Lee Corner Lee Corner is an independent consultant specialising in organisational development and human resource management. She has worked in the creative and cultural sectors for more than 25 years, and has devised specialist programmes of training and professional development which she now runs for individuals, groups and organisations across the UK. Her recent clients include the Arts Councils (regional and national); The Artists’ Information Company; CIDA; darts; East Street Arts; Hull Time Based Arts; the NUJ; Public Art Forum; Public Art South West; Sheffield Media & Exhibition Company; Youth Music; and many city, unitary, county and district Local Authorities across the UK. Lee was elected Chair of Media Centre Network in 2003 having joined the Board in 2000. She also serves on the Creative Industries Advisory Panel of the British Council. Her work internationally has taken her to Mexico, Poland and Finland. She regularly works as an advisor to the Performing Arts Environment Forum in Japan, and is currently developing a network of support services for creative sector SMEs in Colombia. She is also undertaking development work for the British Council’s Creative Industries Unit in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, and in India.

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Ramnath Narayanswamy Ramnath Narayanswamy is a Professor in the Economics and Social Sciences Area in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His areas of interest include Business and Society, Spirituality and Self Development, Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector and Creativity and Innovation. After securing a First Class First in Political Science from the University of Poona, he shifted to political economy and area studies. Combining Economics, Political Science and Sociology, he secured his doctorate from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Paris. He taught at the Center for the Management of the Socialist Economies in the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Poona. He was Visiting Research Fellow in the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham (supported by the Rockefeller Foundation) and was Reader in the Center of Eurasian Studies of the University of Bombay. He was also invited by the German Foreign Ministry to do a study on The Indian Response to Perestroika 1985-1990, (supported by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation) which was subsequently published by the Federal Institute of East European Studies in Cologne. He was Visiting Professor in the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, the Federal Institute of East European and International Studies in Cologne, McGill University in Canada, The Management School, Lancaster and HEC Montreal. Fluent in several languages, a frequent contributor to professional journals in India and abroad, Dr. Ramnath has published extensively in his domain. He has been the recipient of several scholarships and fellowships. He is the author of Gorbachev, Economic Reform and Eastern Europe (Himalaya Publishing House, Bombay, 1988) and The Soviet Economic System, 1989 (translated from the French). He has won several teaching awards from successive batches of students in both creativity and innovation. He was one among four instructors selected from all over the world by BizEd, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools in Business, who have significantly contributed to innovation in management education. Current interests include creativity and innovation, spirituality and leadership. He is a Research Associate of the Chair in Ethical Management at HEC Montreal. He is part of a worldwide research initiative on Integral Leadership profiling the lives of one hundred leaders supported by the Chair. (www.hec.ca) He is co-authoring a book on Mahatma Gandhi with Professor Thierry Pauchant from HEC Montreal. He authors a bi-monthly column on spiritual matters for the The Deccan Herald. He is part of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Values (Calcutta) and the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, (Edinburgh). Tel: 26993137 (O) and 26993179 (R) Email: ram123@iimb.ernet.in www.iimb.ernet.in

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Andrew Senior Andrew Senior is the Acting Head Arts and Creative Industries at the British Council in India. In this role he is managing the arts programme across the country and developing the new Creative Future project. Andrew will be in India until the end of August 2006. In September he will return to his substantive post as Head Creative Industries at the British Council. Whilst this post is based in London, the creative economy work of the British Council regularly takes Andrew to many of the 110 countries within the British Council’s network. The creative economy programme includes groundbreaking initiatives in technical assistance, around young creative entrepreneurs and in policy development. Programmes operate in Albania, Argentina, Bahrain, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Croatia, Estonia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and Venezuela. Before joining the British Council in 1999, Andrew worked as a consultant project manager and producer within the theatre. His clients included the Royal Shakespeare Company and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. His projects included writing two annual reviews for the RSC, undertaking a feasibility study for the RSC Academy and creating and organising the Culture, Business and Society international conference. For the West Yorkshire Playhouse he produced the European premiere of Jar the Floor by the American playwright Cheryl West and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with a Georgian creative team. Andrew read law at university and practised as a commercial solicitor for eight years. His experience in both the commercial world and in the arts meant that he was well placed to develop the British Council’s programme of work in the creative industries. In April 2006 he was shortlisted for the 2006 VISTA Award for Industry Achievement at the British Book Awards. Andrew was nominated for his work with young publishers from developing, emerging and transitional economies, specifically the creation of the International Young Publisher of the Year (IYPY) award which is now in its fourth year.

