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President Smiths Interconnect at Smiths Group plc
📍 United Kingdom

Vera Kirikova is the President of Smiths Interconnect, leveraging an extensive background as Chief People Officer at both Smiths Group and Rio Tinto. With an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, she excels in linking people-centric strategies to business growth, innovation, and overall success in the industrial technology sector.

She is a passionate advocate for creating inclusive and respectful work environments where every employee can thrive. Vera actively champions diversity and inclusion, notably partnering with the 25x25 initiative to break down barriers within the engineering and industrial fields, a cause she cares deeply about.

In a unique career move, she transitioned from leading global human resources as Chief People Officer to heading a major business division as a President.

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Experience
31 Years
Current Role
President Smiths Interconnect
Location
United Kingdom
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People-centric Growth
Believes that employee self-realization, purpose, and happiness are directly linked to business success, innovation, and growth.
Diversity in Engineering
Actively promotes gender diversity and inclusion, partnering with the 25x25 initiative and other industrial firms to address barriers in the engineering sector.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
President Smiths Interconnect
Smiths Group plc
4-2022 - 1-2025
Chief People Officer
Smiths Group plc
1-2022 - 3-2022
Success Officer
Tenth Revolution Group
7-2016 - 6-2021
Chief People Officer
Rio Tinto
7-2015 - 6-2016
VP HR, Rio Tinto Diamonds & Minerals
Rio Tinto
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Education
2003 - 2007
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
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