Lentra, a leading digital lending cloud platform has appointed Hitesh Sahijwaala as Executive Vice President (EVP) – India Sales and Distribution to accelerate its mission of transforming digital lending across the world. This is the third senior-level appointment in the past six months. In September, Lentra appointed Haribandhu Patra as CFO and Bhuvaneswar Naik as CHRO. The appointment comes at a time when Lentra is rapidly driving growth in India and new markets of Southeast Asia, as well as scaling its platform to support and enable some of the largest banks and NBFCs in the region. In his new role,…
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Simpl, India’s foremost 1-tap checkout network, today announced the appointment of Neha Dixit as the Vice President of its People Operations team. In her present role, Neha will be responsible for heading the organisation’s HR Business Partner function and providing leadership for people and culture priorities at Simpl. She would also be responsible for strengthening the policy and process framework to enable fast-paced learning and leadership development within the organization. This strategic hiring is in line with the platform’s optimistic expansion plans in the year ahead. With over a decade of rich and diverse experience in running HR programs across…
Greaves Cotton Limited, one of India’s leading diversified engineering companies, announced the expansion of its leadership team across strategic functions. This includes the appointment of Mr. Narasimha Jayakumar as CEO, of Retail Business, Mr. Sandeep Divakaran as CEO, of Greaves Finance, and Mr. Chandrasekar Thyagarajan as CFO, of Greaves Electric Mobility. Since 2016, Greaves has been on a transformation journey to develop clean mobility solutions, and move closer to the consumer. Today, Greaves Cotton has created impact at scale, by steadily building dynamic technologies through continuous innovation, and building a future-ready portfolio of businesses. Commenting on the leadership appointments, Mr.…
Vantage Fit, an AI-empowered employee wellness platform, also one of the products of Vantage Circle, partners with MantraCare – a global wellness solution provider. The partnership brings together the strengths of both companies to deliver unprecedented value to customers. The partnership’s main objective is employee well-being, where together, the two companies will offer a comprehensive solution for improving employee wellness and engagement. The combined solution will allow companies to easily track and measure the impact of their employee wellness and engagement initiatives, providing valuable insights and data to help inform future decisions. Vantage Fit aims to build winning work cultures…
Vantage Circle, a leading global AI-empowered employee engagement platform, announced a partnership with heyy, a mental health care company based in Southeast Asia/India. The partnership’s main objective is to add a crucial benefit of mental health care to its customers and partner employees globally. Through the partnership, Vantage Circle and heyy hope to build a platform where employees can experience well-rounded happiness of mental well-being. Vantage Circle aims to shape an inclusive work culture and build winning work cultures across the globe through innovative AI-powered employee engagement solutions. Its suite of solutions, namely, Vantage Rewards, Vantage Perks, Vantage Pulse, and…
Indira IVF, India’s largest chain of infertility treatments, has announced a strategic partnership with US-based women’s and family healthcare provider, Maven Clinic. The collaboration seeks to deliver fertility care to corporates in India by increasing access to treatment, and bringing to the fore the importance of incorporating fertility treatments in the country’s healthcare initiatives. This is one of the first initiatives taken by an infertility treatment provider in the country to make fertility treatments accessible and affordable to the corporate workforce. The partnership between Indira IVF and Maven Clinic entails treatments for employees of Maven Clinic’s partners at ten metro…
Commencing June 2022, India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, launched the Tourism Awareness Programme (TAP) program under the CBSP Scheme for the taxi, cab, and coach drivers offering them behavioural & soft skill training with a component of foreign language. The training was imparted by ITDC’s Ashok Institute of Hospitality &Tourism Management covering a total of around 300 drivers upto November 30, 2022. More batches are on the anvil. Sh. G. Kishan Reddy, Hon’ble Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and DoNER, Govt. of India gave away the certificates and badges to the successful candidates at…
FirstMeridian Business Services Limited, India’s third largest staffing company, in terms of revenue for the year ended March 31, 2021 (as per a Frost & Sullivan report- Assessment of Staffing Solutions Market in India” dated May 2022) announced the launch of a specialised division ‘Cranston Miller’ offering Managed Service Provider (“MSP”) solutions to companies in India. According to the Staffing Industry Analysts (“SIA”) report, the global MSP industry reached USD 150 billion in terms of spend under management in 2020 and is continuously growing. For many organizations today, contingent workers are an integral part of the workforce. These could be freelancers,…
Avaali Solution, provider of digital solutions to enterprises, announced their Health and Wellness initiative – ‘Kosha’, a Sanskrit word that refers to the sheath or layer of the soul, in collaboration with the doctors of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals exclusively for the employees of Avaali. The objective of this initiative is to provide free medical guidance to all employees and promote a healthy and happy workplace for them. Led by clinical experts, these weekly hour-long virtual sessions will be around health and physical and mental wellness. Avaali employees will have the opportunity to interact with veteran doctors at Apollo Hospital to…
