Country Leaders | CHROs | Site Heads | HR Heads | TA Leaders | Engineering Leaders
Novo Nordisk | Corporate Vice President & Managing Director
Industry leader. Visionary thinker. John Dawber, Corporate vice president and MD for Global Business Services at Novo Nordisk, is renowned for creating inclusive and thriving workplaces. He's also an avid supporter of ground-breaking science and innovation, with an outstanding track record in the pharma industry in affiliate, global, regional and general management roles. John is a natural leader with more than 20 years of sales, marketing, market access, pricing, public affairs, and leadership experience in five geographies, including Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India.
7-Eleven | Vice President & Country Leader
Jennifer joined 7-Eleven in 2018 as Vice President of Internal Audit and most recently was Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer & Controller preceding being named Vice President & Country Leader, Global Solution Center – India in October 2021.
Prior to 7-Eleven, she held the Chief Audit Executive role at three other Fortune 500 companies and has diversified her experience with roles including Divisional CFO for Sam’s Club (West Division); Regional General Manager-Store Operations for Sam’s Club: and Divisional Vice President of Retail Operations at Office Depot.
Jennifer obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Western Michigan University and is a CPA.
Sanofi | Global Services Head, Hyderabad Hub
Mrinal brings 22 years of experience in setting up, scaling, and managing GBS/GCC organizations. She has worked with renowned companies like GE Capital, HSBC, JP Morgan, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Novartis, and Sanofi. Throughout her career, she has led multiple transformation programs and transitioned work for over 5000 headcounts. Mrinal holds an MBA from IMT and a master’s degree in commerce. She is currently heading the Sanofi Hyderabad Hub (GCC).
G2 | Country Head, India
Shreyans is a business leader with proven expertise in building new capabilities and delivering solutions that have measurable business outcomes. In the last two decades, he defined the culture for technology teams and increased accountability of work, created efficiencies in operations & support in a global shared services environment.
With a diverse career in Technology Service Delivery, Operations and Program Management, he contributed positively to an organizations bottom line across IT, Financial Services and Retail sector. he have established, led and transformed teams by using forward thinking talent management principles. Adept at working in a multi-cultural environment & actively managing stakeholder relations.
BlackHawk | Director of Product Management & India Site Leader
With over 18 years of experience, Romit is a seasoned leader in enterprise product management. Having worked with industry giants like Blackhawk Network, Fiserv, Syndigo, and Sears Holdings, he brings a wealth of expertise to the table. Currently serving as the Director of Product Management at Blackhawk Network, Romit leads several key product areas and serves as the Site Leader for Blackhawk India, overseeing a thriving team of 500 professionals across Bangalore and Calicut. With a background in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Romit is dedicated to delivering innovative, user-centric experiences that drive customer engagement and satisfaction.
ZoomInfo | VP & GM, India
Venkateshan is presently VP and GM, India at ZoomInfo India Pvt Ltd. He leads the ZoomInfo India GCC, which has a headcount of around 500 employees in India, with their office in Chennai and expanding to Bangalore soon. ZoomInfo India has employees in various teams from R&D, CX, GTM, Finance, HR, and various Data teams.
ZoomInfo is a publicly traded (NY: ZI) $1.2 Bn revenue company specializing in GTM solutions with the best company and personal data in the industry, with large offices in various US locations and Israel. Before ZoomInfo, Venkateshan was leading the platform team globally for BlueYonder, developing data platform, mobility, extensibility solutions on Microsoft Azure for supply chain products. Venky has also led the Development center in Taipei, Taiwan for Zebra technologies and worked in various countries like US, Netherlands, Belgium. Venkateshan is passionate about technology, forming and growing teams, hiring and retaining top talent, building brand value for global companies, developing innovative solutions from India, and bringing collaborative value from multiple disciplinary teams under one roof.
He believes India GCCs are at the crux of breaking free from previous paradigms of being a cost center or backend office heaven to all companies looking at thought leadership in India to lead strategic initiatives and bring in solutions for the worldwide market. Venkateshan has a B.E in Computer Science from NIT Trichy and M.S from Polytechnic University, NYU.
