NEW DELHI — In a strategic leadership move aimed at bolstering organizational capability and talent architecture, Indian City Properties Ltd. (ICPL) has appointed seasoned people leader Kaustubh Joshi as its new Head of Human Resources.
With an extensive corporate career spanning more than two decades across talent acquisition, organizational development, and operational HR transformation, Joshi steps into the role to spearhead people strategy, culture-building, and executive workforce planning across the real estate and infrastructure entity’s expanding asset portfolio.
The appointment comes at a pivotal time for commercial real estate developers, where securing institutional-grade talent and standardizing operational processes have become central to executing large-scale capital projects.
Over 25 Years of Multi-Sector Leadership
Joshi transitions to Indian City Properties following a near five-year stint at Reliance Retail, where he served as General Manager, Human Resources from October 2021 to August 2026 in Mumbai. During his tenure, he was instrumental in advancing strategic business partnering, organizational development interventions, employer branding partnerships with premier management institutes, and enterprise-level workplace certifications.
Bringing over a quarter-century of cross-industry expertise across retail, renewable energy, engineering, and manufacturing, Joshi’s career track record spans several marquee organizations:
- Sterling & Wilson (2018–2021): Headed Business HR for the Hybrid and Energy Storage vertical under the Shapoorji Pallonji Group associate, overseeing cross-border workforce deployment and human capital management across the African subcontinent.
- Godrej & Boyce (2011–2018): Held pivotal HR leadership roles across Godrej Prima and the Innovation and Design Centre, driving business partnering frameworks and embedding institutional design thinking.
- Voltas (2001–2010): Steered HR excellence, business excellence, and continuous process improvement mandates, including a three-year international assignment in Dubai supporting the company’s international operations business.
Anchoring HR Excellence and Governance
Beyond operational HR leadership, Joshi is a certified Senior Assessor with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), having evaluated leading public sector enterprises and private corporations under the rigorous CII-HR Excellence Framework to strengthen institutional people governance and organizational maturity.
On the academic front, he holds a Master of Labour Laws (MLL) from the University of Pune, where he graduated as a bronze medalist, alongside an undergraduate degree in commerce from DAV College, Amritsar.
At Indian City Properties, Joshi’s diverse background across high-governance conglomerates positions him to institutionalize robust talent acquisition pipelines, automate core employee workflows, and cultivate an agile, capability-driven culture aligned with the group’s expansion ambitions.