Dr. Kamaljeet Kaur Siddhu, DTM

Campus Strategic & Operational Leadership Directed comprehensive strategy and operations for a multi-campus institution, delivering measurable growth, innovation, and compliance. Strategic Execution: Designed a 5-year roadmap and 12 quarterly strategies, achieving 92% alignment with institutional vision. Decision Support: Delivered 100+ data-driven reports, reducing approval cycles by 30% and enabling faster decisions. Team Leadership: Supervised 250+ staff/faculty, driving 30% productivity gains and building a 50+ leader succession pipeline. Financial Governance: Managed ₹100 Cr+ annual budgets, optimizing costs by 22% while sustaining academic excellence. Business Planning: Executed monthly/quarterly plans with 95% on-time delivery across academics, finance, and operations. Admissions Growth: Spreaheaded admissions achieving 25% YoY growth across campuses. Faculty Development: Implemented structured succession planning, ensuring 100% leadership continuity and reducing faculty attrition by 20%. Student Services: Oversaw 5,000+ service requests annually, achieving 98% satisfaction. Campus Excellence: Improved audit scores by 22% through standardized administration. Capacity Building: Conducted 20+ leadership workshops, boosting efficiency by 15% annually. Collaborative Governance: Partnered with 5+ Principals/Deans, ensuring seamless academic, administrative, and extracurricular delivery.

1. Providing staff training, mentoring and counseling sessions to staff of client companies with an average feedback rating of 4/5. 2. Revival and restructuring of companies through HR advisory and trainings. Salary administration and Payroll management for clients. 3. Recruitment services and background check services for clients. 4. End to end statutory compliances in respect of human resources for clients. Delivering Insurance advisory services to Clients 5. Ensuring zero delay in delivering Company profiles, project reports and due diligence reports to clients. 6. Prepared Project report after thorough legal & financial due diligence of a 500 Crores Real Estate project despite Covid-19 challenges 7. Ensured that 95% of legal drafting work is delivered in 24 hours of request received. 8. Ensuring zero delay in delivering Company profiles, project reports and due diligence reports to clients. 9. Procured financial approval from Nationalized bank by completing all paperwork for Project finance of 250 Crores for a Real Estate Project.

1. Lead end-to-end filing of a 600 Crores PPP Tender and successfully achieved the Tender award for a Group Entity. 2. Organized and created record of highest recruitment of Female employees at College Campus in India Book of Records for D Y Patil Technical Campus on 7th March 2019 3. Organized and created record of maximum posters made by students on single day on Oral Hygiene day by D Y Patil Dental School, Pune in India Book of Records on 2nd August 2019 4. Organized and attempted Guinness record for highest number of participants in making of a Human Peace sign on 26th January 2019. 5. Implemented MIS strategy to carry out data analysis to increase ROI across all verticals by cost savings. 6. Quick turnaround for vetting of all legal documents such as vendor agreements, real estate transaction documents, sale deeds, purchase contracts, Non-disclosure agreements, technology licensing, labor contracts, etc. 7. Achieved 55% improvement in Complaints related to Campus Administration and Estate Management 8. Geared up systems for ensuring 100% Corporate and HR Law Compliances across the group by conducting due diligence audits and bridging the gap especially for Educational Trusts including staff training. 9. ADYPU became fastest brand to qualify amongst Private University in India due to actions on branding & innovation.

Provided Core HR, Payroll, Recruitment & Performance Appraisal services to clients including statutory Compliances. Completed Induction training for all newly hired staff within 24 hours of their joining & also imparted need-based training with a feedback rating of 4/5. 18% reduction in compliance management costs by reviewing and negotiating external Consultants and Auditors fees for a client having group of companies. Completed legal due diligence for acquired land for a sale proposition in a record 5 days Studied and prepared market expansion strategy for a two-decade old clothing dealership Company to increase its market share by 25%. Procured License to establish and operate from Pollution Control Board and Factory License for 3 automotive service centers in 2 months-time. (Ethix Group has many ventures such as Kool homes – real estate, Ethix clothing, distributors of casual clothing brands, automobile dealerships such as Honda, Skoda and Tata, etc) Planning and executing ISO processes of a client's group companies for result oriented business. Making presentation and term sheets for clients' upcoming projects for funding partners and banks. Structuring deals and conducting negotiations on behalf of client companies to conclude deals. Managing the human resources and MIS a client's automobile dealership division. Conducting Monthly review meetings and suggesting strategy for increasing the business reach and profitability of Clients' Clothing division.

