A mechanical engineer from Manipal Institute of Technology, and an MBA from XIM, Lobo, joined Infosys in 2000.
Richard Lobo has been promoted as the head HR at Infosys, the second largest IT company in India. Until now, Lobo was heading the HR function for the company’s manufacturing and engineering services vertical.
Confirming the development to HRKatha, Lobo said, “Yes I have taken over as head-HR for Infosys and resumed my new responsibilities.”
Lobo, an alumnus of Xavier’s Institute of Management, and a mechanical engineer from Manipal Institute of Technology, joined Infosys in 2000.
Prior to that he was with Godrej & Boyce, where he was assistant manager – sales and marketing, responsible for sales in North India. He also managed the marketing activity including advertising, product management and brand building.
In March 2015, Infosys split the role of HR into two parts – strategy and operations to effectively manage its 1.8 lakh workforce. Following which, the global HR head at Infosys, Srikantan Moorthy was moved to a delivery function role in April.
When other IT majors are facing high attrition rates, Infosys has managed to keep it below 15 per cent in FY 2015-16.
8 Comments
one more non HR moving to a HR role…which is an excellent move.Managing people is part of any function and when you represent a larger group,one needs to feel the pulse of the organisation,just like a marketing man gets to understand the pulse of the consumer.
And it is all the more rewarding when professionals like Lobo have given their unflinching commitment to the organisation over the last 15 years.
You rarely see HR professionals who stay long enough to demonstrate building their own careers to fellow professionals in the organisation
.Congratulations .Infosys for the bold move (They have done this before too ) and Lobo… for being a good champion of the people.
best wishes
Congratulations to Richard one of the best HR professionals in todays IT Industry. I have attended few forums where Richard was the speaker and he comes with lot of knowledge about HR and IT. Another engineer like me who is into HR 🙂
Congrats sir… More to learn from people like you.
Great Richard! one more engineer in HR. I am also a Engineer – Chemical and in HR for 20 years
Congrats Richards on your well deserved elevation. Wish you every success.
Congrats for the higher responsibility. I am extremely happy.
G.C.Acharya
IFFCO,Paradeep
Congrats!!! Wish you all success in your new assignment
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