


Registrations open for Great Manager Awards 2021 and T A Pai Young HR Leader Awards 2021
What is Great Manager Awards?
Helping organizations create real competitive advantage through its managers. The vision of Great Manager Awards is to build an ecosystem of Great Managers in the country.
Every year we recognize, identify, and reward organizations with "Great Managers" in India.
Awards Categories
Companies with Great Managers
Participating organization will select a group of managers to be nominated. The direct reports of the managers will go through a survey.
The aggregate score of all the respondents will be the aggregate score for the organization. The companies with the highest aggregate scores will be declared as the “Companies with Great Managers”
Great Managers
The managers nominated by the organizations will be assessed on the key managerial criteria based on R-OPTI model and the team members of the managers will provide feedback for the manager through a survey.
Post survey, the shortlisted managers will undergo a 1:1 interview with the advisory panel.
T A Pai Young HR Leaders
The ‘T. A. Pai Young HR Leaders’ is an award to recognize and honor HR leaders in the country.
The award highlights and brings to the fore, innovations and industry leading people practices, the impact of which is not just limited to organizations but also on the society and the profession at large.
Our Journey So Far
Application Process
Application Process for Great Manager Awards
Registration
Confirm participation and number of managers to be nominated based on the employee strength of the organization
Data Submission
Submission of manager and team members basic details in the suggested format
Communication
Organizations to communicate the ongoing study internally. Great Manager Awards team to provide relevant guidelines
Survey Initiation & Support
Launch of online GMA survey for 2020 to team members of nominated managers
Shortlisting & Interview
Shortlisted managers based on the survey score will be interviewed by a member of the advisory panel
Award Ceremony
Winning Organizations & Managers will be recognized at the Great Manager Awards ceremony and other exclusive events
Feedback
The organization and each nominated manager to receive a personalized scorecard detailing the feedback, best practices, benchmarks with the best
Application Process for T A Pai Young HR Leader Awards
Registration
Sign up for the Young HR Leader Awards 2020
Application Submission
Sharing of recent best practices/initiatives which led to business impact
Reference
Applicant to provide reference details of either reporting manager or CHRO
Shortlisting & Interview
Shortlisting of leaders based on the application form and feedback from reference. Selected leaders will be interviewed by an advisory panel
Award Ceremony
Winning Leaders will be recognized at the Great Manager Awards Ceremony
Young HR Leader Club
HR Leaders to be part of exclusive group to be recognized in future events and conferences
Advisory Panel 2020
Panelists of Great Manager Awards 2020

Ashish Anand
CHRO
Sar Group

Gautam Kumar
CHRO
SKF India

Hari TN
Head HR
Big Basket

Harshvendra Soin
CPO
Tech Mahindra

Jaikrishna B
President - Group HR
Amara Raja Group

P J Anand
CHRO
ITC Foods

Praveen Purohit
Dy. CHRO
Vedanta Resources

Sabu Thomas
CPO
Allstate Solutions

Shrarrad Dhakkate
CHRO
SBI General

Sudeep Ralhan
VP-People
Walmart Labs

Suma PN
Director HR
Otis India

Sunil Goyal
CEO
Sopra Steria
Panelists of T A Pai Young HR Leader Awards 2020

Atul Suri
VP & SBU Head
Alembic Pharmaceutical

Chaitanya Peddi
Co-Founder
DarwinBox

Deepak Mishra
Head Corporate HR
United Breweries

Manas Martha
Head HR
TTK Prestige

Nanjappa BS
VP-HR
Infosys Limited

Nihar Ghosh Ranjan
President - HR
Emami

Puneet Rajput
Senior Director - HR
Thermosfisher Scientific

Ratish Jha
Senior Vice President, Business Head & Ex- CHRO
Rachem, RPG

Siddharth Naga
Head People & Culture
Supr Daily

Sridhar Iyengar
Head HR
Manipal University

Suman Gopalan
CHRO
Freshworks

Suman Rudra
Head Talent Development & OD
L&T Construction

Surya Mahadevan
Professor
T A Pai Management Institute

Sushanth Tharappan
Senior Vice President & Head- Infosys Leadership Institute
Infosys Limited

