A boutique global retained executive search firm partnering with Boards, Investors, and Leadership Teams to identify and secure transformative C-suite and senior executive talent across the world's most dynamic industries.
Cognitive Talent Partners is a boutique and global retained executive search firm committed to creating seamless global partnerships with a client-centric approach and a strong diversity focus. Agile, nimble, and innovative, we build partnerships with Boards, Promoters, Investors, and Leadership Teams to create transformative, entrepreneurial, and culturally quick-assimilating winning teams.
Our practice areas reflect the industries where leadership is most consequential — and where our depth of knowledge creates genuine competitive advantage for clients.
A rigorous, relationship-driven methodology that places the right leader in the right organisation — every time.
"Only the innovative survive. Attracting and retaining the best leadership talent is not a process — it is a competitive advantage."
Sectoral depth, governance rigour, and value-creation experience for PE-backed boards globally.
Transformational CEO appointments aligned to the PE sponsor's value-creation plan.
Mission-critical C-Suite hires across Finance, Technology, Revenue and Risk.
Human capital leadership with PE experience to drive organisational scale and DEI.
Partner with funds during due diligence to assess leadership capability and map talent landscapes ahead of acquisition.
Rapid mobilisation of full Board and C-Suite at deal close to activate the value-creation roadmap without delay.
Rigorously curated executive networks spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, UAE and India.
Scientific testing integrated into every search to de-risk decisions and validate cultural alignment.
Proactive diversity sourcing strategies for Board and C-Suite — building inclusive governance and stronger performance.
Leaders who enhance enterprise value, strengthen institutional credibility, and maximise exit multiples.
The Founder and Managing Partner of Cognitive Talent Partners brings more than 30 years of deep expertise in retained executive search, talent advisory, and cross-border leadership assessment. With a career spanning some of the world's most consequential leadership mandates, he has established CTP as a globally respected boutique firm trusted by Boards, Investors, and C-suites across multiple industries and continents.
His expertise encompasses Board-level, CEO, and CXO executive talent acquisition across Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors, Robotics, Digital, BFSI & FinTech, Retail, Consumer Products, Engineering & Product, Private Equity, Captive and Third-Party Shared Services, Infrastructure, and Energy sectors.
Prior to founding CTP, he built one of the largest retained private equity and technology executive search practices globally — working with some of the world's most prominent private equity funds, Asian business conglomerates, and global MNCs.
Anuj was featured in Forbes India and VCCircle on the evolution of operating partner models in private equity. His expertise spans identifying leadership talent across Semiconductors, AI, Digital, Machine Learning, Product Management and Robotics.
Prior to CTP, Anuj worked in the Global Executive Search Industry in Atlanta, GA and India delivering talent solutions across 15 countries. Passionate about technology, he has also been an early stage angel investor in Healthcare IoT, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups.
With offices in New York, Gurgaon, and Belgium, and active search mandates across four continents, CTP brings genuine local knowledge to every global engagement.
A selection of landmark retained mandates where CTP's sector expertise and global networks shaped the leadership trajectory of transformative organisations.
Our client is one of the world's foremost providers of financial services to institutional investors — spanning investment servicing, investment management, and investment research and trading. With a global workforce of approximately 39,000 professionals and operations across more than 100 geographic markets, the organisation is a systemically important institution in global capital markets.
In response to the accelerating industry shift toward digital finance, the client established a dedicated new division specifically focused on digital assets. This new division was built to expand upon the organisation's existing digital capabilities — incorporating crypto assets, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), blockchain infrastructure, and tokenization. The proprietary multi-asset technology platform was earmarked as a foundational component, to be evolved into a digital multi-asset platform capable of supporting crypto asset classes alongside traditional instruments.
The division was established under the leadership of a three-decade industry veteran and Executive Vice President, reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer of the parent corporation.
CTP's mandate specifically required domain expertise and leadership capability across the following product categories, each representing a distinct revenue stream and strategic growth vector for the new division:
The new division's product organisation required leaders who could bridge deep technical fluency in distributed ledger and blockchain infrastructure with the commercial acumen of institutional finance — a rare intersection that demanded CTP's proprietary global talent networks across both the crypto-native and traditional financial services communities.
The search encompassed candidates across North America, Europe, and Asia — reflecting the global ambition of the division to create new peer-to-peer liquidity venues for institutional clients and investors worldwide.
Our client is a Nasdaq-listed technology company that empowers creators and brands through data-driven innovation. Leveraging a flagship creator platform and a portfolio of complementary digital businesses — spanning creator memberships, brand partnerships, an agency business, and e-commerce — the organisation delivers value across the full creative ecosystem.
Since its platform launch in 2016, the company has grown to over 100,000 creators globally, providing infrastructure for storytelling, creative expression, and community building. In its most recent Q2 reporting period, the client recorded net revenue growth of 201% over the prior year — driven by premium memberships, agency revenues, and an expanding e-commerce vertical.
