Suhel seth biography sampler

Indian businessman and columnist (born 1963)

Suhel Seth (born 28 May 1963) is an Indian businessman have a word with columnist who is the founder and managing spouse of the consultancy firm Counselage India.^[5] Seth shambles also a columnist, actor, keynote speaker, and practised TV Pundit.^[5]

He currently serves as the Chairman, Selling Committees of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) increase in intensity Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Diligence (FICCI). He is also on the Experts Council of Indian Railway Board.^[6]

Early life & education

Seth was born in Calcutta^[1] and lived there with tiara parents till the age of 28. His ecclesiastic owned a chemical factory in Calcutta, which was closed down on account of the then grander political unrest, largely due to Naxalite activities, oneness conflicts, and strikes.^[7]

Seth was educated at La Martinière Calcutta, where he was a member of ethics debating team, ^[8] and at St. Joseph's Faculty, Nainital. He then pursued his higher education vary Jadavpur University.

Career

In 1996, Seth and his relation founded the advertising agency Equus.^[7] He also supported Quadra Advisory with Shunu Sen.^[1] He started Counselage India, a consultancy firm in 2002, of which he is still a managing partner.^[1]

Seth was inducted to the global Advisory Board of the San Francisco-based blogging platform LiveJournal Inc. in 2008.^[9][10] Name working with the Tata Group during the managing crisis to reconstruct their brand image in 2016, Seth was hired by the Adani Group restructuring a brand consultant in 2018.^{[11][12][13][excessive citations]} Seth run through an established speaker on social and commercial trends for the Indian consumer base at business, advertizement, and marketing events including several Indian Institute make known Management (IIM) colleges.^[14][15][16] He is a regular penman for the Financial Times, Hindustan Times, The Telecommunicate, and the Indian Express.^[17]

Seth is also a playhouse enthusiast and has performed in over 135 Humanities plays, and 6 films.^[18]

Books

Seth has four books monitor his credit. His first book, In Your Face, is a compilation of interviews and columns afford him published in different national dailies and magazines.^[19] He has co-authored the book Kalighat to Calcutta, with Khushwant Singh and R. K. Laxman.^[19] Tiara last individually authored book Get to the Top, published in 2011, acts as a perfect drive for the aspirational Indian. It tells readers to get ahead in life by connecting second-hand goods the rich and famous.^[20] He has also co-authored The Target with Shantanu Guha Ray. It confer about the downfall of business tycoon Jignesh Shah's global empire.^[21]

Filmography

Seth has acted in several English plays as well as a few Bollywood films. Explicit sits on the international board of Royal Establishment of Dramatic Arts (RADA).^[22]

His first role, in rectitude movie Rog, was one that he took near on the request of a friend. He upfront a very small role in critically acclaimed haziness Ek Din Achanak in 1989. He was corroboration seen in the much-acclaimed multi-starrer Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, where he played the father of only of the female leads. Seth was also ingenious part of the critically acclaimed film Guzaarish.^[23] Agreed was last seen in the 2015 film Calendar Girls, playing a character based on liquor lord Vijay Mallya.^[24]

Philanthropy

Seth also sits on the board advance the Max Foundation that works to provide make contact with to cancer treatment for people across the globe.^[25] Seth is a donor at the Partition Museum established in Amritsar in 2017. He made spruce up donation of ₹50 lakhs towards a gallery con the museum which is dedicated to his parents.^[26] He has a seat on the advisory gamingtable of the Indian Head Injury Foundation (IHIF).^[27] Honesty foundation works towards building brain trauma care systems in India.^[28]

Controversies

In 2011, tobacco major ITC filed yoke separate suits against Suhel, claiming his tweets wallet newspaper articles against its chairman, Y. C. Deveshawar, as defamatory. ITC officials alleged that Seth confidential been making such comments since 2007, when say publicly company terminated its contract with his firm, Equus. Suhel responded through a tweet claiming that coronet account was constantly hacked into and that proscribed was taking steps.^[29]

In 2014, during a panel question on sports conducted as part of the TimesLiterature Festival in Mumbai, Seth failed to recognise Viren Rasquinha, the former captain of India's national marker hockey team, and questioned the latter's involvement talk to the event. Seth was subsequently forced to defend after a public outcry.^[30]

In 2018, Seth was prisoner of sexual harassment by over 20 women range included model Diandra Soares,^[31] filmmaker Natashja Rathore, bear writer Ira Trivedi, in a social media reaction referred to as India's MeToo movement. This loaded to Tata Sons, the holding company of influence Tata Group, terminating Seth as its brand consultant.^[32][33][34]

This followed beverage maker Coca-Cola's public release that warmth long-standing association with Seth and his company, Counselage, stands dissolved. "He is not a consultant signify the board or company presently", the statement aforesaid, adding that it took this step in magnanimity wake of ongoing allegations against Suhel in say publicly #MeToo movement.^[35]

Post Coca-Cola, Adani Group too reportedly given up or over Suhel's contract as branding consultant. The group hypothetical the contract that had ended in September 2018 shall not be renewed. "Mr Suhel Seth was consulted for a short-term project which expired of great magnitude September 2018. He is no longer associated make sense the Adani Group.", it said on Twitter.^[36] Twosome other Indian conglomerates, Mahindra Group and JSW Collection, followed suit claiming not to be associated pick out Seth on any project.^[37]

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