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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

C PARTHASARATHY Chairman of Karvy Group

C. Parthasarathy

Chairman of Karvy Group
C.Parthasarathy, Chairman & Managing Director

C. Parthasarathy is the Chairman and Managing Director of the diversified financial services Karvy group. CP, as he is better known in the Industry, has the uncanny knack of staying ahead of the curve and the foresight to spot opportunities that seem invisible on the horizon for the others. Karvy’s entire history is a case study of turning adversity into opportunity. CP is a chartered accountant by qualification, whose entrepreneurial energy drove him to co-found Karvy in 1983 with a less-than-modest capital of Rs 150,000.

Over the years, CP’s vision and leadership skills have helped the group navigate through turbulent times with a strong sense of purpose and clarity of thought.

CP is one of the pioneers of financial inclusion. Under his leadership Karvy has won numerous industry awards and accolades. He also is an independent Director in many listed companies.

RANJIT CHIB Chairman, Karvy insights

Ranjit Chib

Chairman, Karvy insights
Ranjit Chib, Chairman – Karvy insights

Ranjit Chib has over four decades of experience across the spectrum in research and insights, and is currently Chairman of Karvy Insights. A pioneer in opinion polls, he set up the industry domain of Opinion Polls in India. He has been conducting polls for elections since the early 1970’s when he was a Director of GALLUP Poll in the U.K. He was the first Chief Executive of IMRB from 1972, a company he helped set up for J. Walter Thompson. He has an enviable track record of conducting opinion polls for the last 40 years; first 20 years with MRAS, and the subsequent 20 years, with The Nielsen Company.

At Karvy Insights, among other things, he has spearheaded the prestigious Mood of the Nation for the India Today Group that comprises party-wise seat share and vote projections for general elections. The study is conducted every six months across 19 key Indian states and involves interviews with over 13000 respondents each time.

Ranjit Chib holds a Master of Arts (Economics and Statistics) from Cambridge University and a Bachelor of Science (Honors) Physics from Delhi University.

 
V MAHESH Director

V.Mahesh

Director on the Board
V.Mahesh, Managing Director – Karvy Data Management

V Mahesh is the Managing Director of Karvy Data Management and has experience spanning over two decades with in-depth exposure to operations on most financial services businesses. Commencing his professional stint with the Registry business where he has to his credit managing over 300 IPOs and other forms of offerings. He was amongst the first few to work closely on the Book Building process initiated by SEBI in 1995. After initially working with MCS as an Assistant Vice President, he moved to Karvy. He was also responsible to initiate the process of setting up the Depository participant business in Karvy and was responsible for both the operations and the marketing of the business. He has been nominated by the NSDL to various committees which addressed key changes to the overall processes and policies for the Demat business.

Nurturing the passion for understanding and interpreting technology and processes, he was responsible to create and set up the centralized broking platform, centralized back office operations for all financial products and creating a network of over 500 branches covering over 300 locations for Karvy. He is also instrumental in creating and launching the Online platform of Karvy Stock Broking Limited.

He is a Post Graduate in Commerce from University of Madras (M Com) and also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications.

ADHIRAJ PARTHASARATHY Director

Adhiraj Parthasarathy

Director on the Board
Mr. ADHIRAJ PARTHASARATHY Board of Director

Adhiraj Parthasarathy is a market research, data analytics, and management professional with specific expertise in innovation design and new product development. A member of the Board with over eight years of experience in change management at large organizations in India, he brings deep business and management expertise to the company.

At Karvy he has managed the execution of large multi-sited projects; handling diverse and massive teams as they collected data for the Indian census; and managing change through thought leadership as an ethnographic researcher and consultant. In addition to extensive experience in insights and new product development, he brings extensive real estate to the table. At Karvy Insights, his expertise in the areas of operations, market research, product management and strategy facilitate the shepherding of innovative new solutions across the product life cycle.

Having successfully worked in highly charged, complex environments, synthesizing multiple approaches, Adhiraj brings an approach to problem solving that is grounded in data and research. He thrives on analytics, and discerning trends from large amounts of data.

Adhiraj has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Economics and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to being on the Board of Karvy Insights, he also serves on the Board of Karvy Analytics, Karvy Solar Power, and Karvy Consultants.

SONIA PALL Director on the Board CEO, Karvy Insights

Sonia Pall

Director on the Board CEO, Karvy Insights
Ms. SONIA PALL, CEO & Board of Director

Sonia Pall has over 25 years of experience in the Consumer Understanding space.

A Qualitative Researcher at heart, she has over time honed her skills by not only leading / setting up various units, but has also built and transformed Quantitative/ Retail/ Social research businesses at various stages of organizational development. She has been a team builder in Market Research, bringing together very diverse resources into cohesive team contributors in every organization she has led.

Prior to joining Karvy to set up Karvy Insights as an organization with infrastructure/ partnerships that can deliver value to clients, Sonia was CEO, Ipsos in India; Executive Director, Customized Research and Qualitative Council (South Asia) for Nielsen, and has also worked in TNS and IMRB in her initial years. She now leads Karvy Insights which won the Market Research Society of India's Golden Key Award for Best Research / Insights Startup in December, 2019.

She has led teams across all industry sectors including Food and Beverages, Personal Care, Home Care, Automotive, Consumer Durables, Finance, Media, Telecom, OTC, IT B2C and e-Comm.

Her personal area of interest is Cultural Sensitivity and Trend Spotting and Brand/ Strategy Development using New Product Development and Innovation, Communication Development and Testing, Segment Targeting and Pricing. Given her wide experience with Consumer-Brand interactions, she has contributed significantly to Competitive Differentiation for Client brands. She is known to introduce innovative and technology based solutions to address Client needs and business growth through her career.

Sonia has personally developed various research techniques and frameworks in Qualitative, UI/UX tech research, presented papers at ESOMAR and conducted a course in Qualitative Market Research for IIM Lucknow for two years before her schedule became too hectic.

She is a Gold Medalist in Masters in Applied Psychology from Delhi University, with a specialization in Social Psychology and Consumer Behaviour. She also has a PGD in Marketing from Times School.

 

SENIOR MANAGEMENT

CHANDANA BANERJI Senior Vice President Quantitative

CHANDANA BANERJI

Senior Vice President Quantitative
CHANDANA BANERJI, Senior Vice President Karvy Insights

Chandana Banerji has over 20 years of experience in various industry domains like automotive, FMCG, retail, finance, telecom, e-commerce as well as the social sector. She has a wide variety of exposure to various types of research like concept testing, ad testing, segmentation studies, product evaluation, pricing studies, portfolio optimization, new product development, usage and attitude studies (U&A), pack testing, brand track dipsticks, ad campaign evaluation, feature testing, customer, customer and dealer satisfaction studies, etc. In social / health research, she has worked towards understanding the needs of the spastics as well a pan-India U&A study among mothers for diarrhoea among children; enumerating number of street children and their detailed profiling to mention a few.

Before joining Karvy Insights she has worked in some of the major research companies, notable among them being IMRB, The Nielsen Company, Ipsos, and boutique companies like AbsolutData. In Nielsen, she headed their Customized Research division for the New Delhi and Kolkata branches. She has also been a visiting faculty at various leading institutions like International Management Institute (IMI), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), etc.

Mr. MUKUND TRIPATHI Senior Vice President Touchpoint Audits

Mr. MUKUND TRIPATHI

MUKUND TRIPATHI, Senior Vice President –Touchpoint Audits

Mukund Tripathi is Senior Vice President at Karvy Insights Limited, based in New Delhi. He was appointed to this role in February 2016.Mukund Tripathi started his career by joining Nielsen in 1992, Mukund has lived and worked in four countries and has held leadership roles. He began his career at ORG-MARG (Nielsen India) where he spent 19 years in marketing research and Field Operations and Client Management. From 2010-2012, Mukund served as Head of Nielsen’s MalaysiaRetail Audit business where he led its transition to a growing country in the region. In the early 2000s, he was Country Head of Nielsen’s Retail Measurement Services businesses in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, where he established Retail Audits, which have since become the core of the company’s growing business. He first joined the company as part of Nielsen India (erstwhile Operations Research Group ORG)in the Data Collection team in the field department and where he held various positions with increasing responsibilities based out of Delhi, India.

Mukund has over 23 years of experience in Retail Audit covering various industries like FMCG, Beverage, Tobacco, Semi-Durables, Non-Durables and Durable sectors. He as managed the relationship with large Global clients, Large India client and local clients. He is an expert on Retail Audits, Visibility Track, Consumer Touchpoint monitoring and managing large-scale shop census.

Mukund was instrumental in setting up many new lines of business in his past roles as Head of Bangladesh (First Rural FMCG Reporting), setting up Lubricants Oils audit panel. He led the team from Nielsen side to implement, develop and execute a global protocol for large Beverage client on visibility track. Credited with identifying, developing and nurturing talent, his recruits in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is heading the organization now. In the year 2012, Mukund quit Nielsenafter 19 years of association and go on to incorporate a start-up on market research (EMTEE Research) leveraging mobile based android technology platform for accurate and faster data collection and dissemination. Mukund divested his stake in the year 2015 before joining Karvy Insights team as Touchpoint Audit leader.

