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Confidential CTO Career Strategy and Growth Planning

Your growth, your compensation and your global mobility, mapped end to end.

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₹20,000, all-inclusive of GST.

  • Six partsone private document, each part answering one question
  • Take-home payevery move compared in the money you keep, not the headline
  • For you alonewritten around your record, and sent only to you
  • 110+CTO placements by our practice, across a decade

Who it is for

For the question you cannot ask at work

Your CEO cannot answer them. A recruiter has a seat to fill. Your family wants to know, and you do not yet have the answer.

  • “I don’t know whether to move, or where.”

    You are a sitting CTO with a good record and no clear view of what it is worth outside.

  • “I am being approached, and I can’t tell which call matters.”

    You want a way to judge each approach against a plan, not against the last conversation.

  • “What would this pay abroad, after tax and rent?”

    You are weighing an overseas move and want the household numbers, not the headline.

  • “Which role gets me to the board?”

    You want the next role chosen for what it unlocks after it, not only for what it pays.

Read it before you buy it

One private document, in six parts.

Each part answers one question you would otherwise have to ask someone. Choose a question, and read how the document answers it for one CTO.

Strictly confidential. Prepared for you alone.

Executive summary

Stay twelve months, take on the core product team, then move to a Chief Product & Technology Officer seat on the way to CEO. Do not take the Singapore approach yet.

What to do first

  • Decline the regional CTO approach from Singapore politely, and keep the door open.
  • Ask for the core product’s managers and designers to report to you.
  • Own one product’s adoption and revenue numbers in the board pack within a year.

A fictional CTO with illustrative figures, shown to illustrate the document. Yours is written around your own record.

A quiet private study

Your document

Yours alone, from the first page to the last.

  1. You send your CV and answers
  2. We write the document
  3. It is sent to you
  4. We delete the CV, the answers and the document

What we keep: your invoice, because GST law requires it. It shows that you bought a document, and nothing of what it says.

Your strategy

₹20,000 for the plan behind your next three moves.

All-inclusive of GST. No account is needed.

  • All six parts, written around your record
  • What each move pays, in take-home terms
  • Every major market labelled for you, and for your household
  • We contact you within one working day to take your CV and answers
  • Already set on one seat? The Readiness Audit tests your record against it.

How it works

From your record to your hands

  1. You place the order

    No account is needed. Your GST invoice comes to your email.

  2. We take your CV and answers

    We contact you within one working day to take them in confidence.

  3. We write your document

    All six parts are written around your record.

  4. It reaches you, and we delete

    Keep it safe. We cannot send it again.

What we need from you

  • Your current CV, in any format
  • Your answers on where you want to go, your pay and your household
  • The roles, sectors or countries you already have in mind, if any
A CTO in a private conversation about the next career move

Why an executive search firm

We see what these moves look like from the other side.

Gladwin International has been an executive search firm since 2010. Its CTO practice, led by Anandh Shanmugaraj, has made 110+ CTO and VP Engineering placements across a decade-long practice. This document gives you that view of your own record.

  • It says what the evidence says

    Where the evidence on pay is thin, the document tells you so.

  • It stays out of your workplace

    We do not contact your employer and nothing is published.

What it does not do

  • It does not introduce you to any company or search
  • It does not put you on a shortlist for our retained searches
  • Pay figures are market evidence, not an offer anyone has made

Before you decide

The questions we are asked first

What is a confidential CTO career strategy?

A confidential CTO career strategy is a private document that reads your record against the market and sets out your next moves: whether to stay with engineering or take on product as well, the role after that, the board seat it unlocks, what each move pays in take-home terms, and which markets are worth moving to. It is written for you alone.

How much does a CTO career strategy cost?

₹20,000, all-inclusive of GST, for one document.

How does a CTO plan a path to a board seat?

By choosing the next role for what it unlocks as well as what it pays. The Pathways part of your document sets out the next role, the one after it, and the board seat those moves make possible.

Is it really not stored?

Once it has been sent to you, we delete your CV, your answers and the document. We keep only the invoice. If you lose your copy, we cannot send it again.

Will my employer find out?

We do not contact your employer and nothing is published.

Do I have to answer every question?

No. Your CV is the starting point. The more you tell us about your pay, your household and where you want to go, the more specific the document can be.

How is this different from the Readiness Audit?

This maps all your moves. The Readiness Audit takes one seat, CEO or Chief Product & Technology Officer, and tells you whether your record is ready for it.

Does buying this put me on a shortlist?

No. It is separate from our retained searches: buying it does not put you on a shortlist, and not buying it does not keep you off one.

Two senior leaders walking and talking through a career decision

The next role, the one after it, and the board seat it unlocks.

₹20,000, all-inclusive of GST. Written for you alone.

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