Nov 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hybrid

• Partner in Digital People Experience Transformation
• Entomo is revolutionizing People Experience by digitally reimagining how organizations deploy, assess, and manage talent across the employee lifecycle.
• As a strategic partner, we deliver high-touch, customizable solutions across:
• Talent Transformation
• Skills Transformation
• Performance Transformation
• Talent Analytics
• Our approach combines deep expertise with cutting-edge technology to drive meaningful business impact, creating a people experience that is agile, data-driven, and future-ready.

Feb 2022 – Oct 2022 · 8 mos · India / US/ Canada/ Europe / Middle East / Latin America · Hybrid

• Led Altudo to achieve a Top 8 national and Top 50 APAC ranking in the Great Place to Work survey by driving a high-impact culture and employee-experience improvements.
• Designed and implemented a performance and culture transformation programme using employee-sentiment analytics (Amber) and a geo-centric HR service delivery model, enhancing engagement and productivity across multiple countries.
• Optimised talent acquisition processes, reducing time-to-hire by 30% and building a leadership pipeline to support rapid global expansion.
• Developed leadership development programmes and a zero-based headcount approach, aligning organisational culture with growth strategy and strengthening workforce capabilities.

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · India · Remote

• 🔹 Focus Areas:
• Startup HR | Culture & Organization Building | People Strategy | HR Transformation | Leadership Advisor
• Partnering with startups to architect scalable HR Operating Models and deploy Agentic AI for recruiting automation.
• Acting as CPO advisor for multiple companies, establishing OKRs, compensation frameworks, and remote-first culture playbooks.
• Advising leadership on Org Design for scale (0 to 1000 headcount roadmaps).

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Kyiv Metropolitan Area · On-site

• Regional Head of HR | Emerging Markets & CISR Region
• Direct Reports: 18 | Head of HR: 6 Countries
• As a member of the Regional Leadership Team, Emerging Markets Leadership Team, and Global HR Leadership, I served as a trusted advisor to all Country CEOs and the Group Country Head (Group CEO), shaping and executing people strategies to enable business growth across diverse emerging markets.
• I led the HR strategy and delivery across the CISR region, with ownership for Organization Design, Workforce Architecture, Career and Succession Planning, Employer Branding, Recruitment, and Performance Management.
• Key Initiatives and Achievements
• Organization Design for Business Performance: Led the redesign of organizational structures to enhance agility and drive stronger business outcomes.
• Talent to Value Program: Implemented a strategic initiative to maximize value delivery from critical roles, aligning top talent to key business priorities.
• Change Leadership: Spearheaded major change initiatives, including:
• ASPIRE Culture Transformation
• Performance Management Revamp
• Role-Based Organization Structuring
• Ideal Profile Framework Implementation
• Decentralized HR Service Delivery: Designed and deployed a localized HR model, improving HR responsiveness by 60%, aligning teams with both strategic and operational business needs, and strengthening accountability.
• Benefits Restructuring: Partnered with global teams to realign benefits frameworks and successfully led implementation across six countries.
• Digital Onboarding Transformation: Developed and launched an online onboarding platform, enhancing the candidate experience and improving onboarding efficiency by 40% region-wide.
• HR Process Digitization: Collaborated with COEs to digitize key HR processes, aligning the employee experience with global standards and improving efficiency.
• 🏆 Customer Delight Award
• Recognized for excellence in collaboration, solution orientation, and L&D effectiveness.

Apr 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · India / APAC / ANZ / Middle East / East Europe and Africa · Hybrid

• Directed HR strategy across Emerging Markets for 1,000+ employees, aligning local people practices with LTI’s global standards and strengthening consistent execution across geographies.
• Served as Site HR Head for Bengaluru (5,000 employees), partnering with Vice Presidents to deliver key organizational mandates on retention, productivity, and utilization, improving operational discipline and business outcomes.
• Led organization design and job evaluation initiatives to optimize structures, clarify role accountability, and eliminate duplication, enabling faster decision-making and leaner teams.
• Managed complex employee relations, labor compliance, and cross-cultural integration topics across markets, balancing risk mitigation with a strong employee experience.
• Improved engagement and retention through targeted development programs and reward interventions, strengthening performance culture and leadership capability.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs

