TeamLease Services Limited, India’s leading human resource company offering a range of solutions to 3500+ employers for their hiring, productivity and scale challenges, has announced the appointments of Mekin Maheshwari, Meenakshi Nevatia, and Somasundaram Subramaniam as Independent Directors for a period of five years.
Mekin Maheshwari is the Founder and CEO, Udhyam Learning Foundation. He is a graduate in engineering from PESIT, Bangalore. He started his career in 2002 with Yahoo! and then went on to join Ugenie where he created weRead – a successful social network around books. He was an early team member at Flipkart in 2009 where he played various roles. As Head of Engineering, he built a great tech team, which he counts as his biggest professional achievement till date. He then went on to establish two small start-ups within Flipkart and finally took on the role of Chief People Officer. He moved on from Flipkart in March 2016.
In 2017, he started Udhyam Learning Foundation, a not-forprofit organisation. Udhyam aims to develop entrepreneurial mindsets amongst youth and nano entrepreneurs to help them pursue their potential. He is also Co-founder of GAME (Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship) which was started in 2018. He is an angel investor for non-profit, social and tech start-ups.
Meenakshi Nevatia is the Managing Director of Stryker India since October 2018. Over the last 2.5 years, she has focused on transforming the organization into a truly customer focused company while significantly strengthening operational basics and building a vibrant organization culture that can attract and retain the best talent in the industry.
Prior to joining Stryker, Nevatia had a successful 15-year stint with Novartis, where she served in various sales, marketing and business leadership positions across geographies including Switzerland, UK, Spain, Hong Kong and Thailand. Her last role in Novartis was as Country President and Pharma Division head for Novartis in Thailand.
Nevatia started her career with McKinsey & Company in 1994, where she led various projects in the Healthcare Practice (Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices & Health Insurance) across several markets including India, Singapore, U.S. and South Africa.
Nevatia has a Master of Business Administration in Strategy and Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A), and Bachelor of Science in Economics and Mathematics from the Presidency College, Kolkata. Nevatia is on the Board of the Medical Technology Association of India (MTAI}, on the Governing Council of Nathealth and is the Chair of the Med Tech Committee at AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce).
S. Subramaniam was the Chief Financial Officer for Titan Company Limited for a decade till his superannuation in June, 2021. During the stint with Titan, he was also on the Board of its subsidiaries like Caratlane Trading Pvt Ltd, Titan Engineering and Automation Ltd, Favre Leuba AG and the joint venture, Montblanc India Retail Pvt Ltd. He is also on the Board of Innoviti Payment Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Before joining Titan, he was in the Telecom industry for over 11 years including stints of CFO for BPL Mobile group and CEO for BPL Mobile operations in Mumbai and CFO of the Telecom vertical in Essar group and worked extensively in setting up its foray into green field telecom operations in Africa.
A Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant by qualification and with over 35 years of post qualification experience in Finance, Strategy and Business roles, specifically in areas like controllership, treasury and fund raising in India and in overseas markets, debt restructuring, preparation for IPO, mergers and acquisitions, business partnering and investor relations.
His previous job experiences included working with A F Ferguson & Co, ITC Limited and VST Industries in India and Mannai Group in Doha, Qatar.
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