GCC Workplace Awards 2026 Speakers

Dignitaries

Meet Our Dignitaries

Government Visionaries at Workplace Awards: Powering India’s GCC Growth

Dr. Manjula N

Chairperson BWSSP, IAS, IT Secretary Govt of Karnataka

Mr. Bhaskar Katemeni

IAS, Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh

Ms. P. Bharathi

IAS, Secretary to the Government of Gujarat, Science & Technology Dept

Mr.Seeram Sambasiva Rao

IAS, Special Secretary to Govt of Kerala

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta

ISS, CEO Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM)

Ms. Joohi Smita Sinha

CGM, SBI

Mr. Rao Manukutla

Executive Director & CEO, BACL

Speakers

Meet Our 2026 Speakers

Meet the minds shaping India’s GCC future.

Madhurima Agrawal

Microsoft | Director

Srinivas Chamarthy

Diligent | SVP Engineering & India Site Lead

Sharada Nandakumar

Voya India | President and CEO, Board Member

Harsha Peter

Workday | Regional India Director, People, India

Romit Sen

Blackhawk Network | Senior Director of Product Management & India Site Leader

Vishal Agarwal

Citrin Cooperman India LLP | Executive Managing Director and Head of India Offices

Rency Mathew

Sabre Corporation | MD Sabre India, APAC & ANZ People Leader

John Dawber

Novo Nordisk | Corporate Vice President & Managing Director

Rajesh Menon

CrowdStrike | Vice President - Global Business Services

Diwakar Rai

Diebold Nixdorf | Country Head Retail Software and Professional Services

Dhirendra Vashisht

Toyota Automated Logistics | Sr. Director & Board Membe

Ankur Mittal

Lowe's India | Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Managing Director

Divesh Singla

Veradigm | SVP Global Organizations, Head of Data & Analytics and Managing Director India & Philippines

Vineet Dwivedi

Gilead Sciences | Senior Vice President, Gilead Capabilities Centers

Arvind Guruprasad

BNY | Managing Director | India Site Executive | Global Head – Risk & Compliance Analytics & Reporting

Mrinal Duggal

Sanofi | Head of Sanofi Global Services, Hyderabad Hub

Vishnu Patwari

BDO Rise | Founding National Managing Principal

Venkateshan Ramasubramanian

ZoomInfo | VP & GM India

Malahar Pinnelli

7-Eleven Global Solution Center (GSC) | VP and Country Leader

Kamal Sharma

Carrier | GCC Leader (China, India and Mexico)

Vybhava Srinivasan

Availity LLC | Managing Director - Availity India & VP

Shrenik Shah

Armanino | Managing Director, Head of India Offices, Business Operations

Dr. Anilesh Seth

GCC Advisor, Consultant, Researcher

Sujatha Subramanian

Aumovio | Head of HR, Aumovio India (Spin off from Continental AG)