Syed Azfar Hussain
Senior VP - HR
Bajaj Finserv

Vidya Thakur
Global Head- Capability & Talent Strategy
L&T Infotech
Great Manager Awards 2020 - Highlights
Key Speakers 2020













Highlights of the Awards
Panel Discussion with Top Industry Leaders
Top 20 Companies with Great Managers Recognized
Top 50 Great Managers Recognized
Top 25 Young HR Leaders Recognized
4 HR Lifetime Achievers Recognized
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
Winners 2020

Allstate Solutions Private Limited

Axis Asset Management Company Limited

Bharat Aluminium Company (A Part Of Vedanta Group)

BlackBuck

Flipkart

Fullerton India Credit Company Limited

Hindustan Zinc Limited (Vedanta)

IGT Solutions Private Limited

Infosys Limited

InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo)

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (LTI)

Maersk

MakeMyTrip and Goibibo

Myntra Designs Private Limited

Rakuten India Enterprises Private Limited

SBI General Insurance Company Limited

SKF India Ltd

Tech Mahindra Limited

Vedanta Alumina Business, Lanjigarh

Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda

Abhijit Anil Magar
Brinks India Pvt Ltd

Abhishek Maheshwari
Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd

Ajay Kumar Sharma
Bharat Aluminium Company, Vedanta Limited

Alifya Faizee
Allstate India

Aman Gupta
Myntra Designs Pvt Ltd.

Amit Kumar Singh
Vedanta, ESL Steel Limited

Ankit Aswal
Tech Mahindra Ltd

Atul Suri
Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Biji Wilson
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd

Bishwajit Nayak
Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited

Deepak Singh
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.

Deepak Wadhawan
Concentrix Daksh Services India Pvt. Ltd.

G Sethukrishna
Maersk India Pvt Ltd

Gaurav Bhateja
MakeMyTrip

Gobinda Gopal Pal
Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda

Joseph Kiran Kumar Matcha
Eisai Pharmaceuticals India Pvt. Ltd.

Krittika Bhatt
Vedanta Limited, Talwandi Sabo Power Limited

Manoj Jain
Boston Scientific India

Mherburzin Beharam Irani
Allstate India

Pankaj Jain
Vedanta Limited

Praween Kumar Jha
British Council Management Services

Pravin Kumar
Vedanta Limited (Aluminium & Power), Jharsuguda, Odisha

Raghav Kumaria
IGT Solutions

Rahul Sharma
Vedanta Limited

Rajesh Luhadia
Hindustan Zinc Limited.

Rajesh Talekar
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd

Ritwik Bhattacharjee
Embassy Office Parks Management Services Private Limited

Saba Zaidi
InterGlobe Aviation Limited ( IndiGo )

Sadhna Verma
Vedanta Limited

Sailakshmi V
United Breweries Limited

Sandeep Aggarwal
Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd.

Sandeep Modi
Bharat Aluminium Company, Vedanta Limited

Santhoshkumar Narayan
Blackbuck

Saurabh Shukla
Fresenius Kabi India Pvt Ltd

Zaheer Bakshi
InterGlobe Aviations Limited (IndiGo)

Shamanth SN
Rakuten India Enterprise Private Limited

Sherin Bidar
Flipkart Internet Private Limited

Shrawan Mishra
Fiat India Automobiles Pvt. Limited

Shreekumar Nair
Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Siladitya Chaudhuri
SBI General Insurance Company Limited

Sonal Jaitley
IGT Solutions

Srinivas Thonupunoori
Infosys Ltd

Supreet Banaji
SKF Engineering and Lubrication India Limited

Swastik Mishra
Infosys Technologies Limited

Swati Upadhyaya
Indegene Omnipresence

Tathagat Bagchi
Flipkart Internet Private Limited

Tribhuvan Prakash
InterGlobe Aviations Limited (IndiGo Airlines)

Venkatnarayanan Krishnan
ACG Pharmapack Pvt. Ltd.

