Leadership

Leading with growth mindset

As leaders, our executive team encourages our people to strive for consistent growth, both personally and professionally. We encourage our teams to do their best by:

Providing the resources, industry knowledge and opportunities they need to thrive.

Encouraging our teams to focus on long-term relationships over short-term engagements.

Investing in our employees, ensuring they are able to dedicate their time and energy at every stage of each engagement.

Holding our people accountable. We expect our teams to act with integrity and follow our values. This includes transparent, honest communication and a commitment to our customer-centric approach.

Our purpose is to empower our clients, our partners, and our people so they can thrive. We owe our success to our team’s expertise. From key decision-making to everyday conversations, our goal is always to put our clients first and empower our people to do their best.

As a company, we lead with integrity, humility and transparency. Our team’s well-being matters. Their work is important, and it should always bring them joy. Our values are shown through our collaboration, both internally and with our clients and partners. By listening and learning from each other, we have created a cycle of continual innovation.

Our team works with the Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose (AMP) framework, which guides us to:

  • Trust our people to make the right choices (Autonomy)
  • Give our people the resources and coaching they need to reach their potential (Mastery)
  • Foster a culture of strong values and work culture (Purpose)
  • Belonging – we always value team over individual and are creating a place where we know & support each other.

Meet the team

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Kuldeep Thakur

Founder & Managing Director

Kuldeep believes in building authentic, long-term relationships based on trust and respect. As an innovative leader who is always looking for ways to grow, Kuldeep focuses on helping his clients create strong, customer-centric supply chains through digital transformations. He also values sustainable business practices and healthy collaboration, both between internal teams and with his clients.

Manish Popli

Manish Popli

EVP & Europe Leader

As an experienced leader in his field, Manish has the technical understanding and industry knowledge necessary to empower ground-breaking supply chain transformations. Working with our European clients, Manish takes the time needed to understand and support each business’s growth goals.

Christopher Gates

SVP, Growth

As a leader of InspireXT’s global sales, marketing, and alliance business sectors, Christopher believes that the key to creating strong organisations lies in building trust and solid, long-term relationships. Christopher brings extensive commercial and solution knowledge to the InspireXT leadership team, having led a variety of market campaigns involving Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft. His past experience includes working both client- side and with global consulting firms such as IBM Consulting, where he was an executive partner.

Rajeev Khazanchi

SVP & North America Leader

Rajeev is an experienced executive skilled at creating strategic technological transformations and market expansions through strategy and P&L management. With deep expertise in cloud-solution implementation throughout the manufacturing, hi-tech, lifesciences, mining, and agriculture industries, Rajeev is adept at building lasting relationships based on commitment and trust.

Samik Kumar

VP & Technology Practice Leader

Samik’s thorough industry knowledge in both the supply chain and manufacturing sectors enables him to support our clients through both business growth and technological implementations. With 27 years of experience in both industries, he excels at helping clients evolve to meet ever-changing customer needs. His areas of expertise include Oracle Applications, AI/ML, Intelligent Automation, and Data.

Santhosh Kumar

VP of Growth Solutions

With 20 years of consulting experience in the IT infrastructure and business applications sphere, Santhosh brings a comprehensive understanding of key best practices and industry trends to InspireXT. Santhosh’s accomplishments include managing various successful business transformations, as well the delivery of many business development projects across a variety of industries.

Justyna Kowalczyk

Chief of Staff

Justyna is an experienced Chief of Staff focused on driving cross-functional initiatives, translating vision into actionable strategies, and optimizing resources. Justyna has experience in fostering innovation, improving processes, and building strong relationships across different levels. As a change facilitator, she brings vision, strategic acumen, and execution capabilities to organizations navigating today’s business challenges. 

Sameer Mulla

Middle East Leader

With 27 years of experience in Information Technology, Sameer has demonstrated exceptional proficiency in delivering strategic transformation projects in the areas of end-to-end ‘ERP Implementations’, ‘Customer Centric Supply Chain’ initiatives across retail, distribution, and industrial organisations. Sameer’s commitment to excellence and passion for leveraging technology to drive business success through trusted relationships align perfectly with values and objectives. 

Shagun Jain

HR Leader

Shagun believes that when people succeed individually, organizations succeed as a whole. At InspireXT, our people have the opportunity to realize their full potential and cultivate a growth mindset that emphasizes on incremental efforts, continuous learning, and constant development. With a strong desire to create a company which lives by its key values, she is constantly striving to implement the best practices that will promote a culture of mutual respect and trust, guided by empathy and compassion.

Haider Parvez

People and Operations Leader

As a growth catalyst, Haider drives team success through collaborative strategies. Passionate about empowering people, which is at the core of InspireXT’s success, he fosters a culture of innovation, mutual respect, and inclusion. As the overseer of People & Operations, Haider works closely with business leaders, colleagues, and partners to understand their goals and align them to be amplified.

