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 Governing Council

Anand Mahindra Anil Harish Prof. Ashok Misra
Kiran Karnik Purnendu Chatterjee Rahul Puri
Ravi Gupta Pradip Shah
Meghna Ghai Puri



Anand Mahindra - Chairman Governing Council, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.,

Anand Mahindra, graduated from Harvard College, Massachusetts. He returned to India in 1981 to join Mahindra Ugine Steel Company (MUSCO) and initiated the Mahindra Group's diversification into the new business areas of real estate development and hospitality management.
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Anil Harish - Legal expert

Harish is a leading legal expert on matters relating to taxation, property transactions and the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. He is a partner of D. M. Harish & Co, one of India's leading legal firms.
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Prof. Ashok Misra - Former Director, IIT Powai

After graduating from IIT, Kanpur, he obtained a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts He was the Head of the Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering and a Visiting Scientist at the Monsanto Chemical Company in Springfield, Massachusetts. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and has published 70 times in international journals and been awarded 6 patents.
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Kiran Karnik - President, NASSCOM

As the President of NASSCOM, Karnik works closely with the IT industry members and the Indian central and state governments for the advancement of this sector locally as well as internationally. Business Week recently named Mr. Karnik as one of the 'Stars of Asia'. He was also selected as Forbes Magazine's 'Face of the Year 2003' for being a driving force behind India's offshoring wave.
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Purnendu Chatterjee - Founder -The Chatterjee Group (TCG)

He received his BTech. from IIT, Kharagpur and his MS and PhD in Operation Research from the University of Berkeley, California. At McKinsey he led major strategy and organization assignments for large international corporations. He left McKinsey in 1986 to invest in public market and private companies with George Soros. Purnendu then founded The Chatterjee Group (TCG), an affiliate of the New York based SFM.
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Rahul Puri - Executive Director, Mukta Arts Ltd.

Rahul Puri born in Neath, UK a graduate of Kings College London, spent almost 3 years at UBS Warburg in London in corporate finance, working on international transactions worth up to US$10 billion. These included the merger of Publicis with Saachi and Saachi and the IPO of Dentsu Advertising in Japan. After moving to Mumbai in 2002, he joined Ambit Corporate Finance and soon after Nimbus Communications. In 2003, he joined Mukta Arts Limited as Vice President - Finance and Strategy and has been involved in the development of the company and the production and release of numerous films.
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Ravi Gupta - Former CEO, Mukta Arts

Ravi Gupta brings a wealth of media and corporate experience. He was the founding CEO of B4U, founding member of SRFTII, Managing Director of NFDC and has also been on the Governing Board of FTII. He has been closely associated with the production and distribution of over 150 films. more...
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Pradip Shah - Chairman of IndAsia Pvt. Ltd.

Chairman of IndAsia Pvt. Ltd., Pradip Shah holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant and ranked first in India in the Chartered Accountancy Examination. Shah is the Ex-Managing Director of CRISIL, India's first and the largest credit rating agency. Prior to establishing CRISIL, he assisted in developing the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in 1977.

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Meghna Ghai Puri - President, Whistling Woods International

Holding an advanced diploma in Communications, Advertising and Marketing and a BSc Honours degree in Business Management from Kings College, London, Ms. Ghai Puri has been instrumental in shaping the foundation of Whistling Woods International ,from its inception. She now heads the operational aspects of the world class institute, managing a team of well over 150 professionals & faculty. Earlier in her career she managed marketing for Mukta Arts Ltd and was associated with films like 'Pardes', 'Taal', and 'Yaadein'. She has been associated with key businesses in the Indian entertainment industry through prominent projects including the ambitious stage celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema - Cinema 100.
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