Our People
Meet the INNOVERV collective
INNOVERV is a coming together of exceptional leadership talent; and the ‘whole’ is certainly greater than the sum of the parts!
INNOVERV is powered by a group of leaders and practitioners who have ‘been there and done that’ and knows what it takes. We are ‘big enough to matter’ and we are passionate about making a positive difference to our clients, our teams and the communities we belong to.
Partho Bhattacharya
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Partho is a leading Entrepreneur who created and led two similar SAP and Salesforce consulting startups as CEO over the past 15 years, both of which created significant client, citizen and shareholder value. After working for significant global multinationals like IBM, Tata and Siemens, he deployed best practices from industry and laser focused client skills to create highly efficient organisations. He has been recognised through industry awards like Sunday Times Fast Track, IoD award et al.
Partho is the Chair of the Innoverv Board. Known popularly as ‘Mr O’ to us (when he is not within earshot). He brings a wealth of experience to Innoverv and guides the executive team on how to make the business successful.
Partha Chakraborty
THE CAPTAIN
Innoverv is Partha’s brainchild, as the CEO he will act as an anchor of the Executive team. A world-renowned leader in Technology transformation, Partha is a disruptive thinker and an experienced business captain. He takes pride in helping his clients be successful, having served Heineken, ABB, Nestle, NG, Imperial, Unilever and others over the years for PwC as a pioneer of Digital Transformation in Europe and as IBM’s SAP Leader globally.
Jo Whalley
THE AMBASSADOR
A trail blazing Woman in Technology Leader, and one of the quickest ever ‘Graduate-to-Partner’ within the Big 4 firms, Jo is an award winning expert in digital transformation and people-centric business change. At INNOVERV, she is at the heart of our business, leading our client engagements and market propositions as an Operating Partner. In many ways, she is Miss INNOVERV.
Jo’s a fount of inspiration who coaches colleagues (and clients alike!) to bring out their best. Along with delighting our clients, Jo champions INNOVERV’s inclusion principles, and plays an important role in shaping our culture of collaboration and care.
As a young Mum herself, Jo shows us every day that you can do what you love, while being a great parent! Who better than to bring to life our tagline – “big enough to MATTER, small enough to CARE”.
Anindya Mitra
THE ENGINEER
An IIT and IIM alumni, he leads our team in India. Having played various senior executive roles in a premier global consulting company, nobody understands integrated technology deployment better than him. Widely respected for his leadership and eminence in the industry, he setup and led a 1000+ delivery team in India. As the successful delivery leader of the world’s largest S/4HANA programme currently underway at a well-known consumer products giant, he will be the beating heart of the INNOVERV’s delivery engine, forever ready with that impish smile of his to keep your complex technology programmes safe and sound!
Abby Connell
THE COMPASS
She is INNOVERV’s unwavering compass, infusing energy and dedication into client engagements with precision. She fosters an innovative culture, propelling teams towards remarkable outcomes to achieve clients’ strategic goals. She successfully delivered S/4HANA across 40 countries recently for a major CPG company and previously helped a large UK business divest with stringent regulatory deadlines.
An inspirational young leader, she represents the very best of INNOVERV.
Abhraneel Sarkar
THE GURU
Educated at IIT, IIM and Cornell, he is our technology guru and Chief Technology Officer. Abhraneel’s favourite hunting ground is Life Science and Consumer, though he is a force to reckon with in most domains. With 20+ years of experience in global technology firms, he combines client leadership with practice building. A much-loved people leader with an eye for technology risk management, we often rely on him to stress-test our ideas. Sometimes an angry young man, he can shred our best thinking with consummate ease! His body of work helps him build client relationships and form insights that makes him eminent in the S4HANA and related Cloud technologies domain. Prior to joining INNOVERV Abhraneel led SAP capability at a Global SI.
Georgina Carter
THE HEART
Georgina brings distinctive and modern thinking to the way AI and SAP S/4HANA are implemented by ensuring people are at the heart of the transformation. Having been a previous academic, she keeps everyone sharp when it comes to putting people first. A business change leader joining us from a major consultancy, she loves a challenge and is at the forefront of INNOVERV’s thinking when it comes to AI powered change.
Stefan Henkel
THE TRANSFORMER
A world leader in the Finance transformation and S/4HANA Central Finance space – he’s a vibrant fusion of technical know-how, functional experience, and inspiring leadership.
Having served as the ‘Principal CFO Advisor’ for SAP based out of their Waldorf HQ, Stefan has deep connections inside the SAP product team in S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance; and into most of the leading CFIN implementations in the world. His time at Accenture also equipped him with know-how on how these challenging programmes can be set up for success.
Stefan has also been on the client side – recently leading a major CFIN enabled programme for a $30bn CPG major – and truly understands what it takes on that side of the table to get these transformations done.
There are not too many better qualified than Stefan to help our clients with their S/4 enabled Finance Transformations.
Based out of Germany, Stefan proudly adds depth and diversity to the already world-class global #teamINNOVERV.
The consulting industry needs a fresh new approach. Our leaders have the imagination to define the right strategy and the focus to execute flawlessly.
Exponential Growth
We are in an exponential growth phase with the ‘seed capital’ in terms of our initial capability coming from a team of experts who together left a Big 4 firm as part of a collaborative process to create INNOVERV.
Strongly Supported
We are backed by investors who have a track record of creating similar business before; we are headquartered in London, with presence in Amsterdam and Kolkata.
Creating Value
As an executive team, we are obsessed with creating client value, fired up by the desire to be the best in our disciplines, and create wonderful opportunities for our people. We are impatient, disruptive, and like challenging status quo. We want everyone to enjoy working at INNOVERV and be part of a happy, diverse family that celebrates individual authenticity and distinctiveness.
Giving Back
We are passionate about giving back to the communities we are part of and do more than just become another moneymaking machine. We contribute a certain percentage of our client billing to children’s charities in the UK and sponsor education for needy young schoolgirls in rural India.