‘The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success’

Managing Director – Seventh Sense Talent Solutions

Email – vinod.prabhu@seventhsensetalent.com

Vinod Prabhu completed his MBA from IIM Bangalore and possesses significant and

varied experience of working for Fortune 500 and multi-billion dollar MNCs. He has

worked for Deloitte and Touche, Hindustan UniLever and Mercer Consulting in their

Consulting, Marketing and HR roles respectively. He has helped clients solve their Talent

issues in India, US, Singapore, UAE, South Africa and Egypt.

He realised that his true calling was in helping people reach their full potential and be

truly successful. He quit his corporate career to set up Seventh Sense Talent Solutions,

which offers soft skills training and recruitment solutions to corporate and educational

institutions. The company also partners with start ups and helps them manage their

entire HR function, thereby helping them concentrate on their core competency. The

company has served marquee corporate clients and continuously looks out for

challenging opportunities. Management has experience serving clients such as ABB, GMR

Group, Gammon India, SAP India Consulting, Marico, GE and Reliance Retail. Vinod

envisions a company that would move beyond corporate clientele into rural India and

make 100,000 rural Indians employable by 2015.

In his previous life as a corporate professional, Vinod was recognised by Deloitte &

Touche as ‘The Maverick’, an honour awarded to the most innovative employee in the

company. He also helped launch Deloitte’s ‘Corporate Governance’ market offering in

India in response to the Satyam scandal. He collaborated closely with clients, in India

and abroad, primarily in the Retail sector to help them foster innovation. In recognition

of his talent, Barry Salsberg, CEO of Deloitte & Touche provided him with a personal

commendation for exceptional performance.

He has been featured in the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) as one of the

young talents to watch out for.

He helped the Government of Karnataka revamp the vocational education system in the

state and was nominated for the IIMB Community Service Awards.

He mentors students from IIM Bangalore in the course – Entrepreneurial Manager

conducted by the N S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSR-GIV centre),

co-founded by Mr N.S. Raghavan (founder and former Joint Managing Director of

Infosys) and Global International Ventures (GIV).

He mentors Roots2Shoots, a start-up in the organics food space, which

promotes 'Healthy Community' by making available nature's bounty in its purest form.

He was consistently rated in the top 3 in paper/case presentations at business festivals

of multiple IIMs. His case was adjudged as the 3rd best case in the country by Price

Waterhouse Coopers, Economic Times & Raymond.

He is a winner of the Bronze Ogilvy given to the most creative person in the biggest

business fest of the country – Vista at IIM Bangalore

He has worked closely with Mr. Govind Rajagopalan, India Head, Danaher and helped

Danaher, US & Radiometer, Denmark enter the Indian super specialty healthcare

industry.

Seventh Sense is a proven and trusted name in the field of Talent Solutions and

has served some distinguished names in the industry. Management team has:

Experience in serving organisations such

as (indicative)

• ABB

• Deloitte

• Gammon

• GE

• GMR

• Hindustan UniLever

• Marico

• Mercer

• Reliance Retail

• SAP

• SELCO

• TCS and

• Govt of Karnataka

Experience in serving students from

institutions such as (indicative)

• IIM Bangalore

• IISc

• RV group of institutions

• PES group of institutions

• BNM group of institutions

• JSS Group of institutions

• RNS group of institutions

• Vidya Vardhaka Group of

institutions

• Presidency group of institutions

• Pula Reddy group of institutions

• TJohn group of institutions

• IGNOU