O.C. Tanner, the global leader in employee recognition and workplace culture, today announced the release of its 2023 Global Culture Report. Now in its fifth year, the report details the latest trends and strategies to win and retain people, including: reconnecting workplace community, creating fulfilling employee experiences, fortifying weary leaders, and integrating recognition and symbolism early and often. Based on data gathered from over 36,000 employees, leaders, HR practitioners, and executives from 20 countries worldwide, the report was announced at O.C. Tanner’s sold-out annual culture conference, Influence Greatness. “The future of work depends on embracing change and rebuilding community within…
India’s first tech-led monthly subscription-based employee health benefits platform, Onsurity has won the “Innovator in Mass Market- Emerging & Mature Award” at the 4th edition of PICUP Fintech conference and Awards on 20th July 2022 organized by Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Kulin Shah, Co-Founder, Onsurity and Rohan Srivastava, Head of expansion received the award from Mr Sunil Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, Indian Banks’ Association & Ms Jyoti Vij, Deputy Secretary General, FICCI. PICUP fintech is a marquee event organized by FICCI and Indian Banks Association (IBA) where BCG was the…
Socxo, the cloud-based brand advocacy platform, has announced a strategic partnership by integrating its brand advocacy platform with Xoxoday Plum. This partnership enables seamless rewards and redemption experience for Socxo’s global customers through Xoxoday’s pioneering technology infrastructure and helps Socxo drive value for its users. Xoxoday is a fintech SaaS with rewards, incentives, and loyalty products. Xoxoday Plum helps automate rewards, incentives and payouts programs at a global scale with multi-lingual, multi-currency, and multi-region capabilities. Socxo’s Brand Advocacy Platform is a cutting-edge platform helping corporates to design and implement their brand/employee advocacy programs and power up organic reach to their…
Ather Energy, India’s leading electric scooter manufacturer, today announced the appointment of two key leaders on the manufacturing and supply chain side as the company embarks on its next phase of growth. The company has appointed Sanjeev Kumar Singh as the Senior Vice President (SVP) – Manufacturing and Harendra Saksena as the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). The strategic appointments come as Ather Energy looks to transform its fast growing manufacturing and supply chain as part of its industrial strategy. Sanjeev Singh, who joins Ather with 18 years of extensive expertise, will lead the manufacturing vertical and oversee all current and…
PrepInsta, a Leading player in the Ed-Tech and upskilling domain has made some key changes to its management and has elevated Manish Agarwal to Chief Marketing Officer of the brand and also given him Co-Founder status. Manish was earlier heading the business development at the brand and will now also be managing marketing activities for the brand. The development follows the recent announcement of the brand to go aggressive with its expansion in terms of associations with universities and widen its user base. In his new role Manish plans to go aggressive not just with the mainstream but also in…
Exterro Inc., the preferred provider of Legal GRC software specifically designed for in-house legal, privacy, and IT teams at Global 2000 and AmLaw 200 organisations, today announced the appointment of two new executives to its leadership team: Debora Jones as Chief Operating Officer and Dr. Kavitha Thangasami as Chief R&D Officer. The two appointments come at a time of rapid growth and momentum for Exterro, as the company has driven record revenue and customer growth over the past fiscal year. As COO, Jones will be a key member of the management team responsible for overseeing the company’s client operations. A…
Mr. Gaurav Sachdeva has been appointed as the CEO of JSW One Platforms, an e-commerce venture by JSW Group. This e-commerce business aims to bring transparency, timely delivery, trust, and ease-of-doing-business digitally for MSMEs. Gaurav transitioned from his role at JSW Ventures where he led venture capital investments for the fund. In his role as the CEO of JSW One Platforms, he aims to create a nimble organization backed by the credibility and scale of JSW Group to create a robust transparent platform that will ease buying and selling of steel and other products for manufacturing and construction MSMEs in…
With a strong focus on organizational agility and resilient work cultures, the 49th IFTDO World Conference & Exhibition is set to take place in the physical format after two years, from May 19-21, 2022. Themed ‘Strategies for an Agile Work Culture: Pathways to the New Age’, the three-day international conference will witness insights and deliberations from eminent Indian and international professionals, industry experts and exhibitors on what organizations can do to support an agile work culture in the post-pandemic era. This will be the 5th time this international conference will be held in India after 2013. IFTDO 2022 will be…
The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta), ranked as the #3 best B-School in India (NIRF, 2021) and #1 as per Business Today ranking (2021), has announced the launch of the thirteenth batch of the Executive Programme in Human Resource Management with Emeritus. This 1-year high-impact programme enables evolving and mid-career professionals, including line managers interested in HRM, with a minimum of two years of work experience to advance their people management capabilities through live online and a four-day in-campus immersion at the IIM Calcutta campus. According to a recent Deloitte Insights report (2021), 75% of human resource (HR)…
