We are proud of our highly motivated executive team steering the organization toward its core goals of making significant technological contributions to positively impact the world we live in; creating a workplace that attracts and nurtures purpose-driven colleagues; and nurturing customer relationships through our commitment to their success.
Leadership Team
Overview
Meet the team at the helm of GS Lab | GAVS
BOARD MEMBERS
Deepak has been a CFO with GE Energy, CFO for the GE Satyam JV, and he led that initiative as the Chief Integration Officer, he was the CFO for Genpact at Netherlands and was the Chief Integration Officer for that M&A for Genpact. He was the Asia Pacific Controller for GE Industrial and Consumer with a key focus on M&A and divestiture. He was with GE Group for almost 18 years.
He was the CFO of JCB, a British firm that is a world leader in construction equipment, for 4 years, and Deepak was involved with the business unit that contributed the highest percentage of EBITDA for JCB Global. His last engagement was with an exciting US-based technology company, Datavant-Ciox focused on Healthcare Technologies.
Deepak has held leadership roles in various industries across India, China, US, Europe and South Asia with some of the leading companies in the world like GE and JCB Group.
Deepak has been a CFO with GE Energy, CFO for the GE Satyam JV, and he led that initiative as the Chief Integration Officer, he was the CFO for Genpact at Netherlands and was the Chief Integration Officer for that M&A for Genpact. He was the Asia Pacific Controller for GE Industrial and Consumer with a key focus on M&A and divestiture. He was with GE Group for almost 18 years.
He was the CFO of JCB, a British firm that is a world leader in construction equipment, for 4 years, and Deepak was involved with the business unit that contributed the highest percentage of EBITDA for JCB Global. His last engagement was with an exciting US-based technology company, Datavant-Ciox focused on Healthcare Technologies.
Directorships
Millennium Physician Group | Chairman
CD&R Investments
Millennium Physician Group
Experience
Tenet Healthcare Corporation | Vice Chairman
Vanguard Health Systems | Vice Chairman
Mariner Post-Acute Network | Chairman & CEO
OrNda HealthCorp | EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Ernst & Young | Partner
Education
University of Florida | B.S., business administration
He founded Genpact, a global leading company in Business Process Management, in 1997 and was its President & CEO till June 2011. Under his leadership, Genpact pioneered in the BPO industry in many countries including India and China; its market capitalization grew from US $500 million in 2005 to over US $3.5 billion when he retired. Genpact is acknowledged today as the leader in its industry with over 75,000 employees across 17 countries and over US $2 billion in revenues.
Prior to Genpact, his career with GE Capital spanned 25 years across the US, UK and Asia. He was earlier the CEO of GE Capital in India & Asia and prior to that worked with GE Capital in Stamford, CT in the Leveraged Buy Out group.
In September 2016, Pramod along with partners acquired the businesses of GE Capital – India, now known as Clix Capital. He is the Chairman of Clix Capital, which is a broad based NBFC, focused on providing digital platforms and financial services to commercial companies and consumers across India.
Pramod is the co-founder of Asha Impact, Virtual Fund focused on Social Impact Investments and Advocacy. He is an active investor in different companies, from start-ups to ongoing businesses. He has also co-founded the Skills Academy that focuses on providing vocational skills training to lower income youth in villages across the country. The Skills Academy has trained over 50,000 students and placed majority of them in jobs, post training.
Pramod serves on the Boards of DLF Ltd, SRF Ltd and NDTV. He is also on the governing Board of ICRIER, Help Age and The Shri Ram School. He has been the Chairman of Nasscom and noted “IT Man of the Year” by Dataquest in 2010.
Pramod is a Chartered Accountant from Thomas McLintock & Co., London, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Delhi University.
He has been in the Information Technology industry for the last 25+ years and is fascinated with the new trends in technologies in Predictive Analytics, AI, Automation, etc. and is promoting some of these competencies at PurposeTech. Sumit is a strong proponent of Culture in the corporate world, and believes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. The leadership team at GS Lab | GAVS and Sumit would like to create a company of “Purpose” within GS Lab | GAVS and espouse the values of Respect, Integrity, Trust and Empathy through their business interactions.
