PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CM BIHAR AND ACS HOME AND CABINET, GOB
Dr S.Siddharth is a 1991 batch IAS officer. He obtained his Doctoral Degree in Information Technology from the IIT, Delhi. He had graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Delhi (1987), and also an MBA to his credit from IIM, Ahmedabad (1989).
He is presently the Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Government of Bihar. He also holds the additional charge of Principal Secretary, Industries Department and also Industrial Development Commissioner.
He has held various posts in his long career of more than 25 years as District Magistrate of Districts of Muzzafarpur, Bhojpur, Aurangabad and Lohardaga. He served in the Government of India as Director, Ministry of Heavy Industries. The officer also worked in the capacity of Secretary to Hon’ble Chief Minister, Bihar, Secretary Urban Development, Secretary Rural Works Department, Secretary Labour, Secretary Info & Tech Dept. and Principal Secretary Industries Department. He was responsible for drafting the Bihar Urban Planning and Development Act 2014, Bihar Urban Planning and Development Rules 2014, Bihar Building Bye-laws 2014. He was very instrumental in initiating the process of preparation of DPR for the Patna Metro and the master plan for Patna Metropolitan Area.
Dr Siddharth was the one who drafted the Bihar Industrial Policy 2016, Bihar Investment Act 2016, Bihar Investment Rules 2016 and Bihar Startup Policy 2017. The officer was also responsible for guiding Ease of Business reforms in all other departments which are responsible for giving clearances with respect to setting up of Industry.
The officer was also the Principal Secretary, Sugar Cane Department, Chairman BIADA, Chairman Bihar Khadi and Village Industries Commission and CEO Bihar Foundation.
Dr. Siddharth specializes in areas of Commerce, Industrial Investments and E-Governance.
He is also a professional wild life photographer, loves to play badminton, and has recently edited a book on Handicrafts in Bihar.
FORMER MP, RAJYA SABHA AND FOUNDER & GROUP CHAIRMAN SIS GROUP
Ravindra Kishore Sinha, also known as RK Sinha (22 September 1951) is an Indian billionaire businessman, politician and journalist He is the founder of Security and Intelligence Services, a private security solutions provider in India and Australia
Sinha is a graduate of Political Science and Law and started his career as a journalist. He created Security and Intelligence Services to help retired servicemen after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Sinha was elected to the Rajya Sabha to represent Bihar State by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as a Member of Parliament in the Indian Upper House in 2014
FORMER MINISTER AND MEMBER OF PRESENT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Nitish Mishra has more than 27 years of experience in professional and public life. He has completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Global Political Economy from the University of Hull, United Kingdom (1998) and was a recipient of the British Foreign and Commonwealth (Chevening) Scholarship. Did MBA from FORE School of Management, New Delhi and Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands (1995), Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Delhi (1994) and Certificate of Completion for the Emerging Leader's Programme (November 2016), from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Executive Education.
He has served as a Minister, Sugarcane Development, Disaster Management, Rural Development and Social Welfare Department , Govt. of Bihar between 2005 – 2015. During his Tenure as minister , Department of Rural Development, Govt. of Bihar received 3 national awards from the Government of India
He has been identified as one of the Promising Social Entrepreneur by Digital Partners, a Seattle based organisation for project E-Health (2002). Winner of Pepsi MTV Youth Icon 2008. Recognized among Thirty Indian Young Leaders by the British High Commission, New Delhi (2013). He was also Nominated for Fame India – CVoter Survey ‘Minister No.-1 and was voted for rank-2 for his performance as Minister, Rural Development in 2013. He was awarded British Foreign and Commonwealth (Chevening) Scholarship (1997).
He presently is the vice president of BJP, Bihar and Member Legislative Assembly from Jhanjharpur (Madhubani). This is his 4th term as a MLA.
DIRECTOR, IIT PATNA
Dr. T. N. SINGH, - DIRECTOR, IIT PATNA
Institute Geosciences Chair Professor & Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Dr Singh is one of the prominent names in education sector in India. He specializes in Rock Mechanics, Slope stability, Underground Space Technology, Mining, Blasting & Soft Computing. He holds a degree in Ph.D. (Rock Mechanics, IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He had worked on different positions previously such as Ex-Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and Indian Institute of Technology, B.H.U., Varanasi.
He has several awards and recognitions to his name such as Life Time Achievement Award by NEEM International Foundation 2019, Excellence of Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2017, The John C. Gammon Prize, Institute of Engineers ( I), 2017, Best Paper Award, ICESE Indonesia-2017, Best Paper Award, ISRMITT-2014, 2016, 2017, 2019. GSI Sesquicentennial Commemorative Award; 2011. Professor Gopal Ranjan Rock Mechanics Award (IIT Roorkee);2013. Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT) Award of Excellence; 2011.
