KendraHQ appoints Girish Patil as their Chief Executive Officer in India and launches Kendra Align – safety and compliance application

Pune, 5 March 2020 : KendraHQ today announced that Girish Patil has joined KendraHQ as their Chief Executive Officer in Pune (India). Girish’s employment with KendraHQ commenced in early January 2020.

Girish has more than 20 years of senior management experience, including 6 years of strategic development, testing and vendor relationship management at UBS Bank, most recently as their Risk IT APAC QA Head. Prior to that, Girish served as the Vice President of Citi Technology Center, ODC Manager and Pune Site lead of Lloyds TSB, and Portfolio Test Manager at Barclays Technology Centre, Pune.

He brings his pioneering experience in scaling businesses to KendraHQ to drive growth for the company.

“KendraHQ is at the cusp of phenomenal growth and I am tremendously impressed with its leadership team and the team built in India over a short period of time,” said Girish. “KendraHQ is a completely cloud-based product that allows staff and partners to be integrated with the entire business – no matter where they are and when they need to. I am excited to be part of a team that is young, dynamic, and customer-oriented to create market dominance through the innovation of products and services that meet the needs of a dynamic and demanding client base.”

“We are really excited to have Girish on board. He brings to the business a huge amount of experience and industry knowledge,” said Damien Gibson, Chairman and Group CEO at KendraHQ. “We are certain that he will be able to make KendraHQ into a global brand. We’re also launching our new product, Kendra Align, which is a safety and compliance platform for businesses looking for getting control over safety and compliance, on the occasion of National Safety Week starting from 4th March 2020. By leveraging our success in the Australian and New Zealand markets and bringing them to the Indian landscape, we are confident that businesses across the world will be able to benefit.”

Girish holds a BE Degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune and an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.