Clients & Managers

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“Hemant’s vast experience and tactful guidance was invaluable to us at Pason in selecting an outsourcing company that met our technical needs but more importantly meshed with our unique business culture. I very much appreciated his co-operative style which encouraged active participation of the many stakeholders during the entire engagement. I recommend him to others seeking guidance for their own organization without any reservation.”

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert

Scott Olson

hired Hemant as a IT Consultant in 2007

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“I have worked with Hemant for over a year now as a globalization advisor with neoIT and have found him very knowledgeable in global sourcing, very easy to work with, and I can always count on him to highlight the bigger picture of how to undersatnd and address many real-world challenges.”

Top qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity

Randy Law, PMP, Director, Business Change Acceleration, McKesson Technology Solutions

hired Hemant as a IT Consultant in 2007

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“Hemant is a highly skilled management consultant in the international outsourcing field. He successfully delivers on client expectations and effectively manages global client service teams, on a consistant basis. Hemant’s special skills are conveying complex issues in “user-friendly” terms and coordinating numerous competencies, both on the client and the firm side. Hemant’s global professional and personal experience has enabled him to work well in numerous geographies around the world.”

Gary Schneider, Managing Director – India Operations, neoIT

managed Hemant at neoIT

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Colleagues & Team Members

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“Hemant has been a Great CIO to work with, he guides & cultivates the resources to take independent decisions & macro manages our activities.”

Sam Jacob George, Infrastructure & Operations Head, Deloitte India Firm

reported to Hemant at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd

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“I worked with Hemant for close to 18 months. For some part of it, it was indirect relationship while for close to one year was direct when I reported into him. It was a great experience to work with him. I found in him what I would always expect from my senior. He was quite involved in what was happening even then I always got a professional freedom to take decisions and act on them. He had a good grasp of the ground realities and it was easy to escalate anything to him as he would show empathy towards the situation and not dismiss that as incompetence. To me this was the greatest source of comfort while dealing with him. He is very sharp and quick in understanding different businesses which makes him a great problem solver, strategist and solution provider. This coupled with his professional articulation makes him quite potent to handle high pressure, high level business discussion successfully. I have been witness of few such discussions. One can see that his enriched and versatile experience has seasoned him to handle the pressure situations much better than some of my other seniors whom I have seen cracking under pressure and putting their teams through stress. I have seen Hemant, managing countless number of times, the pressure situation with the calmness, composure and professionalism. He also has vast amount of information on various subjects through variety of reading. He would always enliven the meeting or gathering with many anecdotes and witty one liners. His skill in people management and maintaining relationships with seniors, peers and subordinates alike is his key strength. That makes him part of almost any group. Personally it was always an enriching experience for me to work with him and I am so happy to keep my contact with him even after we have moved on in our professional lives.”

Kedar Puranik, Corporate Delivery Head at Tech Mahindra Ltd

reported to Hemant at Deloitte Consulting

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“Hemant is very passionate about his work & views – always likes to go to the bottom of things. Working with Hemant was always very educating. Wish him the best in all endeavours. Maneesha”

Maneesha Pednekar Head-Process & Quality, Atos Origin

reported to Hemant at Deloitte Consulting

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“I have known Hemant as a peer at Deloitte’s offshore development operations in India. During my close to three years of professional interaction with him, I have found him to be motivating leader who provides the optimum level of guidance/direction to his teams so that they are successful and also feel a sense of ownership. He is diligent and level-headed, and will consider various aspects of a business problem-at-hand before coming up with possible solutions. He has an innate ability to contribute to high-level planning and strategizing, and then can be as involved in the nuts-and-bolts implementation as needed by the situation. At Deloitte, he initially played a key role in heading Operations, and setting up and streamlining the various critical support functions needed to run the offshore development center. After this had achieved steady state, he took on the role to set up and grow one of the Technology practices as part of Deloitte’s offshore capability. It is a professional delight to have someone like Hemant with you in the middle of a challenging and stressful situation at hand. He keeps his cool, helps evaluate objectively and comes up with various solutions and recommendations. I look forward to another opportunity to work closely with him again.”

