IHG Appoints Ranjay Radhakrishnan as Chief Human Resources Officer

InterContinental Hotels Group has appointed Ranjay Radhakrishnan as Chief Human Resources Officer.

Mr. Radhakrishnan will join IHG on 1 December and will become a member of company’s Executive Committee, replacing Tracy Robbins who stepped down from the role in January 2016.

Mr. Radhakrishnan joins IHG from Unilever, where he has spent 23 years in a range of senior leadership roles at global, regional and country levels. He is a member of Unilever’s Human Resources (HR) Leadership team and his most recent role was as Executive Vice President Global HR (Categories & Market Clusters), where he is responsible for leading HR for all of Unilever’s eight regions (Market Clusters) as well as the four global Product Categories, under one unified global HR leadership role.

Richard Solomons, Chief Executive Officer of IHG, said, “I am delighted to welcome Ranjay to IHG. Having worked in numerous countries and markets across all specialist areas of HR, he brings a truly global and commercial perspective to the role and will be an integral part of my Executive Team. Our people have always played a critical role in building trust with our guests and owners. Ensuring that we continue to attract, retain and develop the very best talent in the industry is fundamental to the delivery of our strategy. I very much look forward to working with him.” 

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