Krishnamurthy Shankar joins Philips India as Head - HR

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


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