Ola elevates Balachandar N as group chief people officer

New Delhi: Ride hailing platform Ola has said it has elevated Balachandar N as its group chief people officer. Balachandar was the acting Group CPO (chief people officer) for the past four months.

In an e-mail to employees, Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal said: “Bala has been our acting Group CPO for the past four months. Bala has raised the bar on execution in HR. The all-women factory, the scale-up of our sales, ops and GTM (go to market) orgs across our consumer businesses, and an increased pace of hiring across key tech orgs are key contributions of the HR team in the past couple of quarters”.