Kshitij (also known as KJ) is a recruitment industry icon, recognized globally for his passion for solving the most difficult problems in the human capital ecosystem with technology. KJ founded Joveo with the mission of delivering the right “job to everyone” (a phrase that translated into the name of the company itself).

With 20 years of recruitment marketing experience, KJ has a proven track record of building, leading, and managing innovative, high-growth organizations. As Joveo’s Founder and CEO, he drives the company’s long-term product and go-to-market strategies as well as day-to-day operations.

Before Joveo, KJ founded MoBolt, which created the world’s best apply optimization technology. After its acquisition by Indeed in 2014, he was a part of the product team at the company. Prior to MoBolt, KJ ran product management for the Asia Pacific region at Monster Worldwide, led cross-border sales for Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa, and was their global recruiting subject matter expert.

Besides solving problems in the recruitment space, he spends his time making trouble with his twins. He is also a trail runner and deep sea diver by passion and a gemologist by training.

Cindy Songné, a tenured professional in talent acquisition and recruitment technology, joins Joveo with over two decades of industry expertise, primarily to lead advertising agency partnerships.

Her career includes pivotal roles like Chief People and Culture Officer at Communo, and executive positions at Talroo, Jibe, and JobTarget. At Monster Worldwide, Cindy established the industry’s first global Agency Relations program. Her leadership journey also includes serving as Arizona SHRM/EMA President and as a TAtech Board member.

At Joveo, Cindy’s leadership in agency partnerships is set to enhance the company’s market presence in recruitment technology, leveraging her comprehensive experience and strategic insight.

Yazad Dalal leads all new business and strategic growth initiatives for Joveo globally. He brings with him over two decades of international business experience, with expertise in strategic growth, revenue generation, and operational excellence.

Dalal’s international journey, with roles from New York to Singapore, uniquely positions him to drive Joveo’s continued global expansion and technology-driven solutions in the recruitment space. Recognized as a thought leader across multiple subjects including AI in HR, DE&I, and the future of work, his insights have influenced the industry through numerous publications and advisory roles.

Prior to joining Joveo, Dalal served as Managing Director in Accenture’s Technology and Innovation group. During his time with the organization, he held multiple roles including Accenture Oracle Business Group Lead for AI in HR, achieving significant strategic and operational milestones during his tenure. Previously, he led strategy for Oracle’s HCM Cloud HCM Applications across the EMEA and Asia Pacific region.

At Joveo, Dalal is set to leverage his extensive experience and innovative strategies to drive growth, sustainability, and market leadership.

Doug joined Joveo in early 2022 as a Head of Candidate Experience & Engagement, bringing his four decades of experience in the recruitment marketing, talent acquisition, and employer branding space. Over the years, he has mastered the art of talent acquisition, striving to understand how companies recruit talent as well as how talent searches for work.

Recently, he has been drawn to the challenges and opportunities offered by HR technology, which has prompted him to join in Joveo’s efforts to develop an end-to-end talent acquisition operating system. Before Joveo, Doug was involved in creating multiple game-changing products, including one of the industry’s first-fully automated client/agency collaboration tools, a job posting engine that increased recruiter productivity, and the first media tracking engine with ‘track-to-hire’ functionality.

Doug graduated from Iowa State University while completing a double masters in Journalism and Marketing. He is a die-hard baseball enthusiast who cheers for the Chicago Cubs above all others. In his free time, he enjoys playing tennis.

Vikrant joined Joveo in 2021, as Head of Finance, Operations, and Strategy. In this role, he drives operational excellence, process optimization, revenue operations, people and change management, finance, fundraising, and investor relations.

Prior to joining Joveo, Vikrant led the Global Strategy Group at KPMG Lower Gulf (UAE and Oman), building the practice from scratch into a USD 4 million business, serviced by a team of 25 consultants. Vikrant was also a member of founding teams for deal strategy at EY and KPMG in India.

With more than 20 years of experience in strategy, M&A, and finance, Vikrant has led teams to drive organizational effectiveness, value, and sustainability in highly-competitive and evolving markets across the GCC, India, Europe, and the USA. His success as a lead advisor to C-suite executives is inextricably connected to his deep, cross-industry experience with transaction and strategy in complex investment, expansion, and turnaround scenarios, across the globe.