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ANMOL VELLANI Anmol Vellani joined India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), an independent philanthropic organization, as Executive Director in 1995. From 1986 to 1995 he served as Program Officer in the New Delhi Office of The Ford Foundation with responsibility for grant programmes in the performing arts, folklore and classical learning. In an advisory capacity, he currently serves as the Co-Chair of Conference of Asian Foundations and Organizations; on the Advisory Council of the Asia Society India Centre; and on the India Advisory Committee of The Resource Alliance, among others. Anmol has been invited to speak on the arts and religion, corporate patronage, the role of foundations, intercultural dialogue, the performing arts, and arts philanthropy and the law at conferences and seminars. He has helped to design courses on the interface between the arts and management, served as faculty for training workshops in grant making, and used theatre methods to conduct creativity workshops in management programmes. He studied philosophy at the Universities of Poona, Oxford and Cambridge, and lectured at Elphinstone College, Mumbai, during the 1970s. Anmol has been active as a theatre director for the last 35 years.

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Kate Jones Kate Jones is half of the partnership known as Gillies Jones Glass, a partnership between Glass Maker Stephen Gillies & Artist Kate Jones, established in 1995 in rural North Yorkshire. The business designs and makes design led blown glass, small batch production pieces and large one off unique works. Designs for small production works have been successfully exported world wide including the USA & Australia with designs commissioned by the Conran shop amongst others. In 2002 a series of new unique works were presented at exhibition and already from part of 4 Museum collections nationally and internationally including a commission from the V&A in 2003. Kate Jones specialises surface pattern using sand carved surface techniques with glass, and she manages every other aspect of the practical day to day running of the business. Her background is in fine art and youth & community work, she has lectured in the UK and Australia on Contemporary Crafts Practice , Exporting for Creative Industries and Business Development for the Creative Industries.

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Vasanthi Srinivasan Vasanthi Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in the area of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management. Her areas of interest are Career and Performance Management, HR Management in the International Context and Team-based Work Systems. While she is a specialist in the area of HRM, Prof. Srinivasan is actively pursuing research in cross-functional areas of management in the Information Technology, Career Management and cross-cultural domains. She has been a part of the team, which has been engaged in a European Union funded research “EMERGENCE” on understanding the work relocations that happen globally. Her consulting work has been in the areas of building capability of HR professionals, performance management and leadership development. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a Fellow in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Prior to Joining IIMB, she worked at Wipro Limited and The P&P Group, a Bangalore- based consulting organization. She was also Visiting Professor at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. Vasanthi is currently an Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Business, Economics & Ethics (ISBEE) and is also on the Board of Directors of a few international not-for profit social and non-governmental organizations.

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S Srikirshna S Srikrishna is the Director, Operations of Hi Fidelity Solutions Private Limited that is engaged in providing financial management services to businesses woven around the development of entrepreneurial endeavours by integrating financial strategy with business strategy. In his professional pursuit he assumes the role of a growth navigator, execution maestro, turnaround surgeon and business model transformer. His professional interests include financial strategy, coaching, training, entrepreneurial development, writing in professional journal and capability building. He is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience of about 29 years in financial and business operations of reputed organizations in India. Over these years he built and managed teams, developed financial processes and provided functional leadership in diverse areas such as financial strategy, risk management, analysis, reporting, compliance, asset management, business integration, resource mobilization, customer financing and cost productivity. He served in important leadership positions in various organizations in India such as Finance & Accounts Manager in Wipro Information Technology Limited, Vice President, Finance & Business Support in Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited and Director of Finance in Motorola Broadband Communications Sector in shaping and guiding these businesses to deliver operating results.

