Matangi Gowrishankar has more than 3 decades of professional experience across industries and organizations – both in India and Overseas having lived and worked in the UK & Singapore. Having started her career as a banker with Standard Chartered Bank, she has led the Human Resources function for organizations like Reebok India, GE Capital, Zensar Technologies, Cummins and BP.

Her most recent experience is with BP over the last 13 years where she has led HR across various geographies for countries like Southern Africa, Turkey, Middle East and across the countries in Asia Pacific. In the last four years, she has been the global head of capability development for the downstream businesses of BP and finally leading the global leadership academy in BP University. She continues her association with BP leading some strategic Leadership Development projects

Matangi is on the board of Arohan Financial Services P Ltd. as an Independent Non Executive Director in August 2016.

Matangi is a BA in Sociology with a post graduation in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from a prestigious educational institution – XLRI.