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Ravi Pandit is the Group chairman of KPIT Technologies. His vision as the founder of KPIT has steered the company from its inception to achieving the leadership position the company holds today globally in the domain of automotive engineering. Over the last 30+ years, KPIT, under Ravi’s leadership, has emerged as a premier establishment in its area of work. It services a majority of global automotive leaders across the world. KPIT has now the unique ability to combine its deep industry & technology expertise, to effectively create an eco-system of  ‘partners in growth’. This ecosystem includes its global automotive clients, alliances, investors, academic institutes and the exceptional KPIT talent family, all collectively and cohesively committed towards a better world.

Ravi is also the Chairman of K&P Group which includes Kirtane and Pandit LLP, Chartered Accountants, a highly respected accounting firm and ESOP Direct, India’s leading provider of stock options planning and execution services. He has been a guiding force for the group for the last four decades.

Ravi is deeply passionate about social causes with special commitment towards our environment. Under his guidance KPIT’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives  have in the last 10+ years positively impacted over 2 million lives through 71 initiatives and created opportunities to innovate for over 75,000 students till date. His recent mentorship to the team during the unprecedented challenging times of the pandemic led to KPIT engineering an award winning ventilator solution as a contribution to the global community.

He is a founder trustee of Janwani, a Pune based NGO which is focused on improvements in urban India. He is a founder trustee and treasurer of the Pune International Centre, a national level think tank working on policy issues. He is a director of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (India).

He also serves on the board of Thermax Limited. Ravi was a member of the core group on Automotive Research Program Committee (CAR), a Government of India initiative for the automotive industry, and was on the Technology Development Board formed by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has served as the president of the esteemed Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture and has been on the NASSCOM Executive Council twice.

Ravi’s thoughts for creating a better world are best expressed in his award- winning book “Leap frogging to pole vaulting: Creating the magic of radical yet sustainable transformation” that he has co-authored along with Dr. R. A. Mashelkar.

Widely respected for integrity, innovation and dynamism, Ravi has successfully set benchmarks in corporate governance, regional cooperation and co-innovation. For his commitment to conducting business in an ethical manner and for the value KPIT partnership has brought to its partners like Cummins, Ravi has been honored with the J Irwin Miller Award of Excellence by Cummins. He has been awarded the prestigious Rotary Excellence Award for exemplary leadership and outstanding performance. Ravi has also been honored with the Maharashtra Corporate Excellence (MAXELL) Awards for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and for his contribution to the economic and industrial development of Pune City, he has been conferred with the prestigious Samata Award.

Ravi is a gold medalist and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, an associate member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, and holds masters from Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, USA. In 2014, the prestigious Tilak Maharashtra University decorated him with an honorary D.Litt.

He is a voracious reader, an avid trekker and holds a warm corner in his heart for animals and birds. He also enjoys listening to Indian classical music.

Kishor Patil is the Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of KPIT – a leading technology and product engineering partner to automotive & mobility industry. Kishor co-founded KPIT in 1990. Under his leadership, the company has grown over 50 times in revenues in the last 12+ years to reach around USD 500 million (INR 3000 crores).

His vision is integral in maintaining KPIT’s leadership in its key focus verticals and in making it one of the world’s largest and most recognized technology, services, and business solutions provider globally. He has set a high standard of excellence in the areas of running high growth international operations, effecting successful mergers & acquisitions and executing profitable integration. His exceptional people skills and sincerity have been instrumental in building an innovative enterprise.

He is passionate about applying technology to solve business challenges and address larger problems of the society. He is personally active in driving development and proliferation of innovative solutions in the areas of transportation and clean energy. Under his leadership, KPIT has filed more than 50 patents, has developed over 100 IPs in cutting-edge technology in its focus areas, and has won several national and international awards including the Wall Street Journal technology Innovation Award, and Knowledge@Wharton Technovation Award.

In 2014 Kishor was honored with the CA Business Leader Award – Corporate award, by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The ICAI Awards felicitate chartered accountants who create value for their company’s stakeholders on a sustainable basis. For his excellence in entrepreneurship, he has also been honored with the Maharashtra Corporate Excellence (MAXELL) Awards 2014. In 2013, Kishor was named among the top 16 entrepreneurs in India by Ernst and Young in its Entrepreneur of the Year award program. He was recognized among the Top 50 CEOs of 2013 by The Entrepreneur Magazine, and was also awarded the 2013 Rotary Excellence Award. He is a prolific speaker and has presented at various national & international forums including the World Economic Forum, on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation, building high performance organizations, and business transformation.

Kishor is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and a member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

A man of many talents, Kishor has also produced a state-of-the-art internationally acclaimed animation movie, Delhi Safari, on the theme of conservation of animal habitat. He was awarded the prestigious Golden Lotus National Award by the honorable President of India.

Sachin is the Co-Founder and President of KPIT. He has been with the company since the beginning, and has lead and guided the company in different areas. In his current role, Sachin is responsible for growing & nurturing strategic relationships with customers and partners.

