Darshan Chinnappa

Co-Founder

Karnataka, India28 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years in talent leadership and HR.
  • Expert in building high-performance teams.
  • Strong focus on innovation and problem-solving.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition and HR Strategy expert in the EdTech and Service industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment StrategyInternational Business Strategy

Other Skills

Human Resources (HR)Performance ManagementBPOPersonnel ManagementManagementStrategyTeam ManagementOutsourcingProcess ImprovementTransition ManagementVendor ManagementTrainingSocial NetworkingService DeliveryTalent Management

About

Don’t be misled into thinking I’ve changed jobs frequently—these have been time-bound, high-impact engagements and assignments. I'm entrepreneurial by nature and driven by outcomes. I've built ventures from the ground up, scaled teams across industries, and consistently turned ambiguity into opportunity. With over 2 decades in talent leadership, I bring a solutions-first mindset, a keen eye for innovation, and a passion for building high-performance teams. I believe great outcomes stem from empowering people, fostering collaboration, and solving problems creatively. I blend design thinking, data, and curiosity to navigate complexity, streamline processes, and unlock growth. At my core, I’m grounded in a growth mindset—embracing change, challenging the status quo, and helping organizations stay ahead of the curve. Always eager to build, collaborate, and learn—let’s connect.

Experience

28 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Pine labs

Head of Talent Acquisition

Oct 2024Nov 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • As the Head of Talent Acquisition at Pine Labs, my key responsibilities include developing and executing talent strategies aligned with business goals, leading and mentoring the recruitment team, driving leadership and critical role hiring, optimizing recruitment processes, enhancing employer branding, promoting diversity and inclusion, leveraging data for decision-making, and collaborating with senior leadership. Additionally, I will manage stakeholder relationships, ensure compliance, foster a strong candidate experience, and build talent pipelines for future growth while positioning Pine Labs as a top employer in the market.
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Strategy

Imara homestay

Founder and Host

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Coorg · On-site

Zee - technology & innovation

Talent Strategy Consultant

Sep 2021Apr 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ZEE Technology & Innovation Centre is home to over 400 passionate tech experts, content ninjas and entertainment buffs. With the aim to deliver unmatched experiences using cutting-edge resources, our new tech playground helps build a strong cohort of tech, data and talent to drive innovation and #ShapeTheNext chapter of growth in the Media & Entertainment industry.

Aakash educational services limited

TA Strategy Consultant

Jun 2021Nov 2021 · 5 mos · New Delhi, India

  • Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) is a leading educational institution in India that provides comprehensive test preparatory services to students preparing for medical and engineering entrance exams, school/board exams, KVPY, NTSE, Olympiads and other Foundation level exams. Byju’s buyout of AESL is also among the largest acquisitions by an Indian startup.
  • My role at AESL is to build the 2.0 version of AESL TA team and also bring in high pedigree individuals into Leadership roles across functions and more importantly high calibre Product/Engineering team who can build world class products to help Customers, Employees enhance their experience.

Byju's (think & learn pvt. ltd.)

Head of Talent Acquisition - International Business at BYJU'S

Jul 2019Mar 2020 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Byju’s is the largest and fastest growing venture funded Ed-tech Company founded on the core philosophy of making learning fun and developing a life-long love for learning in young minds. Byju's was valued at over $5.4 billion in its last funding round and has marquee global investors such as Sequoia, Naspers, Chen Zuckerberg Foundation and General Atlantic. Byju recently acquired Osmo, a Silicon Valley based physical-digital play company with proprietary image recognition technology and a suite of ‘learning through play’ products targeting 3-9 year olds. Byju's is now aggressively looking to build its international business.
  • My role is to lead Talent Acquisition for the International Business at Byju's. In this role, I am responsible for driving Byju's Talent Acquisition and Talent Strategy Internationally by helping build local teams and working on playbook, EVP and local TA teams across markets.
Talent AcquisitionInternational Business Strategy

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Head of Talent Acquisition

Jun 2018Dec 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • We at Ola empower hundreds of thousands of driver-partners as entrepreneurs, by building an ecosystem encompassing financing institutions, car manufacturers, service providers etc. for drivers to grow professionally and personally as well as a consistent earning opportunity for them on the Ola platform.
  • As Talent Acquisition team, we bring in the best in breed to work with us. We look for people with Quality of mind, resilience, bias for action, problem solving capability, ownership, talent champions and completely customer focussed.

Legato health technologies

Head of Talent Acquisition

Oct 2017Mar 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Legato has been established as an independent services provider to the Anthem companies (USD 85 Billion) with the purpose of leveraging global scale and executional expertise to transform healthcare as a GCC (Global Competence Center).
  • Legato's purpose statement is: Leveraging global scale and executional expertise to transform healthcare.
  • The intent is to set up IT ADM & BPM Centers in Bangalore and Hyderabad with an initial targeted headcount of 3600. Presently we are in the facility set up mode and have already hired the leadership team. Our website too is under construction.

Byond hr services

Managing Partner

Apr 2014Present · 12 yrs 1 mo · Kodagu, Karnataka, India

  • Byond is an Angel Invested new age HR Services start up with expertise to deliver world class solutions to its customers based on the specific needs. We work with customers across different Verticals and Industries in India and Byond. We offer complete 360° HR solutions for business firms seeking Recruitment, Consulting, HR Support for strategies, organization design and operational HR.
  • Our team will partner with the customer organization to transform the entire business performance with outcome focused deliverables.

Krow - a different look at work

Head - Product & Operations

Oct 2011Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • KROW is about making flexibility an integral part of worklives for individuals and an essential effectiveness tool for organizations. This is a business that will change the way we look at work and will fulfil the need for every productive hour in the Indian organizational context. Visit www.krow.in and experience ultimate flexibility, first hand.

Talking heads human resources private limited

Director

Jan 2007Mar 2014 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Talking Heads is a new age HR firm that serves as a solution provider to clients to manage any work overflows that they may encounter. Talking Heads comes with significant expertise in all spectrums of HR be it performance management, retention, recruitment, employee feedback or organisational design, structuring and development, we are in a position to offer our expertise to solutions that often take the form of specific, time-bound projects.
  • Talking Heads also actively engages with partners in realms of activity within and occasionally outside HR to address a specific client need.

Tesco

Manager - Recruitment

Apr 2004Jan 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Firstsource

Training and Operations

Jan 2001Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

Conceptuniv

Business Manager

Jul 1997Sep 2001 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

PG in HRM — Human Resources

Bangalore University

Electronics

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