Chinni has over 25 years of work experience having started his career in Corporate Consulting and Corporate Finance with Arthur Anderson in New York. He joined IBM in 2003 and held multiple roles in the business domain. His tryst with HR finally happened in 2005. In his last role, he was the Chief Talent Officer of Kyndryl, where he was responsible for all aspects of Talent Management including the People Strategy, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management with Skills & Careers, HR Learning and HR Data Analytics.

Chinni has championed the transformation and adoption of new age methodologies- at scale, driving enterprise-wide, co-created solutions.  He has also pivoted multiple times both at a personal level and also at an enterprise level driving change.

Chinni strongly believes that it is the open mindedness and willingness to take those calculated risks that takes you places.

On the educational side, he has a Bachelors degree in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from Northeastern University.