Dr Singh has several publications to his name. He has referred a total of 238 International Journals and 104 National Journals. He has a total of 115 Conference Proceedings and has edited 3 books. He has a round 20 popular scientific articles and has 9260 citations. He has several International Collaborations such as Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway through DST, New Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Mining Engineering, La Tarbiat University, Tehran, Iran, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Technological University, USA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lyon University, France.
PUBLISHER ADULT PUBLISHING GROUP, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
Milee Ashwarya is the Publisher of the Adult Publishing Group at Penguin Random House India. During her career, she has published a range of bestsellers across genres. An award-winning publisher, her focus has been on championing diverse voices, discovering talented debut writers, and building on the inclusive programme at Penguin Random House India.
CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF DeHaat
Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of IIT Delhi (’08), co-founded the full-stack, business-to-farmer (B2F) agritech platform DeHaat, in 2012, and currently serves as its CEO. DeHaat is a one stop destination for small farmers, catering to all their agricultural needs. Under his leadership, DeHaat is grown into one of India’s fastest growing AgriTech startups employing a brigade of 1000+ professionals, and working with over 700,000 farmers and 3400+ micro-entrepreneurs.
Shashank was awarded ‘The Most Innovative Personality For Rural Development & Agriculture’ at the Desh Ratna Conclave 2021 and in 2018, his alma mater, IIT Delhi, felicitated him with the Distinguished Alumni Award. He has also been featured on the BW Disrupt 40 Under 40 list as well Forbes 30 under 30 list in the years 2017 and 2014 respectively. In 2014, he was recognised by Time Now among their list of Amazing Indians and in 2013, he was awarded the honour of “Ashoka Fellow”, recognising the world’s leading social entrepreneurs.
Shashank has led his team to many milestones including winning The Company of The Year (Agro) award at The TV9 Dare 2 Dream Awards (2021), RaboSustainableAg Asia Challenge (2019), Action for India-AFI (2016), Vodafone Mobile for Good (2015) and Millennium Alliance (2014). He has also been invited to speak among esteemed dignitaries at gatherings such as TiE Global Summit 2021 held at Dubai, TEDx Patna in 2018, TiECon Silicon Valley in 2016 & TEDx IIT Kanpur in 2012. He was selected for PM-India delegation to Kenya for promoting technology in Agriculture for small farmers in Kenya & featured as Champions of Change in 2017 by Niti Aayog.
BRAND IMAGE | REPUTATION | ETHICS I MEDIA | COMMUNICATION
Neeraj a financial journalist turned communications professional turned Reputation Evangelist. He has straddled multiple roles in his career spanning over two and a half decades, 17 of them at leadership positions in marque companies such as Bajaj, Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank and Reliance Communications where he spearheaded their Communications, Media, Advocacy and Reputation building efforts. Neeraj is currently Group President & Chief Communications Officer at Bajaj Group. Prior to this, he was Head, Corporate Communication & Corporate Affairs at Bharti Airtel which he had joined after 14 years at HDFC Bank that saw it grow into an iconic brand. Reliance Communications prior to that.
Neeraj is a life-long student of Corporate Reputation. That’s the quest that took him to Columbia Business School in 2015, and soon thereafter to Law school (Mumbai University). As a financial journalist, he has worked with some of India's leading publication groups such as the Times, Indian Express and Asian Age reporting on a range of sectors/ industries across the print, television and wire genres. He has had the rare opportunity of knowing some of the country’s top business leaders as a journalist, and later, working with them as a co-worker. His over two decades of professional journey has been a saga of experiments, mistakes, and learnings.
Neeraj loves to read, travel and meet new people when he’s spending time with family and close friends. A keen sportsman in hey days, he’s more into Yoga and Cycling to keep himself fit. Singing is one childhood passion that he’s taken to. Currently, he’s learning Hindustani classical music.
DIRECTOR CIMP
DIRECTOR - CIMP, PROFESSOR AND DEAN ACADEMICS, PHD, MBA (GOLD MEDALIST)
Research Areas
Corporate Finance, Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management, Treasury and Forex Management, Strategic Finance, CSR, Financial Modeling
CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF TESTBOOK.COM
Ashutosh Kumar is the co-founder & CEO of Testbook.com, India’s best in-class personalized learning and assessment platform for government job entrance examinations with a current user base of 25 million and 16 million Monthly Active Users. He started on his entrepreneurial journey with Recharge 123, an aggregator platform for mobile phone recharging in 2009 during his 3rd year at IIT Bombay. He co-founded Excelmentors.com in 2012, a platform that provided mentorship to JEE aspirants by IIT students who were trained as mentors.