CA Charmi Makecha

Finance & Compliance Leader

Chartered Accountant with 15 years of versatile experience across IT, Retail, Construction, and Hospitality industries. A dedicated finance professional focused on optimizing costs and building robust financial health. My approach balances process efficiency with empathy, ensuring sustainable financial well-being. Passionate about leveraging financial expertise to drive sustainable growth and cultivate a positive organizational culture.

Shashank Anturkar

SVP & Solutions & Practice Leader

With over 30 years of consulting experience, Shashank is skilled at guiding companies through innovative digital transformations by leveraging key technologies and domain expertise, including Oracle ERP services. He works with clients to optimise supply chain management while leading InspireXT’s global practices, solutions, and innovation department.

Kuldeep Thakur

Founder & Managing Director

Kuldeep believes in building authentic, long-term relationships based on trust and respect. As an innovative leader who is always looking for ways to grow, Kuldeep focuses on helping his clients create strong, customer-centric supply chains through digital transformations. He also values sustainable business practices and healthy collaboration, both between internal teams and with his clients.

Manish Popli

Manish Popli

EVP & Europe Leader

As an experienced leader in his field, Manish has the technical understanding and industry knowledge necessary to empower ground-breaking supply chain transformations. Working with our European clients, Manish takes the time needed to understand and support each business’s growth goals.

Christopher Gates

SVP, Growth

As a leader of InspireXT’s global sales, marketing, and alliance business sectors, Christopher believes that the key to creating strong organizations lies in building trust and solid, long-term relationships. Christopher brings extensive commercial and solution knowledge to the InspireXT leadership team, having led a variety of market campaigns involving Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft. His past experience includes working both client-side and with global consulting firms such as IBM Consulting, where he was an executive partner.

Rajeev Khazanchi

SVP & North America Leader

Rajeev is an experienced executive skilled at creating strategic technological transformations and market expansions through strategy and P&L management. With deep expertise in cloud-solution implementation throughout the manufacturing, hi-tech, lifesciences, mining, and agriculture industries, Rajeev is adept at building lasting relationships based on commitment and trust.

Samik Kumar

VP & Technology Practice Leader

Samik’s thorough industry knowledge in both the supply chain and manufacturing sectors enables him to support our clients through both business growth and technological implementations. With 27 years of experience in both industries, he excels at helping clients evolve to meet ever-changing customer needs. His areas of expertise include Oracle Applications, AI/ML, Intelligent Automation, and Data.

Santhosh Kumar

VP & Salesforce Practice

With 20 years of consulting experience in the IT infrastructure and business applications sphere, Santhosh brings a comprehensive understanding of key best practices and industry trends to InspireXT. Santhosh’s accomplishments include managing various successful business transformations, as well the delivery of many business development projects across a variety of industries.

Justyna Kowalczyk

Chief of Staff

Justyna is an experienced Chief of Staff focused on driving cross-functional initiatives, translating vision into actionable strategies, and optimizing resources. Justyna has experience in fostering innovation, improving processes, and building strong relationships across different levels. As a change facilitator, she brings vision, strategic acumen, and execution capabilities to organizations navigating today’s business challenges.

Sameer Mulla

Middle East Leader

With 27 years of experience in Information Technology, Sameer has demonstrated exceptional proficiency in delivering strategic transformation projects in the areas of end-to-end ‘ERP Implementations’, ‘Customer Centric Supply Chain’ initiatives across retail, distribution, and industrial organizations. Sameer’s commitment to excellence and passion for leveraging technology to drive business success through trusted relationships align perfectly with values and objectives.

Shagun Jain

HR Leader

Shagun believes that when people succeed individually, organizations succeed as a whole. At InspireXT, our people have the opportunity to realize their full potential and cultivate a growth mindset that emphasizes on incremental efforts, continuous learning, and constant development. With a strong desire to create a company which lives by its key values, she is constantly striving to implement the best practices that will promote a culture of mutual respect and trust, guided by empathy and compassion.

Haider Parvez

People and Operations Leader

As a growth catalyst, Haider drives team success through collaborative strategies. Passionate about empowering people, which is at the core of InspireXT’s success, he fosters a culture of innovation, mutual respect, and inclusion. As the overseer of People & Operations, Haider works closely with business leaders, colleagues, and partners to understand their goals and align them to be amplified.

CA Charmi Makecha

Finance & Compliance Leader

Chartered Accountant with 15 years of versatile experience across IT, Retail, Construction, and Hospitality industries. A dedicated finance professional focused on optimizing costs and building robust financial health. My approach balances process efficiency with empathy, ensuring sustainable financial well-being. Passionate about leveraging financial expertise to drive sustainable growth and cultivate a positive organizational culture.

Shashank Anturkar

SVP & Solutions & Practice Leader

With over 30 years of consulting experience, Shashank is skilled at guiding companies through innovative digital transformations by leveraging key technologies and domain expertise, including Oracle ERP services. He works with clients to optimize supply chain management while leading InspireXT’s global practices, solutions, and innovation department.