Founding Team
Yusuf Pathan
Yusuf Pathan is a Talent AcquisiƟon professional with 25+ years of experience across recruitment, sourcing, and employer branding. He is the Founder of RecruiƟng Adda and the organizer of TASCON, with a strong focus on advancing the Talent AcquisiƟon profession. He specializes in sourcing hard-to-find talent, passive candidate engagement, and solving complex global recruiƟng challenges. Yusuf has trained and mentored 15,000+ recruiters and has conducted recruitment hackathons with 7,000+ parƟcipants. His work focuses on Talent AcquisiƟon, sourcing, recruitment technology, AI in recruitment, and the future of hiring.
Mitcch Duddani
Mitcch Duddani is a recruitment and personal branding leader with nearly two decades of experience across talent acquisition, executive search, training and digital marketing. Founder of The Hiring Club and Socialli.in, she is passionate about helping professionals and organisations build stronger networks, careers and brands through recruitment expertise and effective social media strategies.
Sarang Brahme
Sarang Brahme is Director – Talent Attraction at Capgemini India and a seasoned recruitment marketing and employer branding strategist. With over two decades of experience across sourcing, talent acquisition, social recruiting and employer branding, he is known for developing candidate-focused talent attraction strategies that create measurable business impact.
Jashan Joshi
Recognized among India’s Top 30 HR Influencers on Social Media by SHRM India, and featured in the Top 50 HR Influencers in India by Blogger Alliance. AIRS, SourcePro Certified Talent Sourcing Professional. Talent Intelligence Expert, GenAI Enthusiast. Management Committee Member of TASCON, India’s largest Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Conclave, and also part of the Management Committee at Recruiting Adda (www.recruitingadda.com), India's biggest community of TA professionals. Management Committee Member of HR Interact (Association of HR professionals from Pune). Ex-Committee Member of HR Infotech Association (Pune chapter). Guest speaker at multiple universities, colleges, and forums in India. Jashan recruits for a living! Passionate about talent sourcing, recruiting and building high-impact teams globally. Experienced in advanced sourcing, social recruiting, talent intelligence, market research, leadership hiring, and diversity hiring. Exploring the impact of GenAI & ML in recruiting while valuing human intelligence for a great candidate experience.
Anshuman Mukherji
Anshuman Mukherjee leads the Talent Sourcing Centre of Excellence at Capgemini. With deep experience in sourcing enablement and executive hiring, he focuses on strengthening sourcing capabilities, developing modern talent strategies and helping recruitment teams identify specialised talent.
Piyush Raghuvanshi
Piyush Raghuvanshi is Associate Director, Talent Acquisition at D. E. Shaw India, leading technology, strategic and leadership hiring. With extensive experience across high-growth and multinational organisations, he brings expertise in talent transformation, people leadership and integrating GenAI into recruitment workflows.
Sheben Rawat
Sheben Rawat is Head of Talent Acquisition – India at ZS and a seasoned recruitment leader with extensive experience in technology hiring. He focuses on building strong talent acquisition teams, improving recruitment practices and creating meaningful candidate and stakeholder experiences.
Chinmay Chavan
Chinmay Chavan is an APAC Talent AcquisiƟon professional with 11+ years of experience in IT recruitment and 6+ years of experƟse in global sourcing. He has extensive experience in endto-end recruitment, headhunƟng, sourcing, pre-qualificaƟon, and hiring across APAC markets. He currently works as a Manager – Talent AcquisiƟon at MulƟplier, driving recruitment across APAC, EMEA, and NAMER, with a focus on Customer Success and Sales roles. Previously, he worked with Deel, Lentra, Talend, and BMC SoŌware, handling talent acquisiƟon across mulƟple internaƟonal markets. Chinmay is also a Recruiter, Sourcer, Headhunter, and Trainer, with strong experƟse in global sourcing and recruitment.
Ankita Gupta
Ankita Gupta is an experienced recruitment leader with a strong background across IT services and product organisations. Her expertise includes talent acquisition, stakeholder management, negotiation, HR consulting and hiring risk management, with a focus on creating structured and business-aligned recruitment practices.
Vijaya Deshpande
Vijaya Deshpande is an entrepreneur, leadership hiring expert and Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Talent Acquisition at Optime-Tech. With over two decades of experience, she works across strategic sourcing, executive coaching and inclusive hiring to help organisations build diverse and future-ready teams.
Clive Rodrigues
Clive Rodrigues is the Founder of PeopleX Ventures, where he partners with founders on Search, Fractional CHRO Advisory and People Strategy & Operations. Drawing on leadership experience across HR and Talent Acquisition, he helps startups and high-growth companies build exceptional teams, scalable people functions and strong organisational foundations particularly through the 0 - 1 and 1 - 10 stages of growth.
Achyut Menon
Achyut Menon “AK” is an executive search veteran and career transition coach with more than three decades of experience. As Managing Director of Options Executive Search, he has supported organisations in identifying leadership talent and helped senior professionals navigate important career transitions. He is also an active mentor and respected voice on recruitment and the future of work.
