Aparna (Pinky) Reddy National President, FLO

Aparna Reddy, aka Pinky Reddy is a woman who dared to take on the mantle of a trail blazer and created her own unique identity as an entrepreneur and business woman.

With a business management course from Harvard University, Aparna

singlehandedly designed and developed marketing strategies to spearhead the

growth of companies that she has nurtured with a unique, distinct identity of her

own. Her strong acumen for business enabled her in creating a niche for herself through different aspects of work, enabling her to make the paradigm shift towards

Indian art and culture.

An ardent aficionado of art and culture, Aparna, affectionately known as Pinky, has turned her passion into a heritage business. Foreseeing a unique opportunity that

modern urban living offered for the promotion of heritage arts and culture, Aparna

started a venture called Lotus House. This organisation works towards reviving and

promoting fast disappearing indigenous art. Lotus House today is playing a major

role in the rejuvenation of ancient art, ensuring that struggling artists are provided

the encouragement and resources to revive a dying art and earn a decent living.

Thus, Lotus House has become a successful business module creating job

opportunities, while at the same time restoring a great cultural heritage. Encouraged by this endeavour, Aparna also started a charitable entity called the

Aparna Foundation which provides education for over 150 children.

Working tirelessly to make a difference, Aparna Reddy has taken on many identities, such as humanist, entrepreneur, an aficionado of the arts and culture and promoter of education for children. Effortlessly juggling between the roles of wife, mother,

homemaker and entrepreneur, she is today an inspirational icon for aspiring young women entrepreneurs.

Over the last decade, Aparna Reddy has made her presence felt at the leadership

level with her active participation at different forums, thus establishing herself as a

prominent entrepreneur with a vision for a modern yet culturally rich and vibrant

India.

Glimpses into Aparna’s contribution and achievements:

President – FICCI FLO

Chairperson – FICCI FLO Hyderabad Chapter 2011-12

Chairperson (Education) – Young Indians, CII 2010-2011

Founder, Trustee – Aparna Foundation – 2012

Managing Director – The Lotus House Group – 2011 onwards

Member on Board -GVK EMRI, GVK Projects- 2012onwards

Membership in Other Professional and Social Organizations:

Chairperson – Hyderabad 10K Run Foundation- 2005 & 2006

Aikya – Indian School of Business (ISB) – 2004 onwards

YPO – 2000 onwards

Member – Young Indians, CII

Promoter Shareholder – GVK – 1995 onwards

Harjinder Kaur National Senior Vice President, FLO

Harjinder Kaur is the National Senior Vice president of FLO. She founded the

company Comvision (India) Pvt. Ltd. in 1995 with a humble start. Today Comvision

is CMM level3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 & ISO/IEC 20000-

1:2011 certified medium sized business organization. Currently with 150+ employees and 4 offices across India, she stands tall as the only business woman,

into the specific arena of intelligent traffic / transport solutions.

Having a computer science degree & during her initial years in business, she took upon the challenge to change the way Govt. services were given to a citizen and gave

a concept of multiple services of different Govt. depts. under one roof to India. Her

first such project “TWINS” implemented in Hyderabad in 1999 redefined the way Govt to citizen(G2C) services were delivered. The model was thus replicated PAN

India by many other Govt. departments and these govt. departments soon adopted

the concept of integrated multiple services under one roof.

TWINS was also showcased to the then US President “H.E. Bill Clinton” during his

maiden visit to India.

As she grew in business her company additionally went on to specialize in the road

sector and today has strategic partnerships with world leaders in technologically

advanced solutions in specific areas of intelligent traffic & Transport. With her

domain knowledge of Indian business and best of technology adoption, her company

has become a name to reckon with in the technology implementation in road sector

as well.

She has leveraged her sound business policies and good relationship with

Governments across ideologies including the current dispensation. Some of the

notable contributions are as under:

Implementation of RFID based electronic toll collection technology for India,

integrating with the central clearing house of NPCI and payment settlement

system across banks for toll lanes in India.

A few major Highways in the country are running with her solutions. Some of

them are Delhi Agra Highway, Gurgaon- Faridabad Toll road and Hosur

Krishnagiri Toll road near Bangalore.

Currently her company is implementing Smart City projects in many states.

