Jatin DeSai
CEO, Co-Founder

Jatin is a seasoned business executive, strategic advisor, and a coach for senior leadership teams. Jatin has extensive field experience in the areas of strategy alignment, corporate innovation, talent management, global competency development, culture transformation, and information technology.

Jatin has been active in leadership and operating roles since 1983 when he co-founded The DeSai Group with his father.

Jatin has written papers, regularly speaks at conferences, lectures at colleges and universities, and delivers educational workshops on Strategic Alignment for Executive Teams, Future Trends, Enterprise Innovation, Enterprise Learning, Organizational Effectiveness, Values and Leadership, Living with Human Values, and Spirituality in the Workplace.
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Rose Mihaly
Chief Operating Officer

Ms. Mihaly is a strategic, broadly-skilled General Manager with demonstrated success growing new and existing businesses by identifying and framing unseen opportunities, building widespread stakeholder support, positioning the business in the marketplace, and creating a comprehensive, integrated and aligned human capital strategy. Ms. Mihaly is a highly adaptive leader and systemic thinker with strong marketing, consulting and communication skills. She has been identified as an outstanding speaker, presenter and group facilitator.

For ten years she served as an international and domestic executive at The Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE:HIG) where her roles included S VP and Chief Marketing Officer for the Group Benefits Division; VP and Managing Director of The Hartford’s Retirement Strategy Initiative; SVP and Chief Administrative Officer, Hartford Life KK, Tokyo, Japan; and, VP Human Resources - Hartford Life, Investment Products, International, Information Technology, Corporate and Group Benefits.

Before joining The Hartford, Ms. Mihaly was President of Mihaly Associates, LLC, a strategy and human resources consulting firm serving CEOs, senior executives, senior management teams, owners and Board members of businesses and organizations of various sizes in the profit and not for profit sectors. She also held general management and managing director roles for Ski Sundown, and The Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA). She served as Director of Human Resources, Director of Field Operations and Strategic Planning, and Director of Assumed Reinsurance for The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. and held human resources management positions with Pitney Bowes and ConDiesel Mobile Equipment.

Ms. Mihaly received a Bachelor of Science degree from Bentley College. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for St. Paul Catholic High School and has been a frequent advisor, pro bono consultant, coach, mentor and volunteer to various not-for-profit organizations and individuals.

Fal Patel
CFO, Co-Founder

Fal has acted as Co-Founder and CFO of DeSai Group since 1983. She is directly involved in all the financial, maintenance, and employee benefit matters of the company. Through these varied roles, she provides the essential elements that allow the company to operate smoothly.

Fal´s professional, no-nonsense approach guides the management of the company assets. Ongoing research, discovery, and negotiations assure the best acquisitions and allocations.

Dan Browne
Vice President – Innovation

Dan has been building relationships inside Corporate America to help foster innovation, learning and development for over 20 years. Leadership, Management and Customer Facing teams have grown dramatically through the coaching and guidance Dan provides. Dan’s first 15 years were spent consulting with organizations from Not-for-Profit to Fortune 10 organizations on the use of technology to innovate their products, services and business models. The last 5 years have been spent with leadership teams and managers at all levels focused on climate and culture work to integrate innovation into daily business.

Dan's style and belief in serving others has helped him to create many long lasting partnerships with vendors and clients. Dan has a unique skill to see the big picture and create symphony among workgroups, partners and clients.

Najeeb Ahmad
Vice President – Client Development

Najeeb Ahmad is a seasoned Human Resources executive whose career has spanned twenty years in various industries, business models, and geographies. He has held senior positions with companies ranging in size from 120 employees to more than 50,000, from privately held to Fortune 100. He has consistently coupled his consultation to all levels of management, from first-line supervisors to the C-Suite, with deep experience in strategy, talent management, staffing, leadership coaching, organizational development, team effectiveness, group facilitation and change management. Through rapid organizational growth, downsizings, restructurings, and other business transformations, Najeeb has developed hands-on expertise that couples sound theory and research with practical applications that work.

Najeeb most recently served as Partner, Human Resources at Rosetta, a fast-growing marketing strategy and interactive agency. Prior to that, he led Human Resources at MediaVest, a subsidiary of Publicis. At Bristol-Myers Squibb his roles included leading HR for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Southern Africa, and leading the Staffing function for R&D and Commercial and Corporate Staff organizations. He also served with Capital One Financial during its explosive growth phase as a generalist and developer of a Global Workforce Integration initiative. He held a regional HR leadership role with the B2B division of Office Depot and multiple positions with Mobil Oil Corporation.

Najeeb holds an MBA and MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in History from Georgetown University.

Pamela Sheehan
Senior Programs Manager

Pam Sheehan has held a variety of key administrative positions since joining DeSai Systems in 1987. As Senior Programs Manager, she oversees all aspects of corporate university content and delivery management. Her primary focus is on the development and management of the DeSai Group Provider Network, a consortium of over 200 regionally and nationally recognized learning providers. She guides the development and application of over 7500 learning events in support of client learning requirements.

She directs the administration of employee enrollment and registration for client entities, instructor recruitment, and coordination of content provider activity. She has comprehensive experience in administrative management, corporate human resources management, sales support, and project management roles.

Alain Rostain
Facilitator

Alain Rostain is an expert on organizational innovation. His work over the last 16 years has included helping clients with:

• Articulating the strategic mandate for innovation
• Developing and executing implementation plansfor innovation
• Designing and rolling out innovation culture change programs
• Training leaders to drive innovation behaviors & results
• Facilitating and coaching critical innovation teams