HR Movement: 15 Dec, 2023

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Vikram Kaul is now HR director & CPO, Leadec

He moves from Compass Group India where he was people leader India. Vikram Kaul has started a new position as human resources director and chief people officer (CPO), Leadec. He has excitedly posted on social media that this new role will see him leading the HR function, overseeing recruitment, retention and development of employees; managing compensation and benefits; and ensuring compliance with labour laws. He will also be responsible for the function that looks after general administration and office facilities across the country, for this global service specialist for factories. Additionally, he will be the executive director for Leadec’s management board in India. An alumnus of IIM-Lucknow, Kaul was manager – HR and admin with F-TEC Skill Development, in the early years of his career. Just over a year and a half later, in 2003, he joined Ochoa Laboratories as HR business partner. Based out of Delhi for over a year and a half, Kaul successfully looked after the recruitment process including shortlisting, searching, screening, conducting and scheduling interviews and coordinating with various job consultants and job portals. In 2004, he was appointed HR manager, Bharti Airtel. Almost five years into this role, he was elevated to senior HR business partner (Airtel shared services), looking after talent management, employee transformation, training and development, HR automation, process implementation and HR analytics and talent acquisition.

 

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upGrad Abroad gets Ipshita Kajla as head-HR

upGrad Abroad, a vertical of Indian edtech platform, upGrad, has recently onboarded Ipshita Kajla as its new head-human resources. Kajla is a seasoned human resources expert with over 17 years of experience in the field. Her expertise lies in translating business vision into HR initiatives that enhance performance, profitability, growth and employee engagement.
Prior to joining upGrad, Kajla served as the head-human resources at Yatra Online for over three years, starting in the year 2020. Before that, she was the regional head-HR at Big FM, in 2017. Her primary role there was to analyse attrition, productivity and other matrices with a view to enabling optimum utilisation of human resources. Her professional journey includes roles at various organisations such as People Bridges, MicroSave, Mondelez International, IndiGo and SmartAnalyst India.

 

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Tech Mahindra to rope in Richard Lobo as CHRO

Lobo is currently engaged as a freelance strategic HR advisor at the edtech unicorn, BYJU’s. Richard Lobo, the former executive vice president and head-human resources, Infosys, may start his new stint with Tech Mahindra as chief human resources officer (CHRO), starting from January 2024. The company, reportedly, is in talks with the industry veteran. Lobo is currently engaged as a freelance strategic HR advisor to the edtech unicorn, BYJU’s. His focus areas encompass change management, corporate governance, organisation scaling and enhancing employee experience. He is anticipated to start off in his new position under the leadership of Mohit Joshi, Tech Mahindra’s recently- appointed CEO. Lobo previously worked alongside Joshi at Infosys, where the latter held the position of president, overseeing various functions such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences and sales operations.