“Post COVID Industrial Ecosystem: How MSMEs can Lead the Way”
Sudha Sarin
Senior Vice President - Marketing & Communications, Power2SME
Dr. H P Kumar
Former CMD- NSIC & Director - External Affairs, Power2SME
Ajay Shankar
Former Secretary - DIPP, GoI & Chairman, FMC
Samir Sathe
Executive Vice President - Wadhwani Foundation
Shobhit Mathur
Director - Advisory, EY
- Saturday, May 9 2020
- 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm IST
- Google Meet
Speaker Profile: Sudha Sarin
Senior Vice President - Marketing & Communications, Power2SME
Sudha Sarin is a seasoned communications professional with over two decades of experience in managing strategic communications for organisations. She is responsible for lead generation, opportunity creation,corporate communications, customer marketing, creative services and marketing operations at Power2SME. Before joining Power2SME, she has been Managing Director, Public Affairs–IPAN & Knowlton India, CEO at Good Relations India and COO/Senior Partner at Ketchum Sampark. Sudha has a Masters degree in English Literature from Miranda House College, Delhi University and a diploma in Marketing and Strategic Planning. She was also a core team member in setting up the Women in Business Forum and a mentor with the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and has helped build many brands. She has been Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and the Amity School of Marketing.
Speaker Profile: Dr. H P Kumar
Former CMD- NSIC & Director - External Affairs, Power2SME
Dr. H.P. Kumar is Director External Affairs at Power2SME and he is spearheading the organization’s objective of building alliance network in the industry. Dr. Kumar will design innovative programmes and framework to enhance Power2SME’s value proposition for SMEs, Suppliers and financial institutions. With rich experience in leading successful and profitable campaigns to benefit SMEs, Dr. Kumar comes with deep knowledge of SME market. Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in dealing with promotion, development and financing of MSMEs, exports and other small & large projects. Prior to joining Power2SME. He was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NSIC (National Small Industries Corporation), a govt. of India enterprise engaged in development and financing of SMEs in India. Under his leadership, NSIC was able to achieve a turnover of 17400 crores and became a dividend paying entity with an excellent MOU rating continuously for 7 years, a spectacular shift, from a loss making CPSU prior to his successful tenure.
Speaker Profile: Ajay Shankar
Former Secretary - DIPP, GoI & Chairman, FMC
Mr. Ajay Shankar has had rich and varied experience in public service for over forty years. He has served as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Government of India where his key responsibilities included FDI policy, investment promotion and the IPR regime in the country. He was the Chairman of the National Productivity Council and of the Quality Council of India. He initiated the setting up of Invest India to facilitate enhanced inflow of FDI.He played a crucial role in putting together the stimulus packages at the time of the global economic crisis of 2008 which enabled the Indian economy to recover in a short time and again grow at over 8%. He subsequently served as the Member Secretary of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC), an advisory body comprising leading Captains of Industry, key Secretaries of Government and eminent Academics.
Speaker Profile: Samir Sathe
Executive Vice President - Wadhwani Foundation
Samir leads the Wadhwani Advantage program in India, focused on accelerating small business revenue and job growth. He has advised and executed 200+ engagements for domestic and multinational, small and large businesses, in a diverse set of manufacturing and service industries. He has 25-years of experience in India, Asia, Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, and US. Samir has a Master’s degree in consulting and coaching for change from INSEAD, France and has attended ‘Leading Professional Service Firms’ at Harvard Business School and ‘Challenges of Global Poverty’ at MIT
Speaker Profile: Shobhit Mathur
Director - Advisory, EY
Shobhit is a Director in the Economic Development Advisory of EY providing services for industrial ecosystem development to various central government and state government departments. He has more than 15 years of both Indian and International experience on MSME development.