A business leader with over 30 years of rich experience in entrepreneurship, management and driving change, Kirti is currently with NASSCOM, as CEO for the IT-ITES Sector Skills Council. Prior to this, she was heading the prestigious FutureSkills Prime project, a digital skilling initiative that is a partnership between the Government of India and NASSCOM.

In her last avatar in the corporate world, she was the CEO of the joint venture between Genpact and NIIT called NIIT Uniqua, a training organisation focused on the IT-ITES sector. Over the years, her leadership experience has ranged from being a founder-entrepreneur of a 500-employee organisation, managing 2 turn-around stories and was an advisor for learning and development to global organisations in NIIT’s Global Consulting and Advisory practice, like Shell, Rio Tinto, Bank of America and Quintiles.

Kirti completed her BA in Economics from Delhi University and her MBA from the IIM, Calcutta, India’s premier management institute. Along the way, she became a certified Executive Coach and a Certified Practitioner of Learning and Performance from ATD. She was certified as a Scrum Master more than 10 years ago and has been converted to the tribe of Agile, ever since.

Dr. Sandhya Chintala is the Executive Director/CEO of IT- ITeS Sector Skills Council NASSCOM (SSC NASSCOM), which is an integral part of NASSCOM. SSC NASSCOM addresses the ‘Education & Skills Development Initiative’ of this industry body for the country. Dr. Sandhya Chintala is also the Vice President of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), which is the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPM industry.

An accomplished technocrat and business leader with 27+ years of experience, Divya is currently working with NASSCOM leading the development of Job Competency standards for all the emerging technologies as a part of FutureSkills (FS) Program. FS program aims to reskill/up skill 4 Million professionals and students in the new emerging technologies over the next 5 years in partnership with Industry, Government and Academia. She with her team also works on developing the Partner & Solution ecosystem for the FS program.

Before NASSCOM, Divya has spent majority of the time of her career with Intel in the US and moved to Intel India in 2012 and joined the Asia Pacific Sales and Marketing Organization. She has enjoyed many executive positions throughout her time spent in Intel ranging from Senior Server Product Marketing (Asia Pacific), Technical Sales, Director South Asia Operations. After spending couple of years in Business Operations she became the Chief of Staff to the VP and MD of India Sales and Marketing in setting the growth strategy for Intel. Her last position with Intel was of the Director – Public Sector India.

She is an articulate communicator with an ability to speak the language of both people and technology, blending technical expertise with strong interpersonal and presentation skills while interacting with the cross-functional teams, customers and stakeholders. She loves to upgrade the skill-set of her team members and mentoring them for increasing productivity. She likes to focus on key results, build amazing teams and quickly adapt to new insights. She enjoys meeting new people and hearing new perspectives.

Ajit is the Chief Architect of the IT Processes and Systems of SSC-NASSCOM. Ajit has joined NASSCOM after nearly 4 Years in HCL Technologies, where he was the Program Director for Transitions and Transformation and before this role he was the Delivery Unit head in HCL Technologies leading a large engagement with a European client. He has also worked with GE Capital and Genpact in various leadership roles for their IT Service Outsourcing and consulting businesses. His areas of expertise include Global programs, Large transformational initiatives, Delivery leadership and client management. He has worked across Europe, USA and India during his 25+ years of career.

Ajit is based in India in the NCR region. He is a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from VSSUT, Burla, Orissa and certified PMP, Prince2 and Six Sigma Black Belt. He considers himself a life-long learner of Science and Technology with current focus around Cloud and Data Science.

Snehasis has over 25 years of rich experiences in Information Technology Domain which includes qualitative & cross-functional experience in the areas of Strategic Planning & Leadership, Project / Program Management, Enterprise IT Operations, Service Delivery, Requirement Analysis, Business Development / Pre-Sales, Quality Assurance - CMM Level-5 Guidelines, Engagement / Account Management, Business Process Management, Stakeholder Management and Team Management covering Government, Education, Insurance, Banking & Energy Utilities domains. He has expertise in planning & building IT operations at the enterprise scale involving selection of appropriate technology and products, vendors negotiations, finalizing Service Level Agreements, outsourcing tasks etc.

Vaishali is a Consultant with NASSCOM . She leads the Content portfolio responsible for Aligning courses with competency standards for NASSCOM FutureSkills. Prior to joining NASSCOM , Vaishali was with Mercer Consulting & Genpact with over 18 years of experience in Learning & Development, Talent management, Capability development and Knowledge management.  She has lead several global teams and international assignments during her career. She is Six Sigma certified  and PMP from PMI

Jyotsna leads the Blended Learning Program for NASSCOM FutureSkills. Prior to joining NASSCOM, Jyotsna was with General Electric and GENPACT with over 20 years of experience in the US and India. She has held several leadership roles and senior management positions during her career at GE and GENPACT. Her roles involved managing a half a billion dollars Purchased Service operations for GE, creating first women only BPO centre of 3000 employees in Saudi Arabia, heading Global Supply Chain Operations & Partnerships, F&A Solutions, P & L Management.