15 years experience as Sales Head, regional Head & Profit Centre Head in companies like JOHNSON & JOHNSON, JAY ENGINEERING WORKS LTD. & HCL LTD. and General Manager of BUSINESS FORMS LTD.

Chairman-Cum-Managing Director of Genius Consultants Ltd. since inception around 16 years back. Genius Consultants Ltd. is having 18 offices, 250 direct employees, 14000 outsourced employees, 850 clients with a turnover of INR 105 Crores (08-09) with robust product range of Recruitments, Temp Staffing, Payroll, Background Screening & Investigation and PF Trust Management.

Mr Nadeem Kazim is a post graduate in Personal Management & Industrial Relations from Xavier Institute of Social Services, Ranchi. He started his Human Resource career with Ballarpur Industries Limited in 1986 and then moved to Tata Steel in 1991 and served them for 18 long years in various capacities.

He has now joined Exide Industries Limited in January 09 as an Executive Vice President (HR & Personnel) at Kolkata.

Mr Nadeem Kazim has an electric profile developed over 22 years –first in the space of Industrial Relations and subsequently as a Senior HR Professional.

He played a pivotal role in designing & introducing innovating HR practices for Tata steel. He had driven Strategic outsourcing initiatives and created JUSCO as a 100% subsidy of Tata Steel. He specializes in HR due diligence for mergers & acquisitions and was a member in the acquisition team of Tata Steel. He spearheaded learning & development for Tata steel & Tis group companies. In the current assignment he is responsible for the HR & Personnel function of Exide Industries Ltd.

Mr Nadeem Kazim is a visiting faculty to various institutes in India perusing Personnel Management & Human Resources. He has delivered talk in the regional & national level seminars and conferences. His special interest is in the field of HR and OB. He has authored several articles in professional journals. He is a life member of several professional bodies.

Mr Nadeem is married and blessed with one son.

Professor Roy is involved in Research, Education and Training since 1973. He has taught in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and also in number of foreign universities such as University of Manchester, Gajah Madah University, Indonesia, University of Helsinki, Finland, Chinese Academy of Forestry etc. He has facilitated the process of Management of Change through training for number of government departments across the country.

Professor Roy has developed concept and methodology on Bilateral Matching Institutions, Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) and Micro Water Management, Participatory Microplanning, Institutionalisation of Joint Forest Management in India. He has also designed and conducted Training on issues related to Participatory Development, Management of Change, Participatory Organisational Development, Participatory Management for senior level Government officials as well as the field level staff and also for the community members. He has been the Lead Consultant for DFID for West Bengal RCH Project. He has also been consultant to different international and national organisations like The Ford Foundation, Price Water House Coopers

Harsh Hada has traversed a journey of immense growth from being a graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata to currently being an Executive Director, Web Development Company. An alumnus of Don Bosco, Kolkata who later went to Australia to pursue BBA from Bond University, Harsh joined his family venture initially to come to a realization that it was not his true calling, eventually giving birth to WDC with friends’ alias business partners, Mr. Rahul Sharma & Mr. Rahul Todi.

Initiated in 1998, as a modest training institute with a seed amount of meager Rs. 47 lac, WDC is currently a leading e-business solution provider with offices across India and turnover crossing Rs. 40 crores. Harsh has played a pivotal role in spearheading WDC and taking it to newer heights over the decade. He was constitutive in the venture capital activities of the firm as a result of which WDC received its first round venture capital funding in the year 2000. Credited for introducing the staff augmentation division in 2003, his leadership and organization building skills were critical to its success and now contribute nearly 80% to the revenues of the firm. The IT Workforce Solutions has placed over 3000 people in the past 5 years under various Tier-I IT firms.

Managing profitable business has always been the dictum for Harsh and his mantra for success lies in the famous saying, “Sales is Vanity, Profits is Sanity and Cash is Reality” quoted by Adi Godrej. With a very intrepid outlook towards life, Harsh has not only carved a success story for WDC, but also pioneered a revolution of sorts by making a significant contribution in developing the IT skyline of West Bengal. True to his risk – embracing attitude, he has a mission to build forever relationships with his clients than just being a channel to provide IT driven services to them. Harsh has robust plans for the organization with a vision to expand in various growth markets and intends to take WDC to a 2500+ headcount and achieve revenues in excess of Rs 100 crores in two years time.

