Team Members
Anupam Vyas | Managing Partner
An experienced search professional with over two decades of experience in the field, he is at the helm and leads the firm for all practices. His expertise in executive search has been in the consumer goods, manufacturing and financial services industry. Anupam additionally leads assignments for roles in the Human Resource function across all industries and has been acknowledged for his mastery in the function. A postgraduate in management from XLRI (India’s premier B School for Human Resource Management), he worked in his initial career in HR, working with Whirlpool, Coca-Cola and P&G where he managed talent acquisition for senior management and leadership roles.
Avinash Kumar | Principal Consultant
Avinash manages mandates for roles in manufacturing and commercial functions with a focus on the consumer products, natural resources and healthcare industries. Avinash has lead multiple assignments in manufacturing for the foods businesses including multiple turnkey assignments for end to end staffing of green field factories. Additionally he also manages assignments in the Middle East and Africa region where he has developed a strong network and deep connects with the local talent pool. An MBA in Human Resources with over 14 years of experience in the manpower recruitment industry, Avinash has previously worked extensively for clients in the Automobiles and Engineering industry. He has previously worked at Cornerstone International and Accor Group.
Saurav Kumar | Principal Consultant
Vasundhra Agrawal
Vasundhra manages functional and technical mandates includes project hiring for Engineering and Manufacturing clients. An expert in headhunting, mapping, networking and Executive Search, she works on mid and senior level searches covering multiple functional areas as well as on talent benchmarking projects.
An Engineering Graduate with over 6 years of experience in the Executive Search industry, Vasundhra has worked extensively for clients in the Building Materials, Automobile, Engineering, Power, FMCG, Education and Media industry. She is based at Mumbai and has previously worked at Cornerstone International and PSS Group.
Devjoti Maiti
Devjoti works in the firms tech hiring practice covering mid management roles for Sr Software Engineers, Project Managers across skills of Front end, Backend, iOS, Android, and Full Stack. Additionally he works on roles in risk management for digital clients finding expert talent in roles of cyber risk – (Cyber fraud, complaints and the likes). Starting his initial 2 years in IT hiring for the US markets where he catered to blue chip multinational clients, Devjoti is an engineer by education from SRM University with near 3 years of experience. A football enthusiast who regularly plays for his local team, he spends his free time playing the game and following the leagues while keenly supporting the Real Madrid Football Club.
Shefali Chelani | Consultant
Shefali manages assignments in management consulting and financial services while also managing critical mandates for our clients in the Technology and Retail industry. She is also responsible for providing research insights to the organization on strategic mandates. In addition Shefali independently manages the campus hiring service offered by the organization and has been recognized for her mastery over the talent landscape at graduate and post graduate colleges in the country. A management graduate with 5 years of experience in talent acquisition, she has previously worked at Stryker Corporation in their Talent Acquisition function where she partnered the business on multiple requirements for lateral & support hiring.
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Nina Panesar | Bahrain | Alliance Partner - Middle East
Nina is the founder of 4 Leaf Advisory a firm in the executive search and ; and is a global search executive and assessment expert, with 11+ years of experience gained at a tier one executive search firm in North America, UK and latterly in the Middle East region. She has hired senior leadership teams, Chairman and CEOs for over 20 years, bringing a mature and global perspective to talent across multiple sectors.
She served under the most profitable practice in the region during her time at Heidrick & Struggles and has worked with both executive search and leadership assessment teams working with Private Equity backed and FTSE 100, Food Manufacturing, Retail and Industrial clients. She moved to the Middle East in 2014 and has managed mandates for family offices, MNCs and Royal Family offices across the Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Cairo and Saudi Arabia.
She Founded 4 Leaf Advisory in 2018 a Human Capital Solutions advisory firm, she brings a wealth of knowledge from the Middle East markets as well as remaining relevant in the UK and North America. She holds an MSc in Business Psychology and a BA (Hons) in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations from the UK.
Rajeev Kumar | Gurgaon | Industry Advisor
Rajeev advises The Search Managers and evaluates techno commercial proficiency among candidates for assignments in the Product Supply function within the consumer products industry – particularly for companies in the branded foods business. Rajeev has over three and a half decades of experience of which over 17 years has been at the leadership level in multi national companies in the consumer products business. Prior to his association with us, he was worked for over 15 years with Pepsico and was lastly their Associate Director for Productivity Improvement. An Engineer from IIT Roorkee, Rajeev worked with Mondelez and WIMCO in his early career.
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