About Pontiq

Pontiq helps employers improve hiring for hard-to-fill and business-critical roles.

We work with you to define what strong performance requires, explore overlooked talent pools, and assess candidates through structured questions and realistic work scenarios.

Our proposed Evidence Passport brings together what each candidate has demonstrated, the supporting evidence and the questions still worth asking. After hiring, we revisit those signals against workplace performance to improve the next hiring decision.

Meet Dipti Cheerath

From understanding individual strengths to shaping workforce strategy.

My approach to talent began at Gallup, where I learned to look closely at people’s strengths: what they naturally do well, how those strengths show up at work, and how the right role can help someone thrive. As a Certified Gallup Strengths Coach, that perspective continues to shape how I think about hiring.

At Accenture, I built on those foundations to understand what large organisations need from their people—and how talent strategy must evolve as the business changes. Working in Talent & Organisation consulting, I developed deep expertise in talent strategy, workforce transformation and capability development.

In recent years, I also led Accenture ANZ thought leadership on Data and AI talent and AI reinvention strategy, exploring how organisations prepare their workforces for new ways of working.

Today, as an independent consultant and the founder of Pontiq, I bring these experiences together. I help employers translate business needs into clear skill requirements, recognise capable people from different backgrounds, and gather evidence that supports better hiring decisions.

Working with Pontiq

We start with a focused discovery engagement around a role you need to hire better. Together, we examine the hiring challenge, clarify the capabilities that matter, and identify practical improvements to sourcing and selection.

Alongside this consulting work, we are developing Evidence Passports, role-specific work simulations and candidate comparison tools, shaped by conversations with employers.

Our co-founders and advisors

Dilesh Weerasuriya — Co-founder, Higher Education Advisor

Dilesh is a technologist with over 14 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale systems, particularly within higher education and enterprise environments. He brings a systems-thinking view of how universities and employers can share evidence about skills, and keeps Pontiq's approach practical and scalable.

Gyanesh Pandey — Co-founder, AI and Technology Advisor

Gyanesh is an experienced founder and executive with a track record of building and scaling mission-driven ventures, including as founder and CEO of Husk Power Systems. He advises Pontiq on technology and AI, and on moving from concept to something that works under real-world constraints.