Ajay Kaul, CEO, Domino’s Pizza India Ltd
Ajay Kaul is the chief executive officer of Domino’s Pizza India Ltd. In his professional career of around 19 years, he has worked for esteemed organizations including American Express Travel Related Services Co, Modiluft and TNT India & Indonesia. Kaul is a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. His personel interest lies in music and sports including golf among others.
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Atul Singh, President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Coca-Cola India
Atul Singh is the President & CEO of Coca-Cola India. He took over this responsibility on September 1, 2005 after working as the President of East, Central & South (ECS) China Division of Coca-Cola. Atul is responsible for Coca-Cola’s operations in India, SriLanka, Bangaldesh, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives.
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ANJAN CHATTERJEE, CMD, Speciality Restaurants (P) Ltd.
Anjan has a degree in hotel management and has done a business management course with Marketing from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute. Anjan started his career with an advertising agency. The vision of serving authentic cuisines to gourmets transformed into Speciality Restaurants starting with the restaurant ‘Only Fish’, ‘Oh! Calcutta’ and country’s largest chain of fine dining restaurants-Mainland China. The other formats of the Group are ‘Mostly Kababs’, ‘Just Biryani’, Sweet Bengal’, Haka and Machaan.
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AJAAY GUPTA, MD Capital Foods
Ajaay Gupta is a professional entrepreneur in the emerging food processing industry. A marketing professional by background, he has been instrumental in the architecture and launch of some highly successful brands like, Mother’s Recipe, Sheetal, Kala Niketan, Baccarose, Ching’s Secret and Smith and Jones. Ajaay Gupta brings with him experience in the field of manufacturing and marketing of processed foods. Capital Foods has transformed itself from an INR 50 million business to an INR 750 million business in a mere span of seven years. Capital Foods supplies to some of the biggest retailers of the world, like Tesco, Dunnes, Target and Loblaws.
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ALEC BOOTH, Director Operations, METRO Cash & Carry India
Alec Booth started his career with Makro, UK in 1996 and took over positions as administration controller, pilot manager and store manager, before he was appointed Business Unit Manager (Central) Metro China in October 2002. He was appointed director operations, METRO Cash & Carry India in Feb.2008.
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ASHISH KAPUR, MD, Yo ! China
Ashish has successfully developed India’s first and largest chain of Chinese restaurants. Yo! China aims to deliver high quality Chinese food at value prices served in an international ambience. Presently, Yo! China operates in 12 cities across the country and aims to hit over 200 outlets by 2009. Ashish has been awarded various accolades like: ‘Federation of Hotels & Restaurant Association of India - Young Restaurant Entrepreneur of the Year-2006’& ‘India Today – Young Achiever of 2006’. Ashish is a graduate of electronics and telecom engineering from the prestigious McGill University in Canada.
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Amit Burman, Vice Chairman, Dabur India Ltd
Amit Burman, Vice Chairman of Dabur India Ltd has played a significant role in India`s foray into processed foods business with the setting up of Dabur Foods Ltd. Dabur Foods has now merged with parent, Dabur India Limited. In his personal capacity, Burman has joined hands with Tejpavan Singh Gandhok and other business partners to form lite Bite Food Pvt Ltd, a venture to form a pan India chain of restaurants in different formats and brands.
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ANISH TRIVEDI CMD, BANYAN TREE COMMUNICATIONS
Anish Trivedi is a well known and much sought after compere, theatre personality and socialite. He also runs a successful business as producer of radio and specialized audio programming in India through his company Banyan Tree.
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AD Singh, Director, Olive Bar & Kitchen Restaurant
Over the last fifteen years AD Singh has been at the forefront of the lifestyle revolution sweeping the country. His Olive Bar & Kitchen Restaurants and other ventures have been the trendsetters for this industry. Born in 1960, Singh did his electrical engineering from Lafayette College, USA. He stared his restaurant venture in 1990 with Just Desserts. Later, he opened restaurant including Soul Kadi and Soul Fry. Then in 1999 he opened the bowling company which set the standards for leisure in this country. In 2000 AD Singh also opened “the Olive bar and Kitchen” which won many recognitions including Bombay’s top five and India’s top twenty restaurants by the Outlook magazine’s survey, best new restaurants in the world. This was followed by the opening of Suzie Wong.
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Ashutosh Singh, Head National Key Accounts, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCBPL)
Ashutosh, as the National key Accounts head for HCCBPL is responsible to managing the key account operations and relations across the country for the Coca-Cola system in India. A Chartered Accountant by qualification, Ashutosh has been with the Coca-Cola System since the last eleven years. Always being on the lookout for varied experiences, Ashutosh to his credit has worked in the finance function, has also proved himself in a region sales role. He further went on to head the Public Affairs and Communication function for Coca-Cola’s Central Region, then comprising of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Goa. Prior to his current national role, Ashutosh also headed the bottling operations for the company in Mumbai city.
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