PBM 2009: Speaker Profiles - Part:1

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Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual. He is a regular speaker to the managements of the world’s largest corporations. He was CEO, Procter & Gamble India and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). Prior to P&G, he was Chairman and Managing Director of Richardson Hindustan Limited.

Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He is on a number of boards, including Gillette, Citibank, Chrys Capital, Birla Sunlife, and SKS Microfinance. He has been on the juries of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article and the $500,000 Milton Friedman award.

In 1995, after a 30-year career in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become an author. He is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC.

He writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford)  

Dr. Hasit Joshipura is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from    VJTI - Bombay University and a Post Graduate from Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad.  He has completed his Doctorate programme at the School of Management at IIT Mumbai. 

After having spent about three years with the Tata Administrative Services, Hasit has spent about 16 years with the Unilever Group of companies in India and held positions of increasing responsibility in commercial, sales, marketing and business management functions. He joined the pharmaceutical business of Johnson & Johnson Ltd., as President & Executive Director in October 2001, a position he held until August 2006.  Hasit was also the Chair person for the Corporate Contributions Programme, as well as the lead for Government Affairs for the Johnson & Johnson group of businesses in India. 

In October 2006, Hasit was appointed Vice President, South Asia and Managing Director India with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GSK).  He is also Chairman of the boards of GSK Bangladesh and GSK Sri Lanka. Hasit formally took over on 1^st January, 2007.  

He has been recently elected on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is also a member of the VJTI Senate.

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