Working Out of the Box
VIEW EVENT DETAILSJoin us for a frank and engaging conversation with business leaders N. Chandrasekaran, CEO and Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services, Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Group, Shikha Sharma, Managing Director & CEO, Axis Bank, Amar Goel, CEO & Chairman, Komli Media, as they explore the connections between leadership traits, working styles and their workspaces with author and journalist Aparna Piramal Raje, highlighting themes from Raje's book, 'Working Out of the Box.' The book examines the working lives of 40 leading CEOs, encompassing their leadership styles, personal motivations, quirks and recipes for success.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran ('Chandra') is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and a member of its Board of Directors. Chandra has been appointed at the Chairperson of the IT Industry at the World Economic Forum, Davos for 2015-2016. He is a member of the Indo-US CEO Forum, and of the Honorary Committee of European Business Summit. Chandra served as the chairman of NASSCOM, the apex trade body for IT services firms in India in 2012-13 and continues to be a member of its governing Executive Council.
Ajay Piramal is the Chairman of the Piramal Group. He serves on the Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors and is Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Indore. He was selected as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum before he was forty. He was recently conferred an honorary doctorate degree in Philosophy (D. Phil) by the Amity University, India.
Shikha Sharma is the Managing Director & CEO of Axis Bank. Sharma has more than three decades of experience in the financial sector. Prior to joining Axis Bank in 2009, Sharma was with the ICICI group, where she started her career, and has worked across various verticals like Project Finance, Retail Banking and Investment Banking. She is a recipient of many business awards, among them, AIMA - JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award for the Year 2014, India's Most Valuable CEOs by Businessworld-2013, and India's Best Women CEO by Business Today in 2013.
Amar Goel is the Chairman and Founder of PubMatic. Prior to founding PubMatic and Komli Media he led a digital advertising business for Microsoft in the US. Amar also worked at McKinsey & Co. He is an active angel investor and advises many startups formally and informally, contributing back to the startup community. Amar sits on the board of Chartcube, an innovative mobile business intelligence company, which he helped start. Amar is a founding member of iSPIRT, the the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable.
Aparna Piramal Raje is the author of 'Head Office', a popular monthly column in the Mint, that features the heads of organizations, and explores the connections between their leadership styles and their work environments. Over 50 CEOs from India and overseas have been profiled in the series to date. She also contributes to the UK's Financial Times Weekend.
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