1. The Head Hunters India
April 2009

2. History
 Started in 1987 by a MBA from IIMC – India‟s top B-School
 21 Years ++ in Executive Recruitment – 1987 to 2008
 Rated among the top 5 in the country by The Economist
Magazine , London , UK
 Top Management carries over 120 man-years of managerial
experience in Indian industry
 Top Management has Experience of working in India,
Africa & USA in both MNC and Indian private sector
companies
 Top Management Experience is across Automobiles, BPO,
Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Engineering, Financial
Services, FMCG, Realty, Shipyards, Software etc

3. 4 Businesses
 Top Management Search
 Executive Selection
 Turn-key Staffing Projects
 Flexi Staffing of Professionals

4.  3 Fully Staffed & Own India Offices
 Bangalore , Chennai & Mumbai
 2 Rep Offices – Fully Owned
 Nagpur, India
 Chicago, Illinois, USA
 35+ Recruiters – Professionally Qualified
 250,000 ++ Strong Database of bio-data‟s
Catering to elite Indian and MNC companies

5. The ExecutiveManagement Team
 Kris Lakshmikanth, MBA – IIMC , Founder Chairman & Managing Director
 MBA from IIMC - India’s premier business school
 Founded The Head Hunters India in 1987 from a garage in Bangalore
 Pioneer of the “Headhunting” concept in India
 Over a decade of industry experience in senior positions in sales and marketing
Asian Paints, Duncans Group before starting The Head Hunters India
 Over 2 decades in Executive Search
 Executive Committee member of various industry associations
 Industry Spokesman on HR related issues , employment, jobs etc
 Regularly interviewed on various industry issues by Indian and international media
- Reuters, Financial Times London, Asian Wall Street Journal, CNN IBN, CNBC
, NDTV, Aajtak TV , Headlines Today TV and leading newspapers / magazines –
Economic Times, Mint-WSJ, The Time International Magazine, CFO Magazine,
Business Line, Times of India etc

6. The Executive Management Team
Ravindran Rajendran MBA , Partner & Senior Vice President , Chennai
 Veteran of software industry.
 Over 30 years experience at TCS and Hexaware India & Hexaware USA
 Strong roots in HRD & Senior level Recruitment.
 Handles Senior Technology / BPO searches in India, USA and Europe
based out of Chennai
Shilla Shree , Post-Graduate, Partner & Senior Vice President , Bangalore
 Over 15 years industry experience in realty and financial services
 3 years in Executive Search at The Head Hunters India
 Handles senior level searches in India and overseas, based out of
Bangalore

7. Key Executives
Dr Subramani Uthappa, Engineer, MBA, PhD, Senior Vice President –
Business Development & Flexi-Staffing
 Over 19 years industry experience in Consumer durables,
ship building and Automobiles in India and overseas
 Heads Global Business Development and Flexi-staffing out
of Bangalore
Parthasarathy Chakravarthi, Engineer & MBA, Senior Vice President ,
Chennai
 Over 16 years industry experience in sales and
marketing of FMCG
 Over 24 months in Executive Search & Placements
 Handles all non-IT related searches out of Chennai

8. Key Executives
Nishchal Gowda, MBA , General Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Balaji, Senior Manager – IT Bangalore
Archana Harsha, Senior Manager – IT Bangalore
Shilpi, Consultant – IT Nagpur
Puja Ghosh, Senior Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Sandhya , Senior Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Vijay Venkat, Senior Manager – Non-IT Bangalore
Pooja Sinha, Senior Manager – Search, Mumbai
Shubha Mittal, Senior Manager – Search, Mumbai
Rajesh, Senior Manager – Non-IT Chennai
Pushpa, Senior Manager – Non-IT Chennai
Prabu, Rep Manager – IT Chicago USA

9. The fabric of our client relationships
 Great spread of client base
 Long relationships and hence repeat business
 Our first client way back in 1987 was the US $ 3. 00 Billion
RPG Group.
 Today, in 2008, we are still one of their key vendors
 First VP Sales of CEAT Tyres was given by us in 1989. We
recruited their current VP Sales in 2005. CEAT has grown
from Rs. 200 crores to Rs 2000 crores in this period
 VP Sales recruited for Sterling Resorts is now MD of Club
Mahindra
 Many senior people we have placed over years are heading
top companies today