EX- Northern Trust Corporation | SVP-Talent Management & Development
Meenalochani is a trailblazer in the corporate mentoring landscape in India and has served as a Board Member of the International Mentoring Association. She has provided thought leadership and internal consulting expertise to esteemed organizations such as Northern Trust, Sutherland, Mahindra Group, Cummins, and Mindtree.
Renowned for her advocacy of mindfulness in all aspects of life, Meenalochani has been recognized for her exceptional leadership by several prestigious entities, including Femina, White Page International, Collabera, ISTD, World HRD, International Women Leadership Federation, and eWIT.
Standard Chartered | VP - AI Strategy & Business Planning
Vidhya Veeraraghavan has a distinguished career as an AI strategist and connector, leveraging lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and Human-Centered Design practices to craft impactful AI solutions. Currently serving as VP and Artificial Intelligence Delivery Head at Standard Chartered Bank's Centre of Excellence, she leads strategic AI implementations and refines AI products targeting both structured and unstructured data.
Stripe India | Head-Stripe Delivery Center, Board Director
Sivakumar is a seasoned tech expert and people leader, renowned for his mastery in customer experience, operations management, and innovation. With a proven track record of building world-class delivery centers and scaling global teams from zero to hundreds, his two-decade career includes leadership roles at industry giants such as Google, Meta, and Amazon. Currently, he heads the Stripe Delivery Center in India, while also lending his expertise to startups in product strategy, growth, and organizational culture development.
Transunion | HR Head - Senior Director
Jacob, an alumnus of Anna University, is a master in large-scale talent transformations across IT, Banking & Finance, Manufacturing, and Shared Services domains. With over two decades of experience in talent transformation, Jacob has led diverse teams in global organizations in various HR leadership roles, including HR strategic consulting, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, HR Business Partnering, Employee Engagement & Relations, HR Generalist, and Compensation & Benefits (C&B).
Western Digital | Senior Director, Firmware Engineering
Kaustubh Patkar is a visionary global leader with 19 years of experience in the storage industry. He is adept at seeding, nurturing and building high performance teams across the globe. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering & computer science from the University of California, Irvine. He spent 12 years in the US where he built product, strategic and architecture teams for Western Digital. He played a pivotal role in building Western Digital’s GCC & Hard Disk Drive Business Unit ground up in India. He brings a wealth of semiconductor and software knowledge with strategic leadership and inspires trust, purpose and growth.
State Street | Vice President HR
Human Resource professional with over 19 years of specialist experience in the various sub domains of HR function- Recruitment, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Employee relations, Grievance Handling, Business partnering, Internal Communication & Branding.
Proven experience in collaborating with senior management to conduct Human Resource strategic planning in order to support and further corporate goals.
Experience spanning across IT , ITES and Banking industry segments.
Currently leading Talent Marketplace for India @State Street.
Certified Green belt & Free lance experience in soft skill trainings
Brigade Group | MD & CEO
Nirupa is a Joint Managing Director at Brigade Group, one of India’s leading real estate developers. She has spent the past 14 years of her career overseeing the company’s Hotel, Office and Retail portfolios.
Nirupa has the serial entrepreneurial bug in her and has successfully conceptualised multiple award winning F&B outlets such as HIGH Ultra Lounge, Glass Kitchen & Bar, and the Art Café in Bangalore.
She set up Asia’s first real estate accelerator called Brigade Real Estate Accelerator Program (REAP) an initiative to mentor high-tech start-ups in real estate in 2016.
She launched Brigade’s flexible workspaces brand called – BuzzWorks in 2019.
