4th Employer Branding Awards - 19th Dec, 2009.

How people feel about the Employer Branding is increasingly critical to business success or failure. Leading companies realize its importance in attracting and engaging the people, they need to deliver profitable growth. They are also beginning to recognize that creating a positive brand experience for employees requires the same degree of focus, care and coherence that has long characterized effective management of the customer brand experience.

The Employer Branding Awards has originated in the last decade. Employer Branding Awards have been very active in the last 4 years across Europe, parts of America & some parts of Asia Pacific region like Singapore, Malaysia & India. The attention and spotlight has been on India because of the growth and the opportunity that it offers. Besides the importance that India has gained over a period of time.

Regional round of 4th Employer Branding Awards was held on 19th December 2009, at Dhruv Auditorium, Indira Group of Institutes, Pune, organized by Indira school of Business Studies.

Award Categories

  • Award for Talent Management
  • Award for Best HR Strategy in line with Business
  • Award for Managing Health at Work
  • Award for Excellence in HR Through Technology
  • Award for Continuous Innovation in HR Strategy at Work
  • Award for Innovation in Recruitment
  • Award for Innovative Retention Strategy
  • Award for Excellence in Training
  • HR Professional of the year
  • Award for Innovation in Career Development
  • Award for Global HR Strategy

With the tremendous interest on Employer Branding, Worldwide, these Awards receiving tremendous attention from both the media as well as amongst the corporate. These awards are one of the most credible & transparent, which would be present on the day of ceremony where an envelope announcing the award winners is opened in the presence of several Professionals & the Jury. Thus the process entails a sincere approach to selection with a belief of creative value as an employer.

