Pallavi Srivastava is currently the Asia Pacific & GCG Talent Leader for IBM Global Technology Services. In this role, she is responsible for leadership development, organisational and account-based succession planning, leveraging talent analytics for defining and executing strategic initiatives, fostering engagement and high performance culture across ANZ, ASEAN, India, Korea, China, Taiwan, and HK.

Prior to this role, Pallavi was the Country HR Leader for IBM Singapore, where she was accountable for talent development and enhancing IBM's position as an employer of choice in Singapore. She led a team of HR business partners in managing transformational business initiatives for IBM Singapore.  

Pallavi has more than 23 years of experience in the field of Human Resources across areas related to HR strategy, HR analytics, corporate mergers & acquisitions, Leadership talent acquisition and succession management, executive compensation, and leadership development. Pallavi has held several portfolios with IBM’s internal HR and HR consulting units and worked in India and the US, and has been based in Singapore for the past 10 years.

A passionate believer in leveraging technology for HR solutions of the future, Pallavi has been closely involved with IBM’s HR transformation journey towards cognitive enabled HR offerings and often represents IBM’s point of view on the future of HR at regional and international conferences.

Pallavi holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources. Pallavi also received the Business HR Professional and Global Compensation & Benefits certification from Cornell University. Certified by IBM for Design Thinking, Agility and as a Cognitive HR Practitioner, Pallavi featured in HRD magazine’s HRD Hot List in 2017.