NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MDB), the leading, modern general purpose database
platform, today announced the appointment of Harsha Jalihal as Chief People Officer. Jalihal
will oversee the company's human resources operations globally,
supporting 2,100+ people in 29 countries. In this role, she will
lead workforce strategy, talent acquisition and development,
diversity and inclusion, total rewards, and employee engagement,
and will join MongoDB's executive leadership team.
Jalihal joins MongoDB with more than two decades of experience.
Most recently, Jalihal was Vice President of HR at Unilever and was
responsible for delivering the end-to-end HR strategy and
operations for the US business. She co-created Unilever's strategy
to build a sustainable future of work across its multinational
business in partnership with the Global CHRO. Jalihal was also on a
part-time secondment to the World Economic Forum (WEF) where she
contributed to their thought leadership on the future of work and
co-authored HR 4.0, a framework for shaping people strategies in
the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Prior to that, she worked at Cognizant where she designed and
operationalized strategy to drive early career hiring, led a Center
of Excellence focused on HR expertise in strategic outsourcing
deals and acquisitions and ran operations for the CFO & COO.
She was also a business partner to a number of teams through
Cognizant's hyper-growth phase, laying the early foundations of
Cognizant's approach to talent acquisition, talent management,
reward management, employee relations and more.
"At MongoDB, we recognize that our success is directly tied to
our ability to attract the very best people in the industry, and to
give them many opportunities to develop and grow," said Dev
Ittycheria, MongoDB President & CEO. "In order to meet the
needs of our rapidly expanding employee base, we needed a Chief
People Officer with the operational ability to help us scale
rapidly and the intellectual heft to bring new, imaginative
thinking to drive strong performance while retaining the core
elements of our culture and values that make this company so
special. After a long and thorough search, I'm excited that we have
found these things in Harsha."
"To oversee and shape the future of HR for a knowledge-based
company that is growing as quickly as MongoDB is an exciting
challenge," said Harsha Jalihal,
MongoDB's Chief People Officer. "I'm looking forward to working
with Dev and the leadership team to develop a people and culture
strategy that is in service of MongoDB's business strategy, and to
ensure the culture that makes this company wonderful continues to
evolve to attract and retain the very best people in the
industry."
About MongoDB
MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database
platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for
developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in
New York, MongoDB has more than
18,400 customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database
platform has been downloaded over 110 million times and there have
been more than one million MongoDB University registrations.
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