For much of her career, Nupur Shrivastava has managed people and talent inside some of the world’s established technology companies. Her latest assignment puts her on the other side of that equation: helping build an organisation that is still finding its scale.
Shrivastava has joined MiPhi Semiconductors as chief human resources officer (CHRO). MiPhi is a joint venture between Micromax Informatics and Taiwan-based Phison Electronics, focused on memory and storage technologies in India.
The move follows seven years at Intel, where Shrivastava’s responsibilities expanded considerably over time. She joined the company in 2019 as director, business HR, before moving into talent acquisition and then
APAC talent planning and acquisition. In her most recent assignment, she was senior director and head of human resources for India and Asia Pacific.
That role gave her responsibility for people strategy across more than ten countries, supporting businesses and functions spanning engineering, product, foundry, sales and corporate operations.
At MiPhi, the scale may be different, but the talent market is familiar. Shrivastava has spent a large part of her career in businesses competing for engineers and specialised technology talent. Before Intel, she spent more than three years with Arm, first as India HR head and later taking on an additional global diversity and inclusion mandate across seven strategic locations.
Before Arm came nearly seven years with Nokia, where she worked as HR manager for the company’s R&D operations in Bengaluru. Earlier, as an HR business partner at Honeywell Technologies, she supported around 1,800 employees in the aerospace business.
Her career began with Titan Industries in 2004 as an HR management trainee, followed by a stint with Harita TVS Technologies in competency management.
At MiPhi, Shrivastava will lead people and organisation strategy, including leadership capability, talent and culture. The assignment also gives her something her previous roles at Intel, Arm and Nokia did not: the opportunity to shape the people architecture of a semiconductor business while the organisation itself is being built.
“What really excited me about MiPhi is the opportunity to be part of a company that is building and growing at the same time,” Shrivastava said while announcing the move. “There is a strong ambition here, and with that comes the opportunity to shape the culture, bring in the right talent and create an environment where people can do their best work.”