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Mithileshwar Jha Professor Mithileshwar Jha is Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Professor Jha has worked with leading management institutes in the country like IIM-Lucknow, Institute of Rural Management, Anand & XLRI – Jamshedpur. While working with IIM Lucknow he has held the position of Escotel-CRM Chair and Dean Academic. He has also worked with a consulting engineering firm – Holtec India, in their business development function before joining academics in 1981. Professor Jha is a Fellow and Post-graduate in Management from IIM Ahmedabad. His teaching and research interests include Product – Market Strategy, Relationship Marketing, Social Marketing, Services Marketing, Rural Marketing and Management of Development Programmes and Institutions. Professor Jha has consulted with international agencies like Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), NORAD, and Canadian Hunger Foundation. He has conducted training programmes/consulted with organisations like Grasim Industries, HMT Ltd., Indian Telephone Industries Ltd, BPL, Siemens India, Reliance Industries, Ranbaxy, Berger Paints and Government of India among several others. He was a member of the working group on Public Distribution System of Planning Commission, Government of India, set up to develop Eighth Plan strategies during 1988-’89. He has been on the Boards of IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow and Gandhi Peace Centre. He is currently on the boards of Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd and PSU Foundation . Professor Jha has published a number of articles in leading Indian Journals and has developed about a dozen cases. He has contributed three chapters in Dr. T Scarlett Epstein(ed.) “A Manual for Culturally Adapted Social Marketing”, published by Sage, in the year 1999. Telephone: Direct - 080-26993083(O), 26993482(R). Fax: 080-26584050 Email: mjha@iimb.ernet.in

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Srinivas Prakhya Srinivas Prakhya is an Asst. Professor in the Marketing area. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, he has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. After spending six years in the industry in Retailing and General Management with OMC Computers and Mothercare India Ltd., he pursued doctoral studies in Marketing at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University and, on completion of the Ph.D., was Visiting Assistant Professor at the same school. His research and teaching interests include Individual Choice Behaviour; Econometric Modelling of Consumer Behaviour; Knowledge Creation and Transfer; Leadership; Self-Enquiry and Management.

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P N Thirunarayana P.N Thirunarayana is the Director of National Center for Practicing Negotiation Skills, Bangalore and a Visiting Professor at IIM Bangalore. Thiru has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and in Engineering and PGDBA from IIM Ahmedabad. An author of several cases and papers on Marketing Management, Thiru has had articles featured in many prominent Indian and International Management publications. Thiru has been the European Community Visiting Professor at GROUPE ESSEC, Paris; UNDP Fellow. He was the Program Director (India) of the International Masters Program in Practicing Management (IMPM), a collaborative project of Hitotsubhashi (Japan), Lancaster (UK), McGill (Canada), IIMB (India) and INSEAD (France) Thiru has worked as a Retainer Consultant and has completed several consultancy assignments with major organisations in the area of strategic Management. Presently he is the module director/member of Steering Committee, BAE systems (Transnational), Strategic Leaders Program.

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Amit Jamsandekar Amit Jamsandekar is a practising Advocate in the Bombay High Court, and is also a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He holds a Masters degree in Entertainment Law from Cardiff University. At Cardiff, he specialised in Intellectual Property Laws and since then he has practised primarily in that field. He lectures extensively on Intellectual Property and allied topics; and he has published a substantial body of work on the subject. Mr. Jamsandekar’s special interests and expertise lies in Intellectual Property rights related to entertainment and media including celebrity rights and rights related to digital and other non printed works.

