May 2015 – Present · 11 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

• For over 14 years, I have worked closely with over 100+ recruitment entrepreneurs — particularly first-time founders — advising them on building commercially disciplined and scalable firms. Recruitment success is not just about placements. It is about commercial structure, disciplined execution and leadership maturity.
• Key areas of work include:
• Designing revenue predictability models and pipeline discipline systems
• Embedding consultant-level unit economics awareness
• Aligning incentive structures with profitability and margin discipline
• Supporting founders in building second-line leadership capability
• Reducing founder dependency through performance architecture
• I have worked across varying market cycles — high-growth periods as well as downturns. Today, I continue to advise founders who are serious about building resilient, profitable and future-ready recruitment firms.

Mar 2012 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Providing recruitment training, recruitment coaching, Business Coaching for recruitment companies in India for Antal. Supporting close to 40 recruitment companies and 100 recruitment consultants to work the best global recruitment practices, to support in building sustainable and profitable recruitment companies through recruitment training, recruitment coaching, online/phone training, face to face recruitment training and recruitment coaching.
• Provided operational support for these recruitment businesses to scale their recruitment efforts and activity levels.
• Worked with 26 start up recruitment companies and provided appropriate recruitment training, recruitment coaching to set them for success. Worked with 20 established recruitment companies and provided appropriate recruitment training, recruitment coaching to help them scale up.

Jan 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• I am responsible for developing network within the FMCG space, at the senior levels and to close roles at senior/ leadership levels.
• Within the FMCG space, I focus on Foods space, extending to B2B industry in Food space.
• Together with a competent team, we are growing in Foods, personal care, consumer durbale and lifestyle accessory space.
• Additionally, I am also involved in inducting new joinees to my company, and these contributions are something I cherish the most.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2007 · 11 mos

• There is a sense of pride being part of a large, but growing team of executive recruitment consultants, and that Antal India presence has been established by our office in Mumbai.
• I work on assignments requiring executive search, consultative selling, business developments, research. Interaction with Executives help in gaining broader perspecitves.

Nov 2004 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I was involved in fulfilling the documentation needs of this organisation and two more partner organisations. Since these organizations work in social development field, it was personally a very fulfilling role.

Jul 2004 – Oct 2004 · 3 mos

• Was part of the team which started interventions in reducing Infant and Maternal Mortality in 4 tribal areas of Vadodara, Gujarat. The project was recently started.

Jun 2002 – Jun 2004 · 2 yrs

• This cell was a new initiative, to take care of the training and capacity building inputs for the 100+ staff, engaged in rural development. I was instrumental in developing systems for interaction with resource agencies, prepare annual individualised training calendars for the staff, and set up a training library.
• I was involved in preparing funder reports and stakeholder reports, co-ordinating recruitment and placement campaigns and acted as interface with the external world.