As Vice President of Engineering, Prateek drives the vision and execution of Joveo’s AI-powered technology platform and engineering infrastructure. Prior to Joveo, Prateek was the CTO of Mobolt and helped develop the world’s best job application optimization technology. Upon Mobolt’s acquisition by Indeed in 2014, Prateek incubated a team to strongly establish Indeed’s presence in India.

Having gained expertise in building enterprise-scale applications. Prateek also co-founded kaam.work, a tech-enabled recruitment platform enabling the principle of ‘work from anywhere’.

Ankur serves as the Head of Product at Joveo. Prior to his current role, he led technical functions across several organizations, including Indeed, Google, and MoBolt. He co-founded Joveo and was a founding engineer at MoBolt. He has over a decade of expertise in the HR technology space and has helped Joveo grow to the level it is today.

Ankur, an engineer at heart, leverages his technical knowledge to create simple and scalable products. He has successfully led several 0-1 and 1-10 journeys, establishing teams from the ground up. He enjoys sports, diving, hiking, and spending time with his family when he isn’t busy inventing breakthrough technology solutions and driving Joveo to new heights.

Bhargav serves as the Head of Data & AI at Joveo. As one of the company’s earliest employees, he helped scale Joveo’s product, engineering, and data infrastructure. Bhargav is a data and machine learning expert with over 11 years of experience spanning multiple industries such as telecomm, e-commerce, retail, and various technology startups. Previously, he worked at Snapdeal where he co-led building Snapdeal’s next-generation architecture and solutions for UGC and supply chain optimization.

Bhargav has extensive experience advising companies on strategy, data, and tech infrastructure. He also has hands-on experience in technology management, technology transformation, systems architecture, governance, and application development across multi-year roadmaps.

Vinod leads long-term growth and customer strategy at Joveo. His main focus is on delivering exceptional customer experiences and accelerating customer lifetime value. He brings approximately 25 years of fast-paced, “customer first” experience from four continents to the table, with expertise spanning account strategy, customer success, and service excellence.

Vinod has a track record of transforming key “high-risk” accounts into successful ventures. His forte lies in re-engineering processes, redefining performance, and energizing customer satisfaction. With a clear vision and strategic thinking, he ensures flawless execution of well-articulated, progressive customer strategies aimed at continuously pushing the needle of growth.

Before joining Joveo, Vinod served as Vice President Global Customer Success at Talview, a recruiting automation and edutech platform, where he was in charge of developing customer success programs. Prior to that, he was CEO at Innovatia (India), a global knowledge solutions company, where he shouldered responsibilities for cross functional execution, building organizational capabilities, and developing an investment strategy.

Chandel drives Joveo’s job board (supply) ecosystem as well as ATS, HR tech, and consulting partnerships worldwide. His main focus is to amplify customer lifetime value through scaling the company’s partner base.

A lean six sigma black belt, Chandel has a strong operations and growth background. Prior to Joveo, he worked with Unacademy, a global ed tech unicorn, where he was the Head of Category Growth. At Unacademy, he drove exponential product and marketing led revenue growth. Chandel was also a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group, where he executed projects for several Fortune 500 clients and the Government of India.

Furthermore, he was a part of Awign’s founding team where they built a gig staffing platform specializing in workforce delivery, especially for last-mile operations. There, he ran vertical outsourcing operations and delivery for around 375 brands and led project execution, talent sourcing, funnel management, high-volume hiring, product automation, and payroll management.

Shehzad spearheads Joveo’s global marketing efforts, including product and content marketing, demand generation, marketing communications, sales enablement, and other functions. Prior to Joveo, Karkhanawala served as Assistant Vice President, Marketing, and General Manager, India, for Webscale Networks, a leader in cloud hosting and management for digital commerce. At Webscale, he helped build a powerful demand generation engine to support the company’s 100%+ YoY growth.

Before Webscale Networks, he served as Director of Marketing at Aryaka Networks, a global market leader in the SD-WAN space, disrupting telecom giants such as AT&T and Verizon. At Aryaka, Shehzad was part of the award-winning marketing leadership team that helped grow the company’s revenue by over 500% in three years. In 2018, his marketing organization was recognized as a Marketers that Matter Award Finalist in the “Driving Growth” and “Transformation Journey” categories.

