About

Achuthanand Ravi is a seasoned recruitment professional with over 12 years of experience in the field. He specializes in tech and leadership recruiting and has a dedicated and focused approach towards talent hunt, networking, and research in corporate recruiting. Currently serving as the Founder and CEO of Kula, Achuthanand is on a mission to turn every employee into a recruiter. Achuthanand has a strong command over vendor management and is a great team player. He is known for his proactive and creative approach in identifying top talents through aggressive sourcing techniques and networking. He is specialized in advanced sourcing with a special focus on managerial level hiring. Achuthanand likes to define and implement creative sourcing strategies for future and current open positions and executes against them. He maintains competitive intelligence data for current recruitment as well as business needs. Achuthanand has worked with various companies in the past, including Stripe, where he served as a Leadership Recruiter and was part of the global executive search team. He partnered with all the businesses around the world to engage, build, and grow the senior and executive leadership team. He was also involved in scaling the engineering teams across geographies. Achuthanand has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in PGHRM from XLRI. He also holds a degree from P.S. Senior Secondary School. He has a strong tech background and has experience as a research scientist, web, and search. Achuthanand's specialties include recruitment, hiring, negotiation, and people management. He is responsible for working out the source, timeline, geographical location, target companies, and hence the formulation of detailed recruitment strategy for a given recruitment project target. He is also involved in the whole array of recruitment that embraces interview coordination, salary negotiations and fixations, and follow-up with the selected candidates till they join.