Last but not the least; an avid reader and a movie buff, Harsh draws inspiration from books written by Robin S Sharma and Paulo Coelho and has a penchant for exploring exotic destinations across globe.

Rahul did his schooling from R K Mission Narendrapur. Post which he did his honors in Chemistry and MBA from Vishwa Bharati university.

After a brief stint with The Park Hotels, he moved on to Philips India Limited. He worked in various roles ( HR Business Partner / Regional Sales HR / Hiring / L&D) across locations of Philips. He moved to Tata Tea Group in 2006. Since, then he has been responsible for C&B, sourcing and management development. Rahul has been instrumental in the integration of the global business of Tata Tea. Currently, he is responsible for Organization Capability Development at a global level.

B.E in Electronics and Telecommunication (BESU) and M.E in Software Engineering (Jadavpur University). Worked with Academics as well as in Industry in various roles starting from Developers to Project Manager. Special expertise in Process Excellence (Six Sigma Master Black Belt) and People Management area. Currently working in the HR Group for modelling HR Functions and analyzing HR Process / data for improvement.

Sreedhar (Sree) is an entrepreneur at heart and loves the challenges that come with it. A Mechanical engineer and a management graduate, Sreedhar started his career with Castrol India (now known as BP) and later moved to Johnson & Johnson as the Regional Sales Manager. Soon, he gave it all up to join TMI Network in 1994, a startup in the recruitment space at that time. He has since then, strengthened TMI's operational presence across the country through branches in 6 Indian metros. Over the past decade, Sree has been involved in talent consulting, providing customer centric solutions to over 300 corporates across the IT and Non-IT sectors and most of them are his clients even today. Sree has also spearheaded TMI's diversification into Executive Search, Integrated Recruitment Solutions, Strategic Surveys and Employer Branding initiatives. He sees the success of his own organisation as a reflection of the clients that TMI has helped succeed. A customer's problem is a challenge he says, and it is these challenges that he looks forward to, as they facilitate the conception of innovative solutions every time. He is currently focusing on achieving operational excellence to enable customers to get better benefits.

One of the most cherishing aspects of his profession, he feels, is that of career counselling and finding the 'right' opportunity for the 'right candidate'. Over the years, Sree, has interacted with close to 100,000 professionals and helped around 20,000 of them to make the right progression in their professional career. Many of them are today acting as the brand ambassadors of the group. He is also an Ex-Chairman of the Executive Recruiters Association (ERA), a national body for the recruiting fraternity and has been championing the cause of ethical professional practices.

Sree's present focus is on architecting innovative and integrated solutions for leadership hiring for his client organisations and being the Talent Manager for those who seek his counsel. He firmly believes that the key to success, both professionally and personally, is to sustain relationships beyond transactions. Having experienced the work cultures of both a British and an American MNC to begin with, Sree has drawn upon the best of both and coupled with his own insightful leadership, built an organisation that is customer driven, both in philosophy and in action. He has nurtured an enduring culture that is fun to work in, intellectually challenging and conducive to personal growth.

Graduate from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. In 1993, set up his own venture Educom Software Pvt. Ltd. a Franchisee Centre of Aptech Limited. In 1995, a 2nd firm Futurecom was set up. The company provided networking and other hardware related solutions and was leading channel partners for HCL and Compaq. 1999 saw the starting of the Recruitment Wing (now known as 2COMS Consulting), which grew with marquee clients like Spectramind (Now Wipro BPO), GE, Convergys, EXL, Mphasis in its 1st year of operations itself. At present Prashant is the CEO of 2COMS Consulting, a pure play Recruitment and Staffing Company.

Myself, aged about 34 years is a Commerce Graduate from City Colleague under Calcutta University. I have completed by schooling from DeNobili School, CMRS, Dhanbad in Jharkhand. While I was undergoing my graduation I pursued Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (A-Level) from DoEACC, Kolkata Chapter.

I had my first exposure in Management education while I completed my Diploma in Personnel Management, Industrial Relations & Labour Welfare from State Labour Institute, Govt. of West Bengal in Kankurgachi; I ranked 4th in my batch (1997 batch). For further excellence in Management education, I underwent Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISW&BM), Kolkata(2000 batch) & passed with Distinction.