Vishal Rao
Tech Mahindra Ltd

Yudhir Arora
SDG Software India Pvt Ltd

Aditya Sareen
Tata Power

Akshaya Kashyap
Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited

Anuja Ghosh
India Ratings & Research Pvt Ltd

Arusha Gupta
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (LTI)

Bhumika Srivastava
Airbnb

Divkiran Kathuria
Schneider Electric

Divya Sathyan
Genesys Telecomlabs India Pvt. Ltd.

Eras Lodhi
Voltas Limited - A TATA Enterprise

Hetal Javeri
SBI General Insurance Co Ltd

Katyayani Krishna
Maersk

Kriti Jain
Myntra

Nikhil Mallah
Satin Creditcare Network Ltd

Nikita Vasudeva
ACG Worldwide

Nikita Zutshi
MakeMyTrip.com

Nishant Mishra
JSW Steel Ltd.

Parimita Behera
Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh

Pooja Dudani
Cars 24

Praveen Menon
IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Ltd.

Raj Tanwar
Concentrix Daksh Services India Pvt Ltd

Rucha Upasani
SKF India Ltd

Sachin Agrawal
Reliance Retail Limited

Sandip Kulkarni
Brink's India

Shilpa Narayan
Courtyard by Marriott Chennai (Marriott International)

Smriti Chand
Mercedes Benz Research and Development, India

Udayendra Singh
Wipro

Krishnamurthy Shankar
Executive Vice President & Group Head - HR
Infosys Limited

Raj Raghavan
Senior Vice President & Head - HR
InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo)

