Company Brief about The HeadHunters India Pvt. Ltd.

1. The Head Hunters India
January 2010

2. History
 Started in 1987 by Kris Lakshmikanth - MBA from IIM
Kolkata – India’s top B-School
 22 Years ++ in Executive Recruitment – 1987 to 2009
 Rated among the top 5 in the country by The Economist
Magazine , London , UK
 Top Management carries over 140 man-years of managerial
experience in industry in India & abroad – Africa, Middle-
East & US.
 Top Management Experience is across Automobiles, BPO,
Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Engineering, Financial
Services, FMCG, Realty, RPO, Staffing, Shipyards,
Software etc

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Top Management Search
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Executive Selection
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Turn-key Staffing Projects
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Flexi Staffing
2 Companies
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The Head Hunters India Pvt Limited
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Placements.com Private Limited
4 Businesses

4. Geographical Spread – India & Global

5. The ExecutiveManagement Team
 Kris Lakshmikanth, MBA – IIMC , Founder Chairman & Managing Director
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MBA from IIM Kolkata - India’s premier business school
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Founded The Head Hunters India in 1987 from a garage in Bangalore
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Pioneer of the “Headhunting” concept in India
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Over a decade of industry experience in senior positions in sales and marketing
Asian Paints, Duncans Group before starting The Head Hunters India
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Over 2 decades in Executive Search
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Executive Committee member of various industry associations – BCIC, ERA
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Visiting Faculty at IIM Bangalore, XIM etc
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Industry Spokesman on HR related issues , employment, jobs etc
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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 - Head IT & ITES
Practice
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Veteran HRD specialist from software industry.
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Over 20 years experience at TCS and Hexaware India & Hexaware USA
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Strong roots in HRD & Senior level Recruitment.
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Handles Senior Technology / BPO searches in India, USA and Europe
based out of Chennai
Shilla Shree , Post-Graduate, Partner & Senior Vice President , Bangalore - Head CXO
Search SBU
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Over 15 years industry experience in Realty and Financial Services
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3 years in Executive Search at The Head Hunters India
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Handles senior level searches in India and overseas, based out of
Bangalore

7. Key Executives
Dr Subramani Uthappa, Engineer, MBA, PhD, Senior Vice
President – Head Business Development
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Over 19 years industry experience in Consumer durables,
Ship Building and Automobiles in India and overseas
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Heads Global Business Development out of Bangalore
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Has worked in reputed groups like the Tata Group, Bosch
Group, Hyundai etc
Parthasarathy Chakravarthi, Engineer & MBA, Senior Vice
President , Chennai – Head Telecom & Engineering
Practice
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Over 16 years industry experience in sales and marketing
of FMCG
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Handles all Telecom & Engineering & Infrastructure
related searches out of Chennai
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Has worked in reputed Chemical & FMCG companies

8. Key Executives
 Mr. Rana Datta, Engineer, MBA , Senior Vice President &
Head Mumbai
 Over 18 years of industry experience in Manufacturing, FMCG,
Financial Services & ITES with top Indian/MNC companies
 Has worked in companies like Wipro Consumer, Marico, Pepsi,
ABN Amro, IBM, Satyam BPO in senior positions

9. The fabric of our client relationships
 Great spread of client base
 Long relationships and hence repeat business
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Our first client way back in 1987 was the US $ 3. 00 Billion
RPG Group.
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Today, in 2008, we are still one of their key vendors
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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
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VP Sales recruited for Sterling Resorts is now MD of
Mahindra Holiday Resorts
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Many senior people we have placed over years are heading
top companies today

10. Representative Clients
 Amazon
 Swatch Group India
 LMS International
 L&T Group
 HCL India / Japan / USA
 Aditya Birla Group
 RPG Group
 Comcraft Group Worldwide
 Microland
 Hexaware India, Europe &US
 Zensar Technologies
 Datacom Solutions
 Sistema Shyam Telecom
 Etisalat Telecom
 Bangla Trac Communications
Bangladesh
 Reliance Communications
 Aircel
 Tata Tele Group
 TVS ICS
 Mahindra Holiday Resorts
 Austrian Energy
 Heritage Retail
 Kuwait Investment Authority
 HSBC Bank
 ICICI Bank
 Jaypee Securities
 Religare Securities
 Café Coffee Day
 Vivus Healthcare
 Columbia Asia Healthcare
 Manipal Education
 Manipal Healthcare
 Kuwait Investment Authority
 Paramount Dubai
 Birlasoft Australia
 Shahi Exports
 Reliance Life Sciences
 Adani Group
 Tyco
 PWC

12. TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS

13. TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS – PRODUCT COMPANIES
Oracle and BEA

14. DIVERSIFIED Group

15. Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial
Services

16. Telecom

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Executive Search Division : Sample
Mandates
January 2009
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

24. 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 – Solar energy company , Hyderabad
 CEO – Biofuels , Mumbai
 COO – Life Sciences, Mumbai
 CEO – Ports , Chennai
 CEO – Shipyards, Gujarat
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25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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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38 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

30. 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

31. Mr Kris Lakshmikanth MBA (IIMC)
CEO & Managing Director
Mobile +919449075739 & +91 99457 55000
or
Dr. Uthappa
Sr Vice President
Mobile +91 99800 44778
The Head Hunters India Pvt Ltd
303 & 304, Brigade Corner,
110 / 73 Kanakpura Road
Jayanagar 7th
Block
Yediyur Circle
Bangalore 560082, India
Phone +91 80 2676 5773
Telefax +91 80 2676 3201
Email clients@headhuntersindia.com
url www.headhuntersindia.com

32. Thank You