Kshitij (also known as KJ) is a recruitment industry icon, recognized globally for his passion for solving the most difficult problems in the human capital ecosystem with technology. KJ founded Joveo with the mission of delivering the right “job to everyone” (a phrase that translated into the name of the company itself).

With 20 years of recruitment marketing experience, KJ has a proven track record of building, leading, and managing innovative, high-growth organizations. As Joveo’s Founder and CEO, he drives the company’s long-term product and go-to-market strategies as well as day-to-day operations.

Before Joveo, KJ founded MoBolt, which created the world’s best apply optimization technology. After its acquisition by Indeed in 2014, he was a part of the product team at the company. Prior to MoBolt, KJ ran product management for the Asia Pacific region at Monster Worldwide, led cross-border sales for Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa, and was their global recruiting subject matter expert.

Besides solving problems in the recruitment space, he spends his time making trouble with his twins. He is also a trail runner and deep sea diver by passion and a gemologist by training.

Ankur serves as the Head of Product at Joveo. Prior to his current role, he led technical functions across several organizations, including Indeed, Google, and MoBolt. He co-founded Joveo and was a founding engineer at MoBolt. He has over a decade of expertise in the HR technology space and has helped Joveo grow to the level it is today.

Ankur, an engineer at heart, leverages his technical knowledge to create simple and scalable products. He has successfully led several 0-1 and 1-10 journeys, establishing teams from the ground up. He enjoys sports, diving, hiking, and spending time with his family when he isn’t busy inventing breakthrough technology solutions and driving Joveo to new heights.

As Vice President of Engineering, Prateek drives the vision and execution of Joveo’s technology platform and engineering infrastructure. Prior to Joveo, Prateek was the CTO of Mobolt and helped develop the world’s best job application optimization technology. Upon Mobolt’s acquisition by Indeed in 2014, Prateek incubated a team to strongly establish Indeed’s presence in India.

Having gained expertise in building enterprise-scale applications. Prateek also co-founded kaam.work, a tech-enabled recruitment platform enabling the principle of ‘work from anywhere’.

Vikrant joined Joveo in 2021, as Head of Operations and Strategy. In this role, he drives operational excellence, process optimization, revenue operations, people and change management, fundraising, and investor outreach/relations.

Prior to joining Joveo, Vikrant led the Global Strategy Group at KPMG Lower Gulf (UAE and Oman), building the practice from scratch into a USD 4 million business, serviced by a team of 25 consultants. Vikrant was also a member of founding teams for deal strategy at EY and KPMG in India.

With more than 20 years of experience in strategy, M&A, and finance, Vikrant has led teams to drive organizational effectiveness, value, and sustainability in highly-competitive and evolving markets across the GCC, India, Europe, and the USA. His success as a lead advisor to C-suite executives is inextricably connected to his deep, cross-industry experience with transaction and strategy in complex investment, expansion, and turnaround scenarios, across the globe.

Ani oversees all revenue operations at Joveo, including marketing, sales, and customer success. He is primarily responsible for sales, product, and pricing strategies. Ani brings a wealth of experience, spanning nearly two decades, in setting up bootstrap sales teams to scale businesses across all major markets.

A decisive, organized, and effective manager, Ani specializes in maximizing outcomes for all parties involved – whether customers, employees, or partners. His positive approach to solving challenges and demonstrated sales and management expertise offer the perfect blend of skills to reach and exceed revenue goals time after time.

Prior to joining Joveo, Ani served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Datameer, and prior to that, he worked for 22 years at IBM, where he rapidly grew from the position of a sales leader to Regional Sales Manager, IBM Cloud Analytics – moving from one challenging role to another nearly every two years.

Shehzad spearheads Joveo’s global marketing efforts, including product and content marketing, demand generation, marketing communications, sales enablement, and other functions. Prior to Joveo, Karkhanawala served as Assistant Vice President, Marketing, and General Manager, India, for Webscale Networks, a leader in cloud hosting and management for digital commerce. At Webscale, he helped build a powerful demand generation engine to support the company’s 100%+ YoY growth.

