Akash Srivastava is Co-founder and CEO of Vested Technology, a recruiting automation platform. Vested Technology works alongside teams to identify, engage and hire passive candidates saving companies tons of money on additional headcount or agencies. Prior to founding Vested, Akash led finance at Handy and worked several roles on Wall Street. He took the scenic route to entrepreneurship; but he’s a huge believer of ‘better late than never’!

"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

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"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

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