Mahalakshmi R

CEO

Singapore, Singapore28 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led HR transformation in $3.1B multinational.
  • Recognized as Economic Times Woman Leader of the Year.
  • Expert in shaping future-ready organizations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with extensive experience in multinational organizational development.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Human ResourcesOrganizational DevelopmentTalent Management

Other Skills

Business StrategyChange ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipDeferred CompensationDue DiligenceEmployee EngagementHR ConsultingHR PoliciesHR StrategyHuman CapitalImplementationJob EvaluationLearning ManagementManagementManagement Consulting

About

๐€๐ฌ ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐‡๐‘๐Ž ๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ ๐“๐ฒ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐๐š ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐š $3.1๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐€๐ฌ๐ข๐š, ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’. ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐›๐จ๐š๐ซ๐-๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ, ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž-๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ. With nearly three decades of experience across industries including Telecom, Pharma, FMCG, and Manufacturingโ€”spanning India, Africa, the UK, and Southeast Asiaโ€”I have crafted and executed people strategies that deliver tangible business impact at scale. Early career roles at Arthur Andersen and EY shaped my strategic mindset, enabling me to view HR not just as a function, but as a key driver of value creation, organizational capability, and competitive advantage. As a certified life coach and recognized thought leader, I enjoy partnering with leaders and teams to unlock growth potential and drive meaningful change. My insights have been featured in ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Œ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ค ๐˜›๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด and ๐˜›๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ข, and I have been honored as Economic Times Woman Leader of the Year (2021) and HR Influencer SEA (twice). I find deep energy in shaping organizations where people flourish, leadership thrives, and business outcomes accelerate.

Experience

Apollo tyres ltd

Global CHRO Apollo Tyres

Jul 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 8 mos

  • Leading the HR agenda to shape a future-ready org. Currently $3.1B org 17,000+ employees across Asia, Europe & North America.
Organizational DevelopmentChange ManagementPerformance ManagementHuman ResourcesTalent Management

Mondelฤ“z international

2 roles

Head HR South East Asia

Promoted

Jul 2021 โ€“ Jul 2025 ยท 4 yrs

  • Leading HR end to end for a 1.3bn heterogeneous cluster of 6 markets including supply chain HR across 10 factories in the cluster
Human ResourcesTalent ManagementPerformance ManagementEmployee Engagement

Head HR India

Sep 2015 โ€“ Jun 2021 ยท 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Lead the people strategy & transformation agenda to get the business to strong growth trajectory- Embedding a Future Fit Organisation Structure, Talent Strategy and a winning Growth Culture.
  • Won many internal and external awards for impact delivered - including top 5% engagement, strong improvements in retention and a deep diverse talent bench.
People StrategyTransformation AgendaTalent StrategyTalent ManagementOrganizational Development

Airtel

3 roles

Senior Vice President & Global Head of Talent

Nov 2014 โ€“ Sep 2015 ยท 10 mos

  • Lead Learning and Talent Management - across 20 countries of Africa, India and South Asia
Learning ManagementTalent ManagementOrganizational Development

Global Head Rewards and Organisation Effectiveness

Promoted

Dec 2012 โ€“ Oct 2014 ยท 1 yr 10 mos

Vice President & Head Group OD (Including M&A)

Oct 2008 โ€“ Nov 2012 ยท 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Leading Org Design + Talent Management for the diversified Group - across businesses in retail, towerco, foods, distribution, telecom and education sectors
  • Closely involved in the M&A journey of the Group - including the forays of Airtel into Africa :: due diligence + extensive post-merger integration experience.
  • Extensive org design redesign and change management experience at a global level
Organizational DesignTalent ManagementOrganizational Development

Ballarpur industries

General Manager HR

Oct 2005 โ€“ Sep 2007 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

  • Leading the HR strategy and implementation across Head Office, 5 Manufacturing locations and 4 sales regions (Over 12000 employees).
HR StrategyImplementationHuman ResourcesOrganizational Development

Ranbaxy laboratories ltd.

GM HR - R&D

Sep 2003 โ€“ Sep 2008 ยท 5 yrs ยท Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Head HR Global R&D: Responsible for all HR strategy and operations aspects for Ranbaxy's Global R&D โ€“ across Generics, API and NDDR units.
HR StrategyOperationsHuman ResourcesOrganizational Development

Ey

Sr Consultant

Jan 2002 โ€“ Sep 2003 ยท 1 yr 8 mos ยท Greater Delhi Area

Arthur andersen

Sr Consultant

Jan 1998 โ€“ Jan 2002 ยท 4 yrs

  • Specialization: Human Capital: People Strategy. Successful track record developing and successfully implementing large, complex client projects across functional areas like ๏‚ง Organization structuring , Performance pay plan design , balanced scorecard, HR audits etc.
  • Also worked on assignments across well beyond the classical HR realm โ€“ on aspects including : -
  • Business process review and
  • Establishing entity structures and Review of DoA
  • Review of optimal levels of automation & productivity etc
Human CapitalPeople StrategyHuman ResourcesOrganizational Development

Hewitt associates

Associate

Jan 1997 โ€“ Jan 1998 ยท 1 yr

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