Dinesh Weerakkody is a former Chairman/CEO of the Employee’s Trust Fund Board, Sri Lanka, was an Advisor to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from January 2003 to April 2004 and the Human Resource Director of GlaxoSmithKline-Sri Lanka from Jan 1998 to November 2005.He is currently a Council Member of the Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Sri Lanka Division, a Committee member of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association, a Director of SmithKline Beecham-Sri Lanka, Commercial Bank of Ceylon and DFCC Bank. He is a leading writer and an economic commentator, has published many books, presented and published many papers at national and international level and  regularly contributes to the local newspapers and business magazines. He has also received many awards locally and internationally.

  S V Narayan

Narayan has more than 25 years of rich management experience in all areas of the HR function like recruitment, performance management, compensation management, training and people development, HR administration and people relations.  He has had exposure to working in multi-cultural professional environments in organizations like Texas Instruments, SAP and Synopsys, with a strong focus on quality, process, performance and customer orientation. Narayan holds a Masters degree in Social Work specializing in Human Resource Management from Loyola College, University of Madras.

  Jayashree Chaudhry

Jayashree has over 20 years of experience in HR with wide exposure to the entire gamut of HR activities like Compensation, Performance Management, Policy Formulation and Administration, Recruitment, Training and Development. She has held responsible positions in the past with work profile ranging across industries like Pharmaceutical Industry, Engineering, Software Development, Networking, FMCG, Education, Health and IT Services Sectors. She has been employed with companies like MICO Bosch, Microland, The UB Group, Satyam Computers and Wockhardt Pharmaceuticals. She holds a Post Graduate Degree in Management Science specializing in Human Resource Management from the University of Bombay.

  Manju Nair

Manju has a Masters degree in Management from Mahatma Gandhi University and an MBA in Human Resources.

She has over 10 years of experience in the Customer Service and HR functions in companies like CAE India Pvt. Ltd., Les Concierges Pvt. Ltd. etc.

  Pratibha Sudhir

Pratibha is an Industrial Psychologist. After having completed her Psychology Honours from Delhi University she then moved on to do her Masters in Psychology from Madras University. She started her career in the Psychology Department of Women's Christian College, Chennai as a Lecturer for Graduates as well as Post Graduates. After this she worked in the Assessment Practice division of Ma Foi Management Consultants, Chennai handling both clients in India and abroad with an exposure to various Assessment activities including Psychometric Testing, Assessment/Development centres, Organization wide Surveys and so on. Prior to joining Cornucopia, she was in IFMR Trust, Chennai where she was designated to be the Assessment Anchor.

  Sweta Manot

Sweta has a Master’s degree in Management and Systems from Thiagarajar College, Kamaraj University, Madurai. She also holds a Diploma in Training & Development (Dip. T.D) from the Indian Society of Training and Development New Delhi (ISTD).
Sweta supports primarily in the areas of training need analysis, designing training modules, conducting job analysis and creating policies and procedures for different organisations.  She administers 360 Feedback instrument and Employee Satisfaction Survey.

  Komala

Komala holds a degree in Science from the Bangalore University.  She has been with Cornucopia for the last 7 years, and she provides support in the areas of Administration and Accounts.

  Poornima Kulkarni

Poornima has a Master’s degree in Management from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum.  Poornima currently assists in business development, client relationship, 360 degree feedback and provides research support

  Chabbi Narayan

Chabbi has over 35 years of experience in Human Resources working in the Engineering, News Paper, Fertilizers, Pharma and Agro Chemicals industry.  He has been associated with Usha Martin Industries, Deccan Herald, Hoechst, Aventis and Bayer Group in India.  He is a Post Graduate in Personnel Management from Delhi University and also holds a Diploma in Labour Law from the Delhi Law School. He specialises in HR Systems and Processes, Assessment Centres, being an advisor on Industrial Law and mentoring & coaching

  Venkat Ramani

Venkat Ramani is an accomplished trainer and lead assessor with over twenty two years of experience He has completed his Post Graduation in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has worked in companies like BPL and NIIT. He has handled training assignments with various Indian and Multi National Companies and has conducted ‘Negotiation Skills Workshop’ with companies like GE, Airtel, and Spice Telecom. His intervention areas include Customer Relations, Organizational Learning Needs Analysis, Learning Programme Design, Learning Delivery Systems and Post Training Follow ups. He is a Visiting Faculty for the autonomous MBA Program at St.Joseph’s College of Business Administration, Bangalore, handling Personality Development and Marketing Courses. He is a Certified “Quality Education System” trainer by The Quality College; Philip Crosby Associates.

  Anil C. Mohan

Anil is a Senior Associate of Cornucopia, based in Singapore.  Anil holds an MBA from Symbiosis, Pune. He is a frequent speaker at conferences in China, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Anil worked with Mercer Human Resource Consulting in their offices in India and Singapore as a Senior Consultant. He was the youngest member of Mercer Asia’s Talent and Performance Management leadership council and specialized in the performance & rewards management arenas. Prior to joining Mercer, Anil was a senior Human Resource Professional with Arthur Andersen, India. Anil spent over three years working with the textiles and garments business of a premier Indian business house as HR manager. During this time, he gained strong practitioner expertise in the areas of HR strategy, training and development, recruitment and selection, industrial relations, compensation and benefits management. He is also deeply interested in researching HR best practices in the Asian environment, and is currently, along with university researchers working toward publishing several papers in the area of learning and career development.

  Meena Lochani

Meena has over eleven years of experience in HR and Organization Development. She has completed her Post Graduate Certification in Business Management from XLRI and has a Masters Degree in Science from the University of Madras. She is certified in Thomas Profiling and Mentoring. She has experience in the areas of Compensation, Competency Mapping, Career Planning and Counseling, Mentoring, Organization Redesign, Change Management/ Integration, Performance Management and Feedback.
She also plays an active role in the International Mentoring Association and has presented and written several papers in this subject. Her articles have been published by IMA and a few leading Indian newspapers and magazines.
Meena has been part of organizations like HCL Technologies and Lister Technologies in the past. She has handled various aspects of HR in different capacities.