Dev Information Technology Limited announced that at the EGM held on June 15, 2022 approved the appointment of Mr. Umesh Rateja as an Independent Non-Executive director of the company., for a term of 5 consecutive years with effect from 16th June,2022 till 16th June, 2027, who is not liable to retire by rotation. Mr. Umesh Rateja comes with over 28 years of Strategic & Operational Human Resource Management experience with Large and Reputed Indian and Multinational companies. As an accomplished HR transformation leader, he is a business collaborator, providing larger solutions that deliver differentiated business results.

From organisational development to coaching teams to align their individual goals to larger interest remains the key to success of his approach. He also has extensive experience of Leading HR verticals and National Roles in highly dynamic and people centric sectors like Consulting, Telecom, Insurance, Direct Sales and Manufacturing. Umesh is proficient at Business strategy partnering with Leadership teams, Leading Change Management initiatives, Competency based Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Driving Employee Engagement and Value based Performance Management Culture, Rewards, Compensation & Benefits, HR Planning, Governance & Controlling processes, designing effective HR Policies and Systems, Building Effective Talent pipeline at all levels including Learning and Certification Academy for frontline roles.

Currently Umesh is the Executive Director at Next Milestone Technologies Pvt Ltd, Director and BOD at GESIA IT Association and Co-Founder cum Mentor of SUMS CorpSolutions LLP. During his corporate career Umesh has held various Leadership roles in HR, OD and Training. Some of the key positions he held include Head of Talent Acquisition and HR Operations with Reliance Communications, VP & Head of Talent Acquisition with Tata AIG, Head of Strategic HR & OD at Idea Cellular Ltd. He has also held strategic and operation positions with Bharti Airtel, Max New York Life, DSS Mobile Communications Ltd. (Mobilink), Eureka Forbes and Galaxy Group.

He has been trained on Leadership Skills from XLRI Jamshedpur, Talent Assessor by Mercer, Great Leaders Programme from Franklin Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Successful People from Franklin Covey, Competency Mapping by T V Rao Learning Systems, Assessor for Thomas Profiling by Thomas International, Gallup Engagement Model & Q12 by Gallup International, Quality Auditor (ISO 9001) by KPMG. The Director have also cleared the Online Proficiency Self Assessment test for Independent Directors.