Rupali Sharma — CEO

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them 'Certainly I can'! and then get busy and find out how to do it"....Theodore Roosevelt Coming from an extremely humble background in a small unheard-of town in Assam, I am the quintessential small-town girl who wanted to make it big. I am a business storyteller at heart and immensely excited by the potential that the new-age Indian start-up ecosystem has to revolutionise the way we lead our life and work. With a career of over 16+ years across various roles in Human Resources, I have had the honour to learn from the best of both worlds. I have seen scale in TCS in the first 4 years of my career and everything startup in the last 12+ years. My experience spans from Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition specially Leadership Hiring, Networking, Building high-performance teams, HR operations and partnering with leaders to build business bottom-up. I thrive in a high-paced, high-performance environment where data drives decisions, people and pace drive execution, and culture keeps them all together. I am extremely passionate about building early to growth-stage business journeys and the role that great Talent has in this stage, and I sincerely believe in the power of HR in transforming business. In my current role at Z47 (fka Matrix Partners India), I have the privilege and the honour to be partnering with an amazing set of founders and entrepreneurs to embed the need and importance of focusing on Talent and culture right from day 0. And I have been fairly successful in driving impact across businesses/ ideas and with different archetypes of leaders and founders. Just like the founders strive to create a market for their products/services, I am constantly striving to create a culture where business leaders understand that businesses cannot grow by keeping talent needs aside. And I am glad I have this chance to create such a playbook around Talent, which will be the only competitive advantage between companies in the long run.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader specializing in talent acquisition and organizational culture within the startup ecosystem.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 17 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Talent Acquisition
Human Capital Management
Human Resources
Employer Branding

Career Highlights

16+ years of diverse HR experience
Expert in building high-performance teams
Passionate about talent and organizational culture

Work Experience

Z47

Managing Director, Human Capital (5 mos)

Director, Human Capital (1 yr 11 mos)

Matrix Partners India

Director - Human Capital (2 yrs 7 mos)

Vice President - Human Capital (2 yrs 6 mos)

redBus

Associate Director - Human Resources (1 yr 1 mo)

Senior Manager- Recruitment (1 yr 11 mos)

Manager- Recruitment (8 mos)

IQVIA

Manager- Staffing (1 yr)

Associate Manager- Staffing (11 mos)

Tata Consultancy Services

Manager - Human Resources (2 yrs 2 mos)

Assistant Manager-Human Resources (1 yr 8 mos)

HCL Technologies

Winter Project (1 mo)

GE Money Bank

Summer Internship (1 mo)

Citi India

Quality-Back office (1 yr 1 mo)

Education

MBA (HRD) at Delhi School of Economics

Higher Secondary at Cotton College

B.A (Hons) at Delhi University

Rupali Sharma

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years of diverse HR experience
Expert in building high-performance teams
Passionate about talent and organizational culture

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader specializing in talent acquisition and organizational culture within the startup ecosystem.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionHuman Capital ManagementHuman ResourcesEmployer Branding

Other Skills

NetworkingBuilding high-performance teamsHR operationsStrategic SourcingEmployee EngagementDigital StorytellingRecruitingManagementStrategic Human Resources LeadershipPerformance ManagementTotal RewardsHR PoliciesTeam ManagementSourcingHiring

About

Experience

17 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

Z47

2 roles

Managing Director, Human Capital

Promoted

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Partnering with early and early growth founders across domains from our portfolio. If you are looking at roles across our portfolio do reach out to me at rupali@Z47.com
Some Selected Investments ( Partnered to build early stage teams and Culture blocks as an Human Capital Business Partner)
Finable (Financial Services)
Seeds (Financial Services)
StableMoney (Fintech)
Dezerv (Fintech)
Foxtale (Consumer Product)
Freakins (Consumer Brand)
Ofbusiness (B2B)
Oxyzo (Financial Services)
ZippMat (B2B)
Park+ (Mobility)
Captain Fresh (B2B)
Country Delight (Consumer product)
Mosaic Wellness (Consumer product)
FarMart(Agri Tech)
TheWholeTruth (Consumer Product)
Open Secret (Consumer Product)
Damensch (Consumer Product)
DealShare (eCommerce)
Bijnis (B2B)
Avail Finance (Fin Tech) - exited to Ola Financial Services
Oziva (Consumer Product) - Exited to HUL

Human Capital ManagementTalent AcquisitionNetworkingBuilding high-performance teamsHR operations

