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Evan Walden Built a Career Out of the Warm Introduction
After two exits and one near-death startup, the New York founder is still working on the same stubborn problem: how to turn a network of names into a useful human connection.
Aditya Viswanadha and the Long Apprenticeship of Seeing People Clearly
Before AI could read a career, someone had to teach the software what a career leaves out. Aditya Viswanadha's path from electronics student to Findem's founding engineering team is a quiet study in context, systems, and the useful limits of a resume.
Navneet Singh Wants Enterprise AI to Remember the Humans
After two decades translating databases, networks and cybersecurity into business stories, Eightfold AI's CMO is applying an engineer's discipline to a deeply human question: can technology see what a person might become?
Liv Anderman Traded the Courtroom for a Better Question: Who Gets Seen?
The former barrister now markets AI for hiring. Her unusual advantage is not a louder pitch, but a lawyer’s instinct for evidence, context and the human story hidden inside a record.
Arnab Bhattacharjee Has Spent a Career Finding the Signal
Before recruiting became an AI arms race, Arnab Bhattacharjee was building the machinery of web search. At Consider, he is applying the same patient obsession with relevance to a more human question: who should meet whom next?
Joanna Riley Is Teaching AI to See the People a Résumé Misses
A rowing scholarship, an FBI post and a public-company flameout gave the Censia co-founder an unusual education in patterns, pressure and reinvention. Her next bet is that better data can help employers see potential before pedigree.
Saurabh Jain
Saurabh Jain is the founder and CEO of Spire.AI, a domain-intelligent AI copilot for talent that uses a Large Graph Model for skills to help enterprises match, mobilize, and reskill their workforce. A three-decade veteran of enterprise software with earlier stops at Oracle, SAP, Yahoo, and Apigee, he now writes and speaks about skills-based organizations, ethical AI, and treating the CHRO and CFO as equal partners.
Siobhan Savage
Siobhan Savage is the CEO and co-founder of Reejig, a workforce intelligence and AI orchestration platform built to eliminate what she calls 'zero wasted potential' in the labor market. Sketched during maternity leave in 2018 and now used across 66 countries, Reejig became the first company to independently audit its talent AI for bias. Savage is a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and previously spent almost two decades running workforce strategy on billion-dollar infrastructure programs including Sydney Metro, Melbourne Metro, and Roy Hill.
Hariharan Kolam
Hariharan Kolam (Hari Kolam) is the co-founder and CEO of Findem, an AI-powered talent data platform headquartered in Redwood City, California. A serial entrepreneur with 20+ years building technology companies, he previously co-founded Instart Logic as CTO, accumulating over 50 technology patents. At Findem, Kolam is reimagining recruitment by replacing resume-based hiring with 3D candidate profiles that synthesize data from over 100,000 sources and 1.6 trillion data points - turning talent acquisition from a guessing game into a data science problem. Under his leadership, Findem raised a $51M Series C in October 2025, bringing total funding to $124M.