Shubham Kathuria is an Associate Partner with TRANSEARCH India and is based out of our Delhi office.
Shubham Kathuria has close to a decade of experience across executive search and client advisory.
Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, he spent almost 7 years with Michael Page, where he led multiple practices and P&Ls spanning Financial Services, Product Technology and Public Policy.
Shubham has a strong track record on closing multiple CXO searches for Top Financial Services setups in India. Before stepping into the search ecosystem, Shubham built his sectoral expertise as a banker – including a stint at Kotak Mahindra Bank in client advisory.
Shubham has built multiple trusted-relationships across India’s Banking, NBFC, and Fintech landscape. He has earned regular recognition within the firm and in the broader executive search space for consistently delivering exceptional client experience across mandates. He partners closely with Financial Services clients to build high-impact Boards and leadership teams Shubham is an MBA from IMI New Delhi and an alumnus of Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj
Stuti Vohra is a Senior Partner with Transearch India. She is based in Delhi.
As a General Manager with over 30 years of work experience, Stuti Vohra is a proven business transformer, revenue accelerator with an excellent record for delivering exceptional value.
Prior to Transearch, Stuti was Founder & Managing Partner of a boutique search firm – Talent Partners. She was and remains a trusted advisor to both international and Indian organizations advising them on leadership talent matters and specializes in senior leadership hiring. A significant part of her experience has been to build out global relationships and client base that have been industry agnostic. She embarked on her executive search firm experience when she joined a well known search firm to head up their IT and Retail practice globally.
Stuti was the Global Head of HR Operations for a US multi billion Retailer where she worked both out of the US and Bangalore. Prior to this she was with GE Capital and was the Director of Compliance for the ITES arm of the Hero Group. She began her career with the Oberoi Group of Hotels.
Stuti holds Bacherlors in English Literature followed by the management programme at The Oberoi Center for Learning and Development – which is rated amongst the best in Asia and a benchmark for excellence in management education.
Sabina is a Principal with TRANSEARCH India and is based in Delhi. She leads the firm’s Insurance practice & co-leads the Financial Services Practice in India.
Sabina brings with her 30 years of experience working with multinational companies, Managing large RPOs and setting up and running a successful entrepreneurial venture. She has extensive hands-on experience in senior and leadership hiring across Banking, Insurance, NBFCs and Telecom. – across all Lines of Business and functions. Prior to joining TRANSEARCH she managed her own boutique Recruitment firm-Quest Executive Search for over a decade.
In her other roles she has also managed RPO(Recruitment Process Outsourcing) operations for American Express and Macquarie Global Services.
In the Initial part of her career, she held Brand management positions with Apollo Tyres and Bausch and Lomb India.
Sabina is an MBA from IMT, Ghaziabad(Institute of Management Technology), a premier business school in India and holds a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University.
Puneet Malhotra is a Senior Partner at TRANSEARCH India, specializing in the Technology Practice. Based in New Delhi, he is a member of the Global Technology & Services Practice and a trusted advisor to global clients on executive-level talent solutions and succession planning. With nearly 20 years of experience, he has successfully led C-suite mandates for technology, software, and professional services firms.
Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, Puneet worked with Heidrick & Struggles. This marks his second tenure with TRANSEARCH, where he has accumulated approximately 10 years of experience.
Puneet’s passion for executive search in sustainability and diversity roles fuels his work across technology services organizations, software companies, technology-enabled startups, semiconductor firms, and large private equity-backed ventures. He has successfully helped clients appoint top leadership positions, including CEO, CTO, CDO, and global P&L business heads.
Puneet is deeply committed to service and collaborates with like-minded individuals and organizations to create a meaningful impact on the community and society. He actively supports various NGOs in community development initiatives and fundraising efforts, with a particular focus on girls’ education.
Puneet is a Science graduate from Sri Venkateshwara College, Delhi University and also holds a Post graduate Diploma in Management (Marketing), from the FORE School of Management
Shobha is a Principal with Transearch India and is based in Bangalore.
Over the last 6 years, Shobha has provided leadership talent acquisition and advisory to companies which are at different growth juncture in the consumer internet and digital space. She has been instrumental in closing leadership roles across functions such as Engineering, Product management, Data Sciences, Category management , Sales, Human resources , Finance etc in India, Americas and South East Asian region. Her prior experience for close to a decade was with Honeywell. In her last role as Regional Treasury, she was responsible for managing treasury functions for all entities in India, Pacific and few SEA countries. Her earlier experience was in finance back office operations.
Shobha studied at IIM, Bangalore for Executive General Management Program. She holds an Master degree in Sociology from Karnataka University and a three year Diploma in Architecture from Karnataka State Technical Board.
Shilpa Swamy is a Principal Consultant in Transearch’s Bangalore office.
Shilpa has 16+ years of experience in talent acquisition and executive search, having successfully partnered with multiple organizations to hire MDs/CEOs, Presidents, CXOs, and other executives in India, South East Asia, China, and the Middle East.
