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The Head Hunters India
April 2009
History
Started in 1987 by a MBA from IIMC – India‟s top B-School
21 Years ++ in Executive Recruitment – 1987 to 2008
Rated among the top 5 in the country by The Economist Magazine , London , UK
Top Management carries over 120 man-years of managerial experience in Indian industry
Top Management has Experience of working in India, Africa & USA in both MNC and Indian private sector companies
Top Management Experience is across Automobiles, BPO, Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Engineering, Financial Services, FMCG, Realty, Shipyards, Software etc
Top Management Search
Executive Selection
Turn-key Staffing Projects
Flexi Staffing of Professionals
4 Businesses
3 Fully Staffed & Own India Offices
Bangalore , Chennai & Mumbai
2 Rep Offices – Fully Owned
Nagpur, India
Chicago, Illinois, USA
35+ Recruiters – Professionally Qualified
250,000 ++ Strong Database of bio-data‟s
Catering to elite Indian and MNC companies
The ExecutiveManagement Team
Kris Lakshmikanth, MBA – IIMC , Founder Chairman & Managing Director
MBA from IIMC - India’s premier business school
Founded The Head Hunters India in 1987 from a garage in Bangalore
Pioneer of the “Headhunting” concept in India
Over a decade of industry experience in senior positions in sales and marketing
Asian Paints, Duncans Group before starting The Head Hunters India
Over 2 decades in Executive Search
Executive Committee member of various industry associations
Industry Spokesman on HR related issues , employment, jobs etc
Regularly interviewed on various industry issues by Indian and international media
- Reuters, Financial Times London, Asian Wall Street Journal, CNN IBN, CNBC
, NDTV, Aajtak TV , Headlines Today TV and leading newspapers / magazines –
Economic Times, Mint-WSJ, The Time International Magazine, CFO Magazine,
Business Line, Times of India etc
The Executive Management Team
Ravindran Rajendran MBA , Partner & Senior Vice President , Chennai
Veteran of software industry.
Over 30 years experience at TCS and Hexaware India & Hexaware USA
Strong roots in HRD & Senior level Recruitment.
Handles Senior Technology / BPO searches in India, USA and Europe
based out of Chennai
Shilla Shree , Post-Graduate, Partner & Senior Vice President , Bangalore
Over 15 years industry experience in realty and financial services
3 years in Executive Search at The Head Hunters India
Handles senior level searches in India and overseas, based out of
Bangalore
Key Executives
Dr Subramani Uthappa, Engineer, MBA, PhD, Senior Vice President –Business Development & Flexi-Staffing
Over 19 years industry experience in Consumer durables, ship building and Automobiles in India and overseas
Heads Global Business Development and Flexi-staffing out of Bangalore
Parthasarathy Chakravarthi, Engineer & MBA, Senior Vice President , Chennai
Over 16 years industry experience in sales and marketing of FMCG
Over 24 months in Executive Search & Placements
Handles all non-IT related searches out of Chennai
Key Executives
Nishchal Gowda, MBA , General Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Balaji, Senior Manager – IT Bangalore
Archana Harsha, Senior Manager – IT Bangalore
Shilpi, Consultant – IT Nagpur
Puja Ghosh, Senior Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Sandhya , Senior Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Vijay Venkat, Senior Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Pooja Sinha, Senior Manager – Search, Mumbai
Shubha Mittal, Senior Manager – Search, Mumbai
Rajesh, Senior Manager – Non-IT Chennai
Pushpa, Senior Manager – Non-IT Chennai
Prabu, Rep Manager – IT Chicago USA
The fabric of our client relationships
Great spread of client base
Long relationships and hence repeat business
Our first client way back in 1987 was the US $ 3. 00 Billion
RPG Group.
Today, in 2008, we are still one of their key vendors
First VP Sales of CEAT Tyres was given by us in 1989. We
recruited their current VP Sales in 2005. CEAT has grown
from Rs. 200 crores to Rs 2000 crores in this period
VP Sales recruited for Sterling Resorts is now MD of Club
Mahindra
Many senior people we have placed over years are heading
top companies today
Our Focus Sectors
Advertising
Auto / Engineering
Banking, Insurance &
Financial Services
BPO / KPO
FMCG / FMCD
Fashion /Garments
Healthcare
Life Sciences
Manufacturing
Media
Non-Conventional Energy
Projects & Infrastructure
Realty
Retail
Software
Telecom
Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial
Services
Telecom
Executive Search Divsion
Started in 1987
Pioneers in India in CXO level searches
across sectors
Personally lead by Kris Lakshmikanth ,
CEO
Proven track record for successful searches
in India, USA , UK, Europe etc
Executive Search - Success Stories I
Technology
Mr. Anirban Ghosh, Head Global Practice, Hexaware USA
Mr Vijay Ratnaparke, COO, Robert Bosch India , Bangalore
Mr Arup Gupta, President & COO , Polaris Software , Chennai
Mr P.K. Sridharan, Executive Director, Hexaware India
Mr Sunil Surya, Managing Director , Hexaware Europe
Mr Shiva Rangaswamy, Head Retail Practice, Zensar, Pune
Mr Chandran, Head ERP , Zensar Pune
Mr Sridhar Rangachari, AVP – Banking, Hexaware , Chennai
Mr Anurag Gupta, VP – Enterprise Sales Microland USA
Mr Rajaram Natarajan, HTMT Limited Hyderabad
Mr Sabyasachi Mishra, Head HR, Manthan Limited Bangalore
Mr Vishal Lakhina, Director, Sales, HCL America
Mr Ramesh C, Vice President Testing , Hexaware UK
Mr Surendra , Hexaware UK
Mr Srinivas , Westend Capital, Hyderabad
Mr Surendra , Account Manager, Hexaware, Germany
Mr Dharmender, HR Head, Heritage Retail, Hyderabad
Mr. Shirish, Hexaware Germany
Mr. Sanjay Mendiratta, Head Investor Relations, HCL Technologies, Delhi
Mr. C Ramesh, Hexaware UK
Mr. Srinivas, Flagstone Capital Hyderabad
Executive Search - Success Stories II
Technology
Mr P Mohan, Head Mainframes, Inautix Chennai
Mr. Bharadwaj, Vice President , Collabera Bangalore
Mr Subikrishna, Delivery Head – Supply chain, Peoplesoft Bangalore
Mr Ravi Ramaswamy,Medical Systems Group,Philips Software
Mr Srinivas Prabhakar, CFO – BEA Weblogic Inc
Mr Ravi Garg, Relationship Manager, Hexaware Germany
Mr Suresh Mani, Head Recruitment, GCI Bangalore
Mr Jay Menon, Head Recruitment, Polaris, Chennai
Mr Girish Khilari, Avaya India , Pune
Mr Koushik Ganguly, Director, Sales, Polaris USA
Mr Amith Jain, BDM – East Coast, Microland, USA
Mr Venkatesan, Head HR , ISG Novasoft India
Mr Neeraj Soni, Country Head UK, Microland
Mr Suresh Songa, Delivery Head, GCI, Bangalore
Executive Search - Success Stories III
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
Mr. Partho Dutta Gupta, Country Manager & CEO, Swatch India
Mr. Arvind Santhanam, Circle Business Head, Datacom Chennai
Mr. Saurabh Gupta, COO – North India, Swan Telecom
Mr Sanjay Sinha, Vice President Projects, Mahindra Gesco , Jaipur SEZ
Mr Jagdish, CEO – Retail Division, Heritage Fresh, Hyderabad
Mr Vineesh Chaddha , CEO , Colorplus Garments, Chennai
Mr Arnab Bannerjee, VP Sales & Marketing, Ceat Tyres, Mumbai
Mr Harry Mativor , VP Operations – Ambattur Clothing, Chennai
Mr Jyothirmoy Basu, President HR – Times Group, Delhi
Mr Sudhir Mittal, Business Head, Minda Automotive Group, Delhi
