Written by Shivangi Vashisht

After two decades in global leadership roles, Vishal Sood returns to Mohali to build an AI platform that levels the placement field for students outside India’s top institutes.

Leaving the corner office

After nearly two decades in global leadership roles, including a stint as group CEO of a multinational conglomerate, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus Vishal Sood stepped away in 2021 with one question: why do students in smaller towns still struggle to access quality placements?

Having begun his career in Singapore and later overseen universities, schools and media businesses across regions, Sood says the hiring disparity for tier-2 and tier-3 colleges was impossible to ignore. “Students outside top institutes face structural challenges. Pedigree often gets more weig

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