About · HireVeda

This firm was not built by recruiters.

The four of us have built companies, run P&Ls inside large ones, and sat on the hiring side of the table making these decisions for our own teams, long before we started making them for anyone else.

That is not a credential. It is the reason the method looks the way it does. A recruiter works to fill the role as written. An operator asks first whether the role was written correctly, because an operator has lived with the consequences of it not being.

We work on both sides of the hiring table, and that was not the plan.

We started HireVeda to help companies hire strong senior talent. In the first year, senior professionals began coming to us directly. Do you have something for us. How do we transition better.

Our answer was always the same: send us your resume, and if something comes up we will get back to you. We rarely got back. Not because they were not good. Because we had nothing on their side of the table.

That kept repeating. Across five years and more than ten thousand conversations with senior people, it became clear that senior career transitions were broken and that nobody was solving it in a structured way.

So we spent about a year designing what a structured answer would look like, and launched ExecEdge eighteen months ago. It has been rebuilt every quarter since.

What each of us did before this.

Saurabh Agarwal

IIM Lucknow

Chartered accountant and company secretary. Came through the Aditya Birla Group’s leadership program, ran e-commerce operations at Times Internet, then led the SmartShip business at ShopClues. HireVeda is his second company, after StintMint, a technology venture he founded and ran. IIM Lucknow.

Ex-Times Internet, ShopClues, Aditya Birla Group

Rijas Muhammed

IIM Lucknow

Management and strategy consultant turned entrepreneur. At Deloitte in Philadelphia he led M&A integration and value-chain strategy for clients across North America and Asia. Then corporate strategy at Byju’s, where he ran the integration of a major acquisition, and Accenture after that. IIM Lucknow.

Ex-BYJU'S, Accenture, Deloitte, TAS

Nitesh Rana

SCM HRD

Product management and operations, in businesses where the two are the same problem. He built products at Times Internet, ValueLabs and ShopClues for returns, fulfilment, courier networks and reconciliation, the parts of a business that decide whether it makes money at scale. SCMHRD Pune.

Ex-Times Internet, ShopClues

Varun Jain

IIM Calcutta

Planned advertising revenue for a television network taking more than ₹5,000 crore a year, first at Star India and then at Zee, working alongside business heads and the chairman’s office. Founded two companies before that, one in ed-tech and one in streaming. IIM Calcutta.

Ex-Zee Entertainment, Disney Star

We work in India, on leadership roles between ₹40L and ₹2.5Cr, and we do not work outside that band.

Around sixty people, across executive search, ExecEdge and the engineering team that builds the platform the program runs on.

More than 300 companies have signed with us. More than 400 senior professionals have moved through one side of the business or the other.

You are hiring a leader

A thirty-minute call. If we are the wrong firm for the role, we will say so on it.

You are making your next move

A twenty-five-minute recorded walkthrough, including what it costs. Private, one to one, and discreet.

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