Mark Anderson

Mark brings 25 years of diversified experience covering RPO, information technology and financial disciplines. He has extensive experience both as a corporate operations leader and as an executive for some of the most prominent US and global technology, financial and staffing companies. He has architected, built and managed large scale RPO and MSP engagements on behalf of companies like Salesforce, Cardlytics, MasterCard, Merck, Verizon, Cisco, Bridgewater, Westinghouse, MetLife, and many others. Mark has also held corporate "head of" talent acquisition management roles (regional and global), for companies like MSCI Barra, DoubleClick, and JP Morgan covering both domestic and international responsibilities. Mark has built and operated organizations in both emerging market and developed market locations. He has successfully set up, managed, and built out organizations and teams in the US and in global locations such as Hyderabad, Mumbai, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Monterrey, Mexico City, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Geneva and London.

Vikranth Benedict (Vik)

Vikranth Benedict (Vik) is a Certified Executive Human Resource Management from XLRI (SHRM Curriculum), a Certified NLP Practitioner & PMP trained Professional with over 24 years of experience.

Skilled at developing comprehensive recruitment strategies aligned to business goals and growth targets. Core competencies include:

- Global Talent Acquisition - Built and led recruiting teams of up to 140 across the US, UK, Asia Pacific, and India. Onboarded over 500 IT consultants across all levels.

- Talent Pipeline Development - Designed and implemented innovative sourcing strategies to attract niche, highly-skilled talent from targeted candidate pools.

- Process Optimization - Transformed recruitment operations through technology enhancements and streamlined workflows, improving quality of hire up to 20%.

- Performance Management - Established KPIs, productivity benchmarks, and accountability systems to motivate and elevate recruiter performance.

- Vendor Management - Managed relationships with external recruiting partners including RPOs and staffing agencies. Reduced vendor spend by 10% while maintaining service levels.

- Change Leadership - Guided talent acquisition teams through multiple organizational changes and M&A integrations while maintaining productivity and engagement.

Tanuj Gara

Tanuj has over two decades of experience managing recruitment/talent acquisition operations as well as commercial responsibilities in a variety of business organisations. He has overseen large-scale multinational RPO and staffing operations, interacting with cross-cultural resources and working on both sides of the table - staffing/consulting firms and client organisations. Proficient in developing and implementing talent acquisition and retention strategies, as well as succession planning. Skilled in driving the end-to-end recruitment life cycle, as well as developing and implementing short- and long-term corporate human capital plans that include employee relations, talent acquisition and development, succession planning, workforce planning, compensation and benefits, and performance management. An independent thinker with a strong achievement orientation, whose roles have evolved as a result of demonstrated abilities and consistent high performance.