Reference: GILA/ID/XBD-096/GCCENG
Board seat: Independent Director, Non-Executive
Primary board location: Mumbai, Dubai and Riyadh
Meeting model: Six group/subsidiary boards and quarterly country-risk reviews
Mandate type: International and Cross-Border Board Mandates
Status: Confidential live-search specification; client identity released only after conflict clearance and NDA.

The anonymised enterprise
A listed Indian engineering-consulting company is scaling design, project-management and digital-engineering subsidiaries across the Gulf, serving infrastructure and energy clients.
International revenue is ₹2,000–3,000 crore and growing faster than India. Localisation rules, skilled liability, permanent establishment, tax, subcontractors and government customers create entity risk.

The board problem and strategic reason for appointment
The board needs a cross-border director who can distinguish sales momentum from executable, collectible and compliant backlog. Local subsidiaries must be governed as entities, not sales offices.
The board is not buying a credential.



It is appointing an independent decision-maker who can convert this problem into a governed sequence of choices, evidence and accountability. Success will be judged by the quality of decisions and control improvement, not by the number of recommendations made.

Board position, authority and interfaces
Group independent director with designated oversight of GCC subsidiaries; Audit/Risk member; local-board seats only after conflict and jurisdiction review.
The appointee will have direct, unfiltered access to the Company Secretary and to the relevant control-function leaders. Any advisory support requested by the board must remain management-executed: the director sets questions, tolerances and evidence standards, but does not become an executive or consultant.

First 12–18 month strategic charter
Set country/entity authority, reserved matters and delegated signing limits; review Saudisation/Emiratisat

📌 Independent Director (Mumbai)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Mumbai