The right people in the executive office.
Talent partner and community for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leaders.
Talent Partnerships & Role Architecture
Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff & Founder's Office role design and shortlist.
Fri · 11:30 · Practice leads
Advised by operators from Google, Citi, IBM & Flipkart
35+ combined years inside executive offices across Bengaluru and Auckland.
Thu 18:00 · 28 Nov
Roundtable: Chiefs of Staff and AI workflows
Mon–Tue · 16:00 · Invitation-onlySample
Gated Operator Community · 50 founding seats
18 of 50 founding seats filled — free for the first 50 approved operators.
The EA Edge · Weekly edition
Actionable AI workflows and career advocacy by Shweta Malekar.
Fri · 16:00 · Shortlisted roleSample
Latest jobs: Chief of Staff to the CEO
Series B healthtech company · Bengaluru · Hybrid
Two calendars, one partner.
Whether you are designing an executive office or running one, start with the slot built for you.
Track 1 · For founders, executives & talent leads
Hiring for the executive office
You need an Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff or Founder's Office lead who can own priorities, run operating cadence and protect executive attention across technology, biotech, healthcare, startups and beyond.
- Clarify scope and reporting lines before writing the brief
- Shortlist from a live community of practising strategic operators
- Structured search with 90-day onboarding follow-through
Track 2 · For EAs, Chiefs of Staff & Founder's Office leads
Running the executive office
You are a strategic operator moving beyond reactive coordination into high-leverage decision support, cross-functional execution and AI-augmented workflows that sharpen your judgement.
- Invitation-only peer room free for the first 50 approved members
- Weekly playbooks, roundtables and founder-led problem solving
- First look at executive office roles shortlisted by COvia
One loop between community and hiring.
COvia both grows executive office talent and places it — each side of the week strengthens the other.
Mon–Tue · Grow
Operators sharpen their craft in the community
Practising Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder's Office leads exchange playbooks, test AI workflows and debate real cases in the Gated Operator Community, The Discourse and The EA Edge.
Wed–Thu · Architect
Founders design the role around real leverage
Through Talent Partnerships & Role Architecture, we help founders decide whether the bottleneck calls for an Executive Assistant, a Chief of Staff or a Founder's Office builder.
Fri · Place
Employers hire from a trusted, practising network
Instead of starting from cold applications, searches draw from operators whose judgement, working style and ambition are already visible inside the COvia ecosystem.
How COvia works across the week.
Four standing programmes for the executive office, supported by specialist training and coaching.
Mon · 09:30 · EmployersEmployers
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.
Tue · 14:00 · OperatorsProfessionals
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.
Thu · 18:00 · Live sessionsEveryone
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.
Wed · 08:30 · Weekly editionProfessionals
The EA Edge
Weekly insights, actionable AI workflows and career advocacy frameworks for the next generation of business operators.
By arrangement · Specialist trackTraining and coaching
Practical training and one-to-one coaching for executive office professionals, delivered with a specialist collaborator.Collaborator TBC
Enquire about trainingOn the calendar right now.
Shortlisted executive office openings and upcoming conversations in Bengaluru and Auckland.
Shortlisted roles
Browse the job boardChief of Staff to the CEO
Series B healthtech company · Bengaluru · Hybrid
Executive Assistant to the Founder
Climate-tech startup · Auckland · On-site
Founder's Office Associate
Biotech scale-up · Bengaluru · On-site
Upcoming on The Discourse
See all sessionsChiefs of Staff and AI workflows
Bengaluru · Led by Shweta Malekar
What founders actually need from the executive office
Auckland · Led by Geetika S Nongthomba
From EA to Chief of Staff: a career spotlight
Online · Speaker to be announced
Built by people who have run the executive office.
Real operating experience inside global enterprises, research institutions and venture-backed startups.
Co-founder
Shweta Malekar
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.
Co-founder
Geetika S Nongthomba
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 & technical advisors
Business AdvisorBio pending
Girish Vasudevan
Business Advisor to COvia. Full bio to follow.
Tech Advisor
Vinay Gupta
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.
Biotech & Healthcare Advisor
Prof. Upendra Nongthomba
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.
All-day calendar hold · Annual gathering
Annual EA and Founder's Office Summit
A yearly gathering for the people who run the executive office. Waitlist open now.