Arun Verma has been elevated to senior vice president & head-HR, DLF. In this new role, Verma will spearhead the company’s rental business.
Verma joined DLF in the year 2024 as SVP-HR. In this role, he led the company’s HR operations, learning and development (L&D) and corporate HR.
Prior to DLF, Verma was associated with Servify as its chief human resources officer & SVP- HR & admin. In this role, Verma was responsible for people experience, capability development and building the workforce of the future across three continents including Asia and Europe, with North America.
With a career spanning over two decades, Verma has also worked with many other companies such as CavinKare, Reliance Mutual Fund, Reliance Life Insurance, McKinsey & Company, Xerox India and Brightstar.
Verma began his career with CavinKare, as executive-HR, in the year 2001. In 2003, he moved to Reliance Mutual Funds as manager-HR. For over two years, Verma managed the HR functions for the company’s Mumbai office. In 2005, he switched to Reliance Life Insurance as regional manager-HR.
Verma’s next stop was McKinsey & Company in the year 2006. In this role, for close to four years, he served as head-HR for three service lines – practice research; research and analytics insights (RAI); proprietary knowledge.
The year 2010 saw Verma begin an association with Xerox India as deputy general manager-HR. In 2012 he was elevated to the role of general manager-HR. In this role, Verma not only led the people agenda for the sales & distribution division of Xerox India, but also set up two global delivery centres for Xerox Corporation. Verma was again elevated in 2014 as associate director-HR.
In 2015, Verma took up the role of CHRO, Brightstar. He was responsible for people management and capability development across offices in India.
An alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune, Verma holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
