We are an Executive Search firm with two main practices – CEO Practice & CFO Practice. In addition, we offer Transition Coaching to CEOs & CFOs and very occasionally, support clients in other roles. Find more about each practice below.
Our CEO Executive Search Practice specializes in finding top-notch CEOs and critical, direct reports to CEOs such as BU Heads and Sales/Marketing Leaders.
Welcome to the CEO Practice of Resource Bridge.
In this practice, we work with clients on CEO and CEO-type roles ie., where the business criticality is high and where there is a strong P&L angle to it.
For instance, we worked on an MD role for a Chemical firm, a straightforward CEO role; in another instance, we worked to find a Spaniard as a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for another client – though not a CEO role by strict definition, the CMO role was very critical, not only for driving top-line sales growth but driving margins through pricing actions.
In all these cases, what we bring to the table is threefold:
a) our superior understanding of your context and translating that into a comprehensive search;
b) deep assessment of candidates to find the ones that would work for your context;
c) guidance throughout the hiring and post-hiring process to ensure a great hire who delivers.
If you are looking to hire a CEO or a “-1” who is very critical to your business, do reach out to us at ramk@resource-bridge.com (CEO Practice Lead) or mona@resource-bridge.com (BD Lead) with your enquiries.
Our CFO Executive Search Practice helps clients find CFOs and pivotal finance leaders vital to an organization’s success.
Welcome to the CFO Practice of Resource Bridge.
We are probably one of the strongest in the CFO search space – for instance, we successfully enabled 3 of the 5 external CFO hires among ET500 firms in the Q2 FY23 quarter.
At any given time, we are in the midst of at least 2-3 CFO searches. In any given year, inside and outside of mandates, we are in touch with 1000+ CFO and assess in-depth nearly 500 CFOs. The reach out includes CFOs inside and outside India, across industries and across age groups. In short, if you are looking to hire a CFO, we are best positioned to partner with you.
Do reach out to us at saroja@resource-bridge.com (CFO Practice Lead) or mona@resource-bridge.com (BD Lead).
Within Transition Coaching, we coach the CEOs and CFOs to outperform in their roles. Through a combination of interventions that include but are not limited to the following, we enable a superior performance from the new leader:
While clients retain us in the executive search, in transition coaching, we are retained by either the candidate or the client and depending who retains us, the individual components of assistance, change. Please reach out to saroja@resource-bridge.com (Certified Coach) or mona@resource-bridge.com (BD Lead) to understand more.
Welcome to Transition Coaching Practice of Resource Bridge.
Our research indicates that less than 30% of the leaders who transition to a new company/role are successful and deliver a ‘wow’ performance. The main purpose of transition coaching is to make more and more CEOs and CFOs deliver wow performance.
In this practice, we work with CEOs and CFOs, over 6-12 months, to help them be successful in the new role, through a variety of support and intervention: coaching to help set priorities and resolve internal conflicts; industry connects and advisory to the new leader to get guidance and resolution to specific problems; below-the-radar and discreet bridge between the new leader and the organization to capture potential issues early on and resolve them at the earliest. Unlike the search where we are retained by corporates, in transition coaching, we are retained by either the corporates or the individual CFOs.
Reach out to saroja@resource-bridge.com (certified coach) or mona@resource-bridge.com (BD Lead) with your enquiries.
The typical process explores and takes you through three large chunks or pillars. You can sign up for one or all of the following modules.
Step into your essence: Allows you to develop strong presence and presentation on what you bring to the table
Deep leadership, technical, and impact assessment to work with you and understand what it is that you have delivered in your business ,speak to you and your peers, your promoter or your manager as well as your team members to objectively find where others have seen you being very successful. we will then together, arrive and be totally grounded in terms of what you bring to the table. Just stepping into your essence and what you bring will take up your presence, purpose and leadership, notches ahead….
