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50 CV designs for strategy leadersFrom CSO and Group Head of Strategy to Head of M&A. Every person and company on them is fictional.

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First page of Both Sides of the Bread Counter, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

Both Sides of the Bread CounterChief Strategy Officer

First page of Nine Days Still on the Table, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

Nine Days Still on the TableGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of Six Metres Kept, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

Six Metres KeptChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Address on the Next Invoice, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

The Address on the Next InvoiceGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of The Commission That Moved Up, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Commission That Moved UpChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Customer Who Needed a Rival, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Customer Who Needed a RivalChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Encore Across the Street, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Encore Across the StreetChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Jetty We Let Go, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Jetty We Let GoChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Last Roll of Foil, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

The Last Roll of FoilGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of The Master at the Second Bench, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Master at the Second BenchChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Pipe Across the Sale Line, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

The Pipe Across the Sale LineGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of The Report We Could Open, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

The Report We Could OpenGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of The Second Reel Paid Back the First, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Second Reel Paid Back the FirstChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Signature on the Dye Card, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

The Signature on the Dye CardGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of The Socket We Left Empty, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

The Socket We Left EmptyGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of The Studio That Bid for Its Own Work, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Studio That Bid for Its Own WorkChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Tray We Sent Flat, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Tray We Sent FlatChief Strategy Officer

First page of The Unpaid Nine, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

The Unpaid NineChief Strategy Officer

First page of Two Chairs on Either Side, a CV design for a Group Head of Strategy and M&A

Two Chairs on Either SideGroup Head of Strategy and M&A

First page of Where the Filter Money Went, a CV design for a Chief Strategy Officer

Where the Filter Money WentChief Strategy Officer

First page of A Fee on Both Sides of the Window, a CV design for a SVP Corporate Development

A Fee on Both Sides of the WindowSVP Corporate Development

First page of Before the April Paper, a CV design for a EVP Strategy

Before the April PaperEVP Strategy

First page of Good at the Opening Meet Only, a CV design for a EVP Strategy

Good at the Opening Meet OnlyEVP Strategy

First page of The Decoder Outside the Deal, a CV design for a SVP Corporate Development

The Decoder Outside the DealSVP Corporate Development

First page of The Peer Set With Its Own Vans, a CV design for a EVP Strategy

The Peer Set With Its Own VansEVP Strategy

First page of The Price on the Lower Scale, a CV design for a SVP Corporate Development

The Price on the Lower ScaleSVP Corporate Development

First page of The Quote That Printed Backwards, a CV design for a SVP Corporate Development

The Quote That Printed BackwardsSVP Corporate Development

First page of The Switchboard We Returned in July, a CV design for a SVP Corporate Development

The Switchboard We Returned in JulySVP Corporate Development

First page of The Tunnel With a Second Address, a CV design for a EVP Strategy

The Tunnel With a Second AddressEVP Strategy

First page of Two Badges at One Depot, a CV design for a EVP Strategy

Two Badges at One DepotEVP Strategy

First page of Eight Shares From the Parent, a CV design for a VP M&A

Eight Shares From the ParentVP M&A

First page of On the Dry Side of the Page, a CV design for a VP Corporate Strategy

On the Dry Side of the PageVP Corporate Strategy

First page of The Address on the Kiln, a CV design for a VP Corporate Strategy

The Address on the KilnVP Corporate Strategy

First page of The Bench We Hired by the Day, a CV design for a VP Corporate Strategy

The Bench We Hired by the DayVP Corporate Strategy

First page of The Flat Part of the Offer, a CV design for a VP M&A

The Flat Part of the OfferVP M&A

First page of The Nights Inside the Advance, a CV design for a VP Corporate Development

The Nights Inside the AdvanceVP Corporate Development

First page of The Position Paper, a CV design for a Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development

The Position PaperVice President, Corporate Strategy and Development

First page of The Second Vote on the Press, a CV design for a VP Corporate Strategy

