Philips
announced the appointment of Mr. Krish Shankar as the Head of Human
Resources for South Asia, effective February 10th, 2014. He will be based
in Gurgaon and will be responsible for spearheading the Philips Talent Strategy
& the Human Resources team in the region.
Shankar
comes with extensive experience of 30 years across various leading
organizations like Bharti Airtel, Unilever & Eicher. Shankar joins Philips
from Bharti Airtel where he was the Executive Director – HR. Prior
to Airtel, Shankar built his career at Unilever over 20 years spanning Unilever
in India, UK and Singapore. Commencing his Unilever stint as HR Manager in the
Factories, he has had several stints in India and the UK across Talent
Development, Talent Acquisition and Business Partnering, until he was the HR
Head for the Foods Business in India leading up to becoming the VP-HR in the
Asia-Africa regional organization.
Shankar
joins Philips at an important stage in the growth of Philips in South Asia.
Philips entered India 83 years ago, and has grown to become a leader in health
& wellbeing in South Asia through its 28 different businesses organized as
its 3 sectors of Lighting, Healthcare & Consumer Lifestyle. Philips has an
end to end organization of approximately 10,000 people in South Asia from a
large R&D presence (across Bangalore, Noida and Chennai) to 4 manufacturing
facilities (across Mohali, Vadodara, Pune and Chennai) to a large commercial
presence across South Asia. While, Philips has become the market leader across
its 3 key sectors in South Asia, the Company has aggressive growth ambitions
across its businesses.
Philips
India has been the well spring of several of the top leaders at Philips
globally, with leaders from India on the global leadership team of each of the
3 sectors of Lighting, Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle, and in several other
key business and functional leadership positions across the world. “Our vision
is to make Philips India the engine of global growth by being the wellspring of
extraordinary leaders and innovation. We are delighted to welcome Shankar to
our Leadership Team to power up our Talent Strategy – which is key to realizing
our vision”, said Krishna Kumar, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Philips
India.
Shankar’s
key focus will be to partner with the Leadership team to shape the talent
agenda at Philips. “I am delighted to join a strong leadership team at
this exciting phase of Philips’ growth. Our focus will be on developing world
class business and functional leaders, grow diversity and build a culture of
entrepreneurship and teamwork”, said Shankar.
An
alumnus of XLRI (batch of 1984), Shankar replacesMrYashwantMahadik
who moved to a new role as Head of HR Business Transformation &
Learning at Philips.
About Royal Philips..
Royal
Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company,
focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation in the areas
of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the
Netherlands, Philips posted 2013 sales of EUR 23.3 billion and employs about
1,15,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries.
The
company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy
efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male
shaving and grooming and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
For further information, please contact:
Moushumi Dutt
Corporate Communications
Philips India Limited
(T): 0124-4606018
Nirjhara Rastogi
Corporate
Communications
Philips India Limited
(T): 9810740777
S Krishna
Moorthy, Avian Media
Chennai 600 002
D: +
044-4260 4361
M: + 91 9442191717
E: krishna@avian-media.com
W: www.avian-media.com
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