Lead the Shift: L&D Priorities in a Disrupted Market

Avinash is an industry veteran with over three decades of experience serving at prominent CXO and board-level positions at leading companies in the industry. At Harbinger, he is responsible for increasing sales through crafting successful sales strategies; directing, guiding, and managing sales teams; and optimizing the end-to-end leads-to-closure process.  He shares, “Harbinger’s deep commitment to learning shows up in what we do and how we do it.” Avinash is an alumnus of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Advanced Management, and Northwestern University, where he studied Corporate Law. He is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mike is the President and COO of Hoops HR. Most recently, he was the Senior VP for talent development at Epsilon Data Management. While there he also founded Gunnison Hotchkiss, LLC, to find and develop better leaders and teams. Prior to Epsilon, he had a variety of HR and talent roles to include VP in a private equity backed healthcare company, and senior director and director roles in healthcare systems and healthcare consulting. Mike began his career in the private sector as a strategy consultant in the former PWC practice that was acquired by IBM. Before joining IBM, he spent 12 years in the U.S. Army in a variety of leadership roles, culminating as an instructor and administrator at West Point, where he left the Army as a Major. His education includes an MBA from NYU, MA in Organizational Psychology and Leadership from Columbia, and a BA from The Ohio State University.

Sarthak Brahma is the Founder & CEO of HEX Advisory Group (“HEX”). He previously founded and scaled the benchmarking and sourcing practices at Everest Group, WGroup, and Wavestone before consolidating and acquiring their benchmarking assets, proprietary HealthCheck™ capabilities, and India operations into HEX. With 250+ global mandates delivered across the US, UK, Nordics, EU, Australia, and India, Sarthak drives efficiency and strategic impact, reshaping sourcing advisory via the proprietary HEX Index® platform-based consulting model.