Roopali Sundar is the Head -HR for India Region at Avaya India. In this role, she provides guidance on various Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Engagement, Employer Branding, Business enablement and Internal Communication initiatives.
Roopali brings with her close to 18 years of professional experience across segments such as Banking, Manufacturing, IT, BPO and HR consulting. Some of the significant organizations she has been associated with are: American Express Bank, Symantec, Grasim and Horton International. Her experience spans across Merger & acquisitions, Business Partner, OD, Compensation and benefit practices, Talent attraction and Talent development. She is recipient of a large number of awards for conceptualizing and spearheading some the best practices across organizations.
As a HaR leader, she has been invited to a number of academic and professional forums to present her thoughts on Talent practices. Her views are often published in Times of India, DNA, Express Computer, Human Capital and other publications.
She has been the President of HR Infotech- Pune Chapter in FY12 and associated with the forum for last 8 years.
Sunil Kashikar is Associate VP-RMG & Recruitment for Zensar Technologies Ltd, Pune. He comes with rich & diverse experience of 30+ yrs, spanning various functions like recruitment, resourcing, sales and business development.
His current role sees him planning and executing a timely & cost effective strategy towards fulfillment of IT skilled professionals required by Zensar to achieve its global service deliveries. He leads a team of over 40 Resourcing, Recruiting and support staff. Besides experienced associates, he is also tasked with recruiting bright young computer engineering graduates from institutes across the country.
Rajendra is associated with HRIA for last 5 years, He is an accomplished professional with 20+ years of experience in Human Resource function with a history of significant achievements, which illustrate his ability to launch and develop network, drive campaigns, secure business from key accounts and build Customer and Vendor relationships.
Rajendra is currently working with WNS as General Manager – HR, prior to WNS he has worked with iGATE-Patni and Syntel as Head of Recruitment.
Dinesh Gupta, currently working with IBM Global Business Services, in Resource Management Team, has overall 15+ years of experience in Recruitment & Resource Management.
Dinesh has been Instrumental in starting HRIA Pune Chapter in year 2006 & is associated with HRIA for past 10+ years now.
Was president of HRIA Pune chapter for the year: 2008-09.
He is the mentor of Pune chapter & also a Governing Council Member of HRIA.
Current designation: Lead – Sourcing, Talent Acquisition & Research – ZS Associates
Past: Talent Acquisition Lead – Capgemini
Associated with HRIA since 2007, Played various roles in Branding, PR, Membership Development. Currently supporting the Public Relations & Branding Committee
Jashan holds Bachelors’ Degree in Science from Fergusson College, Masters Diploma in Mass Communications & holds 10+yrs of experience in Sourcing &Recruitment across Geographies.
Kunjal Kamdar has been involved in hiring for the last eight years, having worked in both recruitment and sourcing capacities. Currently, he works with WNS Global Services in India as a Group Manager - Social Recruiting.
Kunjal enjoys sourcing and using Social Media to expand and innovate new channels in the recruitment process. He has been part of HRIA since 2011 and taking care of Branding and Social Media.
Associated with HRIA Pune chapter since 2007. He was elected in the HRIA Committee since 2011. Upto 2011 his prime responsibility included event management and all other admin related activities.
In the year 2013-14, he served the Association as a Treasurer and in the year 2014-15, He is elected as the Secretary of the Association.
Current Organization – Accenture –Human Resources
Past - WNS -Group Manager- Human Resources, IBM Global Business Services –Resource Deployment Manager & Syntel - Recruitments.
Current role in HRIA - President of HRIA Pune chapter for the year 2016-17
Associated with HRIA since 2008, she played various roles in Event Management, Membership Development, and Program Committee. In the year 2014-15, she was elected as the Vice President (Treasurer) and also served as Associate Vice President (Secretary) of the association.
She holds a Master’s degree in HR from PUMBA (Pune University).Currently working with Accenture, part of HR team & holds 12+ years’ experience in Recruitment & Resource Management.
