CEO, CFO, CMO, CHRO and sales leaders for companies in retail, consumer, financial services, manufacturing and technology, with our deepest network in retail and jewellery. Sourced from competitor companies. Benchmarked on real pay data.
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Placed 20% below budget. Full compliance set up within 90 days of joining.
Read the case → CFO · Pre-IPO jewellery brandFour CFOs shortlisted from listed retail companies. The IPO timeline held.
Read the case → CMO · Brand repositioningA CMO with D2C and listed-brand experience. NPS rose 34 points in two quarters.
Read the case →We needed a performance marketer who had actually operated under real ROAS pressure in our price range. Boardroom CXO came back with candidates from the exact brands we benchmark against. The shortlist was sharper than anything we had seen from a generalist firm.
We had budgeted at a number that no serious BDM would have moved for. Boardroom CXO told us that before we ran the search, and told us what the market actually looked like. We adjusted, ran the search, and closed the hire in under 60 days.
We were at the 30-store stage and needed a senior BD head who had done this before. Every candidate Boardroom CXO presented had direct franchise and expansion experience from comparable brands. No learning curve, no compromise.
CXO roles and the layer below them, plus CHROs and HR heads. For companies in retail and jewellery, consumer and D2C, financial services, manufacturing and technology.
The best hires aren't applying anywhere. They respond to a confidential, well-researched approach, before any job description exists.
We confirm what the role pays across your category and city before you lock a budget.
Outcomes, authority, and KPIs for the next 12–24 months, before writing a job description.
We approach people already at scale inside competitor brands, candidates self-select in before your name is disclosed.
A realistic uplift is 25–30%, not the 40–50% many brands blindly offer. We give you that number upfront.
Pick a role and your store count. Get a live compensation range from our 2025-26 market mapping across Category A, B, and C jewellery, retail and D2C brands. Play with the tool below.
Senior leadership moves in India, announced on the Boardroom CXO LinkedIn page and recorded here. Every Saturday, Inside the Boardroom tells one leader's story.
In 2022 investors gave Blinkit zero value. Albinder Dhindsa stayed after the sale, scaled the 10-minute model, and in 2026 Blinkit made a ₹102 crore quarterly profit and he became Eternal's CEO.
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In FY21 PVR's revenue fell 92% to ₹280 crore and it lost ₹748 crore. Ajay Bijli cut fixed costs 63%, raised ₹1,600 crore and merged with INOX. In FY26 PVR INOX sold 150 million tickets.
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In FY14 Saregama's music revenue fell 18.5% and its MD quit. Vikram Mehra turned its old catalogue into Carvaan and streaming income, and in FY26 the music business brought in ₹684 crore.
Read the story →We announce it on the Boardroom CXO LinkedIn page. With Plus, you also get a page on this site that shows up when people search your name. You see the write-up before it goes live.
Share the brief and we come back with a market map: what the role pays across your category, who is movable, and what offer structure actually closes, before you commit a budget.