AWARDEES FOR 4TH EMPLOYER BRANDING AWARDS

 List of awardees for the 4th Employer Branding Awards - 19th Dec, 2009 is given below:
  1. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi, ED – Personnel, Life Insurance Corporation of India.
  2. Mr. Amrut Rath, VP – HR, Bajaj Auto Ltd.
  3. Mr. Birju  Trivedi, GM – Corp. HR, Cadila Healthcare Ltd. (Zydus Group)
  4. Mr. Sanjay Bose, Director – HR, Taj Group 
  5. Anish Keskar, Senior Manager – HR, HDFC Mutual Fund  
  6. Mr. Kaviarasu R., Senior Manager – HR, Asian Paints India Ltd. 
  7. Mr. V. Vizia Saradhi, Director – HR, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 
  8. Mr. Nikhil Gama, Head – HR, Kuoni Travel (India) Pvt. Ltd 
  9. Ms. Naina Panse, Senior VP – HR, HDFC Bank Ltd. 
  10. Mr. Sanjeev Parida, President – HR, Tech Mahindra Ltd.
  11. Mr. V. V. Narayanan, GM – HR, Castrol India Ltd. 
  12. Mr. Anil Modi, SVP, Head – Marketing and Strategic Initiatives, Aegis Ltd. 
  13. Sanjay Vasant Gaikwad, Manager HR, Kingfisher Airlines Limited.
  14. Mr. Ketan Kulkarni, Head- Marketing, Corporate Comm. & Sustainability, Sr.  Advisor - FIRST CHOICE, Blue Dart Express Ltd.
  15. Mr. Barttanu Das, VP & Head HR, Blue Dart Express Ltd.
  16. Ms. Jayashree Atre, Director – Engineering,  yahoo! 
  17. Mr. Vijay Sinha, VP – HR, BIG Animation (I) Pvt. Ltd.
  18. Mr. Pradipta Panda, Group President HR, Adani Group 
  19. Mr. Ashish Dua, HR – Head, Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
  20. Mr. Sudhir Warde, Executive VP – HR & Talent, L&T Infotech Ltd. 
  21. Mr. Subhro Bhaduri, Executive VP – HR, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
  22. Mr. Anuraag Rai, VP & Head HR, Sterlite Technologies Ltd. 
  23. Mr. Pramod Sadar Joshi, Head – HR, IDBI Bank Ltd. 
  24. Mr. C. Subramaniam, Group President – HR, Gitanjali Group 
  25. Mr. Anoop Kumar, Senior VP – HR, Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. 
  26. Mr. Ashish Patel, VP – HR, Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd.
  27. Mr. Rajesh Padmanabhan, Executive VP & Global Head of HR, Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
  28. Vijayan Pankaj Akshan, Director – HR, CHEP India Pvt. Ltd. 
  29. Mr Sherry Mathew, Director – HR, JohnsonDiversey India Pvt Ltd.
  30. Mr. Pratap G., Vice President & Head Training & Development, Tata Consultancy Services 
  31. Cmde Dilip Mohapatra, VSM, VP, Global Learning & Development, Suzlon Energy ltd.  
  32. Ms Sheela Dsouza, Recruitment Head, United Phosphorus Ltd.
  33. Jessie Lobo, Corporate HR, Ambuja Cements Ltd. 
  34. Ms. Shalaka Gadekar, Group Head – HR, Financial Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. 
  35. Ms. Trupti Chauhan, Cluster Officer, Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Ltd.
  36. Mr. Birju  Trivedi, GM – Corp. HR, Cadila Healthcare Ltd.
  37. Mr. Sanjeev Parida, President – HR, Tech Mahindra Ltd.
  38. Mr. O P Singh, VP – HR, GTL Ltd.
  39. Mr. Priyank Parakh, DGM – HR, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.
  40. Mr. V. Vizia Saradhi, Director – HR, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
  41. Ms. Kiran Singh, DGM – Corp. HR, Mother Dairy Fruits & Vegetables Pvt. Ltd.
  42. Mr. Susheel Malla, Sr. Manager-Talent Acquisition & New Initiatives, Mother Dairy Fruits & Vegetables Pvt. Ltd.
  43. Mr. Shyam Khonde, DGM – HR, LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.
  44. Ms. Sheetal Pote, Manager HR, Talentica Software (I) Pvt. Ltd.
  45. Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh Deo, Senior VP – OD & Sales, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd.
  46. Mr. Sunil Manushani, Senior Manager – L& D, VFS Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
  47. Mansi Bhardwaj, Sr Manager – HR, VFS Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
  48. Mr. Rabeen Singh, DGM – Corporate HR, Tata Teleservices Ltd.
  49. Mr. Jayant  Kumar, Head – HR (Docomo), Tata Teleservices Ltd.
  50. Mr. Binuj Vasu, Executive VP & Chief Learning Officer,   YES BANK Ltd.
  51. Mr. Deodutta Kurane, President – Human Capital Management, YES BANK Ltd.
  52. Ms. Sushma Kumar, Manager – HR, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
  53. Ms. Vinti Garga, HR Officer,Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
  54. Mr. Joydeep Banerjee, Talent Acquisition Lead – Corporate HR, Sterlite Technologies Ltd.
  55. Mr. Anuraag Rai, VP & Head HR, Sterlite Technologies Ltd.
  56. Ms. Piloo Wadia, Manager HR, Sterlite Technologies Ltd.
  57. Mr. John Thangarajan, AVP – HR, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
  58. Sohandeep Hattar, Chief Manager – HR,  ICICI Bank Ltd.
  59. Dr. Suresh Mijar, General manager (Health Services), Kirloskar Pneumatic Co. Ltd.
  60. Mr. R. A. Shinde, VP (HR), Kirloskar Pneumatic Co. Ltd.
  61. Mr. Ravi Hundalani, Area HRD – Manager South Asia, DHL Express India Pvt Ltd.
  62. Bhupesh Sawantdesai, Business HR Manager, DHL Express India Pvt Ltd.
  63. Madan Mohan Bajpai – Circle Business Head, Mumbai & Rest of Maharashtra, Aircel Ltd.
  64. Rajesh Srinivasan – Circle HR Head, Mumbai & Rest of Maharashtra, Aircel Ltd.
  65. Surbhi Varma, Manager – HR, Standard Chartered Bank.
  66. Ms. Aparna Ranadive, Head of HR, Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd.
  67. Mr. Vinod Nair, Head – HR Operations, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd.
  68. Mr. Vishal Khanna, Head- MD & C&B, ,  CEAT Ltd.
  69. Mr. Rahul Ghatak, VP & Head HR/TQM,  CEAT Ltd.
  70. Ms. Reva Prakash, Senior VP – HR, Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd.
  71. Bhavana Samel, Dy. GM – HR, Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd.
  72. Rajesh Hurkar, Dy. GM HR, Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd.
  73. Prasad Bagawade, Head – Human Resources, Infrasoft Technologies Ltd.
  74. Theresa Williams, Head Talent Management & Acquisition, Reliance BIG Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
  75. Dr. C M Dwivedi, President & Global Head – Corporate HR, Datamatics Global Services Ltd.
  76. Prof. Indira J. Parikh, President, Foundation for Liberal And Management Education (FLAME)