A Career Break is Just a Pause!

Prabir Jha is a renowned Human Resource strategist and a veteran CHRO. His diverse industry experience includes time at Fortune 500 companies as the CHRO of Reliance and Tata Motors and other India-headquartered global companies. A TEDx speaker, columnist, and active influencer on social media, Prabir is recognized as a Top Voice on LinkedIn on the topic of “Job Search and Career Experts.” Prabir is a steadfast and passionate champion of professionals relaunching their careers after an extended career break.

Tace Heuston is an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) where she serves as the Global Head of the Talent Institute. In this role Tace is instrumental in driving AWM’s people development agenda with a focus on Early Careers, New Hires, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Talent Management and Executive & Organisational Development. 

Tace has been with the firm for more than 30 years, serving in a variety of business and HR roles, including in AM Operations and AM Client Service, and as an AM Learning Partner, before moving into HR as an AWM Talent Advisor and leading the International Talent Institute.

Tace has also made a significant impact leading the firmwide ReEntry Program, which hires and supports diverse talent across the firm. Tace’s deep knowledge of the AWM business and her expertise in Talent is critical as she continues to drive change within the organization.

Tace is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and an accredited European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Executive Coach.

Tace currently lives in Essex, UK with her husband, daughter and son.

Ganesh is SVP and Global Delivery Head of Products and Resources (P&R) at Cognizant. In this role, he heads the Market Delivery Unit (MDU) for P&R business of Cognizant globally with 60,000+ associates. He is responsible for service delivery to all the clients of P&R and ensuring client satisfaction. Ganesh is also responsible for driving delivery and operational excellence, business development, innovation, associate engagement and leadership development activities for his unit.

Ganesh recently took over the additional interim responsibility as the Global Delivery Head for Integrated Digital Engineering (IDE) practice. In this role, he is responsible for supporting the MDUs / MCUs in client delivery and deal pursuits, fulfillment, building next-gen talent and developing thought leadership.

Ganesh is a member of Cognizant’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT). As a corporate leader he looks after initiatives related to skilling, workplace safety, associate retention (Task Force), return-to-office (R2O), Interaction with Academia's and diversity & inclusion (D&I).

Ganesh joined the organization as a trainee and over his 22+ years stint at Cognizant across two phases, he has risen through the ranks with a passion for business, technology and customer service. Ganesh also worked in leadership positions at Wipro and UST Global for close to 5 years.

He is a Center Head for Chennai and also a member of the advisory board of Anna University. He represents Cognizant at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the largest industry consortium in India.

Ganesh completed his engineering degree from Anna University in India and did an executive course in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Brett is a Vice President in the Moody’s People Team where he is responsible for Early Careers and Programs Talent Acquisition. In this role, he leads the strategic direction and oversees the delivery of programs to attract and recruit students and recent graduates into the global organization. Brett also manages targeted recruitment programs at the mid-career level including RE-IGNITE, Moody’s initiative to hire and support individuals returning from a career break.

Prior to his current role, Brett led Campus Recruitment at Moody’s in both the US and EMEA. Before joining Talent Acquisition, Brett was a manager in the Events & Outreach Team at Moody’s Analytics where he was responsible for the events programming for credit rating research clients in the US.

Brett is a Steering Committee member of the EMEA Pride Business Resource Group (BRG) and previously served as a Co-Chair of the US Pride BRG, as well as represented Moody’s on the Board of Directors of OPEN Finance, a non-profit business league of over 40 US-headquartered financial institutions’ LGBTQ+ employee resource groups.

He earned his BFA from the Conservatory of Fine Arts at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.