He is an Award-Winning Author of a Book, ‘Success Breakthrough’, that he co-authored with Jack Canfield of the Chicken Soup of the Soul series and other authors. He recently (a couple of weeks ago) won the ‘ET NOW Business Leader of the Year (Technology), and he was selected by the Times Group as one the ‘Top 50 most promising leaders in Asia’.
In the past, he has been the Head of M&A, Consulting and Global Sales for a publicly-traded (NASDAQ) IT Services company and has been the CEO of a publicly listed company. He has pursued a JV with GE and has engaged with GE for over 15 years. He is an Electrical Engineer and has a PG in Management from IIM Kolkata and an Advanced Professional Certificate from Stern School of Management, NYU. He has done an OPM Executive Program at HBS. He has been an Adjunct Professor teaching Executive MBA and Part-time MBA students at Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey. He is one of the founding charter members of TiE NJ/Phily and has been a guest speaker at various industry forums, Universities and MBA schools.
Individually and through GS Lab | GAVS Sumit has been involved in various community service activities, and actively pursues tennis, golf and gym activities.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Sarah is passionate about supporting the development of women’s careers and the importance of education and is currently an Executive Mentor with the ExCo Group which helps executives and teams develop their full leadership potential. She also volunteers with PENCIL – an organization focused on connecting NYC students with business professionals and is a mentor to the Columbia University Executive Master of Science in Technology Management Program.
His previous IT industry background includes leadership positions at Siemens Nixdorf, BusTech, Data Center Direct, MSPI, Tarantella, and Devon IT. In 2013 Joe co-founded and orchestrated a divestiture of HiveIO, Inc. from one of the world’s largest financial institutions. In 2017 he spearheaded HiveIO’s efforts to acquire Atlantis Computing assets. In 2017-18 Joe co-founded Cloud Therapeutics Inc., a medical technology company and MakTrax, Inc., a strategic investment and business development firm. Joe sits on the board of directors of several technology companies. In 2005 he was inducted into the Villanova University Athletics Hall of Fame.
LEADERSHIP
In his career, Deepak has worked with leading organizations including Mphasis, IBM, Cap Gemini & Wipro. In his last role, he was leading new business for BFSI in North America for Tech Mahindra.
Raghav in his last assignment has worked with NTT Data Services, as Vice President & Global Client Partner for 10 years where he helped build the banking & financial services practice from scratch and managed a large book of business.
Prior to NTT Data Services, Raghav was with dWise Solutions, Collebra and Citi Bank in business development. In dWise as a head of business development, he worked in the Healthcare provider space, his domain knowledge also includes supporting banking and financial services, customers.
He holds an MBA from IIM Indore and a Bachelor’s in Commerce from Madras University.
Rahul is also a respected M&A and turnaround leader having acquired and led businesses from HP and Intel. He brings this entrepreneurial spirit and drive to push boundaries and scale our business for impact. He leads with empathy and is passionate about growing employees into high performance teams.
In his career, Ajai has worked with leading organizations including Persistent Systems, Tech Mahindra and the HCL Group. In his last role, Ajai was part of the executive management team at Persistent and was responsible for global growth of the organization via channels like Alliances, Private Equity and Analyst/Advisors. Earlier, Ajai was heading the Engineering Services for Americas at Tech Mahindra.
Ajai was the VP and Global Head of HCL ERS Verticals & Mid-Market (VMM) segment. Under his leadership, VMM business segment became one of the fastest growing segments within HCL. He has held multiple leadership positions across business strategy & management, customer management, and sales. He shares his thoughts about business and technology through his blog – https://www.ajaikumar.com/
Suman holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and his passion to transform the healthcare industry stems from his family who are medical professionals (his mom is an ophthalmologist and Dad, a pediatrician). His favourite quote: “In the Middle of every difficulty lies opportunity – Albert Einstein”. Suman is based out of California (Bay Area).
Deepak has been a CFO with GE Energy, CFO for the GE Satyam JV, and he led that initiative as the Chief Integration Officer, he was the CFO for Genpact at Netherlands and was the Chief Integration Officer for that M&A for Genpact. He was the Asia Pacific Controller for GE Industrial and Consumer with a key focus on M&A and divestiture. He was with GE Group for almost 18 years.
He was the CFO of JCB, a British firm that is a world leader in construction equipment, for 4 years, and Deepak was involved with the business unit that contributed the highest percentage of EBITDA for JCB Global. His last engagement was with an exciting US-based technology company, Datavant-Ciox focused on Healthcare Technologies.