Sarish Paul

Allstate India | Director, Strategy and Risk

Arun Shetty

CISCO | CTO & Senior Director, Solutions Engineering, India and South Asia

Tushar Gawande

Anglo-Eastern | GCC Country Leader, Anglo-Eastern

Naveen Kumar

NetApp | Engineering Program Manager

Arpit Mehrotra

Colliers | Managing Director, Office Services, India

Mohsin Shaikh

EDB | Manager - Global Talent Acquisition

Sandhya Dulgaj

Intellias | Head of Talent Delivery Management - India

Stuti Awasthi

HMH Tech India | Director Talent Acquisition

Oishee Rakshit

Citrin Cooperman India LLP | Director Talent Acqusition

Sunitha Gangadharan

STP Investment Services | Vice President and Head of HR- India

Moiz Barodawala

Fullfillment IQ | Director - Human Resources

Michele Melina Sereno

Chargeback Gurus | Head Human Resources, India

Hariharan Subramanian

IRIS Software Group | Director HR

Mohammed Anzy S

Guidewire Software, India | Vice President and Managing Director

Ravi Nalwaya

Staples India | Managing Director & Head

Anjan A

Northern Trust | Vice President: Talent Management & Learning

Anuj Agrawal

Zyoin Group & Workplace Awards | Founder & CEO

Rakesh Ranjan

Zyoin Group | Co-Founder & COO

Raminder Kaur

Tessell India Private Limite | HR Leader

Praveena Bhimavarapu

Maximus India | Senior Vice President & Country Head

Pawan Panjwani

AllianceBernstein | Chief Executive Officer and Country Head of India

Shweta Desai

SEI | Director Talent Acquisition - India & APAC

Santosh Huralikoppi

ACS Foundation | Chief Mentor

Rajesh Krishna

Nokia | Finance & Controlling for Technology Centers Asia Region

Suresh Narayan

Baker Tilly One India | Director - Head of Technology, Data and Innovation Office - India Operations

Magam Siva Krishna

2gethr | Co-Founder

Kapil Kella

NCS Group | Talent Acquisition Leader

Sanjeev Gupta

Wayfair| Head of GST Technology - Wayfair India TDC

Thanuja Lakshmikanth

Availity India Private Limited | Senior Manager, HR

Sowmya Mandyala

SonicWall Technology Systems India Private Limited | Principal People & Culture Business Partner - APJ

Sweta Gupta

ZeroFox | Director HR

Bharathi Narayana Raju

Franklin Templeton | Senior Manager - HR

Jyothi Andanappa

Barracuda Networks | Senior Recruiting Manager - APAC

Debashree Bakshi

BDO RISE Private Limited | Talent Acquisition Experienced Manager

Rupal Kanchan

Yext India Pvt.Ltd | Director, Recruiting

Arun Subnavis

TriNet | Talent Acquisition Leader

Surranjana Mazumder

Itron | Head of TA APAC and DEI Leader

Aakanksha Sharma

Blackhawk Network India Pvt. Ltd. | Senior Manager Human Resources

Rao Munukutla

Bengaluru Airport City Limited | ED & CEO

Mayur Ashok Mamidwar

Sanofi Healthcare India Pvt Ltd | Talent Acquisition Lead - India Hub

Sudish Lambodara Panicker

BNY | Managing Director

Arun Padmanabhan

Lowe's India | Vice President of Technology

Thara Raju

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Country HR and GCC HR Leader

Vineeta Mittal

Citrin Cooperman India LLP | HR Director, India

Chaitra Mehra

WRI India | Senior Manager - Human Resources

Arun Thuyamani

ISS India | CHRO

Veena Narasimhan

Collins Aerospace | Associate Director- HR | Country HR leader

Pooja Malhotra

Head HR India | StoneX

Basavaraj Angadi

H&M | Talent Acquisition Leader, BT People

Ashima Agrawal

Albertsons Companies India | Senior Director Shopping Experience Product

Surjeet Singh

Computershare Business Support Services | Regional Director and Managing Director

Jitender Kumar

STP Investments | Managing Director & Head — India Global Capability Center

Sidharth Gupta

Bupa GCC | SVP-HR (Head of Talent Acquisition, Talent Mangement and Employer Branding)

Chetana Parashar

7-Eleven Global Solution Center – India | Head of HR

Neha Agarwal

Arcelor Mittal | Head of HRIS & Digital HR Transformation

Manoj Kulkarni

HSBC | Assistant Director- Product Management

Megha J.