Before Webscale Networks, he served as Director of Marketing at Aryaka Networks, a global market leader in the SD-WAN space, disrupting telecom giants such as AT&T and Verizon. At Aryaka, Shehzad was part of the award-winning marketing leadership team that helped grow the company’s revenue by over 500% in three years. In 2018, his marketing organization was recognized as a Marketers that Matter Award Finalist in the “Driving Growth” and “Transformation Journey” categories.

Vinod leads long-term growth and customer strategy at Joveo. His main focus is on delivering exceptional customer experiences and accelerating customer lifetime value. He brings approximately 25 years of fast-paced, “customer first” experience from four continents to the table, with expertise spanning account strategy, customer success, and service excellence.

Vinod has a track record of transforming key “high-risk” accounts into successful ventures. His forte lies in re-engineering processes, redefining performance, and energizing customer satisfaction. With a clear vision and strategic thinking, he ensures flawless execution of well-articulated, progressive customer strategies aimed at continuously pushing the needle of growth.

Before joining Joveo, Vinod served as Vice President Global Customer Success at Talview, a recruiting automation and edutech platform, where he was in charge of developing customer success programs. Prior to that, he was CEO at Innovatia (India), a global knowledge solutions company, where he shouldered responsibilities for cross functional execution, building organizational capabilities, and developing an investment strategy.

Doug joined Joveo in early 2022 as a Head of Candidate Experience & Engagement, bringing his four decades of experience in the recruitment marketing, talent acquisition, and employer branding space. Over the years, he has mastered the art of talent acquisition, striving to understand how companies recruit talent as well as how talent searches for work.

Recently, he has been drawn to the challenges and opportunities offered by HR technology, which has prompted him to join in Joveo’s efforts to develop an end-to-end talent acquisition operating system. Before Joveo, Doug was involved in creating multiple game-changing products, including one of the industry’s first-fully automated client/agency collaboration tools, a job posting engine that increased recruiter productivity, and the first media tracking engine with ‘track-to-hire’ functionality.

Doug graduated from Iowa State University while completing a double masters in Journalism and Marketing. He is a die-hard baseball enthusiast who cheers for the Chicago Cubs above all others. In his free time, he enjoys playing tennis.

Krishna leads Joveo’s global finance and administrative functions, partnering with other functions to deliver on key business goals, identify opportunities and risks, improve business forecasting, and help provide the scale required for the company’s exponential growth. He brings over 16 years of operational and financial leadership experience in financial planning and analysis, controllership, audits, and taxes. His expertise also includes scaling rapid-growth businesses and the development of internal control systems to enhance productivity and execution.

Most recently, Krishna served as Assistant General Manager Finance at Autoliv India, an automotive safety supplier with sales to all leading car manufacturers worldwide. Prior to joining Autoliv, Krishna led business finance, controllership, as well as financial planning and analysis for Honeywell Automation India. Krishna was also a financial analyst with GE Power Services.

In a career spread over two decades, Sanjay has worked with various organizations, including Taj Hotels, Siemens, AXA, Capita, Sterling & WNS.
His professional experience includes strategy, human resources management, people analytics, process excellence, operations management, data strategy, Lean Six Sigma, and building high-performing cultures.

Sanjay has completed an Executive MBA from IIM, Bangalore, Strategy Implementation from ISB, Hyderabad, and Advanced Human Resources Program from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt and High-Performance Coach from Vega Factor, New York. He was awarded as Top 100 HR Leaders in India by World HRD Congress. He is also a regular panelist, speaker, and participant at eminent industry forums and premier educational institutions, such as IIM and MDI.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing squash, tennis and off-roading. Yoga and poetry are major obsessions and both of these are great avenues for him to connect with himself. His wife, Arti, is a teacher and their sons, Shaurya and Dhairya, are avid footballers.

