Management Committee 2022-2023

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    Sachin Dhavale

    President
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    Swati Dogra

    Vice President (Secretary)
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    Niloy Bakshi

    Assistant Vice President (Treasurer)
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    Sandeep Ingale

    Director HRIA
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    Karan Rajpal

    Director HRIA
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    Dhara Shah

    Director HRIA
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    Shuchita Singh Basu

    Director HRIA
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    Abhijit Puri

    Immediate Past President
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    Baliram Mutagekar

    MENTOR
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    Ashwin Jaisinghani

    Past President and Past Executive Trustee
  • Sachin Dhavale

    President
    Director HR at Expleo

    A curious individual who was fascinated and bumped in to the #HR world with an aspiration to set his footsteps in the industry which deals with “human” and proved himself through hard-work, dedication, and determination to become a successful HR professional.

    Sachin is a seasoned Human Resources professional with over 20+ years of experience, who translates business vision into HR initiatives to enhance business efficiency, improve performance with employee engagement.

    He holds a master’s degree in personnel management, bachelor’s degree in commerce and diploma in training and development.

    Sachin currently serves as Director Human Resources to Expleo India Infosystems Private Limited. He joined Expleo on July 2004 and was associated with Hardikar Hospital, Pune and Bajaj Electricals Limited, Pune before joining Expleo (erstwhile SQS, VeriSoft).

    He is also associated with HR Infotech Association (HRIA), Pune Chapter and currently acting as President for FY 2022-2023. He is also core member of the HR Co-ord Committee of the Hinjewadi Industries Association (HIA), Pune.
  • Swati Dogra

    Vice President (Secretary)
    OD Practice Lead at Amdocs

    Swati Dogra is an MBA in HR from Symbiosis International University. She has worked with organizations like BCG, Mercer, Bain and Co. and Panasonic.

    Swati is a certified executive coach, trained facilitator and personality assessment consultant.

    She is actively engaged with NGOs operating in the space of youth empowerment and environment.

    A certified executive coach, trained facilitator and PAPI 3 certified personality assessment consultant with more than 13 years of experience in compensation and benefits in both internal HR and consulting in multiple industries like Hi-tech, Consulting and Manufacturing.

    Handled multitude of domain areas like Market Pricing, Annual Salary & Merit Increase Planning, Variable Pay design and execution, Progressions, Job evaluation, Broad banding, etc.

    Proficient in all leading proprietary job matching and job evaluation tools like Mercer IPE, Hewitt job link leveling, Radford methodology etc.

    Extensive experience in designing and rolling out innovative and market leading employee benefit and wellness. Led projects on gender diversity, global benefits alignment and closed multiple M&A deals for the company from C&B perspective.
  • Niloy Bakshi

    Assistant Vice President (Treasurer)
    Head of Talent Acquisition India at Johnson Controls

    overall 17+ years of experience and worked with companies like Polaris, Capgemini, Sungard, FIS.

    Passionate about bringing in innovative ideas into recruitment and build a strong winning team.
  • Sandeep Ingale

    Director HRIA
    Director Operations at Ideas to Impacts Innovations Pvt Ltd

    Overall 30+ years of multi-dimensional experience in the global tech industry. As a seasoned executive, with hands-on experience in managing financial and business affairs, conducting audits under IFRS, US GAAP, and Indian GAAP, managing shared services units in India for US based MNCs, and monitoring FDI compliances, due diligence and setting up operations for Indian and Multi-National Companies in the IT space. Also spent more than 10 years of his career in the human resources domain, handling performance management, employee grievances, benefits, compliances, and retention.

    Currently, along with handling various responsibilities at the group level, he is also focused on the business operations associated with Ideas to Impacts’ pioneering new ‘Work from Hometown (WFHT)’ offering which enables enterprises to design, build and operationalize, work delivery models from smart towns.
  • Karan Rajpal

    Director HRIA
    AVP HR (Head C&B and HRSS) @ Coforge Limited

    Thought Leader, Strategic Thinker and People Enabler, having over 20 years of rich & insightful industry experience, including 20 years of Leadership & Operational roles in Human Resource space.

    Bring combined experience of HR, Technology, Operations & Business- oriented roles in corporate as well as entrepreneurial organizations, having gained hands on know-how of critical facets imperative to organizational success.

