Where People Drive Progress: Pioneering the Future of Enterprises

Mr. Mukul Jain

Founder & CEO

"The disruptive innovator behind HONO, Mukul occupies the seat of CEO, where he spearheads the organization’s strategy and growth. He founded the organization with the passion for enabling employees, increasing their productivity and bringing happiness to the workplace – with technology that makes their lives simpler in today’s complex and highly dynamic workplace. Mukul brings to the table his well-rounded and visionary leadership, backed by 20+ years of experience across HR, Accounting, SCM, CRM and IT/ITes industries. Armed with his dedication to provide the best client service, he is on a mission to engage and empower employees across the globe."

Randeep Singh

Co-Founder & COO

"The Grand Master of Operational Excellence, Randeep is the thread that runs across and through the organization’s fabric, meticulously crafting the perfect weave to deliver customer delight. With an MBA in HRM & Personnel Administration and over 16 years of experience in Consulting, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Oil & Gas, EPC and Steel sectors, Randeep complements his mastery of the HR-tech domain with the industry-specific requirements, moulding bespoke products to enhance the HONO Customer Experience."

Virender Aggarwal

Director, APAC & Global Advisor

"Virender Aggarwal (VA) has over 35 years of experience in running business, leading large sales organisations, consulting and above all being a change catalyst. He most recently ran a SaaS ERP and HR Tech company as CEO with focus on Aviation, Global HR and Payroll. He was President of HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra running a region covering APAC, India, and MEA. He reads the future of technology and prepares the organisation well ahead of time for the unfolding future. He understands modern day tech architectures like Cloud Native, Serverless and has good knowledge of most high-tech products be it in the area of Databases, Front end trends, AI/ML, Data lakes and multi cloud products. He has in depth knowledge of SaaS products and emerging areas like Quantum Computing, Metaverse, Voice Commerce, Social Commerce, Block chain, IOT and Hybrid and edge computing. He is rare combination of hands-on technologist, Sales, Marketing professional and a P&L leader with an innovation mind set and drives Transformation agenda. He is an early-stage investor and mentor for many emerging start-ups. He is MBA from BITS Pilani a premier Institute in India."

Georgie Antony

Director, SEA

A rare combination of passion and precision, Georgie amalgamates his penchant to create New Benchmarks in strengthening the Employee Experiences, with his ability of crafting technology-led growth of AI-driven HRM Solutions & Services. An MBA from XLRI, Georgie has over four decades of rich corporate and consulting experience in the domain of Human Resources. With his deep experience in leading the HR Domain across multiple organizations like Pfizer, Nokia & Unilever, Georgie is an exceptional leader helping HONO expand its wings in the Southeast Asian Region.

Amit Jain

Co-Founder & CFO

The person who keeps the ball rolling, Amit is the CFO at HONO. Having worked with large organizations such as Airtel, LG Electronics, Tata, Sistema and TSI, Amit brings over two decades of accrued financial expertise. A distinguished CA with diverse experience across Finance, Taxation and Control in the sectors of Manufacturing, Payment Solutions, and Telcom industries, Amit drives financial strategy and enables HONO to explore new avenues to meet the growing client needs and fuel organizational growth and expansion.

Nitin Sethi

Advisor to Board

Nitin brings with him a rich experience in product design and digital customer experience, which he has acquired over the last 21 years across leading internet and digital platform companies in India. He is currently leading the Digital Transformation for Adani Group as Chief Digital Officer - Consumer Business and has previously built and scaled IndiGo's 6EDigital, Quikr.com, Yatra.com, Naukri.com, Indiatimes, Rediff, and Bharti Airtel. He specializes in leading multi-functional teams and establishing the best user experience practices and processes across organizations. He is an expert in crafting loveable Omni channel experience for consumers through simple and usable products based insights on their personas and buying behaviours. Nitin has won the `Design-led Entrepreneurship Award’ at TiE 2017, and was also awarded the ‘Karnataka Brand Leadership Award 2017.’ He got recognized as one of the top digital influencers and made it to the ‘Adobe Content 100 list’ for 2017 along with the ‘Adobe Digi100 list’ for 2018 & 2019. He has been chosen as one of the Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders by World Digital Marketing Congress, and recently made it to DMA Asia Top Digital Influencers list for 2019. Nitin has been awarded as "Experience Maker Executive of the Year" by Adobe in the yearly global award ceremony. In 2021 he was awarded the "DMA Trailblazer CMO Award " by DMA Asia.

Rajesh Padmanabhan

Chairman, Advisor to Board and Head - Western India

A man who needs no introduction, RP as we fondly call him is the Chairman of our Board . A Double Masters in Human Resource & Finance, RP is passionate about digital acceleration, leadership development, culture change management & skill building for creation of business value & has contributed immensely in his various roles with ICICI Group, Essel Propack (Director Corporate & Global CHRO, The Oberoi Group(EVP, Group HR), at I-Gate(EVP & Global CHRO), Capgemini(CHRO), Vedanta Resources Plc (Group CHRO) & Welspun Group (Director & Group CHRO). He has created customer – centric global business models across geographies with world class capabilities, building organisational excellence & running complex yet efficient structures to create enterprise value. A leader & visionary, RP with his 30 + years of rich global experience across conglomerates RP leads us in driving seamless convergence between Business & People keeping Technology at the forefront.

Amit Khanna

Director, SEA

Amit with his diverse experience in business management is instrumental in accelerating the transformation envisioned by the company’s leadership. An exemplary leader, he is at the core of scaling the operations in the south-east Asian region with his ideas and concepts that translate from his experiences in leadership positions at multiple organisations as managing director and CEO. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, he is supporting the operations in the SEA region with bottom-up creativity, initiatives and improvisations. He is an alumnus of eminent institutes like Harvard Business School, ICAI, and Indian School Business. With him on-board, the entire team is able to establish structure, performance-metrics and guardrails in the region to help scale company’s operations.

SB Joshi

Co-Founder & Director

Joshi ji as we like to call him is our Mentor & advisor. An inspiring leader, he is firmly established in the values of integrity, collaboration and commitment. Following a successful career of over 25 years in the HR/IR domain, he took the entrepreneurial leap and co-founded this venture. Developing innovative solutions to foster organizational efficiency and address employee expectations has been his lifelong passion. He is presently fulfilling his passion with HONO as the Managing Director.

Ranjan Tayal

Advisor to Board, HR

Ranjan Tayal is a true HR tech leader who is committed to staying at the forefront of innovation. In his role as Director of HR, he brings with him over 30 years of experience in delivering hyper growth in cloud native environments, scaling businesses, and building mobility, BOTS, and next-generation user experience movements for HCM products. As an alumnus of IIT Delhi, he brings a strong educational foundation and deep technical expertise to his role. With a background in both large global organizations such as Ericsson, Capgemini, and Satyam, as well as several start-ups including Convint.ai, Unifyed, I-MADE, and Travelport, Ranjan has a diverse range of leadership experience. He has a proven track record of building and leading next-generation technology teams, setting up offshore development centers, and scaling businesses. He is a driven leader with a passion for building cloud native HRTech and EdTech SaaS products.

Arvind Balakrishnan

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Arvind, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta (2007), is a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in Sales, Marketing, Growth, GTM, CLM, CRM, Loyalty, Pricing, and Trade Marketing. His sectoral experience spans e-Commerce, Telecom, and Retail, with multi-location exposure in India and South-East Asia. His functional and sectoral expertise, combined with his broad geographical exposure, makes Arvind a versatile and dynamic leader in the business world. His proficiency in navigating complex market scenarios and his ability to drive growth and innovation are testaments to his exceptional skill set and strategic acumen.