New Delhi, December 2025 — Pomelo Employer Branding (Pomelo EB), a specialist employer branding firm, has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Jasprit Khurana as Senior Partner – People Advisory & HR Strategy and Karan Bamba as Senior Partner – Business, Transformation & Employer Brand, effective December 2025. The appointments come at a critical time as India rapidly scales as one of the world’s most important Global Capability Centre (GCC) hubs and competition for digital and technology talent intensifies.
Both appointments are partner-level executive advisory roles and form part of Pomelo Employer Branding’s senior leadership team. Jasprit Khurana and Karan Bamba will work closely with Sonya Sahni, Founder & Managing Partner, Pomelo Employer Branding, to strengthen employer branding outcomes through deeper alignment with leadership practices, people systems, and business realities. These roles are not board-level or day-to-day operational positions, but are designed to enhance strategic depth and credibility in employer branding engagements.
Commenting on the leadership strengthening, Sonya Sahni, Founder & Managing Partner, Pomelo Employer Branding, said, “Employer branding today is under pressure to prove both credibility and impact. For tech companies and GCCs, a compelling employer brand cannot exist in isolation from leadership behaviour, culture and people systems. Strengthening our leadership bench enables us to help clients build employer brands that are grounded in organisational reality, while keeping employer branding firmly at the core of what we do.”
As Senior Partner – People Advisory & HR Strategy, Jasprit Khurana brings over 25 years of experience as a strategic HR leader and fractional CHRO. He has built and scaled HR functions across organisations ranging from 300 to over 15,000 employees, spanning India, the UK, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. At Pomelo EB, he will focus on aligning EVP and employer brand strategy with HR strategy, people policies, remuneration philosophy, culture, and leadership capability—particularly in scaling and international GCC environments—ensuring employer brand promises are consistently reflected in lived employee experience.
Sharing his perspective, Jasprit Khurana said, “What attracted me to Pomelo is its sharp focus on employer branding and its understanding that credibility comes from how people actually experience the organisation. My role is to strengthen that link, ensuring employer brand narratives are supported by people policies, leadership capability and organisational culture.”
Appointed as Senior Partner – Business, Transformation & Employer Brand, Karan Bamba brings over three decades of leadership experience across business operations and large-scale transformation. His career includes senior roles at Reliance Jio, Siemens, and Nokia Siemens Networks, where he led complex, multi-market operations and large workforce transformations. At Pomelo EB, he will connect employer branding initiatives with business strategy, operating models, and productivity outcomes, ensuring employer brands are rooted in real operational and transformation priorities.
Karan Bamba said, “Employer branding works best when it reflects how organisations truly operate. Pomelo’s approach stands out for its willingness to engage with real business and operational realities. My role is to help ensure employer brand strategy aligns closely with how work gets done across large and complex organisations.”
While employer branding remains Pomelo EB’s core focus, the leadership strengthening adds people advisory and business transformation depth to enhance credibility, localisation, and measurable outcomes—especially for GCCs and technology enterprises navigating scale, complexity, and talent competition.
About Pomelo Employer Branding
Pomelo Employer Branding is a specialist employer branding firm headquartered in India, working with GCCs, technology companies, and large enterprises to build employer brands that are credible, differentiated, and aligned to business outcomes. Pomelo EB supports clients across the employer branding lifecycle—diagnostics and research, EVP design, leadership branding, employee advocacy, creative activation, and media strategy—with people advisory inputs applied selectively to strengthen alignment between employer brand promise and employee experience. Founded nearly seven years ago, Pomelo Employer Branding has worked with organisations across technology, manufacturing, education, and services, including PeopleStrong, Ashoka University, Orkla, Freecharge, and Maruti Suzuki.
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