Category: Profile

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K. C. Narang
Chartered Accountant

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, he joined Dalal, Desai & Kumana in 1956 and Retired as Senior Partner of the firm in 1997. He has been Past President of the Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society (BCAS). He has contributed several articles and papers on Accounting Auditing and Direct Taxes.

Somasekhar Sundaresan
Advocate
A partner in JSA, a national Indian law firm, he heads the securities law practice. He is an active participant in various policy-making and law-writing initiatives, notable among which are regulations on insider trading, takeover regulations, policy on global depository receipts, the draft Indian Financial Code recommended by the Financial Sector Legislative Reform Commission and the RBI’s committee on corporate governance in the banking sector. He is a former assistant editor of The Times of India and now writes a weekly column in a few editions of the Mirror, and a monthly column in Business Standard.

Sanjeevani Bhelande
Singer
She is the first ever winner of a TV talent show in 1995 and has won the best playback singer award for the film, ‘Kareeb’. She has performed over 1,500 live concerts world-wide. She has also ‘song slated’ Meera Bai’s poems into English creating her book and album named ‘Meera and Me’. She has composed and sung around 100 tracks devotional music, she is now learning Odissi dance. An masters in cdommerce, with a degree in Hindustani music and a diploma in Mass Communication, she is now learning Odissi dance.

Dilip Deshmukh
Architect
He has his own firm M/s. Dilip Deshmukh & Associates, after having worked with well-known architects for nearly 18 years. A graduate from the Raheja College of Artchitecture with an additional degree in Architecture from the Mumbai University, he has developed method of conceptualizing a project unique ways, beyond vaastu. He has undertaken a number of turnkey projects, designing commercial offices, residential complexes, hospitals, media rooms, auditoriums conference halls, community centres etc.

Prakash Bhikdeo Bal
Journalist
He is now the Hon. Director of the C.D. Deshmukh Administrative Training Institute, having been a Lecturer there since 1990. He was the Deputy Editor of the Maharashtra Times and the Resident Editor of the Loksatta. He has been a Member of the Board of Studiesof the the BMM Course in the Mumbai University. He has written books on the ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka and on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.A.

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Sameer Pandit
Advocate
A law graduate from the National Law School of India University Bangalore, he completed his Masters at Harvard in 2011. He worked with an international law firm, Clifford Chance, at their London and Singapore offices and he is currently serving as a Senior associate with Wadia & Ghandy Solicitors. His area of specialisation is dispute resolution.

CA. Mahesh Nayak
Qualified as a Chartered accountant in 2011 and is currently with Contractor Nayak & Kishnadwala. He specialises in advisory services in the areas of FEMAand international tax.

CA. Pranav Vaidya
A chartered accountant with an advanced diploma in management accountancy as an additional qualification. He is currently with the Essar group as manager group assurance and cost control. Reviewed large capital investments made by the Essar Group into diversified sectors like Steel, Power, Oil, Shipping, Projects. His main areas of focus are project conceptualisation, planning execution, project management and post completion project appraisal.

Ms. Nazneen Ichhaporia
Advocate
A partner in ANB Legal, a prominent law firm, Nazneen is a corporate commercial lawyer with a focus on private equity and venture capital investments, acquisitions, joint ventures and business restructuring. She has expertise in matters relating to cross border investments, infrastructure, project finance, external commercial borrowings, franchising and intellectual property rights.

Ms. Priya Vakil
Architect
She is the managing and founding partner Ed en. She has done a specialisation in sustainable environmental design from the Architectural Association in London, UK. She has worked on creating innovative services related to green building certification, energy audits and design services related to the environment – like façade and landscape design. She is the winner of the exemplary performance award from Griha at the National Conference on Green Design.

Dr. Parth Mehta
A student with a bright academic career, he passed matriculation with flying colours. Extremely passionate about his career in the medical field. He qualified as a doctor in 2014. During this period, he was the recipient of the JRD Tata foundation scholarship. Currently, he is undergoing internship at Sion Hospital.