About our Founder

Here is a background about our Founder & CEO, Mr. Shantanu Sahaa in his words as shared on his LinkedIn profile:-

I wear multiple hats. I'd like to talk more about some of the work I have done so far:-

Entrepreneurship - Since August 2004

# Founder & CEO, The Recruiters - An Executive Search & HR Consulting Firm founded in 2004, that is into CXO hiring & also offers Virtual CHRO Services. https://www.therecruiters.net. Apart from this I also founded two more companies that were not successful, one called Artistjunction in 2015 to promote performing art and artists, and DigiSocial360 in 2023 a Digital Marketing Firm.

Corporate Career (Jul-1995 to Aug-2004); 9 years

# I started my Career post-MBA at age 22 as a Management Trainee in a Fortune 500 Company ABB. I have been an HR Head in various companies like - an ABB group company (its JV with the MP Birla group in Satna, at age 25), Oberoi Hotels (Head - HR, Trident Agra, at age 28), Daksh (Head BFSI BU HR - Later became IBM Daksh and then Concentrix), Global Vantedge (Head - HR, A Chrys Capital Company), Astra Global (VP - HR, A Westbridge Capital Co.)

Part-Time Activities

# Mentor at Faad Angel Network. https://www.faad.in/teams

# Director - HR with an NGO - Kidney Warriors Foundation. https://www.kidneywarriorsfoundation.org/our-team/

# Guest Jury at many national-level management events held by - All India Management Association (AIMA). I was also on the steering committee of one of these competitions called "Pragati" - Celebrating Achievements of Women between 2019 and 2023.

# Guest judge in Admission interviews of FORE School of Management since 2006.

# Publications:- Author - of the book "Fight for Life" available globally on Amazon - about a significant, near-fatal health issue I recovered from. https://www.amazon.in/dp/B014YFEFES. Apart from this, I have contributed articles to various magazines related to HR and Business both in Print and Digital Media.

I hold a bachelor's degree in Economics from Delhi University and a Master's in Business Administration from the FORE School of Management.