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Fractional CHRO | Org design, talent density & scaling people functions | Seed to scale | ex-Dream11, Freshworks, Myntra

About

I have built HR from scratch multiple times, scaled organisations through hypergrowth, and led through the hard calls most people would rather avoid. I think like a business operator who happens to own the people agenda. For 18+ years I have worked on the people side of some of India's fastest-growing startups and scale-ups. At Dream11, I scaled the tech org from 100 to 700 and built the HRBP function from the ground up. At Freshworks, I ran global HR operations across five countries. I joined Myntra before the ecommerce pivot and helped grow the team from 100 to 2,500. I was the 9th employee at Pipemonk, where I owned HR, legal, and finance, set up India and US operations, and led the culture integration of the Freshworks acquisition. The pattern I keep seeing is the same. Founders are heads-down on product and revenue, and the people side gets built reactively, until it starts slowing everything else down. Wrong hires. Org design that grew by accident. Performance that nobody actually manages once "everyone wears many hats" stops working. I started Sageo to fix that properly. I work with founders and CEOs on the decisions that quietly determine whether a company scales well: who you hire, how you structure teams, how you protect talent density, and how performance gets managed as you move from early stage to scaled-up. Increasingly, my work sits at the intersection of people, AI, and operational efficiency: helping teams rethink how they are designed and how decisions get made in an AI-enabled world. If you are a founder thinking about the people side of your next stage of growth, let's talk.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

People Advisor (Fractional) at SuperK, Jun 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Advising on people and culture strategies. Helping the founders, the leadership team and the People/HR team navigate through people, process and policy decisions

Founder at Sageo, Apr 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, - Helping startups build their people function from the ground up - Supporting org design and structure through early-stage to rapid growth - Building performance management and manager capability - Helping founders transition from founder-led to manager-led organisations - Helping in hiring mid-senior, senior and leadership mandates, with a team that delivers end to end

Vice President Human Resources at Skillz, Nov 2025 - Apr 2026 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, - Led the People strategy for the Platform business of a NASDAQ-listed gaming company, driving performance calibration, compensation planning, and leadership alignment to build a high-accountability, performance-driven culture during a critical growth phase. - Strengthened people operations and talent infrastructure by institutionalizing structured onboarding, improving manager capability in performance management, and aligning workforce planning with business and P&L priorities.

Vice President Human Resources at Dream11, Jul 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, - Led people strategy for 700 global tech employees, partnering with founders and CXOs to align talent with rapid business growth. - Established and managed HR for US expansion and AI Innovation Centre (with Columbia University), ensuring global readiness and compliance. - Build leadership pipelines through executive coaching, succession planning, and structured capability development. - Champion high-performance culture via competency frameworks, 360 feedback, eNPS, and inclusion initiatives; improve eNPS and reduce attrition. - Drive HR digitization and operational excellence with a lean team, enabling data-driven decisions and scalable processes.

Associate Vice President HR at Dream11, Jul 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Director HR at Dream11, Nov 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Lead - HRBP & HR Ops at Freshworks, Aug 2016 - Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Chennai Area, India, - Partnered with tech and non-tech teams (~2000 employees) across the global offices to drive talent engagement, performance management, and retention strategies. - Led organization design, capability planning, and introduced HR automation tools to improve efficiency. - Set up and led the HR Operations team (3 direct reports), overseeing payroll and compliance across the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and India offices to support scaling and operational excellence. - Built tax-efficient, competitive compensation structures and conducted market benchmarking. - Drove capacity planning, hiring, change management, and organizational restructuring initiatives. - Identified and implemented HR automation tools to streamline processes and improve employee experience.

Education

PGDM, HR, Alliance University

B.Com (Hons.), Commerce, Banaras Hindu University