New Delhi: Pomelo Employer Branding (Pomelo EB), a specialist employer branding firm, has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Jasprit Khurana as Senior Partner – People Advisory & HR Strategy and Karan Bamba as Senior Partner – Business, Transformation & Employer Brand, effective December 2025. The move is aimed at enhancing Pomelo EB’s impact for India-based and international Global Capability Centres (GCCs) and technology enterprises, at a time when competition for critical digital and technology talent continues to intensify.
As India rapidly scales as a global GCC hub, employer branding is being tested beyond visibility, with increasing emphasis on leadership alignment, localisation, retention of critical skills and measurable return on investment. Both appointments are partner-level executive advisory roles and form part of Pomelo EB’s senior leadership team. Jasprit Khurana and Karan Bamba will work closely with Sonya Sahni, Founder & Managing Partner, to strengthen employer branding outcomes through closer alignment with people systems, leadership practices and business realities. The roles are neither board-level nor day-to-day operational positions.
Commenting on the leadership expansion, Sonya Sahni, Founder & Managing Partner, Pomelo Employer Branding, said, “Employer branding today is under pressure to prove both credibility and impact. For tech companies and GCCs, a compelling employer brand cannot exist in isolation from leadership behaviour, culture and people systems. Strengthening our leadership bench enables us to help clients build employer brands that are grounded in organisational reality, while keeping employer branding firmly at the core of what we do.”
As Senior Partner – People Advisory & HR Strategy, Jasprit Khurana brings over 25 years of experience as a strategic HR leader and fractional CHRO. He has built and scaled HR functions across organisations ranging from 300 to over 15,000 employees across India, the UK, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. At Pomelo EB, he will focus on aligning employer value propositions (EVPs) and employer brand strategy with HR strategy, people policies, remuneration philosophy, culture and leadership capability, particularly for scaling and international GCC environments. His mandate includes strengthening EVP credibility by ensuring alignment between employer brand promises and HR systems and leadership practices.
Jasprit Khurana said, “What attracted me to Pomelo is its sharp focus on employer branding and its understanding that credibility comes from how people actually experience the organisation. My role is to strengthen that link, ensuring employer brand narratives are supported by people policies, leadership capability and organisational culture.”
Karan Bamba, appointed as Senior Partner – Business, Transformation & Employer Brand, brings over three decades of leadership experience across business operations and large-scale transformation. His career spans senior roles at Reliance Jio, Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks, where he led complex, multi-market operations and workforce transformations. At Pomelo EB, he will work to connect business goals with people strategy, operating models and HR interventions that enable scale and transformation, ensuring employer branding initiatives are closely linked to productivity and operational outcomes.
Karan Bamba said, “Employer branding works best when it reflects how organisations truly operate. Pomelo’s approach stands out for its willingness to engage with real business and operational realities. My role is to help ensure employer brand strategy aligns closely with how work gets done across large and complex organisations.”
While employer branding remains Pomelo EB’s core focus, the strengthened leadership team adds deeper people advisory and business leadership capability, supporting greater credibility, localisation and measurable outcomes for clients operating in complex GCC and technology environments.
