Pranay Prakash, who was chief human resources officer (CHRO), Baazi Games, has moved to Bluwheelz as head of human resources.
Having started his professional journey with Adecco in 2006, as group account manager, this alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur has come a long way. He joined Reliance Retail as HRBP for a short stint of over a year, before moving to AHA (Air Hostess Academy) as deputy manager for another short stint in 2007.
He served as business HR for Videocon Telecommunications for a little over a year and a half before switching to Sara International as manager-HR and admin, in 2010.
His next stop was John Keells BPO, as human resource business partner. For a year and eight months, he looked into employee relations investigations, policies and procedures, HR business partnering and• HR automation.
From 2013 to 2015, he was with the UnitedHealth Group, looking after employee relations. For over two years, he was part of the APAC ER team, leading the grievance-redressal mechanism, case management, ethics and compliance-related matters, based out of New Delhi.
His next stop was Delhivery, where he served the longest tenure of his career. He joined as senior manager-HR, in 2015. In this capacity, he developed and deployed policies for ease of administration and ensured uniformity across the organisation. Three months into this role, he was elevated to director-human resources. In 2017, he was promoted yet again, taking on the role of senior director-human resources for over two years. In 2019, he received another promotion and became head-supply chain HRBP. By the time he left Delhivery in 2021, he had attained the position of head-people operations. He was instrumental in scaling up the workforce from 4000 to 42000 across 2300+ cities.
It was in December 2022 that he joined Baazi Games as CHRO. In his latest assignment at Bluwheelz, he will be part of the executive leadership team, leading the people function to drive process-driven scalability. The futuristic, tech-enabled first-mile, mid-mile and last-mile delivery company with an exclusive EV fleet is confident about Prakash’s “robust background“ which equips him to “drive our human resources strategy forward” statess Chanpreet Singh Sethi, co-founder and CEO, Bluwheelz in his LinkedIn post.
