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Dr Ram Raghvan Managing Director
An electronics engineer by qualification with an MS in Robotics and control, Ram started his career in India as an R&D engineer before moving into the sales and service functions. He was managing the business in a couple of countries for a pharmaceutical company before moving to the UK. He completed his MBA specialising in business strategy. Ram specialises in developing and customising measurement tools to profile people, performance and processes. Ram combines cutting edge experience with state of the art research. He has developed a unique approach that combines case based analysis, gaming and psychometrics and neurology to profile organisations, business units and individual candidates. The approach which he developed from his research for his PhD provides an objective means of understanding a business from the 6 or 7 key strategic perspectives. It entails the correlation of knowledge, requisite skills, traits and behaviours. Ram has elected to use the metaphor of "genetic frameworks" to provide an innovative platform for explaining the approach. He is currently authoring two books on human capital measurement & employee engagement.
Management team
John Battye - Director Reserch and Development
John describes himself as a "solutioneer".In December 1979, CSFB had headhunted John (as head of Operations & Systems) to devise and implement a solution for them. They needed to develop a real-time computer system capable of supporting up to 200 dealers. On 20 October 1980, the board of CSFB approved the capital expenditure of £3 million to build, develop and implement the system.The fully integrated system went live on 31 May 1982 - on time, to specification and within budget. His team had transformed banking in the UK. CSFB exploited the system to generate a £30 million profit within 9 months and the era of the £1 million bonus was born. John was promoted to Director. From 1983 until 1991 he was headhunted by 4 banks with the same pattern of events. John joins, recruits a team that delivers a system that improves performance. The HQ "invites" him to relocate to the USA. John declines. The cycle repeats itself 4 times. Prior to accepting any senior position with a US Bank (e.g. BTI, CitiCorp, SPMB) John told them that he would NOT accept the position if he would be expected to relocate to the USA. Each time he was assured that he would not be required to relocate and each time he was put under pressure to relocate or resign. The same expedient scenario was "played out" in terms of NPV and slick derivative accounting systems. John quit banking in 1991.He devised and developed the Theta model for building teams in 1980. From 1985 he progressively developed the Theta model into a fully integrated, pattern based, behavioural cube model. The approach is sui generis with 4 tangible benefits for users: accuracy, reliability, improved performance and audit trails.
Chris Battye - Director Operations
Chris Battye has been involved directly or indirectly with Parallax since its inception in 1992. He has first hand knowledge and understanding of the Parallax Cube, the Parallax Approach to behaviour profiling and the Internet technology that delivers and supports the business. He rebuilt the Parallax computer system to facilitate customisation of reports (e.g. Competency Frameworks). Uniquely in the management team, he fully understands both the technology of the cube model and the computer system that delivers the profiles to the end users. Chris gained a BA in 2000 and an MSc in 2002 from Loughborough University. His dissertation for his Masters degree was on a project involving Parallax and Rolls Royce. He also served as a director for a leading Executive Search firm from 2004 until 2006. Chris spends his time equally between the profiling business and any related consultancy assignments. Chris has the primary responsibility for supporting and developing all aspects of the business that involve Behavioural Profiling.
Partners
Jack Sandler Bloom
Mr. Jack Bloom is a Private Consultant and Internet Entrepreneur. His consulting work focuses on corporate strategy, marketing, finance, executive assessment, and organizational development. He works with companies ranging from Fortune 50 companies to large private equity funds to small and medium sized enterprises. He focuses all his work on adding value, and increasing the economic value of his clients. Mr. Bloom is also the founder and President of Chai Network, Inc. ( www.chainetwork.net ), a global group of web sites which offers free Ivy League quality business education in more than 80 countries. Mr. Bloom is formerly Professor of Management at NYU Stern School of Management, and continues as Guest Lecturer at Columbia Business School. He has previously been a successful entrepreneur in retail and consumer finance. He also spent 12 years on Wall Street, including rising to Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance for a boutique Wall Street firm. Mr. Bloom grew up in the Boston area, and graduated with honors from Harvard College, and received his Masters in the Science of Management (MBA) from the MIT Sloan School of Management. At MIT Sloan, Mr. Bloom studied finance and economics with Nobel Laureates Fisher Black, Robert Merton, and Paul Samuelson.
Asia Team
Professor Muthuswamy - Managing Director India
Prof M.M has the Degrees of B.E. (Mech) from P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, University of Madras, and M. B. A. from University Dept. of Management Studies, University of Madras with 8 Distinctions and University II Rank, Post Graduation in Occupational Safety & Health from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK. B. L. from Dr. Ambedkar (Govt) Law College, Chennai and PhD for his thesis on Management of Higher Education. He brings more than 40 years of experience to the team. He has worked as a Director in the Central Government as a Registrar for Barathiar University, Dean of Management Institute amongst other roles. He works as an independent academic and consultant/Advisor with Universities and Colleges in India and abroad selectively. He has a host of publications in acclaimed International Journal. He has won many international awards including the Distinguished Leadership Award by American Bio-Graphical Institute, Man of the Year 2000 awarded by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. He will oversee the operations of the Indian market and would invest his efforts primarily in the educational sector.
Mr.Raman Pandya- Director Strategy - Asia
Raman brings with a strong marketing, strategic experience of 40 years. He started his career with Unilever before moving on to work for Nestle, Shaw Wallace & Indian Potash before returning back to levers. In Levers, his chemistry background helped him obtain a unique perspective of the product whilst his strategic acumen helped him to use that specialist knowledge to develop new products, strategies to thwart competition. He conceptualized, developed and launched VIM bar for Levers. Under his six year stint in Castrol he managed to increase the turnover from Rs 1400 million to Rs 1.0500 billion and profit from Rs60 million to Rs 2290/ million. Raman has also worked as MD for BOL, Alfutaim group and Zuari Cement group. He has worked as an independent consultant since 2006 advising organizations from a strategic perspective. Raman would primarily invest his effort in introducing Talengene solutions to the corporate world
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