Mukund has won various prizes, “Best Director-Nielsen India Region”, “Best Team-Nielsen India Region”. His research paper on work is done post-Tsunami in Sri Lanka (2005) won him Nielsen Global “Research Excellence Award” for exceptional work done by any Nielsen employee team globally. The research findings had helped various MNC/Local Clients and Funding agencies to use information for post-Tsunami damage assessment.

Mukund supports Plan India Charity and was associated with the Rotary Club (Bangladesh) and Loins club (Sri Lanka).He is a sports follower and loves watching Cricket, Soccer, F1, Tennis and other Track and Field sports. Mukund loves travelling and meeting new people. Mukund is a vegetarian by dietary choice and love cooking food for afamily in the spare time. Mukund lives in New Delhi, at sub-city Dwarkawith his7-year-old son (Dhruv) and wife (Deepa).

A Bachelor in Commerce (B.com) from Kanpur University and MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (IMT, Ghaziabad).

SUSMITA MISRA Senior Vice President Qualitative

SUSMITA MISRA

Senior Vice President Qualitative
Ms. SUSMITA MISRA Senior Vice President – Qualitative Research

Susmita has over two decades of experience with leading Retail and Market Research companies. She is currently the Senior Vice President and National Head of Qualitative Research at Karvy Insights. Immediately before her current role, she was Head, Consumer Insights & Retail Analytics, Bharti Walmart India. Prior to that she served as Vice President, Marketing Services at Subhiksha, and Associate Vice President at IMRB International.

She has had rich experience in combining insights on retail processes and consumer behavior, gained by strategizing marketing and merchandising initiatives as well as implementing the same on ground. In her career spanning over 20 years, she has worked extensively across consumers/shoppers and research types. She thus has the ability to both conduct as well as draw out relevant and actionable learnings from Catchment Researches, Brand Tracks, Communication Development Research, Category Understanding, Product / Concept and Pricing Researches, In–shop observations, Mystery Shopping exercises etc. While at Walmart she was instrumental in setting up the brand tracker and then driving the management of price perception and Net Promoter Score. She also led a large scale pan-India segmentation research and co-created the target customer and Brand ID for the Easyday brand of stores. She has lived and worked in all the four regions in India and thus has a first-hand understanding of consumers across the country.

An alumnus of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, she teaches Retail Management and Market Research in some of the leading B Schools in the country and is also a mentor for the Index Fair at IIM Lucknow. She has co-authored two books; the first is based on the Changing food habits of Lucknowites and the second is a compilation of food narratives and recipes. She is also passionate about giving ‘sarees’ the stature they deserve among modern, urban, Indian women and uses social media to drive the same.

GEETA ZANKAR Senior Vice President, Operations

Ms. Geeta Zankar

Senior Vice President, Operations
Geeta Zankar  , Senior Vice President Karvy Insights

Geeta Zankar is Senior Vice President, Data Assembly and Data Science. She has had over thirty years of work experience. She has worked in different capacities and functional areas, which include both market research and non-market research domains.

Prior to joining Karvy Insights, Geeta worked with three reputed market research companies – Ipsos, IMRB (Kantar), and the erstwhile ORG-MARG, leading teams of over thirty members and managing data processing of the entire gamut of market research.

Geeta started her career as a management trainee with India’s largest automobile company, Tata Motors, in their Management Services division, for designing, developing and implementing various computerized systems, with relevant training in C language, UNIX operating systems, and RDBMS. After eleven fruitful years in system designing, she shifted to market research. She has also had a stint with Direct Marketing analytics.

Besides managing the operational responsibilities, she enjoys working on multivariate data analysis and data modeling. She has extensively worked on product development studies involving Choice Based Conjoint.

She is an avid trainer and has conducted training programs for team members and a few reputed management schools in MR analytics. Geeta holds a Masters degree in Statistics from Mumbai University.

DHARMESH KORGAOKAR Head, Finance

Mr. Dharmesh Korgaokar

Head, Finance
Mr. Dharmesh Korgaokar  , Senior Vice President Karvy Insights

Dharmesh Korgaokar heads the Finance function at Karvy Insights. He is responsible for treasury, tax, audits, MIS, and financial analysis. He also holds additional responsibilities of managing the Finance function within the Karvy network.

