The team behind your search

We are a 45+ person team. These are the people who lead it.

Executives

Varun Kirti

Founder & CEO

Varun founded Wolf Mentoring because he was passionate about finding the right roles for the right people. He started out by helping techies improve their interviewing skills, and ultimately built a done-for-you service that lands interviews for senior tech leaders automagically.

He runs the company from Portland, Oregon, and leads a team of more than 45 across research, delivery, coaching and marketing. When he's not focused on CAC and LTV, his interests include environmental conservation, history and travel.

Vinayak Kirti

Co-Founder & COO

Vinayak spent eight years at Deloitte in London. He joined as a data scientist, moved into building AI systems as a Lead AI Engineer, and left as a Senior Manager at Monitor Deloitte.

His work there was turning messy problems into clear plans and keeping delivery on track as priorities shifted. At Wolf he heads sales and delivery operations, and brings in AI where it solves a real problem and runs reliably every day. His interests include driving (revenue) and running (excellent teams).

Gaurav Banga

Co-Founder & CTO

Gaurav spent more than 11 years at Amazon across Retail, AWS, Alexa, Marketing and Amazon Pay, in India and the US. He helped build AWS Backup and Amazon Pay Wallet from the ground up, and holds a Master's degree from IIT Delhi.

He and Vinayak have been friends since childhood. At Wolf he builds the technology behind the service, so automation takes the repetitive work and the team spends its time on positioning, coaching and relationships. When he's not prompting Kiro to do his bidding, he enjoys table tennis, puzzles and cooking (you could call him CodeChef =)

Leadership

Saksham Goyal

Head of Delivery

Leads a delivery team of 21 that runs each client's search day-to-day: hunting for perfect roles, drafting the perfect outreach for hiring managers and following up, tracking each interview pipeline; all of that for the 100+ clients we have. Legend says he knows every client's name and target roles like the back of his hand.

Riya Khokhar

Head of Research & Operational Excellence

Leads a team of 10 researchers who find the hiring managers and recruiters behind every role, and owns operational excellence across the company. Her team is the secret sauce behind landing interviews consistently for all our clients. How her team always delivers nothing short of perfection is still a mystery, even to the executives.

Saurabh Chaudhary

Head of Marketing

Leads marketing and everything we publish here: the success stories, the guides, and even this page! He also leads a team of SDRs and his favourite activity is putting leads in the CRM. He even wanted to end this text with a CTA but was told off, so instead he wrote: "We don't live lives, we write stories; for what is a man but the sum of his memories?"

Raghav S Kumar

Quality & Training Manager

Trains every new member of the team and owns the quality of our work across the company. He has been with Wolf since day one and has worked in every function along the way, so whatever someone needs to learn, he has probably done that job himself. Outside of work, he is usually deep in a research rabbit hole, solving a puzzle, reading up on new tech, or thinking three moves ahead on a chessboard.

Ansh Agarwaal

Customer Success Manager & Interview Coach

Guides clients through their search and coaches them for every interview in the recruitment process, from the recruiter screen to the final round. Outside of work, he's usually torn between the mountains and the ocean, equally drawn to a challenging hike and a laid-back beach getaway. A big R&B enthusiast, he believes there's a soundtrack for just about every moment.

Naman Lamba

Customer Success Manager & Interview Coach

Walks clients through preparation for each interview round while also overseeing their journey throughout the process. When he's not coaching leaders how to ace interviews, he thrives on adventure, navigating the unknown, and coming out stronger on the other side of situations that require a disregard for survival to get into. His life philosophy is "Be like water."

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