Varun Nagalia

Vice President HR Tech & Services, IKEA

Varun Nagalia is an accomplished digital transformation leader with over 17 years of experience across various product, program, and service delivery roles. He is the Global VP HR Tech at IKEA and was previously the IT Director at Unilever. Varun has extensive experience in product management, service delivery, and experience design. He is also skilled in chatbot, enterprise knowledge, and gamification, and has a PMP and MBA. In his current role at IKEA, Varun is accountable for the entire portfolio of technology solutions in the People & Culture domain across the Ingka Group ecosystem, serving 150K co-workers. He leads 200+ engineering organizations and is responsible for partnering with product and data organizations for product development across the portfolio. Varun is passionate about leveraging technology, human-centered design, and service management to power business outcomes and is adept at developing and leading highly motivated global teams.

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