The unTuned

In this episode of The Untuned, Gaurav had a candid chat with Jin Kan Moller, around importance of simplicity in design. 

Jin Kang Moller is an award-winning customer experience strategist, design practitioner and highly-acclaimed executive trainer. She held design leadership positions to creative value and bottom-line impact in the large financial services firms such as OCBC Bank in Singapore and Credit Suisse in Switzerland, and has led user experience consulting services for leading pharmaceutical companies. With 20 years of practitioner', she is a highly acclaimed executive trainer on design thinking, customer experience and design leadership at Singapore Management University.

She is the author of The Simplicity Playbook for Innovators – creating lovable experiences in a complicated world, a battle-tested strategy and the collection of tools to drive innovation, humanise digital transformation and to win customers’ hearts. She is passionate about how design can create value in business and in life, always looking for ways to design simplicity in life.

Jin is also the director of design at https://designfulcompany.com/

In this episode, Gaurav invited Vineet Panchhi - A Poet , Filmaker and Entrepreneur. 

Over the last few years , Vineet’s work has been going viral across different social media platforms ,where he touches various aspects of life, in in shooting voice - in what he calls as nazm numa items - something like poetry.

After years of corporate experience as a HR head , making some of the well accepted ad jingles and founding few venture on his way to Entrepreneurship , Vineet today runs a media & production firm - word of mouth media.

In this super interesting and candid chat, Vineet shared about his journey , his point of view around different aspects of live and living . And I had a great time learning about so many things . In Vineet's words Sabak jo seekhe zindage - the lessons I learnt from life .

You can see Vineet's profile here : https://www.vineetpanchhi.com/

In this episode of The Untuned, Gaurav invited Prantik Mazumdar , Founder of Happy Marketer and current Managing Director of CXM @Denstu. 

The episode focuses on Value and Impact creation through entrepreurship. 

"Prantik is an entrepreneur & venture investor and acts as a Digital Transformation Catalyst in organizations to drive sustainable change and impact.

Simply Blood is World's First Virtual Blood Donation Platform.

Gaurav had a heart to heart conversation with Kiran Verma, Founder of Simply Blood. 

https://www.simplyblood.com/

In this episode, Gaurav had a candid chat with Sumedha Khoche, founder and CEO of KinderPass

kinderPass is an early learning company that enables parents to give the best start to their children. Learning begins at birth- with that guiding principle , today kinder pass has 1200+ developmental activities and play ideas for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.

Sumedha started KinderPass as an attempt at using tech as a tool to help parents give their child the best start by making KinderPass their personal child development guide- everything they need to help promote the child’s development- in one app.

Prior to this, Sumdha was leading and managing businesses at Pepsico and Procter & Gamble for 13+ years, in sales, research and marketing across FMCG categories such as beverages, laundry, dish care and air fresheners across APAC-India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia.

https://mykinderpass.com/

Leadership is not just about a professional success or a title, there are various aspects of being a holistic leader and readiness towards it.

In this episode , Gaurav had a candid conversation with Manoj Vasudevan, world champion of public speaking and one of the most influential leadership coaches.

Manoj Vasudevan is an internationally renowned Next Level Leadership Readiness Expert who helps executives to breakthrough to the next level of their career, business and life. He is the 2017 World Champion of Public Speaking, CEO of Thought Expressions and chief mentor at Next Level Unlimited. Manoj holds an MBA from Imperial College London with more than two decades of leadership experience in many major multinational clients in Asia, Australia, USA and Europe. As an expert in Next Level Leadership Readiness, he has coached and empowered C-Level executives, senior executives, bureaucrats, celebrities, UN diplomats, high-performance teams, high-potential employees and professionals from over 100 countries. Manoj is the author of the international bestsellers including Mastering Leadership The Mousetrap Way and How To Become The World Champion of Public Speaking. Manoj has been featured widely on international media including BBC, CNBC, Business Insider and world’s top-ranking book fairs. In 2017, he was featured among the top 50 World’s leading professional speakers at the International Speakers Summit.

https://thoughtexpressions.com/about-manoj-vasudevan/

HR led technology transformation is not really a buzz word anymore but it is becoming more and more relevant and contextual , with all the changing dynamics around how people and companies work. 

In this episode, Gaurav has an insightful conversation with the executive team ( Manu Khetan, CEO & Philip Wixon, COO)  of leading HR Transformations company in South East Asia, "Rolling Arrays".  

Rolling Arrays (RA) is Asia’s premier award-winning HR Transformation Company, headquartered in Singapore with offices in 6 countries (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, UAE & India). Since its inception in 2009, Rolling Arrays has successfully delivered more than 150 HR transformation projects for more than 75 blue-chip clients across Asia. A consultative approach to HR Processes, HR Functions and HR Software is Rolling Arrays’ core expertise and the primary catalyst for its success. Rolling Arrays is an SAP Gold Partner and has won several awards from SAP for its expertise in SAP SuccessFactors. Rolling Arrays was recently recognised as Singapore’s Top 75 fastest-growing company by Straits Times in 2021. For more details, visit www.rollingarrays.com/

AI & Data has been changing the landscape in most of the industries , and Financial services/Fintech is no exception. 

In this episode, Gaurav invited Abhinav Mishra , Founder & CEO of Value3 Advisory. 

Abhinav is a Capital Markets, FinTech, Risk Modelling and Analytics expert with more than 15 years of experience in portfolio risk management, fixed income and credit risk.

Abhinav is Founder and CEO of Value3 and has led its product growth to cover credit ratings and research in more than 10 global markets today. Prior to Value3, Abhinav was Vice President for Financial Markets at Standard Chartered Bank and Senior Business Analyst for Fixed Income Markets at JPMorgan. He was also Singapore Chair for Next Generation Talent Group and Board Member for Singapore Diversity Council.

He has worked across US, UK, Singapore and India markets with leading global investment banks where he led strategic digital transformation projects and cutting edge technology solutions to shape the pricing, risk and control platforms at these institutions.

Abhinav has been listed amongst the Top Asia FinTech Leaders by Singapore FinTech Association in 2019 and Under-35 Global Young Scientists by Singapore National Research Foundation. He is also a Mentor of Change for the Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Ayog under the Government of India.

He holds a Masters in Risk Management from NYU Stern School of Business and Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from University of Mumbai.

About Value 3 :

https://www.value3-advisory.com/

Value3 is an award winning B2B FinTech that offers a capital market AI platform for independent, unbiased and automated corporate credit ratings, research and analytics solution to empower corporates and financial institutions to make better decisions.

The platform combines structured financial data with unstructured news flow, macro, geopolitical, industry and company specific events and other market data to transform data overload into actionable insights.

Value3 was founded in 2018 with its headquarters in Singapore. Today, it offers its services across Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle East markets. It has won multiple Best FinTech Awards in Singapore, India and Europe.

Fitness and Performance are not just state of mind. Fitness is a complete alignment of goals, actions and beliefs across Mind, Body and Emotions. In the fast moving world and the need for speed, it is extremely important to have a commitment towards fitness in a complete sense , for being a successful leader or a transformed individual. 

In this exciting episode, Gaurav invited Sari Marsden, Co- Founder of Sarius Performance and Co-Author of "Fit to Lead". This insightful conversation about the right way for connecting fitness to performance and stories from Sari's journey is absolutely worth listening if you envision a fulfilling and high performance life , in this Digital and Data Driven world.