Passionate People’s Person, Startup Evangelist, Technology Enthusiast and Social entrepreneur, currently leading the people function for a global education service organisation.

Reach out to me on HR technology, Employer Branding, general career queries and anything related to Social sector

Eric has 16 years of experience across various functions in HR in Software companies and have also have had extensive experience in Startups with a strong background in high growth, startup environment and has built teams grounds up.

Implemented innovative strategies and fostered a values led culture in leadership roles. Have setup key HR processes, execution frameworks for strong people practices and redesigned HR processes to ensure that they are key levers for imbibing culture.

Have setup teams internationally in countries like Australia, Middle East, Europe, US and most recently Indonesia at a very short turn around time.

Eric has designed and delivered extensive leadership programs in his career. He is also well versed with Psychometric tools like HBDI, MBTI and DISC.

He is also a certified OD professional from Tavistock Clinic in the UK, ISABS and is currently pursing in CTA from SAATA.

Kartik Rao is CHRO of MyGlamm and brings over 11 years of extensive experience in Culture Design & Transformation, Talent Management, Spearheading Mergers & Acquisitions, & High Velocity Talent Acquisition while working with large scale MNCs & Fast Growing Consumer Tech & D2C Start-ups.

In his previous role, Kartik as CHRO & COS he envisioned and designed Strategic HR function, led functions across Talent Acquisition (top leadership for Product, Technology, Design, Performance Marketing and Business roles), Leadership Development, Talent Management, C&B, Total Rewards (Executive Compensation plans & Equity Design) & Employee Engagement.

Prior to joining Bewakoof, As part of Housing.com’s core team he led 3 biggish mergers and acquisitions, 4 technology companies starting from HR Process, People & Culture Integration. Spearheaded and led the company in the coveted ‘GPTW’ Top 100 companies in 2017 and in Top 50 companies in 2019. At United Colors of Benetton, he managed 3 business verticals of the Group Brands—Benetton, Sisley, and Undercolors with a diverse workforce, worked in a matrix environment, while being part of the India core team, with strong emphasis on cross cultural work relationships both within India and at Italy & earlier in the South East Asia region.

A seasoned Executive Leader with 18 years of successful track record in driving business excellence by steering strategic HR functions and implementing best practices for realizing business goals of the organziation.

He is presently working as Head HR with Five Star Business Finance Limited at Chennai. He loves travelling, reading, trekking and experimenting with food.

Manoj, Head HR- Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd is an HR professional with experience across various domains of Human Resource Management including HRBP, Sales HR, Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Organization Development, Employee Experience, Compensation & Benefits, Performance Management, People Analytics and Talent Acquisition. He has been recognised as Young Millennial HR Leader at Great Manager Awards, Top HR Minds by World HRD Congress and has featured in the 100HRunder40 List recognising the stalwarts and change makers in the HR space. He is a certified practitioner for Marshal Goldsmith’s Global Leadership Assessment (GLA 360), Thomas International’s Personal Profile Analysis(PPA), Delivering Happiness Institute’s Culture Builder, Aon’s Employee Engagement and Predictive Strategy Group’s Predictive Index Assessment. He has co-authored research paper on Employer Branding: What Do Best Employer Surveys reveal about Employer Branding & Intention to apply which has been published in the Journal of Brand Management by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a speaker on various HR and leadership forums.

Manoj, started his career as Food & Beverage Associate with Oberoi Group of Hotels, India’s leading hotel chain. Before Edelweiss Manoj has worked on HR projects with SAP Labs, Johnson & Johnson, Lakme Lever, Ahuja Construction and Dhanlaxmi Bank. He has also actively partnered for strategic HR projects with NGOs including REAP, Stree Mukti Sangthan and Naitik Vikas Samiti. He regularly interacts with the students through guest lectures and workshops at educational institutes.

Manoj is a graduate of the Masters in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations Program at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and has done his Bachelors in Hospitality Management from West Bengal University. His ikigai card reads: Building most exciting, performing and happy workplaces of the talent, for the talent and by the talent.

