Sachin Malhotra
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“The best leaders are

multipliers,

and true leadership begins when their growth creates growth in others.”

Global GCC & HR Leader | Transformation Leadership | Future of Work
Sachin Malhotra

Lived it.
Still at it.
Driving what's next.

XLRI HR · Oxford University · Computer Engineering

Sachin Malhotra is a senior global People leader with more than 20 years of experience shaping people strategy and building GCC and organizational capability across multinational enterprises. Through senior executive roles across FTSE 100, private equity-backed, and Fortune 100 organizations, Sachin has built GCC operations from the ground up — establishing operating models, governance, and service delivery at scale. He is a trusted advisor to global leadership on workforce strategy, transformation roadmaps, and both AI and M&A integrations.

He is now focused on how AI is reshaping business, people, and operating models — enabling smarter decisions, stronger teams, and future-ready organizations.

From inside high-growth, global organizations, Sachin has led the work of scaling through complexity — bringing people, systems, operations, and culture together into one coherent operating model that supports rapid growth without losing the human core that makes it worth building. It's an approach that has earned recognition across the organizations he has worked in.

"Engineer by degree and mind. HR by heart. Ideator of work by experience."
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Experience

Two decades inside the engine room
of global organisations.

GCC & People Leadership

Building and leading Global Capability Centres across industries and geographies — not just growing operations from scratch, but stabilizing them into innovation and collaboration hubs. As an HR leader, this spans org design, talent strategy, culture, governance, and guiding people through the GCC evolution from delivery engine to strategic partner. Beyond structure, the real work is human — building leadership pipelines, growing local capability, and creating cultures where talent chooses to stay.

Scaling · Strategy
Transformation · Governance

Operational Excellence

Black Belt certified. Shared services and GCC operations, not from a consulting brief but from the inside. Experience across process design, operating model redesign, and large-scale transformation execution — including the Dual Velocity Model (IP in process), a framework developed from the ground up to help organisations run better today while building for tomorrow. The kind of work that involves hard decisions, difficult trade-offs, and getting things to actually land.

Black Belt · Process Design
Execution

HR Ops, Tech & AI

From People Operations and shared services to HR technology and AI, this experience spans multiple waves of transformation in how organisations support and enable their workforce. Having worked through platform implementations, operating model redesigns, and workforce transformation initiatives, the focus today is on understanding the practical impact of AI on people functions. Technology changes quickly. Organisational behaviour, leadership, and culture usually move at a different pace.

HR Operations · Digital HR
AI

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17th August 2026

AI Pulse
This Week

// Five developments from the past week — the money-and-scale phase of AI.

$7B
Stripe buys OpenRouter · 5x markup
01 M&A

Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for over $7B — a 5x markup — to own the routing, metering and billing layer of the AI-agent economy (Bloomberg/TechCrunch).

$1.5T
Big Tech AI commitments · approaching
02 Spend

Big Tech's AI purchase commitments are reportedly nearing $1.5 trillion — the contest shifting from smarter models to who can fund the chips, data centers and power.

1B
Gemini monthly users
03 Adoption

Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly active users — a scale milestone as it speeds up releases and cuts prices to close the gap on ChatGPT.

GROK 4.6
ties the top model · ~1/3 price
04 Models

xAI's Grok 4.6 matched the highest-scoring model on a leading intelligence index — at roughly a third of the price, squeezing rivals' premium tiers.

14x
faster inference · on Cerebras
05 Speed

OpenAI previewed Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras chips — ~750 tokens/sec and up to 14x throughput — making raw speed the new competitive weapon.