    History of strategizing & leading strategic interventions targeted at improving organizational capabilities through focused & data- driven initiatives.

    Compensation & Benefits expert, having ably led benchmarking & job mapping initiatives to design competitive & encouraging compensation & rewards structures.

    Hold the distinction of spearheading transformational initiatives, while ensuring alignment of the People Strategy with organization’s Vision & Values. Proven competence in partnering with business in shaping high- performing teams & culture.

    Post Graduate in Senior Leadership from the prestigious XLRI- Jamshedpur.
  • Dhara Shah

    Director HRIA
    Vice President HR at MarketsandMarkets

    An HR professional with over 17 + years of experience. Worked in all facets of HR. Have been associated with start-ups, in helping them grow their businesses. The focus has been to solve complex business problems and respond to the strategic challenges, providing a continuing stream of talent, building organizational capacity and driving systems and processes that create a high performance culture. This has been achieved by creating a collaborative environment to produce profound results in developing and implementing people strategies, change programs and HR function for business transformations.
  • Shuchita Singh Basu

    Director HRIA
    Head – Group Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs at Atos

    I am an HR professional with 20+ years of experience in varied areas in Human Resources (Business Partnering, corporate HR, M&A), currently working at a Group HR level in a Global DEI role with a French IT multinational. Global roles in the past decade have given me insights into evolution of people processes with the cultural, legal and social contexts in different countries including India. Apart from my MBA in Human Resources, I have also completed my SHRM certification and more recently the Mckinsey Management Accelerator Program from the Asian Leadership Academy. I have been volunteering with various NGOs and organizations working with the Pride Community and Women in Leadership for the last 5/6 years.
  • Abhijit Puri

    Immediate Past President
    Global HR Head at Cuelogic Technologies



    Played various roles in HRIA; President, Vice President ( Secretary ), Associate Vice President ( Treasurer ), Director ( Managing committee member).



    He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management. Worked in IT and ITES, for the past 15+ years in varied roles within HR like Recruitment, Resource Management, Talent Management/Development and Employee Engagement across Geographies.



    He is an internationally Certified Recruiter, AIRS – CIR & AIRS – CSSR



    Awarded by LinkedIn for being one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012.



    Winner of Dance Pune Dance the Times Corporate Championship 2010



    His areas of interests in the Organizations are People and Employee Engagement. He is known as a People Manager.
  • Baliram Mutagekar

    MENTOR
    Vice President HR at BNY Mellon

    Played various roles in HRIA; Managing Trustee, President, Vice President ( Secretary ), Associate Vice President ( Treasurer ), Director ( Managing committee member).

    BE from Karnataka University and MBA from University of Pune.

    Possess 20 + years of experience in Human Resource Management includes Business Partner HR, Performance assessment, HR Operations , competency mapping, Training, Heading campus recruitment, appraisals, employee grievance, etc .
    Strategic Business Partner: Catalyst and process facilitator for the creation of business strategies.

    Appreciated by multiple awards for outstanding work in HR in various organizations worked.
    Felicitation from Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development for active contribution to bridge industry academic gap
    Recognized through 'Corporate Leadership Award' (from 1750 nominations) organized by "Me Padhavidhar Team" for active contribution done in corporates beyond job.
  • Ashwin Jaisinghani

    Past President and Past Executive Trustee
    Director - People Success at Searce Inc

    Played various roles in HRIA; Executive Trustee, President, Vice President ( Secretary ), Associate Vice President ( Treasurer ), Director ( Managing committee member).

    Bachelor’s in computer science and Dual MBA in Marketing and Human Resources

    A Strategic and agile HR Leader with 20+ years of core, rich and varied experience in all aspects of Human Resource Management - Talent Acquisition, Management & Development, Driving People Transformation & Change Management, Employee Retention and UXperience, HR Operations & Administration and Training including overseas exposure.

    Area of expertise and interest is primarily in the Business HR function with special focus on driving Business results through effective People Management Practices and Processes.

    In the past have also led the Sourcing and Operations Management function (more specific in Talent Acquisition, Development & Management, Administration and Operational Excellence areas) for one of the global Business Unit, handling teams in India and NA, where the responsibilities included Talent Acquisition & Retention, Talent Management & Development, Allocation and Utilization, New Geography Support, Mobility, Operating Metrics (Utilization, Billability, Pyramid, FTE cost, etc.).