Banking, Financial Services & Insurance CIO Search · Pune · 2026
Top CIO Executive Search Firm in Pune for BFSI — 2026
Retained CIO, CTO and CISO search for Pune's financial-services economy — banks and NBFCs, BFSI technology captives, and fintech and insurance technology. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a BFSI CIO seat in Pune actually demands
Pune's BFSI technology economy combines a deep base of cooperative and regional banks and NBFCs rooted in western India, the BFSI technology and global-capability centres of banks and insurers drawn to the city's talent, and a growing fintech presence. The technology-leadership seat here splits between the bank or NBFC CIO modernising core platforms under RBI scrutiny, the BFSI captive technology head owning a global charter for banking or insurance technology from Pune, and the fintech CTO building at speed. The defining scarcity is the technology leader who can build or modernise platforms while holding the cyber-resilience and regulatory standing financial services demands, or win and hold a global charter. The failure mode is a traditional banking-IT head who cannot move at platform speed, or a delivery manager who cannot influence global financial-services stakeholders.
The search is calibrated around regulatory and cyber credibility. Compensation spans regulated structures with governance constraints in banks and NBFCs, global parent bands for captives, and equity-led fintech packages. The brief sets which applies. The stakeholder map runs from the board and its risk and audit committees to lead investors, regulators and, for captives, global owners. References reach to board risk chairs, former CISOs and global stakeholders, because in financial services the gap between a confident operator and a genuinely resilient one only shows under that lens.
Representative BFSI CIO mandates in Pune
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Bank / NBFC technology CIO
A bank or NBFC needing a CIO to modernise core banking or lending platforms and hold cyber-resilience under RBI scrutiny.
BFSI captive technology head / CISO
A BFSI captive or regulated entity needing a global charter technology head or a CISO to build cyber-resilience and hold regulator and committee confidence.
Fintech / insurance technology leader
A fintech or insurance business requiring a technology leader to build or modernise platforms while sustaining product velocity.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Platform modernisation with resilience — re-platforming or building with regulatory-grade resilience
- →Cyber-security and risk fluency — building a credible security and resilience posture
- →Regulatory credibility — standing to hold a regulator's and auditor's confidence on technology and cyber
- →Global-charter delivery — for captives, winning and holding a global technology charter
- →Board, committee and global partnership — operating credibly with risk and audit committees and global owners
Compensation shape
BFSI technology-leadership compensation in Pune spans regulated structures with governance constraints in banks and NBFCs, global parent bands for captives, and equity-led fintech packages. We establish in the brief which logic governs the mandate.
Led by Pune's top CIO and CFO search consultants
The Pune bfsi CIO and CFO practices are led personally — board chemistry, slate calibration and the close sit with a named, accountable consultant.
Anandh Shanmugaraj
Founder of Gladwin International and India's leading CIO and technology-leadership search consultant. He leads every Pune bfsi CIO and digital-leadership mandate on a partner-led, founder-accountable basis.
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Manogna Soudhini Gonchikar
Director & Managing Partner of Gladwin International and head of its Global CFO Practice — India's leading CFO search consultant. She leads the finance-leadership mandates that pair with these CIO appointments, from CFO to IPO-readiness finance chiefs.
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Firm-level listing. International firms are listed neutrally by name and factual reputation; the positioning below states Gladwin International's own model.
Gladwin International
India-rooted, research-driven retained CIO and technology-leadership search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Pune's bfsi economy, and confidential by default. 100+ CIO and technology-leadership placements across the Global CIO Practice. Boards and CEOs looking for a specialist CIO recruiting firm in Pune for bfsi retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Pune for BFSI
Russell Reynolds Associates
Global firm with an India practice; governance- and cyber-risk-anchored BFSI technology and CISO appointments.
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi NCR; broad BFSI and captive technology coverage.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; financial-services CIO and CISO succession and evaluation.
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; BFSI captive, fintech and PE-backed financial-services technology mandates.
EMA Partners
International federation with India offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and Chennai; established banking, financial-services and insurance technology coverage.
Spencer Stuart
Global board and succession specialist operating in India; financial-services technology and digital officers appointments.
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