BKP has four decades of BFSI professional experience in Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Treasury & Credit. He has headed multifunctional and multi-dimensional assignments in a leading PSB and a Credit Rating Agency, together for four decades.

He is currently Chief General Manager (Ratings) for the last 4 years in Brickwork Ratings India (BWR), a SEBI registered & RBI accredited Credit Rating Agency (CRA) engaged in Credit Ratings for Corporate/SME Bank loans under Basel-II and Long/short term Capital Market Instruments, Grading Services for IPO & Institutions and Customized Research Services. His role includes supervising Credit Risk & Rating assessment, Rating Actions & Surveillance of Ratings as Chairperson and recommending the Ratings to higher committees as Coordinating Chairperson.

His earlier assignment was as Chief General Manager in Bank of Maharashtra wherein he headed as CGM/GM for a decade various bank-wide multiple functions namely, Board Matters, Inspection & Audit; Credit & International Banking; Information Technology, BPR & MIS; Financial Management, Accounts & Investments; Integrated Risk Management & Planning at the Bank’s H.O. He also held assignments of the Bank’s Chief Risk & Compliance officer and CFO. Earlier, starting in mid- nineties, he headed the Bank’s Treasury Operations at Mumbai for about a decade and before that he held positions as Zonal, Regional and Branch head in the Bank across the country for about 2 decades. Having joined the Bank as P.O in mid-seventies, his initial assignment was as Credit Group Officer at the Bank’s HO in SME/Priority Sector Section & later in similar function at Zonal office.

He spearheaded turnaround/creditable achievements, in challenging business critical assignments involving strategy building, innovations, start-ups, execution, monitoring & control, such as: Repeatedly bagging Chairman’s Club membership & highest Inspection ratings for the outstanding performances of the branches he headed & exiting his branch level assignment with Best Performing branch award; And while heading Bank’s verticals: Initiating profitable Domestic Treasury operations & Integrating Domestic and Forex Treasuries; Implementing Risk Management & Credit Rating Framework including Risk Modeling & RBP; Completing implementation of CBS and Basel-II norms in the Bank; Achieving highest CASA in the industry; Reinforcing AML & RBIA framework; & while heading Credit, the Bank’s bagging the coveted “Best Asset Quality Award FY 2011-12 (sponsored by Dun & Bradstreet & Polaris Technology)” among all the PSBs.

BKP holds degrees of MBA (Finance) from FMS Delhi, B.E. (Mechanical) from NIT Rourkela in first division & C A I I B from IIBF as educational & professional qualifications. He has been active in academic pursuits, participation in training, seminars & research:

Teaching, Training and Paper Setting: Faculty & paper setter for ‘Theory and Practice of Investment Management’ for Master of Financial Services Management (MFSM) course in Mumbai University. Guest speaker in NIBM, SIBM CAB of RBI, ICC etc.

Panelist/Speaker in National Seminars/MDP on Contemporary Topics: Regulation & Treasury Operations” in Risk & Governance Summit-by ISB/Deloitt; “Delivering Technology for Innovative Banking” in IBEX India; National Seminar on Basel-III– Implementation Challenges in Banks by BoM; Start-up and SME summit by COSHALE; Other such seminars; And editor for Bancon 2012 publication and banking journals.

Papers and Research Contributions/Publications: Published Papers & Articles in National seminars & Press (Business Standard etc.) on topics related to Risk, GILT, Treasury, Derivatives, Interest Rate, Foreign Currency, Budget & Credit Policy, E- banking, Productivity, Credit, Vigilance & Strategic management & “Basel-III is counter Productive & Inflationary” (Bancon-IBA).

Membership of Apex Committees and Associations: Advisory Group formed by RBI on Transactions in Government Securities & Market practices, Education committees of FIMMDA and Central sub-committee of ICAI on Concurrent Audit in banks. Apex level committees such as ALCO, Credit/Operational/Market Risk Management, Training Advisory, Customer Service, IT, Investment, PF & Gratuity Funds and TMC in the said PSB. President of NIT Rourkela Alumni Association. (NITRAA) Pune Chapter.

Participation in International/Domestic Seminars, conferences and Training: International Banking Summer School Luxembourg, SIBOS Amsterdam, International Capital Conference Paris, Survey for Bank’s Overseas Branch Hongkong, BMM-NRI Convention Seattle USA, Bancassurance seminar Bangkok, Derivatives Training at AMEX Bank London & NY and other Institutions such as BTC, UTI, FIMMDA, NIBM, IBA, Copenhagen Risk and Compliance Group etc.

Admission/Recruitment/Promotion Process: Panel member/Chairman in Interview panel for PGDBM admission in NIBM, Campus recruitment of Bank officers from leading management institutes/ICAI and Promotion panel for Senior/Top Mgmt.

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Lalit Sahoo is a competent MEP professional with more than 25 Years of industry experience, strategic planner and an effective communicator with assertive and strong leadership qualities.

