Director of the Board cum Treasurer (interim period)
An entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the software and knowledge industry in India, the UK, the USA and Indonesia. He worked at Microsoft in strategic roles as Chief Compete Officer, Director Developer and Platform Group & Architect Advisor for Global System Integrators. Prior to joining Microsoft, he served as Assistant Vice President in Polaris Financials Technology Ltd. And Technology Director in Kumaran Systems Inc
Before starting to build out Carisma Solutions and Purple Quay Global, he was the Co-founder and Vice President of big data start-up Indix Corporation.
He holds a master’s in physics from St Josephs' College and EGIMP from IIM-B.
He served as Executive Vice President of the Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce and is now a member of Board of the same.
He is the custodian of the culture and values of the organization. His leadership has enabled the business to grow successfully and responsibly from being a start-up to a leading business in the industry today. He is always committed to shaping the success of people & businesses.
He is also the founder of RADA (Raise & Develop Association) in his organization, that encourages women to explore their potential at work whilst having a good work-life balance. Since its inception, RADA has been focusing on promoting gender diversity and equality as its business priority
Mr. Suresh Raman
Southern India Chapter Chairperson and Vice President IACC
Suresh Raman is the Vice President and Region Head for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chennai.
He manages TCS’ largest delivery centre, with over 90,000 associates. His focus areas are to provide
right experience for customers and associates leveraging state-of-the-art digital technologies;
facilitate talent management; nurture innovation, promoting diversity and associate well-being;
provide agile and sustainable infrastructure; cost optimization; besides working closely with
stakeholders across Government, Industry Associations and Communities.
An alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) - Pilani, Suresh has over 3 decades of
experience in Management Consulting Services and Information Technology Industry.
During this period, he has held diverse leadership roles across Sales, Delivery, Operations and Client
relationships across multiple geographies as well as leading key strategic opportunities.
Having earlier spent a decade as a Management Consultant within TCS as well as briefly with
PriceWaterhouse, he had played an advisory role to MNCs as well as to Governments
He holds / has held key honorary positions and is an active member in industry bodies :
Board Member, Vice President (Southern Region) and Member of the Executive Committee
of the Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce
Chairman of CONNECT (2019 / 2020), a premier ICT event of the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII), hosted by Government of Tamil Nadu and co-hosted by STPI, Government of
India
President of the Madras Management Association (MMA)
Member of the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission Working Group on Industrial Policy.
Member of the Tamil Nadu State Advisory Council to develop a Federal Fiscal Model.
CII Special Invitee to the Tamil Nadu State Council & General Committee member of Madras
Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI)
Chair of Chennai Chapter of TATA Network Forum
Mr. Manoj Paul
General Manager - (India & South Asia)
Heat and Control (South Asia) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical engineering from Mysore University and a Post-Graduate in Foreign Trade from The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.
In 1987 joined Kudremukh Iron Ore Company (India’s First 100% EOU) Company as a Graduate engineer trainee and worked as a maintenance engineer in the Mines. Later in 1992, moved to the Export department as Deputy Manager and was one of the key members of the team that developed exports to Chinese steel plants.
In the year 2000, moved to GEA Energy Systems in Chennai as Deputy General Manager (Exports) and was instrumental in developing the export market for the Air-cooled heat exchangers.
In 2006 Joined to Heat and Control (South Asia) in Chennai as Country Manager for India and South Asia. From a small organization having about 10 Employees and a turnover of 4 Million AUD in 2006 today Heat and Control has about 450 employees and has a sales turnover of AUD $ 50 Million.
Heat and Control (South Asia) in 2011 acquired M/s Flavorite technologies a leading supplier of Economical Food Processing equipment in India and today Heat and Control is also able to provide solutions for the small and medium size players in the food processing industry looking for economical equipment
Heat and Control invested a sum of Rs. 125 Crores and set up the largest manufacturing facility of Heat and Control worldwide in Mahindra World City, Chennai and today is one of the leading suppliers of Food processing and packaging machinery in India and exports equipment to more than 20 countries worldwide
Currently is a director of Indo- Australian Chamber of Commerce and the 1st Vice chairman of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Tamil Nadu Branch.
Mr. P.B. Santhanakrishnan
Senior Partner
P.B. Vijayaraghavan & Co., Chennai
Mr. P. B. Santhanakrishnan graduated in B.sc from A. M. Jain College, Chennai. P. B. Santhanakrishnan completed Chartered Accountancy in 1979 and became a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in August 1984 (Associate member in August 1979). He joined as a partner of the firm in June 1980.
Some of his major milestones:
Director on the earlier Board of Oriental Bank of Commerce / CANFIN Homes Ltd.
Director on the current Board of Tamilnadu News Print and Papers Ltd and SBI Mutual Fund Trustee Company Pvt ltd.
Had been a member of the Southern India Regional Council for two terms during the period 1982-85 and 1985-88.
Had been a Former Member of the Reserve Bank of India Committee on
Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS).
Had been a Member of the Governing Board, Punjab National Bank Institute of Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi.
Has a vast experience in handling assurance engagements, audit of nationalised banks, income tax representations etc.
Held position as Director in Public Sector Bank(s) and subsidiaries of public sector bank(s)
Finalised audit of Apex Banks in India (Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank/ Oriental Bank of Commerce) and overseas and number of Public Sector Undertakings - NLC India Ltd.
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