She has extensive experience of talent acquisition across Industrial, Manufacturing, Automotive & Data Analytics sectors. Shilpa started her career at Transearch in research and over the next 12 years grew to an Associate Principal role and has successfully closed multiple business and functional mandates in the Industrial, Manufacturing & Automotive industries during this stint.
She moved to a boutique consulting company called Rinalytics as an AVP & Business Head with P&L responsibility for the selection business. In her last role, Shilpa worked with the Strides Group from 2019 -2022 where she was responsible for leadership hiring across 9 group companies and the account manager for Strides Consumer, Steriscience, Naari Pharma, Tenshi, etc responsible for end to end talent acquisition. She helped design and implement leadership hiring strategies in India, UK, US, Africa, etc.
She has a PGDBM (HR) from Wigan and Leigh (UK) and BE (Computer Science) from Bangalore University.
Radhika Vivek is a Senior Partner in the Consumer Practice as well as for the Outsourcing & BPO Practice of TRANSEARCH India. She is based in Mumbai.
Radhika has over 20 years of experience, over 17 years of which have been in executive search. She has worked across Consumer, Retail, IT, ITES and Financial Services sectors and has successfully closed senior mandates in the Finance, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, IT and HR functions besides several CXO hires. During her stint with Randstad Executive Search, Radhika successfully built and grew a global Consumer Practice and gained significant expertise in cross border assignments, working with clients across South and South East Asia, the Middle East and the UK. Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, she was Executive Director and Head of the Mumbai office at Sheffield Haworth India.
Radhika holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lady Shriram College, Delhi University, and a Masters in Business Economics, also from Delhi University. She has completed a program in HR, Strategy and Change Management from IIM Bangalore. Radhika is also a certified Executive Coach.
Meenakshi Thakar is a Senior Partner with TRANSEARCH India and leads the Professional Services, Analytics/Emerging Technology, GCC/ Business Process Outsourcing Practice. She is based out of New Delhi
In the last 2 decades with TRANSEARCH, Meenakshi has partnered with MNCs, large Indian business houses, and startups, supporting them in their strategic and leadership hiring mandates. She has successfully advised clients and executed key leadership searches across India and globally — including Board of Directors, CEOs, C-Suite positions, and succession planning roles. She works in close collaboration with her clients, helping them build and grow their businesses by identifying and attracting key leadership talent aligned with their strategic objectives.
Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, Meenakshi successfully led her own Entrepreneurial venture in Executive Search, partnering with clients across diverse industries and functional areas for leadership hiring.
Earlier in her career, she was associated with BTI Consultants, where she specialized in senior executive search assignments.
In the initial stage of her career, she was part of the market research division of Mudra Communications.
Meenakshi holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and is also a Post Graduate in Economics.
Poulomee Ghosh is a Senior Partner with TRANSEARCH and leads the Social Impact, CSR and Education practice. She brings with her 20 years of profound experience across executive search, research and management. She is based out of New Delhi.
She was a founding member of India’s first cause connected executive search firm for the social impact sector- Third Sector Partners. Having been with the firm for 13 years, she was instrumental in advising and leading important C-Suit mandates and client engagements across diverse domains within the sector. Before moving to TRANSEARCH, she was heading Third Sector Partners in India and was responsible for its overall growth and expansion into newer domains like Environment, Skills Development, SVF and Social Enterprise along with strengthening the existing expertise that the firm had.
Prior to her career in executive search, she was an environmental Research Scientist working across innovative projects in air and water pollution with Vasundhara Foundation along with an interesting stint as the Head of a state-of-the-art cultural centre founded by a renowned Indian artist.
Poulomee holds a Post-Graduate degree in Environment Management from IISWBM- India’s first B-school and is a merit holder in Masters in Environment Science from Vidyasagar University. Passionate about the environment and the arts, she believes that her strong research and analytics background help her approach situations in a logical and systematic manner.
Ashish is a Senior Partner with Transearch India and is based in Bangalore
For over a decade, he has been a trusted advisor for start-ups/entrepreneurs on talent acquisition and worked with PE & VC’s to build the leadership team of their portfolio companies. He has partnered numerous unicorn in their journey of professionalization. Over the years he has placed 300+ senior executives into organizations that filled critical competency or leadership gaps.
Prior to joining Transearch he was the Partner and founding team member with a boutique Indian search firm and worked across business sectors. Ashish has played key role in building the Digital & Technology practice for them. Prior to joining Executive Search Industry in 2004, Ashish held several roles in sales, business development and operations.
Ashish is an active investor and advisor with multiple early-stage Consumer and Technology ventures in India. Ashish is networker by nature who gets a real buzz out of introducing people and helping to make things happen. Ashish is thought leader in Leadership and Talent issues in Digital & Technology Ecosystem and is frequently quoted in Daily financial newspapers & National Television.
Ashish holds Bachelor’s in Finance from DAVV University and PGDHRD from ISSW.
