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Pune · Est. 2005
About Posimind

The partner who briefs you is the partner who runs your search.

Posimind is a boutique executive search and HR consulting firm, partner-led since the day Trupti Nanal opened it in Pune in 2005. Three practices, three regions, eleven people. Built for the senior mandates that need to be done well the first time.

20
Years operating
Pune-founded, 2005
3
Practices
Search · Headhunting · HRMS
9
Sectors in depth
Industrials → Consumer
11
Consultants & operators
Deliberately small
Why Posimind exists

A firm built around the work, not the brand.

Three paragraphs, twenty years. Plus a few things worth pulling out.

In 2005, executive search in India was largely the preserve of two or three global brands working out of Mumbai. Boards were getting shortlists; they weren’t always getting the right ones. The names that came back were the names every retainer firm in the city had on speed-dial.

The opening was for a firm that would do the work properly: smaller team, deeper research, honest scoping, and a partner’s name on every shortlist. We started there. Two decades on, we’re still there — deliberately small, deeply networked, and structured so that the partner who briefs you is the partner who runs your search.

What changed between then and now isn’t the philosophy. It’s the leverage. The AI tooling we’ve built lets a four-person Posimind engagement work the depth that a fifteen-person engagement at a global firm would normally charge for — without compromising the parts of search that should never be compressed.

How we work

Three commitments, applied every engagement.

Not slogans on a wall. Operating commitments that decide which mandates we take, who staffs them, and what we send to a client.

01

A partner on every shortlist.

The partner who briefs you is the partner who runs the search. Always. No handing-off mid-engagement.

02

AI as force multiplier, not substitute.

Our consultants do the consulting. AI does the parts of search that used to swallow a junior team for two weeks.

03

Honest scoping, slow shortlists.

We turn down engagements we don’t believe we can move the needle on. Judgement, references, the read on fit: still human.

Where we work

Sectors we know in depth.

Twenty years of senior mandates across the sectors that make emerging-market economies move. Confidentiality forbids naming clients.

01

Engineering & Industrials

Heavy industry, capital goods, MEP engineering. Since 2005.

02

Manufacturing

Discrete & process, plant-level & corporate.

03

Pharma & Life Sciences

Generics, specialty, formulations, R&D.

04

IT & SaaS

Product engineering, GTM leadership, founder-led firms.

05

Financial Services

Banking, NBFC, asset & wealth, fintech CXO.

06

Energy & Infrastructure

Power, renewables, urban infra, EPC.

07

Architecture & Design

Principals and senior design leadership.

08

Marketing & Comms

CMO, brand & digital leadership.

09

Consumer & Retail

F&B, fashion, retail platforms, D2C.

Leadership

Led by its founder.

Posimind is run by the partner who built it. Trupti Nanal takes senior briefs personally and sets the operating model every consultant on the bench works to.

Founder · 2005Trupti Nanal
Managing Partner

Trupti Nanal

The judgement that decides a senior hire is also the judgement that grows a consultant. We don't separate those.

Managing Partner of Posimind Consulting. Leads C-suite headhunting personally and mentors the consulting team across Executive Search, Headhunting, and HRMS engagements.

Founding & Managing Partner · est. 2005Read Trupti’s profile
Operating model

Partner runs the brief. Partner runs the search. No handing-off to a junior team mid-engagement, and no anonymous researchers behind the brand — the person who scopes your mandate is the person who closes it.

The bench

Eleven consultants & operators. Deliberately small, organised around named-partner relationships across India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East — senior enough that no sector we name as a focus rests on a single person.

Read more

Full bios, representative engagements and direct contact for every partner and consultant live on the team page →

Offices & reach

Headquartered in Pune. Present where the work is.

India is where we’re deep. Across Southeast Asia we mobilise long-standing named-partner relationships. The Middle East is the next region.

BAD

Badlapur

Headquarters. Founded here in 2005. Every engagement runs end-to-end from this office.

IND

Other Indian offices

Mumbai · Bengaluru · Kolhapur. Consultants in the room when it matters.

SEA

Southeast Asia

Named-partner network. Singapore · Indonesia · Malaysia.

ME

Middle East

The region we’re building into next.

Tell us what you’re building

We’ll tell you who we’d call.

Whether you’re hiring a board member, scoping an HR function from scratch, or wondering whether your current shortlist is actually the right one — the first conversation costs nothing and is genuinely useful either way.