Uday Chawla is the Managing Partner of TRANSEARCH India Office.

He helps his clients build high performing leadership teams. He has been involved in conduct of general management searches for large Indian business houses as well as multinational corporations.  Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, Uday was the Senior Partner and the Managing Partner of Heidrick & Struggles for 6 years.  He was the founding member of the team that launched H&S brand in India in 1998 and he led the India office during his tenure. Uday is a member of the Global Executive Committee of  TRANSEARCH International.

Uday has completed his Masters in Business Economics from Delhi University.

Atul Vohra is the Managing Partner of TRANSEARCH India Office.

He utilizes his senior level executive search and management consulting (change management) experience to help build leadership teams for organizations in a broad range of industries.  Atul advises some of the leading family owned businesses on issues relating to leadership and succession.. Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, Atul was a Managing Partner at Hedrick & Struggles, India.  He successfully built the H&S franchise for about six years and has gained a reputation for doing Board and Senior level appointments.

Atul is a member of the Global Executive Committee of  TRANSEARCH International.

Tejinder Pal Singh is a Founder Director & Sr. Partner – Lifesciences & Healthcare Practice with TRANSEARCH. He has around two & a half decades of executive search, talent and leadership consulting experience in India & Global markets. With a trusted advisor approach & philosophy, he utilizes this experience to facilitate Clients build the best leadership teams and handles mandates for leading Multinational, Indian corporations, Private Equity & Start-up firms in various lifecycle stages of evolution, turnaround, organic & Inorganic growth across Pharma, Healthcare & Life Sciences in the leadership domain. Tejinder is considered an authority in the Life Sciences & healthcare domain in Executive search and has built one of the largest & finest Practice with a client first partnership spirit. TRANSEARCH is well positioned as a thought leader, is a sought-after firm for clients confidential & complex search needs & enjoys strong access & influence in this space. He is based in New Delhi.

Prior to joining TRANSEARCH, Tejinder was heading Research at Hedrick & Struggles International, the world’s largest executive search firm. He successfully built the research set up from a scratch, benchmarked it with International best standards and executed key mandates across India and globally during his stint.

Tejinder studied Science, Pharmaceuticals & Business Management from Institutions of repute & standing. He has been trained in Executive Search, Leadership and Management Consulting by leadership experts at Global Talent & Strategic Consulting workshops. He has been awarded several times for Excellence in practice & business building. His work related to talent & career management has been featured in leading publications.

Nitin Gupta is a Director at TRANSEARCH India.
He is a non-executive Co-Founder of Faircent, India’s first and best known P2P lending company. He is a Board Director at Loylty Rewardz, India’s #1 cards loyalty management company. He is an Independent Board Director at Fusion Microfinance.
Nitin was a non-executive Co-Founder of Lets Buy, one of India’s most successful e-commerce start-ups, which was sold to FlipKart, India’s #1 e-commerce company.

During 2003-08, Nitin was with MasterCard Worldwide as their CEO and Country Manager for South Asia. Earlier, Nitin was the President of Rediff.com, one of Asia’s most successful Internet companies, where he helped lead the company to its successful listing on the NASDAQ. In 1997-2000, Nitin was President of GE Capital India’s retail financing business, and before that worked across marketing and advertising (Unilever, American Express, J. Walter Thompson).

Nitin earned an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, a Law degree from Bombay University, and an Economics Honors degree from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Anjali is a Senior Partner with TRANSEARCH India and is based in Mumbai. Anjali leads the firm’s Financial Services Practice.

She has a multi-functional background having worked for over 20 years across diverse functions with leading organizations. Anjali  was a senior banker with ANZ Grindlays Bank  before moving to CRISIL (company of Standard and Poor’s) where she worked for over 16 years in leadership roles in credit rating, research and information, capital markets, mutual funds and corporate advisory, and strategic branding. She set up TRANSEARCH’s Mumbai office in 2006, and has built a significant  financial services practice for the firm,  with deep client relationships in India’s Commercial Banking, Capital Markets and the broader financial sector.

Anjali has completed her Bachelor’s in Commerce from Mumbai University, and has a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island, USA.

