Imagine Learning has brought Priya Subramani on board as country HR leader for India, adding a veteran with over 20 years of experience in HR transformation, talent strategy, and workforce planning across tech, industrial, retail, and education sectors.
She will oversee the growth of Imagine Learning’s India team, strengthen leadership pipelines, enhance employee experience, and align HR strategy with the company’s digital-first learning mission.
Subramani’s career path reflects a mix of HR leadership in fast-scaling startups and large global firms. She began as deputy manager recruitment at Planetasia.com from 2000 to 2002, before moving to Tavant Technologies as manager HR from 2002 to 2004, where she helped grow the company from 25 to 700 employees. She then served as head of recruitment at Adobe India between October 2004 and June 2005, followed by a stint as head HR at Verismo Networks from September 2006 to July 2007.
From July 2007 to December 2015, she spent over eight years at IBM GBS. Initially, she managed large-scale HR transformation projects impacting more than 60,000 employees. Later, she led the HR consulting and cloud HR practice across India, Europe, and the US on multimillion-dollar programmes in workforce optimisation and analytics. In 2016, she joined ANSR as HR director, supporting Fortune 500 companies in setting up global in-house centres and handling leadership hiring from CXO to the director level.
Between January 2017 and February 2021, she led HR for emerging businesses at Flipkart, building new capabilities and driving talent management and succession planning. She then spent nearly four years, from February 2021 to December 2024, as HR leader for APAC at Honeywell Connected Enterprise, building engineering and data science teams for Honeywell’s SaaS push. Prior to joining Imagine Learning, the digital curricula provider, in January 2025, she was head of HR, India at Analog Devices.
She holds a master’s degree in HR management from Strathclyde Business School and is known for tying talent planning to business outcomes, leading large HR transformations, and building teams focused on strong performance.
We at HRKatha wish Priya Subramani success for her new role!
