UpMan Placements is one of the leading global executive search firms with footprints in more than 20 Countries. We are known for our prompt and accurate delivery of the right executive talent appendaged by methods of employee retention.
Over 21 Years of Accomplished Experience in Telecommunication, Digital Marketing, Software Solutions, IoT and Smart Technology as Part of a Management Team specializing in African Markets
With over 20 years of experience in the business development and mentoring of teams Kiran had helped grow business from scratch & perform under highly demanding environments. He has a demonstrated track record in establishing and delivering targeted results across varied geographies and verticals.
With a MBA from Ecole National Des Pontes Chaussee, France & experience across Globe ,Kiran leads our Middle east & Africa portfolio . Building strong Government Relationships & P&L Management ,Business Development, Contract Negotiations , Crisis Management AND Global Operations Management are few of the core competencies.
From being business head for direct edge to being Director at WCT Kiran have had multiple achievements like Successfully bid and executed Kenya’s first nationwide trade and compliance watch list solution with contract running for 10 years.
Achal is an astute professional with 25+ years of experience in Sales and Business Development in diverse industries like FMCG, Cement, and BFSI to name a few.
He has worked across companies like Parle, Aditya Birla, ICIC Prudential, HDFC Life, TATA AIG, IDBI Federal, and TATA AIA in different roles and capacities. Achal is immensely capable of consistently achieving the projected targets, recruiting and building dynamic teams, and identifying high-yielding services and products to the business’s benefit. His amiable personality and wisdom in the field have helped him establish strong contacts with institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, and distributors, especially in the Public Sector set ups. He has widely travelled across the globe and different territories for business development and recruitment which has significantly introduced him to the cosmopolitan ways of various sectors.
Achal believes that creativity lies at the core of Sales and Recruitment. and pushes people to keep coming up with unprecedented approaches to appeal to the world. It is this nature of the business that he thinks serves society and that’s what he likes the most about it.
With more than a decade of experience in human resources, Komal Patel exults her passion for people and process with a penchant for forging strong client relationships over the years. Having provided competent resources for various sectors including BFSI, Retail ,Telecom, FMCG and more, she has showcased a firm grip on new hiring approaches, concepts, methods, and technologies.
As Sr. Manager of HR at Upman Placements, Komal displays strong interpersonal and communication skills along with immense adaptability to deliver the goods. Her skill in talent acquisition shines through in varied professional environments, while her mentorship has guided several team members in the field.
Pallavi is a vivacious leader who has been making recruitment an eventful experience for candidates and employers for the past 14 years. A renowned name in BFSI recruitment, Pallavi knows how to help companies land the top performers in the market. Gifted with a natural ease of getting along with people, Pallavi/she has recognized the best talents and recruited them for the niche roles in BFSI, Fintech, and Pharma sectors and helped companies realize their missions.
In her journey from Senior Executive to arriving at a key position in Management, she has seasoned into a recruitment savvy who has flawless foresight for Market mapping, CXO hiring, and team building for various techno-functional roles. Having been involved in the process at every level from identifying to screening to negotiating, and so forth, she has developed a deep understanding of the nuances and subtleties of recruitment.
Pallavi firmly believes that acquiring the right talents is key to a company’s growth and given her flex of winning-over people and making the right judgments, Pallavi and Recruitment are like a match made in heaven.
Saandeep is an experienced Sales and Business Development professional with rich experience of 23 + years in diverse industries, BFSI, Real Estate, Executive Search, to name a few.
He has worked across companies like HSBC, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, UpMan Placements, The Head Hunters India, Siesta Logistics, to name a few. He has handled Executive Search, Leadership Hiring, and Head Hunting assignments for companies across all sectors with success and believes in empowering organizations by providing ambitious and growth-oriented talents. He has a great track record of working in the aforementioned sectors, managing large portfolios, territories, and teams. Skilled in Biz. Dev. , Sales, Marketing, Product, Negotiation, Market Research, Credit, Risk, and Financial Management.
Widely traveled in India and loved to learn new regional languages. He knows to speak nine languages fluently and is interested in learning more regional and international languages to add to his kitty, which he knows will help connect to people across various geographies.
Prashant Rawal has spent 11 years of his career in the Recruitment sector for BFSI & Non- BFSI sectors. He particularly caters to clients for mid-to-senior level.
At Upman Placement, Mr. Raval focuses on P&L responsibilities for the team, grooming junior recruiters and HR professionals to the next line of management. He has also enjoyed multiple promotions in his career much owing to his extensive knowledge and sound team execution plans. He offers his insights in people development and hiring process, training and developing talented management professionals to bide the volatile nature of hiring requirements from diverse industries.
