Inductry Interactions
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Industry Interactions
Students of IIFT interact with the industry on a regular basis through various guest lectures, interactive
discussions, case study competitions, live projects and a lot of other interactive methods. IIFT believes that
industry interactions are a key to any budding manager and it is these
that give students the
perspective from various industry professionals. IIFT hosts Trade Winds,
the annual business summit and Headstart, a thought leadership guest
lecture series through which guests speakers are invited to interact with the
student fraternity.
Given below is the list of a few business leaders that IIFT hosted in the past few years.
| Speaker | Designation | Company | |
| Ashutosh Dhar | Head of Materials Availability, Packaging and Print | Nokia | |
| Siddarth Menon | North Branch Manager | Colgate Palmolive | |
| Sayantan Chaterjee | Strategy Consultant | IBM | |
| Anshuman Mishra | Investment Manager | Aavishkar | |
| Kaushik Chattopadhyaya | Senior Branch Manager | Olam International | |
| Souvik Chakraborty | Chief Talent Officer | RIL | |
| Ashok Mehra | Global Head - Business Change | TCS | |
| Kingshuk Hazra | Head Marketing - India | Amazon | |
| Rajesh Yabaji | Supply Chain Manager | ITC | |
| Sandeep Nagpal | Marketing Director | SAP | |
| Arakkal Vedhus | consultant | Avalon Consulting | |
| Mr. A V Surya | VP | IMRB International | |
| Vishal Bhardwaj, Avinash Kohli | Vishal Bhardwaj: Head, Citiphone India. Avinash Kohli: Vice President, Citiphone HR. | Citibank | |
| Shivaraj Subramaniam | Director – Corporate Marketing & Consumer Practices | Madura F&L | |
| Rajesh Rai | CEO | India Innovation Fund | |
| Navin Rao | Purchasing Leader | IKEA | |
| Rathin Rawal | consultant | AT Kearney | |
| Vivek Gambhir | Chief Strategy Officer | Godrej | |
| Siraj Chaudhry | Country Head , CEO | Cargill India | |
| Vishwadeep Khatri | CEO/ President | Benchmark Six Sigma | |
| Mr. Sumit Kapoor | Country Industry manager | DHL | |
| Makarand Kulkarni | Head Sales & Marketing | Glenmark | |
| Paritosh Arora | GM & Country Head- India & South Asia | Lumenis | |
| Ashwin Bonde | Head-MultiChannel Marketing | Merck | |
| Atul Khosla | Partner | Oliver Wyman | |
| Rehan A Khan | Managing Director | Managing Director | |
| Antarpreet Singh | Asia-Pacific Director | Alcatel Lucent | |
| Dr. Aditya Srinivas | Chief Operating Officer & Chief Economist | BSE | |
| Rahul Poddar | Senior Manager, Commodities | Nestle | |
| Punit Puri | Head HR | Mckinsey | |
| Ruchi Aggarwal | Director, Partner Strategy and Marketing | Microsoft | |
| Sanjay Singh | Director HR | Cairn India | |
| Mr. Dev Bhattacharya | Group Executive President (CS & BD) | Aditya Birla Group | |
| Mr.Erick Haskell | MD | Adidas | |
| Sanjay Jain | Assistant Vice President at Transaction Banking Group | Yes Bank | |
| Girish Aivalli | Country GD | Archer Daniels Midland | |
| Mr. Ajay Kukreja | Country HR Director | Honeywell | |
| Mr Anoop Prakash | Managing Director | Harley-Davidson India | |
| Mr. Abheek Barua | Chief Economist and Senior Vice President | HDFC Bank | |
| Dr. Shalini Sarin | VP & Country Partner-HR and CSR | Schneider Electric | |
| Mr. Tejinder Gill | Regional Account Director | LinkedIn India | |
| Dr. Rambhushan Kanumuri | Director and Head of M&A India | Barclays Capital | |
| Ms. Renu Bohra | Director HR | DB Schenker India | |
| Mr Sanjiv Navangul | Managing Director | Janssen India | |
| Mr Rajat Mathur | Executive Director | Morgan Stanely | |
| Mr. Rajdeep Datta | Director, E-Business, Supply Chain and Organization | Carrefour | |
| Mr Bhaskar Sharma | General Manager India | Redbull | |
| Mr. Viresh Oberoi | MD & CEO | Mjunction Services |