Surhuda Kulkarni - Founder

Surhuda, founder of MTF, is a life skills trainer with human communication as her forte. She holds a rich experience in the media industry and is an established corporate trainer holding certifications from Dale Carnegie, Peak Performance and Department of Personnel Development, GOI. Over the past few years she has trained 4000+ people across 20 organizations. Her core training areas are Communication and Interaction, Customer Service, Writing Skills, Confidence Enhancement, Presentation Techniques, and English Language Development.

Sandeep Pathak - Senior Intervention Specialist

Sandeep is a professional corporate trainer and consultant with 20+ years of experience in Product Development & Project Management in IT, Logistics, Finance, Education and Consumer Retail. He has worked in the US and the APAC region for organizations like UPS, GE, Cendant Corp., Indus Software, Aptech, etc. His areas of expertise are Attitudinal Development, Behavioral Transformation, Etiquette, Communication, Teamwork & Leadership Development and Ethics.

Sethunath Ramaswamy - Senior Intervention Specialist

Sethunath, in his career of 25+ years, has led numerous high-profile client engagements in IT for organizations like CGI, Citibank, TCS and Cognizant. He has trained and nurtured countless teams across geographies like USA, Australia, Singapore and India. He coaches and mentors senior management and conducts programs on Leadership Skills, High Performance Teams, Program Management, Change Management, Competency Mapping, Strategic Planning, etc.

Vikram Chidgopkar - Senior Intervention Specialist

Vikram has worked in techno-commercial roles over the past 25 years across different industries for global businesses in Chemical Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering sectors. He has trained the sales force of more than 150 channel partners and 5000+ internal and external customers on product technology. Some of the programs he conducts are Basic Principles of Selling, Advanced Selling Skills, Sales Leadership Program, Presentation Skills, Sales Management and Value Selling.

Raju Bannur - IT Business Leader and IT Sales Effectiveness Coach and Mentor

At MTF, Raju is an Advisor on Business-centric Solutions design and architecture and Sales effectiveness coach and mentor for IT companies.

Over more than 25+ years in the Consulting & IT industry, Raju has delivered tangible value across Business P&L Management, Solutions definition and development, new business sales, account management, pre-sales & Delivery of Consulting, IT and BPO services. Raju has worked in multiple geographies for a number of years including continental Europe, UK, US, Singapore and India.

As the Chief Solutions officer at Polaris Consulting & Services Limited, he was responsible for identifying, conceptualizing and developing industry solutions and delivery capability globally. As a Vice President at Infosys, he held a number of responsibilities including portfolio management, new business development, niche solutions sales, pre-sales, etc. At IMR (now part of CGI) and Tata Consultancy Services, he played a primarily Delivery role.

He now works as a consultant and advisor with IT and Consulting companies on their solutions responses to complex opportunities as well as coach and mentor their pre-sales, solutions and sales teams to increase their sales effectiveness in this increasingly competitive market.

Shruti Nargundkar - Advisor, English Language Development Courses

Shruti is an education innovator, quality and compliance consultant based at Melbourne, Australia. She is the founding Director of NEXTEXT, a vocational education and quality and compliance consultancy that assists registered training organisations with their compliance, quality management and registration with the National VET Regulator requirements.

As a manager with over 30 years of experience in education English Language, Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education in Australia and other parts of the world, Shruti assists RTOs with Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) as well as with the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA).

Over 9 years experience as an entrepreneur, CEO and founding Managing Director of Education Access Australia and Melbourne Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, a major private CRICOS RTO with an approved capacity for 2,200 international as well as several hundred domestic students.

Indraneel Kulkarni - Outbound Program Specialist

Indraneel is an independent herpetologist, eco-diversity researcher and trainer on ecology workshops. He specializes in complementing text book education with his on-field ecology learning for students, teachers, tourists and corporate professionals. Excellent knowledge and experience in general outdoor interpretership as well as an extensive knowledge base of the flora, fauna, general biodiversity and places of historical importance makes him an expert in ecology and archaeology trainings.

Indraneel is associated with government, semi-government and private organizations like Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park and Research Centre, Pune, Indradhanushya, run by Pune Municipal Corporation, Katraj Snake Park, Pune, The Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre for wild animals run by the Herpetological Society. He also runs a rescue helpline for wild animals in Pune and has rescued varied species of animals in distress from snakes, birds, monkeys and an elephant too!

Sandhya Bhat - HR Advisor & Consultant

Sandhya has more than 16 years of experience in HR, across IT services and product firms, manufacturing and construction firms. Her expertise is in understanding the organization's specific needs and requirements, organizational culture, business direction etc and then translating it into customized, simple yet effective systems. The gamut of her services include both strategic and transactional business needs of an organization from organizational development to employee engagement and retention strategies and employee surveys, recruitment assistance and other activities.