At Upman Placement, Mr. Raval is instrumental in the company’s continued growth across HR functions, recruitment functions, etc. He has time and again, successfully placed worthy candidates at various organizational levels in various verticals.
Over a career spanning 14+ years, Mr. Gaurav has evolved from being a team member to the post of a Business Head and now a COO at Upman Placement. As an IT wizard, he has elevated the operations in the recruitment domain over the years.
His expertise and know-how of Business Development, Recruitment Process, and Strategic Process serves in good stead for the success of the firm. His charismatic and endearing personality has been a major factor in his individual growth while his thorough professionalism has established trust and mutual respect among his client base. He has selflessly dedicated himself in managing recruitment teams, offering consistent support as the company expanded its horizons in recent years.
With a past having served the Indian Army as an Adjutant, Mr. Krishna Ved has transformed from a soldier to a full-blooded corporate professional with nearly two decades of experience in the insurance sector. He has served as VP and Exec VP in some of the finest insurance companies. He has even served as Director Training at Damac LLP.
As an incisive and proactive leader of sorts, Mr. Ved has time and again showcased his proficiency in strategic planning, market plan execution, account management, and pre-sales efforts in various capacities. At UpMan Placements, his yesteryear experience has been a catalyst as a well-known trainer of soft skills and communication abilities. He is adroit in developing training strategy for all kinds of operations focused on realizing business goals and objectives. His intuitiveness into human psychology and innovation transformation methods has helped in enhancing performance levels and productivity across the board.
Meenu Chaturvedi is a bonafide training professional and director at UpMan Placement. She features strong business sense and innate ability to develop new avenues for any business.
Leveraging her Masters’ Degree in business management, Meenu has consistently been an epitome of business brilliance, as she consults others to develop a strong foundation for any business. Her management style and intrinsic foresight and vision has helped several organizations find their footing, and propel themselves into the horizons of growth and success.
With 12 years of corporate experience, working at Wipro, Metlife, Divya Bhaskar and others, Meenu Chaturvedi has imbibed multiple social skills and has evolved into an insightful training and development professional.
As a veteran entrepreneur in multiple businesses, Niyant Chaturvedi has donned several hats and roles in various organizations. As one of the Partners, Niyant has utilized his all-round expertise to contribute immensely to UpMan’s success.
For 12 years, Niyant won 9 National Championships and a Silver Medal in South East Asian Games, providing testimony to his never-say-die attitude and a winning personality.
Owing to his long experience of working with TCS & Accenture, Mr. Chaturvedi has been able to resolve IT-based issues and even addresses related queries with technical-know-how on the subject. As part of UpMan Placement, he continues to manage professionals with his strong leadership qualities. His robust business acumen makes him a people’s person and a client’s favourite, enabling him to forge lasting relationships. His five-decade old connections with real estate also serves him in good stead in acquiring new clients.
Well-known for his hiring attributes of top C-level executives, Mr. Mehul Sheth has long displayed a penchant of understanding company behaviour and their hiring requirements like no other. He has consistently been spear-heading resource allocation in various industries with pertinent mapping strategies. Also, he could always bridge organization aspirations with the ripe hiring market opportunities.
Mr. Sheth also managed an experienced in-house team of more than 65 recruiters, employing proactive strategies to fill the role gaps in organizations. He managed a constant streamline of passive candidates for those positions too. He consulted top notch organizations in terms of aligning new candidates with their company culture, addressing the talent gap itself. With comprehensive mapping tactics, he could connect passive profiles with the right job position too.
Plying his trade and expertise close to four happening decades, Mr. Mukesh Desai has evolved as an efficient banker and rose the career ladder as the Branch Manager of a Co-operative Bank. Right at the top, he has managed to subvert expectations and entered the recruitment industry, leveraging his sharp insight into operations and administration to the tee.
At UpMan Placement, Mr. Mukesh Desai established himself as the Director of Operations & Administration, combining his decades of experience of working with the BFSI industry, becoming a central core in Financial & Accounting decisions. He consistently reinvents himself by being aligned with the industrial growth insights while ensuring that the company stays in the path to success with his foresight and vision.
He started as a dynamic executive, climbing the ladder of success gradually to become a director at Upman.
With 15 years in the recruitment ecosystem, Nigam Desai has consistently leveraged his experience to enhance Upman Placements’ reputation as an HR and recruitment services firm in the market. Mr. Desai establishes the hiring policies based on diverse corporate culture of each industry. He stresses on tailor-made recruitment solutions for every client based on their industry.
As managing director, Mr. Nigam has enabled a transparent recruitment ecosystem within the company, to overcome challenges and frictions of the industry. He focuses on dynamic policies and robust measures other than personal investment, to help local freelancers, independent recruiters, startups, and the like.
