Nisha Popli has been appointed as the new head-human resources, at Tata Trusts, effective 1 April 2024. Prior to this, she was associated with Cuemath, an online learning platform, as its chief human resources officer (CHRO). She joined Cuemath in the year 2021.
In the initial years of her career, Popli worked as the executive-HR with EY, based out of New Delhi. Three years into this role, in 2006, she moved to Grand Thornton India, as manager-HR.
In this capacity, she spearheaded the company’s strategic and functional responsibilities for all the HR disciplines across India. Her key responsibilities include policy development for performance management, employee compensation plan, talent acquisition road map, budgeting and forecasting.
Over four years into this role, in 2010, Popli moved to KPMG as manager-people and change. For over two years, she managed the company’s HR process redesigning, off-shore RPO planning and development, organisation design, and HR due diligence. Her primary responsibility was to work directly at client locations to support HR strategy implementation and leading teams of professionals.
The period 2013 to 2017 saw her essaying the role of global head-HR, The Smart Cube. She also did short stints with Future Group as its head-people office (2018-2019), and Moglix, as its head-HR, from 2019-2020.
An alumna of Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University, she also holds a post-graduate degree in human resources from Infinity Business School.
