Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, October 2025 — OpenText, a global leader in cloud and AI-powered information management, has announced the appointment of Rashmi Nair as Vice President & India HR Leader, marking another milestone in her two-decade-long career dedicated to transforming people strategies across global enterprises.
With over 20 years of experience in human resources leadership, Rashmi is recognized for her ability to build scalable organizations, modernize HR operations, and align people strategy with business growth. In her new role, she will lead OpenText’s India people agenda—focusing on strengthening culture, fostering capability, and driving innovation across one of the company’s most dynamic markets. Her appointment reinforces OpenText’s commitment to developing a future-ready workforce through progressive talent practices, data-driven insights, and empathetic leadership.
Before joining OpenText, Rashmi served as Head of HR, India at Lumen Technologies, where she successfully scaled operations to over 3,000 employees and led transformative initiatives such as the adoption of AI-enabled HR systems, governance reforms, and university partnerships. Her work enabled faster hiring, enhanced internal mobility, equitable pay structures, and stronger employee engagement.
Earlier, Rashmi held key leadership roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where she guided large-scale HR transformations across India and the APJ region, and at Tribune Digital Ventures, where she led HR due diligence and compliance during critical acquisitions. She also contributed to major organizational growth and transformation at Thomson Reuters, and began her HR career at Microsoft and HSBC, gaining rich experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, and people operations.
At OpenText, Rashmi will play a pivotal role in advancing the company’s AI-first culture, ensuring a seamless alignment between people, technology, and purpose. Her focus will be on empowering talent, fostering inclusion, and creating a high-performance environment that reflects OpenText’s vision of helping organizations grow and innovate through trusted information management.
About OpenText
OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX) is a leading Cloud and AI company providing organizations worldwide with an integrated suite of Business AI, Business Clouds, and Business Technology solutions. Founded in 1991 in Waterloo, Canada, OpenText has evolved from a project to digitize the Oxford English Dictionary into a global leader in information management, serving over 120,000 enterprise customers across 180 countries, including 98 of the top 100 global companies.
OpenText’s mission is to help businesses unlock the value of information through secure, AI-driven, and cloud-enabled innovations. The company’s culture—rooted in collaboration, inclusion, and an AI-first mindset—empowers teams to thrive and innovate in a rapidly changing digital world.
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