Our Team
- Our Team
- Team Details
Sriparna Bose Pyne, Founder and Director of Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd. operating under the brand name PEOPLExcellence, a strategic HR consultant and corporate trainer with more than thirty two years of experience in FMCG, Consumer Durables, Retail, Manufacturing, Engineering Services, Information Technology, Financial Services, Healthcare, Education, Hospitality and Media.
Sriparna launched the PEOPLExcellence brand in 2011 and in 2013 formed Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd which operates under the same brand name, partnering MNCs, large Indian businesses houses, family run businesses, trusts across Hospitality, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Legal Services and IT, Manufacturing and Distribution, Healthcare, Construction, EPC, Road and Roofing Solutions, Retail and Exports, Education, Public Sector and NGOs.
Sriparna has been partnering clients in setting up and transforming organisations through strategic advisory services and customised OD interventions. She has been supporting the functioning of the HR departments of clients on a retainership basis. This has included providing CHRO Services during the critical phases of the client organisations’ journey. She has been conducting culture audits and employee surveys to help clients identify the need for change and help them make their employer brand more attractive to millennials. Sriparna has been conducting leadership training and management development programmes for senior and middle level management across industries towards capability building for future leadership roles and has groomed people managers to conduct people processes and lead teams more effectively. Sriparna is a trained assessor and partners organisations in developing and conducting Assessment Centres and Potential Evaluation Labs to classify talent and identify high potential future leaders.
Sriparna has previously been a Vice President–HR with Pepsico India Holdings Pvt. Ltd (Eastern Region), Vice President-HR with ABP Pvt Ltd., Director–HR with The Oberoi Grand (EIH Ltd.), Head HR with Saregama India Ltd.(RPG Group), Head Personnel with Philips India Limited (Consumer Electronics Factory).
Sriparna’s areas of expertise include :
Sriparna holds an MBA from IISWBM under Calcutta University. She holds a licence to administer the Personal Profile Analysis of Thomas Assessment Pvt. Ltd., an associate of Thomas International, UK
Ishani Ray, a Director of Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd. operating under the brand name PEOPLExcellence, is a Strategic Financial Consultant as well as an Expert in Financial Management and Organisation Strategy with More than thirty three years of experience across industries including Retail, Entertainment, Footwear and Accessories Jewellery, Healthcare Tea and Agriculture, Green energy, BPO/KPO/ITES, NGOs.
Ishani has been a Business Leader. She was associated with Khadim India Limited, a leading footwear, initially as its Chief Financial Officer and later as its Chief Executive Officer. During her tenure with Khadim, Ishani spearheaded its transformation journey from a small family-owned business to a listed entity in the Indian Stock Exchange with exponential growth in top-line and bottom-line, funding the growth trajectory through private equity funding and IPO launch. She was associated earlier with the Audit Major Price Waterhouse, Williamson Magor, a leading tea company and Saregama India Limited, RPG Group, an iconic entertainment company, where she handled the entire gamut of finance, taxation and Investor relations.
Ishani has extensive experience in leading change and organisation transformation through strategic planning, structured fund raising, designing and implementing demerger schemes, fiscal management, risk mitigation, business development, brand positioning, supply chain management, business process transformation, productivity enhancement resulting in improvement of product margins. Ishani has been involved in talent development through competency assessment, capability building, coaching and teambuilding for performance enhancement and growth. She has a rich experience in financial, statutory and corporate governance due diligence as well as creation and implementation of accounting and auditing manuals. She is an expert in stakeholder management with experience of liaising with Board members, investors, institutional lenders, bankers, researchers, analysts, public relations agencies, celebrity brand ambassadors and media.
Ishani is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants, India and also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Kolkata Chapter. She is registered with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and holds a M.Com from Calcutta University. She has also completed the certificate course on Forensic Accounting and Fraud Detection under ICAI. She is registered with the Institute of Corporate Affairs and holds Board positions as Independent Director and chairs Board Committees of a number of Listed and Unlisted Companies. As a practising Chartered Accountant, she has extensive experience in handling Accounts, Audits and Taxation of MSMEs and large Corporates.
