Area of Expertise: OB, HR & Strategy
Raja Rajeswari Kodan is a seasoned Human Resources leader with over 20 years of experience across financial services, technology, consumer goods, manufacturing, and professional services. She currently serves as Chief People Officer at Vivriti NEXT, having previously served as Group Head – Human Resources and Chief People Officer at Vivriti Capital. Her career reflects extensive experience in strategic HR leadership, business partnering, talent management, and people transformation.
She has held senior HR leadership positions at Freshworks, Flex, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Scope International, and Titan Industries, working closely with business leadership across diverse and high-growth organizations. Her experience includes HR business partnering, operations and commercial HR, talent strategy, and organization-wide people initiatives.
Areas of Expertise
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- HR Business Partnering & People Strategy
- Talent Management & Organizational Development
- Leadership Development & Employee Engagement
- People Transformation & Change Management
- HR Operations & Commercial HR
- Workforce Strategy & Talent Planning
- Culture Building & Business-Aligned HR
Career & Academic Highlights
- Currently serves as Chief People Officer at Vivriti NEXT, leading the people function and supporting organizational growth and business objectives.
- Previously served as Chief People Officer and Group Head – Human Resources at Vivriti Capital, with responsibility for the organization’s HR agenda.
- Spent over five years with Freshworks, progressing from Senior Manager – HR Business Partner to Director, HRBP – CXG.
- Served as Director – Site HR Business Partner at Flex, supporting HR leadership at the Chennai location.
- Held the position of Zonal HR Manager – Operations & Commercial at Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, followed by over three years as Regional HR Manager at GSK Consumer Healthcare India.
- Earlier experience includes Senior HR Business Partner at Scope International and HR leadership roles at Titan Industries, where she progressed from Management Trainee to Assistant Manager – Human Resources.
- Began her professional career as an Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, bringing an early technology foundation to her subsequent HR career.
Holds a PGDPMIR in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI Jamshedpur and a B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from VNR Vignanajyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology.