Vuclip gets Paritosh Shukla from Samsung as head-global HR

Shukla has more than 18 years of diversified experience across sales, marketing, and human resource functions in organisations such as Asian Paints and Akzonobel.

Vuclip, the video-on-demand services company, has appointed Paritosh Shukla as its global head of human resources.

Shukla has more than 18 years of diverse experience across sales, marketing, and human resource functions, in organisations, such as Asian Paints and Akzonobel.

Prior to this, Shukla was general manager-human resources, at Samsung Electronics, South West Asia business unit, where he successfully raised the company’s capability index.

Shukla will support the growth and momentum for Vuclip as it enters new markets, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and India.

Arun Prakash, COO, Vuclip, says in an official communique, “Our employees and unique company culture are very important to us. They have been the foundational pillars of our success till date. As the custodian of our culture, Shukla will play a very crucial role, especially when we are in a transformative phase of geographic expansion, rapid talent acquisition and greater audience engagement.”

Vuclip has employee-friendly programmes, such as LIFE@Vuclip and Viu-University which revolve around ‘learning’, ‘impact’, ‘fungagement’ and ‘earning’. The company has plans to hire more than 100 employees, including top talent across the Asian and Middle Eastern markets in the next nine months. This expansion will support the company’s rapid business growth in the region and enable the company’s mission of ‘Bringing Joy to a Billion Consumers.’

Shukla says, “At Vuclip, importance, focus and energy are applied to talent, culture and values. In a hyper-growth environment, it is very important to enhance talent and keep pace while simultaneously preserving culture.