Notable areas of work are:

o Smart Garbage collection solution

o Optimization and intelligence of traffic signals with respect to traffic in corridors

o Planning traffic in city, working in partnership with traffic police in various cities in real time traffic information

o Knowledge management and tools to streamline the traffic with the help of history data analysis.

Feathers in her cap

IWEC AWARD (International Woman Entrepreneurial Challenge) coveted in South Africa in October’2010.

FICCIFLO award 2013 for outstanding achiever during Interstate meeting of 2013-14.

GPS “Business woman of the year” award by Air chief Marshal Arjan Singh

SAARC Women’s economic Forum Award given by Bimstec-SAARC for

excellence in Business category for the year 2016-17.

“Woman entrepreneur of the year” by the SME Chamber of India during the

SME Excellence Awards 2017.

ICONIC award: Business woman of the year 2018.

Women economic forum-(WEF) leader of the decade award in 2018.

She is Mercedes Felicitation by Mercedes India in 2018.

World Sikh Award in 2018 in category-Business Woman of the Year.

Media coverage

India Today: Iron Maidens-2007

Indian Express –Hyderabad: Woman of Substance, February 23, 2007

The Week: India’s most Deserving Men & Women –March 4,2007

The Savvy: Very with IT-August 2007

Mail Today (center spread two pages): From the hinter land to the hot seat- September 8,2010

Hindustan Times: Delhi and NCR- August 9,2012

Being a successful business woman, she was invited at S&P Capital IQ

(McGraw Hill Financial) and WINS and was asked to speak about her journey

in business on July 30, 2013.

Exclusive interview on DOORDARSHAN: An exclusive 30 minutes live interview on her, was done by main channel of DOORDARSHAN on 13th May

2014. The program focused her success story.

AAJ TAK: ‘Sabse aage hongi Harjinder Kaur’- 2016

Ministry of Information Technology: Documentary on her achievements in

field of Information Technology in Government sector.

Central News Agency, Taiwan: Documentary on achievement in Business and

as an Indian woman achiever.

Mauritius Government: Invited by Mauritius Government in year 2004, to

showcase work done by her organization. She was a keynote speaker at the

conference which they organized for their officers.

Social Initiatives:

Jewel of Delhi – Swachh Abhiyaan: Nominated by BJP President-Delhi to

spread Prime Minister’s Initiative of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’ as a campaign

for cleaner India for next 5 years.

Advisor- Good health foundation-Hyderabad, an NGO: The NGO is well known in Hyderabad for health services. She is the advisor for IT services.

Countries travelled:

She is well travelled to Singapore, Malaysia, United states of America, Mauritius,

Taiwan, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Thailand, Nepal, Canada, Sri Lanka, Belgium, Turkey, Dubai, Czech Republic, Netherlands, France, UAE, Prague, Kenya, Sri- Lanka,

Seattle including India.

Jahnabi Phookan National Vice President, FLO

With nearly three decades of entrepreneurial experience in the field of travel and tourism, I have been a passionate advocate of ecotourism, conservation and

sustainable development in India’s verdant Northeast, “the Paradise Unexplored “.

A trained journalist, worked in the print media, studied Mass Communications in US

but gave it all up to return to Assam where the challenge was to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. And that’s how I co-founded Jungle Travels India as a vision to

bring tourists into the jungles of Assam .in 1989.

Jungle Travels India was to become the first IATA agent of the entire Northeast.

Her sister concern, Assam Bengal Navigation Company was to become the pioneering long distance ever cruise company in India in 2003 and put India on the

international cruising map.

Today, both these companies are the recipients of the National Tourism Excellence Awards.

Mentioned below are some of the contributions made towards the inspiring platform of FLO.

FLO ACTIVITIES:

Founder member and Founder Vice Chairperson FLO North east chapter in 2007 under the leadership of FLO President Kiran Gera.

Initiation of the concept of awarding 5 iconic women of Northeast since the

inception of FLO in 2007 which has continued unbroken till date.

Chairperson in 2008 FLO Northeast chapter.

Human trafficking being one of key issues of NE, I collaborated with the NGO

GOLD to train the trafficked women for skill development in weaving. The

central Silk Board assigned women master trainer under the FLO banner.

This continued with the support of central Silk board for the second year. The women, were able to leave the shelter home with viable vocational skills.