Sangeeta Sant Lal is a Senior Partner in Transearch’s New Delhi office. She leads the Automotive Practice  and co-leads the firm’s Industrial Practice. Sangeeta brings a wealth of experience to the firm, possessing over 30 years of experience working with multinational companies, a start – up, including setting up a successful entrepreneurial venture.

In the last 13 years at Transearch, she has worked with MNC’s  and diversified large Indian conglomerates to support them on talent management challenges. She has advised clients across a broad range of industries including Automotive, Industrial, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defence, Metals and Mining and Logistics. She has been recognized by the firm globally for her excellence in Client satisfaction and Practice Development.

Prior to joining Transearch, Sangeeta was a Client Partner with Korn/Ferry and spent 7 years in their Industrial practice working on key mandates in the Aerospace & Defence, Energy, Infrastructure, Metal Mining, Automotive, Manufacturing, Transportation sectors.

In her previous role she was based in Mumbai as a vice president at Quadrangle (Naukri.com – India’s no 1 jobsite), where she headed the recruitment and search practice for the western region. Before that, she founded a human resources consulting firm in India and subsequently moved to Dubai to set up the company’s first overseas office. During her time in the Middle East, she handled numerous executive search assignments across different industries, functions in the industrial, financial services, consumer and oil & gas sectors.

Sangeeta is an MBA in Human resources from XLRI (Xavier School of Management), a top 5 business school in India and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stella Maris College, Chennai.

Rahul brings with him over 2 decades of experience in leading senior leadership searches for clients. Since joining Transearch International in 2008, he has worked closely with building the firms business and brand in India as its institutional member.

His clients include large Indian and Multinational corporations in the consumer and industrial markets. He has been a trusted partner to his clients, helping them hire CEOs, Board Directors and CXO suite roles including transformational roles in Digital and Sustainability. In an increasingly globalized world, one of his core areas of specialization has been in sourcing global talent to meet leadership talent needs for his clients. His clients have commended him on his deep insight into their business, close collaboration in execution and tenacity to deliver on complex mandates.

Prior to joining Transearch, Rahul worked with Korn/Ferry’s industrial practice. In his earlier role he worked the Ma Foi Group and helped them set up their business in Singapore, where he supported clients in the IT and Oil & Gas sectors.

Rahul is a Chemical Engineer and holds a master’s degree in Business Management.

Balchandra (Bala) Variar is a Senior Partner based at the Mumbai office of TRANSEARCH and co leads the Consumer practice apart from leading initiatives in the Real Estate, Insurance and Infrastructure sectors.

Bala has experience of a decade and half in advising several clients across Succession planning, Executive assessment and Leadership hiring. Over the last decade, he has been instrumental in several CXO hires for clients in diverse industries including Manufacturing, Consumer product and services, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Aviation.  Bala has partnered Multinational and Indian organizations and consulted on several engagements ranging from start-up hiring to fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Transearch, Bala spent a decade with another international consulting firm, Heidrick & Struggles’ and in his last role, co-led the Industrial sector. During this stint, Bala is credited  with setting up their Real Estate & Infrastructure practices in India.

Bala graduated from Mumbai University and has attended a two year full time MBA (PGDM) program from Mumbai.

Gulpreet is a Partner and a member of the Healthcare & Lifesciences practice. She has around 19 years of experience in leadership hiring and her areas of expertise include Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Lifesciences, and Diagnostics.

Gulpreet is a founding member of the Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare practice. She has built it from a scratch and today Transearch is well positioned as a leader in Pharmaceuticals Healthcare hiring space. She started her career in research and moved up to Head of Research role. In the present role as a Partner, she manages key relationships and advises clients on issues related to talent and leadership hiring.

She has won many accolades for her in depth research capabilities, innovative thinking and process orientation as per highest global quality standards hence, making a difference to the client organizations. Prior to her executive search career, she was trained in Biocon India and Karl Storz Endoscopy. Besides she undertook Market Surveys and Research Projects for International Pharmaceutical companies. She has been trained in Executive Search by leading International trainers in global workshops in various parts of the world.

She holds an Master’s Degree in Business Administration MBA (Biotechnology) and Bachelor of Engineering degree BE (Computers) from Pune University.