Mervyn Raphael is one of the founder members of Performance Consulting International (PCI) in India. Over a 25 year career, Mervyn worked with Hindustan Lever, AT&T and Mercer HR Consulting. Mervyn was the ex- founder and Managing Director of Mercer HR Consulting for its Indian/Gulf operations, where he worked for 41/2 years and thereafter was the Business Head for the Gulf region and other parts of Asia. In his stint with Mercer, Mervyn established the Leadership & Talent management practice and led key assignments in this area as the “practice leader”.

With PCI, Mervyn has led several consulting assignments primarily in the areas of Defining Vision, Mission & Values, Organization structuring, Performance Management, Leadership Assessment and Executive Coaching for companies such as SKF Bearings, GlaxoSmithKline, HDFC Bank, Accenture, Genpact, Sanofi- Aventis, Medtronic, Kennametal , Astra Zeneca etc. Mervyn has also conducted coaching workshops for employees in several companies.

Mervyn received his postgraduate degree from XLRI, a premier management institute and an under-graduate degree in Statistics from the Loyola College in Madras. Mervyn was also certified at the training centre of AT&T in Dublin, Ohio. Mervyn has also been a speaker at several forums across Asia, Europe and the United States of America.

 

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Dana Rahbar-Daniels is Managing Director of Performance Consulting International (PCI), a performance and talent management consulting firm that serves the Asia-wide market with operating offices in China, India, Malaysia and Singapore. Over a twenty-nine year career, he has worked with a wide range of organizations around the globe as a senior principal in two major consulting firms and as a corporate manager within the human resource management field. Prior to founding PCI as co-director, Mr. Rahbar-Daniels was the Asia Practice Leader for William Mercer Inc.’s performance and talent management consulting services and led many major consulting assignments throughout Asia. He joined Mercer in 1998, serving previously as an HR Consulting Partner in the US Performance and Rewards practice of KPMG LLP which he joined in 1986. He was also US national director for competency consulting services at KPMG. Before entering the consulting field in 1985, he held corporate positions as an HR director.

Mr. Rahbar-Daniels specializes in the areas of leadership assessment, development and coaching programmes and centres, career path systems, performance management systems and behavioral and technical competency model building and related HR applications. His consulting clients have included global, regional and local businesses in industries such as financial services, bioscience, manufacturing, healthcare and government, including companies such as American Power Conversion, AstraZeneca, Bank Negara Malaysia, Barclay’s Bank, Singapore’s CPF Board, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Ford, Hewlett Packard A/P, JTC, Mettler Toledo International, Pfizer A/P, Pos Malaysia, Samsung Asia, Sharp Electronics, SK Telecom, Siemens AG and Westport Malaysia.

Presentations & Publications
Dana is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on innovative and high impact approaches to performance management, talent management and performance reward practices in various industries, including presentations for Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Human Resource Institute, Singapore National Employers Federation, Asia Business Forum, the CEO Academy Series sponsored by EDB and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Institute for International Research, the International Quality and Productivity Council, the Human Resource Planning Society, the High Technology Council, U.S. Engineering Associates, and the Society for Human Resource Management. He has been published by John Wiley & Sons in Paying for Performance (1998 and 2001 editions) and has also published articles and been quoted on talent management and performance and rewards issues in The Straits Times, the Wall Street Journal, the WorldatWork Journal, the ACANews, the Boston Business Journal and other professional journals.

Education
Dana holds graduate degrees from Brown University and Boston University, and an undergraduate degree (honors) from Brown University and took doctoral studies as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. He served on the faculty of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking and was a Chapter Board Member of the Human Resource Planning Society and the Society of Human Resource Management.
 

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With a 20 year career spanning brand consultancy, HR consultancy and internal communications Richard is able to bring a broad perspective to the subject of employer branding. He has led brand development and employee engagement projects for a diverse range of international blue chip clients including the BBC, BP, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Fujitsu, Shell, Thomas Cook, Unilever and Vodafone. His recent books on the subject include: ‘The Employer Brand’ – Bringing the best of brand management to people at work” and ‘Internal Communication – from Information to Inspiration’.
 

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