Ram has over 25 years of technology strategy and execution expertise at fast-paced innovative companies like Cast Iron Systems, PeopleSoft, WebMD, Silicon Graphics, IBM, and Tata Consultancy Services. Ram is one of the few technology executives who have diverse technology experience all the way from chip design to application software including operating systems, networking, databases, middleware, multimedia, analytics, and cloud computing. He has been a part of teams that pioneered the first commercial hardware independent operating system, the first commercial video streaming server, the first healthcare internet transaction service, the first pure internet application software, and the first application integration in the cloud. He has worked for companies of all sizes – from startups to large public companies.

Ram holds several patents in the U.S. and was awarded the Smithsonian Computer World “Search for the Heroes” Award for the year 2000 for his work on healthcare integration platform at WebMD. He holds an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BS degree in Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India.

Ram currently serves as a director on the boards of Joveo, Aryaka, Progress Software (PRGS), FusionOps, Unmetric, and Simplilearn. Since 2007, Ram has served as director on the boards of various public and private technology companies like S1 Corporation (SONE, acquired), Platform Computing (acquired), Cast Iron Systems (acquired), Persistent Systems (PRST, IPO), Accruent Inc. (acquired), Knova Software (acquired), Plateau Systems (acquired), and Geek Net (GKNT).

From 2005 to 2007, Ram was the President and CEO of Cast Iron Systems (a startup) and then from 2007 to 2010 he was the executive chairman of Cast Iron Systems. During his tenure, the company became the first and the largest vendor of application integration in the cloud. Both the revenue and the customer base grew over 500%. It was then acquired by IBM for a 5x return to the investors.

From 2000 to 2004, Ram was the Executive Vice President at PeopleSoft Inc., responsible for strategy, development, marketing, customer support, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. He led over 6000 people in 15 different countries and managed a P&L of $1.6B. During this time, his team launched the first pure Internet suite of applications. The product portfolio went from 95 products to more than 300 products, revenues of the company went from $1B to $3B, the EPS went from $0.01 to $0.95, and the market capitalization grew from $3 billion to over $10 billion.

From 1997 to 2000, Ram was the Senior Vice President and General Manager at WebMD Corp. He was a part of the executive team that grew WebMD from a $5 million annual revenue startup to a public company with a market cap of over $2B. During this time his team launched the first healthcare Internet transaction service that enabled billions of healthcare transactions to flow seamlessly across doctor’s offices, hospitals, insurance companies, labs, and pharmacies. This then enabled the company to become the number one consumer healthcare information site worldwide.

From 1985 to 1997, Ram held various leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, IBM, and Tata Consultancy Services.

Sameer has been an early-stage investor in over 38 companies.
His operational expertise lies in product management, business development, sales acceleration, recruiting, follow-on fundraising, and scaling. At Nexus, Sameer focuses on consumer internet, enterprise / SaaS, ed-tech, healthcare and B2B commerce domains. At Nexus, Sameer has led investments in Postman, Unacademy, Infra.market, Zolo, Hasura.io, Ultrahuman, Quandl, RoadRunnr (Zomato), Joveo and a variety of other companies.

Prior to Nexus, Sameer was the founding member at Reliance Capital’s early-stage venture capital fund (Reliance Ventures) where he led investments in PayTM, HealthSpring (Columbia Pacific), Tessolve Semiconductor (Hero Electronix), Dhama Innovations (strategic buy-back), Greendust, Stoke (Mavenir Systems) & EBand Communications (CarrierCom). Sameer has previously served in operating roles at UTStarcom, Inc, Ericsson AB and American Wireless BroadBand, as a Product Manager, Solutions Architect, and Network Architect in the US, China and India. He is an Advisor to AngelList India & was earlier an Advisor to Microsoft Ventures India. He was voted as a “40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals in India 2018″ by IAAIF. He is also a Kautilya Fellow (Class of 2020).

A life-long learner, Sameer earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering as an International & Founders Scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. While at IllinoisTech, he also interned at Hughes Software Systems, UTStarcom, Spectranet and did undergraduate research work for National Science Foundation, Molex and IIT Research Institute (IITRI).