Confidential Mumbai Chief Executive appointment to build and own a debt syndication and project financing vertical, carrying the lender relationships that decide whether a mandate closes.

The Mandate

This is a Chief Executive appointment to own a debt syndication and project financing business end to end: origination, structuring, lender engagement, execution and the profit and loss that results. The seat exists because raising capital for infrastructure and industrial projects in India is decided less by the quality of a spreadsheet than by whether the person carrying the proposal can get it read, understood and championed inside a lending institution. That is the capability being bought.

The appointee inherits a mandate rather than a machine. Sponsors approach with project finance, trade finance, working capital and term loan requirements; the business converts those into structures that a consortium of public sector banks, private banks, non-banking financial companies and development institutions will actually fund. The Chief Executive is accountable for the closure rate,



not for the pipeline slide.

Reporting to the Group Chairman, the role carries unusual latitude. There is no incumbent structure to inherit or dismantle, and no established syndicate desk to defend. The appointee decides which sectors to pursue, which sponsors to decline, how the fee model is set, and who joins the team.

Why this seat is open

The business has demonstrated that mandates can be won. What it has not yet built is the institutional relationship depth that turns a won mandate into a disbursed facility inside a predictable window. Sponsors do not leave because a structure was wrong; they leave because sanction took nine months and their project economics moved.

The Chairman has concluded that this is a leadership problem rather than a process one. Syndication is a business where the credit committee's confidence in the person presenting is part of the collateral.

Building that

📌 Chief Executive Officer (Mumbai)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Mumbai