The Second Vote on the PressVP Corporate Strategy

First page of The Two Prices of a Dollar, a CV design for a VP M&A

The Two Prices of a DollarVP M&A

First page of When the Slew Ring Comes Out, a CV design for a VP Corporate Development

When the Slew Ring Comes OutVP Corporate Development

First page of One Key for the West Quay, a CV design for a Head of Corporate Planning

One Key for the West QuayHead of Corporate Planning

First page of The Crew in Both Papers, a CV design for a Head of Corporate Planning

The Crew in Both PapersHead of Corporate Planning

First page of The Drawing Anyone Could Mill, a CV design for a Director Strategy

The Drawing Anyone Could MillDirector Strategy

First page of The Holes That Would Not Meet, a CV design for a Head of M&A

The Holes That Would Not MeetHead of M&A

First page of The Register on Tracing Paper, a CV design for a Head of M&A

The Register on Tracing PaperHead of M&A

First page of The Roof Outside the Offer, a CV design for a Head of M&A

The Roof Outside the OfferHead of M&A

First page of The Three Crore Still Loose, a CV design for a Head of Corporate Planning

The Three Crore Still LooseHead of Corporate Planning

First page of The Winter Repeat, a CV design for a Head of M&A

The Winter RepeatHead of M&A

First page of The Work Our Name Could Carry, a CV design for a Head of Corporate Planning

The Work Our Name Could CarryHead of Corporate Planning

First page of Three Housings Short, a CV design for a Director Strategy

Three Housings ShortDirector Strategy

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50 templatesfinished resumes for the strategy stream, listed on this page
Nothing inventedevery claim comes from your record, and is yours to defend

The same career

Your record is not the problem. The way it is told may be.

A general CV describes a job. A reader deciding on a seat wants to know what you did in it. Here is one CSO, on the same facts, told both ways.

The opening

A general CVStrategy professional with over 18 years of experience in corporate strategy, M&A and management consulting.

Written for this seat

Chief Strategy Officer who wrote a listed group’s portfolio review, and stayed to see it pay.

The reader knows the size of the seat from one line.

The work

A general CVDrove strategic planning and supported M&A transactions across business units.

Written for this seat

Led the sale of the packaging business at 8.1 times EBITDA, and redeployed ₹1,150 crore into the core.

The reader can see the decision, and what followed.

The board

A general CVPresented strategy updates to the Board on a regular basis.

Written for this seat

Secretary to the board’s Strategy and Investment Committee since 2021. Group return on capital rose from 10.2% to 15.8% after the review.

The reader can see how far the board trusted the argument, and what it earned.

A fictional CSO and fictional companies, shown to illustrate the service.

Choose a reader

One career. Four CSO mandates. Four different pages.

The record stays the same. The person reading it does not, and neither does what they look for first. Choose a reader, and watch the page change.

Kavya Raghunathan

Chief Strategy Officer, Mumbai

Written forthe chair and the board’s strategy committee

Strategy leader who decides what a group should own, and follows the decision through.

Selected results

Wrote the portfolio review that exited two of six businesses. The board adopted it in full.
Led the sale of the packaging business at 8.1 times EBITDA, and redeployed ₹1,150 crore into the core.
Group return on capital rose from 10.2% to 15.8% in the three years after the review.
Secretary to the board’s Strategy and Investment Committee since 2021.

Career

2020 to date
Chief Strategy Officer, Varisthal Group
Listed diversified group, ₹14,000 crore revenue, six businesses
2016 to 2020
Head of Corporate Development, Quellant Software
Private-equity backed platform
2012 to 2016
Director, Strategy & M&A, Teravanth Technologies
Founder-led technology company, before its listing
2006 to 2012
Head of Corporate Planning, Saranath Industries
Family-owned, ₹2,000 crore revenue

Further down, for this reader: consulting project lists

A fictional CSO and fictional companies, shown to illustrate the service.

What we prepare

Three documents, each for a different reader

Everything comes from your record. We change what leads and what steps back. We do not invent anything.