Deepak has held leadership roles in various industries across India, China, US, Europe and South Asia with some of the leading companies in the world like GE and JCB Group.
Deepak has been a CFO with GE Energy, CFO for the GE Satyam JV, and he led that initiative as the Chief Integration Officer, he was the CFO for Genpact at Netherlands and was the Chief Integration Officer for that M&A for Genpact. He was the Asia Pacific Controller for GE Industrial and Consumer with a key focus on M&A and divestiture. He was with GE Group for almost 18 years.
He was the CFO of JCB, a British firm that is a world leader in construction equipment, for 4 years, and Deepak was involved with the business unit that contributed the highest percentage of EBITDA for JCB Global. His last engagement was with an exciting US-based technology company, Datavant-Ciox focused on Healthcare Technologies.
Sangeeta is an avid reader and a keen observer of human behavior. She enjoys playing & following Badminton, Tennis and Cricket, has a passion for cooking, travelling and hydroponic farming. She firmly believes that “people are the key to building a successful organization” and thus strives to create strategic HR that aligns with business vision and goals.
He has also created a patent for a mistake proofing application called ‘Advanced Command Interface”. He thinks ahead and his implementation of ‘disk based backup using SAN replication’ in one of his previous organizations as early as in 2005 is a proof of his visionary skills. Chandra is a graduate in Electronics and communication engineering.
Chandra once an avid reader, always sees things from a completely new perspective. He brings those new perspectives in his writing. He wrote about the feelings of a ‘self-respecting’ individual who was caught between waters and survival during the floods in 2015. He captured the feelings of an upcoming fast bowler when Phil Hughes died from a bouncer from Sean Abbott. Against everyone’s wish and prayer, he wrote why Tendulkar should stop at 99 centuries and not try 100. He has plenty of such short stories to write. He has reserved all of them for ‘post-retirement’ life. He loves cooking, housekeeping and helping his wife in the morning hours. He jokes his wife hates cricket as much as he loves it.
He holds an MBA in Finance and a Certification in General Management from IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to GS Lab | GAVS, he was with Computer Sciences Corporation India for almost 20 years, where he started as a Finance and Account Executive and progressed into various strategic roles including the Controllership of Finance in CSC, India.
Shenoy is a huge cricket fan and cricket keeps him busy during the weekends. He enjoys travelling when he finds the time, and partying with his friends.
Balaji’s enthusiasm, energy and client focus is a rare gift, and he plays a key role in bringing new clients into GS Lab | GAVS. Balaji heads the Delivery and passionately works on Customer delight. He says work is worship for him, and enjoys watching cricket, listening to classical music and visiting temples.
He has been in the Information Technology industry for the last 25+ years and is fascinated with the new trends in technologies in Predictive Analytics, AI, Automation, etc. and is promoting some of these competencies at GS Lab | GAVS. Sumit is a strong proponent of Culture in the corporate world, and believes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. The leadership team at GS Lab | GAVS and Sumit would like to create a company of “Purpose” within GS Lab | GAVS and espouse the values of Respect, Integrity, Trust and Empathy through their business interactions.
He is an Award-Winning Author of a Book, ‘Success Breakthrough’, that he co-authored with Jack Canfield of the Chicken Soup of the Soul series and other authors. He recently (a couple of weeks ago) won the ‘ET NOW Business Leader of the Year (Technology), and he was selected by the Times Group as one the ‘Top 50 most promising leaders in Asia’.
In the past, he has been the Head of M&A, Consulting and Global Sales for a publicly-traded (NASDAQ) IT Services company and has been the CEO of a publicly listed company. He has pursued a JV with GE and has engaged with GE for over 15 years. He is an Electrical Engineer and has a PG in Management from IIM Kolkata and an Advanced Professional Certificate from Stern School of Management, NYU. He has done an OPM Executive Program at HBS. He has been an Adjunct Professor teaching Executive MBA and Part-time MBA students at Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey. He is one of the founding charter members of TiE NJ/Phily and has been a guest speaker at various industry forums, Universities and MBA schools.
Individually and through GS Lab | GAVS, Sumit has been involved in various community service activities, and actively pursues tennis, golf and gym activities.