Shanthi Lakshmanan, Founder & CEO [LinkedIn]
Shanthi is a result oriented leader who enjoys coaching and loves creating/ scaling businesses. As a Partner, Transitions & Training leader at Mercer, she has built the business from 400 to 3000 employees over a five year period and enabled the successful migration of consulting support services from multiple international geographies to a delivery center in India. Currently, she passionately runs ExempServ and volunteers with v-shesh, an organisation focused on main streaming persons with disabilities.
Shanthi has been associated with the Outsourcing industry (shared services centres) since its infancy in India (1998) with companies like eFunds, Global Vantedge, Hewitt and Mercer in the areas of Finance, Operations, Process Transition and Training. Spectrum of services ranged from HR Administration, Payroll, Accounting, Receivables Management HR Consulting and Investments. She also held the position of CSR leader for Mercer India from 2011-2015 and as global steering member representing Asian region.
In her professional career, she has been a strategist, fund raiser, accountant, auditor, program manager, trainer, mentor, coach working in both domestic and multi-national environments.
Her strengths include Execution, Can-do approach, Belief in finding the solution, Dexterity, Collaboration, Team building, Financial management, Regulatory and Legal compliances.
Rajeev Grover, Founder [LinkedIn]
Rajeev is a multipotentialite who has over 30 years leadership experience with companies like Mercer Consulting, Hewitt Associates, GE, Amex and PwC. His expertise has been in developing and implementing offshoring and outsourcing strategies as well as providing strategic and operational leadership that has enabled the rapid growth of startup operations in offshore locations especially in India.
A highly effective global leader and mentor, creative thinker and problem solver, he has worked in a variety of challenging roles including senior operational, business, program management and financial systems. He has an impressive track record of consistently achieving stretch service quality, cost and people metrics. He is recognized as someone who develops and maintains cross-functional and global networks to influence successful results. Rajeev, besides being a C-suite executive, specializes in global organizational design and governance frameworks.
In his last role, he was responsible for driving Operational strategy & excellence across multiple lines of business at Mercer (Talent, Health, Retirement & Investments) represented by over 9000 colleagues in over 25 countries including shared services centres spread across India, Poland, Portugal, China and Ireland
Rajeev is a Board Member and Chair of the Finance and Audit committee at ‘SOS Children’s Villages of India’, one of India’s largest self-implementing social sector organization. He is also an advisory council member at ‘ShikshaDaan Foundation’. In addition, he is an Independent Director on the Board of Mastek Ltd., a mid-sized IT services company.
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