Richmond, Texas, United States, February 2026 — OXEA has announced the appointment of Madhuri Kumar as its new Global Talent Director. In this global role, Madhuri will lead OXEA’s talent agenda and strengthen the organization’s long-term leadership capability and workforce performance.
Madhuri brings extensive experience in global talent management and organizational development, partnering closely with senior leaders across diverse industries and organizational contexts. She is widely recognized for designing people strategies that foster organizational health, growth, and sustained performance, enabling leaders to build high-impact teams and resilient cultures.
Prior to joining OXEA, Madhuri has been serving as Principal Executive at The L3 (for the last several months), advising CXOs on high-stakes people and culture priorities that directly influence business performance. Her work spans CEO succession, culture transformation, and AI-powered talent strategies, supporting leaders and boards in strengthening leadership pipelines, embedding high-performance habits, and accelerating enterprise outcomes.
She has also been working as a Strategic Advisor at ProjectA.ai, contributing to initiatives focused on advancing Agentic AI, with a particular emphasis on the implications for people strategy, workforce planning, and analytics-enabled decision-making.
Before these advisory and executive roles, Madhuri served for about two years as Vice President & Global Head of Talent Management at ChampionX (acquired by SLB). Reporting directly to the CHRO, she led global talent processes and solutions across the full talent lifecycle for 7,000+ employees across 40+ countries, driving restructuring of the global Talent COE, increasing speed and agility of execution, enabling culture-aligned talent solutions, and strengthening analytics-backed talent decisions. She also facilitated the agenda of the company’s D&I Council chaired by the CEO.
Earlier, Madhuri played a pivotal role at Signify Health (acquired by CVS Health) as Vice President, Talent & Culture, where she built and led capability areas including Learning & Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, DE&I, and Culture. Her work included designing the functional pillars, establishing processes and systems, building budgets, and creating streamlined employee experiences across the talent lifecycle—including post-COVID culture realignment initiatives.
Her career also includes a leadership chapter at Information Builders (acquired by TIBCO) as Vice President, Talent and Organizational Development, where she led enterprise-level talent and learning interventions in partnership with executives, including M&A-ready talent review processes and change capability building for leaders.
Madhuri’s earlier experience includes serving at JDRF International as Associate Vice President, Human Capital (Head of Talent Development/Management), where she led large-scale cultural transformation and built organization-wide systems for L&D, performance, talent, and leadership development—supporting stronger engagement and strategic alignment.
She also contributed to complex enterprise integration work at Halliburton, including leading change management for the Halliburton–Baker Hughes integration, shaping the people side of a major global operating model transition, and leading HR transformation and leadership development initiatives aligned to business outcomes.
Earlier, Madhuri held global capability-building responsibilities at GE Oil & Gas as Global Training Development Leader, overseeing large-scale learning solution portfolios and commercial learning transformation initiatives.
Madhuri Kumar, Ph.D. holds a Ph.D. in Training & Performance Improvement from Capella University and earned her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Texas at Austin. She has also completed the Wharton Executive Education Global CXO Program (2023), further strengthening her strategic leadership perspective.
About OXEA
OXEA (formerly OQ Chemicals) is a global manufacturer of Oxo Intermediates and Oxo Performance Chemicals including alcohols, polyols, carboxylic acids, specialty esters, and amines. These products are used in manufacturing high-quality coatings, lubricants, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, flavors and fragrances, printing inks, and plastics. OXEA employs 1,200+ people globally and serves customers in 60+ countries.
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