Lokesh Goyal is a Practice Director at Everest Group and a member of the Business Process Services (BPS) team. He manages key areas across talent acquisition and HR outsourcing (HRO) across both published and custom decision support offerings. He assists clients on multiple topics within the overall talent & HRO ecosystem, such as recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), employee experience management (EXM), rewards and recognition (R&R) solutions, as well as other related areas. Prior to joining Everest Group, Lokesh worked as a business strategy consultant with CBRE Group and as a senior project lead at GMR Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India, and a master’s degree in business administration from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi, India.

Sailesh Hota is a Practice Director within the Business Process Services team and manages Everest Group’s Talent Acquisition Research offerings.

Leveraging his significant expertise, he has assisted several global service providers and enterprises with market entry, business strategy, segment prioritization, go-to-market support, M&A scan, and process transformation. He is also currently a Sustainability Fellow and is responsible for deepening Everest Group's ESG research initiatives.

He has also developed extensive thought leadership regarding the Future of Work and has extensive research experience across Talent Acquisition and HR services and technologies.

Sailesh holds an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and a Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli