Manish Sabharwal
Chairman and Co-founder, Teamlease Services
Mr. Manish Sabharwal’s role has been transitioned from Executive Vice Chairman to Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of the Company with effect from February 02, 2026. Prior to co-founding the Company, he had co-founded India Life, a HR services Company that was acquired by NYSE listed Hewitt Associates. Consequently, he served as a Chief Executive Officer of Hewitt Outsourcing (Asia) based in Singapore. Mr. Sabharwal 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 served as an Independent Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He got his MBA from The Wharton School and is an alumnus of Shri Ram College, Delhi and Mayo College, Ajmer. Mr. Sabharwal has been instrumental in conceptualizing and building the company over the past two decades from a pioneering staffing startup in 2002 to a diversified workforce solutions leader serving 350,000+ employees and 3,500+ clients across 28 states. He has championed India’s labour reforms, apprenticeship expansion, employability initiatives, and job-creation policies through national forums and advisory boards.