Rajagopalan Purushothaman (Puru), winner of Gold Award, Brandon Hall, USA, and Asian Human Capital Award, Singapore, for ‘WORKSMART’ learning intervention established by the Human Capital Leadership Institute, is responsible for L&D strategic solutions and digital learning landscape at Reliance Industries Ltd.. As a Senior Vice-president, his responsibilities at Reliance Industries Ltd include setting up a corporate academy, training on effectiveness and business impact measurement, designing a competency framework, assessment development centre design and roll-out, leadership development, job readiness and developing performance enhancement and succession plan learning solutions for Jio-bp, petro-retailing and aviation fuel.

Puru, an IMT Ghaziabad alumni with nearly 35 years of experience in the retail, telecom, manufacturing and information industry in business development and L&D, has also been felicitated with LEAP Vault for the CLO of the year, Best Corporate Academy and Best Business Impacting Learning Intervention by TISS.

In over three decades of his professional career, Puru has multiple accomplishments in areas such as L&D, business development, and sales and marketing functions. The most recent being establishing the Reliance Retail Academy and executing learning solutions for Jio launch to more than 100,000 resources, and interventions in Jio, Reliance Industries, Reliance Retail, Reliance Infocomm and NIS Sparta Ltd have facilitated more than 1,000 workshops on leadership development and EI.

Puru is currently doing a PhD in digital assessment. In his free time, Puru is a fitness enthusiast who loves to travel and explore places as well as people across the globe, most recently being scaling the 5,895 m Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania along with his daughter and son-in-law.