HR Movements: 21 Nov, 2016

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Essar's group president HR, Adil Malia calls it quits

Malia to start a new venture in the management consulting space. 

After a decade with the Essar Group, its long-time group president-HR, Adil Malia, has resigned from his position. Malia joined the group in 2006 and has been heading people management globally for the $40 billion conglomerate, employing over 70000 people worldwide.

Malia, who began his career at the age of 19, as a legal assistant, reached the top management echelons working with esteemed organisations, such as Godrej, GE, Al-Futtaim and Coca-Cola before joining Essar. Malia is leaving to wear the entrepreneurial hat along with a few other industry veterans. Together, they plan to enter the management consulting space.

Malia told HRKatha, “We are a group of five people and we plan to establish a management consulting organisation, which is going to look at business transformation, bespoke HR practices, change management and more. It’s going to be a boutique of specific solutions for effective management of businesses.”

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Uber appoints Liane Hornsey, longtime ex-googler as new CHRO

Hornsey has been a VP at Google and is current operating partner at SoftBank.

Amid various previous movements, where ex-Googlers were brought in by Uber, the company is now bringing in Liane Hornsey, a longtime VP at Google and current operating partner at SoftBank, to be its new chief HR officer.
While Liane confirmed her appointment to HRKatha, Travis Kalanick, CEO, Uber apparently announced the hiring in an e-mail to Uber employees last week, calling her ‘one of the most sought-after people in the world’.
After the former head of HR at Uber, Renee Atwood, left to join Twitter in July, the position was vacant. Atwood had been at the company from when it was 605 employees to more than 5,000.
Hornsey brings a rich experience of running human resources at a large, public company — something Uber will need as it matures into a company with IPO potential. Her LinkedIn profile shows that she had spent nine years at Google as its vice president of global people operations before she moved to being a VP on the sales side, reporting to Nikesh Arora.
She followed Arora to SoftBank International in September, 2015 to be its chief administrative officer and operating partner, helping other startups with their HR needs. Arora left his position in June 2016, and now Hornsey's departure follows nearly six months after. Hornsey will start at Uber in January.

3.

KPMG India CEO Richard Rekhy to hang up his boots

KPMG India CEO, Richard Rekhy’s decision to retire has been accepted by the board but he will continue to serve in the position till a successor is found.

One of the big fours, KPMG has revealed that its CEO Richard Rekhy plans to retire but will continue to serve in the position till a successor is found. The board has respectfully accepted his decision after due deliberations while a new CEO will be appointed over the next few months after the board runs the succession process and the successor is ratified by KPMG India partners, the company shared with the press.
Rekhy has been serving as CEO since 2012 and this year, in January, Rekhy won a second term that would have seen him holding the post till 2020. During his tenure the company has attracted over 70 partners from other industries and across the professional services sector. KPMG in India has around 11,000 staff however, in recent times the company witnessed attrition of various partners.

KPMG India Board said that it has respectfully accepted Richard's decision to retire, after due deliberations and recognising his stellar professional as well as personal contributions to the India firm over the last many years as the CEO and in his prior leadership roles.