NEW YORK AND LONDON (October 19, 2022): HFS, a leading technology and business services analyst advisory firm, today announces the expansion of its research leadership team by welcoming these veteran analysts Murali Thata, Mike Finn, and Ashish Chaturvedi. Before coming to HFS, these leaders have been well-known throughout the industry for their expertise and insights into emerging business technologies.
HFS is delighted to tell you more about these amazing leaders:
Murali Thata – Practice Leader for Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance, HFS Research
Murali has more than two decades of experience helping financial services clients turn their business imperatives into workable solutions. His vast background in the global outsourcing industry includes stints working with HSBC, Wipro, and TCS, across a wide spectrum of roles and responsibilities, including business operations, program management, strategic deals, platform monetization, business transformation, change management, and new business development.
“HFS is a unique place where one can bring about influence, especially at an interesting time when the World is experiencing a paradigm shift across industries. Leading the practice for Banking & Financial Services and Insurance comes at no better time than now in one’s lifetime and the opportunity of collaborating with several clients simultaneously provides a larger picture alongside working with a cool bunch of Industry Analysts is an added reward. Self-reflection is one of the hardest pieces of learning and there is no better way to develop such competencies aligned with a professional career at HFS to achieve a higher purpose.”
Mike Finn – Practice Leader for Employee Experience and Sustainability, HFS Research
Mike draws on extensive experience as an academic and policy analyst in UK and European politics to address issues and trends across the ESG spectrum. He previously served in frontline Westminster politics as Head of Research and chief political speechwriter in the Office of the Leader of the Liberal Democrats. Mike also previously served as a Principal Policy Adviser to the late Charles Kennedy MP during Mr. Kennedy’s time as President of the European movement and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
“It was an easy decision to join HFS once the opportunity was there. HFS is an exceptional analyst firm offering unrivaled insights to business and is a great place to shape conversations on the future of work and sustainability.”
Ashish Chaturvedi – Practice Leader for Supply chain, Retail, and Disruptive technologies, HFS Research
Ashish is an accomplished IT industry analyst and a member of the IDG Influencer Network. Prior to HFS, he developed a strong reputation as Principal Analyst and Program Lead for sourcing advisory firm ISG. He has authored more than 65 research reports spanning retail technologies, enterprise modernization, low-code/no-code development, digital benchmarking, and IT sourcing. Over the years, Ashish has advised many senior executives on digital strategy, product/service planning, next-gen technologies, and IT procurement.
“I found deep synergies between HFS’s brand of research and my earlier work as an industry analyst. Top it up with the kind of mind share that HFS commands made it an aspirational move.”
HFS Founder and CEO Phil Fersht commented on the appointments: “We have been investing in the best people who can thrive and express themselves in the HFS environment to lead the narrative for the technology and business services industry. Enterprise leaders want to invest in relationships with analysts with a strong vision for the future, armed with forward-looking data, and genuine personality.”
About HFS
HFS is a unique analyst organization that combines deep visionary expertise with rapid demand-side analysis of the Global 2000. Its outlook for the future is admired across the global technology and business operations industries. Its analysts are respected for their no-nonsense insights based on demand-side data and engagements with industry practitioners.
HFS Research introduced the world to terms such as “RPA” (Robotic Process Automation) in 2012 and more recently, Digital OneOffice™ and OneEcosystem™. The HFS mission is to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations such as Automation and Process Intelligence, Blockchain, the Metaverse and Web3. HFS has deep business practices across all key industries, IT and business services, sustainability and engineering.
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