I started my career in manufacturing sector from Kanoria Jute & Industries Ltd. as Labour Welfare officer in their factory. After having an exposure for more than a year in a manufacturing sector my aim was to associate with sun shine sector; from Jute to dotcom boom. I accepted an offer from Caltiger.com (Internet Service Provider) as an HR Executive in their Corporate Office in Salt lake Sector-V.I had a stint of more than 3 years handling recruitment, engagement, payroll & other employee benefits. In pursuit of higher responsibilities I joined Dishnet DSL Ltd. as a regional HR representative for their broadband business. Subsequently, with VSNL’s ( now Tata Communications Ltd.) acquisition of the broadband business at a pan India level, I was transferred to Chennai for Dishnet’s mobile division. Had a very successful stint with erstwhile Dishnet’s mobile brand (AIRCEL) & was instrumental in HR in establishing the East business in 2004-05.My role went through various transformation from Sr. Executive to Dy. Manager. I thoroughly enjoyed my stint in various locations for launch operations of their mobile operations viz. Chennai, Bhubaneshwar(Orissa), Guwahati(Assam), Patna (Bihar), Rest of Bengal (Durgapur) & of course in the Project office in Delhi. For newer challenges & the quench of new learning bought me a job in Bharti Enterprises (Airtel) in their landline & broadband operations in 2005. My career got transformed into a managerial role handling a team for the first time (a quantum jump from handling a start up operations to a fully matured business & processes). I was the HR operations Vertical Head managing the employee life cycle starting from on boarding to exit management both for regular as well as off role employees for Kolkata.

With Maxis Communication Ltd. & Apollo Hospital Ltd’s acquisition of the Aircel brand in India and my successful stint in the start up operations brought me back in the new organization as Head of Human Resources for Kolkata & Rest of West Bengal Telecom Circles. Now I am responsible for managing approx. 600 employees spread across the geography of Bengal & Sikkim. To add on to my professional expertise & skill set I was nominated for an IDP on General Management Programme in Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow in the year 2007. Being considered as a “Hi-Po” employee with respect to my contribution on various Corporate assignments in addition to my primary role in Circle, I was nominated for a high profile IDP ( through E-learning & Satellite learning) from Harvard Business School & IBM, Australia- Next Generation Manager in 2009. Currently, I am providing leadership for a team of 6 HR members in the areas of workforce planning, talent acquisition, engagement, transformation & management both for onroll & off role employees.

Amit Dhiman is an Assistant Professor in the Human resource Management Group of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He has a Ph. D. in Human Resource Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He also holds a Masters degree in Human Resource Management and BE degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked for more than seven years in industry in private sector, mainly in Human Resource Management and Organizational Development functions. Currently, he teaches Post Graduate level courses in Human Resource Management and Strategic Human Resource Management in Services.

Amit has research interests in Strategic Human Resource Management in Services, Performance Management, Accountability in Decision Making, and Organizational Commitment. In above areas and others, he has publications in acclaimed journals, and presentations in prestigious international conferences like Academy of Management. He has deep interest and felicity in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. He has got training in various pedagogies at prestigious institutions including Harvard Business School.

Amit had been actively involved in Management Development and Organizational Development initiatives in his role as a manager, corporate trainer, and academic. In recent past he has conducted Management Development Programmes for organizations like Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals, NTPC, CBSE, M.N. Dastur, Vodafone, Indian Oil Corporation, SAIL among others.

Amit has dabbled in many hobbies and interests including writing and drawing cartoons. These days he enjoys leisure time with his three years old daughter.

After a very eventful 6 years in Sales, which saw me get 4 promotions, I moved to training by Choice.

In Sales I amassed wide experience working in IT, NBFC sectors. In the Training front, for the last 12 years, I have worked in IT, FMCG and Manufacturing sectors both in India and Abroad spanning all the levels of hierarchy, Senior, Middle and Lower management positions.

As a Certified Professional Behavior Consultant (CPBA), Certified Professional Values & Attributes (CPVA) and TrimetrixTM Certification from Success Insights Inc, Atlanta, USA, I add a lot of values to the Behavioral Aspects in my training programmes.

International Accreditions:

• International Diploma in Teaching & Training from City & Guild, London, UK
• CPBA & CPVA & Trimetrix Certification from Success Insights, Atlanta, USA
• Certified in Situational Leadership^TM
• Certified in 4 MAT^TM