Ishika Gaba

About Ishika Gaba

As a Senior Associate at Corner Office Advisors, I help organizations build high-impact leadership teams through data-backed assessments, strategic insights, and advisory support aligned with their growth ambitions. My work bridges leadership strategy and business outcomes, ensuring that every recommendation drives measurable transformation.Previously, at Kingfish Group, I supported a $1.4B AUM private equity client portfolio, leading M&A strategy projects and pioneering the use of Generative AI to streamline research workflows by 60%. This experience strengthened my ability to connect market intelligence, financial analysis, and operational insight into actionable strategies for investors and founders.I thrive at the intersection of data, strategy, and people, and enjoy collaborating across global, cross-functional teams to create meaningful business impact.Core strengths: Leadership & Organizational Strategy Stakeholder Management Private Equity Research & M&A Strategy Financial Analysis & Modelling Generative AI Integration in Research Workflows

Experience

1. Senior Associate

   Corner Office Advisors

   Oct 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Corner Office Advisors\' purpose is to help enterprises build the most effective leadership teams. It begins with understanding an organizations inflection point – incubation, growth/scale or turnaround/transformation.Followed by discovery and diligence, learning more about our clients’ ecosystem, their leaders, their culture. And make strong recommendations on leadership operating models aligned to their 3–5-year ambition.Over the last 20 years, we have gained credibility as advisors to leading global and Indian enterprises, consulting & law rms, private equity rms, mid-market and family-owned businesses.We operate across four critical service lines to build effective leadership teams: Leadership Assessments – Personality, behavior, adaptability assessments needed to be an Effective Leader Leadership Mentoring – Our leader mentor programs produce powerful personal and professional benchmarks Leadership Search - Attract and hire Effective Leaders who accelerate growth in a disruptive world Women in Leadership – Initiatives that promote women in leadership. Collaborating with The Wharton School to bring Whartons Women\'s Executive Leadership Programs to India.We look at challenges and opportunities via a business lens and our objective is to deliver success with agility and a superlative experience across all engagements.

Education

• Shivaji College

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Business/Commerce, General

• Vivekanand School

  High School Diploma, Commerce with Maths