S Venkatesh
President - Group HR
RPG Group

Santrupt Misra
CEO - Birla Carbon, Director - Chemicals, Fertilisers & Insulators, Director - Group HR
Aditya Birla Group
Winners 2019
Winning Companies |
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Allstate Solutions Private Limited |
Amara Raja Group |
Bharat Aluminium Company ( A Part Of Vedanta Group) |
Bharti AXA Life Insurance |
Birlasoft Limited |
BlackBuck |
Cairn Oil & Gas- Vedanta Limited |
Courtyard by Marriott Chennai |
Deepak Phenolics Limited |
Epsilon Carbon Pvt. Ltd. |
Fullerton India Credit Company Limited |
HDFC Bank Ltd. |
IGT Solutions Private Limited |
IndiGo |
Maersk Line |
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. |
Publicis Sapient |
Satin Creditcare Network Limited |
TTK Prestige Limited |
United Breweries Limited |
Company Name | Manager Name |
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AllState Solutions Private Limited | Manoj Kumar P A |
AllState Solutions Private Limited | Sarish Paul |
Amara Raja Group | Niranjan Kumar C |
Amara Raja Group | Sekar J |
Axis Asset Management Company Ltd. | Sandhya Pillai |
Bharat Aluminium Company (A Part of Vedanta Group) | Rohit Soni |
Bharat Aluminium Company (A Part of Vedanta Group) | Mansi Chauhan |
Bharti AXA Life Insurance | Arijit Prasad Roy |
Bharti AXA Life Insurance | Nishanth M S |
BlackBuck | Vicky Dodani |
Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited | Hitesh Vaid |
Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited | Al Muthir Al Kharusi |
Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited | Praveen Purohit |
Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited | Rajesh Mohata |
CMS Infosystems | Gopalaseshan S |
Colorcon Asia Pvt. Ltd. | Rajesh Parab |
Concentrix Daksh Services India Pvt. Ltd. | Raj Tanwar |
Deepak Phenolics Limited | Jay Shah |
Electrosteel Steels Limited | Sujit Kispotta |
Elektrobit India Pvt. Ltd. | Kalyan Boggarapu |
Fullerton India Credit Company Limited | Arvind Hingar |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | Jay Shah |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | Amit Tyagi |
HDFC Bank Ltd. | Gaurav Sarda |
Hindustan Zinc | Vinod Kumar |
Hindustan Zinc | Kavita Singh |
IGT Solutions Private Limited | Sumit Nagar |
IndiGo | Rohit Rikhye |
IndiGo | Archana Sachith |
IndiGo | Neha Singh |
Indraprastha Gas Limited | Sheetal Sharma |
Maersk Line | Kirti Gupta |
Maersk Line | Siddarth Iyer |
Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) | Kshitij Mohan |
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. | Vidhya D L |
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited | Harsh Joshi |
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited | Pragnesh Patel |
Nexus Malls (Blackstone India's Retail Portfolio) | Rohan Vaswani |
Publicis Sapient | Varun Salaria |
Publicis Sapient | Reghunath Padmanaban |
Publicis Sapient | Mansi Khare |
QuEST Global Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. | Pratikhya Das |
Raymond Limited | RaJ Panchal |
Satin Creditcare Network Limited | Amaresh Das |
Sterlite Copper (Unit of Vedanta Limited) | A Sumathi |
TCI Express Limited | Asim Ali Khan |
TTK Prestige Limited | Dinesh Garg |
United Breweries Limited | R Kranthi Kumar |
Vedanta Alumina | Ritubrata Ray |
Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda | Jajneswar Dash |
Vedanta Limited, Talwandi Sabo Power Limited | Vijay Ingole |
Company Name | Manager Name |
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Adani Group | Akshat Surana |
Pearl Global Industries Ltd | Ashutosh Sharma |
Rehau Polymers Pvt. Ltd. | Avijeet Kundu |
SAP Labs India | Bhrigu Joshi |
L&T-NxT | Bikram K Nayak |
United Breweries Limited | Deepak Mishra |
Manappuram Finance Ltd. | Dr. Renjith PR |
MAYFAIR Hotels & Resorts Ltd. | Dr. Vikram Mishra |
Marriott International | Jana Venkata Ramakrishna |
Herbalife Nutrition | Latha Iyer |
Edelweiss Financial Services | Manoj K Chaudhary |
Flipkart | Prajakta Sukhtankar |
Nanavati Super Speciality Hospitals | Rashma Nathani |
Nayara Energy Ltd. | Rhiju Bhowmick |
Tata Steel Ltd. | Shreya Ganguly |
IndusInd Bank | Sriram R |