Director, Human Capital

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Partnering with early and early growth founders across domains from our portfolio. If you are looking at roles across our portfolio do reach out to me at rupali@Z47.com
Some Selected Investments ( Partnered to build early stage teams and Culture blocks as an Human Capital Business Partner)
Finable (Financial Services)
Seeds (Financial Services)
StableMoney (Fintech)
Dezerv (Fintech)
Foxtale (Consumer Product)
Freakins (Consumer Brand)
Ofbusiness (B2B)
Oxyzo (Financial Services)
ZippMat (B2B)
Park+ (Mobility)
Captain Fresh (B2B)
Country Delight (Consumer product)
Mosaic Wellness (Consumer product)
FarMart(Agri Tech)
TheWholeTruth (Consumer Product)
Open Secret (Consumer Product)
Damensch (Consumer Product)
DealShare (eCommerce)
Bijnis (B2B)
Avail Finance (Fin Tech) - exited to Ola Financial Services
Oziva (Consumer Product) - Exited to HUL

Human ResourcesTalent AcquisitionStrategic Sourcing

Matrix partners india

2 roles

Director - Human Capital

Dec 2021 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Partnering with early and early growth founders across domains from our portfolio.
Some Selected Investments ( Partnered to build early stage teams and Culture blocks as an Human Capital Business Partner)
StableMoney (Fintech)
Foxtale (Consumer Product)
ZippMat (B2B)
Park+ (Mobility)
Captain Fresh (B2B)
Bijnis (B2B)
Country Delight (Consumer product)
Mosaic Wellness (Consumer product)
DealShare (eCommerce)
FarMart(Agri Tech)
TheWholeTruth (Consumer Product)
Open Secret (Consumer Product)
Damensch (Consumer Product)
Avail Finance (Fin Tech) - exited to Ola Financial Services
Oziva (Consumer Product) - Exited to HUL

Employer BrandingTalent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementDigital StorytellingRecruiting

Vice President - Human Capital

May 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Partnering with early and early growth founders across domains from our portfolio.
If you are excited about any or some of these ideas, do drop me a note at rupali@matrixpartners.in

Employer BrandingTalent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementDigital Storytelling

Redbus

3 roles

Associate Director - Human Resources

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jim Collins rightly said " Great vision without great people is irrelevant"!
My work was to ensure we have the best of the folks needed to take the vision of redBus to the next level! Along with my wonderful team of Talent Detectives at redBus, we constantly were in the lookout to connect with the best of the talent who could be a part of the redBus team.
I have handled the Talent Acquisition requirement for redBus domestic and International expansion for skills across (But not limited to) technology, product, Sales , Design , Marketing and CRM. We have successfully hired in SEA to support redBus global expansion in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Peru and Columbia.
Along with the the Hiring responsibilities, I also handle the Business HR partnering role for redBus international locations. By the end of my redB us tenure, I had taken over one more charter which was to build and own the project management/Scrum team of redBus.
Overall, one of the best career ride I could have ever hoped for!

Employer BrandingTalent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementDigital StorytellingManagement

Senior Manager- Recruitment

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

Employer BrandingTalent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementDigital Storytelling

Manager- Recruitment

Jul 2015 – Mar 2016 · 8 mos

Talent AcquisitionStrategic Human Resources Leadership

Iqvia

2 roles

Manager- Staffing

Apr 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr

Formerly known as Quintiles, I joined IQVIA in the Talent Acquisition team and this was were I started my journey as a TA professional. Built and handled a 10 member team and oversaw the account management/Hiring for 55% of all Business Units in India, managing hiring requirements in excess of 1200+ each year.
Fast Track Promotion within 1 year of joining and taking up a new skill

Talent Acquisition

Associate Manager- Staffing

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos

Talent AcquisitionStrategic Human Resources Leadership

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

Manager - Human Resources

Promoted

Feb 2011 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

At TCS, I joined as a novice HR Business partner and I couldn't have asked for a better learning platform. Learnt a lot about processes and controls that is needed for scale.
Started as a HRBP for TCS eServe , Delhi & Kolkata location
Transitioned to become the HR BP for the TCS KPO (Largest account of Nielsen)
Handled the entire life cycle of an employee from Onboarding till exit
Closely partnered with Business leaders to design and implement HR intervention which complements Business growth

Strategic Human Resources LeadershipHuman Resources