2022 JUDGE'S PROFILE

Gayatheri Silvakumer

Chief HR & Talent Officer, APAC Chief HR & Talent Officer, APAC

McCann Worldgroup
With a master’s in Business Administration from the prestigious University of Roehampton, UK, and a Chartered Practitioner CIPD, UK, Gayatheri 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 structure and rapidly changing cultures.
 
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.
 
She has vast experience with mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and franchise integration, employment transfer, and trade union negotiations.
 
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).
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