Abhijeet Narvekar

CEO at The FerVID Group

Abhijeet Narvekar is the CEO and Founder of The FerVID Group, an award-winning executive recruiting and leadership advisory firm based in Houston, TX. With 25 years at the intersection of high tech, energy, geoscience, and people, Abhi has built one of the most distinctive talent firms in industrial SaaS and energy technology — one that delivers a 95% placement retention rate through a proprietary predictive hiring framework built on deep domain knowledge, behavioral science, and structured post-placement support. Abhi started his career as a production engineer in Mumbai, before moving to the United States for graduate study at Oklahoma State University (MS, Industrial Engineering & Management, Alpha Pi Mu Honors). He built deep expertise in enterprise software and geoscience data management at Schlumberger Information Solutions and Petris Technology, where he led product management, development teams, and client delivery for upstream energy operators globally. In 2010, he founded The FerVID Group to solve a problem he kept seeing firsthand: great companies were hiring the wrong leaders, and the recruiting industry had no real answer. FerVID grew from zero to a multi-million dollar organization and was recognized as a Best Places to Work recipient four consecutive years. Today, FerVID partners with CHROs, CROs, CTOs, and VPs of People at industrial SaaS, energy technology, utilities, pharma, and manufacturing companies to place and develop leaders from Manager through C-suite. Confirmed client wins include AspenTech, SLB, Halliburton, Shell, MicroStrategy, Woodside Energy, AdvanSix, Tallgrass Energy, OXY, Itron. One VP of AI placement drove 20% revenue growth in year one. A data management engagement saved a client $800K+. Abhi's newest work - the FerVID Revenue Risk Index - is a diagnostic framework that scores leadership org strength by function, benchmarks it against stage-appropriate ideals drawn from 200+ industrial and enterprise SaaS companies, and calculates ARR at risk per point of gap. It gives CHROs and CROs a board-ready financial argument for strategic headcount investment -translating talent gaps from an HR conversation into a revenue risk conversation. This framework is the intellectual backbone of his proposed Wyoming SHRM and HR2026 sessions. Beyond executive search, Abhi has coached 100+ leaders through career transitions and scale - clients ranging from $600K to $2M+ net worth, including CROs, CPOs, and VPs at PE-backed and public companies. He is also the CEO of Career Unleashed, an HR technology venture connecting internal workforce data to external market benchmarks to give CHROs a competitive edge in workforce planning. Abhi is a recognized thought leader and speaker whose insights have been featured in Forbes Human Resources Council, SHRM, Houston Business Journal, and PPDM. He has spoken at the 2025 AI in Oil & Gas Conference (ECN), the 2024 Digitalization in Oil & Gas Conference, PPDM Annual Symposium in Calgary (keynote: "Conquer Your Fear. Reach Your Full Potential"), and the SPE Gulf Coast Section. He has been a podcast guest on The Future of Teamwork (HUDDL3 Group), the Digital Recruiter Podcast (Purple Acorn Network), and has been featured in an AIHR video interview on career analytics and workforce data. He has also published in Oilfield Technology Magazine and presented technical papers at PNEC, ESRI PUG, and SPE conferences. Abhi was born in Mumbai and moved to the United States for graduate education and entrepreneurship. He is based in Houston, Texas - where he also paints dogs as a creative outlet and performs best in early mornings.