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Acky has helped build businesses ground up. He launched the Capital Markets practice which became the growth engine for Headstrong. Prior to that he worked at TechSpan, Compaq and HCL.

Over the past decade, Acky has helped build long lasting relationships with top tier accounts in New York and London in the Capital Markets industry. He has played a leadership role in developing industry leading offerings in Client Onboarding/KYC, Enterprise Data management, Post-trade services, Regulatory Compliance/Reporting, Collateral Management, and Liquidity Risks Management. Most recently, Acky led the launch of an Industry Utility that provides KYC services to Institutional Markets in partnership with HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Markit.

Acky did his Executive MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University. He graduated from Mumbai University where he did an undergraduate degree in Accountancy and Finance followed by a Masters in Management Studies (MMS).

Arjun is an entrepreneur at heart. He co-founded the HCL group in 1975, taking it from six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest Information Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur to relocate to the USA, Arjun took over HCL’s US operation in 1989 and grew it to US $100 million annually. In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996 he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation. Arjun was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

Arjun went to school at The Doon School, Dehradun and did his engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur. In 1985, he attended the Advance Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Arjun founded the Pro. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur through a personal endorsement. Deepening his ties with the IIT system and higher education as a whole, Mr. Malhotra serves as Chairman of Vision 2020, an alumni initiative to raise $200 million endowment fund for IIT Kharagpur by the year 2020. He is also one of the founding members of the society for promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth. Today, this is India’s largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.

Sandeep Sahai is a business leader with a proven track record of identifying trends, creating a strong vision based on a differentiated market position and then focusing on relentless execution. Has built strong teams on a foundation of transparency, accountability and consequent reward.

Sandeep was the President and CEO of Headstrong. Under his leadership, Headstrong grew revenues organically and brought profitability to industry levels from a loss making start. He also architected a multi-year strategy that saw Headstrong evolve from a predominantly on-site consulting firm to a domain-led, globally distributed outsourcing leader in the financial markets.

Sandeep was a founder and partner of the consulting firm TechSpan that merged with Headstrong in 2003. Prior to Headstrong and TechSpan, he was the CEO of Virginia-based SkanSoft, and also served for 10 years with the HCL group. He has a long history of starting and growing companies in the US, Europe and India.

Sandeep has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi and he went to the Doon School at Dehradun.

Nicki has helped start many businesses. He was a co-founder of TechSpan which was later merged with Headstrong. He helped set up businesses that focused on the Asset Management and Healthcare verticals. Prior to that, he was part of the founding team for HCL Deluxe, a joint venture focused on the financial services market. He was also part of the initial team that helped grow HCL America into what is now HCL Technologies.

He has played a wide variety of leadership roles in the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Asia and brings very strong business development and operational rigor to the table.

Mr. Mehra is a Harvard Business School AMP graduate and holds a business degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He serves on the Board of ICC, a non-profit promoting Indian Culture, Community Service and Indian values.

Adarsh has played a leadership role in Finance for several companies as they have started and grown. This has included raising equity and debt, acquiring and divesting companies and creating industrial strength MIS systems. Many of these businesses have been global from the very inception and he brings a keen understanding of the financial practices in various countries and the cross border complexities of running a global business.

He has played this role at Headstrong, TechSpan, Trigyn, HCL America, HCL James Martin. In addition to this, he has been part of the leadership team.

Adarsh earned an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Commerce and a Chartered Accountant degree (the highest accounting degree in India) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also participated in the executive management development program at Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI) in India.