Zyoin Group | Founder & CEO
Anuj, a respected business leader, has amassed over 20 years of experience in providing innovative and customized hiring solutions across a wide range of domains and industries. As the Founder and CEO of Zyoin Group, a leading recruitment solutions provider in India, he has partnered with over 1,000 companies to simplify their hiring challenges. Anuj's commendable expertise in developing robust business and delivery models in staffing and recruitment has been acknowledged by LinkedIn, which recognized Zyoin as one of India's and Asia's most socially engaged staffing agencies.
Furthermore, Anuj's influence extends beyond Zyoin Group. He serves as a managing partner at Zest Partners, an impact hiring solution provider under the Zyoin Group umbrella. He is also a partner at Thalaron Global, an advisory and accelerator for establishing Global Captive Centres in India. Anuj's entrepreneurial spirit is evident in his angel investments in several startups. On a personal note, he is a sports enthusiast and finds joy in networking, photography, and reading business biographies.
Zyoin Group | Co-Founder and COO
Rakesh is currently the Co-founder and COO of Zyoin, a leading staffing and recruitment solutions provider. With 13 years of diverse experience in multiple sectors, he has developed expertise in client management and recruitment for multinational and Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in leadership hiring, particularly at Mid-to-CXO, CFO, VP, and SVP levels, as well as talent hunts across all levels and customized executive search. Rakesh recruits for IT and non-IT product and service companies, Fortune 500 firms, and successful startups. His specialties include talent acquisition, headhunting, recruitment, career counseling, and training, ensuring a high hit rate and meeting stakeholder expectations through extensive research.
Shell | Head of Talent Acquisition
A distinguished HR leader acclaimed for his strategic expertise in talent management, employee relations, and transformative resourcing initiatives, Fabian is currently the Head of Integrated Resourcing at Shell India Markets Private Limited.
Atlassian | Head of Engineering
Preeti Arora is a seasoned Software Engineering leader with over two decades of experience in software development. She has held leadership roles at Atlassian, Walmart Global Tech, Chegg, IHS Markit, CA Technologies, and TCS. Recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice for Cloud Computing and enterprise software, Preeti is known for her strategic technology leadership and operational excellence, driving significant business impact. A gold medalist throughout her academics, she is also an AWS Certified Solution Architect and an AI and ML scholar at IIT Delhi. Passionate about problem-solving and critical thinking, Preeti continues to excel in her field.
Ex-Country Manager (Carelon, JC Penney & Supervalu)
Anilesh Seth, an accomplished executive, spearheaded the establishment and growth of captives for renowned firms like Anthem Inc. (Legato), SUPERVALU, and JC Penney. With a doctorate from ISB Hyderabad, he's a proven leader in scaling operations, notably achieving a rapid ramp-up of Legato to 7000 associates across 4 centers in two years. An expert in offshore capabilities, Anilesh offers a unique perspective from his extensive experience with both captives and third-party vendors. As an independent Strategy Consultant, he continues to drive success in the GCC/Captives space.
HSBC | Global Head - Talent Development
Fouzia Kumar has 19 years of experience in Talent & Learning Strategy, Performance Consulting & Needs Analysis, Leadership & Capability Development, Training - V&A / Process - Domain, Quality, Customer Relationship Management, Employee Engagement with demonstrated ability to deliver business outcomes, ROI and alignment to organizational goals.
Alyve Health | Co-founder and CEO
Shashank Avadhani is the CEO and Co-founder of Alyve Health. His vision is that healthcare can be transformed through technology and product innovation in the health insurance space. This is precisely the area of focus of Alyve Health. Before founding Alyve Health, Shashank held the position of Partner at Boston Consulting Group, where he was instrumental in driving transformative digital programs for leading Insurers and Banks in India. Shashank's professional journey showcases a commitment to innovation and bringing a lasting change, by not only focusing on the end customer but also by addressing the evolving needs of the various stakeholders in the industry. He is a Mechanical engineer from the National Institute of Technology and an alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur.
Bayer | MD and Global Business Services Head India
As the Global Business Services Lead India at Bayer, she oversees the end-to-end delivery of IT and business solutions for one of the world's leading life science companies. With over 25 years of experience in senior business and technology roles, she has developed and executed business strategies with direct P&L responsibilities, and led global teams across multiple domains and geographies.
