A veteran of human resources function, Mr. V.K. Verma began his career at Tata Motors over 3 decades back as a Technical and Management Trainee and worked on many line assignments in the company’s various Production & Engineering departments. Since then, he has held position of increasing responsibility, culminating with his appointment as the Head Corporate HR in 1996. In this role, he has been responsible for the design and implementation of HR enable change management and Turnaround, which includes restructuring of workforce and amicable VRS of over 550 bargain-able employees.

His contribution in planning and implementation of the growth linked HR strategy including restructuring of commercial functions and strengthening of Product development function was well recognized at Tata Motors. His other notable achievements were Development of the competency Framework, institutionalising Leadership Dev processes including Talent Management & Fast Track systems.

Mr. V.K. Verma holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Bhopal and has Post Graduated in Business Management form X.L.R.I., Jamshedpur. He was a rank holder both at the University level and the B-school. He was a Member of the National Technical Training cell of CII and was the Chairman of the Western Regional Technical Training Group. He continues to be a visiting faculty at several B Schools and TMTC.