Naga (Siddhu) Siddharth has close to two decades of business line and HR experience, in all. He has exposure across industries of Startups, Retail, Healthcare, Civil Aviation, Ed Tech, Information Technology. He also has helped entrepreneurs in Real Estate & Hospitality. A double MBA in Marketing & HR, he is a group facilitator, a behaviour coach and author.

Siddhu loves conversations. He believes that the world is too obsessed on curing others. Instead, just caring for the other person is often the best approach for both the person caring, as well as the person being cared for. This has been his learning over 15 years of being a process facilitator and behaviour coach. He holds a PCC from ICF and a MGSCCC which are global credentials.

Siddhu's books on HR analytics, Compensation & Benefits, Tools for leaders and the latest book on "Being an Awesome Leader" are sold by Amazon. With a keen interest in research and publications, he had, on last count, 8 publications to his name.

A keen psychometrician, Siddhu has worked with Dr. Udai Pareek and was acknowledged as a co-author for his contribution in automated instruments. He is also certified in MBTI, Ex-Disc, EUM-I, EUM-O, Assessment Centres and Competency based practices. Siddhu is a much invited speaker among universities in India.

Siddhu was Human Capital's 40 under 40 in 2017 and SHRM's FutureBytes winner in 2013. Siddhu was ET NOW Young HR Leader in 2013.

Namrata Arora, in her current role heads the HR & External Communications for Onco.com. Namrata is an Alumni of Muslim Aligarh University and holds degree in Psychology & human resources. She comes with 15 years of experience across diverse businesses including IT, Retail & Healthcare.

In her 10 years of HR experience she has been pivotal in setting HR processes in Start-Ups and has been responsible for Leadership hiring across domains. She has partnered with the management/stakeholders for implementing annual HR programs such as performance reviews, promotions, succession planning and execution for these programs, tying them back to the business strategy.

A Passionate HR Leader who thoroughly believes in HR as nothing less than a crucial business partner, enabling businesses to achieve success. Is a B.Tech (IT), MBA(HR), Ph.D (HR). A CAMI certified Competence & Performance Developer. HR person who understands and speaks business.

Over 13 years of experience working in Organizations like Oracle, RBI and Vinculum in areas like consulting and human resources. Also associated with academia delivering guest lectures and conducting workshops for the upcoming business leaders at several B-schools like EDI, IIMs , Symbiosis, BIMM, etc. Recognized as the ‘100 Most Influential HR leaders in India’ & ‘100 HR Innovators in India’ by World HRD Congress in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Also an active member of ACCEL HR fraternity.

At Vinculum, he takes care of the Human Resource Function. He has been associated with Vinculum for about 9 years and has seen the organization move through Series A to B – early stage startup to a growing organization in the SaaS business and now towards Series C.

Am a huge people-person and spent my career start in hospitality and HR operations moved into the tech side and helped build companies from the ground-level up both in talent management and HR ops! There is nothing greater than finding opportunities for smart people to do awesome things, and it's a fantastic process that I feel lucky to participate in. Currently, heading the People Operations at FalconX.

In my few years in the industry, I have seen a lack of effort made by the HR people in last mile of closing a candidate i.e the time between the offer acceptance and joining date, which got me thinking of innovative ways to ensure that whomsoever I offer I ensure they join.

if you have questions from the opening of a job req to closing one feel free to ping me.

Poorna is responsible for Samunnati's people function and performance by participating as a strategic partner from the perspective of the impact on people and a resultant effect on business performance. Poorna is also leading the branding and communications function at Samunnati to ensure the "Why of Samunnati with its values" is communicated effectively...

A senior certified HR professional, Poorna has over 17 years of proven expertise in setting up the entire human resources function for start-up organisations and taking them to scale. 

Rati (Verma) Batra is a young and dynamic HR leader. She is a graduate in Philosophy and a Masters in Business. A career across startups and established brands like MakeMyTrip, a well known travel provider, Rati is presently a HR Leader at FabHotels.

