Bharath Krishna Sankar is the Chairman of Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Ltd, headquartered at Madurai: which is into HR and Compliances related KPO services.

Bharath is a postgraduate in Commerce, a national gold medalist (topper in both Inter and Final) in Chartered Accountancy and an Associate of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India. His doctoral thesis is on “Determinants of entrepreneurship and its impact on MSME sector sustainability in Madurai district”.

Bharath is an exceptional coach and mentor, with a passion for developing and nourishing the entrepreneurial spirit in youngsters. He is the Board Chair of Michigan Academy for Development of Entrepreneurs, USA and on the Board of Indian Bank. He was the recipient of TiE Chennai’s “Entrepreneur of the year” award for 2015. He is the Past Chairman of the Madurai Zone of CII and the Vice Chairman of MaaMadurai Potruvom Committee.

Aparajitha Corporate Services (P) Ltd has grown from just 10 people and a turnover of about 20 lakhs to a group of 1400 core staff and over 12000 deputed staff with a turnover of over 350 crores for the year ending March 2018, with branches all over the country. (www.aparajitha.com).

Aparajitha Foundations, a trust promoted by the group, has started ‘TTT’ – a life skills programme for adolescents which has reached 17 lacs of students across 26000 schools in six states of India in three languages.

Anantha-Nageswaran graduated with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1985. He obtained a doctoral degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts in 1994 for his work on the empirical behaviour of exchange rates.

Between 1994 and 2004, he worked for Union Bank of Switzerland (now UBS) and Credit Suisse in Switzerland and in Singapore. In July 2006, he joined Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. in Singapore as the Head of Research for Asia. In March 2009, he was appointed as the Chief Investment Officer for the bank. Since July 2011, he has been a writer, consultant and teacher.

He is an adjunct faculty with the Singapore Management University and with the Wealth Management Institute at the Nanyang Technological University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several companies in India and Singapore.

His co-authored book, ‘Economics of Derivatives’ and ‘Derivatives’ were published by the Cambridge University Press in March 2015 and October 2017 respectively. Another co-authored work, ‘Can India grow?’ has been published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in November 2016.

He writes a weekly column for MINT, an Indian financial daily, on Tuesdays ( www.livemint.com ) and is an active blogger at www.thegoldstandardsite.wordpress.com .

Mr. R Dinesh, 53, is the fourth generation TVS Family member, has worked his way up the organization ladder – as is the tradition in the family. A Commerce Graduate and an Associate Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. He is the Managing Director of TVS Logistics Services Limited and Joint Managing Director of T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Private Limited. Apart from the above, he is also Director for various joint ventures and subsidiaries of these companies.

He has been elected as the Chairman for CII Southern Region for the year 2018-2019. Mr. Dinesh is also the Chairman – Logistics Sector Skill Council & CII Institute of Logistics Advisory Council (2018-19).

Mr. Dinesh has won many awards including, ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award for ‘Services’ category by Ernst & Young in February 2017. He is also the recipient of TiECON’s ‘Next Gen Entrepreneur of the year 2014’ award and ‘Emerging Entrepreneur’ award by CII in 2010.

Mr. Dinesh, often referred as ‘game changer’ within the fraternity, has started TVS Logistics (TVS LSL) in 2004. Since then under his able leadership the company has grown multifold to become a billion-dollar company in 2017. TVS LSL is the first company to get private equity funding within the group. TVS Logistics has presence across the globe making it a truly global company and serving customers in over 50 countries. TVS LSL employs around 19,000 strong work force in India. It’s UK arm also provides over 2500 jobs in the UK.

Currently, the companies under his management have a turnover of around USD 2 Billion and employ more than 25,000 people. Mr. Dinesh has been instrumental in expanding his companies’ operations globally and has set up subsidiaries in Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Thailand, Bangladesh, United States of America, South Africa, Singapore, China and Australia.