Ashutosh hails from Madhubani, Bihar and started his career as a physics teacher for JEE aspirants in 2007 while pursuing the first year of his dual degree of BTech & MTech from IIT Bombay. Ashutosh co-founded the platform with three fellow IITians, and secured Series B funding of $ 8.3M from Matrix Partners, Iron Pillar, AngelList India and Better Capital in January 2020.
ADDITIONAL SERCRETARY, DEPT. OF FINANCE, GOB
2012 Batch IAS officer of Bihar Cadre was IG Prisons just before present stint.
EX- CURATOR, SHARK TANK INDIA & INDIA REPRESENTATIVE, ROYAL FAMILY OF DUBAI
Ex- Curator & Business Advisor Shark Tank India
India Representative for Royal Family of Dubai
Government Advisor (Entrepreneurship)
Entrepreneurship Evangelist
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
CMD, AND FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE BOARD AT BRAVO PHARMA GROUP
In 2011 Bravo Pharma was established and since then he is working to expand the healthcare business globally. The corporate affairs of Bravo Group are being closely looked after by Rakesh, which includes identifying the business avenues in United Kingdom, India, Central Asia, Europe, USA, Africa, South East Asia, Middle East and Russia.
Bravo Pharma is a group of companies focused on drug development; R&D in the specialised fields like oncology, HIV-Self test, COVID Test and liver diseases; manufacturing, marketing and sales of medical products; telemedicine and advance diagnostics cum referral laboratory. Currently Bravo Pharma has activities in 8 countries spread across Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe.
Rakesh has been working closely with the John’s Hopkins Cancer Hospital Baltimore USA, Harlev Hospitals Denmark, financed the on-going cancer research programme for the development of the Biomarkers for pancreatic cancer. He has also established the Joint cooperation with NEC, Ministry of Defence Uganda, and ministry of police reform Uganda, for the development of e-healthcare platform for central Africa.
He also helped in set up of the first Referral Laboratory specialised in Oncological research and clinical trial in the Republic Oncology Hospital, Uzbekistan on BOT basis.
He also runs BRAVO Foundation which is an independent organization set up by the Bravo Pharma Group to facilitate public-private funded initiatives to improve the welfare of the Youth of Bihar specially focused on the employment for youth, Education and Healthcare across the Bihar and specially Champaran.
CEO & FOUNDER OF DIGITOONZ MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT PVT. LTD.
Vikas Kumar is a CEO & Founder of Digitoonz Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. He has done B.com from Pgdav College, Delhi University (1998-2001).
Digitoonz was established in 2009, and has grown into a family of around 500 employees from 4-5 since its foundation day. Digitoonz focuses on providing quality animation services. Digitoonz is one of the largest Animation studios in India operating from three different locations Noida, Kolkata & Connecticut (USA). The best part of this venture is Vikas started with almost Zero investment and as per last valuation in 2019 - 2020 Digitoonz valued a company of more than 325 Crores. Vikas added that since 2019 - 2020 we have reported more than double turnover and enlarged our employee strength by around 30% since 2019-20 and based on the reports we should be valued at least somewhere between 600 crores to 700 crores.
Digitoonz provides services to leaders of the industry including: Paramount, Disney, Nickelodeon, BBC Worldwide, Flying Bark Productions, etc. Digitoonz is another resilient Indian brand. The company has worked on leading animation shows and Emmy Award winning shows like Rick & Morty, Dr. Who & Ninja Turtles. Digitoonz is steadily carving out a place for India as a global leader in the animation industry. Digitoonz’s 100% clientele is from international markets including the USA, Canada, France, Australia, UK, Italy, Spain, Mexico etc.
HEAD - MSME GTM STRATEGY, SPICE MONEY
Avinash is a Science Graduate and holds a Post-Graduation in Business Management and is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer. His corporate journey, of over seventeen years, has been across diversified roles and functions across the scales of retail, MSME, Large Corporate, Government Institutions and Industry bodies.
At present he is working with one of the largest Rural Fintechs in the country Spice Money as Head - MSME GTM Strategy. He was associated with Yes Bank as Executive Vice President in the Retail and MSME Business vertical. He has worked with reputed organizations like CARE Ratings, Dun and Bradstreet and Standard Chartered in the past.
Riding on his academic interest, he has been invited by institutions like Delhi School of Economics, ICFAI Mumbai, D.Y. Patil Group of Institutions, Sydenhum College of Commerce and Economics, Synergy Business School and few more. He writes on various topics such as MSME, Banking and Corporate Life, Hindi poems and some of them got published in leading magazines of Industry and Chamber of Commerce.
CHAIRMAN, DAKSHIN BIHAR GRAMIN BANK
Dr. S.A.Jawed who is the current Chairman of Dakshin Bihar Gramin Bank, is General Manager of second largest Public Sector Bank, Punjab National Bank.
He has vast experience of working as Chief Manager and AGM across the country as well as heading Muzaffarpur Circle as Circle Head and as Divisional Head at PNB, HO, New Delhi.
