ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

LLB: Government Law College

PGCHRM: XLRI Jamshedpur

PROFILE SUMMARY

Experienced Human Resources Professional and member of the leadership team for well known companies in the financial services . Founding Member of a financial services Startup. Strong professional skills in General Management, HR Strategy & Execution, Performance Management, Talent acquisition & Mergers & Acquisitions. Passionate about ensuring human resources add value to companies and vice versa.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

2 years

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Freelance
Expert HR Practictioner & Startup specialist
December 2021 - Present (2 years)
Currently open to flexible , advisory roles in Human Resources, or General Management.

APAC FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
Group Chief People Officer & Founding team member
January 2018 - December 2021 (4 years)
Mumbai
APAC is a startup NBFC founded by Gunit Chadha, a well respected and well
known senior banker. I was a part of the Founding team. APAC does business
loans to the micro business segment across four states in India and rapidly
growing its presence and customer base.

Potentiate HR
Director
January 2016 - December 2017 (2 years)
Mumbai
Potentiate is a Human Capital Consulting and Advisory Firm providing end
to end HR services, including in areas of HR Strategy, Organization Design, Culture Building, Talent Transformation, Coaching, & Capability Development
for driving business results. Our vision is to support SMEs/ and Startups in setting up their HR Function and HR Strategy, from the beginning which can be made scalable with time and growth. With our experience we can support
organisations in doing it right the very first time.

Financial Technologies
Group Head - Human Resources
September 2009 - December 2015 (6 years 4 months)
Responsible for the Human Resources Function for the entire Group.

Future Generali India Life Insurance
Chief Human Capital
June 2008 - August 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Mumbai Area, India
Heading the Human Capital function for Life and Non Life companies

Centurion Bank of Punjab
Head - Human Resources
June 2004 - June 2008 (4 years 1 month)
Heading Human Resources function for the Bank. CBOP was one of the
earliest consolidators in the Indian Banking space and as Head of HR,
spearheaded the people side of several well executed mergers.

IDBI Bank
Head - Human Resources
July 1998 - June 2004 (6 years)
Joined as Manager - HR. Post that was in charge of Training and OD,
Recruitment and eventually assumed responsibility as Head of Human
Resources for the Bank

Societe Generale
Head of Department - HR
March 1988 - June 1998 (10 years 4 months)
Head of Department for Human Resources meant being in charge of the HR
function for the bank. Involved all activities like recruitment/ training/ payroll
etc.