Experience

Sampark Foundation
• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Member of the Board of Advisors

  • Apr 2023 - Present


SVP India

• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Gurugram, Haryana, India



S&P Global

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Vice President People

  • Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

  Gurugram, Haryana, India At S&P as part of the Global leadership team, I lead a team of Regional People Partners based across Americas, EMEA, APAC & India. My primary focus is to drive the people and talent strategy for the firm across the regions with a clear focus on Culture, Talent, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion. My objective is to create a strong people team focused on Business Context and Execution – ensuring that the enterprise level talent processes deliver their desired impact on the ground and ensure… Show more At S&P as part of the Global leadership team, I lead a team of Regional People Partners based across Americas, EMEA, APAC & India. My primary focus is to drive the people and talent strategy for the firm across the regions with a clear focus on Culture, Talent, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion. My objective is to create a strong people team focused on Business Context and Execution – ensuring that the enterprise level talent processes deliver their desired impact on the ground and ensure great people and leader experience. Constantly balancing global business requirement with regional/local needs, my team and I strive to create an ecosystem for our people to thrive. Show less



IHS Markit

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Partner and Senior Vice President, Human Resources

  • Dec 2020 - Mar 2022

  Gurugram, Haryana, India At IHS Markit as part of the Global leadership team, I led a team of Regional HR Business Partners based across Americas, EMEA, APAC & India. My primary focus was to drive the people and talent strategy for the firm across the regions with a clear focus on Culture, Talent, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion. I worked with global leaders to support the location strategy for the firm – with perspective on organization design, leadership development and evaluating opportunities in the short and… Show more At IHS Markit as part of the Global leadership team, I led a team of Regional HR Business Partners based across Americas, EMEA, APAC & India. My primary focus was to drive the people and talent strategy for the firm across the regions with a clear focus on Culture, Talent, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion. I worked with global leaders to support the location strategy for the firm – with perspective on organization design, leadership development and evaluating opportunities in the short and medium term to go up the value chain and create opportunities for our people particularly in our strategic growth locations. My mission was to create a strong layer focused on Business Context and Execution – ensuring that the enterprise level talent processes deliver their desired impact on the ground and ensure great people and leader experience. Constantly balancing global business requirement with regional/local needs, my team and I strived to create an ecosystem for our people to thrive. IHS Markit and S&P Global announced their merger in November’2020 - $44.5B merger creating a leading global data provider across sectors. As a key member of the Integration Management Office, I also led the People Workstream for IHS Markit, in addition to my current role.

• Vice President

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

  Gurgaon, Haryana, India



BlackRock

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Human Resources

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

  India BlackRock in India is a young organisation and the focus of my role was on establishing and strengthening Culture and aligning to the firms’ strong principal based way of working. Together with the leadership team, my team worked on creating a culture of High Performance, Inclusive and Diverse teams and above all Learning agility, a business imperative in a constantly evolving technology environment. The focus was on attraction and retention of high performing talent through development… Show more BlackRock in India is a young organisation and the focus of my role was on establishing and strengthening Culture and aligning to the firms’ strong principal based way of working. Together with the leadership team, my team worked on creating a culture of High Performance, Inclusive and Diverse teams and above all Learning agility, a business imperative in a constantly evolving technology environment. The focus was on attraction and retention of high performing talent through development dialogues and creating accountability in the leaders around their retention Show less



Hines

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent HR Consultant

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

  Gurugram, Haryana, India During this Consulting engagement with Hines India, I worked with the India Leadership Team on • Organisation design and development • Setting up the HR Function and helping establish Talent Processes • Executive Coaching and Leadership Development


Sabattical
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee
• On sabattical

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2015


Nokia Siemens Networks

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of HR, India Region

  • 2009 - 2013

  Gurugram, Haryana, India As a part of the global HR leadership team, the scope of my role was to provide HR leadership and support to all business entities in India ; A diverse employee profile from Sales to Field force; from high end knowledge workers to factory operators. Operations spread across 150 locations, 10,000+ employees. This stint was focused on Leadership Transition (CEO and other leadership roles), Culture Building, Transformation, HR Team and process transformation and managing scale.



NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD

• China
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head - Talent & leadership development, APAC

  • 2007 - 2009

  Gurugram, Haryana, India I took this role at the close of the merger between Nokia and Siemens, creating an entity with over 60,000 people globally and I was a part of the team looking at talent processes across the 2 firms (representing APAC). The mandate of the team was to establish Talent and Leadership development tools and processes that worked for the merged entity



Nokia Networks

• Germany
• Retail Office Equipment

• Global Business Partner - Managed Services

  • 2006 - 2007

  This stint focused on the transition of the Managed Service Business Line to India- it included building a leadership team in India, working through processes that were globally scalable for all transitions in our Managed Services deals and enabling the HR teams to manage the same. (Context - This business line was people intensive and involved transitioning managing telecom networks from the operator to the vendor)



Nokia India Pvt. Ltd

• HR Head

  • 2002 - 2006

  This was a phase of exponential growth for both Nokia Networks and Nokia Mobile Phones India. I lead the HR Team through the growth of the India organization from 60 to 3500 employees in 2 years Key focus – Acquiring and Developing Talent, Culture Assimilation and Leadership development to facilitate growth and integration



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Human Resources Consultant

  • 1997 - 2002

  Gurugram, Haryana, India In this period I did multiple generalist and specialist roles like HR Business Partner, Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefit, International Transfer Management and Competence Development.