Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organisation's people / human resources functions thru the life cycle of the an employee for INDIA and Manila and working closely with the CEO/COO on the Organisation Transformational / Developmental & business growth focussed strategic initiatives.

Koo is an Indian microblogging and social networking service based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, we won the government of India's Aatmanirbhar App Innovation Challenge in August 2020. Leading the talent growth, talent management & driving the people strategy, agenda for Koo.

Engaged in advising EduTech / FinTech / InsurTech & AI Tech start-up for Talent On-Boarding, People Strategy, Organisation and Grading Architecture, OKR & Performance Mgmt, Compensation & ESOP Framework, Vision Exercise etc. Created a well-oiled HR eco-system for EduTech startup.

Ensono Technologies offers cloud and managed infrastructure-based solutions. Ensono had acquired Wipro’s managed hosting business. • Assisted senior management with making key decisions by developing and submitting performance and compensation reports with status updates and improvement recommendations. • Entrusted the responsibility to rearrange close to 440 associates and built a thorough ecosystem of HR functions for them to ensure optimum level transition. Created and implemented and end-to-end portfolio of people-related services, Policies and Programs in-line with ENSONO's value system while staying true and close to Wipro's parental umbrella policies.• Partnered with global leadership to establish and develop corporate and HR policies and procedures. In less than three months, I successfully managed the HR transition including Workday implementation and went live with Ensono in acquiring the associates and also scaled the new teams of around 90+ across tech and enabling functions.• Effectively worked with the Global Team in strategizing Talent Management framework to ring-fence the key talent during this strategic rebadging exercise.

Ver Se Innovation based in Bangalore founded in the year 2007 and backed by marquee investors like Sequoia, Matrix Partners, Omidyar Network. Its line of businesses includes Dailyhunt (erstwhile NewsHunt), iPayy and VAS. Verse’s culture is to encourage excellence through freedom and responsibility while Innovation and Speed of execution is in our DNA & we truly stood by this statement. As a HR Head, I reported to the CEO & supported by 7 member HR team who were at Sr. Mgr & Mgr. Levels.Highlights:o Effectively handled setting up of HR Ecosystem by understanding & aligning with the organisation’s vision to Introduce & create HR policies across Verse o Resourcefully conceptualized & implemented several HR policies & processes related to staffing, performance appraisal, compensation, training (induction & soft skills), payrolls for PAN India Including African Countries, Creation of employee communication & rewards model etc. o Prepared organisation ESOP policy & framework & led managed secondary buyback end-to-end from the HR stand-point.o Successfully grew & managed the team from approx. 100 members to an over 950 members in INDIA & around 30 consultants/employees spread across South Africa & other African countries.o Involved in multiple strategic mergers & acquisitions (of 15 to a 400-member team) & couple of critical acquihire initiatives that helped boost growth.o Involved in identifying & lead managing PR initiative as one of the brand building exercise for the company. o Proficiently designed HR policies for South Africa & African countries and streamlined the payroll process for these countries (Johannesburg, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Kampala & Dhaka) & also amicably managed the closing of VAS business and smoothly handled the severance for some 70 FTEs + 25 FTCs.o Spearheaded in setting up an eBooks & video curation team of some 120 members for the company and devising strategies for the future structuring of such units.

Classy, Professional, Elegant and One of the Top Investment Banks I had opportunity to work with and was responsible for multi-location HR Business partnering across Mumbai, Bangalore for its corporate function including technology, central transaction and corporate internet team.Highlights:• Led multi location HR Operations across Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad with approx. 1600 employee base along with efficient team of AVP’s & Senior Managers and was reporting to ASIAPAC Head HR• Dexterously managed Talent Management tasks for the Technology Team• Introduced a new rewards and recognition (R&R) scheme for the Central Transaction Team & Corporate Internet Group• Efficiently functioned as an active member of: -o Global Compensation Planning Team in preparing respective budgets for India business managers by advising them on compensation guidelines and ensuring they operated within defined budgetso India HR Policy Team aiming at reviewing the HR policies, developing new ones and implementing them

Amazing Experience to be associated with India finest corporate that has super strong people processes and practices that is based on human values. My first stint to work in the ITeS domain and in this role of employee relations & staffing functions for Data and Analytics Team, I was supported by a team of 5 who were senior managers and managers and was reporting to Regional Head for 1st Year and then to the Head of TCS BPO HRHighlights:• Effectively looked after Employee Relations & Staffing function for 3300 employees with efficient support from the team of 5 members • Developed a communication tool called HR Connect for creating a platform of knowledge sharing, change management, employee communication & participation etc. that assisted in enhancing employee engagement & participation levels• Successfully redefined SLA by integrating BAU activities of induction, antecedent, confirmation & settlement of employees• Single-handedly rolled out:o RAG concept in business to manage attrition that contributed in career progression, succession planning of employeeso VoE and VoC for respective units to gauge, understand & fill skill gaps may it be soft or hard skills o Rolled out a Talent On-Boarding process to ensure the new joinees are engaged and productive from the very first day of their joining• Efficiently implemented PIP concept with SBUs to manage low performance rated employees• Built an HR Shared Services Team for TCS BPO having 30000 FTE spread across all HR Functions pan INDIA

Growth PathJan’04-Mar’05 Manager HR (Team Size- 8)Apr’05-Mar’07 Sr. Manager HR (Team Size- 5)Apr’07-Jan’09 Assistant Vice President HR (Team Size- 5 FTE’s)A true roller coaster growth in 5 years & working across BFSI, Manufacturing & Logistics domains with global HR exposure:Highlights• Played a key role in setting up overall US recruitment & staff augmentation model at Bangalore & APAC• Significantly contributed in:o Launch of HRIS - An HRMS package across the organizationo Setting up HR for onsite IT talent across US/UK & Singapore employeeso Implementation of Employee Development Activities like Assessment Centers and KMG Initiatives o Defining the process for career managerso Designing Incentive Schemes, Rewards & Recognition and Compensation Management in the organizationo Implementing performance appraisal system across all levels of the organization both for offshore and onsite employees• Facilitated multiple business stakeholders in completing the compensation bench-marking exercise in an efficient manner• Directed a team for ‘off-campus / campus’ hiring drive from end-to-end for 2005/06 batch• Conducted first time leadership sessions & soft-skills sessions to help boost productivity of engineering talent• Managed fulfillment of statutory / compliance requirements / formalities of all employees across Bangalore / Pune • Formulated resource utilization metrics enabling organisation wide cost optimization exercise• Undertook various steps ring fencing & retaining Critical & HiPot Talent in the organization respectively. • Attained zero NC’s for 5 consecutive years in various ISO / Legal / Statutory HR internal & external audits• Received Pat on the Back Award in 2008 from CEO for outstanding contribution towards Manufacturing and Logistics vertical

Truly a most enriching experience as it involved rolling up sleeves to help set up and strengthen the HR Processes, Policies, Identify HR systems and implement. Help grew the organisation form 28 member team to 240 member team in the area of cutting edge telecom technology. Fully responsible for driving the recruitment process, preparing HR Manual for organization and implemented Performance Appraisal Process including employee & peer appraisal.

Training and Development was the key role for the Bajaj Electricals:Successfully prepared Training Manual, introduced training programmes for all levels of employees on skills & product knowledge and delivered trainings on Soft Skills for the non-employees of Bajaj Electricals i.e. Service Dealers, Counter Sales Personnel, etc.