HR Movement: 25 Jan, 2021

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Rajita D’Souza appointed president – HR & CSR, STMicroelectronics

 

D’Souza comes with over two decades of experience across plastics, financial services, tire, electrical and chemical industries in India, EMEA and the US. STMicroelectronics has appointed Rajita D’Souza as president – HR and CSR. D’Souza has moved from Bekaert, the steel wire transformation and coating technologiescompany, where she was CHRO for over three years. In her new role at STMicroelectronics, she will lead the global semiconductor firm’s people development, performance management, compensation & benefits and recruitment, globally. Her focus will be to drive the Company’s sustainability strategy and help it become carbon neutral over the next seven years. Having joined General Electric Consumer Finance in 1997, as HR manager, D’Souza remained with GE for almost a decade in various capacities. She climbed up the ladder to be director – HR, at GE, a position she held for over a year. In 2007, she left GE to join the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation or SABIC — the Saudi Arabian multinational chemical manufacturing company — as director – HR, Europe. In 2011, after almost three and a half successful years at SABIC, D’Souza joined the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. as vice president – HR, Europe, Middle East and Africa, where she spent six years and seven months. It was in 2017 that she moved on to join Bekaert as chief human resources officer (CHRO).

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Shaveta Joshi joins ASRC Federal as CHRO

 

Joshi has moved from Serco, where she was CHRO. ASRC Federal, the Alaska-based government subsidiary that serves civil, intelligence, and defense agencies, has named Shaveta Joshi as its EVP and CHRO with effect from January 2021. In her new role, Joshi will be responsible for leading the Company’s human resources professionals and will be in charge of various HR functions including business operations, talent acquisition and development, compensation and benefits, and compliance. Joshi is backed by 15 years of HR experience. She is honed in employee communication starting from the frontline workers to the senior management, and also skilled in organisational governance, change management functions and financial performance for companies.

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Anurag Adlakha to take over from Deodutta Kurane as CHRO, Yes Bank

 

Niranjan Banodkar will replace Adlakha as group CFO, while Kurane is set to retire.  Anurag Adlakha, who is currently the group chief financial officer, Yes Bank, will take over as the CHRO, while Niranjan Banodkar will replace him as group CFO. Having joined Yes Bank in August, 2019, Adlakha will now step into the shoes of Deodutta Kurane, who is about to retire, with effect from January 1. During his almost three-decade long career, Adlakha has served the Riyadh-based Saudi British Bank for four years, before moving to HSBC in 1996. He joined HSBC as manager-financial control and worked his way up to the position of chief financial office by 1999. After eight successful years at HSBC, he moved to Standard Chartered Bank in 2007. After serving as CFO for India & South Asia for about eight years, he served as interim CEO for about six months before taking on the role of CFO in 2015. He spent a good 10 years at Standard Chartered — the longest stint of his banking career — before joining Jana Small Finance Bank as president and CFO, in 2019.