D Sundaram

Vice Chairman & Managing Director
TVS Capital Funds Ltd

D. Sundaram's experience spans corporate finance, business performance, monitoring operations, governance, mergers & acquisitions, talent/people management and strategy.

Sundaram joined Hindustan Unilever Limited as Management Trainee in June 1975; and served in various capacities as Corporate Accountant, Commercial Manager and Treasurer till 1990. He was seconded to Unilever, London as Commercial Officer for Africa and Middle East Group between 1990 and 1993. He was the Commercial Manager of TOMCO integration team in 1993 / 94. He was CFO of Brooke Bond Lipton from 1994 to 1996 and served in Unilever London between 1996 to 1999, as Sr. Vice President (Finance, IT and Strategy) for South Asia and Middle East. In April 1999 he returned to HUL as Finance & IT Director.

Sundaram was elevated as Vice Chairman of HUL in April 2008. In all, Sundaram has more than 34 years of experience with Hindustan Unilever Limited. He is a two-time winner of the prestigious “CFO of the Year for FMCG Sector” award by CNBC TV18 (2006 and 2008).

He is currently the Vice Chairman and MD of TVS Capital Funds Ltd in partnership with Gopal Srinivasan (TVS family) in a growth capital Private Equity Fund (TVS Shriram Growth Fund.) Assets under Management Rs. 1200 Cr. ($175m). Sundaram brings deep financial expertise and significant understanding of consumer related businesses to the PE operations.
Sundaram is a Post Graduate in Management Studies (MMS), Chennai, Fellow of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and has done Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Programme (AMP).

Sundaram has served as an independent director on the Board of State Bank of India, between Jan 2009 to June 2014; of SBI Capital Markets between 2002 to 2014 and has been a member of the board of governors of Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai, since 2005.
He currently serves as an independent director on the boards of SBI General Insurance, GSK Pharma India, Crompton Greaves Consumer Limited and Trent Hyper Market (JV with TESCO).

Sunil Chandiramani

Chief Executive Officer
NYKA Advisory Services LLP

Sunil is a Chartered Accountant with a Masters in Systems Management and a seasoned IT Security Professional. He is the CEO of NYKA Advisory Services LLP, focussed on working with High Growth Entrepreneurs on their strategic and hyper growth agenda. He has over 30 years of consulting experience serving Indian and MNC clients on their transformation journey in thearea of corporate strategy, technology transformation, operational effectiveness, corporate governance, enterprise risk management and internal audits.

Sunil worked for 25 years with Ernst & Young LLP, India’s leading professional services firm. He was the CEO of the Advisory Practice and responsible for building India’s Largest Advisory Practice (3,000 professionals). He also led the development of the Global Innovation Strategy for EY Global (a USD 27 Billion enterprise) to identify growth opportunities. He has also been the leader for several industries – Technology Sector, Financial Services, Government and Public Enterprise and has the experience of working across geographies – USA, Europe, Africa and South East Asia. He has the credit of turning around loss making practices, developing and grooming leaders and implementing sales interventions and account management programs to deliver hyper growth. Sunil also served on the Board of Ernst & Young in India for over 15 years and on the Advisory Board of Europe Middle East India and Africa for over 8 years.

He serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Sapphire Foods India Limited, Ganesh Grains Limited, Updater Service Pvt Ltd, Davadost Pvt Ltd. Vigyanlabs Pvt Ltd and has also served on the Board of Jammu & Kashmir Bank, MORE Retail Limited and Poonawala Fincorp Ltd. He also serves on the CII Corporate Governance Committee and contributes on the agenda of Policy changes and improving corporate governance. His Corporate clients included the Tata Group, ICICI Group, NPCI, Bombay Stock Exchange, Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, American Express, Zee Group, AllCargo, Bombay Stock Exchange, ICICI Group, Infosys, iFlex, Wipro, Genpact, Zensar, Central Board of Direct Taxes, UIDAI - Aadhaar, Govt of Maharashtra, and also lead some of the most strategic projects for the Government, World Bank and ADB related to Policy and Investment Promotion and other institutions in developing programs to create to increase employment opportunities at the grass roots. Widely regarded as a thought leader, Sunil has been invited to speak at conferences both in India and overseas and at prestigious forums like CII, NASSCOM, American Chamber of Commerce, leading Management institutions and The Institute of Internal Auditors. He has also served as the Mumbai chapter president for the Institute of Internal Auditors and was a member on the Board of Governors forthe Institute of Internal Auditors, in India He has been a member of committees constituted by ICAI (Digital Accounting and Assurance Board), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and CII. He is on the Advisory panel for Universal Business School (UBS) and the Information Security Management Group.

Shobha Das

Dean
IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University

Prof. Shobha Das is the Dean of the IFMR Graduate School of Business at Krea University. She worked as a Management Consultant in TCS after her PGDM from IIM Calcutta, and after her Ph.D. from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, she was a Professor at the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore (1994-2009), and Qatar University (2009-2019). Prof. Das has taught undergraduate, masters’, doctoral and executive courses. She regularly presents her research at international conferences, and her research papers have been published in the top management journals. Her academic area of expertise is Strategy.

Sachin Tayal

Managing Director
Protiviti, Member Firm for India

Sachin Tayal is a Managing Director at Protiviti Member Firm, in India. He has served in various leadership and client service roles through his 22 years of wide-ranging experience. Sachin has led several marquee engagements across diverse industry verticals and frequently interacts with senior executive and board members on risk, governance and performance matters.

As a member of the executive leadership committee for India, Sachin is responsible for overseeing the internal audit & financial advisory services as well as the global delivery centre in the country. Over the years he has led strategic initiatives for building the firm’s capabilities in new business advisory domains with high growth opportunities and strengthening delivery capabilities for servicing Indian as well as multinational clients of the Protiviti network. Sachin also serves on the firm’s global executive team advisory council that closely engages with country market and solution leaders on spectrum of areas.

Sachin sits on the board of the Northern Regional Council at the American Chamber of Commerce and a prolific speaker at industry conferences and business forums, having written several thought leadership publications. He is passionate about the Protiviti’s ‘I on Hunger’ global CSR program and actively contributes towards the cause.

Sumit Dutt Majumder

Former Chairman
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Mr Sumit Dutt Majumder is former Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs. He has 40 years of experience in leadership positions with the Government of India, primarily in Customs Administration, and received the Presidential Award for meritorious service in 1992. He has represented India at the World Customs Organization (WCO), primarily in customs valuation meetings from 1995 to 2011. He has authored a book on Customs Valuation- Law and Practice. He was actively associated with the preparations for introduction of GST (Goods & Service Tax) in India. He authored a book on the subject, titled 'GST in India- its travails, tribulations and challenges ahead', published in 2014.

While on deputation, he was Director, Trade Promotion- Spices Board in Bahrain covering West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. Further, He has worked in the secretariat for organizing the 1982 Asian Games at New Delhi and received the Asiad Jyoti award (equivalent to Padma Shri) in 1984.He also worked in the secretariat for organizing the Non-Aligned Meet (NAM) in 1983 at New Delhi.

He has been a UNDP consultant for Nepal Customs and WCO consultant for China Customs on WTO Valuation Code. Besides, He trained customs officers from African and Asian countries on Customs Valuation..