Sector Coverage/Financial Services
Sector

Financial Services

Banking, asset management, insurance, NBFCs and the private capital ecosystem — the institutions that allocate India's capital and manage its risk. We work across all of them.

How we work here

Where the conversations happen.

Financial services leadership is a layered conversation. Regulatory expectations are high and rising. Boards are more active than they used to be. Public scrutiny is closer. The roles call for credibility with regulators, comfort with risk, and the commercial instincts to actually grow a business.

Our mandates span private and public banks, asset and wealth managers, life and general insurance, NBFCs and lending platforms, and the private capital ecosystem that sits adjacent to all of them. Across the breadth, the question is the same: who can lead this institution responsibly through the next chapter?

We are retained at the senior end — CEO, business-head, CFO, CRO, CCO. The candidates worth meeting are typically embedded inside competing institutions and need careful, confidential approach.

Sub-sectors

Where we go deeper still.

Mandates we typically run

The seats we are asked to fill.

  • CEO and Managing Director
  • Chief Risk Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Business Head — Retail / Corporate / Wholesale
  • Chief Investment Officer
  • Chief Technology Officer / Chief Digital Officer
  • Chief Compliance Officer
What we are seeing

Three observations about Financial Services today.

Regulatory and governance expectations across financial services have risen meaningfully. Boards are more involved in senior appointments; mis-hires are more visible and more costly.

Technology and digital have moved from a function to a leadership conversation — every CEO in the sector now thinks about it, and CTO/CDO appointments are now CEO-equivalent in importance.

The PE/VC ecosystem has become a leadership pool in its own right; investment professionals moving into operating roles, and operators moving into investment roles, is a pattern we see regularly.

Talk to us about a search in your sector.

Every enquiry is handled in confidence. Tell us about the role, and we will tell you honestly whether it is one we can do justice to.

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