Kavya Raghunathan
Chief Strategy Officer
Corporate development head who buys, integrates and builds a platform to a plan.
Selected results
- Closed five acquisitions in four years. Four met their two-year case.
- Ran integration after signing, not only the deal, with one named owner for each synergy.
- Delivered ₹140 crore of cost synergies, 12% above the model.
- Recommended against two targets the founder wanted. One later failed under another buyer.
Career
- Chief Strategy Officer, Varisthal Group
- Head of Corporate Development, Quellant Software
Custom CSO Resume
Read by the people hiring for the seat
Built around the role you are applying for, and designed to read well in a minute: an opening written for that seat, the record that matters to that reader first, and the rest in its place.
Kavya Raghunathan
Board profile
Eighteen years of deciding what a business should own, and five of arguing it in front of a board.
Governance
- Secretary, Strategy and Investment Committee, since 2021
- Standing invitee to the board on portfolio matters
Transactions
- Five acquisitions and two divestments, each reviewed two years after closing
- The one deal that missed its case, reported to the committee in full
Judgement calls I owned
- Argued against a ₹2,400 crore entry into renewables. The board deferred it, and entered two years later at half the price.
CSO Board Profile
Read by a nomination committee
Your record as a board reads it: governance, committees, your dealings with auditors and regulators, and the judgement calls you owned.
Kavya Raghunathan
Portfolio strategy for a diversified group
For chairs and promoter boards deciding what the group should own over the next five years.
What I doPortfolio review, entry and exit calls, and the capital that follows them
For whomGroups between ₹3,000 and ₹20,000 crore, with three or more businesses
The proofVaristhal Group: return on capital from 10.2% to 15.8% in three years
Consulting deck
Read by your clients
Your offer laid out for clients, if your next move is advisory: what you do, for whom, and the work that proves it.

A fictional CSO and fictional companies, shown to illustrate the service.

CSO resume templates

50 CSO resume templates for the strategy stream

Each one is a complete two-page resume, so you can judge how it reads as well as how it looks. Start at your seat, open any of them, and read both pages. Choose one and we build your record into it, or leave the choice to us.

