Associate Consultants

A MBA graduate of IIM, Calcutta, Gautam Mukerjee is the Managing Director of Fusion Engineering Products Ltd., a company he started with friends. While his central focus has remained with Fusion Engineering, Gautam has been instrumental in promoting several professional institutions. He has held Chairmanships on multiple committees of CII’s Eastern chapter, Indian Institute of Welding, Society for Promotion of Professional Excellence and on the Board of XLRI.

Gautam has been a visiting faculty to IIM Calcutta, XLRI, Hero Honda, SAIL’s Management Training Institute, CII’s Aspen’s Leadership seminars and Tata Management Development Centre in Jamshedpur. Gautam is a voracious reader, a photographer and a connoisseur of all art forms. He has the unique ability to synthesize lessons from the Vedas and philosophers to modern science and
contextualize them to present day management. Gautam’s special interest is
the study of Consciousness evolution.



An invigorating presence in the HR domain, strong industry knowledge and a sharp analytical mind defines the profile of Shounak Deshmukh, a post-graduate MBA and Gold Medallist veteran of the human side of strategic leadership. He has played varied roles, spanning almost two decades, managing the entire gamut of HR functions with some of the biggest and well-known industry leaders like Tata Motors, Johnson & Johnson, American Express and JP Morgan Chase.

Focussed on helping organisations manage the people side of the enterprise, Mr. Deshmukh has notched up several notable achievements in Talent Acquisition Solutions, Compensations & Rewards Management, Learning Solutions, HR Process Management and Employer Branding among other complex business problems in his varied assignments.



Alex Emmanuel, an alumnus of the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences, is a senior management consultant to a number of companies on HR processes, operations and strategy.

He brings to the table more than 25 years of rich and varied experiences with India's best known companies like the Tata Group, Asea Brown Boveri, Boehringer, Mannheim India and Excel Industries. He played a key role in helping a few of these organisations gain recognition at the group or national level for Business and HR Excellence. He is also the India Representative for CDI Capital Services, a US based company that funds niche projects in India.

A certified Senior Assessor of Business Excellence models, Mr. Emmanuel is actively associated, in various capacities, with Management and Trade Forums,

Professional Organisations, Academic Institutes and NGOs. He also serves on the

senate of SNDT University.