Otis Elevator Company India Ltd | Sudipta Saha |
CitiusTech Healthcare Technology Private Limited | Supriya Sawant |
ToneTag | Vinay K Trivedi |
Thermax Limited | Vinita Kulkarni |
Tech Mahindra Ltd. | Yogesh S |
Company Name | Manager Name |
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Manipal Education and Medical Group | Nishith Mohanty |
JSW Group | Gautam Chainani |
Mahindra & Mahindra | Dr. Prince Augustin |
Titan Company Limited | Raj Narayan |
Winners 2018
Winning Companies |
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Fullerton India Credit Company Limited |
IIFL Wealth Management Limited |
IndiGo |
InterGlobe Technologies |
MaGE & Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. |
PepsiCo India Holdings Private Limited. |
Phillips Carbon Black Limited |
Raymond Limited |
RIVIGO Services Private Limited |
TATA AIA Life Insurance Company |
United Breweries Ltd |
Vedanta Limited, Jharsaguda |
Axis Asset Management Company Ltd. |
Boehringer Ingelheim India Pvt. Ltd |
Brightstar Telecommunications India Ltd |
Cairn Oil & Gas – Vedanta Limited |
CMS Infosystems |
Embassy Group |
JSW Severfield Structures Limited |
JW Marriott Mumbai Juhu |
NTT Netmagic |
Nexus Malls (Blackstone India’s Retail Portfolio) |
Pepe Jeans India Ltd. |
TTK Prestige Limited |
Company Name | Manager Name |
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Allstate Solutions Private Limited | Santosh Shetty |
DEN Networks Limited | Sanjay Kumar Jain |
Elektrobit India Pvt. Ltd. | Omkar Nagaraja |
Pepe Jeans India Ltd. | Prasad Munje |
QuEST Global | Sonia Kutty |
Biocon Limited | Anand Kumar M |
Fiat India Automobiles Pvt. Ltd. | Pankaj Pradeep |
Motilal Oswal | Girish Karthik |
PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt. Ltd. | Shahid Ahmad Khan |
Welspun Corp Ltd. | Ankur Jain |
Birlasoft | Shampa Ghosh |
Hindustan Zinc Limited | Ravish Sharma |
IndiGo | Rahul Chandrashekhar Patil |
Uflex Limited | Rahul Jain |
Urban Ladder | Vijay K |
DEN Networks Limited | Arjun Kadam |
Maersk Line | Arjun Arun Maharaj |
Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) | Alex Mendes |
Syngene International Limited | Baburaj Krishnan |
Vedanta Limited | Debabrat Mishra |
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories | Kunal Kirti |
Amway India Enterprises Private Limited | Deepak K Shrivastava |
Birlasoft | Allabaksh Shaik |
Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited | Madhu Manral Srivastava |
CMS Info Systems Private Limited | Mahesh F J |
Fullerton India Credit Company Limited | Deepak Prakash Gadakh |
Hamilton Housewares Pvt. Ltd. | Nilmadhab Sahi |
IIFL Wealth Management Ltd. | Sandeep Jethwani |
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. | Nitin Sharma |
Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Ltd. | Sanjay Kumar |
Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda | M Sakthivel |
Amway India Enterprises Private Limited | Diptarag Bhattacharjee |
Brightstar Telecommunications India Ltd. | Sanjeev Chhabra |
Cairn Oil & Gas - Vedanta Limited | Sanjay Kumar Sharma |
JSW Severfield Structures Limited | Santanu Choudhury |
Praxair India Private Limited | Anuj Sharma |
SKF India Limited | Anjan Ghosal |
TTK Prestige Limited | K G George |
ACG Worldwide | Vinay Shevade |
Allstate Solutions Private Limited | Naresh M |
IIFL Wealth Management Ltd. | Shaji Kumar |
JW Marriott Mumbai Juhu | VIshal Atreya |
RIVIGO Services Private Limited | Amit Kumar |
ACG Worldwide | Poonam Agarwal |
Bharat Aluminium Company Limited | Rupal Mehta |
IndiGo | Asiya Bashir |
InterGlobe Technologies | Mahima Jirel |
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. | Suja Samson |
NEC Technologies India Private Limited | Deepti Kaur |
Vedanta Limited, Sesa Goa Iron Ore Business | Leena Verenker |
SKF India Limited | Anjali Byce |
United Breweries Limited | Khusboo Verma |
Winners 2017
Winning Companies |
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Bajaj Energy Limited & LPCCL |
Biocon Limited |
Birlasoft |
Boehringer Ingelheim India Private Limited |
Brigade Enterprise Limited |
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited |
Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited |
Hafele India Private Limited |
InterGlobe Technologies |
IREO Private Limited |
Jindal Power Limited |
Luminous Power Technologies Private Limited |
Manipal Health Enterprise Private Limited |
Natural Remedies |
NEC Technologies India Private Limited |
Nexus Malls |
PepsiCo. India |
Raymond Limited |
TATA AIA Life Insurance Company |
TVS & Sons Private Limited |
Company Name | Manager Name |
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ACG | Sandeep Dewangan |
Bharti Realty | Mayank Bhatnagar |
FIAPL | Suneet Mishra |
TVS & Sons | Mahesh Kumar |
Voltas | Colin Mendes |
Chola Murugappa | Chandrasekar R |
Hafele | P V J Prasad |
RaychemRPG | Ratish Jha |
Reliance Broadcast | Manish Karnatak |
Sterlite Copper | Puneet Khurana |
Alpla India | Rajen Bipin Shah |
Healthkart | Prince Kumar |
JSSL | Kalpesh Doshi |
SKF | S Rajiv |
United Breweries | Arumugam R |
Altimetrik | Suvojit Mukherjee |
Ctrl S | Ranganathan Govarthanan |
LT Foods | Deepak Bansal |
Portea | Yogesh Mittal |
Wilo | Sunil Kode |
Biocon | Ankur Bhatnagar |
Brigade Group | Manu R |
IGT | Sangeeta Joshipal |
MHE | Bini Mol T |
PepsiCo | Raman Singh |
Alembic Pharmaceuticals | Chandrahas Shetty |
Alpla India | Vagish Dixit |
Amway | Shantanu Das |
Chola Murugappa | Ravindra Kundu |
Elektrobit | Satish Sundaresan |
Horiba | Dr. Rajeev Gautam |
MaGE | Balasundaram Athreya |
Raymond | L. A. Anthonyraj Ravikumar |
Tube Investments | Sushant Kumar Jena |
TVS & Sons | Srinivasa Raghavan G |
Allstate | Vishal Sriram |
Birla Soft | Rohit Pundir |
Infosys | Arun Prannoy Palli |
Jindal Power | Kumar Pushpesh Ranjan |
Natural Remedy | Narendra Reddy K |
Allstate | Manjula Nanjappa |
Brigade Group | Jayashri Venkatesh |
Dr. Reddy's | Namrata Gill Tyagi . |
Future Generali | Kanika Dewan |
SARE | Ms. Urooj Fatma |
Scania | Roli Thakur |
Tata AIA | Harini Sivasankaran |
Winners 2016
Winning Companies |
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Allstate solutions private limited |
Biocon limited |
Claris |
Edwards |
Emcure |
Himatsingka seide |
Infosys |
Interglobe technologies |
JSW severfeild structures limited |
Kodak Mahindra bank |
Luminous powers technologies private limited |
Lupin pharmaceutical |
Manipal education |
Pepe jeans |
Philip carbon black limited |
PepsiCo India |
RaychemRPG |
Raymond limited |
Sapient |
Uniparts group |
Company Name | Manager Name |
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All State Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Zameer Ahmed Delhve |
All State Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Mecheriyal, Benoy |
Biocon Limited | Vijay M S S |
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. | P E Venu |
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. | Gautam Mohan Swaroop |
Edwards Lifesciences India Private Limited | Vimal Soni |
Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited | Deepak Gondaliya |
Fiat India Automobiles Pvt. Ltd. | Navin Joshi |
Himatsingka Seide Limited | Shanmuga Sundaram S |
Infosys Limited | Sameer Aurangabadkar |
Infosys Limited | Rajalakshmi Bhat |
IndiGo | Aditi Kumari |
IndiGo | Srikrishna R |
InterGlobe Technologies | Farhan Shah |
InterGlobe Technologies | Sanjana Yadav |
InterGlobe Technologies | Arshad Mumtaz |
JSW Severfield Structures Limited | Sunil Bhalerao |
JSW Severfield Structures Limited | Luke Ellison |
Luminous Power Technologies | Rajiv Ganju |
Lupin Limited | Digvijay Vinayak Chavan |
Lupin Limited | Swapnil Guru |
Manipal Global Education Services Pvt. Ltd. | Yogesh Kumar Bhatt |
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. | Miliyano Pinto |
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. | Dorothy S |
Praxair India Pvt. Ltd. | Ragu Gunabhooshanam |
Raymond Limited | Seema Bhalerao |
Raymond Limited | Pemba Bhotia |
Sapient | Mahima Gupta |
Sapient | Khyatee Chhabra |
Sapient | Abhilasha Vyas |
SKF Bearings India Ltd. | Shyam Datye |
United Breweries Limited | P A Poonacha |
Visible Alpha Solutions India Private Limited | Mandar Damodare |
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