Piramal Enterprises Limited (‘PEL’) today announced the appointment of Yesh Nadkarni as CEO of Wholesale lending, in Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited (PCHFL), a wholly owned subsidiary of PEL, with a primary focus on real estate lending business. In his role, Yesh will be responsible for further expanding PCHFL’s wholesale lending business, building a high-quality granular book across different real estate segments, establishing, and strengthening key client relationships and using data analytics/AI to enable superior underwriting. Yesh joins PCHFL from global investment firm KKR, where he was Managing Director & CEO of the India Real Estate lending business. Yesh…
Onsurity, India’s first tech-led monthly subscription-based employee health benefits platform has further strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Sarvendu Singh as Head of Technology. He will lead the technology team to make Onsurity, a world-class trusted platform in the B2B segment. Singh will drive the organisation’s technological vision to support its growth journey in the coming years. As the head of Technology, he will be working closely with business, product, and operations to align technology with the organisation’s objective. He will build upon the existing technology foundation, strengthening it further through the right processes, tools, and structures. Mr.…
Centum Learning Limited (CLL), one of the most admired new-age learning solutions companies, and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)®, a top-ranked leadership development organization, announced an exclusive strategic partnership that will give Centum and CCL clients access to state-of-the-art leadership education with performance as a driving factor. The Centum-Center for Creative Leadership Academy India takes a hybrid learning approach powered by best-in-class technology to meet the needs of individuals and organizations with a goal of producing transformational and sustainable impact for every leader level – across industries, communities, and societal sectors. Assessing impact and achieving client ROI will be…
Licious, India’s first D2C unicorn, announced the appointment of Kiran Karthik Pandian as Vice President – Category. With the new appointment, the country’s largest tech-first fresh meats and seafood brand will focus on amplifying growth and profitability as it enters the next phase of evolution. A seasoned leader in e-commerce category management, Kiran brings more than 12 years of rich experience, having managed a wide range of categories including home & kitchen, large appliances, automotive and more, across both B2C and B2B marketplaces. Prior to joining Licious, Kiran led a portfolio of durable product categories at Udaan, where he drove…
MeritTrac Services (backed by UNext Learning, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manipal Education and Medical Group today), announced the launch of TalentNext, a revolutionary next-gen assessment management system with content expertise across domains to help deliver secure and seamless assessments. This unified modular platform ensures centralized visibility for efficient data-driven hiring and recruitment decisions. TalentNext will provide absolute flexibility for the recruiter to define custom workflows that can vary across different use cases. In addition, it gives users plug-and-play solutions and actionable insights to make quick hiring decisions. This solution can be extended to educational institutions for campus placements, test preparation,…
Hero Vired, India’s premium EdTech company for higher education aspirants and professionals, today announced the appointment of Geetika Goel as Head of Technology and Dr. Ankur Sodhi as Associate Vice President for Career Services and Corporate Relations. Both leaders will spearhead their respective teams to prepare for the company’s next phase of growth and expansion. Geetika will report directly to the CEO and serve as a technological and business specialist, making decisions that will affect the company’s present and future operations. She will integrate business objectives and strategy into technology vision and requirements, manage a world-class team of engineers, encourage…
Tekno Point, an award-winning digital experience partner, has announced the appointment of Mr. Saurabh Shah as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Saurabh joins Tekno Point with progressive experience in the sales, go-to-market and management domains. His role as the CRO at Tekno Point will be to spearhead the transformation from a delivery-led to a sales-led organization. He will be responsible for scaling the revenue function and building a high-performing go-to-market engine across sales, marketing, client coverage and revenue operations, as well as driving top line growth and scaling the company’s team on a global level. On his appointment, Mr. Saurabh…
FarEye, a global SaaS platform provider transforming last-mile logistics, today announced the appointment of Judd Marcello as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), based in the United States. In this newly created role, Marcello will lead all facets of marketing to drive brand awareness and growth in key global regions, including the Americas. The news comes soon after the announcement of Chicago as FarEye’s North America Headquarters and movement of its CEO Kushal Nahata to North America. “Judd brings a winning combination of B2B and B2C experience that will help us deliver greater value to the supplier, carrier and consumer communities we…