Smita Mitra has taken on the role of Chief of Staff at Magma General Insurance, bringing more than two decades of experience across human resources and organisational transformation into the senior leadership team of the Patanjali-promoted general insurer.
Her mandate at Magma General Insurance covers the chief-of-staff function alongside the company’s leadership team, with her background in enterprise and HR transformation, organisational effectiveness, culture building, talent strategy and leadership development forming the foundation of the new role.
The move marks a shift from a primarily HR and organisational transformation-focused leadership track into a chief-of-staff mandate at a company in the middle of an ownership transition.
Mitra joins Magma General Insurance after HR leadership roles at Poonawalla Fincorp and Bajaj Finance, both in the non-banking financial services space. Her experience across these financial services employers spans people strategy, enterprise transformation, governance and work with senior leadership teams, which forms the operating backbone of the new chief-of-staff mandate.
