Uma is a HR professional with experience in a wide gamut of HR areas over more than 3 decades. She has worked in leading organizations in IT, Auto, Manufacturing, Telecom and FMCG space in companies like Tata Consultancy Services, Idea Cellular, Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd, HIL, IBM, Mars International India, Ashok Leyland and Granules India. She has been in leadership positions for the last 22 years working very closely with business leaders.
Uma has experience in public and private sector environments, corporate as well as Industrial relations roles and has worked largely in multi cultural environments with diverse people and thinking. Her international assignments have made her more experienced in the aspect of working with diversity. Some of the key work she has done spans across talent management and leadership development in India and Emerging markets. Currently she works as CHRO at Sekhmet Pharmaventures Pvt Ltd.
Uma is a postgraduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Interacting with students, women and young talent is a passion and she mentors a few of them for their development. She has been awarded for outstanding contribution by Women Economic Forum and HRD Congress. Uma is an academic Council Member at Pondicherry University, Reva University, Viswa Vishwani Institute of Management, Guru Nanak University and Woxen University. She is a Board Advisor with Womanice, a global Diversity organization.