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- Job Title
- Chief Executive Officer — Board Practice
- Job Location
- India (Remote)
- Reporting To
- Board
- Experience Range
- 20+ years, with board-level search or governance depth
- Salary Range
- Fixed plus performance and equity participation — structured with the board
- Industry
- Executive Search
- Job Function
- CEO
- Non Negotiable Skills
- - Credibility in a boardroom. Nomination and remuneration committees have to take your call. - Working knowledge of the Companies Act and SEBI LODR provisions that govern board composition — independence ratios, tenure, committee constitution. - Have placed independent directors, or sat on the committees that did. - Comfortable that ID search fees are modest and the practice is judged on what it feeds, not what it bills alone.
- Team Size
- Board search, governance research and the Exchange
The seat
Board search is a different business from C-suite search, and running it as though it were the same is how firms fail at it. A nomination committee is not a hiring manager, the fee is a fraction of an executive mandate, and the appointment is decided by fit with a board's existing composition rather than by the candidate's own record.
This role owns that practice: independent director search, board evaluation, and the India ID Exchange — the platform where directors are assessed, listed and matched to seats.
What you own
- Board search. Independent directors, chairs, committee specialists. Direct mandates and company postings both.
- The Exchange. A live registry of assessed directors and open seats, with a governance dataset behind it covering listed-company board composition, tenure, independence ratios and committee overlap.
- Board evaluation. A practice with real demand and no scaled offering yet. Building it is part of this seat.
- Regulatory credibility. The practice's standing with committees, regulators and the institutions that shape governance in India.
Be clear-eyed about the economics
ID search fees are thin next to C-suite search. Treated as a profit centre in isolation this practice will disappoint, and anybody who reads it that way is reading it wrong. It is the credibility engine: it puts us in front of boards before they have an executive search to run, and it feeds the practices that do carry the margin.
If you want a business measured on its own billings, this is not it. If you want to build the governance standing that makes the rest possible, it is.