Acquelia Colaco Takes Charge as CPO at Omnicom Global Solutions

By: Women Entrepreneurs Review Team | Thursday, 12 November 2026

OMC Global Solutions (OGS) has appointed Acquelia Colaco as the Chief People Officer (CPO) for India and Philippines. Acquelia brings over 22 years of experience in human resources, people management, leadership development, employee experience, and organizational transformation. Her experience spans across several multinational industries such in technology, business services organizations, and global capability centers.

Acquelia is an HR expert who will be helpful in enhancing capabilities of the organization evolving business requirements for its people leadership and talent strategy in selected Asian markets. As OGS builds its integrated capabilities and increases its support to agencies and its clients, talent management continues to play an important part in the priorities of the organization.

Key Highlights:

• Acquelia Colaco joins Omnicom Global Solutions as CPO for India and the Philippines
• She brings over 20 years of HR leadership experience across global organizations
• She previously held senior HR positions at XBP Global and Tesco Business Solutions

Acquelia will be responsible for overseeing all the people agenda in OGS operations in India and Philippines. This will include the development of leadership capability, enhancing talent management practices, creating better employee experience, and preparing the teams for future business needs. She will also foster creation of high performance culture focusing on employee development and collaboration.

“I am pleased to share that I have joined Omnicom Global Solutions as Chief People Officer for India and Philippines. I am excited to join the organization at such an important stage of its growth journey.” Acquelia commented over her LinkedIn.

“My focus will be on strengthening leadership capability, enabling meaningful employee experiences, building future-ready talent, and fostering a culture that empowers people and teams to perform, grow, and succeed. I look forward to partnering with colleagues across OGS as we build what’s next together,” Acquelia added sharing her focus over the new role.

Before her appointment with OGS, Acquelia had been the Chief Human Resources Officer at XBP Global, a multinational tech firm providing services around intelligent workflow management, digital transformation and automation. She has gained additional experience within the international corporate setting, with the operations spanning across 20 countries, managing a workforce size reaching up to 11,000 employees and more than 2,500 clients.

In her stint with Tesco Business Solutions, Acquelia has managed HR strategy for about 70% of Tesco’s operations in India positively impacting more than 3,000 people in the various business segments. She was also the HR Lead for finance, enterprise analytics, business assurance and solution design and transition.

Acquelia has attained more than six years of work experience in different HR leadership roles at Tesco Business Solutions. Her most recent leadership position is that of Head Colleague Experience, where she comes from an HR leader position at Property, Product, People Services, Customer Engagement, and COO/CEO offices.