Leadership
Kingsley Gate Names Biiprashish Roy Senior Partner in Mumbai and Vinay Kumar Partner in Bengaluru
By News Desk ·
Key takeaways
- Biiprashish Roy joined Kingsley Gate as Senior Partner in Mumbai with more than three decades of executive search, leadership advisory and business leadership experience.
- Vinay Kumar joined as Partner in Bengaluru with more than 20 years of technology leadership hiring, previously leading the Technology Practice at ABC Consultants.
- Kingsley Gate's senior India team, including Senior Partner Firoze Patel, employs roughly seven decades of combined experience.
Kingsley Gate appointed Biiprashish Roy as Senior Partner in Mumbai and Vinay Kumar as Partner in Bengaluru, the firm said on November 12, adding more than 50 years of combined experience to its India bench. The Tribune carried the announcement.
Roy and Kumar Join Kingsley Gate's India Team
Kingsley Gate Partners said Roy's career spans more than three decades in executive search, leadership advisory and business leadership, with leadership and board-level assignments across industrial, healthcare and life sciences, and consumer sectors. Roy is an ICF-certified leadership coach with a background in assessing succession readiness and executive effectiveness. He began his career in sales and business development with Johnson & Johnson, Glaxo, Modi Xerox and RPG Ricoh before moving into executive search.
Vinay Kumar has spent more than 20 years focused on technology leadership, advising Indian and multinational organisations, including Global Capability Centres, on senior appointments across engineering, product, data and AI, cloud and cybersecurity. Before joining Kingsley Gate, Kumar led the Technology Practice at ABC Consultants and earlier held leadership roles with RGF Professional Recruitment, First Meridian Business Services and Adecco.
Andrew Holmes, CEO of Kingsley Gate, said: "Biiprashish and Vinay give us real depth across both, from board-level and CEO search in established sectors to the technology leadership that is driving transformation." Roy said his conversations with Umesh Ramakrishnan were instrumental in shaping his decision, and Kumar cited the firm's AI-native search vision as a key reason for joining.
Kingsley Gate's Scale Behind the Appointments
Kingsley Gate reported scaling to 2,000+ clients served across 50+ countries with 300+ consultants in 40+ countries, according to akta.pro company records. The same records show the firm launched IGNYTE as a standalone AI-native end-to-end hiring intelligence platform at ignyteai.com in June 2026, extending its search stack to mid-market and self-service buyers. The platform draws from 30 years of proprietary search data and methodology.
Executive Search Leadership Moves Elsewhere
Robert Half International promoted David King to President of Executive Search for the Americas and Europe, covering the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe, PR Newswire reported on November 5. King has held senior roles at Robert Half since 1995, including Senior Managing Director for Canada and South America.
MLP AG said Uwe Schroeder-Wildberg will not renew his contract, which ends in 2027, and Jan Berg will succeed him as CEO on January 1, 2028, AD HOC NEWS reported on November 11. 47G said Aaron Starks will leave as president and CEO effective December 15, with Matthew Croshaw becoming interim president and COO on December 16, Techbuzznews reported on November 6.