Group General Manager HR, McLarens Holdings, Ms. Davina Kern won the ‘HR Leaders Award – Talent Acquisition 2018’ at the National HR Conference organised by the Institute of Personnel Management Sri Lanka and held at the BMICH, Colombo recently.
Davina holds 21 years of experience, of which 17 years contributing to the field of HR, as she says ‘HR is her Forte’. She is the Group General Manager Human Resources at McLarens Holdings; and has been instrumental in receiving awards for one of the ‘Great Places to Work in Sri Lanka’ by the ‘Great Place to Work’ during her tenure over last 3 ½ years.
Prior to that she has worked for MAS Holdings and Aitken Spence & Co. Ltd. Davina was instrumental in setting up the ‘Recruitment’ function of the MAS Active Division and has contributed immensely as the ‘Deputy General Manager - Talent Management and Career Planning’ during her tenure at MAS Active at a Divisional level. She also had been the project lead heading the ‘Recruitment Pillar’ when MAS moved to a tailor made HRIS system, contributing from concept design in collaboration with Deloitte Consultancy India.