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title: "Kartik Narayan - Academic Council Member in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kartik Narayan, CEO - Apna.Co based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes gemini."
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# Kartik Narayan on Tal

## Headline

CEO \- Apna\.Co

## About

I build businesses\. Over the last 25 years, I've led organizations through growth, reinvention, and scale\. My work has spanned consumer internet, technology, AI, and enterprise businesses, but I've always believed that industries matter less than the quality of decisions, execution, and leadership\. Today, I serve as CEO of Apna, where we're using AI to solve large\-scale market problems\. What interests me most, however, isn't technology itself\. It's how technology reshapes businesses, organizations, and the way people create value\. I'm driven by difficult problems, ambitious teams, and opportunities to build organizations that can adapt, endure, and grow\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

gemini

## Work experience

Academic Council Member at Xavier Institute Of Management and Entrepreneurship, May 2026 \- Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Member of the Academic Council, contributing to discussions on curriculum relevance, industry alignment, employability, technology trends and the future of management education\.

CEO \- Apna\.Co at apna, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, I lead Apna's mission to transform how India discovers jobs and talent\. We serve millions of job seekers and thousands of businesses, helping organizations hire at scale while enabling economic opportunity for the workforce\.

Board Member at Indian Staffing Federation, Mar 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Executive Board Member Regulatory Committee Marketing Committee South Chapter Head Research Committee

CEO \- Staffing at TeamLease Services Limited, Sep 2022 \- Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, We are fueling India's economic rise by addressing the people supply chain challenges \( hiring,attrition, and productivity\)\.By unlocking our workforce's potential, we're paving the way for a brighter future\.

Executive Vice President \- Enterprise Business at Vodafone Idea Limited, Mar 2015 \- Jul 2022 · 7 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead the large and mid\-market enterprise business nationally with p&l responsibility\.

## Education

M\.B\.A, Telecom, Marketing, Economics, Symbiosis Institute of Digital & Telecom Management \(SIDTM\), Pune

Master of commerce/ \(M\.Com\), Business Administration and Management, General, Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce

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