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Meet our Mentors and Speakers

'Leaders Of Tomorrow' salutes all our distinguished Mentors and Speakers for their voluntary involvement in speaking to the youth across the world sharing the wisdom they have gained and their experience. Some of them would take the students through a short-term course helping the youth to learn skills virtually. 

Lee Cockerell

Executive Vice President (Retired & Inspired) Walt Disney World Resort

www.LeeCockerell.com

Stephan Morais

Executive Director at Caixa Capital

Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World® Resort. "As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping & entertainment village and the ESPN sports and recreation complex in addition to the ancillary operations which supported the number one vacation destination in the world." One of Lee's major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World.

Stephan Morais has a diverse background in investment banking, private equity, consulting  and management, won several awards throughout his career, and is frequently invited to give presentations on innovation, investing and management. Morais is currently an Executive Director at Caixa Capital, a Private Equity and Venture Capital firm with over 750 Million Euros under management. He also currently serves on the Board of Whatana Investments, one of the most prominent Mozambican conglomerates and advises several start-ups in Europe and Africa. Morais holds a Civil Engineering degree from Instituto Superior Tecnico and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sumeet Shetty

Development Manager, SAP Labs 

Sumeet Shetty is a Development Manager at SAP, the world leader in enterprise software and software-related services. At SAP, he has been honoured with the SAP TED Award for High Potentials, the Excellence Award and the SAP Labs India Values Award. He is the President of Literati, India's largest corporate book-club. Sumeet serves on the Managing Committee of the Old Cottonians' Association of Bishop Cotton Boys' School as its Hon. Secretary.

 

Sumeet would be taking the Leaders Of Tomorrow through his experience in the space of books through a special segment called 'Read to Lead'. 

Ankur Gupta

Author of Seed Of Genius

An alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad & BITS Pilani, the author shares his vast knowledge, experience, & learnings in his Mind Management workshops. He firmly believes that each individual is a Seed of Genius, waiting to sprout his/her true inner potential. Self-awareness is the key towards triggering this process.

 

 

Nirmit Parikh

Cruxbot - Founder and

Chief Executive Officer

Global Shaper - Ahmedabad Hub

Founder, Incone Technologies, which deals in control systems in hydropower automation and IT sectors. Venture Design Fellow, Venture Studio, run by Ahmedabad University in collaboration with Centre for Design Research, Stanford University. International Society of Automation scholarship; National Business Incubation award for Innovative System Design (2008); various national awards at symposiums. Awards & Accolades: â€¢ Designer of India’s first Artificial Intelligence based Hydro-Power Automation System. â€¢ Winner of the National Business Incubation award for Innovative Business Intelligence • National Award for Mobile Network Based Control System - India’s best IT solution of the year by IEEE. 

Graham Tyrer

Headteacher of Chenderit School,

Northamptonshire, UK

www.grahamtyrer.com

Chenderit School, Northamptonshire, UK is rated by England’s school inspectors, Ofsted, as Outstanding. He has a wealth of experience in school improvement and national INSET. He delivers training in Learning to Lead and Literacy Across the Curriculum for the National College for School Leadership, the National Breakthrough Trust, Osiris, Teachology and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. The Learning to Lead Programme has been adopted by many schools across the country. Graham is the author of Learning to Lead (Bloomsbury) and The Literacy Leader’s Toolkit (Bloomsbury). He is a winner of the TES Outstanding Literacy Initiative Award. Graham’s practice had been recognized as nationally significant by Ofsted in their 2013 survey of Literacy Across the Curriculum in Schools

Ilaria Forte

Social Entrepreneur, Innovator, Futurist,

Transformation & Change Catalyst

www.RadicalFuture.com

Ilaria has travelled the world from west to east exploring, initiating and developing social, creative and radical initiatives. With more than ten years of experience and a strong background in unleashing the potential of people across cultures, Ilaria love to help individuals, communities and companies initiate change and navigate successfully through complex transitions. Her interest lies in understanding how the choices people make in their everyday lives individually and collectively change our future.

 

Ilaria has been helping leaders and their teams drive long-lasting sustainable change across their organization by encouraging their creative, transformational and systems thinking. She has advised a wide range of international clients, such as The Walt Disney Company, Unilever, MTV, and TJX Group. In the business world, Ilaria is best known for starting radicalfuture, a global network of independent professionals specializing in future issues and heart-driven meaningful innovation. She is also the founder of MOVABLE^LAB a European open, social and collaborative initiative launched to support, develop and connect the next generation of leaders who want to make a positive contribution to our society.

Puneet Jain

Country Head, IHS 

Puneet Jain is the Country Head of IHS for India and Malaysia and is with the company for the past 7 years. He has been instrumental in growing the team from 200 to over 1800 in India.

 

Puneet has been working in the Industry for more than 21 years in organizations such as Applied Materials, Timken and Hero Honda. He has led in a variety of roles including General Management, Strategy, M&A and Global Delivery Management in major Global markets and across automotive, aerospace, semiconductor and information services companies.

 

Puneet has done his Engineering from IIT Madras, MS from University of Notre Dame, USA and an MBA from Indian School of Business

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