Tushar Bhatia

Founder & CEO Empxtrack

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Tushar Bhatia is the founder and chief executive of Empxtrack, a cloud HR platform that began as a product inside Saigun Technologies, the Indian software company he founded in 2002. His premise was contrarian for its moment: in the early 2000s, integrated human-resources software was enterprise-only, sold on long implementation cycles at prices that put it beyond any company below the Fortune 1000, while small and mid-sized businesses ran HR on spreadsheets. Bhatia set out to automate HR for that neglected middle, and spent two decades doing it — first as a services and development business with CMMI Level 3 process discipline, then as a productised SaaS platform covering performance management, recruitment, payroll, leave, time tracking and succession planning in one suite. The business now reports more than 30,000 product enrolments and roughly 1.25 million employees managed across over twenty countries. He has been unusually committed to the accessibility argument, releasing free HR products for small businesses during the 2020 Covid disruption rather than treating them as a lead-generation funnel.

Career Highlights

• Founded Saigun Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in 2002 with a mission of HR automation for small and mid-sized businesses, and has led it continuously since.
• Built Empxtrack as Saigun’s flagship cloud HR platform, dated to 2008, and later the group’s principal trading name.
• Won the company’s first major US client in 2010 and passed 100 clients globally by 2014.
• Scaled the platform to 30,000+ product enrolments, roughly 1.25 million employees managed and operations in 20+ countries.
• Ran Saigun as a CMMI Level 3-certified development organisation, applying formal software-process practice from early in the company’s life.
• Launched free HR products for small and mid-sized businesses in 2020 as a deliberate accessibility strategy.
• Clients include Warner Bros., HCL and Dhanuka; the platform integrates with ADP and IBM Watson Talent.

Professional Journey

Bhatia graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, though no source specifies his degree or year. He then spent his early career with HR consulting and technology firms — aggregated directory records name Hewitt Associates, Discover Financial Services and WidePoint, though none of these is independently confirmed and none carries a documented title. What that period gave him was the combination that the later company rests on: exposure to how large organisations actually run HR processes, and to the software built to support them.

In 2002 he founded Saigun Technologies in India. The company’s founding purpose was specific rather than general: HR automation aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, a segment enterprise HR vendors had written off as unserviceable. The economics were against it — implementation cost dominates licence cost in HR software, and SMB deal sizes cannot absorb a conventional consulting-led rollout. Saigun’s answer was to attack the product side first. Bhatia ran the company as a disciplined development organisation, taking it to CMMI Level 3 certification early, which is an unusual investment for a company of that size and one that signalled the intent to ship a repeatable product rather than to do bespoke work.

Empxtrack emerged from that as Saigun’s flagship platform, dated to 2008. The first major US client followed in 2010, which is the point at which the company stopped being a domestic Indian software house. Growth from there was steady rather than explosive and entirely self-directed: past 100 clients by 2014, past 350,000 employees under management by 2017. Bhatia’s design choice throughout was breadth — a single suite spanning performance management, recruitment, payroll, leave and attendance, time tracking, succession planning and the wider employee lifecycle — on the argument that a small company cannot integrate six point solutions and should not have to.

The 2020 pandemic prompted the clearest expression of his stated philosophy. Rather than discount, Saigun released free HR products for SMBs outright. It fit a pattern he had argued publicly for years, that the barrier to HR technology adoption in the mid-market is procurement and implementation friction as much as price. By 2024 the company reported over 30,000 product enrolments worldwide, with roughly 1.25 million employees managed across more than twenty countries, and named clients including Warner Bros., HCL and Dhanuka, alongside integrations with ADP and IBM Watson Talent.

Across the whole arc, Bhatia has held the founder’s seat without interruption — variously styled Founder and CEO, Founder and President of Saigun, and Founder and Chief Architect of Empxtrack, the last of which is the most revealing of the three about how he has spent his time. The company still observes its Founders Day on 21 January.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Empxtrack states that Bhatia is a graduate of IIT Delhi. No source reviewed gives the degree, field of study or year, and none is asserted here.