CS Dhananjay Shukla, a Commerce and Law graduate, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). He is a Practising Company Secretary based out of Gurugram and has expertise in the areas of Corporate Law, Securities Law and Taxation.

CS Dhananjay Shukla has been serving the ICSI in different capacities for last many years. He served as the Vice President of the ICSI for the year 2024. Prior to that, he was elected to the Northern India Regional Council (NIRC) of the ICSI for the term 2011-14 and then re-elected again for the term 2015-18. He was the Chairman of the Northern Region in the year 2017 and served in various other capacities during his tenure at NIRC. He served as a member of the Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) of the ICSI for the year 2019 & 2020.

In his overall experience of more than 20 years as a Corporate Professional, he has worked as Company Secretary in large Corporate Groups before switching to the practice side in the year 2009.  He has been instrumental in various Start-Up ventures set up in India by Foreign Promoters.

Hon’ble Justice Shri M.M. Kumar has over 40 years of experience in the legal field, first as an Advocate at the Bar and later as a Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court. and then as the Founder President of the National Company Law Tribunal.  He authored a book titled “Control of Exclusion Clauses in England and India” in 1985. He had worked as Part time Faculty at the Department of Law. He was elected as Vice-President of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association for 1991-92 and later appointed as Additional Advocate General (Punjab) in October 1995.He had worked as a Guest Faculty at the Department of Law, Punjab University, Chandigarh from 1984-90 and Visiting Professor of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNLU), Patiala. He has made significant contribution to build the Chandigarh Judicial Academy and the Rajiv Gandhi National Law University Patiala. Hon’ble Justice Shri M.M. Kumar has qualified his LL.B from Punjabi University, Patiala in the year 1977. He has done LLM also in 1981 from University of Birmingham.

After retirement Justice Kumar conducted a number of commercial arbitrations which included the cases referred by Honle the Supreme Court and the High Courts.

CS Pawan Ghanshyamdas Chandak is a qualified Company Secretary with specialization in Labour Laws and Labour welfare. He is the founder partner of M/s KPRC & Associates with footprints all over India with varied experience in the fields of Corporate Laws, Foreign Exchange laws, Industrial laws, Legal Metrology, Secretarial Audits, Arbitration matters, SEZ, STPI, EOUs and DOT.

He has worked with large corporate houses and MNCs in the capacity of Independent Director and Advisor and has a deep understanding of the challenges and issues surrounding his areas of expertise which includes handling and advising on corporate legal matters, deal structuring and merger-amalgamations.

Before being elected to the Central Council of ICSI for the term 2023-2026, CS Pawan G Chandak was elected to the Western India Regional Council (WIRC) of ICSI for the term 2019-2022 and served as Secretary of the Region in 2019, Vice-Chairman in 2020 and Chairman of WIRC ICSI in the year 2021. Prior to that he served as the Chairman of the Pune Chapter of WIRC of ICSI in 2012 and 2017.

He is a hands-on-leader with a proven track record of over 20 years in guiding organizations in corporate and allied laws, managing risks, rolling-out new systems and improving operational efficiency and effectiveness.

CS Manish Gupta, a fellow member of the ICSI, CS Manish Gupta is a Law Graduate and has a Master’s Degree in Commerce. He has been associated with the profession for the last 22 years, as a Practicing Company Secretary. 

He was elected as the President - The ICSI for the year 2023 after being re-elected to the Central Council of the ICSI for the period 2023-2026. He was previously elected for the term 2019-2022 wherein he served as the Chairman on several Committees during the four years and as the Vice-President of the ICSI for the year 2022.  

He was elected to the NIRC-ICSI for two consecutive terms in 2011-2014 and 2015-2018 and was unanimously elected as the Chairman of NIRC of ICSI for the year 2016.

CS Manish Gupta is a registered Insolvency Professional with the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India and is empaneled as an Arbitrator with both BSE and NSE. He is also empaneled as Mediator/Conciliator under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 with various Regional Directors.  

He specializes in handling complex assignments on Corporate Laws, Securities Laws, and Taxation Laws and is also a regular speaker at training programmes, seminars, and conferences.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Mishra, is having more than 40 years of extensive professional experience across various levels of Central (Federal) and State governments including quasi-government entities in accounting, financing, contract management, liaising and legal domains. 

Dr. Mishra retired in 2023 from the role of Technical Member of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Principal Bench, New Delhi on elevation from Technical Member, NCLT, Bangalore. 

Dr. Mishra is the Government of India Nominee to the Central Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is serving as an Independent Director on the Board of ICAI Registered Valuers Organization. Also, he is the Distinguished Fellow Member of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

He has Corporate experience as Director Finance (CFO) of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (Indian state-owned Aerospace and Defense company). He is the Member of various International and Inter-governmental Committees for large defense contracts involving in-person negotiations across governmental and private entities in USA, UK, France, Japan, Russia and Malaysia.