Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, July 2026 — DNV has elevated Anna Kesy to the role of HR Operations Director, Global Shared Services, recognizing her outstanding leadership in employee experience, HR transformation, and global people operations. In her new role, Anna will lead HR Operations across DNV’s Global Shared Services organization, driving operational excellence, digital HR transformation, employee experience, and scalable people services that support the company’s global workforce.
Anna Kesy has been with DNV for more than nine years, steadily progressing through increasingly senior HR leadership roles. She joined the organization as HR Manager, Global Centre, where she partnered with business leaders across Global Shared Services to strengthen organizational culture, talent management, succession planning, employee engagement, leadership coaching, and strategic HR initiatives. Her work helped align people practices with business objectives while supporting managers across multiple HR disciplines.
She was subsequently promoted to Group Employee Experience Lead, where she spearheaded DNV’s enterprise-wide employee experience agenda. In this global role, Anna led initiatives to map and enhance the employee lifecycle—from candidate attraction through alumni engagement—using human-centered design principles to improve engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness. She also played a key role in driving the company’s People Strategy 2030 portfolio by establishing governance, aligning cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring measurable business outcomes. Her elevation to HR Operations Director, Global Shared Services reflects DNV’s confidence in her ability to lead its next phase of HR operational excellence.
Prior to joining DNV, Anna spent more than seven years with Thomson Reuters, where she built extensive expertise across talent acquisition, HR business partnering, leadership development, employee engagement, and organizational transformation.
She concluded her tenure at Thomson Reuters as Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition & Talent Development, leading talent strategy, recruitment, employer branding, employee engagement, and talent management initiatives for the Operations Center while supporting organizational growth through strategic workforce planning.
Earlier, she served as Senior HR Advisor (HR Business Partner), partnering closely with leadership teams on HR strategy, succession planning, performance management, leadership coaching, compensation planning, employee relations, change management, and organizational development. Before that, she progressed through the roles of HR Advisor (HR Business Partner), Junior HR Advisor (HR Business Partner), Talent Acquisition & Brand Coordinator, and Recruitment Support, gaining broad expertise across recruitment, employer branding, university partnerships, HR advisory, and people development.
Anna’s career demonstrates a remarkable progression from recruitment and HR advisory into global HR leadership. Her expertise spans employee experience, HR operations, leadership development, organizational culture, talent management, HR transformation, coaching, and global shared services. Her latest promotion reinforces DNV’s commitment to strengthening its global people operations through experienced internal leadership.
About DNV
DNV is a global independent assurance and risk management company operating in more than 100 countries. Guided by its purpose to safeguard life, property, and the environment, DNV provides assurance, certification, digital solutions, and advisory services across industries including energy, maritime, healthcare, food, and business assurance. Through deep technical expertise and global experience, DNV helps organizations improve safety, sustainability, operational performance, and resilience while enabling confident decision-making in an increasingly complex world.
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