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J Ramachandran J. Ramachandran is BOC Chair Professor of Business Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. A qualified Chartered and Cost Accountant, Professor Ramachandran obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His major research interests are in the areas of corporate transformation and competitive strategy. Prior to joining the faculty at IIM Bangalore, Professor Ramachandran was Vice President (Management Services) at Reliance Industries Limited, one of India’s largest private sector firms. A winner of a number of awards for case research and teaching, Business World recently cited him as a Star Teacher, Professor Ramachandran is currently engaged in studying the globalisation of firms from emerging markets.. He has been the Harry Reynolds Visiting International Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA. He has also been a member of the Sub Committee on Strategy in Non-US Settings, Business Policy & Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, USA. Professor Ramachandran was the Chairperson of Executive Education at the Institute. He has also directed the Global Leadership Program conducted by IIM Bangalore jointly with Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, USA, HEC France, and Templeton College, UK as well as the MIT Sloan-IIMB Senior Management program on Globalisation, Technology and Management of Change. A former member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Professor Ramachandran serves on the board of select companies. He has also served as a consultant to various multinational and Indian companies, including Daimler Chrysler, Hewlett Packard, Philips, ITC, Colgate Palmolive, Siemens, Olam International, Wipro, Infosys, Sasken, Wockhardt, United Breweries, Eicher, Dalmia Cements, Madras Refineries, and LIC.

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Anjalee Wakankar A fashion and interior designer and an experienced entrepreneur, she has worked in Cambodia with rural artisans, weavers and silversmiths, assisting them in design and business. She later worked out of Singapore, gaining insights into arts of Indo-China, Thailand and Malaysia. This journey led to a deep conviction in the need to conserve the rich diversity that we are losing today due to homogenization of cultures. Design, she believes, is the key in innovating alternatives that are universal yet rooted in the local. KAARU embodies the pursuit of this vision.

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CHIPPY GANGEE Chippy Gangee is a Human Resources Consultant imparting training in Communication Skills including Non-verbal communication, Personality Enhancement Skills, Leadership & Motivation, Social Behaviour, Lateral Thinking, etc. With a wide range of experience in Sales, Marketing, Personnel and Human Resource management, he has taught at several organizations such as Titan Industries Ltd., Action Aid India, Motorola Electronics, Wipro, Aikya, Shakti, Visual Web Solutions, IBM, Astra Zeneca, Hutch, among others. Chippy is also a Actor / Director of repute and has participated in more than a hundred Theatrical Productions, over a dozen T V Serials and 3 English Films in which he has essayed leading roles. Most recently he was seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s BLACK Chippy promotes, advises and deals in Art and has organised successful shows and Camps including with the top contemporary artists of Bangalore.

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S Gopalakrishnan S Gopalakrishnan , Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ : INFY) S. Gopalakrishnan (called Kris by his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited, a highly respected Consulting, IT services and Business Process Management company operating in the global market. He has played a key role at Infosys in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry. Kris obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras. He started his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a Software Engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become an Assistant Project Manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a distributed process control system for controlling the LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant. In 1981, Kris, along with N.R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys Technologies Limited. The initial years of his responsibility at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. During 1987-1994 he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company. Starting April 2002 he has been appointed as Chief Operating officer. His responsibilities include Customer Services, Technology, Investments and Acquisitions. Kris is also the Chairperson of Infosys Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris is currently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Information Technology Education Standards Board (BITES) set up by Karnataka Government. He is on the board of directors of National Internet Exchange of India. He is also the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Karnataka Region. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

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SHOMBIT SENGUPTA International management consultant Shombit Sengupta is the originator of the Emotional Surplus business strategy which is the laddering and balancing of the rational, functional and emotional attributes of any selling proposition. Shombit left India 30 years ago to discover art in Paris. He did that, but more significantly, Corporate Europe discovered him and bought into his concept of Emotional Surplus. He has since mastered 4 consulting domains: corporate transformation, branding, product design and retail design. In 1984 he founded his company called Shining in Paris, and provided these consulting services to several hundred corporations worldwide, creating 1200 brands across Europe, North and South America, Japan and India. His management lecture assignments have been at INSEAD and Sorbonne University, aside from workshops for clients across the globe. Shining Emotional Surplus Pvt. Ltd. is the world’s foremost innovation led business and branding equation for shareholder wealth creation. With microscopic understanding of end users’ latent trends, Shining aligns a client corporation’s internal operations and layers to better connect with the end users’ subconscious mind. Shining’s assignments couple strategy formulation with accountability for operational implementation. Shining has set up its India and Asia Pacific headquarters in Bangalore Shining’s international clients include Unilever, Danone, Nestle, Carrefour, Horosmart, Lexmark, Proctor & Gamble, Nivea, Henkel, Ferruzi, Delta, Adidas, L’Oreal, SmithKline Beecham, Total Petroleum, Carrefour, Intermarche, Reckitt & Colman, Groupama Insurance, Remy Martin, Pernod Ricard, among others. In India Shining has worked with Britannia, Marico, Wipro, Hindustan Lever, Mahindra & Mahindra and Jubilant Organosys (Vam Organics) among others.