Sachin has served the company in a number of capacities. He has been the Executive Sponsor for Europe. He was the Chief People & Operations Officer with responsibility for imbibing KPIT culture in the organization, accelerating learning opportunities for employees globally and fostering innovation in attracting, nurturing and retaining talent. He was also the Chief Operating Officer for KPIT in the US. He established the company’s now deeply rooted presence in the US.

Over the years, he has spearheaded the successful integration of acquired entities within KPIT. Before joining KPIT, Sachin worked with US Sprint and Strategic Positioning Group.

He attended Temple University for Masters in Strategic Management and International Finance. As an ardent food lover, he dubs himself as Anthony Bourdain 2.0! Sachin is a member of the World Wildlife Federation and pursues his fascination with wildlife and nature through traveling.

Priyamvada Hardikar (Priya) is the Head of Corporate Finance and Governance at KPIT.

Priya completed graduation in Commerce from Pune University as rank holder and qualified as Cost Accountant with very high rank at all India level.

She has been with us in leadership position in Corporate Accounting and Finance (CF&G) for more than 12 years. A highly result oriented and energetic leader with proven capability, she has played an instrumental role in setting up the best practices in the CF&G function as well in compliances.

She was also awarded as the “The Best Woman in Finance” at the CFO Executive Leadership Summit 2018.
She has participated in leadership excellence workshop and “Elevate” Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA.

In her private time, she likes to cook and watch movies in leisure time. She lives in Pune with her husband Manoj Hardikar and son Tarang Hardikar.

Ravi Pandit is the Co-founder, Chairman and Group CEO of KPIT Technologies Ltd. His vision as the founder of KPIT has steered the Company toward achieving leadership position as product engineering and IT consulting solutions and services provider, to three industries namely automotive & transportation, manufacturing and energy & utilities. He has been instrumental in shaping KPIT’s vertical focus strategy and building a unique partnership model based on the tenets of innovation and sustainable development.

Having run a Chartered Accountancy firm for close to a decade after finishing his master’s studies, Ravi decided to venture into Information Technology consulting and services, thus setting up KPIT, with his co-founder, in 1990.

Over the last 20+ years, KPIT, under Ravi’s leadership, has combined its deep industry & technology expertise, presence in relevant geographies and highly scalable delivery infrastructure to enable clients expand their product development footprint, enhance operational efficiencies and optimize processes.

Widely respected for integrity, innovation and dynamism, Ravi has successfully established and grown partnerships with customers, partners and industry bodies, setting benchmarks in corporate governance, regional cooperation and co-innovation. For his commitment to conducting business in an ethical manner and for the value KPIT partnership has brought to Cummins, Ravi was honored with the J Irwin Miller Award of Excellence by Cummins. He has been awarded the prestigious Rotary Excellence Award for exemplary leadership and outstanding performance. Ravi has also been honored with the Maharashtra Corporate Excellence (MAXELL) Awards for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and for his contribution to the economic and industrial development of Pune City; he has also been conferred with the prestigious Samata Award.

Ravi has deep interest in social issues and is a founder trustee of Janwani, a NGO which is focused on improvements in urban India, and he is a founder trustee of the Pune International Centre, a National level think tank working on policy issues. He is a member of the board of management of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan (a charitable public trust) and is a director of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (India). He also serves on the board of Finolex Cables Ltd.

Ravi was a member of the Core-Group on Automotive Research Program Committee (CAR) a Government of India initiative for automotive industry and was on the Technology Development Board formed by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has served as the president of the esteemed Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture and has been on the NASSCOM Executive Council twice.

Ravi is a gold medalist and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, an associate member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, and holds masters from Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, USA. In 2014, the prestigious Tilak Maharashtra University decorated him with an honorary D.Litt.
Always a topper in college and universities, he is a voracious reader, an avid trekker and enjoys listening to classical music.

Kishor Patil is the Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of KPIT – a leading IT consulting and product engineering partner to automotive & transportation, manufacturing and energy & utilities corporations. Kishor co-founded KPIT in 1990. Under his leadership, the company has grown over 50 times in revenues in the last 12+ years to reach around USD 500 million (INR 3000 crores).

His vision is integral in maintaining KPIT’s leadership in its key focus verticals and in making it one of the world’s largest and most recognized technology, services, and business solutions provider globally. He has set a high standard of excellence in the areas of running high growth international operations, effecting successful mergers & acquisitions and executing profitable integration. His exceptional people skills and sincerity have been instrumental in building an innovative enterprise.

He is passionate about applying technology to solve business challenges and address larger problems of the society. He is personally active in driving development and proliferation of innovative solutions in the areas of transportation and clean energy. Under his leadership, KPIT has filed more than 50 patents, has developed over 100 IPs in cutting-edge technology in its focus areas, and has won several national and international awards including the Wall Street Journal technology Innovation Award, and Knowledge@Wharton Technovation Award.

