Infosys’ Learning Services help clients win with innovations in learning. We address enterprise learning needs in the Flat World with a comprehensive solution that combines traditional learning approaches with new models and technologies.

Abhijit Sontakey

Project Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Abhijit leads the Web 2.0 lab within Learning Services unit for developing informal Learning solutions and is a Project Leader at offshore for Maintenance/ Development projects. Abhijit is also successful in being an excellent client Coordinator for implementation of Enterprise Content Management solutions

Abhijit’s interests lies in Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, KM, Enterprise Content Management


Achintya Bakre

Project Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Achintya is responsible for content creation in a capacity of Project manager. He is currently working in the learning domain and its been a real "Learning" experience to understand the field of instructional designing.

His work experience in past has been diverse from graphics design to web design to web programming to .Net programming to Project Management. And with this diverse background, it will be an added advantage to work with Learning Services and its clients.

Achintya’s interests include watching Sports (cricket comes as religion), Reading (Specifically Marathi literature), and classical music.


Amit Phatak

Senior Project Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Amit is a part of the Delivery and Solutions management team with Infosys’ Learning Services Practice. He has over 10 years of IT experience, having worked in project and account management teams. Amit is experienced in handling large teams, managing accounts and streamlining processes. His areas of interest include process adoption and sustainability, managed knowledge transfer, mLearning, and game-based elearning.


Christopher Halaszynski

Lead Consultant, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Christopher has more than 15 years of industry experience. He helps customers define and implement training strategy and content, and learning management systems. He specializes in LMS strategy and implementation.

Christopher will blog on learning and training development.


Debra Thiegs

Business Systems Analyst, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Debra is an onsite communication and documentation specialist. She will blog on learning and training, documentation, writing and communications.


Gaurav Rastogi

Head, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Gaurav Rastogi heads Learning Services, which is a new unit within Infosys that aims to help clients win with innovations in learning. Gaurav joined Infosys being a part of the sales in early 2001 and moved into running Global Sales Effectiveness .Worked with the COO, in this role, and his job involved creating and managing a comprehensive transformation program targeted at the client services team. This involved aspects of strategy, account management and sales process, talent management, sales operations and competency development.

Gaurav is also a member of the eLF(eLearning Forum)Advisory Council.

Gaurav enjoys Reading, writing, blogging (write a blog on the Bhagvad Gita) and gardening to name a few. He reads about complexity science, brain research, philosophy, popular science and popular economics.


Josh Ives

Principal Consultant, LERN, Infosys Technologies

Josh has more than 15 years of industry experience. He works with customers to design effective learning solutions that solve real business problems. He will blog on learning technologies, workforce performance and metrics.


Kaiser Masood

Principal Consultant, Infosys Leadership Institute, Infosys Technologies

Kaiser is a Principal Consultant with Infosys Leadership Institute with over 12 years of experience in the learning arena. At ILI , he is involved with the learning management and tier leadership system in the capacity of a learning manager. He also handles training activities at the institute. With over 8 years of industry experience, Kaiser has conducted both public programs and corporate consulting across the US, Singapore and Hong Kong.


Karen Burns

Senior Learning Consultant, Infosys Technologies

Karen Burns recently joined Infosys Technologies as a Sr. Learning Consultant in the Learning Services unit. Previously she worked for IBM and Lenovo creating learning programs that tied in to business strategies. She is particularly interested in Leadership Development, Web 2.0, and innovations in learning.

Karen is a member of ASTD (American Society for Training and Development). She enjoys travel, reading, and anything "craft" related such as painting, knitting and scrapbooking.


Kathie Dunn

Lead Consultant, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Kathie has more than 27 years of experience in the learning services industry. She assists clients to define and implement training strategy and systems. She will blog on e-learning development tools, curriculum design, Learning Management Systems selection and training development.


Luke Forster

Associate Business Analyst, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Luke specializes in process documentation and recording. He has two years of industry experience. He has assisted in developing and bringing online the Help Documentation for a SAP implementation at a major oil company.

Luke will blog on learning and training.


MK Manjula

Delivery Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Manjula heads the Infosys delivery team of Learning Services in India. She also manages the technical training requirements of the Pune Development center. She has more than 16 years of IT experience.

She has managed large teams in application development and maintenance for Discrete Manufacturing customers.

Manjula will blog on topics related to learning services


Minal Joshi

Group Project Manager, Infosys Technologies

Minal is an Electrical Engineer from REC Rourkela. She has 12 years of experience in IT with extensive exposure to project management, people management and client management. Is an expert in setting up the processes and executing them for large client engagements (200+ team size). Minal has managed several Unit, DC and Organization level initiatives at Infosys.

Moushmi Mahato

Senior Consultant, LERN, Infosys Technologies

Moushmi helps customers identify their learning needs. She guides them on best practices to implement programs using online capabilities and learning technologies. She has more than eight years of experience. She will blog on informal learning, virtual learning world and learning technologies.


Patricia Ann Holman

Senior Learning Consultant, Infosys Technologies

Patricia has more than 15 years of experience in Learning Services that includes sales, marketing, ERP training, project management, instructional design, engagement and pricing, Her blogs focus on Management and Leadership Coaching/Development; Graphics and Creative Content presentation.


