We Communicate Your Leadership Thoughts
We Communicate Your Leadership Thoughts
Bharath Sondur , Chief Business Officer, Arohan Financial Services
Though banking sector plays a significant role in the Financial Markets a lot, the non-banking financial companies are also playing a very vital role too. They are competing with banking sector by providing various financial services. NBFCs are financial intermediaries engaged in the business of accepting deposits, delivering credit while they play an important role in channeling the scarce financial resources to capital formation. In India, still, a major chunk of the population resides in villages and smaller towns which are not served by the mainstream banks. Addressing these challenges, the NBFC-MFIs like Arohan Financial Services has been providing its valuable services to society for more than 15 years, in order to improve financial inclusion and most importantly the women empowerment. NBFCs supplement the role of the banking sector in meeting the credit and saving needs of the unorganized sector and to small local borrowers.
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Minority Report’ is a 2002 Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster that brought together Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg. The story happens in 2054. In an iconic scene in the movie, a GAP store advertisement scans Tom Cruise’s retinas and starts talking to
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Top 10 Chief Business Officers – 2022
Undoubtedly, integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are three essential qualities of leadership that C-suite leaders should necessarily hold for leading a company, including Chief Business Officers (CBO). Chief Business Officers are the growth driving pillars of a company who play a key role in developing and executing the company's overall strategy, while also managing its day-to-day operations.
Moreover, in the present fast-paced world, their roles have been magnified a lot, and they are now expected to work with a much more diverse set of constituents and possess a broader set of skills than ever before. New age tech challenges and yearn for sustainability in growth aspects, has divulged a sense of responsibility to working with the CEOs too, and helping them in strategic planning and associated implementation, developing entrepreneurial partnerships to create new revenue options, being future-ready for emergencies, and more.
They also work collaboratively with other C-suite executives to entrench a cross functional teams to provide more effective services, integrating resource allocation efforts with planning and outcome assessment, and ultimately determine the organization's overall vision and market share targeting its customer base. Well, owing to their complex roles, CBOs of India have exemplarily proven their worth today, leveraging their dexterous business and professional skills driving companies towards greater growth horizons, scaling productive business plans and strategies. And, such worthwhile business visionaries definitely need to be celebrated for their dynamic contribution to the corporates and business institutions today.
This issue of the CEO Insight magazine introduces you to a list of 'Top 10 Chief Business Officers - 2022' who have helped in the transformation and growth of various organizations and accordingly the business sector of the country. The list has been crafted by a team of industry veterans, CEOs, VCs and the CEO Insights editorial team, thus delivering inspiring stories of their journey, their contributions and roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of a powerful nation.
Our subscribers play a decisive role in finalization of our annual list of "Top 10 Chief Business Officers – 2022" by nominating those which have served them with excellence and are praiseworthy. If you feel there is a company that deserves to be on our annual list, do write to us about them mentioning their value proposition.
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Ajay Pareek, Chief Business officer | FullertonIndia | He has a previous experience of working in Adithya Birla Finance who later began leading the company's core businesses of Rural, Urban, and Digital and the marketing function |
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Amit Baveja, Chief Business Officer | Burlington English | Brings inter-cultural understanding and global strategic thinking to the Indian education technology sector |
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Bharath Sondur, Chief Business Officer | Arohan Financial Serv | Holding over 28 years of experience in microfinance and in a bank environment, he is a banking and finance professional responsible for the end-to-end business |
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Madhu Soman,,Chief Business officer | Zee Media | Has more than two decades of experience in broadcast and digital media, dabbling with news television, new media and the convergence between text, photos and video on the World Wide Web |
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Pankaj Singh Parihar, Chief Business officer | Condé Nast India | Has two decades of marketing, digital, and technology experience, out of which the last 15 years have been in digital and growth marketing, data science, insight and analytics, technology, and marketing automation |
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Raghu Reddy, Chief Business Officer | Xiaomi India | Having joined the Xiaomi team in 2016, he played a key role in propelling Xiaomi’s exponential sales growth, and manages the online sales teams across India |
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Sonia Chhabra Gupta, Chief Business Officer | Balancehero India | She has straddled many cross-functional impact roles, across banking and finance sectors essentially covering domains of business development |
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Sudhir Goel, Chief Business Officer | Acer india | He has been associated with this firm since 1999 handling various leadership roles spanning product engineering, manufacturing, support, supply chain and recently as the head of commercial business group |
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Sunil Baby,Chief Business Officer | Unacademy | With over 20 years of managing sales and distribution in fast paced industries, he comes with a rich experience in leading the offline market strategy for some well-known brands in the country |
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Venkataramani Suresh, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer | Karkinos Healthcare | He has 25 years of expertise in Business Development, Startups, Internet, building and scaling large businesses |
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