ABOUT US

Empowering you to realize your India expansion goals

CaptiveAide provides the foundation, functionality, and support to setup and grow your GCC in India. Captive experienced professionals, proven GCC launch framework, and specialists in risk mitigation – we are your complete solution for successful expansion.

Who are we?

Unlocking your GCC potential from launch to lift

CaptiveAide is one of the earliest firms with a singular focus on successful entry and GCC establishment of US and European companies in India. Our expertise lies in unique end-to-end GCC setup and stabilizing (or acquiring and integrating), transforming and governing the center – all within a risk-managed framework. 

We developed our proprietary playbook, PRIME, a comprehensive guide that enables successful execution of your India expansion plans. Our ecosystem of people, processes, infrastructure, compliance and external partners lay the groundwork with necessary support and services to ensure that your India GCC thrives from day one. 

OUR VISION

Enabling risk-free implementation and management of the complete GCC lifecycle that covers capabilities to Setup, Build, Stabilize, Scale and Transform an offshore IT and/or back-office operation for a global enterprise that, for strategic reasons, wants to have its own entity in India.

What we do?

Possibilities that facilitate your strategic expansion in India

From delivery creation to value creation, we provide GCC operating models that simplify GCC setup at every stage – Entry, Transition:Operate, Transform and Switch. We are change enablers and GCC execution specialists who carefully articulate your ROI, provide guidance on a feasible entry strategy, and establish your GCC using our phased approach. 

In our portfolio, we have two unique approaches that ensure you can achieve maximum business value and deliver impact:​

Captive 1.0

Risk-free setup, build & transition, stabilize, and run the entity on your behalf. We act as your local corporate function, ensuring complete compliance and regulation adherence.

Captive 2.0

Scale, transform, and extend your entity to drive growth and ensure continuous expansion.

OUR TEAM

Leaders in executing your next big move

Combined with a total experience of 250 years, we are led by a highly experienced team of industry veterans. They have the domain knowledge, expertise & skills, and execution prowess for successful GCC launch and transformation. With experience across functions, including regulatory, administration, HR, and vendor management, to name a few – we are a team of multifaceted specialists. From small scale organizations to conglomerates, we have advised and assisted companies in both strategic and operational areas of performance. Several of our senior leaders have been members or provided strategic services to GCCs across the globe.

Jawahar Bekay

Founder & Managing Partner

Established CaptiveAide in 2016 as a specialist consulting and operations capable firm dedicated to helping companies from outside India to set up their captive entities or what are now called Global Capability Centers or GCC.

Narayanaswamy H (aka Swamy)

Co-founder and Managing Partner

35+ years of Finance and Operations experience with over two decades of CFO/COO level experience with global companies. 

Suma Subramanian

Co-founder and Managing Partner

30+ years experience in People Management, Human Resources Strategy, Design, Change Management and Operations.

Girish Kamath

Sr. Partner, Head – GCC Operations

30+ years in the Indian IT industry. 18+ years of experience as a Managing Director building and running Global Competency Center (GCC) captives. 

Management Team

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Join hands with the leaders in India expansion!

Jawahar Bekay

Founder & Managing Partner

Established CaptiveAide in 2016 as a specialist consulting and operations capable firm dedicated to helping companies from outside India to set up their captive entities or what are now called Global Capability Centers or GCC.

35+ years in the global IT industry with over two and half decades as CEO and strategic-level experience with global enterprises and markets. Co-founded one of India’s leading IT services companies in the infrastructure space. Co-founded Asia’s leading internet software development company. Global head of strategy and CEO for Indian captive operations for a $350M IT services company.

He has worked with large F500 and Global 200 clients in successful offshoring strategies both service provider and captive. Has built, acquired, integrated and managed multiple, cross-border companies.

Narayanaswamy H (aka Swamy)

Co-founder and Managing Partner

35+ years of Finance and Operations experience with over two decades of CFO/COO level experience with global companies. Significant experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, raising Capital, post merger Integration

Been an advisor to several global enterprises and their offshore capability centers As CFO for the captive delivery center of one of the largest decision sciences companies, played a key role in growing it to 2000+ people. Prior experience includes setting up MNC subsidiaries including legal, regulatory and compliance matters

Suma Subramanian

Co-founder and Managing Partner

30+ years experience in People Management, Human Resources Strategy, Design, Change Management and Operations. Formerly, Chief People Officer with a leading Infrastructure Management services company and before that, with one of the world’s largest IT services firms, managing HR for their largest business division with 10,000+ workforce and responsible for their key “Best Employer practices” in her corporate HR role

Transitioned captive operations for some of the world’s largest financial institutions. As the HRO Practice Leader, she is responsible for creating the high-performance workplace, creating a work culture that mirrors the GCC parent.

She is an Executive Coach, and is Certified in Change Leadership from Cornell University, a Certified NLP Practitioner, a Lead Assessor ISO9001 & Assessor BS7799

Girish Kamath

Sr. Partner, Head – GCC Operations

30+ years in the Indian IT industry. 18+ years of experience as a Managing Director building and running Global Competency Center (GCC) captives. Built and operationally managed 1800+ resources across multi-city, multi-functional GCC for a leading US gaming company for over 10 years. Subsequently has built 5 additional GCCs in India.

Earlier in his career, he managed large, distributed programs for global customers across Europe and US for a large global IT services company.

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