HR Lead
Mrs. Sindhu Ishwar
Makes startups hire-ready, compliant, and handbook-complete without the bureaucracy.
Biography
Makes startups hire-ready, compliant, and handbook-complete without the bureaucracy.
Mrs. Sindhu Ishwar brings 28 years of HR experience across Indian enterprises and growth-stage startups. She has built handbooks, payroll structures, POSH committees, and comp frameworks for teams scaling from founding five to a hundred-plus, with an operator's eye for what actually ships on a Monday.
Her practice emphasises practical, India-compliant deliverables — PF/ESI registration, Shops & Establishment filings, Gratuity setup, and state-level labour welfare — layered on top of policies that hold up when a founder reads them back a year later.
Sindhu's belief: most early HR problems aren't people problems; they're structure problems. Fix the handbook, the offer letter, and the CTC design early, and the rest gets a lot cheaper to manage.
Career timeline
- 1998Began HR career at a mid-size Indian services firm
- 2005Led first end-to-end HR buildout for a founder-led team
- 2013Specialised in statutory compliance across Karnataka
- 2020Advisory work with early-stage Bengaluru startups
- 2026Leads HR vertical at Costway
Awards & recognition
- 28 years of multi-sector HR leadership
- 50+ startups onboarded through PF / ESI / POSH / Shops & Establishment
- Specialist in ESOP structuring and comp-band design
Packages led by Sindhu Ishwar
One vertical, four tiers.
HR
From first hire to full handbook, done right.
Policy handbooks, recruitment frameworks, statutory compliance, and compensation design — India-compliant templates founders can ship on Monday.
- Policy & handbook templates
- Recruitment & hiring frameworks
- Compliance & statutory setup (PF / ESI / POSH / Shops & Est.)
- Compensation, payroll & performance