As a strategic Consultant, she provides CFO services by mentoring, advising clients in specific areas of Financial and Business Strategy. She also facilitates Companies particularly MSMEs to set their strategic goals and works with the management to introduce requisite Corporate Governance as specified by various statutory bodies and ICAI. Her key areas of expertise include:
Bibek Sur, an empanelled Advisor with Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd. operating under the brand name PEOPLExcellence, is Strategic Sales and Talent Development Expert with more than 24 years of experience with PepsiCo India in National and International Roles.
Bibek has diverse experience of leading sales organisations to achieve excellence and managing Core Channel Sales as well as Franchise Partners across geographies. Besides demonstrating a vast repertoire of knowledge of the sales function, Bibek has a remarkable record as a very successful people manager with expertise in setting up teams by partnering talent acquisition and building capability through training and coaching to lead teams to success. Bibek has conducted multiple training session on sales processes during his stint with Pepsi and on career framework modelling in colleges in Bangladesh as part of industry education institution partnership initiatives.
Bibek played a significant role in building PepsiCo India’s operation and transforming key markets during his association with Pepsico. Some of his key achievements included devising the Rural GTM plan for Sales team in the capacity of Rural GTM Strategy Head for PepsiCo India, stabilizing the Franchise partner, Varun Beverages) as Franchisee in East Market in the capacity of Associate Director Franchise Operation for East India, leading sales operations and growth in West UP, Central India and Andhra Market as Operation Head and leading a 170 + team to manage Rs 2000 Cr business as National Sales Head for Bangladesh during the pandemic.
Bibek’s key areas of expertise are as follows”
Bibek was a recipient of Pepsi Co’s “ Presidents Ring of Honor “ award which is given to the Best Sales persons in the World for his stellar contributions at Pepsico.
Bibek is currently pursuing PHD in Commerce and Business Administration as well a partnering a start-up in establishing sales footprints in domestic and international markets.
Brishti Mondal, an empanelled Advisor with Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd. operating under the brand name PEOPLExcellence, is Strategic Human Resource Expert and a seasoned leader with 22 years of experience in the IT, ITES, software product companies and in the Fintech sector having handled HR operations for Kolkata, Bangalore and Malaysia.
Brishti has been associated with NRI Fintech as Vice President – Human Resource, with IXIA Technologies and post integration with Keysight Technologies as HR specialist and earlier with Lexmark India International Pvt Ltd and WDC Ltd as HR Executive. She has been supporting business transformation through talent management and capability development to provide human capital the opportunities for growth, innovation, wellbeing and enrichment. She has led change management initiatives, cultural integration in multi-locational and multi-entity situations towards equitable and inclusive culture She has also worked in Mergers and Acquisition scenarios. Brishti has been actively involved in consulting and coaching to business leaders in best practices, common methodologies and available tools, processes regarding human resource practices. Digital Transformation and process automation has been one of her key expertise towards organization efficiency. Her key areas of expertise are as follows
Brishti holds a Masters in Human Resource and Organisation Development from Delhi School of Economics and a Masters in Science from Presidency University. She is a certified POSH trainer, ICC Presiding officer, Eastern Region Council Member , NASSCOM (Tenure 2023-2025), Vice President of WICCI.
Anannya Mallick is Strategic Human Resource Expert and a seasoned leader with two decades of experience. She has been working with companies to achieve their business transformation objectives through strategic planning, organisation alignment, cost optimisation, workforce and performance efforts.
A proven advisor to the C-suite, she has worked closely with leadership/management to establish and scale business teams on agendas such as rapid growth, sustained scalability and turn around strategy. Anannya has worked across sectors viz. Agri and Food Processing, FMCG, Financial Services, Life Science and Diagnostics, IT, Manufacturing, Telecom and has a deep understanding of the ecosystem and marketplace both domestic and global.