After my tenure, I have continued to work as an executive member of GOLD,

empowering trafficked women of the North east

Visit by Chief Secy, Meghalaya and a ten member delegation to my TRIBAL

HERITAGE center in Kaziranga, Assam as a model case study where I spoke about FLO’s contribution to my growth in the textile sphere.

Ms. Vasvi Bharat Ram Imm. Past President, FLO

Vasvi Bharat Ram is the Immediate Past President of FLO, the women’s wing of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). FLO is the premier women’s business organization in the country and implements a number of National Initiatives to create employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women at all levels and works on policy and advocacy with the Government to

strengthen the position of women in society.

Vasvi has been working towards the cause of women empowerment for many years.

She is a strong advocate of equal participation of women in economic activities

across all strata. In the past, she has also held the office of the Chairperson of the

Young FICCI Ladies Organization (YFLO), Delhi, in the year 2010-11. She has held

the post of ‘Education Chair’ and ‘Spouse Forum Chair’ in the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Delhi and has won International awards for the same.

In addition to spearheading FLO, Vasvi is the Joint Vice Chairperson of The Shri Ram

Schools, which have been consistently rated as one of the top schools in India. Under

the aegis of Shri Educare Limited, she has been instrumental in setting up The Shri

Ram Millennium Schools and The Shri Ram Early Years play schools in the National

Capital Region. She is on the Board of the SRF Foundation and SAVE the Children

India, both of which work towards providing a better quality of life to the under

privileged children of our country.

She is a member of various Education Forums including the FICCI School Education Committee and the Forum of Progressive Schools.

Vasvi earned a degree in Bachelors of Arts from Delhi University and did her post-

graduation in Business of Fashion Management from the London College of Fashion

in London. She has also completed a number of executive education programs from

globally renowned universities, including one from the Harvard Business School in

Boston. She started her career as an entrepreneur making wrought iron furniture,

home accessories and artefacts working with and providing a livelihood to local

women artisans.

Outside of work, Vasvi enjoys reading, travelling, music and theatre. She and her

husband live in New Delhi with their two daughters.

Jayanti Dalmia Treasurer, FICCI Ladies Organization

National Treasurer, FICCI Ladies Organization, is Adviser (Policy, Media Relations,

Marketing, CSR & Admin) in Dalmia Brothers Private Limited. Dalmia Group is one

of the most oldest and distinguished Business Houses. Dalmia Group was founded in early 20th Century by Late Shri Ramakrishna Dalmia and Late Shri Jaidayal Dalmia.

The legacy which was passed on to Shri Vishnu Hari Dalmia has now further

strengthened and expanded by his sons Shri Sanjay Dalmia and Shri Anurag Dalmia.

Today it has progressed into a dynamic and globally progressive corporate entity with an annual turnover of over Rs.2500 Crores, with the flagship company being

GHCL Limited. Some of the core areas of the group are:

Textiles

Spinning, Weaving, Fabric Processing, Cut & Sew and Finishing.

Heavy Chemicals

Soda Ash, Edible & Industrial Salt.

Healthcare

Alternative Healthcare Solutions with medical solutions for Lung Care, Diabetes, Arthritis, Kidney Stones, Mental Deficiency, ADHD etc.

ITES

Business Process Outsourcing

Besides business interests, Mrs Dalmia is keenly involved in various social activities.

She is the founder & Chairperson of Four Steps, a Research, Training & Rehabilitation Institute for persons with special needs. She has successfully turned

its Vocational Training division into a vibrant manufacturing unit which churns out

various paper, craft and bakery products. She is also Jt. Managing Trustee of Shri

Krishna Janmasthan Seva Santhan, Mathura – A temple of utmost historic

importance, member of Advisory Board of Disha Foundation, Jaipur, trustee in

Dalmia Sewa trust , Dalmia Shiksha Samiti, ,Dalmia centre for education and

research, MR Jaipuria school and Navsrijan in Lucknow and Diya foundation Delhi.

Poonam Mahajan Joint Treasurer, FICCI Ladies Organization

Mrs. Poonam Mahajan combines the experience of a professional and a businesswoman to bring a unique perspective to the table. A holder of a Masters in

Finance and a qualified Chartered Accountant, Mrs. Mahajan has experience of providing Taxation, Audit, Financial Analysis and Management Consultancy

solutions using her expertise in the field. As the founder and CEO of Signage Systems India, she is an accomplished entrepreneur who has used her

perseverance and vision to carve out a niche for her company in a competitive

market.

