PBM 2009: Speaker Profiles - Part:2

Narayan Ramachandran is Country Head of Morgan Stanley in India, leading all of the Group's businesses. He returned to India in 2006 as Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Prior to these roles, Narayan was the Head and co-lead portfolio manager of Morgan Stanley’s Global Emerging Markets and Global Asset Allocation teams, managing over $25 billion in assets. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1996 and has 20 years of investment experience. Before joining the firm, he was a managing director at Rogers Casey (now CRA Rogers Casey).

In addition, Narayan was director of research at Rogers Casey and president of its investment advisory subsidiary. Previously, he was a research associate at Goldman Sachs. Narayan has written articles for the academic and trade press, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Narayan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

He is a director of Impax Corporation and Dyansys Inc.

Meera H. Sanyal has been a professional banker for the past 25 years. She is currently the Chairperson and Country Executive for ABN AMRO Bank (now RBS) in India, responsible for over 9000 staff in 40 locations across 24 cities.Prior to this, she was the Chief Operations Officer for the Asia Pacific region responsible for 16 countries in the region.

Previously, as an Investment banker in ABN AMRO, she has worked both in India and within the Asian region in Corporate Finance, Structured Finance and Project Finance. In 2001, she set up ACES, ABN AMRO’s Global Shared Services Company.

An area very close to her heart is the banks’ Corporate Social Responsibility activities. The bank finances over 700,000 women who live below the poverty line. Through the activities of the Bank’s Foundation, which she chairs, the foundation has undertaken several projects that aim both, to alleviate poverty and to conserve bio-diversity (especially in endangered tiger habitats), promote watersheds and help marginal farmers in degraded land areas.

Meera was named the Woman Banker of the Year in 2006 by Indian Merchants Chamber and she has also been bestowed with AIESEC Hall of Fame award by AIESEC International Congress, Poland.

In November, 2008, she has awarded the prestigious Karamveer Puraskar award for being the best Corporate Executive Citizen of 2008. In April, 2009, Meera contested the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections as an independent candidate from South Mumbai.Her hobbies include Sailing, Reading & playing Chess. Moreover, she possesses strong linguistic skills. She is fluent in five languages and conversant with three others.