Hiring Boom: The Hottest Skills In Demand

Rituparna is Co-Founder and EVP of TeamLease, India’s largest people supply chain company. She has over 21 years of experience as a business leader with a proven ability to drive growth at scale. She is the only person from Asia to be included in the Global Power 100 and International 50 Woman in Staffing and is the winner of the Telstra Business Woman in Asia Award. Rituparna is an Economics graduate from Banaras Hindu University and an MBA from Goa Institute of Management.

Prateek founded Masai School, India’s first coding school, in June 2019. His aim is to help revamp the Indian education system from a degree-based to a skill-based system. A native of Jaipur, Prateek has a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, where he specialised in Materials Science and Engineering. He has been in the start-up industry since 2013 and had earlier founded a home rental startup called Grabhouse which was later sold to Quickr.

Krishna Kumar founded Simplilearn with an aim to reimagine education for working professionals. An entrepreneur at heart, Krishna believes in continual improvement and the need to stay focused on achieving goals. This remains the guiding philosophy at Simplilearn too. Prior to this, Krishna was Co-founder and COO at TechUnified, a software product company. Krishna is an alumnus of NIT, Surathkal.

Sriram is the founder of Diamondpick, a firm specialising in providing talent solutions to customers in the digital technology and operations industry. Until 2017, Sriram was heading the global talent supply chain in Cognizant. His connect with people, and knowledge of the IT industry runs deep. Prior to Cognizant, Sriram was part of the human capital consulting team of Arthur Andersen that delivered on assignments for large organisations in India and the Middle East.