About Piyush
Piyush Mehta is Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Country Manager for India. In this role, Piyush leads Genpact’s global Human Resources (HR) function and plays an integral role in the company’s ongoing journey to be an employer of choice. Piyush is also responsible for representing Genpact with key India stakeholders.
Piyush joined GE/Genpact in 2001 and led HR engagements across various businesses. He was appointed as CHRO in 2005 and has since been part of the leadership team. As a member of the Genpact Leadership Council, Piyush has contributed to a wide variety of areas involved in people management in both business and corporate roles, including employee relations, organization capability, integration of mergers and acquisitions, technology-led transformation, and managing the HR function for profit-and-loss businesses and geographies.
Through this journey, he has worked closely with Genpact’s Board and Compensation Committee on talent, leadership succession, and executive compensation-related matters.
Piyush is based in India and also represents the Genpact leadership team in the region as the Country Manager for India. He has been part of the NASSCOM (the leading association of technology players in India) executive council and is also a commissioner on the global certification council of the Society for Human Resource Management.
He began his career with Hindustan Lever and served as HR director for AT&T in India and as the organization capability director for Frito-Lay, Asia Pacific. Piyush has a post-graduate degree in Personnel Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur in India.
