Beyond Resumes

I · Where we come from

Operators first. Search, second.

We have operated globally.

Built businesses. Worked inside corporates. Made decisions under ambiguity — and lived with the outcomes.

We have worked alongside investors.

Seen leadership through the lens of value creation, change and consequence — where a hire either compounds returns or quietly dilutes them.

That changes what we notice.

Ownership behind titles. Judgment behind outcomes. Trajectory behind tenure. The variables a résumé cannot capture.

The trust we hold

Global private equity funds managing over $800 billion in combined AUM trust our judgment.

We search across investment teams and portfolio leadership.

Selected mandates

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Investment teams

India Head (MD), Investments

SEA-based Fund

Director, Investments

Japanese Fund · India

Director, Healthcare Value Creation

Domestic Tier-1 Fund

Director, Investments

UK-based Fund

VP, Investments

SEA-based Fund · India

Associate, Investments

Global Mega Fund · UAE

Portfolio & specialist leadership

CEO

Medical Devices · Southeast Asia

CFO

Pharma / CDMO · India

CRO

Automotive · US

M&A Head

SaaS · India / US

AI Head

IT Services · India

Chief of Staff

IT Services · US

Category Head

Healthcare / Beauty · India

II · Working with Beyond Resumes

BR · Mandate File

What lands on your desk

As operators, we think like you — before we think like a search firm.

The brief, pressure-tested.

We start with the business problem, not the job description. What must this person actually change, build or own? If the brief does not survive that test, we say so.

The market, thought through.

The right person may not hold the obvious title — or sit in the obvious industry. We work out where the required experience is actually built, then search from there.

Five to ten. Never fifty.

Volume is a vendor's answer. Every name we bring has been examined for what they actually owned, what changed because of them, and where the evidence is still incomplete.

A view you can push against.

Why each person fits. Where we have doubts. What still needs testing. We present — we don't sell.

Your interviews sharpen the search.

Every conversation gives us new evidence. We re-read the brief, the candidate and the market — and adjust where the search goes next.

Fewer profiles to process. Stronger reasons to meet.

III · The candidate

What a résumé can't show.

Being operators, we read a candidate the way a peer would — for what they owned, not simply what they were called.

01 · A career story

Not a set of keywords.

We seek to understand the choices they made, the problems they repeatedly solved, the responsibilities they earned, what gives them energy — and what they may be ready for next.

02 · The peer moment. Plainly.

“People reveal more when they feel understood.”

Senior leaders rarely open up to a checklist. They open up when the person across the table understands the decisions, tensions and trade-offs behind their work.

That is often where the most important evidence begins.

IV · How we search

Technology expands the field of view. Human judgment decides the fit.

Step 01 · Understand

What must become true in the business?

Before the first name is discussed, we get to the underlying question the hire must answer.

Step 02 · Search

Where is the most directly relevant talent?

We start where the evidence is strongest — with people who have solved the closest version of the problem.

Step 03 · Expand

Where does capability genuinely transfer?

We move outward only where skill, temperament and stage-fit still hold.

Step 04 · Assess

Does the hypothesis survive contact?

Every profile is a hypothesis. Conversations are the test.

Step 05 · Judge

Would we bet on this person, in this role, now?

We present a considered few with a real view.

V · The firm

Led by an operator who has built and run businesses.

CEO & Founder, Beyond Resumes

Sahil Mittal

MBA — ISB. Computer Engineer — NSIT. A global operator across India, Europe, the Middle East and the US.

18 years of professional experience. Former:

India Head for a SEA-based executive search firm
Director at Cisco
Founder of a SaaS company
Value Creation Director at a European growth fund

sahil@beyondresumes.ai

ISB · MBA NSIT · Computer Engineer Cisco Founder Value Creation Director India · Europe · Middle East · US

Beyond Resumes.