New Delhi, December 14, 2018: NIIT Limited, a global leader in skills and talent development, announced the appointment of Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin as the President - Skills and Careers Business (SNC) India Operations. Bimaljeet will be responsible for driving NIIT's Skills and Careers Business, which focuses on providing career related learning and talent development programs to individuals and enterprises in India.
Bimaljeet brings with him a diverse career experience of over 2 decades that spans leadership roles focused on building and scaling businesses. Bimal is an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune and an alumnus of the Chicago Booth Accelerated Development Program.
In his last stint, Bimaljeet was with Manipal Global Education as the Vice President and Head-Enterprise Business. Prior to Manipal Global, Bimal worked with Wipro Limited for over a decade where he held multiple leadership roles.
Welcoming Bimaljeet on board, Sapnesh Lalla, CEO, NIIT Limited said, "We are delighted to have Bimaljeet as the President of Skills and Careers Business (SNC) India operations. Over the last 18 months, SNC has launched a number of new products and initiatives that have started taking root and are now poised to become growth drivers for this business. With Bimaljeet's leadership acumen, we are confident that this will accelerate. I heartily congratulate Bimaljeet and we are sure that his appointment will give further thrust to the growth drive of NIIT."
Speaking on joining NIIT as President, Skills and Careers Business (SNC) India Operations, Bimaljeet Singh Bhasin said, "I am excited to join NIIT at a time when the career and workplace related learning is going through transformative changes. The industry is constantly evolving and with NIIT's 37 years of expertise in providing career focused learning solutions and my experience across the professional learning and talent development space, I am confident that we will chart a success story and take the company to greater heights."
About NIIT
NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development Corporation that is building a manpower pool for global industry requirements. The company, which was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world's leading training companies owing to its vast and comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises and Institutions. NIIT has three main lines of business across the globe – Corporate Learning Group, Skills & Careers Business and MindChampion Learning Systems Limited.
NIIT's Corporate Learning Group (CLG) offers Managed Training Services (MTS) to market-leading companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. The Skills & Careers Business (SNC) delivers a diverse range of learning and talent development programs to millions of individual and corporate learners in areas including Digital Transformation, Banking, Finance & Insurance, Soft Skills, Business Process Excellence, Retail Sales Enablement, Management Education, Multi-Sectoral Vocational Skills, Digital Media Marketing, and new-age IT. As NIIT's wholly owned subsidiary for its K-12 school learning initiative - MindChampion Learning Systems Limited (MLSL), provides futuristic NIIT nGuru range of learning solutions for schools comprising, interactive Classrooms with digital content, technology-driven Math Lab, IT Wizard programs and Quick School - an Education Resource Planning software. The Training.com learning platform is an NIIT initiative for advanced career programs, which are delivered live by industry experts in an immersive and interactive online mode, combining instructor-led classrooms with the convenience of accessing the training sessions from anywhere.
As the Most Trusted Training Brand in India for 5th year in a row (Brand Trust Report, 2017), NIIT's learning and talent development solutions, continue to receive widespread recognition globally. NIIT has been named among the Top 20 Training Outsourcing Companies for the past eleventh consecutive years by Training Industry, Inc. USA. Further, leading Indian ICT journal Dataquest has conferred upon NIIT the 'Top Training Company' award successively for the past 20 years, since the inception of this category. NIIT has also been featured as the 'Most Respected Education Company'- 2016 by leading financial magazine, Business World. NIIT.tv – a disruptive innovation by NIIT, won the prestigious award for 'Educational Technology, at the Indo-American Education Summit 2016.
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