Our People
Our team is made up of seasoned professionals drawn from business and academic environments. Learn more about our leadership team:
Rini Das
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer
Rini, a serial entrepreneur, conceptualized and led PAKRA since its inception in 2008. Prior to PAKRA, she started a very successful management consulting business spanning Operations, Corporate Functions, Sales, HR and IT. Much of her work focuses on increasing shareholder value via breakthrough improvements and innovations. For over 15 years she helped leading organizations (such as The Health Alliance of Cincinnati) and brand-name multinationals (such as Alliance Data, Aon Corporation, Eli Lilly, Northrop Grumman and Monsanto) navigate large-scale change. She authored various publications on process improvement, customer-driven product development and is a frequent presenter at Six Sigma and Lean forums. She teaches executives at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University and MBA students at the Mendoza Business School, University of Notre Dame. She received a M.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Iowa.
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Michelle Stewart
Chief Production and Marketing Officer
Michelle has over 15 years of experience in areas including marketing, product design and development, call center operations, systems support, project management and training development and deployment. Much of her work has centered around B2B communications and marketing, social media marketing strategies, games-based project development, and training content/program development. Michelle is also an entrepreneur who has been a critical part of past start-ups including Electraplay Studios, an audio recording and engineering company, and PAKRA Games. Michelle has a strong background in Six Sigma and process improvement and has led numerous projects aimed at reducing process variation and waste. Michelle attended the Columbus College of Art & Design and the Ohio State University.
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Amrita Singh
Senior Learning Consultant
Amrita has over 10 years of experience in training, consulting, project management, and leading enterprise wide initiatives within service industries. Much of her work has focused on managing and improving core customer faces processes, streamlining workflow, implementing strategies to reduce cost, and eliminating waste and improving organizational effectiveness. Amrita has a strong background in project management, Six Sigma, design and delivery of training, and relationship and change management. Amrita attended the Delhi University and is a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) through the Canadian Society of Training and Development.
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Anneke Seley
Key Advisor
Anneke is the CEO and founder of Phone Works, a sales strategy and implementation consultancy. Anneke’s focus at Phone Works is helping large and small businesses build and restructure sales teams to achieve predictable, measurable, and sustainable sales growth while using Sales 2.0 principles. Anneke has over 30 years of sales experience and was the twelfth employee at Oracle. She was the designer of Oracle Direct’s revolutionary inside sales operation. She is also the co-author of the Sales 2.0 book. Anneke holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University.
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Subir Das
Key Advisor
Subir sits on the Board of Directors for Andrew Yule Ltd. and Tidewater Corporation. He also advises many businesses via Innvest.Org. He is a market-maker via Valuable Crops Renewable Fuels, which focuses on advisory services in the high value farming and renewable fuels industries.. Subir attended St. Xavier’s College and received his A.C.A. in Accounting, Finance, and Tax from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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Renee Beaty
Strategic Partner
Renee is the founder of Beaty Partners and has over 20 years of experience as a trainer, coach and curriculum developer. She is passionate about integrating multi-media into marketing materials, educational programs and special events presentations. As a management consultant for Rath and Strong, she helped leaders align management practices and business processes with organizational strategy and vision. She co-created many of Rath & Strong's products, including the Courier Simulation and The Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide. Earlier in her career, Renee was a Senior Vice President for Sales at Citibank, after holding senior line management positions at MCI Telecommunications in sales, marketing, and operations. Renee graduated summa cum laude from the University of Washington, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. She also participated in Georgetown University's Doctoral Program in Psychology, with special emphasis in Organizational Development.
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Electraplay Productions
Strategic Partner
Electraplay Productions is a full service audio and video recording studio which was founded in 2002. Their staff has over 40 combined years of audio, video, and production experience. Electraplay is a creative community of people specializing in audio recording, engineering, mixing and mastering. They are also experts in video filming, video post-production, and and motion graphics. Electraplay Productions is based out of Columbus, Ohio.
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