Ajayan Ramachandran

Senior Director, Talent Development

Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific

Ajayan Ramachandran has over 30 year experience in a variety of consulting, staff and line roles in electronics, aerospace and packaging industries across Asia Pacific region.

Over the past 15 years, Ajayan has been focussing on people development activities which includes leadership consulting, coaching and mentoring, and facilitating series of programs aimed at enhancing self-discovery, personal effectiveness, social and behavioural competencies, facilitation skills.

Ajayan began his professional career in engineering – in production management, shopfloor operations, technical training before embarking on people development career.

He is a certified behavioural and career consultant and experienced in administering and interpreting personality-based assessment inventories and psychometric tools – DISC, Hogan Assessment, Insights, Flowprofiler and has trained more than 5000 employees in his current portfolio.

He had made significant contribution in leading task force setup for development of skills framework for electronics industry in Singapore. In recognition of his contribution as role-model for life-long learning and skills mastery, Ajayan had the honour of receiving the prestigious SkillsFuture Fellowship Award in 2017 from Dr.Tony Tan, President of Singapore. He is currently also a volunteer Career Adviser (vCA) with Workforce Singapore.

Ajayan has a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering along with a Masters in HR from Edinburgh Napier University

As a HR Director, Ajayan is currently the Head of Talent Development in Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a leading semiconductor manufacturing MNC and responsible for Talent Development function for 17,000+ employees in the Asia region.