Arvind Fashions has appointed Lakshmi Krishnan as its new chief human resources officer, strengthening its leadership team as the company sharpens focus on organisational capability, leadership development and culture transformation. In her new role, Krishnan is expected to lead people strategy, strengthen leadership pipelines and help shape the organisational culture as the company builds for long-term growth.
Krishnan joins with more than 25 years of global HR leadership experience across India, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. Her career spans consumer, financial services and technology sectors, with deep expertise in organisation design, leadership development, capability building and large-scale transformation initiatives.
Before joining Arvind Fashions, she spent over 14 years with Unilever in multiple senior global HR roles across geographies. Most recently, she served as head of HR, corporate functions at Unilever headquarters in London, partnering with leadership teams across finance, legal, communications and sustainability for a workforce of over 7,000 employees globally.
Earlier, she led HR for Unilever’s global- procurement function in Singapore, overseeing people strategy for a €31 billion procurement business involving more than 1,500 employees and 60,000 suppliers worldwide. She also served as global HR director for Asia Supply Chain, managing HR across 15 factories and nearly 10,000 employees across APAC markets. Before that she held the role of global HR director at Unilever Engineering.
According to her professional profile, Krishnan is a transformational HR leader with extensive cross-border experience and a strong record of partnering with C-suite leaders on organisation simplification, capability building and business-led workforce transformation.
Before Unilever, Lakshmi Krishnan was associated with Lehman Brothers, Cognizant, Apt Talent Partners and Bedrock HR, building expertise across people analytics, talent strategy and organisational effectiveness.
She is currently pursuing the CHRO Programme at Wharton Executive Education and holds an MSW in Human Resources from the University of Madras from where she graduated as a university gold medalist.
