Mr. Murali Vaidyanathan is a strategic banking leader with over 20 years of success in setting up branches, business verticals, and driving product innovations and profitability. Prior to joining Equitas, he worked with Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank and Citi Group. Mr. Murali is known for being both people and process driven person with a sound understanding of Indian Financial Retail Market by designing customer-centric products, analysing market trends, limiting expenses, and identifying areas of opportunity. He has completed General Management Programs from IIM Ahmedabad and is a certified professional in investments, compliance, and operations.

Ms. Arati Porwal, Country Head, India at CFA Institute is responsible for delivering value to CFA Institute stakeholders and constituents by building and maintaining deep relationships with financial institutions, CFA societies, and universities. She is also leading development of candidate and membership strategy in addition to supporting prep providers. She is also playing a crucial role in driving an India strategy, as the country is one of the top markets for the institute globally. She has served as the interim Head of the India market since the beginning of 2022. She joined CFA Institute in 2015 and led the Society Relations function for India and surrounding markets. In her time with the organization, she has made significant contributions towards strengthening the investment profession industry, while also demonstrating the immense value that the CFA qualification adds to an individual’s career. Before joining CFA Institute, she was the Senior Market Advisor at Enterprise Ireland, providing advisory services to Irish enterprises on market entry into India. She also led the Chartered Institute of sManagement Accountants (CIMA)’s operations in India for five years. She worked in various roles in the financial services and insurance industry for thirteen years before joining CIMA.

Mr. Lakshminarayanan is a global techno-commercial leader across regions and industries recognised for developing scalable businesses in UK, Europe, Japan and India, and has worked across the globe. In a short span at Tata Communications, since October 2019, Lakshmi is re-engineering the company and steering it to deliver strong profitability. The newly defined ‘reimagine’ strategy focuses on platform play, financial fitness, commitments on sustainability, innovation and AI. Under Lakshmi’s leadership, the company is progressing to play a solid role as a digital ecosystem enabler – a digital fabric on which customers can build secure, connected, digital experiences. Prior to joining Tata Communications, Lakshmi was President and CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Japan accelerating the company’s market opportunity and brand in the region. Other leadership positions he has held within TCS include, Global Head of four business units (Telecom, Media & Information Services, HiTech and Utilities), and Head of UK & Europe. An over 35 years Tata Group veteran, engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani, and London Business School senior executive programme alumnus, Lakshmi is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) long-standing member. He serves on the Board of Tata Teleservices Limited and Tejas Networks Limited and is also the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Nelco Ltd.

Mr. Sailesh is a former Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India and former Member, Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), Department of Personnel & Training, Govt. of India. He has also served as Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was elected as President of Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia and Pacific (ANCSDAAP) from 2016 to 2018. His long experience in the power sector, in the Government of India, included handling the mega hydro projects, Tehri, Indira Sagar, Dulhasti, etc. and resolving the complex issues associated with them. He has vast administrative experience of more than 39 years having worked in senior positions in both Government of India and Government of Assam. As Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, he was instrumental in path breaking reforms designed to assess the performances of the Central Public Sector Enterprises based on market parameters with an objective to enhance the shareholders’ value. As a member of PESB, was also instrumental in selecting the best talent for the board level positions in Central Government companies and evolving a framework for leadership development and succession planning.

Mr. Yatish is the founding partner of Integrity Matters, a specialist in Third-Party Whistleblower services to organizations. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz Scholl of Public Policy and Rochester Institute of Technology. He has 17+ years of experience in business ethics and risk management. Previously, he has been associated in risk consulting roles with Accenture, Deloitte, EY and TATA.

Mr. Amarendu Prakash assumed the charge of Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) w.e.f. 31st May, 2023. Immediately prior to taking charge as the Chairman of SAIL, he held the post of Director in-charge, Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL), a unit under SAIL. He joined SAIL in 1991 as a Management Trainee (Technical). After working in various positions of responsibilities in plants and units, he was selected as a Director in the SAIL Board in charge of Bokaro Steel Plant in 2020. In his career of more than three decades in SAIL, he has had exposure to plant operations at shop level, exposure to corporate functions in the Head office and leading a large steel plant with mining operations. He was a key member of the think-tank which sphere headed the business transformation and financial turnaround of SAIL during 2015-17. After taking over as the Director in charge of Bokaro Steel Plant, he had led the Plant team to reach their best performance in all major parameters year on year. He is currently the Chairman of International Coal Ventures Limited, a company having mining assets in Africa. He is also Chairman of FICCI Steel Committee.