Manoj Shah hired us 4 years ago to set HR department for his health & fitness venture, little did he know that we'll return favour by hiring him as our COO after he had successfully exited the venture where he was co-founder & CEO, through a merger with the Gold's Gym. His strong background in strategy, business scaling and his appetite for building diverse businesses post turning into a Chartered Accountant was a perfect fitment with rest of us at plugHR. Moreover, he plays Tennis, likes hiking, driving, like technology and above all loves the chaos of change, just made for plugHR.

Hemant Nitsure was rescued from a mining location in hot and princely Indian state of Rajasthan where he was managing human resources for a large multinational business group. He had a tough time explaining at home why he wanted to join a one month old startup that didn't even have an office but he did that successfully and remains one of the most widely used resource in plugHR. He studied HR management at Nirma Institute of Management Ahmedabad only to experience product management with plugHR. He shocked the purists by eventually taking up the role of Finance Controller here with a logic that in a startup there is hardly much finance to make the work any harder.
Hemant lives in Mumbai and is also the captain of plugHR men's basketball team, his biggest complaint - there aren't enough men in plugHR to complete his team.

Karan Walia manages communications, brand, sometimes product. An alumnus of London School of Economics lives between Kolkata, Mumbai and New York. Karan did pre-plugHR stints at a marketing firm in Nigeria and a financial securities firm in India. Rated as best student CEO at his business school, e-cell leader and an active member at various entrepreneurial platforms, Karan was spotted for plugHR by NEN - the Wadhwani Foundation initiative that promotes entrepreneurship in colleges across India.
Karan remains the most available resource around being fully a webspace resident, can give shape to any vague, abstract idea and he find enough of them at plugHR.

Prashant Bhaskar started the plugHR idea after market research suggested that it won't take off. "entrepreneurs want challenges, it couldn't be more challenging than that", he says. "After I spoke to senior HR professionals in industry who said HR was too close a subject to be outsourced, I decided to meet a few CEOs. This is where I got my springboard, all CEO that I met liked the idea without exception, few were ready to even sign up at very early stage, I decided to go by my gut", adds Prashant. Within eight months of launch, The Economic Times rated plugHR as a "Big out of the Box Idea".
Prashant, leads the management team of plugHR as CEO, lives in Mumbai. He did an honors program in Physics for graduation at Punjab University, Chandigarh, studied marketing at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management Pune in western India and dwelled in Venture Capital Management & Finance at Indian School of Business at Hyderabad.
His pre-plugHR stints include Hutchison, BPL US West, JobsAhead.com where he was part of early team.