Oscar Dharamshi

Decipha is a Talent acquisition gateway to an international network of niche technology recruiters. We've teamed up with some of the world's most connected Emerging Tech, HealthTech, GTM, Compliance and Finance recruiters to bring you unparalleled access to their inner circles of A-players. – Product launch, ThirdEye (phase II) Feb 2025 - present GTM | Community manager • ThirdEye pairs candidates with Corporate Talent Acquisition recruiters to deliver unfiltered CV appraisals. Supporting early careers, experienced hires and executive/leadership. – Lead | Talent Acquisition (phase I) Aug 2022 – Dec 2024 • Hands-on IC, mobilised & steered niche recruiter teams across Easten Europe, Asia & South America, ensuring QA and timely executions across all client requisitions • Identified and executed end to end search campaigns with leading brands and scale-ups: Rockwell, Percona, Aequilibrium, MTN, Ooredoo, Cisco, AlShaya Group, AET, 6th Street

Regulated multi-asset digital money platform supporting ~300 digital assets. Integrated with 27 blockchain networks and a robust trading engine, enabling users to trade 'Anything-to-Anything'. • Hands-on IC, reporting into the CPO, dotted line to COO & CEO, with autonomy to test and execute various strategies to support hyper growth during an extremely challenging and competitive market, ensuring we continue to identify, attract and retain the top 5% • Turnaround assignment to reverse engineer and redesign Talent Acquisition across all European centers of gravity, covering R&D, Compliance & Finance functions • Worked with COO to remove interdepartmental bottlenecks between Engineering, Compliance and Talent Acquisition, creating a more streamlined interview process (from ~21 days to ~9 days), market aligned compensation & benefits, improved EVP and candidate experience • Proactively targeted top performers from the competitive landscape and ecosystem, created win-win value propositions, and managed 9 stakeholder relationships. Personally secured 15 passive hires across Backend architecture, Blockchain, Data structures, Product lifecycle, Compliance & Finance • Interviewed ~400 candidates, recommended ~11% (business case for +EV hires) • Evaluated external partners, introduced five disruptors, reduced fees from ~21% to 15%, trained and optimized new partners which led to a more relevant and quality supply chain

Startup, Enterprise SW focused agency, established in 2015 with revenues of £30M. HQ in Paris & London, with a centralised sourcing & analytics hub based in Barcelona. • Headhunted to kickstart and launch international services portfolio with P&L control • Hands-on IC, lead on Go-To-Market strategy and execution, Client and Talent Acquisition, across IoT, Cloud, Data & SaaS. • Identified & owned end to end search mandates with Microsoft, Intel, Avanade, TASMU.gov Qatar, EVRYTHNG & Rockwell, generating ~£250k NFI • Initiated the rebranding campaign from “Club Freelance” to “Mind Quest” to coincide with the introduction of VP+ Search capabilities across Product, GTM, Connectivity & Finance

– Idea stage Startup (bootstrapped), subscription based disguised learning platform aimed at students aged between 10-16 years, offering structured after school modules directly in line with the national curriculum. The Owned portal encourages individual, group and social learning & development. Phase one – completed (research, design & db development)

Award-winning agency specialised in Cyber Security, Compliance & Corporate Governance. • Headhunted to drive change & transformation from an inbound to outreach model with P&L control • Led strategic account management efforts to resuscitate dormant accounts whilst increasing share of wallet across the firm's top 10 client list • Implemented new frameworks, tools, and techniques to encourage community build, business development, teamwork, operational efficiencies and a consultative mindset

Talent Acquisition strategy and consulting to the Technology & PS sector. • Developed talent pools & candidate pipelines across GCC to elevate EVP for Tech firms • Delivered due diligence and provided strategic direction to the Ministry of Labor (UAE) for compliant workforce & mobility solutions • Secured retained & exclusive mandates with long standing CXO relationships; Roland Berger, Mubadala Investment Co, Nokia, Etisalat, Emirates Steel, Dell, Cisco, Motorola • Complete ownership of client recruitment lifecycle i.e. stakeholder relationship management, bespoke job profiling & design, digital and direct recruitment, client interviews & offer management

Co-founded by James Caan (Dragons' Den, AMS), spin-off boutique from Alexander Mann. The business quickly found its footing and identity as a force in Technology search across the UK, EMEA & Asia. • Joined as Researcher, progressed to Associate, Team Lead and eventually equity Partner. • Accountable for; people development, candidate/client acquisition strategy, sales development, key stakeholder management & delivery • Revenue: 60% contract / 40% search. Geographic split: Europe 40%, Middle East 40%, Asia 20% • A significant portion of my efforts was focused on leading my teams through full life cycle Talent Acquisition, BD, Stakeholder Management and Delivery. We consistently pushed boundaries, challenged the status quo, and used A-B testing principles to validate learning • Established 5 centers of gravity across the UK, UAE, KSA, Malaysia and SEA to facilitate client and talent acquisition, comprising 2 AM’s, 7 Associates & 4 researchers • Developed lean scalable operations (micro-RPO’s) for our top tier clients enabling turnkey project recruitment, cross continent mobilization & compliance. This was achieved through a strategic network of bespoke partnerships which I engineered to facilitate resourcing, compliance, mobility & onboarding, generating ~£8M in diversified revenue Selection of project wins: • Secured micro-RPO with Motorola Solutions HQ USA for their Middle East, Africa & SEA operations. Consulted on in-house TA strategy (~800hrs), managed c.20 stakeholder relationships. Achieved 40+ hires pa • Awarded Executive Search mandates with Etisalat HQ UAE for Egypt OpCo, managed 8 stakeholder relationships. Consulted on in-house TA strategy (~150hrs). Achieved 10 hires pa • Awarded micro-RPO with Ericsson HQ for their operations in Bangladesh and Vietnam, managed 12 stakeholder relationships. Consulted on in-house TA strategy (~200hrs). Achieved 20+ hires pa • Secured micro-RPO with Firstmark Communications HQ UK for greenfield deployments across Europe, managed 10 stakeholder relationships. Consulted on in-house TA strategy (~300hrs). Achieved 30+ hires pa • Secured micro-RPO with Star21 HQ Germany for greenfield deployments across Europe, managed 8 stakeholder relationships. Consulted on in-house TA strategy (~100hrs). Achieved 20+ hires pa • Secured preferred partner status with Intel Germany, managed 6 stakeholder relationships. Achieved 12 hires pa • Secured a project consulting contract with Ooredoo HQ Qatar (formerly Q-Tel) to deliver a SWAT team of 10 subject matter experts for international group deployment, direct stakeholder relationships with Group COO, CMO & CTO. Project completed