HR Movement: 19 Oct, 2020

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Neelam Sharma appointed head – human resources at Capco India

Sharma has about 15 years of experience in HR and has moved from Infor, where she was Bangalore site HR head. Capco has appointed Neelam Sharma as head-HR for its India operations. Sharma will be responsible for managing the global management and technology consultancy’s HR strategy, organisation culture, HR governance, HR transformation through digitalisation and automation, India capability building, and creating an HR structure and framework supportive of growth, scale and diversity. Sharma, who has about 15 years of experience in the HR domain was earlier Bangalore site HR head for Infor, the global software company. She has worked as HR specialist and generalist at Infosys and Kingfisher Airlines before that, gaining in-depth knowledge and hands-on understanding of the strategies, operating dynamics and issues impacting human resources within organisations. A postgraduate in business administration from ICFAI College, and a graduate from SIES College of Commerce and Economics, Sharma is looking forward to focussing on developing “flexible, self-motivated and independent-thinking” employees capable of “helping the financial industry transition to new working paradigms and establish an effective workforce for the future”.

 

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Meenakshi Priyam joins udaan.com as group CHRO

 

With over 18 years of experience, Priyam has worked across multiple industries in India, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Meenakshi Priyam has joined udaan.com— a B2B trade platform, created specifically for small & medium businesses in India — as group CHRO. She has moved from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the pharmaceutical major, where she was CHRO for India and global HR head for classic and established products (CEP). Priyam had spent just over three years at GSK, where she initially headed HR for India and South Asia for almost two years before being elevated to CHRO India & global HR head CEP in May last year. Before joining GSK, Priyam had served as head HR – global product strategy & commercialisation (GPS&C) and global functions at Novartis, based out of Basel Area, Switzerland. She had joined Novartis in 2013, as head-HR, in Mumbai, before moving to Switzerland in 2016, for a year and four months.

 

 

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Dhanuka Agritech appoints Viekas K Khokha as head-HR

 

Khokha moves from Zimmer Biomet, where he was the director-HR. Viekas K Khokha has joined Dhanuka Agritech as head-HR. Before joining the agro chemical company, Khokha was the director-HR at Zimmer Biomet, a medical device company that manufactures aluminium splints. At Zimmer Biomet, he spearheaded the HR component of the business strategy by planning, developing, and implementing initiatives that positively impacted the productivity, capability and effectiveness of customer groups. Speaking on his new role at Dhanuka Agritech, Khokha says, “The role brings in the opportunity to create a talent pool, which needs to keep circulating in the industry. As an HR leader, I will contribute towards the creation of this talent pool through awareness generation, employee value proposition and employees happiness.”