20 templates for Chief Strategy Officer

Both Sides of the Bread Counter
Bold colour · leads with the board
For a consumer board considering a portfolio chief who can withdraw a well-liked expansion after measuring what it takes from the existing estate.
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Nine Days Still on the Table
Annual report · leads with the board
For a group board hiring a strategy chief who can run a competitive disposal without confusing an indicative price with committed proceeds.
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Six Metres Kept
Architectural · leads with the board
For a promoter or industrial board hiring a strategy chief to release property capital without disabling the operations or options left behind.
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The Address on the Next Invoice
Monograph · leads with the board
For a publisher’s board selecting a strategy chief who can gain regional entry while preserving a workable route to market after a temporary partnership.
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The Commission That Moved Up
Classical · leads with the board
For a group board seeking a strategy chief who can explain what moves a project up the capital list and stay for its cash return.
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The Customer Who Needed a Rival
Monograph · leads with the board
For a board choosing a strategy chief who will test what ownership changes at the customer and find a narrower way to acquire the capability.
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The Encore Across the Street
Editorial · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a live-events board choosing a group strategist who can price a competitor’s response and stop an expansion when paid attendance does not support it.
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The Jetty We Let Go
Architectural · leads with the board
For a group board hiring a strategy chief who can price the right to wait, name the customer evidence needed to invest, and let a reserved site go.
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The Last Roll of Foil
Annual report · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a board choosing a group strategy chief who can fund a portfolio transition without stripping the retiring business of the cash it still needs.
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The Master at the Second Bench
Architectural · leads with the board
For an industrial services board hiring a strategy chief who can challenge an acquisition premium for speed and keep the operating fallback funded.
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The Pipe Across the Sale Line
Architectural · leads with investors
For a board selecting a portfolio chief who can negotiate a divestiture around the real plant boundary and account for what still sits with the parent.
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The Report We Could Open
Classical · leads with investors
For a board interviewing an investment chief who can negotiate minority rights and act on evidence without overstating the powers of the stake.
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The Second Reel Paid Back the First
Portrait-led · leads with the board
For a board seeking a strategy chief who will carry the full post-deal cash account and preserve the capability the acquisition was bought to bring.
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The Signature on the Dye Card
Classical · leads with the board
For a family-owned industrial board seeking a strategy chief who can test the transfer of specialist capability before recommending a founder’s exit.
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The Socket We Left Empty
Monograph · leads with the board
For an industrial board appointing a corporate development leader to negotiate distribution rights around a valuable installed base and a future product line.
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The Studio That Bid for Its Own Work
Bold colour · leads with the board
For a board choosing a strategy chief who can make the corporate centre justify its mandate to divisions on a genuine outside alternative.
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The Tray We Sent Flat
Monograph · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a group board choosing a strategy chief who can enter a new market with a profitable local partner before committing a conversion plant.
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The Unpaid Nine
Annual report · leads with the board
For a group board hiring a strategy leader to restructure partnership exits while keeping the operating venture properly funded.
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Two Chairs on Either Side
Portrait-led · leads with the board
For a board appointing a strategy leader who can translate venture governance into a credible operating case and stay for the actual vote.
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Where the Filter Money Went
Data-led · leads with the board
For a board appointing a group strategist who can distinguish the largest industry profit pool from the opportunity the group is qualified to serve.
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A Fee on Both Sides of the Window
Portrait-led · leads with the board
For an acquisitive board seeking a strategy successor who can challenge the sponsor’s account of a deal and reconcile it after completion.
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Before the April Paper
Editorial · leads with the board
For an industrial board seeking a strategy successor who will negotiate a research partnership from the months the business can use rather than the headline lead.
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Good at the Opening Meet Only
Bold colour · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a board looking for a strategy successor who owns a growth budget and can distinguish a successful sponsored event from a repeatable operating format.
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The Decoder Outside the Deal
Bold colour · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a chief executive seeking a corporate development successor who will secure commercially essential third-party rights before paying the seller.
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The Peer Set With Its Own Vans
Data-led · leads with the board
For a board hiring a strategy successor who will turn peer evidence into a funded performance target the operating business can actually own.
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The Price on the Lower Scale
Data-led · leads with investors
For a board hiring a corporate development chief who can negotiate a disposal and remain answerable for the equity it leaves on the seller’s books.
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The Quote That Printed Backwards
Annual report · leads with the board
For a board seeking a strategy successor who can open a new price segment and identify the full portfolio cost of the proposed entry.
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The Switchboard We Returned in July
Architectural · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a chief executive appointing a transaction leader who can control a separation budget, protect live customer orders and delegate a tested exit.
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The Tunnel With a Second Address
Architectural · leads with the board
For an enterprise seeking a strategy successor who can close one business case and test the value of its assets elsewhere.
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Two Badges at One Depot
Editorial · leads with the CEO or promoter
For an acquiring group seeking a strategy successor who can reconcile actual integration savings with retained customer contribution after closing.
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Eight Shares From the Parent
Data-led · leads with the board
For an industrial group hiring a strategy leader to negotiate minority investment without counting the same investor money towards two capital programmes.
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On the Dry Side of the Page
Editorial · leads with the board
For a board seeking a corporate strategy leader who can name the cash shortfall hidden inside a seemingly diversified group of products.
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The Address on the Kiln
Architectural · leads with the CEO or promoter
A chief executive choosing a strategy leader for an industrial group whose deal plans depend on retaining approved manufacturing locations.
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The Bench We Hired by the Day
Data-led · leads with the CEO or promoter
For an industrial chief executive choosing a strategy lead who will test service demand with customers before putting a new asset into the capital plan.
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The Flat Part of the Offer
Data-led · leads with the board
For a board appointing a development head to negotiate strategic partnership rights without casually promising away the best enterprise outcome.
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The Nights Inside the Advance
Portrait-led · leads with the board
For a testing group hiring a strategy head to combine treasury and operating evidence when a customer offers capital in exchange for priority capacity.
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The Position Paper
Monograph · leads with the CEO or promoter
A VP or head of strategy who has done CSO-level work without the title, and needs the thinking to carry the case.
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The Second Vote on the Press
Classical · leads with the board
For a board appointing a strategy head who can own an unsuccessful original decision and still make the better decision at the next vote.
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The Two Prices of a Dollar
Annual report · leads with the board
For an acquisitive board seeking a corporate development leader who can defend an attribution decision after a prominent international purchase.
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When the Slew Ring Comes Out
Data-led · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a board appointing a strategy leader who can turn an installed fleet into a dated entry plan with wins measured against eligible tenders.
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One Key for the West Quay
Bold colour · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a service group hiring a planning head to select the first viable entry location and account for the actual operating year.
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The Crew in Both Papers
Annual report · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a capital committee hiring a group planning lead who will expose conflicting investment dependencies before the budget is released.
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The Drawing Anyone Could Mill
Editorial · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a tooling group hiring a planning leader who can judge where exclusivity earns a fee and where access can create a larger aftermarket.
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The Holes That Would Not Meet
Monograph · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a manufacturer seeking a corporate development director who checks a bolt-on premium against the parts that can genuinely be purchased together.
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The Register on Tracing Paper
Editorial · leads with the board
For an investment director hiring a corporate development lead who can verify commercial reach before paying for forecast cross-selling.
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The Roof Outside the Offer
Architectural · leads with the CEO or promoter
For an industrial buyer seeking a corporate development director who can identify assets outside a sale and price what their continued use costs.
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The Three Crore Still Loose
Annual report · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a chief executive hiring a planning director who can stop old programmes and identify exactly what the next investment can actually spend.
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The Winter Repeat
Editorial · leads with investors
For a finance director or deal lead seeking a corporate development hire who can negotiate deferred price and settle it from buyer records.
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The Work Our Name Could Carry
Monograph · leads with the CEO or promoter
For an industrial supplier choosing a planning director who can enter larger contracts through partnership while protecting the credibility of its own delivery record.
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Three Housings Short
Portrait-led · leads with the CEO or promoter
For a components group hiring a planning lead who can show when a share gain still warrants only a limited tooling decision.
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What we need from you

