Ankita Agarwal – Talent Acquisition Lead

Ankita Agarwal is a professional with work experience of approx 8 years across HR Domain.

Working as a Talent Acquisition Lead for StarLeaf Talent Solutions since September 20, 2021. Prior to that she was associated with Fibrex Construction Chemicals, Alok Industries, CoolDeck Aqua Solutions and Chandan Steel.

Her work experience includes talent acquisition across junior, middle and senior levels. She has strong analytical skills along with good experience of advanced excel and various sourcing tools.

She hails from Jaipur and is currently based out of Gurgaon, living there with her husband and daughter. She is very much interested in human Psychology which helps her to understand the client and candidate requirements and thus sourcing the right fit for the job.
Ankita is a hard working, quick learner and a multi tasker who strives for the best in everything she does.

Neha Sethi – Team Lead – Talent Acquisition

Neha Sethi joined Starleaf Talent solution as Talent acquisition lead on 1st December 2021 and comes with a strong 17 years of experience in Client Services. At StarLeaf she leads the Talent acquisition and customer service function. She is based in Bangalore.

She is originally from Delhi and married for 14 years with 2 children, Prisha Sethi (Daughter ) and Cooper (Dog).

Neha completed her graduation from Delhi University and holds a diploma in Public Relations and Advertising as well. She started her career with India Today group and was a part of their team for 2 years and worked over these years in various roles with reputed organizations like Noshe Oceanic Advertising and educational institutions like Sapphire International School and Vibgyor group of schools. On the professional front, her biggest asset is being dedicated, committed and excels when it comes to understanding the needs of her clients and candidates.

During her personal time, she likes to spend time with family and is also an avid reader. Apart from that she is into fitness and cooking as it helps her to be calmer and more focused.

As an individual her philosophy is that everyone deserves to be happy and focuses on spreading happiness even when she is in office which in turn helps in being productive and leads to a happy and healthy life.

Shikhar Pande

Shikhar is the Operations Manager at Starleaf Talent Solutions. Shikhar is the wizard behind building the unique and one of the largest database of finance professionals.

He has 12+ years of corporate experience, mostly in Ernst & Young, D. E. Shaw &Co. and a short stint at the United Nations Development Program in India.

He completed his B.Com from Kanpur University and his MBA (Fin) from Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune. He joined Ernst & Young as an Analyst in their Hedge Fund Tax team, where he worked on clients like UBS and BlackRock. After EY he joined D.E. Shaw’s in-house Tax department as a Senior Analyst and spent 5+ highly productive years there. Working in these two organisations helped him to perform well under pressure and produce high quality deliverables while meeting the strict deadlines.

In his free time,Shikhar likes to watch documentaries, read non-fiction and collect old Russian books.