Siteimprove Appoints Ritesh Daryani as New Chief Human Resources Officer
Aug 19, 2025 - By Siteimprove
Seasoned HR leader joins the executive team to lead the next phase of employee experience, workforce expansion and global growth
Bellevue, Wash. – August 19, 2025 – Siteimprove®, a leader in agentic content intelligence, today announced the appointment of Ritesh Daryani as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Daryani will be based in the company’s Bellevue, Washington office and will report directly to CEO Nayaki Nayyar.
Daryani has more than 20+ years of global experience in technology companies, most recently, he served as Chief People Officer at Edifecs, where he cultivated a mission-driven, employee-centric culture that played a pivotal role in the company’s growth and successful acquisition by Cotiviti recently. During his ten-year tenure, he guided the organization through a period of rapid growth, expanding its workforce from 450 to 1,300 employees and helping drive five times the revenue growth. Edifecs also earned Great Place to Work® certification, GeekWire Workplace of the Year accolades, and inclusion in Seattle Magazine’s Best Large Companies to Work For list under Daryani’s leadership.
Prior to Edifecs, Daryani was Director of Human Resources at Expedia, Infosys, IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation, HCL Technologies, and General Electric (GE).
Daryani joins at an inflection point as the company enters the next phase of its vision and strategy, he will lead the company’s people strategy, employee experience and culture, workforce innovation and expansion for sustainable growth.
"I am thrilled to join Siteimprove at this pivotal moment and connect with the talented team who make this such a remarkable place to work. Building a great workplace is not the work of a single initiative or department, it is the combined efforts of all of us, to make Siteimprove an even better place to work. I am excited to partner with the team across the organization to build on its strong foundation of culture, inclusion, and innovation." Said Ritesh Daryani, CHRO at Siteimprove.
"I'm delighted to welcome Ritesh to Siteimprove," said Nayaki Nayyar, CEO of Siteimprove. "As we enter our next phase of growth and scale, Ritesh's leadership and deep expertise in building world-class teams will be instrumental in shaping our culture and empowering our people to achieve extraordinary results."
Daryani holds a master’s degree in human resources and industrial relations and has completed doctoral coursework (ABD) in organizational psychology at the University of Lucknow and Seattle Pacific University.
About Siteimprove:
Founded in 2003, Siteimprove transforms access to the digital world by providing an agentic content intelligence platform that unifies accessibility, analytics, SEO/AIO and content strategy. Today, global 2000 clients across manufacturing, government, higher education, financial services, and healthcare rely on Siteimprove.ai, an agentic content intelligence platform to deliver both content that performs and that is compliant. Based in Copenhagen, Bellevue, Minneapolis and London, Siteimprove is a single, actionable source of truth for digital content and development teams across many of largest global enterprises, government entities and learning intuitions. Siteimprove is majority owned by Nordic Capital.
About Nordic Capital:
Nordic Capital is a leading sector-specialist private equity investor with a resolute commitment to creating stronger, sustainable businesses through operational improvement and transformative growth. Nordic Capital focuses on selected regions and sectors where it has deep experience and a long history. Focus sectors are Healthcare, Technology & Payments, Financial Services, and Services & Industrial Tech. Key regions are Europe and globally for Healthcare and Technology & Payments investments. Since inception in 1989, Nordic Capital has invested c. EUR 26 billion in close to 150 investments. The most recent entities are Nordic Capital XI with EUR 9.0 billion in committed capital and Nordic Capital Evolution II with EUR 2 billion in committed capital, principally provided by international institutional investors such as pension funds. Nordic Capital Advisors have local offices in Sweden, the UK, the US, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and South Korea. www.nordiccapital.com.
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