Anshu Gupta

Vice President and Head of Global Operations

Ericsson India Global Services

Seasoned HR Transformative leader with nearly two decades of cross border experience in managing end to end employee life cycle and Service Delivery. With strong customer centric approach with focus on People, Process, and Technology Aspects Anshu Gupta has been in various leadership roles in Human Resources across organizations such as Ericsson, Wipro, Hewitt Associates etc.

Currently Anshu Gupta is working as the Vice President and Head of Human Resources, for Ericsson Global Services, India. In a career spanning <18> + years, gained wide experience of building organizations in India and coining best in class people practices fostering growth and development of employees with a clear focus on motivation and engagement, he also possesses multi geographic exposure in leading Sales, Solutions, Transition, P&L and Budgeting, HR Advisory and Consulting for HR shared services in captive, offshore and Build Operate Transfer Model.

At Ericsson Global Services, India, Anshu is responsible for leading the people strategy of the organization, which includes acquiring, developing & retaining talent. With his active contribution Ericsson Global Services, India has managed to achieve < ex. an employee base of 15000+ (comprising of Telecom, IT and R&D talent pool) in less than 4 years with retention pegged at 90%+, including some of the best people practices.

Prior to Ericsson, He worked as Associate Vice President HR Centre of Excellence at Wipro for almost 7 years and played a pivotal role in the company’s growth, talent acquisition, strategizing and implementation and the, business engagement model.

The key focus of his journey has been to understand the changing contours of talent requirement and turn talent management into an instrument to drive business transformation. This includes driving the HR agenda with strategic and analytical insight, financial focus, risk management, and an ability to leverage IT and analytics –to shape an organization that’s flexible and agile while ensuring the right talent strategy for the constantly changing environment.