Footprints

Jeyadev Parthasarathy

Educational Qualifications:
1985: Post Graduate Program in Business Management, XLRI Jamshedpur
1982: B A (Honours) Mathematics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi

Professional Experience:
November 2001 to date:
Started Footprints, an Executive Search Consulting firm with specific focus on the Senior Management Assignments.

April 1998 to 2003:
Director, Quadrangle Consulting Services Private Limited – Started an HR consulting services firm with a professional from the industry. Quadrangle consulting is a 6-consultant professional services company offering services in HR Practices in the BPO Industry, ESOP, Performance Management Systems, Job Evaluation and restructuring, etc.

December 1997 to October 2001:
Managing Consultant, Quadrangle Started an executive search organisation servicing selected clients in the Financial Services sector and Start-ups with end-to-end people requirements.

Also managed and organized training programs in time management, entrepreneur management, sales and marketing skills. Merged Quadrangle with Info Edge India Pvt. Ltd. (Naukri.com) in October 2000, was the Chief Executive of Quadrangle for a year and exited in October 2001.

Director and CEO, Center for Image Management Studies a professional institute offering a 1 year fulltime Post Graduate Diploma in Image Management. Besides the full time Program, CiMS offered Education and Training Programs in Public Relations, Advertising, Journalism and other Communication related areas.

November 1994 to November 1997:
Country Head, Executive Access (I) Pvt. Ltd. A three-year mandate to start and develop operations of a leading Asian Headhunting company in India. Started one of the first International Headhunting Search Firms to enter India from a 2-consultant team to a 12-consultant organisation during the 3-year retained mandate. The focus was on Senior Management Searches in the Financial Services, Media, Technology and Telecom sectors. Executive Access was the leading headhunting company in India in 1996-97 having executed over 50 senior management searches in its 3 years of operations.

January 1988 to date:
Started as an Entrepreneur and was Head Finance and Marketing upto October 1994 in Value Line Interiors Pvt. Ltd. and Blue Chip Technologies Limited.
The partners look after the business operations till date.
Director, Blue Chip Technologies Limited manufacture and sales of UPS Systems and Invertors
Director, Value Line Interiors Private Limited designing and execution of projects in modular furniture, structured cabling, networking systems and turnkey projects.

June 1985 to November 1987:
Sales and Marketing, Wipro Information Technology Limited, Mumbai

May 1982 to June 1983:
Sales, Hindustan Computers Limited