Develop clear goals : Supports you to develop a clear end goal of what you would like to do 5 years , 10 years down the line, what do you want to retire as. And from that clarity create milestones in terms of how you would like to design your career here on
We will hold the space for you to open out and start developing clarity, in terms of what you want to do five years down the line, ten years down the line, getting a picture of how you want to retire and what you want to do post retirement. We will mentor and put up several options based on our conversations and study to arrive at your unique plan and picture of where you want to be.
Execute the plan technically: Broadening your network to co- create conversations and outreach to the right set of people and companies
This module will help you execute the transition outside if that’s what you have decided. Here we will bring you not only our own mandates, but also reach out to the who’s who of the executive search world in India. We will help you evaluate opportunities, prepare and guide you with complete transparency on any conflict of interest.
Saroja has vast experience in coaching and helping executives transition into higher roles………….
From time to time, upon specific client request, we support them on roles other than CEO or CFO – these include positions like Head of Strategy, CHRO, and Chief Digital Officer.
Over 90% of time and resources are focused on just the two main practices – CEO Search and CFO Search. However, from time to time, on specific request from our clients, we have worked on roles that leverage what we have:
We consider these as our emerging practices and invest time strategically, to pick mandates in only 1-2 select areas (e.g., CSO, CHRO) instead of picking mandates which do not fit the theme.
If you have a need but not sure if we can work on, please feel free to have an open conversation with ramk@resource-bridge.com or saroja@resource-bridge.com and if it fits with our strategy and if we have the capabilities, we will pick it up, otherwise, we will be happy to connect you with the right partners.
We are a specialized executive search firm. We work exclusively on CEO Executive Search & CFO Executive Search.
Anu graduated from DU and subsequently completed her full-time MBA from IMI. Post her MBA, she worked in sales in the BFSI space, with ICICI Lombard, Principal Asset Management, DSP Blackrock and Edelweiss, across bancassurance, and institutional sales. Later, she worked in the start-up space, while pursuing and completing the Master's in Business Law from National Law School. At Resource Bridge, Anu is a Sr Associate in the CEO Practice and has worked closely with Ram on key mandates.
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Ram is currently the Leader for the CEO Practice and also the Managing Partner of the firm. Ram is an Engineer-turned (BE Mechanical, MS Industrial) MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and brings with him 7 years in corporate, 14 years in top-tier consulting and 10 years in executive search. He was last the leader for Life-sciences at Monitor Group and prior to that, headed IMS Consulting and AT Kearney, starting his career with Ashok Leyland. Brings extensive experience in automotive and healthcare/life-sciences space.
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Dhanlaxmi is a CA and ICWA from Mumbai, and brings with her extensive experience as a practicing chartered accountant, serving clients across industries. Alongside, she also served as a visiting faculty in several institutions. At Resource Bridge, Dhana is an Consultant in the CFO Practice, where she has worked with Saroja on several of the key CFO mandates.
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Saroja is a merit-ranking ICWA and is the Lead for the CFO Practice. Coming from an industrial family, she initally worked in the family business focused on automotive forgings. Later, she set up Resource Bridge along with Ram and grew it from infancy. Just over the last few years, she has led 40+ CFO engagements for a variety of clients, and has one of the best networks within the CFO Community, not only in India but outside too. She brings extensive experience in Retail, FMCG and Manufacturing sector.
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Rachana is an MBA with prior work experience at Reliance Industries for 8 years. In her last role at Reliance, Rachana was the Product Manager for the $55M Benzene and Xylene portfolio, with responsibility over sales, commercial and client management. Later she was at Sizer Metals, a base metal trading firm, working on hedging, supply chain and account management. At Resource Bridge, she is a Sr Associate in the CFO Practice and has worked with Saroja, the CFO Practice Lead, in delivering key mandates.
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Mona leads the BD & New Client Engagement function at Resource Bridge and is responsible for all client development activities for the firm. She comes from a marketing and brand promotions background, having worked in the marketing function at Matsushita. Mona has done her full-time MBA.
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