Cultural Magazine 
| Ranjini Manian, Chief Executive Officer | ||
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Ranjini Manian is Founder – CEO of Global Adjustments Services Pvt Ltd, India’s premier relocation, realty and cross-cultural services company. She received a Bachelors degree from Elphinstone College, Mumbai and a Diploma in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne, Paris. | |
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During the past 14 years of working in the relocation industry in 6 cities in India, Ranjini has worked with thousands of clients from over 75 nationalities. She has authored “Doing Business in India for Dummies” , writes regular columns in leading business dailies and is a sought after speaker. She has co-chaired the Worldwide Employee Relocation Council’s Global Workforce Symposium, received their ERC Meritorious Service award and has led Global Adjustments so as to be chosen as one of the top 10 ‘cool companies’ of India by Business Today. She is the only Indian Executive Committee member on the Women’s leadership Board at Harvard University. |
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Joanne Grady Huskey, Co-founder |
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Joanne Grady Huskey is a multicultural trainer, international educator, and co-founder of Global Adjustments. She has worked with many international companies to assist their employees in transition to living abroad. In addition to serving on the Boards of international schools in Taipei, Rome and Chennai, she co-founded the American International School of Chennai. |
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Joanne received her Master’s Degree from Harvard University and her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As part of a Foreign Service family, she has lived with her husband and two children in Beijing, Chennai, Nairobi, and Taiwan. Prior to the Foreign Service, she was the International Director of VSA Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and initiated innovative arts programs in 80 nations. She speaks Chinese, Spanish, French and American Sign Language. She has published articles in Newsweek, Washington Post, State Magazine, Foreign Service Journal, United Airlines’ Hemispheres, and Centered on Taipei magazines. Her book Unofficial Diplomat, will be forthcoming in early autumn 2009. She now lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Anita Krishnaswamy, Vice President - Chennai |
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Anita Krishnaswamy heads the Cross Cultural Services division in Chennai. This encompasses cross-cultural training, event management, creative design and publishing as well as production of corporate promotional collateral including videos and newsletters. Anita is well-established in the field of education. With a background in Advanced Mathematics and Sciences, years of teaching have finely honed her people skills allowing her to understand the needs and demands of varied audiences. | |
| Anita manages the department of Cross Cultural Services with a winning combination of warmth and professionalism that endears her to customers and team members alike.She contributed significantly to the launch of the Global Indian portal – the cross-cultural e-learning platform of Global Adjustments. Her years of industry experience in running an e-learning program for schools in Sri Lanka and her stint of entrepreneurship before joining Global Adjustments help her take quick and right business that help customers routinely get more than what they expect from this division. |
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Arathy Madappa, Vice President – Bengaluru |
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Arathy Madappa leverages her strong management, marketing and people skills combined with her academic qualifications in Psychology and Public Relations to manage our Bengalaru operations. Her creative, resourceful and cheerful approach keeps clients extremely content with our services. | |
| Our team in Bengaluru has grown in number and expanded in office space in order to cater to our fast expanding clientèle that includes a variety of industries that is not just IT/ITES centric. Her infectious smile, passion and enthusiasm in her job have ensured high customer satisfaction levels and healthy growth of our business in Bengaluru. | ||
Preeti Bindra, Vice President – National Capital Region |
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Preeti embodies some of the best Indian virtues of hospitality, charm and warmth when delivering our services to customers in the National Capital Region (comprising Delhi, Gurgaon and NOIDA). Her unwavering customer focus causes expatriates to rely on her routinely to help them with the challenges of moving into a new country. | |
| Preeti is a long-time entrepreneur in her own right and brings her skills of running a business to bear when making customer-focused decisions while running her successful operation with the help of a committed team of professionals. | ||
Farah Bakhshay, Vice President – Mumbai |
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With plenty of exposure and experience dealing with other cultures while studying to get her degree in Business Management at the University of Massachusetts, Farah is eminently qualified to head our Mumbai operations. She lived in California before moving back to Mumbai and start her own entrepreneurial venture. | |
| Her experience in product marketing gave her the opportunity to interact with people from different cultures and nationalities. An excellent public speaker, Farah is fluent in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and of course, English. Farah has the exciting responsibility of being an intrapreneur now, spreading the name of Global Adjustments in the financial capital of India by providing the full range of our services to customers there. | ||
Kasturi Basu, Vice President – Kolkata |
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Kasturi comes with over 11 years of total experience, much of it in the service industry including hospitality, tourism and advertising where she had plenty of occasions to work with expatriate clients. She is a successful entrepreneurial as well and has graduated at the master's level in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. | |
| She is very well connected in Kolkata and is excellently positioned to grow the youngest regional office of Global Adjustments in the City of Joy! | ||
Anupama Arvind, Head – India Destination Services - Chennai |
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Anupama has an MBA from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia in addition to ten years of hands on experience in corporate sales and account management in a variety of service industries. She is an articulate and effective team player with strong coaching skills that come in handy to keep her energetic team motivated to consistently succeed. Anupama's experience both in India and Australia gives her the multi-cultural exposure that will help her relate to our expatriate and Indian customers with equal ease. | |
| Anupama's interests outside her official role include music and tennis, if and when her toddler son affords her any spare time! | ||
| Bindu Menon, Senior Manager - Relocation and Customer Relations - Chennai |
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Bindu is the first person in Global Adjustments most of our expat customers interact with, often well before landing in India. She ensures that the relocating families have a smooth transition during the initial stages of moving to India. She has a Master's degree in English and a decade of experience in advertising before entering the relocation industry. |
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| Her flair for presenting India objectively to a first-time visitor along with her excellent interpersonal communication skills come in handy in her current role. She is a polyglot and is familiar with French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. | ||
Shobha Naidu, Senior Manager – Cross-Cultural Services - Bengaluru |
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Shobha Naidu is responsible for driving our Cross Cultural Services division in Bengaluru. Her responsibilities include understanding customer needs in training, customization of content and delivery with the help of her team of cross-cultural specialist trainers. She address an audience of corporate professionals – both Indian and expatriate – with equal ease. Having lived and worked in several countries, she appreciates the need for greater sensitivity towards other cultures in a globalized work environment. | |
| Shobha has an M.Phil in development studies from Geneva and is proficient in French. She has worked as a cultural and language interpreter in France and in India, with university students, corporates and foundations on the issues of corporate social responsibility. | ||