The Head Hunters India

January 2010

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

Top Management Search Executive Selection Turn-key Staffing Projects Flexi Staffing

2 Companies The Head Hunters India Pvt Limited

Placements.com Private Limited

4 Businesses

Geographical Spread – India & Global

The ExecutiveManagement Team

Kris Lakshmikanth, MBA – IIMC , Founder Chairman & Managing Director

MBA from IIM Kolkata - 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 – BCIC, ERA Visiting Faculty at IIM Bangalore, XIM etc 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

The Executive Management Team

Ravindran Rajendran MBA , Partner & Senior Vice President , Chennai - Head IT & ITES Practice

Veteran HRD specialist from software industry. Over 20 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 - Head CXO Search SBU

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

Key Executives Dr Subramani Uthappa, Engineer, MBA, PhD, Senior

Vice President – Head Business Development Over 19 years industry experience in Consumer

durables, Ship Building and Automobiles in India and overseas

Heads Global Business Development out of Bangalore 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

Over 16 years industry experience in sales and marketing of FMCG

Handles all Telecom & Engineering & Infrastructure related searches out of Chennai

Has worked in reputed Chemical & FMCG companies

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

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 Mahindra Holiday Resorts

Many senior people we have placed over years are heading top companies today

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

TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS

TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS – PRODUCT COMPANIES

Oracle and BEA

DIVERSIFIED Group

Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial Services

Telecom

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

Executive Search - Success Stories ITechnology

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

Executive Search - Success Stories IITechnology

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

Executive Search - Success Stories IIIAuto, 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

Executive Search - Success Stories IVAuto, 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

Executive Search - Success Stories VAuto, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our RecipeA 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+

38 highly trained and highly motivated recruiters, and well qualified engineers,

MBA’s many with sectoral focus+

With a 250,000 strong resume database

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

Mr Kris Lakshmikanth MBA (IIMC)CEO & Managing Director

Mobile +919449075739 & +91 99457 55000or

Dr. Uthappa Sr Vice President

Mobile +91 99800 44778

The Head Hunters India Pvt Ltd 303 & 304, Brigade Corner,

110 / 73 Kanakpura RoadJayanagar 7th Block

Yediyur CircleBangalore 560082, India Phone +91 80 2676 5773Telefax +91 80 2676 3201

Email clients@headhuntersindia.comurl www.headhuntersindia.com

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