10. Our Focus Sectors
 Advertising  Manufacturing
 Auto / Engineering  Media
 Banking, Insurance &  Non-Conventional Energy
Financial Services  Projects & Infrastructure
 BPO / KPO  Realty
 FMCG / FMCD  Retail
 Fashion /Garments  Software
 Healthcare  Telecom
 Life Sciences

12. TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS

13. DIVERSIFIED Group

14. Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial
Services

15. Telecom

16. Executive Search Divsion
 Started in 1987
 Pioneers in India in CXO level searches
across sectors
 Personally lead by Kris Lakshmikanth ,
CEO
 Proven track record for successful searches
in India, USA , UK, Europe etc

17. Executive Search - Success Stories I
Technology
 Mr. Anirban Ghosh, Head Global Practice, Hexaware USA
 Mr Vijay Ratnaparke, COO, Robert Bosch India , Bangalore
 Mr Arup Gupta, President & COO , Polaris Software , Chennai
 Mr P.K. Sridharan, Executive Director, Hexaware India
 Mr Sunil Surya, Managing Director , Hexaware Europe
 Mr Shiva Rangaswamy, Head Retail Practice, Zensar, Pune
 Mr Chandran, Head ERP , Zensar Pune
 Mr Sridhar Rangachari, AVP – Banking, Hexaware , Chennai
 Mr Anurag Gupta, VP – Enterprise Sales Microland USA
 Mr Rajaram Natarajan, HTMT Limited Hyderabad
 Mr Sabyasachi Mishra, Head HR, Manthan Limited Bangalore
 Mr Vishal Lakhina, Director, Sales, HCL America
 Mr Ramesh C, Vice President Testing , Hexaware UK
 Mr Surendra , Hexaware UK
 Mr Srinivas , Westend Capital, Hyderabad
 Mr Surendra , Account Manager, Hexaware, Germany
 Mr Dharmender, HR Head, Heritage Retail, Hyderabad
 Mr. Shirish, Hexaware Germany
 Mr. Sanjay Mendiratta, Head Investor Relations, HCL Technologies, Delhi
 Mr. C Ramesh, Hexaware UK
 Mr. Srinivas, Flagstone Capital Hyderabad

18. Executive Search - Success Stories II
Technology
 Mr P Mohan, Head Mainframes, Inautix Chennai
 Mr. Bharadwaj, Vice President , Collabera Bangalore
 Mr Subikrishna, Delivery Head – Supply chain, Peoplesoft Bangalore
 Mr Ravi Ramaswamy,Medical Systems Group,Philips Software
 Mr Srinivas Prabhakar, CFO – BEA Weblogic Inc
 Mr Ravi Garg, Relationship Manager, Hexaware Germany
 Mr Suresh Mani, Head Recruitment, GCI Bangalore
 Mr Jay Menon, Head Recruitment, Polaris, Chennai
 Mr Girish Khilari, Avaya India , Pune
 Mr Koushik Ganguly, Director, Sales, Polaris USA
 Mr Amith Jain, BDM – East Coast, Microland, USA
 Mr Venkatesan, Head HR , ISG Novasoft India
 Mr Neeraj Soni, Country Head UK, Microland
 Mr Suresh Songa, Delivery Head, GCI, Bangalore

19. Executive Search - Success Stories III
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
 Mr. Partho Dutta Gupta, Country Manager & CEO, Swatch India
 Mr. Arvind Santhanam, Circle Business Head, Datacom Chennai
 Mr. Saurabh Gupta, COO – North India, Swan Telecom
 Mr Sanjay Sinha, Vice President Projects, Mahindra Gesco , Jaipur SEZ
 Mr Jagdish, CEO – Retail Division, Heritage Fresh, Hyderabad
 Mr Vineesh Chaddha , CEO , Colorplus Garments, Chennai
 Mr Arnab Bannerjee, VP Sales & Marketing, Ceat Tyres, Mumbai
 Mr Harry Mativor , VP Operations – Ambattur Clothing, Chennai
 Mr Jyothirmoy Basu, President HR – Times Group, Delhi
 Mr Sudhir Mittal, Business Head, Minda Automotive Group, Delhi
 Mr Rajan Damodar Sapre, VP , Minda Automotive Group, Delhi
 Mr Ravi Prabhakar, GM, Arvind Mills, Ahmedabad
 Mr Sanjeev Saxena, GM – Sales, Bajaj Auto, Pune
 Mr Surendranath, PT Wearwell, Indonesia
 Mr Shankar Iyer, Vodaphone, Chennai
 Mr Rajesh Mitta, Pidilite Industries Mumbai
 Mr Venkateshwar Kumar, Pantaloon India Bangalore

