Skip to content
Leadership

The people leading Yallo Talent.

Delivery, talent operations, marketing and finance: the people running Yallo Talent.

The team

Five people leading Yallo Talent.

Sumeet Goenka

Founder & CEO

Before founding Yallo, he was Group Chief Architect, SVP at Richemont, Chief Enterprise Architect at Landmark Group and Head of Enterprise Architecture at Alshaya EMEA, with earlier roles across Microsoft, Deloitte, Burberry, Vodafone and Oracle, spanning the UK, Europe, Middle East and APAC. The IT leader who delivered those complex transformations for 23+ years now builds your talent backbone today.

LinkedIn

Chandrashekhar Kolar

Director of Managed Delivery

Twenty years in enterprise solution architecture and programme delivery across TCS, ITC Infotech, Oracle, EPAM and Landmark Group, with deep retail, loyalty and customer-data work in the Middle East. Based in Dubai, he has taken complex platform programmes from architecture through to go-live, and now owns Yallo's fixed-scope Managed Delivery engagements end to end.

LinkedIn

Niharika Patir

Head of Talent Operations

Fourteen years in recruitment across corporate and agency environments, with a Masters in Human Resources and Organisational Development from the Delhi School of Economics. From Bengaluru, she runs the screening and delivery operation behind every shortlist, owning the client's experience from brief to onboarding.

LinkedIn

Raphy Varghese

Head of Marketing & Growth

An engineer by training, he leads marketing, growth and the web platforms Yallo's businesses run on. From Bengaluru, he builds the route that brings enterprise platform buyers to Yallo, and keeps it short from first contact to brief.

LinkedIn

Kritika Poddar

Head of Finance & PMO

She runs finance, commercial governance and the PMO across Yallo Talent's contract and delivery book. Every engagement's commercials, from rate card to invoice, run through her office.

LinkedIn

How the team operates

Three operating principles.

Specialists, not sourcers

Every shortlist is screened against a written standard by a specialist who has run the same programme. No keyword-match, no volume, no filler.

One team, one bench

No agency salesperson, no recruiter middle-layer. The person on your calibration call is the person reviewing the shortlist.

Region-deep, not brand-broad

We're not a global-brand office in every capital. We're specialists who work the Middle East, Europe and India markets we know cold.

Work with specialists, not sourcers.

Send your brief. Yallo Talent's team picks it up personally.