MD & Country Head, SKF India

A mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and an Advanced Management Graduate from Harvard Business School, Shishir is the Managing Director of SKF India Ltd. He is also the Country Head for SKF group's subsidiaries in India. Shishir worked in various capacities with Thermax Limited for first 26 years of his career prior to joining SKF in December 2009.
SKF is listed amongst India's 12 most admired companies to work for by Economic Times in 2017 and amongst 50 most admired companies in 2012 and 2014 by Fortune. In 2013 BusinessWorld and Business Today listed Shishir amongst India's most valuable CEOs and top 100 CEOs in India respectively. He has recently been awarded the “Hall of Fame” in the Manufacturing Category by ITP Group.

Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Mr. M M Singh is currently in the role of Executive Advisor in Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL). In the current role, he is heading the Maruti Centre for Excellence (MACE) as the Director, which is handling the upgradation of vendor ecosystem of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
Mr. Singh held the position of Executive Director of Production for over a decade. He has built Maruti's unique and sustainable edge in low-cost, high quality and high volume manufacturing. He has led a team of over 15,000 people which manufacture every second car running on Indian roads, leading operations comprising of 114 departments and 8 divisions across vehicle and engine manufacturing, production engineering, supplier quality, projects & infrastructure, power plants, and materials & logistics etc.
Mr. Singh is associated with Maruti since inception in 1983. He is a Pioneer of “Low cost, High quality, High volume & Flexible manufacturing way” in India, with a focus on people involvement and empowerment.

Prashanth Murali Kaivar, Principal Consultant, Sourcing & Procurement, Infosys

Mr. Kaivar is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering & an MBA from IIM Kolkata. A Certified Professional in Breakthrough Management by Prof. Shoji Shiba, at JICA Tokyo, he has 18 years of experience in strategic sourcing and supply chain consulting. Having worked with Automotive Stalwarts, Toyota and GM, and TCS Global Supply Chain Consulting Practice, he has brought in improvements and generated bottom-line savings through supply chain Initiatives with global leaders in the Telecom, Manufacturing, Food Processing and Pharma space. His key achievements include Management Awards for multi-million dollar savings through strategic Sourcing and supply chain initiatives, recognition as Key Supply Side Advisor for a TCS-Xynteo White Paper named “Low Carbon High Growth” published in 2011, recognized Wiring Harness Purchasing Sensei and numerous blog hits.