• Direct Reports: 4 | Team Size: 24 | CHRO: 13 Countries US, UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa
• Design modular HR operating systems covering organisation design, talent acquisition, performance, learning & development and employee experience.
• Flexible engagement models: retention‑based support for ongoing HR partnership and project-based solutions delivering end‑to‑end execution.
• Collaborative partnership: work alongside client teams to co-create tailored solutions aligned with their goals, culture and challenges.
• Implement pilot→measure→scale methodology to drive adoption, retention and reduce process drag.
• Coach executives to build resilient leadership and cultivate strong, inclusive cultures.
• Support organisations across growth stages—from startups to 1 000 employees—by delivering scalable and adaptive HR strategies.
• Focus areas: Startup HR | Culture & Organisation Building | People Strategy | HR Transformation | Leadership Advisor.
• 🏆 Championed the D&I agenda on the JV Board leading to a 15% increase in diversity. Grew organization from 60 to 700 employees. 𝘑𝘝 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr

• Direct Reports: 18 | Projects: 30+
• Partnered with CXO’s to lead 30+ people transition deals with Fortune 500 companies (Google, Nokia). Integrated 5000+ employees into HCL across Europe with 99% join rate and 100% compliance in work counsel and labor relation in US, UK (TUPE) and Europe (ARD) laws.
• 🏆 Partnered with CSC and McKinsey to successfully roll out Fintech JV announcement plan. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐎.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs

• Direct Reports: 7 | Project Team Reports: 25
• Recruited to lead highly visible and complex transformation of the organization’s processes - career performance, talent, and learning throughout 32 countries for 80,000 employees across Technology, Infrastructure and BPO businesses.
• Designed and implemented a complex Culture and Process transformation partnering with over 400 HR colleagues, impacting key processes - Performance Management, Talent Management, Learning and Rewards across 80,000 employees in 34 countries. The program went live in 8 months from design to implementation.
• Ran the complete end to end Performance Cycle for 80,000 employees.
• Combined more than 70 organisation wide surveys to one single trigger based smart survey, leading to higher participation.
• Led the organisation wide role architecture deployment and changes.
• 🏆 Nominated for SHRM’s Game Changer Leader of the Year Award
• 🏆 Named India’s Top 100 HR Influencer

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon

• Built new client relationships and delivered advisory engagements in org change, operating model/structure design, and transformation programs across technology, finance/fintech, media/internet, and automotive—enabling faster scale and more effective execution.
• Led a complex, multi-stakeholder global program for a large IT MNC across 30 countries, redesigning RACI, processes, and policies to clarify accountability, strengthen governance, and improve operational consistency.
• Diagnosed and redesigned end-to-end HR practices for a large OEM, improving process effectiveness and aligning people systems to business priorities.
• Designed and implemented an incentive policy for a Sequoia-backed organization, aligning rewards to growth metrics and strengthening performance orientation.
• Delivered multiple consulting projects spanning leadership assessments, competency frameworks, compensation benchmarking, and organization structuring to support talent decisions, cost discipline, and scalable growth.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Advised 20 High Tech clients in the areas of engagement, HR diagnostic, culture, transformation, reward, strategy, and compensation. Designed and delivered solutions in HR strategy, compensation strategy, benchmarking and rewards alignment, Best Employers and Top Company for Leaders studies, and leadership development programs.
• Designed new Framework for diagnostic of High Performance Organization and updated IT/ ITES Industry Job Equivalence Framework that resulted in reduction in Surveys diagnostic time by more than 40 %.
• Collaborated with the Leadership competency team to conceptualise Development cycle - A solution focused on building leadership capability at Middle management levels using a mix of Assessment, Action Learning projects, on job mentoring solutions.
• Setup for a Global Shared Services Center including Locaiton Analysis, Hiring of the leadership, policy and process design.
• Executed a large number of benchmarking studies including Top Companies for Leaders, Best Employers Study, Hewitt IT and ITES Compensation Studies.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Led the Product Management Strategy for India and ASEAN markets, across Oracle, Peoplesoft and Fusion HCM Product Lines.
• 🏆 Awarded Newcomer of the Year APAC Award and official spokesperson for Oracle India. Consulted CHRO’s on Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Fusion solutions. Grew sales by 243% in 1st year.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Led the product management for HCM localisation, recruiting, and learning solutions, working with 175 clients across the Indian subcontinent, managing a total SAP HCM business of 9 million euros.
• Architected Digital HR roadmaps for 125 clients by integrating business needs with HR strategy and HR automation. Grew SAP HCM business from 900K to 9M Euros.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs · Greater Chennai Area

• Was part of the team, responsible for HCM product development and then implementing the GTM Strategy and execution
• 🏆 Member of CEO’s Solution Task Force and led global HRMS implementation projects across United States, UK, and Singapore.