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Talent Partnerships & Role Architecture
We work with high-growth founders and organisations to design modern executive office structures, then connect them with strategic operators who deliver venture-speed leverage.
Bengaluru · Auckland — Executive office talent and community
The right people in the executive office.
Talent partner and community for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leaders. We grow strategic operators inside an invitation-only peer community and partner with founders and leadership teams to design and fill the roles around them.
Route A · I'm hiringBook a conversation
Route B · I'm an operatorJoin the community
Led by practitioners: Shweta Malekar & Geetika S Nongthomba
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Gated Operator Community
An invitation-only space where high-performing Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leads share operational intelligence, swap playbooks, solve founder-led problems and master workflows and frameworks.
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The Discourse
Career spotlights, curated roundtables, panel discussions, a podcast, fireside chats, networking events and leader addresses that raise the strategic impact of modern operators.
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The EA Edge
Weekly insights, actionable AI workflows and career advocacy frameworks for the next generation of business operators.
Training and coaching: Practical training and one-to-one coaching for executive office professionals, delivered with a specialist collaborator.
Collaborator TBCOne continuous loop
Why our community and our talent practice belong under one roof.
Most search firms only meet candidates when a role opens. COvia spends every week in the room with practising Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leaders — debating workflows, AI adoption and executive rhythms.
We grow operatorsGated Operator Community, The Discourse & The EA Edge sharpen judgement every week.
We place operatorsTalent Partnerships & Role Architecture matches vetted peers to well-designed roles.
Path for employersTalent Partnerships & Role Architecture
Hiring for the executive office
For founders, hiring managers and talent teams across technology, biotech, healthcare, startups and established enterprises. We help you architect the role before you hire, then shortlist operators whose judgement is already proven.
- Role design across Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff and Founder's Office
- Shortlists drawn from our practising operator community and network
- Structured assessment and onboarding check-ins through the first 90 days
Path for professionalsGated Operator Community
Stepping into high-leverage strategic work
For Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff, Founder's Office leads and strategic operators globally. Join an approved peer group where operators share live playbooks, AI workflows that strengthen judgement, and first look at shortlisted roles.
- Invitation-only room; free for the first 50 approved founding members
- Currently 18 of 50 founding seats taken Sample
- Priority places at The Discourse roundtables and fireside chats
Shweta Malekar
Co-founderSenior administrative business partner with 15+ years supporting C-suite leaders at Google, Citi, Credit Suisse, Nomura and DuPont. Writes The EA Edge and co-founded Giftwork Solutions.
Operating lens: Anticipation, agility and execution: clarity to chaos, structure to complexity, trust to every interaction.
Geetika S Nongthomba
Co-founder20+ years across strategy, executive office operations, PMO and business operations at Aviva, IBM, Quintiles, Philips, Publicis Sapient, Flipkart and Pine Labs. Co-founded a biotech startup and founded an ed-tech venture.
Operating lens: Frameworks, pragmatism and people: clear structure, sound governance and teams that perform.
Credibility from real operating experience
Advised by people who have actually sat in the executive office.
COvia was built by operators and strategists who have spent decades inside executive offices at global technology, financial services, healthcare and high-growth companies.
Advisory board across biotech, engineering & business
- Girish VasudevanBusiness AdvisorBio pending
Business Advisor to COvia. Full bio to follow.
- Vinay GuptaTech Advisor
Engineering leader with 13+ years across Edge AI, automotive telematics and trading platforms. Leads software engineering at Tribes Digital, Auckland; formerly Site Lead at EdgeTensor and VP at Citi. IIT Kanpur.
Prof. Upendra NongthombaBiotech & Healthcare AdvisorProfessor and former Chair, Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science. 28+ years in biomedical research, 90+ publications, and adviser to biotech and healthcare startups and BIRAC selection boards.
Curated openings
Shortlisted on the job board
COvia shortlists executive office roles manually and shares them with our community first.
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Chief of Staff to the CEO
Series B healthtech companyView role details - Sample
Executive Assistant to the Founder
Climate-tech startupView role details - Sample
Founder's Office Associate
Biotech scale-upView role details
The Discourse
Upcoming operator sessions
Roundtables, fireside chats, career spotlights and workshops across Bengaluru, Auckland and online.
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Chiefs of Staff and AI workflows
With Shweta MalekarSession details - Sample
What founders actually need from the executive office
With Geetika S NongthombaSession details - Sample
From EA to Chief of Staff: a career spotlight
Speaker line-up announced to membersSession details
Weekly LinkedIn publication
The EA Edge, by Shweta Malekar
Weekly insights, practical AI workflows that strengthen an operator's judgement rather than replace it, and career advocacy frameworks for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leaders. Open to aligned newsletter sponsorship.
Annual gathering · Waitlist open
Annual EA and Founder's Office Summit
A yearly gathering for the people who run the executive office. Waitlist open now. Bring your toughest executive office questions and connect in person with operators and founders across India, New Zealand and beyond.