President, NHRDN Kolkata
Sujoy Banerjee
President – Group HR & OD, McNally Bharat Engineering Company Limited.
In an illustrious career spanning 21 years, Banerjee has held HR portfolios in organizations like TELCO, Dunlop India Limited, ICI India Limited, STP Limited, Philips India Limited, BOC India Limited, Web Development Company Limited, Organon India Limited, Eveready Industries India Limited.
He is a member of several industry bodies- the CII-ER Sub-committee on HR, Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry Sub-committee on HR. Also he is the visiting faculty at IBS, Kolkata and a member of interview panels of various business schools for admissions into post graduate programmes.
A sports aficionado who was a University Blue (Jadavpur University) in Cricket (1984 – 88) and represented School (Don Bosco, Kolkata) in Cricket & Football. He has also played First Division CAB League Cricket in Calcutta and represented Bengal in Under – 15 Cricket tournament, participated in Merchants Cup Cricket & Soccer. He has also taken active interest in drama, public speaking and city Rotaract Movements.
Banerjee is a diploma holder in personnel management from XISS, Ranchi and a graduate in Political Science from Jadavpur University. He is an alumni of Don Bosco Kolkata.
Treasurer, NHRDN – Kolkata Chapter
RAU M.B.V.
Chief - HR - Exide Industries Limited
He started his career as Management Trainee in Lucas – TVS in December 1999. Subsequently, he joined Exide at the Corporate Office in May 2000 as Senior Officer – HR.
A Science Graduate from Andhra University , Rau completed his BHRM from NMIMS , Mumbai & PGDHRM from Pondicherry University and MBA in HR from Madras University concurrently in 1999.
Secretary NHRDN , Kolkata
Abhijit Sengupta - General Manager, Human Resource,
Eveready Industries India Limited
Born , brought up & educated at Rourkela in Orissa , Abhijit went on to complete his PGDPM&IR from XISS , Ranchi in 1992 – 94 and joined Electrosteel Castings Ltd. as a Trainee Personnel Officer in 1994 . Abhijit has over 17 years of experience in IR & HR in Manufacturing , FMCG , Sales & Distribution in companies like Pepsico India, Dabur India & Eureka Forbes & Apeejay Surrendra Group. Presently he heads the HR Department at Eveready Industries as General Manager.
Abhijit likes to devote his time to Social initiatives by working with economically and socially backward tribal villages in rural Bengal through an NGO where he is also a trustee. His other interests are travelling , photography , reading books and listening to music.
Jt. Secretary NHRDN –Kolkata Chapter
Rajib Kumar
Chief Executive Officer, Material World Group
As Chief Executive of Material World Group since 2002, a consulting and training service he co founded with a colleague in August 2000, has steered the group to highest levels of professional excellence. Alongwith his team, regularly consults and trains executives of multinational companies, private Indian and government officials.
Prior to founding Material World Rajib has worked with a leading automobile brand in India as spare parts manager; a Boston based Public Interest Research Group and an Ohio College newspaper among others.
He is a Fellow, Center for Research in Materials Management, a research center set up jointly under IISWBM, India^s first B School & Indian Institute of Materials Management and Indian Institute of Materials Management. His fellowship thesis (pre-doctoral) was externally passed by the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur without changes. He also has postgraduate degrees in Business Management as well as Materials Management.
He is on the faculty panel of several management institutes and guides MBA students in their final year HRD & Marketing projects, writes papers on Management, social and current affairs and edits e-zine of the Material World Group “Offline”. He is a prolific blogger. Rajib has published 4 papers to his credit till date.
Vice President , NHRDN , Kolkata Chapter
Ms Suchitra Guha
Head of Human Resource, Tata Steel
An authority on Human Resources & Industrial Relations. and trained in Strategic HR from London Business School, Ms Guha joined Tata Steel as Management trainee following a Personnel Management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Ms. Guha has been associated with Tata Steel for the last 32 years and currently heads the Human Resource department. She represents her company in a number of industry bodies, Confederation of Indian Industry, Indian Chamber of Commerce, Bengal Chamber of Commerce, National HRD Network and National Institute of Personnel Management.
Regional President - East
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Sourav Daspatnaik
Ex-Director, HRD and Strategy
Mr.Sourav Daspatnaik is the Ex-Director (HRD & Strategy) and also CEO for the latest Greenfield shipbuilding projects- Bengal Shipyard Limited and Oceanic Shipyard Limited being set up in the states of Orissa and West Bengal.
As a key member of the Group, Mr Daspatnaik has been instrumental in setting up the new businesses of Logistics Park with two green field projects at Kalinganagar(Orissa) and Haldia(West Bengak) As a part of the Group Management Committee he provides strategic planning, governance, human Resources Management and investment guidelines to the different Group Companies. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of technology, Mesra, Ranchi and Master of Science (M.S) from Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He has authored several research papers in the journal of the NHRD Network, Institution of Engineers and AIMA Management Review.
Prior to joining Apeejay Surrendra, Sourav Daspatnaik was the Director at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, India. In his career of 23 years, Mr. Daspatnaik has worked with TELCO (Tata Motors), TISCO (Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd), and Ispat Group and has experience spanning Production Planning and Scheduling, Manufacturing & Design, Product development, Marketing and Sales and consulting in the area of Human Resource Management.
Industry Positions Held
• Immediate Past-President, National HRD Network of India, Kolkata Chapter, an apex body for Human Resources function in India with a pan Indian presence.
• Member of Executive Sub-Committee at Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry for HR & Industrial Relations
• Confederation of Indian Industries & Federation of Indian Chambers of commerce and Industry.
Rinku Vithani
Member - Genext Engagement Initiatives
Senior Manager - HR, Eveready Industries India Limited
Karishma Dhawan Seth
Member - Genext Engagement Initiatives
Assistant Manager - HR, Apeejay Surrendra Group
Jaggoseni Paul
Coordinator, NHRDN, Kolkata Chapter
ADVISORY BOARD 2011 - 12
Mr Anand Nayak
Vice President & Head HR, ITC Limited
Chief Mentor & Immediate Past President
Mr Nihar Ranjan Ghosh
Executive Director - Human Resource, Spencer^s Retail Limited
Mr R P Yadav
Founder of Genius Consultants Limited
Mr Indranil Banerjee
Senior Manager - HR & Admin, WBSEDCL
Mr Sanjay Shankar Maitra
Ex Sr GM - HR, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. & Independent HR Consultant
Dr Debaprasad Chattopadhyay
Professor & HOD-HR, Globsyn Technologies Limited
