Hyderabad, Telangana, India, January 2026 — Abbott has appointed Sriram Rajan as Director, Organization & Culture – APAC. In this role, he will help shape organization effectiveness and culture priorities across the Asia-Pacific region, strengthening leadership capability, talent systems and culture interventions aligned with business growth and evolving workforce needs.
Rajan steps into the regional mandate after serving as Director, Talent & Organization Consulting – India at Abbott, where he supported enterprise talent and organization consulting priorities. His appointment reflects Abbott’s continued focus on building strong, future-ready culture and capability across its APAC footprint.
Before joining Abbott, Sriram Rajan spent over six years at Novartis, most recently as Global Director – Leadership Development, and earlier as Global Head, Capability & Leadership Development (Novartis Operations & Global Functions). He also led the Novartis Learning Institute, India for several years, driving learning architecture, capability building and leadership programs supporting business transformation.
Prior to Novartis, Rajan built deep organization development and talent leadership in the Middle East and Africa region with SIG Group, serving as Head MEA – Organization Development & Talent Management and later as Business Partner, Office of the COO – MEA Region, partnering closely with senior leadership on organization effectiveness, talent strategy and change initiatives.
Earlier in his career, he held talent and development leadership roles at Deloitte as Talent Development Leader – Enabling Areas, and at Deutsche Bank as Associate Vice President – Organization & Talent Development. He also spent significant years at Mphasis as India Head – Talent Incubation & Campus Recruitment, building early-career talent pipelines and leadership incubation systems.
Rajan began his career with roles at GE Capital (including training and operations assignments) and American Express as a Risk Analyst, building foundational exposure to operations, capability building and people development.
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Its portfolio spans diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic medicines. Abbott’s workforce of approximately 114,000 colleagues serves people in more than 160 countries.
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