Strides Arcolab has appointed N Balachandar as chief human resources officer of the company. With over 20 years of experience Balachandar brings considerable HR experience and global exposure to his new assignment.

In this newly created position Balachandar will lead all human resource functions across Strides globally with overall responsibility for human capital strategy, talent and leadership development, staffing and recruiting, compensation and benefits, as well as employee relations and report to the vice chairman and Group CEO.

Most recently Balachandar was executive vice president human resources of GE Money, Asia based in Tokyo. Balachandar began his career with GE in 2001 and has worked across Industrial and Capital business of GE. He joined as the HR director of GE Healthcare in India and soon took an expanded role of Asia growth markets.

He then headed organization & staffing for GE Healthcare International covering EMEA and Asia region, based in Paris, France. At GE Balachandar helped to lead successful integrations, turnarounds and build capacity for growth. Before joining GE, Balachandar was with a Venture Capital fund called eVentures a SoftBank and News Corp JV. Prior to that he led HR for the Consumer Banking of Standard Chartered Bank in India and was earlier training manager at Asian Paints. Balachandar completed his Masters at Loyola College, Chennai and his MS in Industrial Management from IIT Chennai.

"Bala is heading our global human resources at a critical time when the company has consolidated its global strategy. With his international experience he brings to Strides a high level of leadership at a strategic level in the very critical HR function," said Arun Kumar, vice chairman and Group CEO, Strides Arcolab.