20. Executive Search - Success Stories IV
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
 Mr Mann, Business Head – Arvind Garments, Bangalore
 Mr V.S. Ramesh Rao, SBU Head, O&M, Suzlon, Pune
 Mr. Praveen Tandon, Head Accounts, Enercon, Mumbai
 Mr. Rajesh Mehta, Senior GM Marketing, Pidilite, Mumbai
 Mr. Shankar Aiyer, Head Sales & Marketing, Hutch Chennai
 Mr Sridhar, GM Finance, Hutch AP, Hyderabad
 Mr Suresh Head IT, Hutch AP, Hyderabad
 Mr Nagarajan Raja, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
 Mr Sanjay Mishra, Spencers Retail , Kolkata
 Mr Shukla, RPG Cellucom, Kolkata
 Mr Jairaj Hegde, Pidilite Mumbai
 Mr Rajat Vanshi, Pidilite India
 Mr M.S. Vasan, Enercon India, Mumbai
 Mr Ramesh Menon, Spencers Retail , Kolkata

21. Executive Search - Success Stories V
Auto, Garment, Textiles, Telecom, Infrastructure
 Mr Kailash Advani, President, Habitat India, Bangalore
 Mr Senthilkumar, Rivoli Group Dubai
 Mr Subramaniam, Colorplus, Chennai
 Mr Chacko, Skyquest Singapore & Bangalore
 Mr Deepak Haralalka, Raychem RPG Mumbai
 Mr Ankur Lodha, DNA Media Mumbai
 Mr Arvind Arshad, Flyington Freighters Chennai
 Mr Ravikanth, Club Mahindra , Chennai
 Mr Anilkumar, CEO Dairy, Heritage , Hyderabad
 Mr Ashok George, CEO , Heritage Hyderabad

22. Executive Search - Success Stories VI
Project : Reliance Communications
 Reliance Communications is India’s Number 2 cellphone operator.
The Head Hunters India was commissioned on an exclusive basis to
work on several strategic positions at the project inception stage.
 An Exclusive 8 member Search team worked continously for 6 months
only on Reliance Communications work with dramatic results.
 The Head Hunters India was rated as the Number 1 vendor by
Reliance Communications.
 Thanks to this track record , we continue to work closely with the
Reliance Group of companies in India and abroad even today.

23. Executive Search - Success Stories VII
Reliance Communications
Some key people who joined Reliance Communications at the Corporate
office @ Mumbai include :
 Mr Mahesh Prasad, President – Applications
 Mr Akhilesh Prasad, COO – Web World
 Mr Amit Datta, Marketing Head
 Mr Praveen Singhal, Head Quality
 Mr Krishna Darbha, Marketing – Applications Group
 Mr Vinod Vasudevan, Applications Group
 Mr Gunnam Chowdhury, IBS
 Mr Arul Bright, Tariff
 Mr Sovon Thakur, IBS
 Mr Ramesh Thiagarajan, IBS
 Mr Harikesh, Sales
 Mr Sujeet Ganguli, Marketing

24. Executive Search - Success Stories – Vodaphone VIII
( formerly known as BPL Cellular / Hutch)
 Prabhat Pani, Circle Head BPL
 Ramprasad Head Content – Hutch
 RA Venkatachalam, Circle Head BPL
 Sambasivam, CFO, Hutch
 Ramesh Hande, GM-Sales & Marketing, Hutch AP
 Mr. Shankar Aiyer, Head Sales & Marketing, Hutch Chennai
 Sridhar, GM Finance, Hutch AP
 Suresh Head IT, Hutch AP
 & ……Many more

25. Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates
June 2008
1. We are sharing a few of the senior management
mandates on which we are working. Please note that this
is not a complete list and we have taken care to hide the
names etc of our clients for business reasons.
2. You would note from the same that we are working on
mandates across the India, Americas, Europe etc etc

26. Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates I
 VP Sales Remote Infrastructure Services Company, New Jersey, USA
 SBU Head / VP Rs 400 crores Auto Ancilliary Company, Gurgaon
 Vice President , Logistics company , Mumbai
 Europe Head , USD 350 million software services company , London
 COO, Engineering Product company , Mumbai
 CFO – Power company , Bangalore
 CFO – Solar energy company , Hyderabad
 CEO – Biofuels , Mumbai
 COO – Life Sciences, Mumbai
 CEO – Ports , Chennai
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27. Executive Search Division : Sample Mandates II
 Head Solar Energy Systems – Top Industrial Group Mumbai
 Managing Director, US $ 300 Million software services company
 Head – Projects , Rs 500 crores pre IPO company , Chennai
 Head – HR , Rs 500 crores pre-IPO company , Chennai
 Head HR , Top MNC engineering company , Pondycherry
 SBU Head – Defense Business, Bangalore
 CEO – Railways Business, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group,
Faridabad
 CEO – Shipyard, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group , Chennai
 CEO – Bio-diesel company , US $ 15 Billion conglomerate, Mumbai
 CEO – Turbines, US $ 6 Billion engineering Group , Baroda
 Head HR , Life Sciences company , Mumbai

28. Executive Selection Division
 Focus on middle and junior management
 From Area Sales Manager to Finance
Manager to Production Manager
 Across all functions
 The Head Hunters India exclusive database
of 250 000 management professionals is used
for first level of screening
 We have placed over 5800 managers in the
last 20 years across sectors

29. Turn-key Projects Division
 Caters to bulk recruitments in short period
of time
 JIT – “Just-in-Time” Recruitment growing
trend
 Have conducted several „recruitment drives‟
in software over week-ends resulting in over
125 offers on a single day

30. Success Story in Turnkey projects
HP-EDS-Mphasis
 (HP)EDS-Mphasis with offices at Mumbai and
Bangalore had Bulk Requirements in
Java/Testing
 200 People needed ASAP for Bangalore
 100 people needed for Mumbai
 1000 people lined up across Bangalore, Mumbai,
Chennai, Hyderabad and Trivandrum
 More than 150 offers in three weeks across India
and 100 people joining within one month

31. Flexi-staffing Division – Software
 24 hour turnaround from client indent to
arranging candidates for interview
 Joining time between 3 to 15 days
 Software candidates in all areas like Testing,
PL/SQL, Java, DBAs, SAP
 Option of “contract to hire” at any point in time

32. Flexi-Staffing Division
Reference Sites
 Symantec , Chennai
 Siemens, Mumbai
 S2 , Mumbai / Delhi / NCR
 Mastek, Mumbai
 Sonata, Hyderabad & Bangalore
 Covansys, Chennai
 Collabera, Bangalore
 Patni Mumbai
 Zensar Pune
 Bluestar Technologies , Mumbai & Bangalore
 Polaris Technologies, Chennai & Mumbai
 Hexaware Technologies, Mumbai

33. Our Recipe
A quick and firm grasp of clients corporate culture,
value systems, goals and business plans .
+
20 yrs of expertise in interviewing, assessing ,
identifying top notch talent across the globe
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About 60 highly trained and highly motivated
recruiters, and well qualified engineers, MBA‟s
many with sectoral focus
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With a 250,000 strong resume database

34. Our Strength
 Strong background and experience of
management and workforce
 Faster response that few can deliver
 Better equipped to understand the needs of
the company
 Strong ability to screen candidates and
understand what people are suited for the
jobs
 Can cater to a wide variety of needs

35. Interested to know more , please contact us :
Mr Kris Lakshmikanth MBA (IIMC)
CEO & Managing Director
The Head Hunters India Pvt Ltd
201, Brigade Corner,
110 / 73 Kanakpura Road
Jayanagar 7th Block
Yediyur Circle
Bangalore 560082, India
Mobile +91 99457 55000
Phone +91 80 2676 5773
Telefax +91 80 2676 3201
Email clients@headhuntersindia.com
url www.headhuntersindia.com

36. Thank You