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Past Awardees
Maha-Intrapreneur Awards 2012 Winners
The 3 Winners of the Category A – “Industry and Business” are:
- Jaya Panvalkar: Sr. Director & Site Leader, NVIDIA Graphics, Pune
- Mateesh Rai: Director, Forbes Marshall, Pune
- Vivek Kotru: Director, Geometric Software, Pune
The 3 Winners for Category Cat B- “NGOs, Semi Government, Society and Trusts”
are:
- Sunil Pote: President, Yuva Mitra, Dist. Nashik
- Chandrika Chauhan: President, Udyog Vardhini, Dist. Pune
- Sunita Dhanawade, Secy & Project Director, Astitva Samaj Vikas
and Sanshodhan Sanstha, Sangola
Category A:
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Jaya Pramod Panvalkar
Senior Director & Site Leader for NVIDIA Pune Design Centre
Mrs. Jaya Panvalkar, is managing NVIDIA’S Pune Design Center for last 5+ years.
She was instrumental in setting up the Pune Design Centre; right from acquisition
of PACE Soft Silicon an Irish Multinational. She was the Director and Chief Technology
Officer at PACE Soft Silicon for 5 years. The Design Center has grown from 65 people
to 750+ in last 7 years. Jaya worked for 23 years at Central Water and Power Research
Station (CWPRS), in Pune at Khadakwasla as Joint Director for the last few years
of tenure. Jaya was instrumental in co-ordinating US$ 2 Billion worth of United
Nations projects at CWPRS, for Hydraulic Instrumentation, coastal research, mathematical
model studies & many more. One of the key areas of her contribution is setting up
of research labs at more than 25 institutes all over India on GPU based Supercomputing,
which include IIT Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, leading colleges like VIT, VIIT,
MIT, IISERs, IIITs & University of Pune as well as research organizations like IUUCA,
NCRA. She is instrumental in building the ecosystem for Parallel Supercomputing
Based on GPUs in India with Infosys, Wipro, HCL, CDAC, CRL as service partners.
Under her leadership, NVIDIA’s Pune Center received Government of Maharashtra “IT
innovation award” - 2008 and MCCIA B.G. Deshmukh “Corporate Social Responsibility
award”. She works on Board of Studies (BOS) of University of Pune, NIIT University
and Chitkara University.
She completed BE and ME (Electronics and Telecom) from COEP, Pune & M.S. ( Computer
Engineering) from Colorado State University , USA as a United Nations fellow & Her
Management Expertise has developed through the Senior Executive Management programs
at Stanford, USA & ISB, Hyderabad. She is recipient of multiple United Nations Scholarships
for advancement in education and technology & has been a National Scholar throughout
her education. She has also received several awards including PARAM parallel processing
award for special achievement. Multiple Patents and Publications are to her credit.
She is married to Pramod Panvalkar and is a mother to one son and one daughter.
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Mr. Mateesh Kant Rai
Forbes Marshall Pvt Ltd. Director
Mr. Mateesh Kant Rai has been carrying success under his belt right from his educational
journey. He completed his graduate engineering degree in Electronics and Communication
and then went to IIM Kolkata for the post graduate course in management. He also
went to Standford University for the Executive program in management.
His skillfulness was quickly and correctly identified by the organization and he
was made responsible of a small division in the company which was going in loss.
He turned the table upside down and that division became the top profit machine
within one year. This ripple quickly created a large effect and as a result he,
along with key managers, was given the responsibility of a collective managerial
experiment of a business unit where the approach was strengthening weaker part of
a division to make it successful. His unique approach landed him in the Director’s
position even before he entered his forties. He was selected to receive the 4th
Indira Engineering Excellence Award for 2012. His family consists of his wife Mamata
and daughter Viha.
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Mr. Vivek Kotru
Geometric Limited, Director (Global Marketing)
In the early part of his career, Vivek Kotru spent close to 6 years with two of
India’s most well-known names in the IT industry. There he learnt the nuances of
marketing and business development in the IT services and solutions industry. He
won the CEO’s award for business development in his first organization. He got the
opportunity to understand the engineering, manufacturing and the supply chain domains
while working at these two companies before he decided to move to Geometric Limited
in 2006. His first role was marketing functions of all software services business
units followed by the marketing function of the engineering services business unit.
Then he was made responsible for the business response function for software and
engineering services. His most recent role gifted him the responsibility for corporate
marketing. Vivek’s journey from marketing for a single business unit to heading
the integrated Global Marketing function at Geometric saw him leading from the front
and experiment with leadership styles. Vivek has ideated and worked with cross functional
teams in the organization to take successful and differentiated offerings to the
market and helped reinforce Geometric’s position as a provider of intelligent engineering
solutions in a competitive market place. A working culture at Geometric that supports
intrapreneurship, has enabled him to contribute to the organizations strategy development
at various levels, take risks, be innovative in the context of his role and emerge
as a role model for his team. Vivek has an Engineering degree in Metallurgy and
an MBA in international marketing. His family comprises of his wife Kamalika and
daughter Shivika.
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Category B:
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SUNIL HARIBHAU POTE
President Yuva Mitra
Joining Chatrabharati student movement helped Mr Sunil H. Pote to understand the
social concerns of rural India. His social perspective underwent further refining
while working with Shri Baba Amte, Medha Patkar and joining Narmada Bachao Andolan.