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SUBROTO BAGCHI Subroto Bagchi is best known for co-founding MindTree Consulting in 1999 where he currently works as Chief Operating Officer. MindTree is among India's most admired companies across industries. Rated by Hewitt & Businessworld as one of India’s best employers for successive years, MindTree today is growing significantly higher than the IT Industry. Subroto has written extensively in leading newspapers and magazines, and spoken at industry platforms and educational institutions the world over. His Businessworld column Arbor Mentis and Times of India column Times of Mind were widely read and discussed. Many of these are archived at : Mind Tree website. In 2006, Business Today magazine ranked him among India's Top 15 most influential businesspersons. The same year, he was also rated the 5th most admired business leader in a poll among business school students in India. His first book "The High Performance Entrepreneur" is due for September release as a Penguin Portfolio publication

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Dr J M Sampath Sampath is the Managing Director of Arpitha Associates Pvt Ltd: A Center for Excellence with offices in Malaysia, Singapore and India. Arpitha Associates is today, acknowledged by a top line roster of Fortune 500 clients for its understanding and professionalism in developing the abilities of employees to increase productivity and the value of individual contributions to the organization. The conceptual understandings of 'Values Clarification for Change' and 'Learning for Nurturing Excellence' are the cornerstones of Sampath's work. He believes that clarity about one's values will help understand one's behaviour and make 'change processes' more effective. Through research and experience in specialized fields of Learning and Values Clarification, a number of tools and processes have been designed and developed to facilitate better understanding of these. Having been successfully used to help over 20,000 individuals understand themselves in the last 15 years, they offer an exhaustive and comprehensive understanding of the personal profile and psychology of people and their work situations.

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Dr Kalpana Sampath Dr. Kalpana Sampath is the Director of Arpitha Associates Pvt Ltd. Kalpana is a human resource professional and development artist, active for the last 10 years helping individuals and organizations focus on their vision and clarify their values. Currently she is a member of Arpitha, a group committed to spreading the concept of Values Clarification. As Director, she is at the vanguard of the movement of interventions facilitating growth and empowerment in individuals and organizations based on using the concept of Values Clarification for deep change. Working with them at a fundamental level with process-oriented approach, she facilitates awareness of deep-rooted values from which behaviour emerges. Kalpana's expertise at Change Management stems from her inviolable principle of acceptance. Her keen sense of direction contributes to her capacity for facilitating integration of apparently disparate experiences. Kalpana brings a unique flavour to her workshops with her use of kinesthetics to facilitate self-expression. Her participants experience her as warm and affable while handling stressful modules. She leads the education and organizational research wing at Arpitha Associates.

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Anamaria Wills Anamaria Wills is the Chief Executive of the Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA) which she co-founded with Lee Corner in 2000. CIDA aims to provide artists and creative entrepreneurs with professional development and business support, helping them to maximise their potential for earning from their creativity. Prior to that, she had worked in the creative sector for over 25 years, ranging from arts officer in Essex to Head of Marketing at the National Theatre. She was awarded the Theatrical Management Association national award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatrical Life in 1992. She is a founder member of Yorkshire’s Digital Cluster Steering Group; Chair of Skillscene, the national organisation developing a competency framework and work-based qualifications for people in the live arts; and is a member of the UK Government’s Task Group for Skills and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries.

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