He came on deputation from PNB in 2019 and has been instrumental in stabilizing the merger of eBGB with eMBGB as also in migration of its CBS platform to Finacle Version 10 (latest in the industry) to give at par service to its 1.50 Crore Customers. He also made it possible to bring CTS (Cheque Truncation System) to each of its 1078 Branches for prompt and paperless clearing of customers’ instruments.
The initiatives taken by him in the field of rural development in the state of Bihar has been very instrumental. Under his guidance Bank is smoothly working to make successful various Govt. schemes such as AIF (Agri Infra Fund), PMFME (Prime Minister Formalization of Micro Food Processing), KCC (Crop, Animal Husbandry, Fishery and Poultry), Investment Credit etc.
DBGB has worked as a Leader Bank in providing credit facility to women through Self Help Groups with the help of JEEViKA in rural areas.
CEO, ACFL
Mr. Gyan Mohan is a career banker with exposure in all facets of Banking and Finance including investment and international banking. He has over 40 years’ experience in Banking-finance including Top Management posts in SBI, SBI Capital Market, IDBI Cap, Power Exchange, India Fortune Financial Services Limited, and SIS Limited. In his thirty years of experience of working with SBI, he has been exposed to all facets of banking viz. Retail, Corporate, Investment Banking, and International Banking.
He has returned to Patna after 26 years to establish Adi Chitragupta Finance Limited (ACFL). ACFL is the only NBFC-MFI headquartered in Bihar and registered with the Reserve Bank of India, Patna. ACFL tends to improve the economic condition of the underserved poor through cost-effective financial products with exemplary client services, riding on the best technology, along with bringing about financial literacy and skill improvement. ACFL till now has assisted 1.6 lakhs clients with 69% of them are from the agriculture sector and has disbursed around 500 cr.
Mr. Mohan serves as Director on Governing Board of Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN), (A self-regulatory organisation accredited by RBI). He is the chairman of Task Force on Small & Medium MFIs at MFIN and is an active member of Task Force on Credit Bureau and a state initiative task force. He thus participates in key policy-making and advocacy in the MFI sector.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - SHREYA LIFE SCIENCES, SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR & CHIEF CONSULTING OFFICER - MANOHAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
22 years of diversified experience in Pharma, healthcare,Finance, Hospitality and Software industry. Demonstrated ability of growth in India, UAE and other global markets. Industry agnostic, an entrepreneur by nature with an ability to plan, executes and scale up. Have an experience of working with more than 10 startups and scaling up. Known for professional ethics, numerical abilities, creative thinking, planning, execution, marketing strategy, business development, compliance, risk management, risk mitigation, cash flow management, P&L management & fund raising activities.
At presently, he is mentoring and consulting Manohar Memorial hospital, Rajauli, Nawada with mission to transform Rural healthcare service in Bihar.
FOUNDER – JITBAN SUPPLY CHAIN
Vikash Kumar: CHIEF ENGINEER, MBA IN SCM (INDIA & USA).
Jitban Supply Chain Pvt. Ltd is a Patna registered startup
Mumbai division deals in business of import/export of agriculture commodities.
GM, BRAND STRATEGY, BYJU’S
Prannay is currently working at BYJU'S as a General Manager, Brand Strategy. He has been with them since inception (8 years) and have experience in the fields of Business, Product, and Brand Strategy. He is also also a published poet with over 10 million views on Quora! He believes in always #KeepLearning and have followed that motto throughout his life. He has completed BTech. from Manipal Institute of Technology followed by a Data Driven Product Management Program at IIM Lucknow.
CENTRE HEAD & HEAD CRITICAL CARE - ASIAN CITY HOSPITAL
Dr. Mrityunjay Kumar has completed his MBBS from prestigious Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He has worked with reputed hospitals in India and Abroad like Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi. He has worked in Emergency Department at Sligo General Hospital, Ireland. After MD in Anaesthesiology, He has worked in Critical Care (ICU) at Shri Ram Murti Smarak Insititute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly. He has worked selflessly during Covid pandemic and provided treatment to hundreds of Citically ill patients in ICU and also provided Free online and telephonic consultations to thousands of patients from India and Abroad.Later,He has worked as Director and Head of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Ujala Cygnus Kulwanti Hospital, Kanpur. Currently, He is working as Centre Head and Head Critical Care at Asian City Hospital, Patna.
He aims to change landscape of Healthcare in Bihar with focus on providing affordable and easy to access medical care in smaller cities.
COO - BlUEMEDIX
Rahul also holds a diploma from “The Open University” in Human Rights and Law. Rahul is Social Media certified from HubSpot Academy, Campaign Management & Analytics from Google and Project Management (PMEC) from M&S Institute, Downingtown, USA
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