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India ID ExchangeWhere India builds its boards.
A board seat is decided long before it is advertised. India ID Exchange gives a C-suite leader the months in between — Gladwin’s own live board mandates, hundreds of board seats direct from employers, 5,000+ companies researched each night, and analytics that name every single seat early.
The Board Practice then advises and positions your candidacy — so what a nomination committee receives is a director who fits the problem in front of them, not a document it has to interpret.
187Live board mandates
60Urgent, filling now
2,228Seats opening · 18 months
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From the boardroom
Directors who were where you are now.
I spent two years asking people to keep me in mind, with nothing to show for it. Now a roster arrives each morning with seats matched to my record, and I apply to live mandates instead of hoping somebody remembers me. Glad being a member of Foresight.
Ananya MehtaForesight MemberEvery night Whisper works through five thousand companies — listed, unlisted, private and IPO entrants — and by morning I have what changed. I could put a hundred people on that for a month and still not cover the ground it does. Good work. Worth every penny of it.
Kavita RaoForesight MemberThree ways to use the Exchange
Start free to watch. Take Foresight Infinity when you are ready to build board memberships — or a board.
Watching the market costs nothing. Building a board portfolio takes research, positioning and judgement — our research team and our partners bring all three to your candidacy.
Foresight Infinity
₹85,000₹47,000 + 18% GST / year
Board Readycarried on your profile
- Personal board-role search agent tracks current listings and forward board-change signals daily in your Daily Whisper Roster
- 60-minute Board Positioning Call with the Managing Partner or CEO
- Personal Board Practice review of your CV, biography and credentials
- Board Portfolio Building your portfolio built with the Board Practice
- Live-listing coverage across available listed, unlisted and private-company roles; forward signals use the tracked listed-board dataset
- Board Messages initiate contact with boards that have a genuine upcoming seat — up to 3 messages a month
- Targeted Introduction request one consent-led portfolio introduction to a chosen board each month
- Apply to every Gladwin mandate urgent, confidential, private and long-term
- Search-mandate consideration for suitable Gladwin opportunities
- Request Board Consideration from matched opportunities
- Profile positioning across sectors, committees and geography
- Conflict, restriction and compensation positioning
- Live Board Seat Radar with company intelligence and disclosed compensation or labelled benchmarks where available
- Upcoming seat visibility up to 18 months ahead
₹85,000₹47,000· Limited time. Limited Seats.
Get Foresight Infinity →Where the seats come from
Governance Analytics, Direct Job Listings and Urgent Search Mandates.
Three routes, one board. A seat reaches you because a company retained us to fill it, because a board posted it here directly, or because 5,000+ companies are read every day and their filings said the seat was coming.
Route oneRetained Gladwin mandates
Searches the Board Practice is running for a client, listed on the Exchange before they reach the market. Urgent and confidential seats live here.
187 live nowRoute twoPosted directly by boards
Companies and their nomination committees post independent-director seats to the Exchange themselves, verified before they appear.
Verified company postingsRoute threePredicted from governance filings
Every filing from the monitored universe is read and analysed overnight, so a seat is named when the evidence appears rather than when an advertisement does.
5,000+ companies analysed dailyWhat route three actually reads
Six signals, every one of them a matter of statutory record rather than opinion — which is why a seat can be named up to 18 months before it is advertised.
Tenure expiryFive-year terms and the two-term cap under s.149(10)–(11)
CessationsA seat vacated in the latest filing
Composition gapsBoards below the LODR independent-director minimum
Committee vacanciesAudit-chair turnover, the highest-value case of all
Age rules.152 / LODR 17(1A) — directors approaching 75
Meeting disciplineGaps beyond the LODR 120-day cap
The seats are already visible. The question is when you see them.
Free members see the board. Annual members are matched to it daily, positioned by the Board Practice, and can ask to be put forward.
₹85,000₹47,000· Limited time. Limited Seats.
Get Foresight Infinity →What this is
India ID Exchange, explained plainly
The questions boards and directors ask before they use it — answered without marketing language, because the answers are the product.
- What is India ID Exchange?
- India ID Exchange is a confidential, assessment-led marketplace for independent-director appointments in India. Companies use it to find board-ready directors for a specific governance need; accomplished leaders use it to be considered for board seats without putting themselves on a public jobs board. It is operated by Gladwin International, a retained executive-search firm founded in 2010 in Bengaluru.
- Who is it for?
- Two sides. On the demand side: nomination and remuneration committees, promoters, boards preparing for an IPO, and PE or VC investors placing a director on a portfolio board. On the supply side: sitting and former C-suite executives, functional specialists and existing directors building an independent-director portfolio.
- How does a company find a director through the Exchange?
- A board opens a mandate describing the governance problem the seat exists to solve — an audit committee that needs a chair who can read a bank's book, a board approaching an IPO, a family business professionalising. Candidates are matched against that brief, assessed for board readiness, and put forward as a shortlist. A company may post its mandate confidentially, without being named publicly.
- How does a director join?
- Registration is free. A director creates a profile, uploads a board CV and sits the board-readiness assessment at no cost. Free members can read every live board seat and apply to urgent ones. Foresight membership adds seats predicted from governance filings before they are advertised, disclosed remuneration, confidential mandates, and positioning by Gladwin's board practice.
- How does confidentiality work?
- It runs in both directions and it is enforced in the product, not promised in copy. A company can list a mandate without its name being public. A director's profile is never published to the open web, is not listed in a public directory, and is shown to a board only in the context of a mandate they are being considered for. Confidential briefs stay closed to non-members for the whole life of the posting.
- How is it different from the IICA Independent Directors Databank?
- They do different jobs and one does not replace the other. The IICA databank is the statutory registry: empanelment there, and the online proficiency self-assessment where it applies, are legal requirements under the Companies Act. India ID Exchange is a private marketplace — it confers no eligibility, issues no statutory credential, and is not a substitute for registration. A director generally needs the databank; they use the Exchange to actually be considered for seats.
- How is it different from a retained executive search?
- A retained search is a single mandate, priced per assignment, run end to end by consultants. The Exchange is standing infrastructure: mandates, candidates and governance data in one place, continuously. Gladwin runs retained board searches as well, and the two feed each other — retained mandates appear on the Exchange, and Exchange members are considered for retained searches.
- How is it different from LinkedIn or a public director database?
- A public database lists who is already a director. LinkedIn lists everyone and leaves a board to guess who is board-ready. The Exchange only carries candidates who have been assessed against the governance requirement, and it carries live mandates, including seats predicted from filed governance data before they are advertised anywhere.
- Where does the board-seat data come from?
- From filings, not from a survey. The Exchange reads the disclosed board composition, committee structure, tenure and remuneration of 3,790 listed Indian companies, and derives from that where seats are likely to open — a director approaching the statutory tenure limit, a committee short of the composition the rules require. Every figure shown traces back to a filed document.
- Who operates it, and what is Gladwin International's role?
- India ID Exchange is built and operated by Gladwin International Leadership Advisors. Gladwin's board practice runs the assessment, decides which candidates are put forward against a mandate, and conducts the retained searches that a portion of the mandates come from. The Exchange is the firm's board practice made continuous, not a separate company.
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