India's infrastructure capex cycle is the strongest in two decades
National highways, metro rail, ports, airports and renewable energy are creating a generational demand for project leadership.
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Infrastructure & Real Estate.
Project, asset and development leadership for infrastructure and real estate at scale.
01 / Overview
The practice.
From EPC and infrastructure developers to commercial, residential and hospitality real estate, our practice supports leadership search across the full built-environment lifecycle — origination, project execution, asset management and exits.
We work with listed developers, EPC majors, REIT platforms, hospitality groups, institutional investors and the GCC's largest mega-project organisations. Every brief is calibrated against the project complexity, geography and capital structure the leader will inherit.
02 / Market landscape
What the market is doing.
The forces shaping leadership demand in Infrastructure right now.
Real estate has institutionalised
REITs, fractional ownership and global capital are rewriting the talent brief. Developers are professionalising and hiring CFOs, COOs and CIOs at a pace the sector has not seen before.
GCC mega-projects are pulling Indian leaders
Saudi giga-projects, UAE infrastructure and Qatari real estate are aggressively recruiting Indian project directors and EPC leaders.
Sustainability and green buildings are mandatory
Embodied-carbon expertise, green-certification leadership and ESG-aware asset management are now senior-level requirements, not optional add-ons.
03 / Talent landscape
"The best project and development leaders are scarce, deeply networked, and almost never visible on talent platforms. Our practice has spent two decades building those relationships across India, the GCC and Southeast Asia."
04 / Roles we place
The mandates.
Representative roles across 5 role families.
Executive
- · CEO
- · COO
- · MD of developers and EPC firms
- · President — Infrastructure
Project & construction
- · Project Director
- · Head of Construction
- · Head of Engineering
- · Head of Quality
- · Head of HSE
Real estate operations
- · Head of Asset Management
- · Head of Leasing
- · Head of Sales
- · Head of Land Acquisition
- · Head of Approvals
Hospitality
- · General Managers
- · Regional Operations Heads
- · Head of Development
ESG & sustainability
- · Head of Sustainability
- · Head of Green Buildings
- · ESG Officers
05 / Our approach
How we hire for Infrastructure.
Project complexity as the filter
We benchmark candidates by the scale, geography and technical complexity of projects they actually delivered on time and on budget.
Institutional and developer fluency
We understand the cultural distance between a private developer and an institutional platform — and shortlist accordingly.
India–GCC mobility
Many of our placements move between Indian and GCC mandates within the same career — we plan for that.
Capital-structure awareness
REIT-track, PE-backed and family-developer environments need different leadership archetypes. We are explicit about which one a brief actually needs.
06 / Methodology
Our 5-step process.
The way we run a sector search end to end.
- 01
Project brief
We define the role around the asset, the timeline and the capital structure — not the job description.
- 02
Asset-comparable mapping
We map leaders by the actual projects they have delivered, not the titles they have held.
- 03
Project-site referencing
References from contractors, consultants and on-site teams — not only from corporate stakeholders.
- 04
Capability and integrity assessment
Structured leadership interviewing with explicit focus on integrity, given the regulatory and approval-intensive nature of the sector.
- 05
Closure & integration
Relocation, family transition and structured first-100-day site-immersion plans.
07 / Capabilities
What we deliver.
- Developer and EPC leadership
- Project and construction management
- Real estate investment and asset management
- Hospitality operations
- Design and engineering leadership
- ESG and green buildings
- Land acquisition and approvals
- REIT and institutional platforms
08 / Cross-border
India · UAE · Singapore · Canada.
We run integrated India–GCC mandates almost every quarter — Project Directors moving from Indian metro projects to Saudi giga-projects, Indian asset managers joining UAE REITs, and GCC developers hiring Indian leaders for India entry.
09 / Case snapshots
Recent work.
Anonymised to protect client and candidate confidentiality.
Project Director for a $1.2bn metro rail package
Mapped 60 candidates across global EPC majors; closed in 16 weeks.
Head of Asset Management for a listed REIT
Built from a 90-candidate map across India, Singapore and Australia.
Country Head for a GCC developer entering India
Confidential search; built a 5-person leadership team in 9 months.
10 / Outcomes
Track record.
120+Infrastructure and RE mandates
30+Project Directors placed
6Asset classes covered
91%Closure rate
11 / FAQ
Questions, answered.
- Do you cover both EPC and developer organisations?
- Yes, and we are explicit about not substituting EPC leaders for developer roles, or vice versa.
- Can you support GCC mega-project hiring?
- Yes. Our Dubai office runs integrated India–GCC mandates across mega-projects, real estate and hospitality.
- Do you handle hospitality leadership?
- Yes — General Managers, Regional Heads and Development leaders across India and the GCC.
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