Debasish Das

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Debasish Das is a former Chief People Officer at Trans Maldivian Airways, the world’s largest seaplane company, Global CHRO at SPANCO, as well as HR Leader at IBM and Genpact. A management professional with over 30 years of experience in Human Resources, Quality, and Administration- across Power, IT, Telecom, BPO, Airlines, and Education businesses- having experience in start-up, mezzanine, and operationally stable companies— managed teams across 15 countries in Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. He is a Lead Assessor for ISO 9001 as well as certified in People CMM and COPC. He is also trained by Turnaround Expert Ron Kaufman on Service Upliftment. He is an Engineer from NIT, Rourkela, and a full-time MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He is also an Evaluation Panel Member at the Innovation Lab of Northeastern University, Boston.

Kalpana Padhi

Chief Design Officer (CDO)

Kalpana Padhi is our Chief Design Officer (CDO). She has done her B.E from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She completed her management studies from XLRI, Jamshedpur. She worked with companies like Alcatel and Electronics Corporation before founding Humanlinks in 2000. As the CDO she is responsible for the overall delivery design and user engagement models for all technology products.

Niroj Panda

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Niroj Panda is the Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the design and delivery of our products and programs. Niroj has over 20 years of industry experience in managing HR in IT & ITES and Manufacturing industries.

Niroj has over 20 years of industry experience in managing HR in IT & ITES and Manufacturing industries. In his last assignment, he was heading HR for a Business Unit (4000+ employees across 10 global locations) in the BPS service line of a large Global IT Company. He has extensive hands-on experience in strategizing and executing Organization Development initiatives. His special interest areas are People Analytics and Process Improvement initiatives using Six Sigma and other Quality Management tools. He is an MBA from Utkal University in India.