A leadership change at Bahwan CyberTek signals a renewed focus on people strategy as the company scales its global operations. Priya Venkataraman has been appointed Group Chief Human Resources Officer, taking charge of the Group’s HR strategy and administration across services, consulting, and products businesses.
In her new role at Bahwan CyberTek, Priya Venkataraman will lead the development of scalable people practices to support business growth and transformation. She will work closely with senior leadership to align talent, culture, and organisational priorities with enterprise goals, while strengthening HR governance and people capabilities across geographies.
Before joining Bahwan CyberTek, she served as Senior Vice President – Human Resources at Indium. There, she led the HR agenda for a high-growth digital engineering organisation with over 2,000 employees across India, the US, and the UK. During her tenure, she supported significant business expansion and focused on leadership stability, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion outcomes, and enterprise-wide HR transformation.
Earlier, Priya Venkataraman held senior HR leadership roles at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, where she served as Deputy General Manager. In this role, she led HR for large shared services and IS divisions with nearly 3,800 employees, managing complex, multi-business HR operations and supporting large-scale organisational leadership.
She also spent over 7 years with Shell as Human Resources Account Manager, overseeing end-to-end HR responsibilities for major business divisions. Her work included close partnership with leadership on employee engagement, performance management, and talent retention.
Priya’s earlier career includes HR leadership and business partner roles at Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Ford Business Services, and GE Capital International Services. Across these roles, she has built more than 20 years of cross-industry HR experience spanning IT, automotive, oil and gas, banking, and global shared services environments.
Priya Venkataraman holds an Executive MBA in Human Resources Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and an MBA in Human Resources Management from the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, strengthening her strategic and academic grounding in people leadership.
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