Bala Sathyanarayanan, Chief Officer at Greif: Be That Village for Someone
Bala Sathyanarayanan is Chief Human Resources Officer of Greif, and a Mogul Top 100 People Leader of 2026. He was born and raised in Madras, now Chennai, and started his career as a graduate engineer trainee at Otis, part of United Technologies.
A technology transfer posting took him to Kuala Lumpur, to work on what was then the world's tallest building. He says the machine was the easy part: it is the same machine wherever you are. The human dimension was the hard part, and that is what pulled him toward management and leadership. Back in India to train people on the new technology, the head…
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