Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has appointed Ira Bindra as the new group president — people and talent.
Her appointment was announced by none other than Mukesh D Ambani, chairman and managing director of RIL, in an internal communication. She has been appointed to drive transformation across the entire organisation, Ambani said.
“As group president — people and talent at Reliance, she “will work with me, Isha, Akash, Anant and the entire EC to drive transformation across our company for people, culture and leadership,” Ambani said in the announcement.
“She will partner closely with all our business and HR leaders to continue to build on the foundation we have and help create world-class HR and people development practices,’’ he added.
Bindra, 47, will be the first non-family woman and the youngest to be on the all-powerful executive committee of the group. She will join RIL from Medtronic, USA, where she was the head of human resources and vice-president — global regions.
A graduate from Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College in 1998, Bindra completed her Master of Business Administration from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands in 1999.
She worked with GE Capital, GE India, GE Healthcare and GE Oil & Gas before joining Medtronic in May 2018.
“Bindra is a global HR and business leader with deep domain expertise across a range of industries, geographies and business cycle. She has deep business and functional HR expertise across industries such as med tech, financial services, large industrial and global delivery centre business,” Ambani said.
He added that these leadership roles have been across complex geographies globally both in developing and developed markets, including India, US, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
“Bindra has led large HR teams in Fortune 100 companies, such as GE, and has led organisations through bold business transformations, from designing new operating models, creating new business lines to executing significant divestitures, resulting in better performance and outcome,” he observed.
