Jagdish Chugani Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

Skokie, Illinois, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Hyper growth enterprise collaboration software company that enhances, connects and makes work flow in multiple ecosystems. Recently awarded Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces and Best Workplace Tech Provider by WorkLife.

Orlando, Florida, Us

Top HR executive and key member of the Executive Leadership Team for Private Equity owned fast-growing SaaS organization responsible for overseeing the overall Human Resources function on a global basis, developing and executing strategies to aggressively grow revenue, strengthen internal infrastructure and increase enterprise value through development and delivery of human capital strategies, leading with empathy, Talent Management best practices and efficient operations. Acquired by Vista Equity Partners.• Reporting to the CEO, and frequently with the Board, leading the talent agenda with best practices aligned to a 5-year corporate/exit strategy and establishing the company as Employer of Choice in the US, Asia and EMEA. Won several ‘Employer of Choice’ awards every year.• Built the company’s personal accountability culture and human capital strategy and planning process.• Continuously received strong positive feedback for being a business and HR professional with strong empathy skills and focus on winning solutions and teamwork to scale the organization.• Provided leadership and direction transforming a tactical human resource department into a strategic key function partnering with the business to deliver on human capital metrics.• Worked with the Board Compensation Committee to redesign and structure Executive Compensation and benefits. This enabled easy alignment of priorities with long term planning and improved metrics for rewards.• Quarterbacked human capital diligence and integration for all M&A and during funding rounds. • Built a strong talent pipeline for critical functions and elevated candidate experience by building a niche career brand, improving recruiting strategies, and accelerating efficiency in the talent acquisition workflow. • Led 9-box and Leadership Succession Planning with risk and gap analysis and leadership development programs.

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• Key member of the Human Capital and Executive Leadership team to lead several large programs and M&As to consolidate and realign functions across the organization to achieve organization simplification, portfolio management, efficiency and cost savings thereby building One Optum. Key deliverables included evaluating organization structure, span of control, job design and bridging talent gaps.• Consulted on people matters by coaching leaders and employees on promotions, performance and talent management, learning and development, employee engagement, compensation and employee relations.• Created an environment that attracts and retains talent by addressing key drivers of defection and ensuring retention of NE-corner and key employees. Attrition halved to 8% over a 12 month period.• Led and participated in complex cross-functional projects that focused on workforce planning, HiPo development, culture change, setting customer service levels and new-employee onboarding.

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• Hand-picked to provide business partnership to most demanding sections of the business targeted to drive future international and domestic growth, diversification, and innovation on consumer engagement strategies.• Led pre and post successful integration of key acquisitions. Demonstrated high quality project management and culture assimilation skills to ensure smooth transition and true value-add of the acquisition.• Facilitated multiple meetings with key members of the leadership team to implement a strategy alignment process, building three year road-maps to deliver strategic initiatives as part of re-organizations and/or effective execution of ‘Plan on a Page’.• Championed new organization structures for Product Development, Operations and the Reporting business to align with new business model. Drove all HC aspects of design including creation and staffing of new roles, identify talent gaps, recruit for key positions, job eliminations and communications.• Partnered with business leaders to enhance business results by facilitating multiple UHG Culture sessions focused on large-scale change implementation/leadership and culture transformation. Employee Engagement results increased by 14%.

Plano, Tx, Us

Hi-Tech Data and Optical Network Equipment Solutions Provider with HQ in Israel.Promoted to this position after one year. (Acquired by PE firms - the Swarth Group and the Ashmore Group in 2007)• Reformed the culture, recruited the talent needed to reengineer the business model and positioned the company for sale. 97% voluntary retention of “critical to retain” employees and 95% voluntary retention of all employees post-acquisition was achieved.• Delivered key growth initiatives including: expansion of IT capability to low cost regions - India, expansion of Research & Development and outsourcing production of optical network devices.• Evaluated and introduced new vendors for payroll, recruitment and retirement planning improving benefits simplification and lower costs. Significant positive feedback received to these changes.

Plano, Tx, Us

Hi-Tech Data and Optical Network Equipment Solutions Provider with HQ in Israel.• Transformed a tactical human resource department into a strategic key function enabling the business to deliver on critical human capital metrics.• Provided leadership in all talent management processes including: new recruitment, succession planning and retention. 90% of budgeted staffing goals met in the first eight months.• Analyzed market data for patterns and trends to develop compensation, benefits, and HR programs in North America and in India that are strategically aligned to business and customer goals. A new compensation structure in India increased employee engagement scores from 3.4 to 4.1 (on a scale of 5).

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Promoted twice to this position. • Boosted employee retention rates higher through team building, energetic leadership and an employee-centric culture in both domestic and international offices.• Built an employee-friendly culture, leading company presentations and quarterly webinars on new initiatives, training and achievements. This initiative increased revenue per billing consultant by over 30%.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Worked with business partners to align human resources strategy and programs with the business strategy to drive sales growth and customer service.

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Mba, Organization Behavior, Strategy

Bs, Computer/Electronics Engineering