Ashish Dabholkar has taken on the role of People & Culture Head, India at Druva, marking a new step in his long-standing association with the company. He brings extensive experience in HR business management/partnering, employee engagement, talent acquisition, learning and development, performance , compensation and benefits, and people operations.
Before his elevation, Dabholkar served as Human Resources Director at Druva. He previously held the positions of Senior Human Resources Manager, HR Manager and Assistant Manager – Human Resources. Through these roles, he gained experience in supporting business growth, improving HR processes and working closely with leadership teams.
Prior to joining Druva, Dabholkar worked at PubMatic as Manager – Talent Acquisition. His responsibilities included hiring for engineering and leadership positions and improving recruitment sourcing and screening strategies.
He also worked as a Strategic Hiring Partner for startups, helping founders and engineering teams build core technology teams across areas such as database virtualization, networking, big data and analytics.
Earlier, Dabholkar spent nearly 6 years at NVIDIA as Senior Regional HR Representative. His responsibilities covered employee engagement, HR business partnering, learning and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, onboarding and employee relations.
He also worked at Zensar Technologies as Senior Executive – HR, supporting end-to-end recruitment across embedded systems, product engineering and BFSI. He began his career at Brinks Arya as a Management Trainee.
In his new role at Druva, Dabholkar will bring his extensive HR experience and understanding of the organisation to support its people strategy, employee experience and organisational capabilities across India.
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