HR Movements: 27 Nov, 2017

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Servion Group appoints David Raj as CHRO

The Group is expanding its business globally, for which it is beefing up its leadership team. 

Servion Group, a specialist in customer experience management, has appointed David Raj as its CHRO. Based out of Chennai, and as part of the executive officer group, he will be responsible for global HR for both the Group companies – Servion and Acqueon.
Raj moves in from CSS Corp where he was SVP and CHRO. He comes with over 26 years of diverse experience which includes manufacturing, IT and finance. In the past he has worked with companies such as Murugappa group, Rane & Polaris, Virtusa.
His experience spans across all geographies and functions including start-ups, change management, acquisition & merger initiatives, IPO process, setting up near shore centers as well as managing talent across Europe, US and Asia.
Raj has a Masters degree in Social Work from Loyola College, Chennai.
Meanwhile, the Servion Group is on a expansion mode and is beefing up its leadership team at the same time. On a hiring spree, Servion has hired more than 200 people in the past four months.

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Armaan Seth to lead Philips India as head of human resources

Seth has been serving the Company since 2011 in various capacities in the HR function.

Philips India has appointed Armaan Seth as its head of human resources. He will now lead the India operation with a focus on fostering inspirational leadership at all levels in the Company, and providing employees continued opportunities for growth across functions and geographies. He will also work towards making the Philips culture more inclusive and diverse.

Seth has been with Philips for about six years now and has served the company in various positions across India and the Netherlands.

He joined Philips in March 2011, as country HR lead-consumer durables business, working out of the Gurgaon office. In this position, he was the HR business partner for the consumer durables business for the Indian subcontinent. He also managed the organisation and people aspects of the disentanglement of the lifestyle entertainment business, and was part of the diversity and inclusion board of the Company.

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Grab appoints Vikas Agarwal as CTO

This appointment will enable the Grab's e-wallet platform - GrabPay to scale faster across the South East Asia in 2018

Grab, one of the leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platforms in Southeast Asia has appointed Vikas Agrawal as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for GrabPay, its mobile payments platform. 

Vikas joins Grab from PayTM, India’s largest mobile payments and commerce platform, where he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering. This appointment will accelerate GrabPay’s growth as it expands across Southeast Asia with the goal of becoming the region’s #1 payments platform.

Based in Bangalore, Vikas brings on board two decades of experience in senior engineering positions at India’s premier startups in the payments, financial services, and e-commerce space. Adding Vikas’ deep payments expertise underlines Grab’s ambitions of building a world-class engineering team across its three payments R&D centres in Bangalore, Jakarta, and Singapore.

“I’ve seen in India how going cashless can open up the digital economy to millions of merchants and help them access new customers while making the cost of living more affordable for consumers. It’s a privilege to now join the GrabPay leadership team and have a unique opportunity to profoundly change the lives of Southeast Asia’s more than 600 million people through financial inclusion,” Vikas Agrawal added.