Title: Sustaining Growth and Preserving Cash in a Crisis!

Speaker: Shri Neeraj Jain, Independent Director, Board Advisor
 

Presentation:

a. Signals and types of a business or financial crisis

b. Leadership behaviours required in a crisis

c. Actions required to address a crisis

d. Case studies on a few famous crisis faced by companies

Speaker's bio:

A well known leader in finance, Neeraj is professionally qualified as a chartered accountant as well as a company secretary, and was a rank holder in both! With over 30 years of management experience in finance, supply chain and business across diversified industries at Johnson & Johnson and Unilever in positions of increasing responsibility in India, ASEAN and Asia Pacific. He spent his formative years in management consulting at A F Fergusons. Neeraj’s key areas of expertise include strategic business partnering, process excellence, controllership, M&A, business reorganisation and talent development. 

At J&J, Neeraj was the VP Finance/CFO at Johnson & Johnson Medical in India. Over the last 13 years, he held various senior positions at J&J in Asia. Prior to J&J, he has held various positions of increasing responsibility of over 17 years with Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), the last being the General Manager, Commercial (Exports). At HUL, while growing up doing classical finance and supply chain roles, Neeraj worked on several M&A deals including TOMCO transition in early part of his career and divestment of seeds to a PE fund in the US, a business which he himself led. He also set up a joint venture between HUL and SC Jonson Inc where he managed finance, IT, procurement and HR. Later he reorganised the Exports business where he was also the board member of Ponds Exports Ltd.

Since his retirement from J&J in Jan 2020, Neeraj has been involved in angel investing as part of Vinners, a group of around 100 CXOs, which he had co-founded a few years back. He is also the founding director of the company that handles all administrative affairs of this group. Besides, Neeraj is an independent director and member/chair of audit committees and risk committees of Tata Trustee Co and Tata Pension. In addition, he is a board advisor in a healthcare company engaged in research.

Neeraj has a passion for tourism, particularly in wildlife and nature and in amateur photography. 

Awards:

1. Neeraj was awarded as one of the 100 most influential CFOs in India in 2016 by CImA. 

2. Recognised amongst the top 100 CFOs in 2015 by 9.9 Media.  

3. People & Leadership, Operational Excellence and Compliance awards by J&J Asia Pac over several years 

Speakership:

Neeraj is a regular speaker at finance, business and legal events in India and has been a guest speaker at MBA schools and institutes of management of repute. 

Over last few years, have spoken on various finance and business forums organized by:

-Organizations like Reciprocity, Transformanve, CFO Engage, UBS Forum, Morpheus Enterprises, Inventicon, Legal Era

- Leading Companies including Crompton Lighting, Felix Advisory & HSBC

-Ludhiana Management Association

-B Schools like OP Jindal Business school TAPMI Manipal & IMT Nagpur

LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neeraj-jain-8240838/
Email: [email protected]; 

Mobile: +919821825135