She attended the GEC Conference’19 held in Bahrain as part of the Indian delegation, deliberating ways to sustain the entrepreneurial & start-up culture. She’s a regular member of the Observernow Leadership Series and was also invited by SRCC to be a part of their Judgement panel for their annual Business Conclave. Rati is also working to build a network that celebrates & encourages strong, independent female entrepreneurs.

She is an HR strategist & the Founder of a startup rendering strategic consulting support to start-ups & SMEs. Her company, today is renowned for providing end-to-end Human Resource Management & strategic consulting support to businesses. She brings to the table her HR & Business Development expertise.

Richa Chatterjee is a seasoned HR practitioner and business and life coach who has served in various leadership roles across multiple Indian and MNC organizations spanning diverse sectors including management consulting, media and entertainment and manufacturing.

Richa has expertise in strategic business partnering, talent and performance management, change management and culture building. She also has a keen interest in aligning people strategy with business objectives and enabling individuals to unleash their inherent potential. Richa was also selected as part of the top 40 under 40 professionals in HR across India in 2018. Richa enjoys meaningful conversations, exploring new places and meditation.

Happy to engage in conversations about where you are today and where you want to be - in any aspect of your life!

With 10 years of successful track record in various domains of Human Resources Management including Payroll and Benefits, HR Operations, Talent and Performance Management, Talent Acquisition and Change Management, Ritika believes in creating a conducive environment where the workforce can grow both personally and professionally.

She brings experience, versatility and positive energy to the table. Alongwith the exposure of working at some of the top organizations such as FIS Global, IBM and eClerx to name a few, her majority experience has been in setting up the Human Resources vertical in startups from scratch.

In her current role, Ritika Heads HR vertical for Skeps in India and the USA.

She loves to explore the world and learn about cultures and in her free time, she can be found indulging in or trying her hands out on different art forms.

Samata is a HR professional with 16+ years of experience with the Business partnering mindset, with last 7+ years in leadership roles. And with last 4+ years’ experience as a People Head for India's no.1 organization on Healthcare. Managed 3800+ people organization for more than 6 years. Worked across IT, ITES, e-commerce and Healthcare industries

Samata has been passionate about people, making them win with a sharp focus on engagement, high performance and being objective. Having dealt with 7+ M&A at different capacities; Samata has seen different set of challenges in practical, emotional and business scenarios. Sharing knowledge with examples and relating it to small stories of day-to-day scenario is something she enjoys.

She has won quite a few accolades for & in the organization she worked with and the feather in the cap being that Engagement framework designed by Samata, went on to be referred in the Dun & Bradstreet HR Best Practices for 2019.

Sandeep has worked on extensive HR Projects across his corporate journey. From Hiring Strategies to Organisational designs– he has done it all! With his endless reservoir of energy and passion, Sandeep has over 12 years of experience in the world of technology companies.

At MoneyTap, Sandeep is heading the Human Resources Function- driving the HR strategy of the company. MoneyTap aims to be the Credit Line for Asia, providing friendly & flexible credit to hundreds of millions of smart-phone enabled consumers without credit cards, in the developing markets.

Sandeep has worked with three successful companies - Dell, Mindtree, and Flipkart. Before working at MoneyTap, he was one of the veteran HRBPs of Flipkart’s Technology HR team- where he worked for Product Management, Design, IT, Data Platform, Trust & Safety, Demand Forecasting, and Accounting teams.

Spearheaded the best HR practices & programs around- Hiring Strategy, Performance management, Revamping the HR policies, Competency Framework, Rewards & Recognition, HR Analytics, and Org Surveys.

A dynamic, high energy HR leader blending strategy and execution with 19 years of experience managing of Blue, White and Pink collared global workforces. Worked across BPO, BFSI, Retail, Automobile, IT Services, Edtech, Consulting and Start-ups in result oriented, multi-geo, growing organisations. Ran a start-up offering HR Services & Consulting for over 2 years

Translates passion for people development through Coaching. Philosophy of work revolves around People, Process, Performance and Profit. Currently serving as Vice President of Global Human Resources at MulticoreWare Inc.

