The Coca-Cola Company has elevated Rishav Gandhi to Vice President – People & Culture for Eurasia and Middle East, expanding his remit across people strategy and organisational priorities in the region.
Gandhi shared the appointment on LinkedIn, saying, "I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Vice President - People & Culture, Eurasia and Middle East at The Coca-Cola Company!"
He brings experience across people strategy, talent development, organisational effectiveness, performance management and rewards. In his expanded role, Gandhi will focus on people and culture priorities, including talent development and organisational effectiveness, while supporting broader business priorities across the markets under his remit.
Gandhi has held several leadership roles at Coca-Cola. Before his latest appointment, he served as Vice President, People & Culture, where he led people strategy and culture for the company’s Global Marketing and McDonald’s Division. He previously served as Senior Director, Talent & Development for Latin America and Director of Talent Innovation.
As Director of Talent Innovation, Gandhi worked on talent strategy and the future of work, agile ways of working, leadership models and performance management.
Before joining Coca-Cola, Gandhi was a management consultant at Deloitte, working on strategic human capital and operating model challenges for large organisations. He also spent more than seven years at Airtel, holding roles across total rewards, organisational effectiveness, performance and rewards, HR analytics, organisation design and talent management.
At Airtel, he led the total rewards function for the company’s Pan Africa operations across 17 countries and worked on compensation, performance management, executive rewards and benefits.
Gandhi holds an MBA in Strategy and Decision Science from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and an MBA in HR from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad.