Mr. Jayant Dhodre

Mr. Jayant Dhodre

Jayant is a seasoned HR professional based at our Pune office with over 16 years of cross-cultural experience. He brings a wealth of expertise in pursuing senior-level roles in talent acquisition for growth-driven organizations. Jayant’s proficiency lies in manpower planning, talent acquisition, and evaluating and optimizing processes to enhance organizational effectiveness and employee potential. Jayant…

Dr. Amjad Khan

Dr. Amjad Khan

Dr. Amjad Khan is a seasoned management professional based at our Pune office. His primary aim is to build a strong Industrial, manufacturing, Automotive, and board search practice. He comes with over 25 years of cross-cultural experience in corporates covering human resource and the management consulting domain. Throughout his distinguished career, he has consistently demonstrated…

Deepak Panda

Deepak Panda

Managing Partner Deepak is our Managing partner based at the Mumbai office. Deepak’s principal focus is to scale up Cornerstone’s business in India in Executive Search, Leadership Consulting, and new solutions and consulting offerings. Deepak also serves as a consultant to senior management in many industries. His consulting work includes Strategy Planning & Implementation, Organisation…

Nath, Shiv

Nath, Shiv

Shiv is Board Advisor at Cornerstone based at Gurgaon/ NCR office. He is leading Electric Mobility, Battery Storage, and green energy practice. He is an experienced C-suite leader with more than 30 years of experience in Technology business & operations in areas of Energy Storage, Semiconductors, Solar PV, Data storage devices, FT display, and Optical…

Carville, Rachel

Carville, Rachel

Rachel Carville, based at our Gurugram office is a trusted and seasoned client-advisor on leadership hiring since 1998. At Cornerstone her focus is on setting up new practice groups and building a varied portfolio of clients across verticals Her experience spans multi-national companies, Indian family businesses and private equity backed portfolio companies, across the spectrum…

Moola, Lakshmi

Moola, Lakshmi

Lakshmi Moola is Vice President, Cornerstone International Group based at Bengaluru office. Lakshmi’s principal focus is to scale up Cornerstone’s business in India & overseas in Executive Search, Leadership Consulting, and she also leads the IT Practice. Lakshmi is adept in Leadership Searches which includes Board & Senior Management in Technology & Communications, Industrial &…

Gowrishankar, Matangi

Gowrishankar, Matangi

Coaching Approach Using a neuroscience /brain based coaching approach, my focus is on enabling my clients to gain deep insights into the dilemmas they are facing, exploring old habits and to create new wiring /habits in order to change the outcomes they achieve. My clients often speak about how this approach enables them to reinvent…

Vishwanath, Arun

Vishwanath, Arun

Coaching Approach My approach to coaching begins with an “alignment session” with various stakeholders involved to figure out the goals to be achieved by the end of the coaching engagement period. The first coaching session is called the “chemistry session”, post which we do a mid-session engagement check and the final engagement check at the…

Venugopal, CB

Venugopal, CB

Coaching Approach My style of coaching is rigorously driven around identifying growth areas and expansiveness- that which creates enhanced leadership abilities, results focus and fulfillment at work. “Well being” is an important component of the way executives and their teams are able to pursue success and attain accomplishments. I bring into every coaching engagement ‘respectful…

Hariharan, Jay Kumar

Hariharan, Jay Kumar

  Coaching Approach   I use a proprietary model called  the “5 A” Model that breaks down the Coaching journey – Awareness, Ask for feedback, Aim, Action, Accountability. This break down the various levels of change that the coachee might experience starting with a deeper sense of Self-awareness coupled with feedback from Stakeholders as “Leadership…

Udhoji, Rajesh

Udhoji, Rajesh

Coaching Approach It’s a uniquely positioned result orientated approach that I had developed over a period of time. That is why I use the acronym of my approach as “RESULT”.  The Result approach is based on ICF competencies and is a collaborative structured process to ensure that the desired results are achieved through the coaching…