Mr Rajan Damodar Sapre, VP , Minda Automotive Group, Delhi
Mr Ravi Prabhakar, GM, Arvind Mills, Ahmedabad
Mr Sanjeev Saxena, GM – Sales, Bajaj Auto, Pune
Mr Surendranath, PT Wearwell, Indonesia
Mr Shankar Iyer, Vodaphone, Chennai
Mr Rajesh Mitta, Pidilite Industries Mumbai
Mr Venkateshwar Kumar, Pantaloon India Bangalore
Executive Search - Success Stories IV
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
Mr Mann, Business Head – Arvind Garments, Bangalore
Mr V.S. Ramesh Rao, SBU Head, O&M, Suzlon, Pune
Mr. Praveen Tandon, Head Accounts, Enercon, Mumbai
Mr. Rajesh Mehta, Senior GM Marketing, Pidilite, Mumbai
Mr. Shankar Aiyer, Head Sales & Marketing, Hutch Chennai
Mr Sridhar, GM Finance, Hutch AP, Hyderabad
Mr Suresh Head IT, Hutch AP, Hyderabad
Mr Nagarajan Raja, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
Mr Sanjay Mishra, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
Mr Shukla, RPG Cellucom, Kolkata
Mr Jairaj Hegde, Pidilite Mumbai
Mr Rajat Vanshi, Pidilite India
Mr M.S. Vasan, Enercon India, Mumbai
Mr Ramesh Menon, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
Executive Search - Success Stories V
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
Mr Kailash Advani, President, Habitat India, Bangalore
Mr Senthilkumar, Rivoli Group Dubai
Mr Subramaniam, Colorplus, Chennai
Mr Chacko, Skyquest Singapore & Bangalore
Mr Deepak Haralalka, Raychem RPG Mumbai
Mr Ankur Lodha, DNA Media Mumbai
Mr Arvind Arshad, Flyington Freighters Chennai
Mr Ravikanth, Club Mahindra , Chennai
Mr Anilkumar, CEO Dairy, Heritage , Hyderabad
Mr Ashok George, CEO , Heritage Hyderabad
Executive Search - Success Stories VI
Project : Reliance Communications
Reliance Communications is India’s Number 2 cellphone operator. The Head Hunters India was commissioned on an exclusive basis to work on several strategic positions at the project inception stage.
An Exclusive 8 member Search team worked continously for 6 months only on Reliance Communications work with dramatic results.
The Head Hunters India was rated as the Number 1 vendor by Reliance Communications.
Thanks to this track record , we continue to work closely with the Reliance Group of companies in India and abroad even today.
Executive Search - Success Stories VII
Reliance Communications
Some key people who joined Reliance Communications at the Corporate office @ Mumbai include :
Mr Mahesh Prasad, President – Applications
Mr Akhilesh Prasad, COO – Web World
Mr Amit Datta, Marketing Head
Mr Praveen Singhal, Head Quality
Mr Krishna Darbha, Marketing – Applications Group
Mr Vinod Vasudevan, Applications Group
Mr Gunnam Chowdhury, IBS
Mr Arul Bright, Tariff
Mr Sovon Thakur, IBS
Mr Ramesh Thiagarajan, IBS
Mr Harikesh, Sales
Mr Sujeet Ganguli, Marketing
Executive Search - Success Stories – Vodaphone VIII( formerly known as BPL Cellular / Hutch)
Prabhat Pani, Circle Head BPL
Ramprasad Head Content – Hutch
RA Venkatachalam, Circle Head BPL
Sambasivam, CFO, Hutch
Ramesh Hande, GM-Sales & Marketing, Hutch AP
Mr. Shankar Aiyer, Head Sales & Marketing, Hutch Chennai
Sridhar, GM Finance, Hutch AP
Suresh Head IT, Hutch AP
& ……Many more
Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates
June 2008
1. We are sharing a few of the senior management
mandates on which we are working. Please note that this
is not a complete list and we have taken care to hide the
names etc of our clients for business reasons.
2. You would note from the same that we are working on
mandates across the India, Americas, Europe etc etc
Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates I
VP Sales Remote Infrastructure Services Company, New Jersey, USA
SBU Head / VP Rs 400 crores Auto Ancilliary Company, Gurgaon
Vice President , Logistics company , Mumbai
Europe Head , USD 350 million software services company , London
COO, Engineering Product company , Mumbai
CFO – Power company , Bangalore
CFO – Solar energy company , Hyderabad
CEO – Biofuels , Mumbai
COO – Life Sciences, Mumbai
CEO – Ports , Chennai
Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates II
Head Solar Energy Systems – Top Industrial Group Mumbai
Managing Director, US $ 300 Million software services company
Head – Projects , Rs 500 crores pre IPO company , Chennai
Head – HR , Rs 500 crores pre-IPO company , Chennai
Head HR , Top MNC engineering company , Pondycherry
SBU Head – Defense Business, Bangalore
CEO – Railways Business, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group, Faridabad
CEO – Shipyard, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group , Chennai
CEO – Bio-diesel company , US $ 15 Billion conglomerate, Mumbai
CEO – Turbines, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group , Baroda
Head HR , Life Sciences company , Mumbai
Executive Selection Division
Focus on middle and junior management
From Area Sales Manager to Finance Manager to Production Manager
Across all functions
The Head Hunters India exclusive database of 250 000 management professionals is used for first level of screening
We have placed over 5800 managers in the last 20 years across sectors
Turn-key Projects Division
Caters to bulk recruitments in short period
of time
JIT – “Just-in-Time” Recruitment growing
trend
Have conducted several „recruitment drives‟
in software over week-ends resulting in over
125 offers on a single day
Success Story in Turnkey projects
HP-EDS-Mphasis
(HP)EDS-Mphasis with offices at Mumbai and
Bangalore had Bulk Requirements in
Java/Testing
200 People needed ASAP for Bangalore
100 people needed for Mumbai
1000 people lined up across Bangalore, Mumbai,
Chennai, Hyderabad and Trivandrum
More than 150 offers in three weeks across India
and 100 people joining within one month
Flexi-staffing Division – Software
24 hour turnaround from client indent to
arranging candidates for interview
Joining time between 3 to 15 days
Software candidates in all areas like Testing,
PL/SQL, Java, DBAs, SAP
Option of “contract to hire” at any point in time
Flexi-Staffing Division
Reference Sites
Symantec , Chennai
Siemens, Mumbai
S2 , Mumbai / Delhi / NCR
Mastek, Mumbai
Sonata, Hyderabad & Bangalore
Covansys, Chennai
Collabera, Bangalore
Patni Mumbai
Zensar Pune
Bluestar Technologies , Mumbai & Bangalore
Polaris Technologies, Chennai & Mumbai
Hexaware Technologies, Mumbai
Our Recipe
A quick and firm grasp of clients corporate culture, value systems, goals and business plans .
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20 yrs of expertise in interviewing, assessing , identifying top notch talent across the globe
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About 60 highly trained and highly motivated recruiters, and well qualified engineers, MBA‟s
many with sectoral focus
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With a 250,000 strong resume database
Our Strength
Strong background and experience of
management and workforce
Faster response that few can deliver
Better equipped to understand the needs of
the company
Strong ability to screen candidates and
understand what people are suited for the
jobs
Can cater to a wide variety of needs
Interested to know more , please contact us :
Mr Kris Lakshmikanth MBA (IIMC)
CEO & Managing Director
The Head Hunters India Pvt Ltd
201, Brigade Corner,
110 / 73 Kanakpura Road
Jayanagar 7th Block
Yediyur Circle
Bangalore 560082, India
Mobile +91 99457 55000
Phone +91 80 2676 5773
Telefax +91 80 2676 3201
Email [email protected]
url www.headhuntersindia.com
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