

Before joining the Board of Directors, Ms. Gordon-Parla established an organizational relationship with PMI for the American Red Cross (a multi-billion dollar not-for-profit organization) to more rapidly progress their project management maturity. While at Booz Allen Hamilton, Ms. Gordon-Parla developed business with CXO-level clientele to transform e- business strategies into e-solutions that delivered operational savings and increased market share.

With over 20 years of management consulting and project delivery experience for commercial, governmental and not-for-profit organizations in North America and EMEA, Ms. Gordon-Parla was recently a keynote speaker on the value of project management at a symposium for the multi-billion Turkish defense industry. She has also been a regular speaker at PMI Leadership Institute Meetings in North America, EMEA and Latin America.

Ms. Gordon-Parla is currently on the faculty at Middle Eastern Technical University in Turkey, where she is working to integrate project, program management, and ethics across the undergraduate and MBA curricula. She is also a principal consultant in the United States and European divisions of Business Management Consultants, a global project management training and consultancy company. Additionally, Ms. Gordon-Parla served as secretary, board of directors, for the Turkish American Association-Ankara, a bi-national organization, delivering cultural and English-language education programs.

In addition to the Project Management Professional (PMP)^® credential, Ms. Gordon-Parla holds a master's degree in information/telecommunications management and a bachelor's degree in computer science. She graduated from the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class in 2007.

living life. He makes one realise that if one door closes another door opens. Life is an opening. His self-development programs have been rated as excellent & benefited many in the corporate sectors of reputed institutions like banking, finance, industry, armed forces, police and prestigious business schools like Indian School of Business etc. Leading industrial houses invite him to conduct 'In-house workshop' for their executives. Swamji has been a Sport Psychology coach for cricket team like Delhi Dare Devils.

"Times of India" in one of their poll on "who talks the best" places Swamiji as the one, who tops the list on all counts as the best speaker.

"The Week" magazine acclaims Swamiji as one among the top five best exponent of spiritual knowledge.

Swamiji's English books "Oh, Mind Relax Please!" and "Oh, Life Relax Please!" are the top best sellers in the country and has set a new bench mark in the lives of many, from the Kargil hero Gen. V. P. Malik who swear by the inspiring content of the book to the New York city Mayor who acknowledges its usefulness to diminish work pressure and dealing with New York City press!

Swamiji's book "Manase Relax Please" has set an all time sales record in the history of Tamil, Kannada & Telugu books and has been included as a part of curriculum in some of the schools & colleges. Leading personalities have termed that he has revolutionized Tamil literature through his books.

Swamiji was invited as a dignitary on five different panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and was a special invitee to the United Nation World Millennium Summit of spiritual Leaders. Swamiji is the second Indian to be honored at the prestigious lotus millionaires Intellectual Club at Manhattan, New York.

Swamiji's works in audio and video have been transforming the lives of many through Sa Re Ga Ma and Times Music. His message on the Aastha, Sanskar and many other Channels is reaching a wide spectrum of people both in India and Overseas.

Prasanna Trust under his inspiration and guidance runs an orphanage for girls, provides artificial limbs and calipers to people with impoverished background, provides scholarship for students from economically weaker section, conducts regular poor feeding and blood donation camps.

Swamiji was awarded 'Karnataka's Best Social Service Award' by Essel group & Zee network. In recognition of his service to humanity at large, Swamiji is also awarded "Rotary Seva Ratna Award" by Rotary International.

Having steered the MakeMyTrip business as CEO since its inception in 2000, Deep took on the role of Group CEO in August 2013, to focus on Strategy, M&A and international businesses.

Deep has been serving as the President of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Delhi Board since January 2013. He is also closely involved with NASSCOM's Gurgaon Regional Council.

Deep has been recognized by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year - Business Transformation (2011). A survey conducted by KPMG and Impact magazine identified him as the most powerful Digital influencer in India (2012) and IAMAI named him 'Internet Man of the Year' (2010). TTG Asia awarded him Best Travel Entrepreneur of 2012 at the TTG Travel Awards. IIIM-A felicitated him as a 'Distinguished Alumni' during the Institute's Golden Jubilee celebrations in December 2011.

Deep holds an MBA (PGDM) degree from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Bhaskar Pramanik is responsible for overseeing Microsoft's sales, marketing and services subsidiary, provide overall leadership on all Microsoft assets in India and lead the company's citizenship agenda in close alignment with India's national priorities.

Bhaskar has more than 35 years of experience in the Indian IT industry. Prior to joining Microsoft, Pramanik was Managing Director at Oracle India.

Prior to that, he worked for Sun Microsystems for 13 years as the Managing Director in India and his last assignment was as Global Vice President, Commercial Systems at the U.S. HQ. At Sun Microsystems, Pramanik was instrumental in building the company's presence in India and growing the company at a pace faster than the industry average. Bhaskar has held several senior management positions in companies like Digital Equipment India Ltd., Blue Star Ltd., and NELCO. His last held position at Digital Equipment was Director, Enterprise Sales, Digital Equipment Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

Bhaskar is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has also attended the Advanced Marketing Management Program at the Stanford University. Pramanik is a member of various committees in CII, MAIT, NASSCOM and was the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce, Karnataka, in 2003-2004. He is currently a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM.

He is based in Gurgaon with his family. His wife Madhumita is involved with NGOs to teach underprivileged school children and is active with the Times Group 'Teach India' program. He has two adult children. His interests are photography, reading and rebuilding his golf game.

He transcended film direction to writing screenplays for films like RAAZ, JISM, MURDER, ZEHER, KALYUG, GANGSTER, JANNAT to name a few.

He has also directed & hosted several documentaries like Poison on a platter–an expose on genetically modified food,the super cyclone in Orissa,the carnage in Gujarat and has anchored & hosted Haqeeqat, a show on human right violations on Sahara T.V as well as Imaging Science, a show telecast on Doordarshan.

Mahesh Bhatt is the creative head of Vishesh Films a reputed production house which makes 2 to 3 films every year. Their latest offering was Aashiqui2 which struck gold at the box office.

Besides being India’s most prolific film-makers & mentor to a battery of fresh and unusual talent who have today become names to reckon with, Mahesh Bhatt is also a writer of great repute.

He wrote U.G. Krishnamurty-A Life which has been translated into several languages including German. The revised version of which has won acclaim by being in the top ten list of the Associated Press of New York’s selection of Best books in the Non Fiction category.

He compiled,edited & wrote the foreword for a book of quotations of U.G Krisnamurthy called ‘The Little Book Of Questions’.

He also wrote A Taste Of Life-The last days of U.G Krishnamurti- his most searing work till date & one which was also translated into Hindi.

His future book projects include the memoirs he is writing about his years in the Hindi Film Industry, which is to be published by Aleph.

Vishal has dedicated more than 2 decades to healthcare management and is recognized for successfully building and leading global healthcare delivery organizations in Asia. His previous assignments include spearheading the growth of Wockhardt Hospitals as one of the largest specialty hospital chains in India as its CEO. His expertise in successfully integrating healthcare strategy, operations and management through Information technology has set industry benchmarks.

Vishal completed his Bachelors in Science and Masters in Business Administration from Bombay University and completed an advance program in hospital management from Boston. He sits on the board of leading healthcare organisations and has been an invited member of the Strategic Initiatives group of Joint Commission International, US and on the Global Agenda Healthcare Council of the World Economic Forum. His keen interest in education and globalisation of healthcare takes him to leading Healthcare Education Institutes and Business Schools globally, which includes a case study at the Harvard Business School. He is an active member of various Industry bodies and a globally recognized industry public speaker.