For founders hiring into the executive office, and for the operators who run it. COvia is the talent partner and invitation-only community for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leaders.
Every visitor arrives with one of two questions: how to build the right executive office around a leader, or how to grow inside that role alongside peers doing the work at the highest level.
Before you open a search, we help you clarify whether your office needs an Executive Assistant, a Chief of Staff or a Founder's Office lead. Then we introduce vetted operators from our practice across technology, biotech, healthcare, startups and established enterprises.
An invitation-only house for strategic operators globally. Share operational intelligence, work through live founder-led problems, adopt AI workflows that sharpen your judgement, and hear first when COvia shortlists new executive office roles.
Traditional recruitment agencies meet candidates only when a role opens. COvia grows executive office talent year-round and partners with founders to place it.
Inside the Gated Operator Community, The Discourse and The EA Edge, practising operators exchange playbooks, dissect executive office bottlenecks and build strategic fluency.
When founders ask us to architect and fill an executive office role, we shortlist from a trusted circle of operators whose discretion, pace and problem-solving we already know.
Every programme at COvia serves one goal: raising the leverage of the modern executive office.
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.
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.
Career spotlights, curated roundtables, panel discussions, a podcast, fireside chats, networking events and leader addresses that raise the strategic impact of modern operators.
Weekly insights, actionable AI workflows and career advocacy frameworks for the next generation of business operators.
Shortlisted executive office mandates, upcoming gatherings in The Discourse, and weekly dispatches from The EA Edge.
COvia shortlists executive office openings manually and shares them with community members first.
Series B healthtech company
Climate-tech startup
Biotech scale-up
Curated roundtables, fireside chats and career spotlights across Bengaluru, Auckland and online.
Weekly insights, practical AI workflows that strengthen human judgement rather than replace it, and career advocacy frameworks for modern business operators. Issues link directly to LinkedIn and are open to sponsorship.
COvia is built on 35+ combined years inside executive offices at global institutions and high-growth ventures — advising founders and evaluating operators from direct experience.
Senior 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.
Anticipation, agility and execution: clarity to chaos, structure to complexity, trust to every interaction.
20+ 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.
Frameworks, pragmatism and people: clear structure, sound governance and teams that perform.
Domain leaders guiding our healthcare, biotechnology, engineering and business practice.
Business Advisor to COvia. Full bio to follow.
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.
Professor 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.
A yearly gathering for the people who run the executive office. Waitlist open now. Designed for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff, Founder's Office leaders and the founders who build alongside them.