Reduction in Court cases by 30% & increasing compliance Management pan India through Legatrix software by using intensive training & stricter monitoring. Part of empowered core team in achieving the top line to ensure MIS monitoring and reporting to the Board Led the Legal compliance monitoring through Legatrix Software and increased compliance management by 40% Reduction in long pending Court cases by 30% by using out of the box strategies 100% Compliance for Hinjewadi Factory Closure under Industrial Laws by successful implementation of VRS & preparing thorough check-list for sale of Factory Land for Board Approval. Successfully redeemed 200 crores debentures redemption by using call-option & completed all stock exchange formalities including satisfaction of charges. Ensured that the communication to Board in respect of notices, minutes and other reports is attuned to 100% compliance as per company law & SEBI. Ensured zero audit queries in the secretarial audit conducted for my period of compliance. 20% reduction in compliance management costs by reviewing and negotiating Consultants and Auditors fees.

Leading Company Secretarial, Legal & HR teams of total 25 group entities (7 Unlisted public Limited companies, 11 Private Limited Companies & 3 section 8 Companies & 4 LLPs) Authorizing Monthly Salary for (600 employees) Overall accountability for training & development, recruitment, Induction Training, retention, performance management, succession planning, gratuity, payroll, leadership coaching & change management. Editor of the Company’s internal Magazine “HR Communique”. Ensured 100% Compliance under Factories Act, Legal Metrology, Design Registration, Trademarks Act, FSSAI, etc. and end-to-end human resource management for the Bottling Plant Manufacturing Company (KELZAI) in FMCG Industry. Received “Technology Excellence in HR” – Gold category award at the 6th Annual Greentech HR Awards – 2016 Established MIS system for Amanora Mall operations, Leasing & Finance team for Board Reporting. SPOC for sale of Group Company as going Concern to Peninsula Land Limited for Legal & Financial Due Diligence Formulated CSR policy of the company & helped in achieving 4 awards for Women Empowerment (by empowering local farmer ladies) Executed complete legal & secretarial work of the Joint Venture of IL&FS, Mauritius & Cyprus with the Group Company for (Foreign Direct Investment) FDI in Mixed development (FDI in Townships) Executed complete legal & secretarial work of JV with Horizon Ventures V, Mauritius with the Group Company for FDI in Mall Project including exit Successfully completed sale of companies with proper due diligence to reputed corporate groups like Peninsula Land Limited, Poonawalla Group (Owned by Forbes List Millionaire Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla), Travel Masters, etc. Key Member in Implementation of ISO 9001:2008 (& 2015), 14001:2004 & OHSAS guidelines 18001. Chairperson of the Committee on POSH

100% Compliance of Company Law & Stock Exchange requirements with respect to a Listed Company. Managed Debtors and achieved 30% reduction in pending Recovery cases filed by the Company. Zero delay in conducting Board meetings, Committee Meetings and Shareholders Meeting & preparing minutes 100% success in Liaison and estate related compliance which was pending for 4 years. Evaluation and 100% Implementation of BAAN ERP (Finance Module) for inventory management achieved in 2 months. Completed 100% dividend reconciliation in one month which was pending for previous years. Actively worked on Excise, Sales, Payroll, gratuity transfer, Inventory and Finalization of accounts function of the Company & compilation of Monthly MIS to ensure zero delay in submitting MIS to Dana Corporation, Ohio, USA & Board of Directors before monthly due dates. Continuous communication leading to 25% enhancement in brand protection amongst Dealers to avoid use of counterfeit parts. Drafting & vetting of agreements, notices within 24 hours from receipt of request.

Led Corporate compliance team & managed 62 companies (One listed, one closely held Public Limited & 60 Private Limited Companies). 100% Compliance of the Company Law & Stock Exchange requirements & SEBI Regulations with respect to a Listed Company and risk management. Brought down the expenses of the department by 28% compared to previous year by changing methodologies and vendors. Successful migration of in-house dematerialization of shares work to external R & T Agents in 30 days after approval from Board of Directors. Conducted 3-day company-wide workshop for creating awareness on productivity and cost savings. Set the business growth on positive path by implementing Zero base Budget System, thereby leading to profits which enabled Company to give dividend after a substantial gap. 100% Compliance in Loan documentation and Charge Registration

These include the Code on Wages, the Code on Social Security, the Industrial Relations Code and the Occupational, Safety, Health and Working Condition Code.

This Certificate course on Corporate Social Responsibility equips the participants with understanding of the rules and regulations pertaining to CSR. The Companies Act, 2013 provides a unique CSR framework not applicable anywhere else globally; and hence there are no benchmarks and learnings of a model like this. The objective of legislation need to be viewed against two key ideas – The Corporations Act as partners in the social development process of the country and, strengthening the social responsibility of business.

Human Resources and Financial Management

Ph.D. in Marketing under Department of Commerce.