Yogesh Patgaonkar
Yogesh is a seasoned HR leader, business executive and coach with over three decades of experience across roles as CHRO, P&L leader, consultant and facilitator. He is credentialed as a Master Certified Coach (MCC) by the International Coaching Federation — an achievement earned by less than 5% of ICF-credentialed coaches globally.
In his most recent corporate role, Yogesh served as Chief People Officer at Persistent Systems, where the company achieved industry-leading retention, won the highest number of awards at the Economic Times Human Capital Awards 2025, and set three Guinness World Records through employee engagement. He has held CHRO positions at L&T Technology Services and Zensar Technologies, and as P&L Head for India, Middle East and Africa at Zensar's IT business, he steered the region to a 4× revenue increase in three years.
An accomplished coach with more than 3,000 hours of coaching experience, Yogesh has worked with global and Indian organizations including WHO, John Deere, Bacardi, Reliance, Vodafone, L&T, SKF and Barclays. Outside consulting, he is a published Marathi poet (Chimni), a self-proclaimed nomad and a driving enthusiast who has taken on road expeditions from Ladakh to Kanyakumari.