Samsung Electronics has promoted Rishabh Nagpal to the position of chief people officer. He has been associated with the company since September 2014, having already served as senior director-HR for over nine years.
An alumnus of Delhi School of Economics, Nagpal began his career as an executive-HR, with Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, in 1999. A year into this role, he moved to Dell Perot Systems, as manager-corporate HR, head-global C&B and global HR operations. In 2007, he moved on from Dell to join Tech Mahindra as senior manager-recruitment. This stint lasted only about seven months.
September of 2007 saw him joining IBM as deputy general manager and HR head-GBS, IBM South Asia. After two and a half years with IBM, he moved to Huawei Telecommunication (India) Company as general manager-human resources, head-corporate HR. He was based out of Gurgaon for more than four and a half years.
In 2014, he began his association with Samsung Electronics, as general manager. After two promotions, he became senior director, heading corporate HR CoE of total rewards, organisation management, talent management, HR operations, talent acquisition and leadership hiring, talent and sucession mangement for Samsung, South West Asia Region.
This latest promotion to CPO comes after nine years and nine months of his entry into Samsung Electronics.
Nagpal, who holds a BE from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, is known as a meticulous person with immense passion for his job and indepth knowledge of HR.
His 25 years of experience are bound to stand him in good stead in his new role at Samsung. HRKatha wishes him all the best.