Venugopal, CB

Venugopal, CB

CB Venugopal, popularly called Venu has over twenty five years experience in Sales, Training and Development, Executive Search, Executive Coaching and Consulting areas. He is now part of the leadership team at Cornerstone India based at Bangalore with a mandate to grow the business across services, adding depth and breadth to the global services offerings. …

Cornerstone Gurgaon

Cornerstone Gurgaon

Cornerstone India is a leading player in CXO Search, Board Search for Independent Directors and Leadership Advisory services. The Indian operation spans four locations:  Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, and Bangalore. We work closely with our clients towards Talent Acquisition, Transition, Development and Deployment. We provide solutions that would help HR Leaders & CXOs in terms of Talent Hiring…

Venkatesh, Shampi

Venkatesh, Shampi

With close to 30 years of extensive experience in all aspects of business operations and finally heading Global HR at NIIT, Shampi Venkatesh brings in a unique blend of Business and HR capabilities. She has successfully led the re-engineering of the performance management system at NIIT in 2012, from goal setting to the elimination of…

Venkatesh, Shampi

Venkatesh, Shampi

Typical Clients My clients are typically high-performing professionals with a potential to reach the next level of business and leadership roles in the organization. I work with senior leaders and heads of departments to help them deal with challenging business situations, get the best out of ‘difficult’ people, enable their teams to become more accountable…

Khetan, Alok

Khetan, Alok

Alok has joined Cornerstone India’s Gurugram office as Partner. He comes with a purpose to develop and strengthen the Executive Search & Leadership Consulting Practice and manage senior level search mandates. Professional History Prior to Executive Search, Alok has been in the corporate world for 30 years where he has worked for 2 large multinational…

Nair, Jyotsna

Nair, Jyotsna

Jyotsna is Vice President based in Cornerstone International Group’s Mumbai office. She independently manages searches in Senior Management positions in Manufacturing, Hospitality, NGO, and automotive sectors. She also develops business with new and existing clients. Previous Experience Jyotsna brings six years of experience to her search work. Before joining Cornerstone, she was Consultant with a…

Cornerstone Bangalore

Cornerstone Bangalore

Cornerstone International Group now has four offices in its India operations.  In addition to Bangalore, located in southern India, Cornerstone India is also present in Mumbai, Delhi and Gurgaon. Cornerstone first arrived in India in 2004 with a focus on C level executives and aspiring C level managers. Today, Cornerstone India is a leading player…

Sinha, Amitabha

Sinha, Amitabha

Most of my clients are business leaders who are seeking to achieve scale and growth through the induction of a highly talented professional management team. They could be first time entrepreneurs or from business families or even successful technocrat managers assuming a new business responsibility. Many of my coaching engagements originate from consulting engagements –…

Cornerstone Pune

Cornerstone Pune

Cornerstone International Group now has a new office in its India operations located in Pune, 150 km from Mumbai. Cornerstone first arrived in India in 2004 with a focus on C level executives and aspiring C level managers. Today, Cornerstone India is a leading player in CXO Search, Board Search for Independent Directors and Leadership…

Cornerstone Mumbai

Cornerstone Mumbai

Cornerstone International Group launched its India operations in 2004 with a focus on C level executives and aspiring C level managers. Today, Cornerstone India is a leading player in CXO Search, Board Search for Independent Directors and Leadership Advisory services. The Indian operation now spans four locations: Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Bangalore. We work closely…

Cornerstone Delhi

Cornerstone Delhi

Cornerstone International Group launched its India operations in 2004 with a focus on C level executives and aspiring C level managers. Today, Cornerstone India is a leading player in CXO Search, Board Search for Independent Directors and Leadership Advisory services. The Indian operation spans four locations:  Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, and Bangalore. We work closely with…

Karkare, Vijay

Karkare, Vijay

Vijay is Managing Director of Cornerstone India, with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi. Vijay’s principal focus is to build Cornerstone International Group as a preferred provider of Executive Search and Advisory services in India. Vijay also serves as a consultant to boards and senior management in many industries. His consulting work includes Organization…