Quality Fables Judges 2018

For over 27 years, Roma has developed, directed, engineered, counseled and supervised a wide range of consumer &, lifestyle, healthcare and corporate communications programmes including market entries, brands positioning, stakeholder engagement, advocacy campaigns and public health education programmes for several national and international companies – from Sony Entertainment Television, Film Companion, DuPont, KPMG, Coca-Cola, TVF, Kellogg’s, Heinz, Cadbury’s, India Fashion Week, and DeBeers to Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Takeda, Wyeth and UNAIDS.

She headed the team that co-ordinated all aspects of her company's award winning social communications project -- Humraahi (Come Along with Me) – a 52-episode television serial that used an entertainment-education approach through a soap opera format to address socially relevant public health & social issues like the status of women, family planning, fertility control behaviour in India, on national network television (Doordarshan). Humraahi was supported by the late Mr JRD Tata and Tata Sons. Rated Number #1 when it was telecast, Humraahi was widely acclaimed for its impact on social attitudinal change. It won several global and national accolades including the UN Award in New York and was also felicitated at the Emmy’s.

She has been supporting leading writer, actor, director, Nandita Das for the last 4 years on her projects and has worked closely with the team on their production - Between The Lines and on their path breaking venture - CinePlay -- a new genre of cinema that merges the power of cinema with the magic of theatre! In 2014, Roma started consulting renowned film critic, journalist and author Anupama Chopra on her new YouTube venture, Film Companion and worked closely with her team on the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.

Over the last 3 years, she has been working closely with the UNAIDS team in India on their public awareness programmes.

Roma has been a member of the Panel of Judges of the Qimpro Awards, the country’s premier quality citations for over 5 years.

Roma has also been assisting local and international NGOs in India like St Jude India Childcare Centres, Akanksha, Friends of Women’s World Banking, Teach for India, Save the Children, SNEHA and most recently, Toybank.

Prior to her current position, Roma was National Practice Director for the consumer/lifestyle/luxury marketing and Healthcare practices at R&PM:Edelman.

She graduated as an Economics major from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and completed a post-graduate diploma in mass communications from Xavier’s Institute of Communications.

A quality leader with a special interest in high impact process improvement and business transformation.

Anshuman leads a team of transformation specialist at the Global Delivery Services (GDS) of EY. His team is spread across locations in India, China, Philippines, Argentina, and Poland. They undertake high impact projects to significantly improve the capabilities of GDS to help EY create a better working world.

Prior to EY, Anshuman was head of Process Re-engineering (offshore locations) at HSBC. Prior to HSBC Anshuman was VP - Business Excellence for the Retail and Wealth Operations of ANZ’s global hub in India.

In his 20+ years in the industry Anshuman has worked as an Industrial Engineer, Quality Consultant, Program Manager, and Quality Head with companies ranging from textiles, consulting, Information Technology, and Financial Services. His consulting clients included companies from the Tata, Reliance, Aditya Birla, and ICICI groups and four of his clients won the Deming Application Prize.

Anshuman is on the Influential Voices program of ASQ and was recently named a New Voice in Quality.

His core skills include leading large quality change programs, wide-spectrum stakeholder management, and quality education. He has worked extensively with the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria, Six Sigma, and Lean. He is a Certified Manager of Quality and Org Excellence, a Certified Six Sigma MBB and a PMP.

Anshuman is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality.

Walter Vieira has a deep understanding of consumer behavior, having been involved at top corporate levels in consumer marketing in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

He has been on the Boards of CERC organizations from 2004 and through these organizations he has actively contributed to the consumer movement in India. From 2012 he has been elected Chairman of CERS, which is the action arm of CERC. He also adds to some of the project advisory committees at CERC.

Walter Vieira is a Certified Management Consultant; Fellow of the IMC of India; First President of Institute of Management Consultants of India; Founder-Chairman of Asia Pacific Conference of Management Consultants; and the first Asian to be elected Chairman of the 45 nation world apex body - International Council of Management Consulting Institutes .

He is an author of management and marketing books (12), three coauthored with Northcote Parkinson of Parkinsons Law fame. He is also a business journalist and written over 800 columns, including the longest running business column in Business World for 19 years. He has been visiting professor at Business Schools in USA (Kellogg, Cornell etc), Spain, Hong Kong, Thailand, and in India at Bajaj Inst, of Management, Mumbai; and Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad.

He has addressed three consecutive World Congresses of Management Consultants in Rome, Yokohama, and Berlin; and two World Marketing Summits in Dhaka and Tokyo.

He was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award for Consulting in 2005 and again, LAA for Marketing in 2009.