HFS PODCASTS

It’s time to meet Steve Koutros, Practice Leader for Research-based Sourcing Advisory services. Steve is responsible for driving practice growth (clients and people), managing client projects and building an adaptable end-to-end sourcing lifecycle process model. Steve is passionate about delivering excellence above client expectations.

Prior to founding Emperia, Steve was a Partner & Director of CFO and HR Services with ISG (TPI) and part of the EMEA Leadership team. Steve worked for Capgemini for 6 years running an energy consulting practice, a nationwide ERP solutions practice for global rollouts and a global Procurement practice from Paris. Steve has founded and run 3 consulting businesses (1985-custom software development, 2008 – banking contract negotiations and 2020 – GBS/SSC).

Steve has an M.B.A. (Accounting) from St. John’s University (New York) and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from Emory University (Georgia). Steve is originally from New York, has lived in Houston, Boston, and London. Steve lives outside of Rotterdam (22 years) and speaks fluent Dutch.

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Mary Adams

Mary Adams has 25+ years of experience as a business management consultant at Capgemini with expertise in the oil and gas industry, enterprise resource management, service line marketing and strategic alliance management.

She pivoted her career into a new direction - Human Rights and is the Founder & Director of Sustainable Rescue Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to advise organizations how to collaborate and build resilience against the crime of human trafficking.

Her current work includes creating a use case for data sharing between police and shelters using privacy-enhancing technology, integrating victim and perpetrator vulnerability models to reveal trends and patterns, using artificial intelligence to gain new insights from diverse data sources, and introducing knowledge graphs as a method to develop crime scripts.

Mary loves reading and international cooking; and is part of many book clubs. She also enjoys experimenting new recipes!

This podcast has 3 sections

US healthcare spends close to $4Trillion annually, or ~20% of GDP. Yet we are becoming sicker and living fewer years on average, even before the pandemic struck. However with emerging technologies and new approaches to enabling technologies we have an opportunity to course correct. One of those is the use of No-Code-Low-Code in health and healthcare to rapidly address systemic challenges and yet be environmentally friendly. Too good to be true? Listen to my discussion with Raveesh.

The podcast has 3 parts:

1. Setting the stage – which gives us an understanding of No-Code-Low-Code and distills a software oxymoronic expression that packs a punch

2. Let’s talk unfiltered – Learn how No-Code-Low-Code can help with the enormous tech debt in healthcare and the real-life examples of where that is happening.

3. Looking into the future – No-Code-Low-Code enables citizen developers, the idea that anybody can develop software given the simplicity of it as long there is a good understanding of the business. Consequently, it aligns well with the need for lower energy requirements, and we discuss its environment friendliness. No-Code-Low-Code a climate change reverser?

The HFS OneOffice™ Hot Vendors are an exclusive group of emerging players, each with a differentiated value proposition for the OneOffice. HFS analysts regularly speak with numerous exciting start-ups and emerging players. We designate a select group as the HFS Hot Vendors based on their distinctiveness, ecosystem robustness, client impact, financial position, and the impact in our OneOffice Framework. Those selected are collated and published in our quarterly series. They each have the vision and strategy to impact and disrupt the market.

On occasion, we go deeper with a podcast with one of the people behind those winning visions – in our HFS OneOffice Hot Vendor Firesides. This episode features Erik Lien, Founder and CEO of HFS OneOffice Hot Vendor RPA Supervisor. Listen as Erik tells us about the journey he has been on, reveals some great funding news and explains where he plans to take RPA Supervisor.

The podcast is in three sections in which we:

1. Warm-up: What does this Hot Vendor deliver?

2. Fan the flames: This Hot Vendor’s journey, what they learned, what makes them different, how do they see the market?

3. Light the way: Taking a glance into what’s next on the agenda for this Hot Vendor.

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Roni Michael

Roni is currently a partner in KPMG Israel. She joined KPMG Israel in 2002 and held several leadership positions within the Israeli practice. Since 2014, Roni has been KPMG Israel’s Head of Innovation, leading their Technology Consulting practice, and driving the development of KPMG Israel’s Data & Analytics, Digital, Cyber, and Cloud practices. As of July 2021, she is the Global Head of Innovation for KPMG.

Roni is a mother of 2 accomplished boys aged 14 and 11 years.

