Ola Electric appoints Balachandar Natarajan as Senior Vice President & CHRO
Ola Electric appoints Balachandar Natarajan (popularly known as Bala) as Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer. He will be reporting to Mr. Bhavesh Agarwal, co-founder & CEO, Ola Group.
Ola Electric introduces the future of mobility, the most advanced electric scooter ever. Redefining the benchmarks for features, quality, comfort, and sustainability. The company is setting up its first factory in Bangalore that will create almost 10,000 jobs and will be the world’s largest scooter manufacturing facility, which will initially have an annual capacity of 2 million units.
Bala has over 30 years of experience in human resources, an energetic, courageous, and multi-industry & country experience leader with deep HR expertise and business insights – A business-driven HR mindset. He has a deep interest in ideation, incubation, and scaling up ventures.
Prior to joining Ola Electric, Bala was working as Group Head- Human Resources with Coffee Day for 10 years, and earlier he was associated with Strides as Chief Human Resources Officer.
Previously he worked with GE Money, GE Healthcare, Standard Chartered Bank, eVentures – SoftBank & News Corp JV, Hewitt Associates, Asian Paints, and ONGC Limited.
Bala is an arts graduate and holds a master’s degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Loyola College, Chennai as gold medallist.
