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Strategic Leadership Excellence

Transforming Organizations Through Leadership

We help organizations build visionary leadership and high-performing teams that drive agility, resilience, and sustainable growth through insight-driven executive search and board advisory.

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    Proven expertise in leadership hiring across industries
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    Customized search for your unique business and cultural needs
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    Insight-led approach with measurable, lasting impact

Business Excellence Model

Proven methodology for impactful executive hiring

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Assessment

Understand culture, role, leadership.

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Search Strategy

Targeted mapping, executive outreach.

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Execution

Evaluate, align, seamless placement.

Success Rate
81%
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1500
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CXO Facilitations Completed

81
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Success Rate in Placements

250
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Satisfied Clients Across Industries

72
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Business from Repeat Clients

75
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Searches Closed Within 80 Days

98
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Offer Acceptance over last 5 Years

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Why Choose SapphireHuman Capital as your Strategic Talent Partner?

Our consultants bring decades of deep, cross-functional experience across a wide spectrum of industries, allowing us to deliver talent solutions that are both informed and industry-relevant.

We design every engagement with a customized approach, carefully aligning our strategies with your company's unique vision, culture, and long term business objectives.

Our consistent track record of successful CXO-level placements and HR interventions underscores our ability to drive measurable outcomes and long-term value.

With access to an expansive, curated network of high-caliber professionals and thought leaders across geographies, we connect you to talent that accelerates transformation and growth.

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Our Expertise

Comprehensive Services

Tailored executive search and market intelligence solutions and bespoke B2B events, empowering organizations with insights, innovation, and transformative strategies.

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Executive Search

Identifying and placing transformative leaders who drive growth, innovation, and long-term organizational success.

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Board Advisory

Strengthening governance by aligning board composition, diversity, and expertise with future-ready organizational strategy.

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Managed Search Services

Guiding leadership teams with insights, coaching, and assessments to unleash performance and build resilience.

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Team Movement

Onboarding proven, high-performing teams ready to deliver measurable results with minimal ramp-up time.

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Compensation Benchmarking

Actionable insights on competitors’ structures, pay, and leadership, empowering sharper decisions and stronger talent strategies.

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High-Impact Bespoke B2B Events

Through thought-leadership forums, we deliver B2B events fostering innovation, collaboration, and future-ready leadership

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Our Key Insights

Tracking Leadership Transitions & Insights

Helping organizations decode C-suite movements, anticipate trends, and shape future-ready leadership strategies.

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CXO Moves

India’s definitive annual study on C-suite leadership transitions—turning data into actionable intelligence for boards, CEOs & CHROs

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Our Key Events

High-Impact Bespoke B2B Events

Sapphire Human Capital fosters collaboration, celebrates innovation, and delivers leadership intelligence through its flagship B2B events.

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Our Strength

Our Approach To Search

Precision-driven executive search with speed, quality, and reliability to secure the right leaders for your organization.

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Closure within 3 presented candidates

60% of our searches close within 3 candidates

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Quality time within Strict TAT's

In 75% searches, we provide 3 best fit candidates within 4 weeks

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Discrete market checks before presentation of candidate

We undertake multiple discrete reference checks from ex bosses, peers, clients and even competition to coroborate our assessment

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97%+ offer to  joining ratio

Our Offer to Joining (OTJ) process has led to increasing our OTJ ratio from 75% to 95%+ over the last 4 years

Our Expertise

We work across industries

Technology

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Consumer & Retail

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Internet & E-Commerce

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Pharma & Healthcare

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energy, Infrastructure & Real Estate

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industrial

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Consulting & Services

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Our Insights

Trending Blogs & Articles

Explore strategies, trends, and success stories that matter.

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Decoding CEO Tenures, What’s Changing and Why It Matters

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What Top Candidates Want from Search Partners Today

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Navigating Leadership in a Disrupted Economy

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Traits of High-Performing CFOs

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Our Clients

Hear From Our Clients

Client experiences that highlight the value of trusted partnerships, actionable insights, and measurable results.

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From Trusted Clients to Lasting Partnerships

Explore real experiences of organizations who have transformed with Sapphire Human Capital’s expertise

Driving leadership transformations for 250+ organizations

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Judhajit Das

Chief Human Resources Officer, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

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Sapphire is a trusted partner and we deeply value our relationship. They have handled all assignments in a professional manner with end to end support. We appreciate their responsiveness and service orientation.

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Pallavi Dhawan Gupte

Director – People Team, Dun & Bradstreet

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We experienced a great partnership working with Sapphire Human Solutions. They demonstrated great understanding of our requirement and researched the market very well to represent the right set of candidates to us. This helped us move fast with our selection process and help close the position with a max of 4-5 interviews which was great! The turnaround time and coordination was fabulous.

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Ranjan Biswas

National Director & Partner Technology - Communications & Entertainment, E Y India

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I have now personally worked and interacted with the folks at Sapphire for over 2 years, I find them incredibly focussed, relentless in their efforts and I am amazed at their passion and the perseverance that they bring to the work place !! I wish them many many years of success and look forward to our continuing our Partnership for years to come.

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Vikram Handa

MD - Epsilon Carbon

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Sapphire has truly been an extension of us in the recruitment process by understanding both our business need and our organizational culture. Throughout the process I could sense the efforts put in educating prospective candidates on our opportunities precisely, along with informing me of each candidate’s motivation and what it would take to get them on the Epsilon Carbon Team. Sapphire Human Solutions has been a trusted partner and would definitely look forward to continue to work with your firm in future!.

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Rahul Taneja

CHRO, Jindal Steel & Power

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It has been my pleasure and privilege to be associated with you as JSPL HR Partner for over a year. JSPL has immensely benefited from your expertise in your field and has added value with partnership with you. You have also well aligned with the requirements of JSPL and supported us with your highly effective and customized solutions. I thank you from the depths of my heart for your contributions.

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KK Singh

Founder, Chairman & CEO - Rolta Group of Companies

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We have been working with Sapphire for five years. I would like to put on record our appreciation of the professionalism of your team, which has been a partner for Rolta, than just an agency helping us find people. Your appreciate the needs and culture of our Company, and your understanding of the IT sector has resulted in gradual shortening of recruitment cycles and placement of stable employees at senior levels.

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Nishant Berlia

MD - Apeejay Stya Group

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It has been a pleasure working with Sapphire Human Solutions on multiple assignments at C level, Business, and Operational Head roles across various industry segments. They know how to work with promoters, have strong value systems, bring entrepreneurial insight in their searches and a personal passion to ensure their client's business success. In Ankit, in particular, we have the joy of working with a fellow entrepreneur who understands entrepreneurial ambition, risk and the potential of talent. Happy to recommend to any promoter group or senior talent as must to speak to or consider firm.

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Pankaj Suri

Executive Vice President, Human Resources - Edelman

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It is critical and important that the partner we choose to help us with our manpower needs understands the industry, has a solid track record of outstanding candidates who stay in their positions and is respected by clients and candidates alike. We have worked with Sapphire Human Solutions and have been impressed by their persistence, follow-through and ability to meet tight deadlines. Their ability to understand the company culture, the job role and the challenges prior to recommending candidates made the process simpler, faster and better. I continue to recommend Sapphire to other companies in the industry to help develop their management teams.

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Darius Pandole

Managing Director & CEO – PE and Equity AIFs, JM Financial Limited

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It was a pleasure to work with your team at Sapphire and yourself on this important recruiting assignment. Given the criticality of this position, we appreciated the proactive manner in which you’ll highlighted candidates for our review and thereafter your responsiveness in taking our feedback on board to work towards a shortlist of candidates. We also appreciated the thoroughness in evaluating candidates whose fit and background checks were thoughtfully considered before presenting to our team. We look forward to working together again.

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Aseem Joshi

General Manager, Building Solutions,Honeywell

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It was good to work with Sapphire in the context of the search for an Independent director for our company. Independent Director searches tend to be long drawn out affairs, and we were working to a tight timeline. I appreciate the fact that you recognized our requirements, and worked with speed to facilitate the process of selecting a strong independent director for us. Through the process, you deftly guided the stakeholders at key moments, resulting in a successful closure in under 2.5 weeks. Thank you for your commitment, speed and discretion in getting this search completed to our satisfaction!

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Our Leadership Team

Meet the leaders shaping executive search and leadership advisory, committed to driving organizational success and transformation.

Ankit Bansal

Ankit Bansal

CEO

Sandeep Batra

Sandeep Batra

Partner

Sumanta Baksi
Sumanta Baksi

Partner

Sumanta Baksi
Arijay Prasad

Partner

Randeep Bhatia
Randeep Bhatia

Associate Partner

Rahul Singh
Rahul Singh

Associate Partner

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Nidhi Bose

Associate Partner

Harsh Gupta
Harsh Gupta

Associate Partner

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Testimonials

What Our Candidates Say About us

Discover how we’ve empowered leaders through transformative executive search solutions

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The first call | received from Sapphire Human Solutions sounded very professional and | decided to continue my interaction with them. Later theirmodalities of interaction were very convincing by the seriousness shown to my discussion. They did iron out all the queries raised by me in a verydetailed and professional manner, also they were a part of most of the meetings if they needed to sort it out with the employer, they were verytransparent in their interaction as they understand that it mattered to me as it’s a big decision. Even during my busy schedule and me not picking upcalls they demonstrated their patience and anchored themselves and got me to speak during non office hours. I wish Sapphire Human Solutions all thebest and keep up the good work.

Haresh Kumar

CEO - Reputed South Based Realty Developer

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In my last three decades of professional career in India and globally as well | have met quite a few consultants and head hunters but to connect withsomeone like Sapphire Human Solutions has been a great privilege. You have not only been persistent and aspiring about the role offered by yourclient Apeejay but have also handled my portfolio with utmost conviction; certain situations of doubt were handled smoothly at my end because of thisconviction. Your approach of honesty, transparency and trust at both ends is one of the most driven professional conduct | have come across till dateand | extend my thanks to you.

Jyoti Manral

C00, Apeejay Stya University

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I wish to thank you and your team for being efficient and transparent in helping me through the recruitment procedure quickly and would definitelynot mind recommending you guys to my friends. Wish you all the very best in the years to come.

Sumit Sarkar

C00 - APJ

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I have had a great experience dealing with Sapphire Human Solutions. While we were all engaged in a process with various moving parts, | wasthoroughly impressed by the frequency, timeliness and transparency of communication. Also your insight and understanding on the prospect's thoughtprocesses, desirables from the hirer and fitment at all stages is commendable. We all can claim professionalism and processes that we follow at theend of the day, but softer aspects of making minds and thought processes meet is probably under-rated and that's where you have some strengths.

Aashish P. Somaiyaa

CEO - Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund

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I have had a great experience in the course of my engagement with Sapphire Human Solutions. The insights shown by you in understanding &explaining the prospects role position, frequency & transparency of communication at each stage of the evaluation process and the subsequent interactions with the prospect post engagement are commendable. The comfort drawn by the incumbent prospects are purely because of your professionalism and individual efforts. The same applies to the comfort drawn by the organization. The balance which you are able to maintain with the prospect and the organization is praiseworthy. | wish Sapphire the very best for the future.

Tushar Shah

CEO Project & Structured Finance - Aditya Birla Financial Services

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I would like to thank Sapphire for the Seamless & methodical experience and the responsiveness shown in my recruitment process. Right from reaching out to me after identifying role fitment to the compensation agreement, the process was absolutely smooth.

Gautam Roy Sinha

Sr. Fund Manager - ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Who is Sapphire Human Capital?

We are India’s most agile executive search and leadership advisory firm, with over 1,500 leadership closures across industries. We’ve placed more than 50 CEOs and 40+ Partners in top consulting firms, establishing a proven record of impact.

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What industries do you specialize in?

From building entire leadership teams for financial services houses to closing rare mandates like Chief Data Scientist for a US tech firm’s India R&D centre, we have deep expertise in BFSI, Technology & Consulting, Industrials, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Consumer, and Retail.

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What is your biggest achievement so far?

We executed India’s largest team movement by a search firm (65+ leaders in one transaction) and facilitated the highest-value leadership hiring deal in India.

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Who leads Sapphire Human Capital?

Our Founder & CEO, Ankit Bansal, is a serial HR entrepreneur with prior experience at McKinsey, PwC, and Standard Chartered. He also co-founded one of India’s largest flexi-job platforms and is an Advisory Board member of the India Diversity Forum.

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