Dharmesh has over two decades of experience in senior Finance positions across sectors and geographies. Prior to joining Karvy, he worked with some global market research organizations for almost ten years. His past roles include Director (Finance) at Nielsen South Asia and CFO of Ipsos India.

An accomplished finance professional, Dharmesh is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He was awarded ‘Best Professional Support’ during his stint in Nielsen South Asia, where he was instrumental in implementing many best practices in the Finance function.

RAJIV INAMDAR Senior Advisor

RAJIV INAMDAR

Senior Advisor
CHANDANA BANERJI, Senior Vice President Karvy Insights

Rajiv Inamdar is a Senior Advisor to Karvy Insights Limited. He retired recently after an eleven-year stint as Managing Director of Heidrick & Struggles' Global Knowledge Management Center (KMC) based in Gurgaon, India. The Centre supported over 40 offices of the company worldwide with research, database and knowledge management services.

Rajiv has 40 years of international experience in advertising, brand management, market research, consumer banking, private banking, asset management, credit cards and knowledge management with some of the best known companies in the world. These include GlaxoSmithKline, JWT, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Nielsen, IMRB and Egon Zehnder.

Some roles Rajiv has held include Marketing Director for Standard Chartered Bank in the Gulf countries and India; Marketing Director for the Private & Investment Bank and Head of Corporate Communications - Saudi American Bank (Citibank), Saudi Arabia; President & Executive Director, Nielsen India; Executive Vice President, IMRB; and Senior Associate Director, British Market Research Bureau.

During his career he has established and run two companies: Sri Lanka’s first market research company (LMRB) – a part of the WPP Group, and Egon Zehnder’s global knowledge centre in India (EZIRS). He has had rich experience living and working in five countries: UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Sri Lanka, and India.

Rajiv is also advising companies on marketing and brand strategy and positioning.

He has an honors degree in Economics from University of Mumbai and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

SANDEEP GHOSH

Senior Vice President
CHANDANA BANERJI, Senior Vice President Karvy Insights

Sandeep Ghosh has been part of the research consulting industry for over 26 years. Before taking up his role as the leader of Development Insights at Karvy, he had been Head of Research at BBC Media Action (India) Limited, and Senior Vice President and Head of TNS India’s Political and Social Research. In the past, he also held senior management positions in India and Nepal for The Nielsen Company.

During his career he has serviced all major bilateral and multilateral donors and a large number of central and state government ministries in India. In addition, as Executive Director of Invest India Dataworks, he worked extensively in the field of retail finance, pension reforms and financial inclusion.

Sandeep has been an independent consultant to the Micro-enterprise Development Division of ILO, and an international faculty at The Springfield Centre for Business in Development. Sandeep has two post graduate degrees, one in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and one in Regional Planning from School of Planning and Architecture.

RAJESH NAIRSenior Vice President

Rajesh Nair

Senior Vice President
Rajesh Nair , Senior Vice President Karvy Insights

Rajesh Nair is Senior Vice President and Advisor, responsible for driving new products and solutions. Concurrently, he is a Clinical Professor of Marketing at Asian Institute of Management, Manila. He has had over 22 years of experience spanning research, analytics, insights, and the business academe. His areas of expertise include Consumer Motivations and Behavior, Brand Measurement, Segmentation, Pricing, Innovation, Applied Statistical Modeling, and Marketing Science. He has had extensive domain experience in consumer packaged goods, durables, finance, media, automotive, tobacco, agribusiness, and public systems.

Rajesh has held leadership positions in reputed companies and institutions. Immediately prior to joining Karvy, he was Executive Managing Director and Head of AIM Consulting Inc., the business advisory subsidiary of Asian Institute of Management. Earlier, he was Executive Director, Service-Line Leader and member of India Management at Ipsos. He was Executive Director (Customer Marketing) with Time Inc., the former publisher of TIME and FORTUNE magazines, and Director and Regional Practice Leader (Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa) for Segmentation at The Nielsen Company.

He has been a highly rated educator, with extensive teaching and training experience in leading business schools. Since 2016, he has been teaching at Asian Institute of Management. He is also a visiting faculty member at Shiv Nadar University. In the past, he was a member of the faculty at IRMA (Anand), and a visiting faculty member at XLRI (Jamshedpur), TAPMI (Manipal), and MDI (Gurgaon). Aside of his corporate and academic roles, he sits on the Advisory Board of Medha, an NGO dedicated to upskilling and empowering youth in Tier 1 and Tier 2 towns and rural areas.

He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and Research Methodology from London School of Economics, University of London.

 

Senior Management Team

Chandana Banerji
Udita Das
Susmita Misra
Kalyan Karmakar
 
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