N Balachandar appointed chief human resources officer Strides Arcolabs
05 Jan 2009
Strides Arcolab today announced the appointment of N Balachandar as chief human resources officer.
With over 20 years of experience Balachandar, in this newly created position, will lead all human resource functions across Strides globally with overall responsibility for human capital strategy, talent and leadership development, staffing and recruiting, compensation and benefits, as well as employee relations and report to the vice chairman and droup CEO.
Most recently he was executive vice president HR of GE Money, based in Tokyo. He began his career with GE in 2001 and has worked across industrial and capital business of GE. He joined as the HR director of GE Healthcare in India and soon took an expanded role of Asia growth markets. He then headed organisation and staffing for GE Healthcare International covering EMEA and Asia region, based in Paris, France.
Balachandar has worked with venture capital fund, eVentures, a SoftBank and News Corp JV, Standard Chartered Bank in India, and Asian Paints.