She has been felicitated by IWEC with the International Women’s Entrepreneur Award for the year 2014 at a function held in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her company, Signage Systems India, has been lauded for its work by Delhi Metro

Rail Corporation, All India Institute for Medical Sciences and Tata Motors. The

company was chosen as the Nakshatra awardee for the year 2012 by DuPont South

Asia for being one of the highest performing Indian companies in the DuPont

network.

Mrs. Mahajan has been an active member of the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO)

since her joining in the year 2014. She is currently the chair for the FLO Women

Directors committee, Delhi chapter. In this capacity she has facilitated the

organising of the FLO Women Directors Panel meet as well as the Training Workshop in collaboration with KPMG India. She is an active member of

the Swayam Committee to promote woman entrepreneurs. She has been selected to

act as Joint Treasurer, FLO India, for the year 2016-2017.

Mrs. Mahajan is a member of Women Corporate Directors India (WCD) and was one of the representatives from India at the International Conference at the WCD Global Institute at New York.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Commerce – Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics,

University of Bombay, Mumbai Masters in Management (Finance) – NMIMS, University of Bombay, Mumbai

Chartered Accountant – Institute of Chartered Accountants India (ICAI)

Summer Programme in Journalism – St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

POSITIONS HELD (CURRENTLY):

CEO – Signage Systems India

Joint Treasurer – FICCI (Ladies Organisation – FLO)

Consultant – Lachhman Das & Co.

Member – FICCI

Member – WCD

Director – Aztec Identity Solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Signage Systems India – New Delhi CEO

Founded company back in 2001 and has been steering it ever since, consistently achieving an annual turnover of over 10 crores

Signage Systems is a solution provider in building and interior industry

Diversified fields from Signage to be the 2nd largest value channel partnerof

DuPont CORIAN India Converters and distributors for 3M commercial graphics

Valued clients include HDFC bank, DMRC, Jaipur Metro and Indira Gandhi International Airport

Quality network fabricators with three showrooms and retail outletsacross NCR

Bhojwani Builders – Mumbai CFO

Managed financial operations with respect to audit, taxation and financial planning

Instrumental in building up financial systems of the company

Built up and managed the team of company’s financial department

P.N. Khetarpal & Associates (Chartered Accountants) – Mumbai

Chartered Accountant

Started own CA practice

Performed statutory audits and provided tax and management consultancy

services Helped in incorporation of new companies

Looked into company law matters

Chandabhoy Jasoobhoy (Chartered Accountants) – Mumbai Financial Consultant

Part of the audit and management consultancy divisions. Finalized statutory audits

Provided management consultancy solutions to corporate clients

Damania Panday & Bajan (Chartered Accountants) – Mumbai Article Trainee and later CA Associate

Performed statutory audits for institutions like Tata Trust Assisted in performing tax assessments and evaluations

SOCIAL ENDEVOURS:

Started Scholarship program for supporting small scale industries set up by blind and handicapped women under the purview of the Indian Confederation of the Blind.

Introduction of equal opportunities initiatives for handicapped workers within her own enterprise

Rashmi Sarita Executive Director, FICCI Ladies Organization

Rashmi Sarita is currently the Executive Director, FICCI Ladies Organization. She

brings along 13 years of rich experience across various sectors and verticals of the

economy that covers intellectual property rights, science and technology, innovation

and R&D, homeland security, Private security industry, and geospatial technologies,

among others.

In FICCI, she has been involved with policy and regulatory issues in different economy verticals. Rashmi has been responsible for conceptualizing the concept of

“safe and secure nation” in FICCI, and in providing key inputs to amendments of the PSAR Act 2005 and in putting forward the demands for amendments in the Public Procurement Bill and Public Funded R&D bill.

She has engaged government’s attention in the creation of Standards for Security at

Public particularity in connection with the internal security of the country. She was

also engaged with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and

Department of Policy and Promotion (DIPP), GOI to get India off the 301 list by

spreading IPR awareness in India. She has represented FICCI at various national and international forums and executed Euro- India Projects successfully.

Rashmi is a commerce graduate from the Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She also has a Post Graduate Degree in International Business from Faculty of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.