He worked as a lecturer in Collage of Social Work Nashik (from 2006-07) and as a
Social work Executive in Glaxo India Ltd (from 2002 - 07). He was instrumental in
repairing check dams through Community mobilisation and support from Sir Dorabjee
Tata Trust. This helped in bringing 1550 hectares of land under irrigation. He brought
800 farmers together and made them realize the importance of collective bargaining
by forming a producer company. This company helped in starting first farmers ‘agri
mall in Maharashtra. He realized that successful social development can only come
by integrating commercial perspective along with hand holding support. For this
he formed Yuva Mitra Multi Agro Services Pvt ltd. He founded Yuva Mitra in 1995.
The organization initiates constructive activities based on the principles of people
centered development Yuva Mitra believes in the people-centered approach of development
where people are empowered to become agents of social change. Various programmes
have been initiated over the years with community participation. Mr Pote was honored
with VASUNDARA MITRA AWARD by Kirloskar Group of company and Club Mahindra. His
family consists of wife Manisha and daughter Mukta.
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Sunita Dhanawade
Secy & Project Director, Astitva Samaj Vikas and Sanshodhan
Sanstha Dist. Sangola.
Sunita Dhanawade was the Fieldwork coordinator and Mobilizer for SHG formation through
which she worked for Dalit rights. She frequently met with Mahila Mandals to align
her work with their problems. She was the district organizer and regional coordinator
which gave her opportunity to network with several PRIs, NGOs & DOs. She was associated
with Mahila Rajsatta Andolan. She has received Parivar Sanmanpatra from Mahila Rajsatta
Andolan in 2004. She has also worked on the Leadership Development of Co workers.
She facilitated Capacity Building, Effective Functioning and Fostering of WUA under
MWSIP. She is also instrumental in project planning & implementation program co-ordination
and management, audit & annual report maintenance and developing new projects. Sunita
has done BALLB and has been honored with several awards recognizing her noble work
for social causes. She received twice The Best Social Activist award, once in 2005
and then in 2011. She was honored with Daughter of Maharashtra award from Nari Samta
Manch Pune in 2011. Recently she received Smruti Samman Puraskar from Tulshiram
Bansode Pratishthan, Sangola in 2012. She is married to VS Dhanawade and is a loving
mother to has a son.
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Mrs. Chandrika Shambhusingh Chauhan
Founder Chairman Udyogvardhini
Chandrika Chauhan was born and brought up in Gujrat. Securing first rank in Diploma
Tailoring in 1992-93 only marked the beginning of her challenging and inspiring
professional journey. The nascent years included her working for consumer forum
(1994-95) followed by working for Jankalyan Samity (RSS) in slum areas (1995-97).
She then worked as a corporator in Solapur Municipal Corporation (1997-2007) while
briefly working for Matru Mandir Gurukul alongside (1997-98). Her current responsibilities
include being a legal adviser for DAV law College Solapur, an active member of Gramin
Mahila Dakshata Samity Solapur, a telephone advisor committee member Solapur, an
advisor of women’s technological institute, an active member of family violence
Samiti Solapur, Chief member of Lokmangal Pratishthan Samiti and a member of Pakhar
Sankul Solapur. In 2003 she started Udyogvardhini initially aimed at making rural
women independent. The institute today caters to training women, forming self help
groups and giving free meals to students, patients, old people and women through
the money collected by donations. The institute today has over 3000 women associated
with it and has helped over 300 rural women with independent business.
She has received several awards for her service to humanity. To quote a few names;
Aadarsha Mata Purskar from Shivalal Shah Matru Mandir Gurukul ( Hiraj), Aadarsha
Corporator Puraskar from Rigvedi Brahmin Union Solapur, Disha Institution Awards
from Indian Vipan Vicas company, Late Ramabai Ranade Award from Sevasadan Pune,
Late Mamasaheb Jagdale Award Barshi, Sushila Award Nashik, Bhavsar Vision Sanman
Solapur from Yashoda Foundation Vision Career Centre, Nalanda Award from P.R.Friends
Family of lower class Social Institution Solapur etc. She currently resides in Solapur
with her husband and children (two sons and a daughter).
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Lifetime Achievement Award 2012
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The Praj Mahaintrapreneur Lifetime Achievement Award is being conferred upon
Dr. Shardchandra Gokhale. Dr. Gokhale is an eminent Social Scientist
of International repute. He has worked in the field of social development primarily
in child welfare, leprosy and ageing. He is also a recipient of UN Scholarship.
He has to his credit more than 30 books published in Marathi and English. He was
the editor of the reputed Marathi Daily, Kesari and was a Trustee on the Sakal Trust.
He was also Assistant Director, Social Welfare Department, Maharashtra State and
Executive Director of Indian Social Welfare Institute. He was also the Hon. Professor
at TISS. He has been honored with many National and International awards.
The awards will be presented in an award function on December 15th, 2012 at the
hands of Chief Guest Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Tata Sons in the presence
of Mr. Deepak Satwalekar, former MD, HDFC Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Mr. Pramod
Chaudhari, Executive Chairman, Praj Industries Limited.
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