Amar Karvir, Vice-President; Business Unit Head; Pune Centre Head at Aztecsoft, a MindTree Company

worked with Hemant at Deloitte Consulting

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“Hemant was instrumental in setting up what is today the Deloitte Extended Delivery Center, Mumbai. Brilliance, honesty, charisma and an amaizing strategic acumen, are some of his very few qualities which stood out when I was interning for him at Deloitte. It made me want to work for him, which I eventually did. Firm development initiatives powered by models he developed, helped Deloitte take new directions. The Oracle service line went from strength to strength under his leadership. I cannot think of a better person than Hemant to spearhead a company or any part of it. In my view he is the best person possible for this kind of a profile.”

Prashant Vaghela, Senior Architect – Acrotrend Solutions

worked indirectly for Hemant at Deloitte Consulting

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“Hemant is one person who is always full of positive energy. He puts in a deep thought to every work that is performs and always has constructive and creative ways to solve a problem. He has been my mentor in many ways and will always remain my go-to guy.”

Gaurav Agarwal, Mobile Business Head at Amar Chitra Katha

worked indirectly for Hemant at Deloitte Consulting

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“Hemant is a visionary with not just a talent for strategic thought but the ability to execute on it as well. As our leader, he allowed us enough room to grow and provided us with the guidance we needed, to be able to become independent thinkers. As my mentor, Hemant has been approachable and honest and inspiring, providing me with the candid feedback I needed, to develop as a professional. I do appreciate his presence in my career and in my life. He has become a friend I can depend on. Thanks Hemant! I owe you a lot! :)”

Meghna Krishnaswamy, HR Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greater New York City Area

reported to Hemant at Deloitte Consulting

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“Hemant is one of the most accomplished and gifted individuals I have had the pleasure of working with. Sharp, articulate, personable and a gift for simplifying arcane OLTP to the geeks and senior management alike, he always impressed me with his many motivational and often invisible contributions that led to the success of this project and the team. Hemant lead a multi-dimensional project in BOLT that transformed the Indian stock market – covering the technical, political and the human (internal team building) aspects masterfully and proved to be a tremendous asset to the modernization efforts at the Bombay Stock Exchange. I wish him all the very best in his future professional and personal endeavors.”

Merwyn Andrade, CTO, Aruba Networks, Sunnyvale CA

reported to Hemant at Bombay Stock Exchange

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I reported to Hemant for three years at PwC Consulting. A thought leader in the consulting field, Hemant is a strategist with a vision. With extensive knowledge of the tech sector and years of experience across several high profile projects, Hemant is an asset to any consulting organization. His unique leadership and mentoring style make him a great engagement manager to work with.”

Shilpa Prakash, Strategy & Corporate Development, Hewlett Packard, San Jose, CA

reported to Hemant at PwC Consulting

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“My first assignment with Hemant was in 1997 for the largest non-life public sector insurance organisation, where our mandate was to evaluate a core insurance system for the organisation. Leading a very young and inexperienced team, Hemant did a fantstic job as the project manager and in manging client expectations. Hemant’s knowledge of systems and financial services domain is unmatched. Hemant, you were a great boss and learnt a lot from you. Wish you all the best in your professional and personal life.”

Vinayak Khadye, CISA, Head – Information Technology, Baroda L&G Life Insurance Company

reported to Hemant at PwC Consulting

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“Hemant is a high content professional who brings a progressive mindset and a dynamic execution capability to key programmes and projects.”

Jaideep Mehta, Regional Vice-President at Gartner (UK)

worked directly with Hemant at Zensar Technologies

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“Working with Hemant was one of the best things to happen to me early in my career. His energy, passion, technology understanding, vision for future, all were so infectious that one had to just be in his team to grow. I have always looked upto him as a mentor and continue to do so.”

Jiten Gajaria, CEO – Hayagreeva Consulting

reported to Hemant at RPG Group

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