Nitin Chandel Appointed as Group Vice President of UKG

By siliconindia  |  Friday, 16 August 2024, 03:09:52 PM IST

Nitin Chandel Appointed as Group Vice President of UKG

Nitin Chandel appoints as Group Vice President and India Country Manager of UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions. Chandel will serve on the UKG senior leadership team and oversee key operations in India, with hiring top talent, further enhancing the award-winning UKG culture and people operations, and steering in-country product development and engineering for the company's leading human capital management (HCM) and workforce management solutions.

"What an exciting time for both Nitin and me to join this special company as we usher UKG into the next phase of growth, helping build great workplaces in India and around the world," said Jennifer Morgan, CEO at UKG. "Our commitment to India remains strong. With more than 80,000 organisations worldwide using UKG, Nitin's technical leadership and strategic vision will help us accelerate innovation for our customers and better serve businesses around the world who will benefit from our unmatched set of workforce data and culture-building solutions."

Chandel has extensive experience in the technology sector, most recently as Head of BNY Mellon Technology, India where he oversaw over 5,000 technologists, helped modernise the company's talent strategy and operating model, and transformed the BNY India Technology centre into a premier agile engineering hub. With a background in software engineering, Chandel spent the last 27 years honing his expertise at leading large-scale transformations and building high-performance engineering teams at companies like Visa Inc, where he led a global team from India as senior vice president for its developer platform and as India Site Head. He was also instrumental in building out Visa's India Technology Centre in Bengaluru. Chandel formerly was a Partner at Microsoft, leading Bing Ads development teams in India and in the U.S.

"I'm thrilled to lead the talented UKG team in India as we set out to further scale our award-winning business to additional regions and deliver exceptional value to our clients in India and beyond," said Chandel.  "UKG has created a foundation of several thousand employees in India with a strong and diverse culture. The opportunity to help UKG scale India operations even further is a great professional privilege. I look forward to contributing to UKG's growth and success, working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. Together, we will drive growth, foster a culture of continuous learning, and contribute to our shared mission of transforming the future".

"The exceptional workplace culture, commitment to community, and opportunities for innovation at UKG are highly attractive to top talent, making it a premier choice for technology professionals like Nitin," said Hugo Sarrazin, president, chief product and technology officer at UKG. "Nitin brings a proven track record of attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional technologists and scaling businesses. We're thrilled he will lead UKG through the next chapter in India".

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