Vervent | India Leadership Team (ILT) Member & HR Director

Gireendra Kasmalkar

Pentathlon Ventures | Managing Partner

Aneelkumar Savalagi

Takeda ICC | Global Chapter Leader - ICC(Innovation Capability Centre), Global DD&T

Rajesh Menon

CrowdStrike India Pvt Ltd | Vice President -Global Business Services

Raman Agarwal

AWS | Head Portfolio Growth, India AWS Startups & Venture Capital

Nilesh Biniwale

Pattern | GCC Head and General Manager

Peddareddappa G

Nasuni | Sr. Director, India Site Leader

Prasanna Edara

Fictiv | Head of Operations – GCC

Amit Rajawat

Citrin Cooperman India LLP | Vice President Finance

Srividya S

ABB Business Services | CFO - ABB Business Services Pvt Ltd

Sheetal Banshetty

Fictiv Technology solution Pvt Ltd | Senior HR Generalist

Sachidanand Pandit

Volvo Cars | Head of Finance – India Tech Hub

Sudharshini Honnegowda

Cisco | Director, Solutions Engineer

Srikanth GR

Carrier | AI and Analytics Leader

Sandeep Lakshmanan

Novo Nordisk | Senior Project manager, GBS Consulting

Mohan Ramakrishna

Epicor Software India Pvt Ltd | Dir, Talent Acquisition

Kamal Sahdev

Delta Electronics India | Senior Director

Deepthi Jandhyala

Computershare Business Support Services | Finance Controller

Vasanthi Ramesh

NetApp India | Vice President & Engineering Site Leader

Yasmeen Shaikh

GCC HR Leader & International Athlete

Ranjitha MV

Anko GCC | Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition and D&I

Bipin Tewari

Trane Technologies | Talent Acquisition Leader-India

Praveen Raj

ABB | Head of Human Resources

Diwakar Pathak

Ericsson | Senior Product Manager

Anamika Sinha

Centrico India | Head-People and Culture

Vishal Kulshrestha

Alshaya Group | Head of eCom & Omni Channel

Thowfiq Raja

Koch Business Solutions India | Delivery Leader

Pranab Chakraborty

Delta Airlines | Senior Product & Engineering Leader

Venkata Ramana

IRIS KPO Resourcing Pvt. Ltd | Senior Director - Operations

Venkatesh Annamalai

WPP Media | Director

Sridhar Rajagopalan

Ashley Furniture India Pvt. Ltd. | Director - Enterprise Data Mgmt & AI

Ramesh Narahari

ABB Business Services Private Limited | Whole Time Director & Head

Deepak Mohanty

Wells Fargo | Executive Director

Hima Bindu Vejella

Lloyds Technology Centre | Head of Engineering

Nihar Ranjan Pattnaik

Verint | Senior Director

Santosh Godi

Bonfiglioli Technology Space Pvt. Ltd. | Director

Sourabh Gupta

RTX | Digital Program Leader - APAC

Ritu Sharma

TiEBangalore | Executive Director

Pooja Saraf

StockX | Director People Experience and Recruiting - Global Tech Teams

Radhika Gupta

Align Technology | Director, HR

Shilpa Vaidya Ojha

Octillion Power Systems | Assistant Vice President Human Resources (HEAD - HR)

Mamta Agarwal

Marelli India Private limited | Country Finance head

Hemant Singhania

Force Point | Sr. Manager - Cyber Engineering

Suresh Aade

Foodhub Software Solutions | Head of Human Resources

Nitisha Bhargava

Origin Digital | Director HR

Karthick Venkatakrishnan

EisnerAmper India | Managing Director, Growth & Strategy

Sunil Kalkunte

7-Eleven Global Solution Center | Director - Engineering

Bishnu Prasad Panda

Mimecast | Senior Engineering Manager

Venkat Rao

Zelis | Vice President, Product Engineering

Munish Dhiman

Ensono Technologies | Senior Solution Architect

Anurag Agarwal

APi Group | Finance Director - Global Capability Centre

Zeeshan Ahmed

Daimler Truck Innovation Centre India | Innovation Lead

MOHAMMED IMRAN SIDDIQUE

ASHLEY FURNITURE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED | Director of Finance And Accounting

Vibhuti Saxena

Novo Nordisk Service Centre (India) | Sr. Manager – Data Strategy & Finance Transformation

Asma Aslam Sait

7-Eleven GSC, India | Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Om Thapa

Blackhawk Network India Pvt. Ltd. | Sr. Director, Engineering

Gayathri Manoharan

Iron Mountain | Global Director Customer Excellence-Billing CashApp Collections and Revenue accounting.