Pranay Bhagat

Learning Consultant, Infosys Technologies

Pranay is an LMS Consultant with experience in interfacing with other applications such as LCMS. He has more than 12 years of experience of which he has spent seven years at Infosys. He has helped implement the Campus Community module of PeopleSoft 9.0 for a University and helped customers with LMS technology consultations. He blogs on LMS, LCMS products, interfaces and compatibility.


Praveen Kaushik

Lead Consultant, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Praveen helps companies define and implement training strategy. In addition, he manages content and learning management systems. He has more than 10 years of industry experience.

Praveen will blog on learning and training.


Rishabh Mehta

Consultant, LERN, Infosys Technologies

Rishabh is a learning Consultant, specializing in CRM, ERP, knowledge management, training and education. He has successfully led Infosys through rigorous client audits and has trained several professionals on business processes.

Rishabh will blog on e-learning and future trends, knowledge management, and new facets of learning and education.


Sameer Aras

Project Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

As a project manager, Sameer is responsible for designing and delivering web based solutions on Microsoft platform. Very recently he has managed projects based on the Web 2.0 concept of collaboration and social networking. Some of the projects done includes Collaboration platform for a community, Platform that supports collaborative learning by enabling collaboration between various systems and it’s users, Marketing platform to promote Microsoft Office Business Applications

Sameer also has extensive experience as a programmer in various languages and technologies like C, C++, C#, Javascript, ASP.Net and SQL Server 2000.

Sameer enjoys traveling, Sports especially football and Cricket.


Sanjay Godbole

Senior Project Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Sanjay has over 10 years of IT experience. He is responsible for the delivery of multiple projects in the Learning Services Practice at Infosys. Sanjay has been working on Microsoft Technologies, mostly in the development of Web-based applications of various domains; and also has experience in .NET product development. He has also worked on projects for the Banking and Capital Markets Practice at Infosys. Sanjay’s interests span the breadth of Web 2.0.


Shahriar Saeedvafa (Sean Vafa)

Lead Consultant, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Sean helps firms define and implement training strategy, content and learning management systems. He has more than 20 years of industry of experience.

Sean will blog on learning strategy, governance and technology.


Shashikant Kulkarni

Group Project Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Shashi has more than 10.5 years of IT experience and has worked with several clients across regions at onsite and offshore in a variety of project types in the ADM space before joining Learning Services in October 2007. He has worked extensively in pre-sales and contributed actively as a leader and member to the account, unit and organization level initiatives. Completed post graduation from IIT Bombay in Civil Engineering in 1998.


Simon Cavill

Senior Practice Engagement Manager, LERN, Infosys Technologies

Simon is responsible for building the U.K. market for LERN services companies across multiple sectors. He has more than 20 years experience in telecommunications, consulting, business development and learning marketplaces. Simon is responsible for winning the first U.K. LERN engagement with a multi-national oil and gas corporation.

Simon will blog on a wide range of topics in learning such as organizational learning, social and informal learning, sales force effectiveness, e-learning, performance simulation, sustained end user adoption, knowledge management, and learning strategy to support business objectives.


Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni

Principal Researcher, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni heads the SOA Centre of Excellence at SETLabs, Infosys' Research group. His areas of interest include Web services, Service Oriented Architecture and Grid technologies, alongside pursuing interests in intelligent agents and enterprise architecture.


Srikantan Moorthy

Vice President and Head - Education and Research, Infosys Technologies

Srikantan Moorthy or Tan, to his colleagues, has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry. Tan brings with him extensive experience in technology, project and people management and customer interaction. Tan’s experience ranges from systems and application programming on a variety of computing platforms to client partnering, operations management, business development and strategy definition. Tan is a results-oriented business leader with a flair for people development and process improvement. Tan has been a key contributor to the competency development initiative at Infosys.


Tanvi Kelkar

Principal Instructional Designer, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Tanvi mentors Instructional Designers, performs audits on deliverables, and contributes to pre-sales. She has over 9 years of experience in the learning industry. She has worked at several MNCs and conducted technical training sessions encompassing Information and Learning Technologies (ILTs) for students.

Tanvi specializes in e-learning, ILTs, and blended learning. She has wide-ranging experience in healthcare, telecom and banking. Her areas of interest include learning styles, learning behaviors, and finding solutions for various learning outcomes.


Theodore (Ted) Ross

Principal Consultant, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Ted helps enterprises define and implement training strategy, content and learning management systems. He has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Ted will blog on learning and training.


Thomas Starr

Senior Engagement Manager, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Thomas (Tom) has more than 20 years of experience in organizational learning and workforce education. His experience covers corporate university design, curriculum design, and the application of technology to learning development, delivery and management. He is an industry leader in the transformation of training and education.

Tom has been named among the ’who’s who‘ in the learning industry.


Vandana Pancham

Principal Instructional Designer, Learning Services, Infosys Technologies

Vandana has more than nine years of experience in the learning field. She is responsible for defining and implementing end-to-end learning solutions. She has led consulting assignments to define and improve the training processes of organizations, worked on productizing learning solutions, and contributed to pre-sales activities.

Vandana has defined learning strategies for clients, set up project teams, and defined processes for various types of learning solutions.

Vandana will blog on learning styles, behavioral theories, and the link between performance and training.