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 to design and fill high-leverage executive office roles.
Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder’s Office leaders are strategic operators, not administrative support. COvia connects the way those operators grow with the way ambitious organisations hire them.
Pathway A · Employers
Before you open a search, we help you architect the role—defining whether you need an Executive Assistant, a Chief of Staff or a Founder’s Office lead—and introduce operators vetted through our practising community across technology, biotech, healthcare and startups.
Pathway B · Professionals
An invitation-only community for operators stepping into high-leverage strategic work globally. Swap live playbooks, adopt AI workflows that sharpen your judgement, join roundtables and get first look at roles COvia shortlists.
Traditional recruitment treats every executive office search as a cold start. COvia runs a continuous loop: our community sharpens practising operators every week, and our talent practice places them into roles designed for real leverage.
Through the Gated Operator Community, The Discourse and The EA Edge, operators refine leadership rhythms, board prep and AI-assisted workflows together.
Through Talent Partnerships & Role Architecture, we help leaders separate EA, Chief of Staff and Founder’s Office mandates before interviewing begins.
Operators placed into executive offices bring new frameworks back into the community, raising the bar for every subsequent cohort and search.
Every engagement with COvia maps to one of four practice pillars—two built for daily operator growth, one for public dialogue, and one for executive office hiring.
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.
COvia is led by practitioners who have built and run executive offices across global banks, technology leaders, healthcare organisations and venture-backed startups.
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.
Operating approach: 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.
Operating approach: Frameworks, pragmatism and people: clear structure, sound governance and teams that perform.
Business Advisor
Business Advisor to COvia. Full bio to follow.
Tech 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.
Biotech & Healthcare Advisor
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.
Roles are manually shortlisted by COvia and shared with community members first. Sessions in The Discourse bring operators and founders into the same room.
Series B healthtech company
Climate-tech startup
Biotech scale-up
Written every week by co-founder Shweta Malekar: practical AI workflows that strengthen operator judgement, executive communication playbooks and career advocacy frameworks. Open to aligned sponsorship enquiries.
A yearly gathering for the people who run the executive office. Waitlist open now. Register your interest for early access to speaker announcements, programme tracks and founding partner tables in Bengaluru and Auckland.