Sid Prashar
GoogleSid Prashar is a founding member of Google's executive recruiting function. Sid has worked on
business-critical senior leadership roles across the Alphabet portfolio (Google, Waymo, Verily et
all) and helped to grow and scale businesses through executive level talent acquisition and
advisory. A computer engineer by training and a former management consultant, Sid has helped
to build out and grow the executive recruiting capabilities at Google and contributed to evolving
and improving many of the tools, processes, and practices along the way. In his current role, Sid
leads a high performing team focused on executive leadership recruitment, and spends his time on further developing the function, leadership onboarding and advisory, succession and team’s growth and culture-related matters.
Prior to Google, Sid was a member of Spencer Stuart's 'Business/Professional Services' and 'Technology/Media/Telecommunications' practices and focused on CEO / CFO / Board, and other senior leadership searches. He has advised Fortune 500 and high-growth companies as well as Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies on senior management recruitment, succession and leadership transition issues. Prior to Spencer Stuart, Sid was a Strategy Manager at Deloitte Consulting. He is a results-driven professional with significant experience advising senior executives and leading cross-functional teams to solve complex business issues and deliver results.
While at Deloitte, Sid demonstrated expertise and deep understanding of functions across the value chain in the Technology, Professional Services, Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences industries (across pharma, biotech, and med device). Sid’s functional experience includes corporate/BU growth strategy, customer and market strategy, and M&A. He has advised clients on new product development and product launch readiness, process improvements, operational effectiveness, enterprise cost reduction and supply chain transformations. Sid earned his B.S in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and his M.B.A from University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He is an avid traveler, an active soccer dad to his two sons, and enjoys hiking and spending his free time with family.