An Electrical graduate from NITRA – Rourkela 1992 Batch, his experience includes expertise in various fields like Planning, Estimation, Project Monitoring & Controlling, Execution, Operations and Maintenance of complete MEP Services

Besides this, he is one of the key members for Design and Implementation of OHSAS-18001 at Amby Valley, Certified lead auditor for OHSAS-18001 and practice Safety Manager at construction site, an auditor for EMS-14001 and SA- 8000 and also certified Energy Auditor accredited to BEE. He also is an empanelled auditor of NABCB.

He was also part of concept building of Leadership in Energy & Environment Design (LEED) rating system of United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

On Professional front he is registered member of Energy Forum for Institute of Engineers – Pune Chapter, Associate member for Wind Energy Association of India (InWea), a registered member of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE, INDIA)

He had worked with several market leaders in India and overseas like Bechtel, Emaar, Gold Developer, Reliance Infrastructure, Amby Valley, Digital Alarm Technologies, Globe detective agency, Orient Engineers and currently settled at Pune (India) working with SPCPL as MEP Head west and North Region.

He played a key role in construction of various landmark projects few of which are Mahatma Mandir – India’s biggest Convection centre at Gandhinagar (Gujrat), Vallabh Bhavan – Secretariat building at Bhopal, MCA – Cricket stadium at Pune, Elite hotel – Dubai, and many more industrial, residential, commercial, hotels, university, stadiums, hospitals.

He has got many paper published and presented as below  Topic on energy Conservation and Green building on in-house SEED magazine  Model Sustainable Home for Indian Building Industry: The need of the hour in NSSD Seminar, Ahmedabad  Showcasing Amby valley on sustainable front with CCP workshop at Shimla  Energy Conservation through CDM option: An ideal solution to Global warming in IE, Pune

Lalit Sahoo is married to Mrs. Binapani Sahoo and blessed with two kids Biswajeet Sahoo and Abhijeet Sahoo

His interests include Reading books, Writing Articles & Letters, Listening music and Driving

Leo Paulose serves as the Club Growth Director for Toastmasters International where he is responsible for building the organization across Western and Central India. He has received the coveted Distinguished Toastmaster award and was the Conference Convener for the first Annual Conference of District 98 entitled ELOQUENCE which witnessed the largest gathering of Toastmasters across Central India in 2016. He has supported the establishing and chartering of over 15+ clubs across India (and counting!). He has served as the District Parliamentarian, Division Director, Area Director and in various other District and Club leadership capacities in the past.

He serves as the Innovation Expert at Amdocs India where he is responsible for defining the innovation strategy and driving innovation across the Amdocs India centers in Pune, Gurgaon and Mumbai. He handles a diverse variety of portfolios including innovation awareness, incubation (product & service), IP generation & protection, process innovation, industry-academia collaboration, start-up scouting & partnering, in-house RQ & niche skill development and innovation thought leadership. He works extensively with global and local stake-holders including CXOs and senior leadership across the organization towards enabling top-line and bottom-line growth. He has had extensive expertise in working with telecom customers across the globe towards co-creation & co- innovation.

He also serves as the Vice President for the alumni association of his alma-mater National Institute of Technology Rourkela and is responsible for the Western Region of India.

He is an author and has had his first book entitled ‘William Brothers’ released by the Indian Ambassador in KSA during his school days.

He is a highly sought after speaker and has delivered numerous talks and workshops on topics ranging from innovation to thought-leadership, communication and growth mindset across numerous organizations including Amdocs, Infosys, TCS, IBM, John Deere, Citibank, BMC Software, Halliburton, IITs and NITs among others. He is also a regular speaker at various industry forums.

Gauresh currently Heads the Design vertical at Chizel which is a startup in the field of Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing. He also looks after R&D, creating standards and benchmarks for 3D Printing, and strategizing and exploring new product verticals in the organization.

Born and brought up in Mumbai, Gauresh has been residing in Pune since November 2015, and is currently operating in the capacity of Treasurer for NIT Rourkela Alumni Association (NITRAA) Pune Chapter.

He did his Bachelors from Visvesvaraya Technological University in the field of Industrial and Production Engg. He later went onto pursue his Masters from NIT, Rourkela in the field of Industrial Design.

He has been delivering talks and workshops on 3d Printing thereby educating the masses about the possibilities of this groundbreaking technology. Gauresh has keen inclination towards sports and has represented NIT Rourkela at the INTER-NIT football tournament during his college days.

Nitika completed her B.E. Electrical from NIT Rourkela in the year 1997. After working for Crompton Greaves, Mumbai in core design area for 3 years, she moved to Information Technology in the year 2000, and joined Infosys Technologies Ltd in Pune. Having served Infosys for nearly 5 years, she moved to training for 2 years which helped her maintain a good work-life balance.

Her second innings in the corporate world started with HSBC Global Technology, Pune in 2007, where she worked as Associate Project Manager, managing software banking projects for HSBC UK. In 2012, she decided to take a break from full-time work and focus on being a homemaker for a better upbringing of her two children.

Now she follows her passion in the field of Mathematics, having been trained as Vedic Maths teacher and conducts Vedic Maths courses for students.