This podcast has 3 sections

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Riju Vashisht

Riju Vashisht serves as Genpact’s Chief Transformation Officer responsible the company’s overall integrated transformation services. Previously, Riju served as Genpact’s Digital Solutioning and Automation leader, where she focused on driving cutting edge digital solutions and expanding the company’s RPA business. Prior to that, she was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Genpact’s Consumer Goods, Retail, Life Sciences, and Healthcare businesses. In that capacity, she led global operations, digital transformation and employee engagement for these verticals and drove continuous improvement, productivity, and learning and development efforts to help clients with their business transformations.

In addition to two stints at Genpact, Riju has also worked at Walmart, Whirlpool and Unilever in her career which spans more than 2 decades. A Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Riju earned an MBA from the Xavier School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur and a BS in engineering at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology.

This podcast has 3 sections

About Ralph

Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz is a Practice Leader at HFS, based in London, UK. With over 16 years of professional experience, Ralph has helped a wide range of organisations improve and transform their IT security, risk and compliance environments. Ralph’s research at HFS focuses on Cybersecurity and Horizon 3 technologies across all industries (with an initial focus on 5G and Quantum Computing).

Ralph has a strong risk management knowledge (gained through 12 years of IT audit and advisory experience in Big 4) combined with a technical expertise in security, risk and compliance technologies. He has a proven experience in integrating automation and continuous monitoring solutions into security operations.

As part of his previous industry role in the Life Sciences industry, Ralph was part of the Core Tech Strategy & Transformation Leadership Team in the capacity of Senior Director. He led the design, delivery and operation of a global Security and Governance transformation programme. He also actively contributed to the development and deployment of a global Intelligent Automation programme across global functions and business units.

With over 25K+ followers and more than 5 million post views, Ralph is an active contributor on LinkedIn providing an honest, pragmatic and above all funny perspective on technology, security and automation.

Approximately 90% of employees are enrolled in high deductible plans or about 44 million pay all their healthcare costs out-of-pocket which was an average of $1,240 in 2019. In the US when most cannot afford $400 when posed with an emergency medical bill, how do they afford to pay the out-of-pocket expense? As part of this conversation, you will hear diverse options that consumers have to pay for their medical expenses.

The podcast has 3 parts

1. Setting the stage – which gives us an understanding of the consumer-centric payment industry

2. Let’s talk unfiltered – Learn about FinTech with a reputation of predatory lending may be helping in healthcare!

The speakers also discussed:

- Despite US consumers carrying ~$15T in personal debt across mortgage, auto loans, credit card, etc. Do 0% interest & no-fee loans to consumers to pay their healthcare bills, perpetuate the problem of adding on more debt?

- Historically healthcare savings such as HSA, FSA’s have been distributed through the employers but have a very low take rate of 2-5%. So how do we distribute consumer-centric payment solutions and what challenges do they face?

- Given health outcomes in the US have gotten worse mostly due to consumer lifestyle choices, is there an opportunity to connect behaviors to access to funds?

3. Looking into the future – where we discussed how healthcare could help reverse climate change by encouraging better consumer lifestyles.

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala”. As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries”, our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world.  In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

This podcast has 3 sections

As part of this podcast, you can tune in to unfiltered insights and perspectives from business leaders across the globe on the future of industry, the power of technology & innovation and creating solutions that make a difference.

One of the things that has taken center stage since the global pandemic and changed our lives is the power of innovation and technology. As part of this conversation, you will hear diverse perspectives about what’s shaping the future of the energy industry, the role of technology and innovation and how different players are responding to the changing and evolving market dynamics.

Moderator:

· Nischala Murthy Kaushik, CMO – HFS

Speakers

· Robin Goswami – SVP and Global Head, Energy Practice, Infosys

· Maurice Tayeh – Global CIO, Hatch

· Saurabh Gupta, President – Research and Business Operations, HFS

About the Podcast

The podcast has 3 parts

1. Setting the stage – which gives us an understanding of how the global pandemic has impacted the energy industry

2. Let’s talk unfiltered – covers the importance of how technology and innovation are playing a role in catalyzing this change!

The Speakers also discussed about

· What are the drivers which are leading to changes in the energy industry?

· How are energy companies such as Hatch re-inventing themselves to meet this changing industry landscape?

· How are service providers like Infosys adapting to the changing landscape and client requirements to drive these innovations?

3. Looking into the future – where we discussed about the future of the energy industry & road ahead for us. Speakers also shared their insights on where will the energy industry stand by 2025?