Chief Executive Officer — Board Practice

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.