Her core competencies include digital transformations, business consulting, IT transformation, PMO leadership, change management expertise, talent management, and delivery excellence. She is passionate about creating value for clients and stakeholders, enhancing delivery excellence, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Holding a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering, she serves as a mentor, board member, and managing director at Bayer. Yoga and fitness are integral parts of her lifestyle.
Adrenalin | Managing Director & CEO
Srinivasa Bharathy is a seasoned senior leadership professional with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a diverse background encompassing business consulting, product management, marketing, sales (direct and channel), and business development in IT. With extensive experience in retail, healthcare, and manufacturing, he actively supports SMEs in scaling profitably. He contributes to The Alternative Board (TAB) India, offering business coaching, and works with Group Infinite on consulting and business planning for owner-managed businesses. As Director at Silver Cloud Solutions, he specializes in developing SaaS applications on platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS, and mobile apps. His passion lies in solving business challenges and enhancing personal and organizational success through client engagement and innovative solutions.
Adidas | Head of Innovation
Dr. Mahesh Balaji is a problem solver with over 25 years of Industry experience. He currently heads Innovation and enabling functions for adidas-GBS.
In this role, he is responsible for identifying suitable interventions as well as delivering optimal solutions to overcome enterprise challenges.
His responsibilities also include incubating emerging technology capabilities and nurturing thought leadership.
CBRE | Managing Director - Advisory & Transaction Services, India
Ram leads the Advisory & Transaction Services business in India and has been associated with CBRE for over 27 years.
As the business leader, he leads a team of 500+ professionals across 10+ offices in India - across
verticals including Office, Land, Industrial and warehousing, Flexible Workspace, Data Center, Retail
and Investor Sales. Ram deploys 27 years of his real estate experience and expertise to spearhead
strategic business growth to impact clients and people.
A recognized real estate expert, Ram is well known for his strong relationships with occupiers,
developers, and investors. His core expertise complements complex deal structuring across the
transaction spectrum such as Built-to-Suit, Land, and Investments.
Ram is also very active in the real estate eco-space and well-known speaker and contributor across
Industry forums such as CORENET, CII, CREDAI etc.
Terrapay | Global Head of HR
Vinay is the Global Head of HR, Admin and Travel at TerraPay. With over 15 years of experience in human resources verticals, Vinay has set multiple benchmarks for years to come. He is a top LinkedIn voice for HR, recruitment, and performance management. He holds the prestigious TA Pai Young HR Leader award along with the Exceptional HR Leader Award by BW - Business World People magazine.
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Join us at India’s first GCC Workplace Awards to celebrate the best workplaces fostering a positive, inclusive, and engaging work culture. More than awards, it’s a grand event setting benchmarks for others to follow.
Bringing together visionaries and changemakers, the grand event facilitates invaluable discussions on the future of work, sharing best practices and brainstorming ways to cultivate workplaces that inspire innovation, nurture talent, and drive organizational growth.
Become the part of celebrating those who are transforming workplaces into enriching spaces for all.
All GCC (Global Capability Centres) organisations can be nominated for the Workplace Awards by themselves or by other industry experts, clients, customers, or any other stakeholders. The nomination process will be open to businesses across India.
All nominations will undergo impartial screening based on eligibility criteria, including the requirement that organisations must be GCCs, Social Media Prominence, Innovation, Industry Recognition and Online Presence.
The screened nominations will then be shortlisted based on the employee and employer responses collected through Survey shared.
The evaluation will be based on quantitative and qualitative elements including Employee Engagement, Recognition, Work-Life Balance, Team Collaboration, Leadership, Training & Development, Employee Well-Being, and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives gathered from the survey.
The winners will be announced through a formal ceremony and event scheduled on 02 August 2024. Winners will receive a trophy and a certificate of recognition. The announcement of the winners will also be publicised through various media channels to promote the winning businesses.
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