The Skills Academy, a for profit entity, is promoted by two accomplished Indian business
leaders: Pramod Bhasin, Founder and Non-Executive Vice Chairman of Genpact (leading global
business process outsourcing company) and former President of GE Capital Asia and India, and
Pia Singh, Director of DLF, Indias largest real estate company. The business is led by CEO
Anju Talwar, a former senior executive at Genpact, and supported by other senior team
members with experience at GE, Genpact, McKinsey, and Bank of America. Their combined
vision is to make India a true “Knowledge EconomyÃ¢â‚¬ï† by bringing credible investment in the job
related skills. The immediate agenda is to set up a world-class skills development training
academy with a progressive agenda of inculcating basic and incremental skills and knowledge
in a number of sectors. This ventures particular objective is to increase employment through
skill building and link education to employment
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