20+ years partnering with CEOs, boards, and PE sponsors to transform HR into a genuine value-creation engine — across global financial services, insurance, and consulting.
With over two decades at the intersection of people strategy and business performance, Deven brings a rare combination of deep HR craft, genuine commercial acumen, and technology fluency to every engagement. He has partnered directly with Boards, CFOs, and Private Equity sponsors — including Apollo — to make HR demonstrably move the EBITDA needle.
His career spans global insurers (Aspen, QBE), investment banking (Lehman Brothers, UBS), and HR consulting (Kelly OCG, Allegis Global Solutions) — giving him a unique lens across publicly listed, PE-backed, and high-growth environments.
Deven also holds a Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching from Henley Business School, enabling genuine coaching capability in leadership development engagements — not just advisory.
Engagements tailored to your organisation's scale, maturity, and ambition — from strategic advisory to hands-on transformation delivery.
Redesign your HR operating model from transactional support to a commercially-led Centre of Excellence. Includes CoE build, shared services design, process re-engineering, and governance frameworks.
Design and implement high-potential programmes, rigorous succession frameworks, and leadership development curricula that build genuine pipeline depth — not just box-ticking processes.
Henley-certified coaching for senior leaders navigating transition, growth, or complexity. Drawing on psychometric profiling, 360-degree feedback, and structured development frameworks.
Deploy AI-powered candidate screening, NLP-driven shortlisting, and predictive workforce analytics to transform talent acquisition quality and speed — while reducing cost and unconscious bias.
Lead all people-stream workstreams in M&A integration — org design, role mapping, culture alignment, benefits harmonisation, and communication strategy — with speed and minimal attrition risk.
Build people analytics capabilities using SuccessFactors, Workday, or Power BI — delivering predictive attrition models, diversity dashboards, and real-time workforce intelligence to ExCo and Board.
Most HR consultants have only ever worked in HR. Deven is different. He has sat on both sides of the table — as a front-office revenue generator and as a senior HR leader — giving him a perspective that is genuinely rare in this market.
Starting his career at Lehman Brothers as a graduate business analyst, and later building and selling multi-million pound professional services solutions at Kelly OCG and Allegis Global Solutions, Deven understands commercial accountability from the inside. He knows what P&L pressure feels like. He knows how deals are structured. He knows what a board actually wants to hear.
That background is what makes his HR work different. He doesn't just design people strategies — he designs people strategies that are built to move commercial metrics.
Deven brings specific fluency in the talent dynamics, deal structures, regulatory environments, and commercial pressures that are unique to:
If any of these sound familiar, let's talk. These are exactly the situations Deven is built for.
No hard sell — just an honest conversation about where you are, where you want to be, and whether Deven is the right partner to help you get there.
Available for advisory mandates, interim HR leadership, and executive coaching engagements. Happy to connect with CHROs, CEOs, PE sponsors, and business leaders.
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