Hari is the Vice President for Corporate R&D-Smart Products-Digital Ecosystem, for Procter & Gamble. Hari is also a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health, after completing Advanced Leadership Fellowship at Harvard University in 2019.

Hari was the Group Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer for Sime Darby, a $13 Billion USD conglomerate and diversified multinational, with businesses in key growth sectors namely, plantations, industrial equipment, motors, property, and energy & utilities with operations in more than 20 countries. Hari led the Group’s Strategy, Innovation, M&A, and Corporate Finance teams and created Sime Darby’s longterm value creation agenda. The strategy and transformation culminated in the creation of 3 standalone pure-play listed companies on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange in late 2017.

Prior to joining Sime Darby, Hari served as the Global Managing Director for Kimberly Clark’sGlobal Innovation Center (GIC) based in Seoul, South Korea. In this role, Hari had all site-wide responsibilities for the GIC, including the leadership of several global programs. During his tenure, Hari established a multidisciplinary global innovation center that is helping in fueling KC’s innovation pipeline.

From 2006-2012, Hari was Partner and VP at Innosight, a firm founded by Clayton Christensen, the leading authority on disruptive innovation, collaborating with companies to devise growth strategies, building innovation capabilities, and creating products and services that improve people’s lives. Hari is a thought leader and expert in applying various innovation and new business models in emerging markets having advised several Fortune 500 companies.

Hari began his career with Procter & Gamble in 1992, where he spent 14 years in R&D, serving various leadership roles in US and China. Hari also served as a faculty member for strategy & innovation for Duke Corporate Education, Carlson School of Management and Tuck School of Business Executive Education programs.