HR Movement: 9 Dec, 2022

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Hero Vired appoints Samra Rahman as head – people & culture

Rahman has worked with IBM, HCL and Tata Teleservices in her about 20-year long career. Samra Rahman has been appointed head – people and culture at Hero Vired, the Indian learning tech company for higher education aspirants and professionals. Rahman moves from Centum Learning, where she served a tenure of over nine years, of which the last five years were in the role of head of human resources. An alumna of Delhi University and XLRI Jamshedpur, Rahman Has over 20 years of experience in HR and people management. She has a proven track record in ensuring greater alignment of the human resource function with overall business goals to achieve growth. She has demonstrated expertise in recruitment, retention, employee satisfaction, rewards systems and L&D initiatives for senior leadership and the staff.

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Kyndryl India gets Rajita Singh as CPO

Singh has completed her MBA in marketing and HR and also carries a PhD from XLRI Jamshedpur. Kyndryl India, an IT infrastructure services company that designs, builds, manages and develops large-scale information systems, has appointed Rajita Singh as its chief people officer. Kyndryl was created from the spin-off of IBM’s infrastructure services business. In this role, Singh will lead the people function at Kyndryl India. Sharing her excitement at joining the “phenomenal team at Kyndryl,” Singh writes on social media, “Powering human progress by touching billion lives with technology transformations, working towards a better world to live, is a fab opportunity. Such a privilege to be able to create immense value rooted in a growth mindset, ultimately making an impact at scale.”.

 

3. Raj Raghavan moves on from Indigo; Sukhjit P rejoins as group CHRO

Raghavan is set to join as a global CHRO at a Seattle-based technology startup working in the cloud governance space. Sukhjit Pasricha has rejoined Indigo as group CHRO. He will take charge from November 01, 2022. Pasricha has worked with Indigo before as VP-HR & admin for close to five years between 2013 and 2018. Till date, Pasricha was heading the HR function for Kotak Mahindra Bank as president HR & group CHRO. Pasricha’s 25-year career in HR spans various sectors, with a significant amount of time spent in the telecom space. Before joining Kotak Mahindra, Pasricha was the CHRO at Bajaj Finserv. His longest stint was with Bharti Airtel where he spent close to 9.5 years. At Airtel, he started as the head-HR, AES where he spent three years. Later he was elevated as V-P, HR for Northern Region of Airtel’s mobile business. In 2008, he was named the CHRO for Enterprise Services Business. In 2010, Pasricha was again promoted as Sr. V-P-HR at Airtel Africa. At the same time, he was also the head-HR and HR business partner for nine Anglophone countries in Africa.