Gayatheri Silvakumer

2023 JUDGE’S PROFILE

Chief Talent Officer, APAC
McCann World Group

With a master’s in Business Administration from the prestigious University of Roehampton, UK, and a Chartered Practitioner CIPD, UK, Gayatheri Silvakumer has over 20 years of HR experience across Asia, the United Kingdom, and UAE. She is a creative business partner infusing modern tools and emerging technologies to optimise HR processes, frameworks and service delivery, and talent management best practices to drive sustainable growth. She leverages influential leadership to exceed performance targets in high-demand, complex structures and rapidly changing cultures.

Throughout her career, Gayatheri has established competency to evaluate, score, and evolve processes into impactful solutions and employee resources. Drives organisational transformation by building strategic partnerships with clients, fellow HR business partners, executive leadership teams, and clients.

Gayatheri was awarded and recognised as the Asia’s 100 Power Leaders in Human Resources for her great contribution and achievements for the industry. From mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and franchise integration, employment transfer, trade union negotiations and diversity plus inclusion strategy, Gayatheri has developed her expertise in communications and has spearheaded the HR offering of a range of companies. With her exceptional expertise in HR, she is often invited as a speaker and judge at a range of corporate events.

She has held senior HR leadership positions in various industries, working with organisations like Bombardier, Rolls-Royce, Vice Media, and McCann Worldgroup (IPG Group of Companies)