The World of Company Secretaries Corporate Secretarial Head of Reliance - CS Sudhakar Saraswatula

CS Sudhakar Saraswatula is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and Qualified Secretary of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators – UK and a Law Graduate from Mumbai University, with over three and half decades of wide-spectrum of experience in Legal, Secretarial, Finance and Accounts fields Since 2005 working with Reliance Industries Limited as Vice-President (Corporate Secretarial) and has worked with Berger Paints India Limited for about 15 years as Senior General Manager Finance & Accounts Mr Sudhakar is Member Secretarial Standards Board of ICSI, since 2016 onwards and is the Vice-Chairman for the year 2020. Member Vision Core Group and Vision Implementation Group of ICSI and member of several other committees. Member Corporate Affairs Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce &Industry since2017 onwards Regular faculty at Institute of Directors (IOD) Guest faculty at NISM (National Institute of Securities Markets), K J Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai Guest speaker at the programs organized by Marcus Evans and Wolters Kluwer’s Approximately addressed 400 plus workshops, seminars, conferences, training programs and webinars organized by ICSI, ICAI and ICWAI, several other Chambers of Commerce Contributed several articles on Corporate Laws, Management and Corporate Governance to professional journals and financial newspapers Faculty Member for SMTP / MSOP of ICSI for over 15 years Chairman – Study Circle Committee of NIRC of ICSI for over 12 years 00:00 - How big is the Secretarial team in Reliance Industries Limited? 08:30 - How big is the Reliance conglomerate? 10:17 - CS Sudhakar Saraswatula's days as a student 12:23 - CS Sudhakar Saraswatula's days as a trainee - Group studies 16:08 - How an average day at Reliance as a CS looks like | Work culture 30:27 - Management's expectation from Secretarial department 33:56 - Skills of a Successful Company Secretary 46:47 - ICSI's role in crafting the future of the profession 57:47 - Governance Professional or Chartered Secretary 01:04:54 - Job of Company Secretary in other countries | Varied nomenclature 01:15:30 - Company Secretary's role in making a company compliant in letter and spirit | Risks and Rewards 01:23:10 - Artificial Intelligence and our CS profession 01:29:40 - Work-Life Balance of a Company Secretary 01:33:27 - You should support yourself 01:37:11 - Message to Company Secretary Students