Hilti Malaysia appoints Reena Talla as HR Head

By: Women Entrepreneurs Review Team | Friday, 24 July 2026

Hilti Malaysia, a provider of construction tools, technology, software, and engineering solutions, has appointed Reena Talla as its Head of Human Resources. She joins the Hilti Malaysia Executive Management Team, where she will lead the company's people strategy, working closely with business leaders to drive growth through leadership, talent development, and a strong organizational culture.

She will lead and manage all facets of Human Resources, with a particular emphasis on business partnering, talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning, employee engagement, performance management, organizational development, total rewards, employee relations, and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and will be focused on building a high-performing, people-first organization.

Before that Reena Talla worked as an Employee Experience Services Lead – APMEA & Europe for Kerry, leading strategic employee experience programs in the Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa regions and Europe. As part of this role, she worked with senior leaders to enhance people strategy, workplace culture, and the effectiveness of organisations in multiple geographies and aligned them with business goals.

Key Highlights:

• Hilti Malaysia appoints Reena Talla as Head of Human Resources
• She brings over 20 years of regional HR leadership experience
• She will lead talent, leadership, and people strategy initiatives

Prior to Kerry, Reena spent over 12 years at Vale, in a sequence of increasingly senior regional HR leadership positions. She was lastly Regional Head of Human Resources for Asia, Middle East and Europe, where she led the strategic HR agenda in various countries with the focus of building organizational capability, developing leaders, workforce planning and regional HR transformation. Previously, she served as Head of Human Resources for Vale Malaysia where she led the HR role for the country in talent management, compensation and benefits, global mobility, HR strategy and people management.

Prior to this, Reena held the position of Head of Human Resources Services for Asia, Middle East and Europe (AMEA) at Vale, where she was responsible for setting up and leading HR shared services across the region (AMEA) for payroll, compensation and benefits, talent management, training and global mobility. She also served as Senior Compliance Specialist, where she assisted with the compliance, risk management, and governance functions across the mining business throughout the region, expanding her knowledge and skills in compliance, governance and organizational effectiveness.

Reena started her career with KPMG with almost 8 years experience as Manager – Risk Advisory Services advising organisations on risk management, governance, compliance and business transformation programs. Her solid consulting background and vast regional HR leadership experience has led her to deliver people transformation projects through Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Reena has spearheaded HR transformation, employee experience, organizational culture, talent management, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness efforts in Asia and beyond throughout her career. She loves to share her thoughts about leadership, the future of work, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and the creation of high-performance workplaces.

Hilti Malaysia is a member of the Hilti Group, a worldwide leader in innovative technology, software, product and service solutions for the construction industry. With its values of courage, integrity, commitment and teamwork, Hilti helps customers to build faster, safer and more sustainably. Hilti is known worldwide for its anchoring systems, direct fastening solutions, power tools and digital construction solutions and works with professional contractors and industry leaders to continually set standards higher in the construction industry and shape a better future through innovation and people excellence.