Baru S Rao is the Chief Executive Officer for Capgemini India. The company under his leadership is experiencing major growth as the rightshore delivery center of Capgemini with its headcount doubling every year. Capgemini India provides services to Fortune 500 customers in package implementation, application development and maintenance from its three locations, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkatta.

Baru has 24 years of IT experience in a variety of areas such as managing delivery centers, business development, relationship management and project management. He has handled business development roles and headed profit centers in large service organizations involved in IT Applications outsourcing, application development and emerging technologies. Prior to that he was involved in management of large projects and delivery for global corporations. His technical interests include Software engineering, large-scale systems design, Quality Assurance, Database Design and Tuning

An electronics engineer, Baru has a M.Tech (Computer Science) from IIT, Kharagpur in 1983 and PhD in Information Technology from IIT, Bombay in 2005.

Lalit is a Senior Leadership Consultant with The Gallup Organization and Country Head for Gallup’s Enterprise Consulting and Leadership Development Practice. He also drives the Gallup University Practice in the Asia region and is one of Gallup’s top ten Leadership coaches. Lalit is credited with pioneering the Positive psychology , Strengths based management and developmental practices/methodologies in India , large parts of South East, and Mid East Asia.

Lalit specializes across the gamut of Gallup offerings from “employee to customer” impacting solutions, with special focus on leadership development, HumanSigma consulting and employee engagement. He has partnered with top firms to help design and set up leadership institutes and development centers.

Key strategic capabilities include organizational diagnostics and strategic employee engagement interventions, design and delivery of training strategies and solutions, HumanSigma consulting, executive coaching for senior leaders, strengths-based development programs, and advanced leadership engagement interventions.

Lalit has had a rich experience profile in human capital solutions, Sales force effectiveness , learning and development strategies, Six Sigma, strategic and operational HR and leadership coaching across Automotive, Manufacturing , Banking and Banking & Financial Insitutions, FMCG, Pharma, Engineering, and IT / ITES industries.

His primary areas of expertise include organizational development, executive coaching, Sales force effectiveness consulting, behavioral assessments, organization diagnostics, and deployment of process improvement tools such as Six Sigma. In addition to this he is a certified behavioral analyst and competency-based assessment center specialist.

Lalit is an avid writer, renowned newspaper columnist and speaker in management forums. His research on BPO industry, “Young Manager Dynamics”, Personal branding, strengths-based selection and development, Executive Development, etc. has been widely acclaimed.