Priyanka Singh

Classplus is a leading EdTech company, on a mission to democratise knowledge sharing by giving every content creator & educator of the world their very own coaching app. It is used by 1 lac+ educators & creators across the world and reaches over 10 million students. Funded by marquee investors like Sequoia, Tiger Global and Falcon Edge, Classplus is valued at $600 mn. Priyanka Singh is leading the people team to build & strengthen the culture and scale the operations.

Excitel broadband is one of the fastest growing consumer broadband provider in India, with growth of more than 100% in past 12 months. It distinguishes itself by its European heritage. Priyanka Singh was recruited by Excitel, a fast expanding and one of the largest broadband provider in NCR, to bring about a cultural transformation and enhance the performance. While maintaining a lean HR team, she engaged with multiple stakeholders ranging from CXOs to stakeholders to establish a transparent, performance oriented and non-bureaucratic culture by implementing OKR (Objective & Key Results) based performance management and integrating values & culture in all activities of the company. She even set-up new hiring methodology and On-Job-Training (OJT) program for the field sales to directly improve sales efficiency by 20%. She has been successfully able to implement multiple new processes and take Excitel on the journey of cultural transformation through her ability to engage C-Suite as well as the frontline staff and using a “leadfrom front” strategy.

A FTSE listed company with operations in 125 countries, G4S is the world's largest integrated security company specialising in the provision of security products, technology, services and solutions in the a region that employs over 260,000 people in 29 countries. The company was in middle of major restructuring at the time I had joined and required pan India hiring in large volume, including hiring of senior management team. Priyanka worked for world’s largest security company in India for 4+ years where her job was to attract talent for the APAC (Hongkong, India, Bangladesh) and Middle East (Dubai) team and facilitate the HR operations integrating HR processes and systems, Leadership development, Talent analytics and Talent Acquistions. When she was hired she was part of the project that was right sizing the organization and was restructuring the organization while transforming the company culture. She was leading a team that served not only the Indian operation but also the Global Development Center (IT), APAC finance shared services. She set up her team from scratch and was able to cater to varying needs of different entities through her ability to engage multiple stakeholders and ensuring a flexible structure within her team.

Priyanka was located in Singapore working for one of India’s largest oil & gas EPC Company serving Fortune 500 companies like Exxon and Shell. She was leading HR Strategies for four countries-Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore. Her role was to work with the HR team in multiple APAC countries to integrate the HR systems of these countries and run uniform integrated HR processes throughout the region. The company greatly benefited from Priyanka’s exposure as a hands-on HR Leader for the APAC Region.

Priyanka started her career as the 11th employee of a joint venture between world’s largest retailer & one of India’s largest telco. As a member of a very lean 3 member HR team, she not only hired 70% of the top & mid management during the first year, she also got exposure to policy formula on, internal communication and training. She got in-depth exposure to the HR policies and systems of the world’s largest retailer as well as one of India’s largest telco. She was frequently awarded by the company for her contribution in building the organization from ground zero.

• Independent charge of the complete HR processes & issues related to engineering staff ( salary, leave management, training etc) • Exposure to recruitment , induction etc.

University topper in BA - History in terms of aggregate marks across three years.