In 2014 Kishor was honored with the CA Business Leader Award – Corporate award, by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The ICAI Awards felicitate chartered accountants who create value for their company’s stakeholders on a sustainable basis. For his excellence in entrepreneurship, he has also been honored with the Maharashtra Corporate Excellence (MAXELL) Awards 2014. In 2013, Kishor was named among the top 16 entrepreneurs in India by Ernst and Young in its Entrepreneur of the Year award program. He was recognized among the Top 50 CEOs of 2013 by The Entrepreneur Magazine, and was also awarded the 2013 Rotary Excellence Award. He is a prolific speaker and has presented at various national & international forums including the World Economic Forum, on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation, building high performance organizations, and business transformation.

Kishor is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and a member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

A man of many talents, Kishor has also produced a state-of-the-art internationally acclaimed animation movie, Delhi Safari, on the theme of conservation of animal habitat. He was awarded the prestigious Golden Lotus National Award by the honorable President of India.

Sachin is the Co-Founder and President of KPIT. He has been with the company since the beginning, and has lead and guided the company in different areas. In his current role, Sachin is responsible for growing & nurturing strategic relationships with customers and partners.

Sachin has served the company in a number of capacities. He has been the Executive Sponsor for Europe. He was the Chief People & Operations Officer with responsibility for imbibing KPIT culture in the organization, accelerating learning opportunities for employees globally and fostering innovation in attracting, nurturing and retaining talent. He was also the Chief Operating Officer for KPIT in the US. He established the company’s now deeply rooted presence in the US.

Over the years, he has spearheaded the successful integration of acquired entities within KPIT. Before joining KPIT, Sachin worked with US Sprint and Strategic Positioning Group.

He attended Temple University for Masters in Strategic Management and International Finance. As an ardent food lover, he dubs himself as Anthony Bourdain 2.0! Sachin is a member of the World Wildlife Federation and pursues his fascination with wildlife and nature through traveling.

Anant Talaulicar is a member on the Board of KPIT Technologies, as an Independent Director. He was a member of the Cummins Inc. global leadership team from August 2009 to October 2017, the Chairman and Managing Director of the Cummins Group in India from March 2004 through October 2017 and the President of the Cummins Inc. Components Group from 2010 through 2014. He has also served as the Managing Director of Tata Cummins Pvt. Ltd., a 50:50 joint venture between Cummins Inc. and Tata Motors Limited. He has chaired the boards of four other Cummins legal entities in India as well.

Anant began his career with Cummins in the U.S. in 1986 as an intern and subsequently held a number of positions both in the United States and in India. Having worked in the U.S. for 16 years as a financial analyst, manufacturing engineer, project manager, product manager, strategy manager, he took upon various general management positions thereafter. He returned to India in March 2003 as Joint Managing Director of Cummins India Limited. He has served as a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers and Automobile Components Manufacturers Association in the past.

Anant has a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Tulane University in 1987. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mysore University, India.

Shubhalakshmi has 38 Years of work experience in the field of Banking.

Appointed Chairman & Managing Director, Allahabad Bank on 01.10.2012. and superannuated on 31st January 2014.Prior to this appointment, was the Executive Director of Vijaya Bank for 34 months.

Was also the Chairman of ALLBANK Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of the Bank and Director on the Board of Universal Sompo Insurance company , a joint venture company of Allahabad Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Karnataka Bank, Sompo of Japan and Dabar Company.

As General Manager in Bank of Maharashtra has shouldered the responsibility in almost all key segments of Banking, in various capacities – at Branches, Zonal Office, and at Corporate Office.

Professor Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. Prof. Alberto is the Chief Technology Adviser of Cadence. Prof. Alberto is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence and chairs its Technology Committee. Prof. Alberto was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board. Prof. Alberto is currently a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General Motors, as well as a member of the Technology Advisory Council of United Technologies Corporation. He is also a Professor with University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences.

Mr. B V R Subbu is an automotive industry expert and thought leader. Mr. B V R Subbu holds a post graduate degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a post graduate diploma from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He was president of Hyundai India earlier. He was also extensively involved with Tata Group holding various responsibilities, including responsibilities in Tata Motors’ Light Commercial Vehicles and Multi Utility Vehicles business.

Nickhil Jakatdar is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Vuclip, a global leader in the Video-on-Demand space, funded by Temasek, Foxconn and Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW). Prior to Vuclip, Nickhil founded and ran various start-ups, such as Timbre Technologies (acquired by Tokyo Electron), CommandCAD (acquired by Cadence Design Systems) and Praesagus (acquired by Cadence Design Systems).

He is also the founding member of the Bhau Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Pune, and is an investor and advisor to Campfire Labs (acquired by Groupon), flutter.io (acquired by Google), Bash Gaming (acquired by GSN), Shoptimize, PayActiv, Viewics (acquired by Roche), Jombay, Mezi (acquired by American Express) and Blend, among others.

He has been the recipient of many awards from various organizations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from College of Engineering, Pune, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Best Paper Award in Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, and the Berkeley Distinguished Pioneer Award. He has to his credit more than 20 conference papers and more than 60 issued patents.

Nickhil completed his Bachelors of Engineering (BE) in Electrical Engineering in 1995 from the College of Engineering. Pune and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California – Berkeley in 2000.