Manish is Vice-Chairman of Teamlease Services, India’s largest staffing and human capital firm. Teamlease has over 300,000 employees in 5000+ cities, sponsored India’s first vocational university and operates India’s fastest growing national PPP apprenticeship program. The company has hired 1.9 million employees over the last 20 years.
Manish serves on various policy committees for education, employment and employability. He served as an Independent Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He is a Member of Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and a governing board member of National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He is also Managing Trustee of the New India Foundation that offers fellowships for writing books about post-1947 India and is a columnist for Indian Express. He got his MBA from The Wharton School and is an alumnus of Shriram College, Delhi and Mayo College, Ajmer.