ZOOM Communications has appointed Seema Bangia as its chief people officer (CPO), bringing on board a seasoned HR leader with more than 30 years of experience across aerospace and defence, manufacturing, FMCG, telecom, consumer, and consulting sectors. In her new role, Bangia will spearhead the company’s people strategy, focusing on leadership hiring and development, organisational effectiveness, performance management, ethics, and governance while aligning HR initiatives with business objectives.
Prior to joining ZOOM Communications, Bangia worked as an HR business leader, leadership coach and organisation-development advisor at Leading Edge-People Consulting, for over a year (February 2025–June 2026). In this advisory role, she partnered with organisations and leadership teams on HR strategy, organisational transformation, culture, governance, leadership succession, and executive coaching. She also worked with boards and CXOs on people strategy, conduct risk, ESG, and organisational readiness, while coaching senior leaders through business and leadership transitions.
Before moving into consulting, Bangia spent nearly 12 years with the Mahindra Group (June 2012–April 2024). She was elevated to vice president & chief people officer and board director – Mahindra Aerospace & Defence in 2021 after serving as head–HR for over nine years. During her tenure, she led strategic HR initiatives across multiple businesses and joint ventures, driving employee engagement, leadership development, succession planning, talent management, governance, ethics, and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in highly regulated aerospace and defence businesses.
Earlier, Bangia worked as head–HR, Carlsberg India for two years (November 2008–October 2010), where she led the company’s people agenda during a phase of business expansion.
Prior to that, she served as general manager – HR, ZTE Telecom for nearly three years (September 2005–May 2008), leading organisation-wide change management initiatives, compensation and benefits redesign, job evaluation, career progression frameworks, and HR process transformation.
She also held the position of senior manager – HR, Canon India (April 2004–April 2005), where she focused on leadership development, assessment and development centres, and performance management. Before Canon, she spent over two years (October 2001–April 2004) with Sony India as manager – employee development and training, designing competency-based HR frameworks and leading management capability-building initiatives.
Bangia’s earlier career includes assignments with AT&T/Lucent Technologies in HR and Motorola, where she worked in marketing services, after beginning her professional journey as a Management Trainee at Nestlé.
Her appointment reflects ZOOM Communications’ focus on strengthening its leadership team and building a people-centric organisation to support its next phase of growth.
