Resume
Brief Experience
2025 - Present
People and Culture Head
Situs AMC
Bangalore, India
As Head of People and Culture at SitusAMC, (10,000 employees)
I have driven enterprise-wide human capital initiatives that align Talent, Culture, and Business strategy within the real estate and financial services sector.
Specialize in building scalable HR frameworks that support distributed, cross-border teams while fostering inclusive, performance-driven cultures.
With deep expertise in Talent Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Design, Employee Engagement, and DEI, I have successfully led multi-region HR Transformations, Change Management programs, and M&A integrations with a People-First approach.
Partner closely with U.S. and India-based leadership to ensure compliance, cultural alignment, and operational efficiency. Key contributions include reducing attrition by 20% in offshore teams through targeted engagement strategies, launching a global leadership accelerator, and introducing digital HR solutions that improved HR service delivery and analytics.
2023 - 2025
HR Advsor
PepsiCo
India
Acted as a strategic HR advisor to business leaders across multiple functions, providing guidance on workforce planning, organizational design, and talent development aligned with PepsiCo’s performance-driven culture.
Partnered with cross-functional leadership teams to implement people strategies that supported commercial and supply chain objectives, resulting in a 15% increase in team engagement scores.
2014 - 2023
HR Leader & Head Human Capital
Bureau Veritas GSSC
India, Malaysia, France
Successfully established and scaled Bureau Veritas Global Shared Services Centres (GSSC) across India, France, Malaysia, and other global locations—growing headcount from inception to over 875 in India, 345 in France, and 250 in Malaysia, with end-to-end setup of global finance and HR shared service functions.
Led HR strategy, transformation, and organizational development for 3,800+ employees worldwide, driving initiatives across Talent Management, Leadership Development, Compensation & Benefits, Organizational Design, and Change Management. Partnered with top management as the global HR SPOC on people strategy, employee relations, and union collaboration.
Championed global compensation architecture, succession planning, and diversity & inclusion initiatives, while optimizing HR processes through automation (HRIS, ATS) that reduced administrative workload by 30%. Successfully managed complex transitions including TUPE migrations, merger integrations, and defined benefit pension closures.
Instrumental in building the company’s EV (Electric Vehicle) R&D and Testing Centre in India — setting up inspection, certification, and compliance capabilities for the sustainable mobility ecosystem. Launched a cross-functional Innovation Lab integrating engineers, data scientists, and operations experts to accelerate capability building and create new service lines.
Strategically aligned business and HR objectives by translating corporate goals into people strategies that elevated engagement, leadership capability, and performance culture across geographies. Ensured robust compliance, ethical governance, and a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
2012 - 2014
Director HR
Genesis Forte Tech
India and Dubai
Overseeing areas of Human Resources including Employee Engagement, Employee Relations for the top
5000 employees in India & Middle East, Communication, Diversity, and Culture Change. Also responsible for budgeting, Project managing various projects, Involvement in Global projects. HR Business Partner
for the senior management, Sales, Finance, Internal IT and other enabling functions.
Driving strategic initiatives for the senior management – Business construct framework, Span of Control, Job Evaluation with various linkages, driving construct for calibration of ratings for this group.
Leading Engage to Drive Change initiative for Asia.
2007 - 2012
Head of HR
Assign Ventures Pvt Ltd
India and USA
Established Offshore Development Centre in Noida and scaled up the centre from 200 resources to
1000+ resources
Part of core team involved in driving C-Change initiative (Organization Development). This initiative aims to bring about key changes in the organization processes and culture.
Revamping compensation and benefits structure and aligned with performance.
Aligning Role Based structure to compensation.
Administration of all HR functions of Performance Management, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management
& Development, Compensation and Benefits, Employee Engagement, Learning & Development, Employee relations.
Implementation of SAP HRIS, Success Factor and Ramco Tool.
HR legal and Internal/External audit compliance.
Strategic business partner, worked closely with CEO and Business head for conceptualizing strategy to achieve business goals, Talent retention through conducting Stay Interview. Successfully implemented BSC ,Talent acquisitions via using CBIT
Designed Competency model, Designed Career and Succession Planning - Charted Career Paths for
business units..
Survey result analysis, communication and action planning along with key stakeholders like country manager, unit heads and functional heads.
Diversity management through customized employee engagement initiatives to keep local and foreign workforce integrated.
HR Budgeting and Planning for all functions.
Change Management and Communication
2004 - 2007
Head of HR
HR Craft (Hp/PepsiCo)
India
PEPSI -: Functions handled -Employee Survey, Manager Connect, Team Effectiveness programs, Performance Evaluation.
Responsible for Balance Scorecard for VPs and Sr. Managers
Act as Community leader for HR Operations team in the center and work towards ‘One-HR’.
Defines, socializes and deploys overall Associate Engagement strategy in the center
Drive services compliance on all processes and procedures (taking into account localizations), Self- Service, and Data Analytics & Reporting requirements
Drive process improvement throughout the center
Focusing on identification, selection, and retention of world-class talent to ensure a dynamic pipeline of talent
HP-: Employee Satisfaction Survey, Managers connect Survey, Capability Mapping.
Partnering with client leadership and local HR counterparts to plan and execute strategies that ensure maximum engagement of human resource capital
Provide leadership in support of organizational direction and culture. Manage employee performance using established company tools/methodology and set an example for team members
Partner closely with COEs, HRBPs and other global teams for the delivery of all policies, programs and tasks across the region. The role also partners closely with the above stakeholders across geographies, to drive standardization, improvements and effectiveness of services provided, utilizing relevant measurement and feedback tools to ensure the quality and value of service delivered meets standards and Operating / Service Level Agreements.
2000 - 2004
HR Manager
CinCom Systmes Inc
USA, Australia, India
Collaborated with Global Managing Director for establishing Shared Service Centre in New Delhi, India and helped scale up the operations from 5 Sales resources to 1015 IT professionals.
Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance Management, CBIT, Reward and Recognition, Employee Relations and ESS
Accountable for end-to-end HR operations to the business leveraging Functional Expertise.
Supports the Organization, stakeholders and the execution of HR Processes including Culture/Employee Engagement, Talent Acquisition, People Reviews, Succession Planning, Capability, Workforce Planning and Career Planning.