Narayanan Kumar is the Vice-Chairman of the Sanmar Group, a well known Industrial conglomerate with global presence in niche businesses of Chemicals, Engineering (Products and Steel Castings) and Shipping. Mr. Kumar is an active spokesperson of industry and trade and was the Past President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a leading industrial body. He participates in the functioning of various other prominent apex bodies. He is also on the Board of several public limited companies. Mr. Kumar, a Graduate Engineer in Electronics and Communication carries with him a vast experience in the spheres of Technology, Management and Finance.

Amba Preetham Parigi serves on the Boards of various companies including BCCL, Times Global Broadcasting Company Ltd., Absolute Radio-UK etc. In the past two decades he has held several senior posts such as CEO at BPL Mobile-Mumbai, MD & CEO for ENIL (Radio Mirchi) and MD & Group CEO- India operations at Eros International Media Ltd. Mr. Parigi has been the recipient of international honors such as the 2009 ‘William F Glaser’53 Rensselaer’s Entrepreneur of the Year’ and the 2009 World Brand Congress- Lifetime achievement award. Apart from being a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Said Business School at Oxford University, Mr. Parigi has also been actively serving on several committees of trade bodies like FICCI, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) etc. He is an alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics and Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi.

Ravindra Dhariwal is the Executive Director and CEO of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. In his long and illustrious career, he has held senior positions in companies like Hindustan Lever Limited, Rexona Proprietary Limited - Sydney, Pepsi Foods Industries and PepsiCo. His latest stint was that of Vice President-Franchise for SE Asia region of PepsiCo International. He is a B. Tech from IIT Kanpur and post graduate diploma holder in management from IIM, Calcutta.

Sivakumar Sundaram a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as well as Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, has been with the Times of India group for over 19 Years and has handled diversified functions such as Finance, M & A, Marketing & Sales and now leads the Brand Capital business division of The TOI Group. At BCCL he has played a pivotal role in various new business initiatives i.e. Internet, Radio, OOH Ventures etc and is on the board of some of these companies. Sivakumar also works very actively with the Vice-Chairman of the group, Mr. Samir Jain in ideating, incubating and implementing ideas for BCCL’s media business.

Lakshmiah Balachandra Naidu is the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs (Singapore) managing their investments in India and Singapore. Prior to this, Mr. Naidu was heading the capital markets business of Rabobank in India.He is a Graduate Engineer from Regional Engineering College, Suratkal and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.