Sharath Kumar
Sharath Kumar is a Partner at SourcePRO and a core member of Recruiting ADDA and TASCON. His experience spans recruitment, RPO, staffing, branding, digital engagement, training and operations. He has played an active role in building recruitment communities and delivering industry learning initiatives.
Core Team
Tatyasaheb Kolage
Tatyasaheb Kolage is an ExecuƟve Sourcing and Recruitment professional with 15+ years of experience across ExecuƟve Recruitment, Talent Sourcing, Talent AcquisiƟon, Market Research, and Business Development support. He also conducts hands-on training on AI tools and technologies and regularly speaks at HR industry events, sharing insights on emerging trends and innovaƟons in sourcing and recruitment. He has been a speaker at mulƟple ediƟons of TASCON, as well as events by Amdocs, LinkedIn, and Indeed. Tatyasaheb has also earned recogniƟon in sourcing compeƟƟons, including Top 3 in the Recruitment Premier League 2022 and Rank #4 in the 2016 World's Greatest Sourcer Contest.
Megha Gudhade
Megha Gudadhe is an international recruiter and Talent Acquisition specialist with a keen interest in modern hiring practices, AI-led recruitment, diversity and HR innovation. An active member of the recruitment community, she contributes to creating engaging experiences and building meaningful connections through TASCON and Recruiting ADDA.
Shivkumar Gurram
Shivkumar Gurram is a recruitment and talent sourcing professional with 15+ years of experience across recruitment, sourcing, training, and mentoring. He is the Founder of SourcingXPress, where he focuses on building technology-driven soluƟons for recruitment and empowering recruiters through pracƟcal sourcing training. He has previously worked with organizaƟons including Amazon, Capgemini, and Huron, with experience in global recruitment and talent sourcing. Shivkumar is also a LinkedIn CerƟfied Professional–Recruiter and has trained thousands of recruiters in sourcing and recruitment. His current work focuses on the intersecƟon of AI, recruitment technology, talent sourcing, and the future of hiring.
Milind Dadape
Milind Dadape is a Talent AcquisiƟon professional with 19+ years of experience across recruitment and human resources. He has worked across organizaƟons including OpenText, AMPS, CoƟviƟ, HSBC, Virtusa, The Adecco Group, and Alp ConsulƟng. His experience spans talent acquisiƟon, technical recruiƟng, sourcing, recruitment processes, and stakeholder engagement. He holds a B.Com from Osmania University and cerƟficaƟons in LinkedIn Recruiter, Talent Sourcing, Technical RecruiƟng, and HR analyƟcs. Milind is also acƟvely engaged in conversaƟons around AI and the future of Talent AcquisiƟon, sharing perspecƟves on how technology is reshaping the role of recruiters.
Sachin Pilwan
Sachin Pilwan is the Director – Customer Success & Operations at SourcePRO and Recruiting ADDA, where he leads client success, community engagement, partnerships, and operational excellence. With over eight years of experience, Sachin is passionate about empowering Talent Acquisition professionals and helping organisations build future-ready recruitment capabilities. Through SourcePRO, he works closely with recruiters and hiring teams to deliver impactful training programmes in recruitment, sourcing, and Generative AI. At Recruiting ADDA, he plays an instrumental role in bringing together India's Talent Acquisition community through conferences, workshops, and networking initiatives that foster learning, collaboration, and innovation. Sachin is driven by a simple belief – when people, technology, and continuous learning come together, great hiring outcomes follow.
Dr. Hemamalini M J
Dr Hemamalini M J is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience across recruitment, training and placements, career counselling, strategic talent acquisition and corporate partnerships. She is passionate about strengthening industry–academia collaboration and preparing professionals for evolving workplace requirements.
Rochell Wilson
Rochell Wilson is Client Acquisition Head at GenieHire.ai, with over seven years of experience in sales and business development within the recruitment and HR ecosystem. She works with startups, enterprises and GCCs across multiple international markets, helping organisations build meaningful partnerships and simplify hiring through AI-enabled recruitment solutions.
Yasmin Raj
Yasmin Raj is a training and people-development professional focused on learning, employee experience and organisational growth. As an Experience Curator and the driving force behind Nangok – Creating Memories, she is passionate about creating engaging experiences, strengthening collaboration and helping individuals and teams grow.
Shreya Gaikwad
Hi, I'm Shreya Gaikwad, and I'm passionate about building meaningful partnerships and communities within the Talent Acquisition space. At SourcePRO Consulting and Recruiting Adda, I work across sales, marketing, client relationships, employer branding, and strategic partnerships, helping organizations connect with the recruitment community through impactful initiatives. A big part of my work revolves around TASCON and the Recruitment Premier League (RPL)—platforms that bring Talent Acquisition professionals together to learn, network, compete, and grow. I love collaborating with people, creating opportunities for brands, and contributing to initiatives that strengthen the recruitment ecosystem. I'm always happy to connect with professionals across recruitment, HR, staffing, employer branding, and HR technology. If you're building something meaningful in the Talent Acquisition space, I'd love to connect!