Digital marketing company Social Beat has appointed Pavan Ramchand as Chief Human Resource Officer. He is set to spearhead the firm’s initiatives to build and grow a futuristic, intellectual team of professionals to realise its vision of ‘Enabling brands rise to the impossible’. His appointment is also aimed to strengthen Social Beat’s executive team, HR practices and talent acquisition initiatives.

With over two decades of experience including global exposure leading large multi-functional teams across APAC and EMEA, Pavan is an expert in talent acquisition, talent management, HR shared services and compensation.

He has led a multitude of successful HR initiatives by working closely with executive teams, and moves from Syngene, a Biocon Group company. Known for his deep insights, flexible approach and positive attitude, Pavan brings diverse experience of having worked in oil and gas, mining, pharma, manufacturing and IT with multinational corporations like Royal Dutch Shell, Gartner.

Speaking on Ramchand’s appointment, Suneil Chawla, Co-Founder, Social Beat, said, “We have set our sights on a progressive, people led future with significant growth driven by a highly capable, motivated team as the primary goal for our company. The immense exposure and experiential knowledge that Pavan brings to the table, will definitely play a key role in realising this goal.”

Soon after the news of his joining became public, Ramchand said, “Our strong, people-centric culture and value system remains at the heart of everything we do. Strengthening this culture further through progressive and forward-looking people initiatives will be the priority to drive the growth of the company to achieve our goals.”