In a career spread over two decades, Sanjay has worked with various organizations, including Taj Hotels, Siemens, AXA, Capita, Sterling & WNS.
His professional experience includes strategy, human resources management, people analytics, process excellence, operations management, data strategy, Lean Six Sigma, and building high-performing cultures.

Sanjay has completed an Executive MBA from IIM, Bangalore, Strategy Implementation from ISB, Hyderabad, and Advanced Human Resources Program from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt and High-Performance Coach from Vega Factor, New York. He was awarded as Top 100 HR Leaders in India by World HRD Congress. He is also a regular panelist, speaker, and participant at eminent industry forums and premier educational institutions, such as IIM and MDI.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing squash, tennis and off-roading. Yoga and poetry are major obsessions and both of these are great avenues for him to connect with himself. His wife, Arti, is a teacher and their sons, Shaurya and Dhairya, are avid footballers.

Ram has over 25 years of technology strategy and execution expertise at fast-paced innovative companies like Cast Iron Systems, PeopleSoft, WebMD, Silicon Graphics, IBM, and Tata Consultancy Services. Ram is one of the few technology executives who have diverse technology experience all the way from chip design to application software including operating systems, networking, databases, middleware, multimedia, analytics, and cloud computing. He has been a part of teams that pioneered the first commercial hardware independent operating system, the first commercial video streaming server, the first healthcare internet transaction service, the first pure internet application software, and the first application integration in the cloud. He has worked for companies of all sizes – from startups to large public companies.

Ram holds several patents in the U.S. and was awarded the Smithsonian Computer World “Search for the Heroes” Award for the year 2000 for his work on healthcare integration platform at WebMD. He holds an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BS degree in Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India.

Ram currently serves as a director on the boards of Joveo, Aryaka, Progress Software (PRGS), FusionOps, Unmetric, and Simplilearn. Since 2007, Ram has served as director on the boards of various public and private technology companies like S1 Corporation (SONE, acquired), Platform Computing (acquired), Cast Iron Systems (acquired), Persistent Systems (PRST, IPO), Accruent Inc. (acquired), Knova Software (acquired), Plateau Systems (acquired), and Geek Net (GKNT).

From 2005 to 2007, Ram was the President and CEO of Cast Iron Systems (a startup) and then from 2007 to 2010 he was the executive chairman of Cast Iron Systems. During his tenure, the company became the first and the largest vendor of application integration in the cloud. Both the revenue and the customer base grew over 500%. It was then acquired by IBM for a 5x return to the investors.

From 2000 to 2004, Ram was the Executive Vice President at PeopleSoft Inc., responsible for strategy, development, marketing, customer support, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. He led over 6000 people in 15 different countries and managed a P&L of $1.6B. During this time, his team launched the first pure Internet suite of applications. The product portfolio went from 95 products to more than 300 products, revenues of the company went from $1B to $3B, the EPS went from $0.01 to $0.95, and the market capitalization grew from $3 billion to over $10 billion.

From 1997 to 2000, Ram was the Senior Vice President and General Manager at WebMD Corp. He was a part of the executive team that grew WebMD from a $5 million annual revenue startup to a public company with a market cap of over $2B. During this time his team launched the first healthcare Internet transaction service that enabled billions of healthcare transactions to flow seamlessly across doctor’s offices, hospitals, insurance companies, labs, and pharmacies. This then enabled the company to become the number one consumer healthcare information site worldwide.

From 1985 to 1997, Ram held various leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, IBM, and Tata Consultancy Services.

Jishnu brings to Nexus several years of operating and investing expertise. Jishnu has invested in technology infrastructure, data, AI, SaaS and developer operations and is interested in a wide variety of start-ups. Jishnu’s current portfolio companies include Postman, Druva, Kaltura [KLTR], H2O.ai, Observe.ai, Helpshift, Minio, Blueshift, and several other exciting companies. His exited investments include Rancher (acquired by SUSE), Mezi (acquired by American Express), Cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), Gluster (acquired by Red Hat), Arkin (acquired by VMware) and Elastic Box (acquired by Century Link).

Prior to joining Nexus, Jishnu had several years of operating experience in hi-technology start-ups. He was founding team-member at a communications systems start-up Scintera Networks (sold to Maxim Integrated Products), where he held engineering leadership role.
Jishnu holds MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, MS from Georgia Tech and BTech from IIT Kharagpur in electronics engineering. He is also an inventor on more than twenty US patents.