Interim Chief Executive Officer — Logistics Technology Merger

The mandate

The merger of a freight marketplace and transport-management platform closed after both founders declined the combined CEO role. Shippers face duplicate integrations, carriers receive conflicting allocations and two product roadmaps compete for cash while merger commitments begin immediately.

The interim must start within three weeks for fifteen months, spanning integration and two stable peak cycles. A permanent CEO search starts after the combined business model is approved in month six, with extension possible for eight weeks if succession overlaps final platform migration.

Handover is complete when priority shippers use one contracted service model, carrier payments and allocations reconcile, duplicate platform paths have an approved migration or retirement, synergy and service measures hold for two quarters, and the permanent CEO presents the annual plan.

The interim may allocate the approved integration budget, choose operating processes, appoint temporary leaders and sign contracts within a ₹30 crore delegation. Platform retirement affecting more than 15% of revenue, permanent C-suite hiring, workforce action above 10%, acquisitions and shipper settlements over ₹10 crore require board approval.

New international markets, fleet ownership and renegotiation of merger equity are outside scope. The assignment integrates the transacted businesses and cannot turn into a different asset-heavy strategy.

Why this seat is open

The founders' decisions created a neutral leadership need at legal close. Each legacy executive team reasonably favours its platform, customers and operating logic. An interim CEO can make combined choices while the board recruits for the proven steady-state company.

What you will own

• Decide the combined shipper proposition and platform path using customer need, network density, economics and migration risk.
• Establish one carrier allocation, proof-of-delivery, exception and payment operating model.
• Protect priority shipper renewals through named service commitments and transparent migration decisions.
• Resolve duplicate functions and leadership roles within delegated organisation thresholds.
• Reconcile revenue retention, network contribution, synergy and integration spend to the merger case.
• Demonstrate two quarters of stable shipper service, carrier payment and combined unit economics.
• Transfer platform choices, customer obligations, carrier risks, leadership decisions and annual-plan assumptions to the permanent CEO.

Candidate qualifications

• Served as CEO, business president or COO in logistics technology, freight, supply-chain software or marketplaces.
• Integrated two founder-led businesses with overlapping platforms and customer bases.
• Held P&L accountability across digital product and physical carrier operations.
• Managed shipper service, carrier allocation, proof-of-delivery and payment economics together.
• Made platform and leadership choices under merger scrutiny.
• Has completed a fixed integration mandate and transferred to permanent executive leadership.

Non-negotiables

• Available for Mumbai-based leadership within three weeks.
• No current relationship with either founder, merger adviser or major carrier.
• Will not pursue fleet ownership outside the approved merger thesis.
• Must accept board thresholds for platform closure and permanent leadership.

1. 49 words maximum. Confirm availability and disclose any founder, carrier or shipper conflict.
2. 49 words maximum. Describe a platform merger you led and the customer-migration result.
3. 49 words maximum. Which evidence would justify retaining two overlapping logistics platforms?