Reference: GILA/ID/WID-024/RE
Board seat: Independent Director, Non-Executive
Primary board location: Mumbai Metropolitan Region with project-site reviews
Meeting model: Five board meetings, quarterly Audit/Risk and three site/customer reviews
Status: Confidential live-search specification; client identity released only after conflict clearance and NDA.

The anonymised enterprise

A listed residential developer focused on redevelopment and mid-income housing, using project SPVs and joint-development arrangements rather than outright land ownership for much of its pipeline.
Annual bookings are ₹5,000–7,000 crore. The board is refreshing composition as the company enters larger society-redevelopment projects and increases institutional debt.

The board problem and strategic reason for appointment

The director’s charter is customer delivery, project cash integrity and joint-development governance. Gender is relevant to board composition; it is not the functional qualification.

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
Member of Audit and Stakeholders Relationship Committee; Chair of Customer & Project Risk subcommittee. 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
Establish project-level cash, escrow and completion-cost oversight; review society consent, rehabilitation obligations and title-risk escalation before launch; govern customer complaints, delay communication, quality

📌 Independent Director (Mumbai)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Mumbai