She brings a cross border and emerging markets knowledge across consulting, sales and service as well as software and product development having worked with large global MNC’s viz. Danaher Corporation, HCL Technologies, SAP, Thomson Reuters as well as Indian start ups.
Having worked closely with start ups in the area of Agri, Food Processing, Diary and FMCG industries, she has experience in deal making, conducting in-depth due diligence and managing start-ups. She has structured and set up processes to commence business for struggling companies resulting in them being productive within 3-6 months. She has mentored, coached and worked along with start-up founders on daily management of business to meet their financial targets, investment pitches for fund raising and hiring the right team for growing the business. She has identified structural and functional gaps and implemented corrective measures in a couple of manufacturing set ups to ensure compliant and streamlined operations. She has implemented framework for compensation, benefits and policies across sales, manufacturing and production teams to ensure smooth operations and bottomline impact. Anannya is also an experienced trainer and has delivered various leadership and management workshops and courses.
Her Focus Areas and Specialization include:
Anannya holds a Masters in Human Resource and Organisation Development from Delhi School of Economics and a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from Calcutta University.
Goutom Sikdar, is a senior professional who specialises in Outbound Experiential Learning to drive productivity for both the sales and non-sales functions, develop leadership competencies and build teams.
As a corporate trainer, Goutom has conducted about one hundred and fifty interventions across levels, with diverse programme objectives, addressing the issues of individuals, groups and organisations as well as self discovery programmes. Goutom also conducts diagnostics for organisation development and evaluation of training need analysis for clients.
Goutom has partnered diverse organisations including PSUs and leading corporates and NGOs like Ordinance Factory Board, SAIL, National Thermal Power Corporation, IOCL, IBM, RPG Group, Apeejay Group, ITC Ltd., Unilever India Ltd., Hindalco Industries Ltd., BSNL, Bharti Airtel Ltd., Vodafone, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd., Pepsico India Holdings Pvt. Ltd.,The Oberoi Grand (EIH Ltd), IXIA Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Metal Junction, He has also coached Security Forces in India and abroad, Paramilitary Forces and Police Forces.
Goutom, a retired colonel of the Indian Army, brings with him over thirty years experience as an infantry officer including experience of combat in India and abroad and that of commanding battalions in critical areas. Post retirement from active service, Goutom engaged in research and analysis of human behaviour under stress and was associated with Pegasus Institute for Excellence for a few years, imparting outbound training across industries and geographies.
A graduate from National Defence Academy, Goutom holds a Post Graduation in International Relations from Indore University and has been initiated into Process Facilitation through ISABS’ ALHP Course.
Goutom partners learning and development of specially abled people, Akshaya Patra, ISCON and Mathru Foundation in pursuance of his philanthropic interests.
Priyanjana Pyne, a Director of Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd. operating under the brand name PEOPLExcellence, is a is Pastry Chef by profession and brings a rich experience of the hospitality Industry
Priyanjana is currently a pastry chef in Sydney, Australia. Her earlier experiences include an entrepreneurial venture Au Pif-The Bakehouse at Kolkata and leading the Bakery and Patisserie department of ITC Maurya- A Luxury Collection at Delhi. She has more than ten years’ experience in leading teams, redesigning processes and innovating product design towards enhancing profitability and improving customer experience.
Priyanjana’s key areas of expertise, with focus on the hospitality industry, include the following:
Priyanjana is a Gold Medalist from Manipal University, through Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Department of Culinary Arts. She also holds certifications from the International Sommelier Guild, USA. Priyanjana completed the Kitchen Management Training Programme at ITC Hospitality Management Institute
Priyanjana has won accolades at the World Skill Competition for Patisserie and Confectionery and Wedding Cake Display at the National Culinary Competition.