People Analytics: Data to Decisions Paperback - 2023

Rahul Ghatak is the co-Founder & CEO of Acumetric Global Solutions, a recent SaaS People Analytics start-up venture with its proprietary cloud based people analytics platform. He brings 25+ years of HR deep domain experience across MNC's & Indian conglomerates straddling diverse sectors across consumer and manufacturing, financial services and BPO/ITes. Rahul has had Human Resource Management, HR Digital Transformation & Business Partnering experience across the entire canvas in large & mid-size organizations (4000+ headcount; turnover 100 million $ to 1 billion $; Indian & MNC); key role in scaling up businesses & operations across sectors & geographies; cross-cultural exposure across India, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Middle-East, US, France & UK; and he has been an integral part of global HR leadership teams in two large MNCs. He has overseen change management & organization design & restructuring; performance management; employee relations; talent management; rewards restructuring; organization development; leadership coaching; resourcing & assessments; M&A; ERP & HR digital transformation to name some.

He has held key positions across organizations such as ITC, PepsiCo, HSBC, Capita, RPG, Welspun & BIC while leading the function over the last 10 years. Last three leadership roles he held were: Vice President Human Resources - RPG (Ceat Tyres); Director Human Resources - Capita India (subsidiary of Capita Group Plc UK;) FTSE 100 Company; CHRO - BIC India (subsidiary of Societe BIC); and in these roles he partnered closely with CEO's & promoters, both Indian & expatriates across multi-cultural environments. He has been a recipient of "global best-in-class certification" in Strategic HRM from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; recipient of Harvey-Russell Global Chairman's Award for cutting-edge work done in the Diversity & Inclusion space in PepsiCo International; recipient of the NCPEDP-SHELL Helen Keller Award. He is alsoa certified Occupational Testing Techniques & OPQ psychometric assessor; certified by SHL as well as a Diversity & Inclusion Practitioner, certified by DDI.

Rahul has also been involved in various professional and learning forums such as CII Training Sub-Committee, IQPC Forums on HR Technology, CIO Choice Awards, World HR Congress and has been part of several conferences in HR Technology & Great Place to Work conclaves. He has also in his spare time lectured at various Business Schools such as TISS, IIM's, ICFAI, SOIL, Great Lakes, PIBM etc as well as contributed articles in leading publications such as People Matters etc. Rahul holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from St Xavier's College, Kolkata; a Masters Degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a Masters Degree in Human Resources Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.