Khyati Sundaram

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Khyati Sundaram is the CEO and Chair of Applied, a behavioural-science-backed hiring platform that uses anonymised applications and skill-based assessments to remove bias from recruitment. She joined Applied as Head of Product in 2019 and stepped up as CEO in April 2020. Under her leadership, the company tripled its revenue and customer base, expanded into the US, Australia and Europe, and counted Comic Relief, Penguin and the UK Government among its clients. In February 2026, Applied was acquired by Phenom, where its assessment intelligence will be integrated into Phenom's enterprise hiring platform.

Before Applied, Khyati co-founded FOSHO, a B2B AI-pricing platform for sustainable supply chains, where she served as CEO. Earlier in her career, she worked as an investment banker and economist at JP Morgan and RBS, with a focus on game theory and behavioural finance. She has been a LinkedIn Top Voice and a vocal advocate for skills-based hiring as the antidote to CV-based screening, regularly publishing data showing that 60% of people hired through Applied would be missed by traditional processes, with ethnic minority hire rates running roughly four times higher than the UK workforce average.

Khyati holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, an MBA from London Business School, and completed an exchange at The Wharton School. She speaks regularly at industry events including London Tech Week on the future of work, ethical AI and the limits of unconscious bias training.