Renu Vijayanand will now be a strategic part of the India people team at TIAA, as chief human resource officer. She moves from MUFG—short for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group—where she served as global co-head, human resources business partners (HRBP).
An alumna of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Vijayanand graduated in economics from the University of Mumbai.
In 1994, she joined Lakme as a management trainee for a year. Then, she moved to Larsen & Toubro as HRD officer in 1995 for two years, during which she was an active member of the corporate training team.
Her next stop was Godrej, where she served as head-human resources, from 1997 to 2001. After successfully taking charge of the HR function there and managing employees across the company’s 30 branches in India for four years, she switched to Capgemini in 2001. She spent the next five years there looking into organisational development, learning and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, HR projects, and other areas.
The year 2005 saw her taking on the role of head-corporate human resources, at Lehman Brothers. Till 2007, she was part of the core team responsible for ramping up operations of various Lehman Brothers entities in India.
From January 2007 to October 2010, she was head-human resources, India, Crédit Agricole CIB (Corporate and Investment Bank). During her less than four-year long stint there, she led the HR function for the Corporate and Investment Bank in India spread over six locations.
She served as head-human resources, India and the Middle East, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, from October 2010 to May 2016.
Her association with MUFG began in May 2016, as head of HR, MUFG Bank India and Sri Lanka. Five years into this role, she was elevated to global HRBP. By April 2022, she had become the global co-head, human resource business partners. In this capacity, she successfully played the lead role in championing and implementing various strategic initiatives aimed at organisational transformation and global alignment, for over two years.
At TIAA—the retirement company founded to help educators retire with dignity, and which went on to become an asset-management firm—she will be focusing on transformation, culture and strategic organisational initiatives.