Prem Mendonca

Magna International | Financial Controller

Naveen Kumar K

Ecolab | Senior AI Engineering Manager

Ravi Chandra Putta

Phenom People Pvt Ltd | Senior Director – Customer Value

Santanu Mandal

MRI Software | APAC TA Leader

Anandi Krishnan

ABB Business Services Private Limited | P2P Global Delivery Lead

Helen Mary Thomas

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. | Director, eCommerce & Digital Customer Experience, Digital & Transformation

Nidhi Nagpal

Clarivate | Director, Research Analysis

Aparna Shankar Rao

Cencora | VP

Latha Krishnappa

Ecolab Digital Center | Director - Global SAP SOLUTION DELIVERY

Varun Sood

7-Eleven GSC, India | Manager - Engineering

Rajat Kumar

Air Liquide | Global Technical Services Director- Software Technology GCC Head

Maqsood Pasha

Ephicacy Lifescience Analytics | Director of Information Technology and Security

Khadeer Galeti

Cisco Systems | Engineering Leader

Manasa G N

Kenvue | Platform Engineering product manager

Swati Mantri

HMH Tech | Manager Software Engineering

Swaminathan K S.

Saviynt | Senior Software Engineering Manager

Anitha G

Brillio | Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition

Krishna Praveen Polavaram

Berkadia Services India Private Limited | Chief Financial Officer & Site Director

Prithiraj Majumdar

PowerSchool(Part of Bain Capital) | Head of India -Finance & Accounting -CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

Indu Arora

Berkadia Services India Private Limited | Vice President - Credit Operations

Rounak Somani

Armanino India LLP | Audit & Attest Delivery Leader

Urvinder Singh

Linde | General Manager- DS & ML

Varghese C O

FNF | CHRO, Vice President

Eswar Prasad Manapuram

Alstom | Program Manager

Prabhu Vignesh Kumar Rajagopal

Elanco Innovation and Alliance Centre, India | Associate Director - Software Engineering

Hussain Rampurawala

West Pharmaceuticals | Sr Manager HR

Dr. Srinivas Pindi

Phenom | Vice President — Human Resources & Talent Acquisition

Somnath Banerjee

Merck Group | Head of Data Engineering | Data Lake DevOps Teams (LS, MG)

Amit Anand

Adobe | Director Legal

Suchandra Dutta

Alif Semiconductor | Director of People & Culture

Shali Hassan

adesso India | Managing Director

Radhika Dorairajan

Voya Global Services Pvt Ltd | Vice President - Data and Analytics

Pramod Muralidharan

adesso India | Managing Director

Aejaz Moinuddin

New Relic | People Operations

Aniket Mitra

Carrier | Strategy & Innovation

Yash Shah

Citrin Cooperman India | Director, Assurance Practice Leader, Ahmedabad

Anand Srinivasan

ex-Optum | Product Engineering Executive

Sridhar Kubasad

ACS Foundation | Chief of Staff

Mohit Juneja

Ingersoll rand | HR Leader

Srinivasa Bharathy

Adrenalin | Managing Director & CEO

Ashwin Shrivasatava

Knowledge Realty Trust | SVP - Leasing

Saraswathi Ramachandra

Lightcast | Managing Director/ Country Head

Kasturi Cotha

Subex | Global Head - Human Resources

Kaustubh Dawande

Citi | Senior Vice President

Smitha S

MobileDrive Technology | India HR Head

Shesh Rao Paplikar

BHIVE | Founder & CEO of BHIVE

Rakesh Asuti

Blackhawk Network India Pvt. Ltd. | Director, Product Management (Technology)

Manish Keshavan

Smith+Nephew | Director – Global Customer Care