MANAGEMENT TEAM
UpMan includes a team of 100+ experienced recruiters who are committed to the company work culture and not just limited to Staffing Services
in India, but even across Singapore, and the UK.
Our Management Team leverage their diverse experience as Certified Recruitment Specialist in recruitment and human resources, to deliver the goods.
NIGAM DESAI
Managing Director
Mukesh Desai
Director Operations & Administrations
Mehul Sheth
Director
Niyant Chaturvedi
Director
Meenu Chaturvedi
Director
Krishna Ved
Head Strategy & Planning
Gaurav Chauhan
COO
Prashant Rawal
Business Head – BFSI Segment
KOMAL PATEL
Sr. Manager HR
Saandeep K Das
Head Business Development & Client Relationship
NIGAM DESAI
(Managing Director)
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.
Mukesh Desai
(Director Operations & Administrations)
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.
KOMAL PATEL
(Sr. Manager HR)
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.
Dimple Dave
(HR Consultant)
With 13+ years as an HR practitioner, Dimple Dave is quite adept in managing the entire employee life cycle with efficiency including Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Payroll Management, Training, Compensation structuring, Employee Engagement, and Policy Design. Her expertise with transition key HR processes has extensively aided Upman Placements in its growth trajectory.
Over the years, Dimple has delivered key insights in strategic HR integration, vendor development, resource allocation, and team leadership. Her expertise has ensured holistic HR and training operations tailored to a wide number of corporates in different spheres.
Gaurav Chauhan
(COO)
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.
Sainath Bait
(Head Staffing Services)
As a veteran professional with more than decade of FMCG in sales & operations, Mr. Sainath Bait offers his expertise in fulfilling staffing requirements to the tee. He is adroit in field & team management coupled with dedicated Account Management for varied domains.
Mr. Bait leveraged his technical know-how in recruitment for Manpower, Loreal, Elder and HUL previously. At Upman Placement, he utilized his skills to cater to client requirements with tailored execution strategies. Providing the best candidates of the industry to clients was his forte. His leadership skills have come in handy in guiding the team for client servicing & handling payroll systems.
Prashant Rawal
(Business Head – BFSI Segment)
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.
Mehul Sheth
(Director)
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.
Niyant Chaturvedi
(Director)
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.
Meenu Chaturvedi
(Director)
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.
Krishna Ved
(Head Strategy & Planning)
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.
Saandeep K Das
(Head Business Development & Client Relationship)
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.