CEO search firm in Mumbai.
Retained Chief Executive Officer search in Mumbai and across Mumbai · Pune · Western India. CEO mandates are the most consequential leadership decision a board makes. We run them as a multi-quarter conversation, not a transaction — mapping the universe, back-channelling references before the first call, and pressure-testing the candidate against the company's actual operating reality.
How we read a CEO.
Every CEO candidate we shortlist for a Mumbai mandate is evaluated against five lenses, refined over two decades of CEO placements across India and the GCC:
- 01P&L scale lived through (not managed in slide-deck form)
- 02Capital-allocation instincts at scale
- 03Board and investor fluency
- 04Operating cadence under stress
- 05Successor and bench-building track record
₹6–18 Cr fixed + variable + long-term equity
Typical CEO band for Mumbai-based mandates, fixed plus variable plus long-term equity / ESOP. Adjust upward for listed-company and PE-backed roles.
14–22 weeks (longer for confidential replacements)
Kick-off to signed offer. Add 4–6 weeks for confidential CXO replacements and cross-border briefs.
Retained
Single-firm retainer, milestone-billed at 25–33% of target compensation. 12-month replacement guarantee.
From the ground.
We have placed CEOs across listed NBFCs, asset managers, technology unicorns and family businesses transitioning to professional leadership.
Mumbai is the financial capital, and it is the centre of our BFSI, asset-management and capital-markets practice. It is also where most of our consumer-brand and pharma leadership mandates are run from.
- CEO mandates in Banking & Financial Services
- CEO mandates in Asset & Wealth Management
- CEO mandates in Insurance
- CEO mandates in Consumer Goods & D2C
- CEO mandates in Pharma & Life Sciences
- CEO mandates in Media & Entertainment
Other Mumbai search practices.
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