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ISF appoints Lohit Bhatia as president, Farhan Azmi as vice-president

Date:

  • 2020-04-06

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  • Outlook Times, India TV, Devdicource

Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), the apex body of flexi staffing industry, has appointed Lohit Bhatia as its president and Farhan Azmi as its vice-president. Lohit Bhatia is the President Workforce Management, Quess Corp and Farhan Azmi is the CMD (chairman-cum-managing director)), Futurz Staffing Pvt Ltd.

Bhatia and Azmi will be taking over from the outgoing President Rituparna Chakraborty, co-founder and executive- vice president, Teamlease and outgoing Vice-president, R P Yadav, CMD, Genius Consultants respectively, ISF said in a statement. “The current positive regulatory environment has accelerated India’s shift from an informal to formal economy. Catapulting the flexi-staffing space as a major driver of the Indian economy and key to solving the growing challenge of employment and employability,” Bhatia said.

The new leadership and the board members were elected by over 100 members of ISF. The 10 members elected to the board are – Bhavna Udernani, MD, Adhaan Solutions; Mehul Shah, MD, Collabera Technologies; Munish Kumar, CEO, Firstmeridian Group; Narayan Shukdeo Bhargava, Director, Calibehr Business Support Services; Paul Dupuis, CEO & MD, Randstad India; R P Yadav, Chairman & MD, Genius Consultants; Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-founder & EVP, Teamlease Services; Sameer Mehta, CEO & MD, Multiplier Brand Solutions; Pramod Pachisia, COO, 2Coms Consulting & Somnath Banerjee, Director, Orion Corporate Alliance.

India is the fifth largest market employing 3.3 million flexi staff in 2020, growing at 22.7 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) despite 0.6 per cent flexi staffing penetration which is much behind the global average of 2.3 per cent. The staffing industry provides a platform for recognised employment, work choice, compensation, annual benefits and health benefits for the temporary workforce that constitutes almost 70 per cent of India’s total workforce.

(As originally appeared in Devdicource – https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/business/995125-isf-appoints-lohit-bhatia-as-president-farhan-azmi-as-vice-president)

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Mr. Lohit Bhatia

President, Indian Staffing Federation

Lohit has over 23 years of corporate experience post his education, at The Army Public School, New Delhi. He specialized in Computer science at school and followed on to graduate with Economics Honors from Delhi University. After graduating from DU, Lohit completed his MBA from The Apeejay School of Marketing in 2007. Post his education he has worked over 10+ years in the manufacturing industry ( Textiles and Auto Components). Here he was instrumental in establishing and leading one of India’s largest Auto component export unit at the Noida Special Economic Zone. Moving on after the 11 years of manufacturing experience, he has worked in the Service Sector for the last 13 years. Starting with the Search and Recruitment Industry, he was later appointed by Quess Corp Ltd, ( erstwhile Ikya Human Capital Solutions Pvt ltd in 2010 ) , as GM ( North & East – Staffing Solutions ). During the past 10 years he has grown the Staffing business over 20x in HC and revenue terms from a base of nearly 12500 back then to over 250K currently. Today, Lohit is President ( workforce management ) and heads Staffing in India and APAC region, servicing over 1500 clients, with 270K+ associates. During this period of 10 years Ikya went on to become Quess Corp Ltd , raised funds from long term investor Fairfax financial Canada and went on to become one off India’s largest IPO in 2016 Today Quess Corp Ltd is India’s Largest Private Sector employer with 385,000 employees. Lohit has been part of all key leadership decision making as well as coordination with various Corporate bodies representing the company with CII , FICCI , Niti Aayog , and various ministries in his capacity as both representing of largest Private sector employer and based at Gurgaon , Delhi NCR.