Your full record: roles, scope, numbers and dates
The role you are applying for, and the job description if you have one
Any figures you are not free to share, so that we leave them out

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Why an executive search firm

We read these on the other side of the table.

Gladwin International has been an executive search firm since 2010. Its CSO practice, led by Anandh Shanmugaraj, has made 45+ CSO and strategy head placements across a decade-long practice. Knowing what a committee reads first is our everyday work.

Your record stays with us
It is used only to prepare your documents. It is not circulated to any hiring side.
Your limits are respected
Tell us the figures you are not free to share, and we leave them out.

What it does not do

It does not get you a role, and no one can promise one
It does not put you on a shortlist for our retained searches
It does not add achievements you do not have. Every claim must be yours to defend

Before you decide

The questions we are asked first

What should a CSO resume include?

A CSO resume should open with a line written for the seat you want, then lead with what that reader looks for first: the calls you made, the deals you closed and what they earned two years on, your standing with the board, and proof that you stayed for the results. Everything else steps back. A founder and a conglomerate chair read the same career differently.

How much does a CSO resume or board profile cost?

One document is ₹30,000, with 3 revisions. 10 documents over 12 months are ₹75,000. Both are plus GST.

What is the difference between a CSO resume and a board profile?

A resume sells you for an executive role, so it leads with what you ran and delivered. A board profile is read for governance and judgement, so it leads with committees, your dealings with regulators and shareholders, and the calls you owned.

How does the 10-document pack work?

You have 12 months from purchase to use all 10. Bring us a role you are applying for and we prepare the document for it.

Can the pack include board profiles and decks?

Yes. Each of the documents can be a resume, a board profile or a consulting deck.

Who sees my record?

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Does this get me a role?

No one can promise a role, and we do not. Buying a document does not put you on a shortlist for our retained searches.

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