May 2024 – Apr 2025 · 11 mos

Jun 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Heading HR for India

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos

• Heading HR for South Asia. Led a team of over 80 HR professionals. The core role was to manage the business transformation working with global and regional stakeholders.
• The Network Consisting of around 900 Companies Across the Globe including 160 companies in Japan and 750 companies outside of Japan.

Feb 2016 – Aug 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Member of the Executive Committee; I was responsible for providing leadership to the HR team in South Asia. In the role I led the HR specialist teams and the HR Generalist teams in South Asia region.
• GroupM is the world’s largest media investment group, responsible for one in three ads globally. Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and MSix are the GroupM agencies managing more than $60 billion in annual media spend, providing access and scale everywhere clients do business. Intelligent and imaginative, GroupM creates, integrates and scales technology-enabled services with premium partners, including Google, Meta, Amazon and more.
• According to COMvergence, GroupM has two of the top five global media agencies.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Reporting to the Founder and CEO was responsible for providing leadership to the HR team; led the specialist (Talent acquisition, L&D, HR tech & Ops) and HR Generalist teams.
• People Interactive is the Consumer Internet arm of the Group and owns the parent brand Shaadi.com, under which several successful matrimonial businesses are managed. The company also owns Makaan.com, India's fastest growing property and real estate site, as well as Fropper.com, a friendship and social networking service.

Apr 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Reporting to the Founder and CEO was responsible for providing leadership to the HR team; led the specialist (Talent acquisition, L&D, HR tech & Ops) and HR Generalist teams.
• Paytm started the Digital Revolution in India and went on to become India’s leading Payments App. Today, more than 20 Million merchants & businesses are powered by Paytm to Accept Payments digitally.
• More than 300 million Indians use Paytm to Pay at stores, Pay bills, do Recharges, Send money to friends & family, Book movies & travel tickets.

May 2005 – Mar 2013 · 7 yrs 10 mos

• Reporting to the Managing Director- South Asia and APAC Head of HR. Responsible for leading the strategic plan for HR in alignment with the business strategy for India, leading change, champion and driving implementation of leading people processes
• Key focus is to partner with leadership and consult on organization change and people related matters to achieve business results.
• Turner India's diverse portfolio of world-class content across multiple genres in India includes Cartoon Network & POGO, leaders in the kids' TV and interactive entertainment; the leading news channel CNN International; and English entertainment channels WB, HBO and TCM.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Led Human Resources for two business units and Compensation & Benefits for the company.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Leading HR reporting to the CEO for this early stage Enterprise IT Solutions start up venture vertically focused on business transformation of the world's leading Energy Companies. Krohm provides Information Technology and Business Consulting Services to the Energy companies worldwide.

Aug 1999 – Apr 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Search consultant for IT practice for the western region. Successfully handled various search and selection assignments for technology and e-commerce clients from Europe, Asia and India during the early days of e-com and IT services.

Aug 1998 – Jul 1999 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India

• Space Selling and Client Servicing; Launched Headstart (the national appointments supplement of Indian Express) in Pune and involved with newspaper in education initiative.