Worked extensively with start-up founders and CXOs. Worked in transformational journey of progressive organisations. Adapts to different business contexts. Understands the growth DNA and supports with in-time execution. Builds strong HR-business partnerships and high performance winning teams.

Avid networker. Curator of HR community initiatives - GearUP and Caliber. Founder & Convener of HR Sangam. Pursues interests in spirituality, books and travel

Pro-bono work include teaching HR at B schools as adjunct/guest faculty, speaking assignments at various conferences and academic forums, mentoring of young HR professionals and Coaching Start-up founders.

Awarded by Business World as 40 under 40 future HR leaders of India for 2020. Recipient of awards for performance, excellence and leadership with Organisations in the past

Shyamala is currently a CHRO Wildcraft India Pvt Ltd. She graduated in Hotel Management in 1987 .

Has over 34 years experience in Hotel Operations, Retail Operations and HR .

Previous roles have been in ITC Welcomgroup, Manipal Hotels and Cafe Coffee Day Group besides a stint for 10 years a HR consultant at Camelot Consultants. She is passionate about people and places. She is an ardent leisure traveller

A strong organizer, motivator and a decisive leader with successful track record of directing major operations from conception through implementation to handle diverse situations. An astute professional with over 20 years of rich expertise in Human Resource Management.

Most passionate about learning new things and taking up challenges. Believes greatly in continuous transformation especially within Human Capital Management. Associated with Defence, Manufacturing, Product Development, Engineering Design Services & Medical Devices industry.

MBA (HR), Ph.D (HR), MA (PPM) & LLB

Holds a member of Certification of CMMI Level-V for Services and is also an appraisal team member, ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 13485 certified Internal Quality Auditor.

Currently Heading HR and operations at Forus Health Private Limited, a medical devices manufacturing organisation with the vision of Eradicating Preventable Blindness.

I am Sreeja, and my goal is to build the most effective workforce possible. My goal to be part of a company saving lives on a global scale has led to my journey with Axio. I head the HR function at Axio.

I am a geek at heart and deeply enjoy combining my love for great workplace practices with my penchant for business. These days, I mainly exercise my nerdiness through online evaluation of the companies around the world to uncover the best workplace practises.

Prior to joining Axio, I have worked with companies in the realm of Banking, Ecommerce and Realestate.

I was also the winner under the strategy category in a Herox Challenge where I designed a leadership and training program to boost the successes of small business owners

Sukhpreet Swaran Sandhu is a people advocate and a culture evangelist. He comes over 13 years of progressive experience in various gamuts of human resources. He has built and scaled-up three start-ups at different junctures & implemented new-aged HR strategies to meet & enhance exceptional people experience. He has diverse experience working in IT/ITES, Automobile, Consulting & Retail sectors focusing on consumer tech-start-up side. He is a speaker, coach, facilitator, and often write for HR magazines focusing a lot on bold & modern topics.

He has headed HR function at Spinny wherein he was responsible to drive the organization’s growth and getting the right set of talent in the system with over 16x growth in 2.5 years; saw growth journey from seed to Series D funding with range of human capital interventions. In his previous stints, he worked with Denave where he took care of Global Talent and HR Strategy for APAC and EMEA regions & led global HR transformation making it a GPTW certified organization. At Tolexo and Jabong, he was involved in people capability building, succession planning, and leadership development.

His keen areas of interest include building most-loved workplaces, leadership development, talent management, rewards, culture, and comes hands on with changing org-shape & ecosystem via GPTW model. He was felicitated by Business World in 40under40 Top 100 list in 2018. He hails from Noida, India and carries two specializations in Human Capital from London School of Business & XLRI Jamshedpur.

He is a fitness coach & a nutritionist, certified Zumba, HIIT, and S&C instructor; loves cooking, trained Latin American ball room dancer, and an ex- lead vocalist of a band. He is a strong advocate of mental health, holistic wellness & practices Pranic Healing (Level 3 Certified by World Pranic Healing Foundation, Philippines) & Su-Jok Acupressure.