Poonam Datta | Founder & CEO
Post graduate in Marketing & Business Management, and with over 20 years of diversified experience with renowned multinationals. IMC is a vision that evolved from her knowledge of how individuals play a key role in business successes.
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Ms. Poonam Datta founded International Management Consultants with a team of human resource professionals to help businesses grow by finding the right people and empowering them to succeed. She believes that human-capital is the most vital asset when in the right place, motivated & empowered; decide the pace of business growth. IMC is a vision that evolved from her knowledge of how individuals play a key role in business successes.
Ms. Datta's proven track record of human resource development, relationship building and delivering record setting performances has been instrumental in assisting organisations and individuals to realize their potential and self-actualization goals. Her determination to fulfill a strong vision coupled with a passion to evolve excellence have led IMC, in a short span, serve clients ranging from multinationals, global companies, government organizations and big business groups.
From 1990 to 2005, Ms. Datta worked with Maersk Group. During this period, she grew through the ranks to become one of the youngest Managing Directors in the Maersk world. Apart from spearheading revitalization of business processes within Maersk Group, she was instrumental in grooming top-level managers to evolve and befittingly be part of the fast-expanding multinational.
During the years of her service, Ms. Datta has always been keen to stay abreast with the latest business practices and management techniques. A Post graduate in Business management, Ms. Datta believes in globalization and has been an advocate for harnessing best business results through harmonious use of human talents. Having travelled across the globe, she has gained knowledge of the multitudes of global diversity, which has made a serious contribution to the success that she makes.
Ms. Datta has been inspired by the investor, businessperson / philanthropist Warren Edward Buffett and Bill Gates who innovated “business at the speed of light”. Spiritual leader Dalai Lama and the humanitarian Mother Teresa who served the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying for over forty years are her role models for the virtues and causes they stood for.
Poonam Datta with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of DubaiMs. Datta hails from an aristocratic and illustrious family in India; her father Anand Datta, a successful writer and mother Sneh Datta, a linguist professor. Her grandfather Dr. G.L. Datta was a great academician and physicist who founded the DAV colleges in India, and later served Vice Chancellor of Ujjain University, India.
In addition to English, she speaks many other languages and apart from her business at IMC, she spends time on reading, writing, music, sports and community development.
“All visionary corporations of people started out as dream. It was the intellectual capital within that was the differentiator”. Befittingly, Poonam works on her mission, making the fullest impact of a serious visionary who likes to be known on what she does, more than what she dreams.
Poonam Datta with Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum