Piyush Raghuvanshi joins D. E. Shaw India as Associate Director, Talent Acquisition, leading hiring for experienced technology roles.
In this role, Raghuvanshi will spearhead technology-specific lateral, strategic, and leadership hiring and help drive the integration of generative AI into the firm’s talent acquisition workflows. Raghuvanshi, who reports to Chaitanya Gorrepati, Managing Director and a member of the Operating Committee at D. E. Shaw India, will lead a team of talent acquisition professionals based across the firm’s three offices in India.
Raghuvanshi joins from apna, where he served as Chief Human Resources Officer and played a key role in scaling operations across the company’s Job Marketplace, EdTech, and AI Labs business lines. Prior to apna, he was Head of Human Resources at Zupee — joining as the company’s founding HR leader and overseeing a 20x increase in business valuation and a 40x surge in annual recurring revenue during his tenure. Before Zupee, he led Talent Acquisition for OYO’s APAC operations, focused on large-scale hiring and digital transformation of recruitment processes. Earlier in his career, he held senior talent acquisition roles at Syngenta, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, and Wipro.
Raghuvanshi holds an MBA in Human Resources from ICFAI University Dehradun.
