Built inside the work. Not around it.

IGNYTE was built by people who have spent their careers running real searches, inside one of the world's leading executive search firms.

Every friction point, every workaround, every hour lost to admin, we felt it in our own work. IGNYTE is what we built to fix it.

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We built IGNYTE because we felt the absence of the right tools every day

Every search starts the same way

A doc to draft the role, a spreadsheet to map the market, LinkedIn in one tab, & the ATS in another. Outreach goes out in batches. Interview feedback scatters across email threads. By the time a decision is due, the recommendation gets pieced together from memory and a dozen different places.

That is not recruiting. That is managing a stack.

IGNYTE was built to close that gap

IGNYTE is not another point solution bolted onto a broken workflow, but an end-to-end AI hiring platform built by the team behind Kingsley Gate, a global executive search firm with twenty years of searches across more than fifty countries.

We built this for ourselves first, tested it on our own searches under real conditions, and refined it through thousands of live engagements before making it available to anyone else.

The expertise that has always lived inside the heads of the most experienced practitioners is now available from the moment a search begins to every team that needs it.

Trained on decades of real search methodology, not scraped from the open internet, and continuously refined by the practitioners still running searches today.

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YEARS OF SEARCHES

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COUNTRIES

From the first brief through the final decision, IGNYTE runs as one continuous thread of intelligence

Meet the team

Dave Kevorkian

Client Partner

Saurabh Gupta

Chief Technologist

Umesh Ramakrishnan

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Natalie Bennett

Chief of Staff

Marlena Pal

Customer Success

The board

Andrew Holmes

Chairman

Umesh Ramakrishnan

Board member

Jun Hong Heng

Board member

Evan Ellis

Board member

Nancy Albertini

Board member

Buster Houchins

Board member

Noam Eisenberg

Board member

Mike Hindley

Board member