The client's growth strategy is anchored in a highly synergistic acquisition model: leveraging its network, infrastructure, and distribution capabilities to accelerate revenues of acquired businesses quickly and efficiently, while simultaneously validating the multifunctional capability of its platform.
The incoming Chief Marketing Officer was required to bring a sophisticated command of media relations, marketing, advertising, and partnership sales. Reporting to the President, the CMO assumed leadership of the Marketing and Business Intelligence team — responsible for the strategy and execution of paid and organic growth campaigns across the client and its full portfolio of subsidiaries.
The role demanded a leader with the commercial fluency to drive creator acquisition, premium subscription growth, and brand partnership revenue — operating at the intersection of media, data, and performance marketing.
The Chief Design Officer joined the client's Product and Design team, reporting to the President with accountability for all design and innovation output — spanning product and service design, user experience, and packaging. The CDO operates in close partnership with the Chief Marketing Officer to optimise advertising, marketing, and engineering touchpoints, while managing and directing the broader creative team.
This role required a rare combination of product design sensibility, brand vision, and the operational authority to elevate creative output across a multi-platform digital ecosystem.
Our client is a globally recognised product engineering and lifecycle services firm with over two decades of deep domain expertise. Trusted by many of the world's most recognised companies, the organisation operates across Aero Engines, Hi-Tech, Aerospace & Defence, Transportation (Auto and Rail), Power and Industrial, Oil & Gas, and Medical Devices.
With 56 global delivery centres and a workforce exceeding 11,250 professionals across 13 countries, the client stands at the forefront of the convergence of mechanical, electronics, software, and digital engineering — engineering solutions for a safer, cleaner world.
The organisation's deep domain knowledge and digital expertise enable its clients to accelerate product development and innovation cycles, create alternate revenue streams, enhance consumer experience, and drive greater efficiency in manufacturing operations.
The appointed Chief Marketing Officer — a recognised diversity leader and industry luminary listed among the top marketing executives globally — brought over 20 years of experience across some of the world's most iconic brands. Immediately prior to this appointment, the executive served as Chief Marketing Officer at a leading North American consumer goods corporation, where she oversaw a $4.5B portfolio of 16 brands.
In this role, the Chief Marketing Officer assumed full ownership of marketing strategy, brand positioning, advertising, and corporate communications across geographic regions, industry verticals, and service lines — taking a holistic view across market research, integrated marketing communications, sales channels, public relations, and pricing to align customer experience with the organisation's overall goals, ROI, and KPIs.
The appointed Chief Digital Officer was sourced from the Bay Area technology ecosystem, bringing senior leadership experience from within two of the world's foremost technology platforms. This appointment signalled the client's commitment to digital transformation at the highest level of its engineering and delivery operations.
CTP also placed the organisation's Global Head of M&A — a strategic role central to the client's inorganic growth agenda across its key industry verticals and geographies.
Our client is one of the world's largest global insurers — a Paris-headquartered Group whose purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters. With protection at the core of its business, the Group serves individuals, businesses, and societies across its global network, driven by a long-standing commitment to acting as a force for collective good.
The Group's headquarters, based in Paris, coordinates all corporate entities with the Group's overall strategy and manages international projects across its global footprint. The HQ is characterised by a strong international culture — approximately 800 employees representing 39 nationalities — reflecting the Group's genuinely global operating model.
Committed to innovation, prevention, and responsible risk management, the Group has consistently been at the forefront of leveraging data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies to redefine insurance for the digital age — particularly across high-growth Asian markets.
The appointed executive was tasked with leading and developing the Group's regional innovation team in Asia — responsible for developing, piloting, and scaling innovative use cases in co-creation with the Group's Asian entities. The role operates at the intersection of data partnerships, AI-driven insurance applications, and blockchain technology, with an explicit mandate to take successful pilots to implementation at scale.
Our client is a pan-Asian insurance group serving over 10 million customers across 10 markets — including some of the fastest growing insurance markets in the world. Established in 2013, the Group is focused on making the insurance journey simpler, faster, and smoother through innovative propositions and easy-to-understand products, underpinned by digital technology.
Through a customer-led approach, the Group is committed to fundamentally changing the way people feel about insurance — positioning itself as a disruptive, digital-first force in Asian insurance. Its Takaful business unit serves the Islamic insurance market, operating in one of Southeast Asia's most significant growth markets.
The appointed Chief Executive Officer brought an exceptional and directly relevant pedigree — over twelve years of CEO experience leading a major Takaful operation in Malaysia for one of the world's largest global insurers. This tenure represented deep, on-the-ground expertise in the Malaysian Takaful regulatory environment, distribution landscape, and consumer market.
The appointment followed a highly targeted search focused exclusively on candidates with substantive Takaful CEO experience in the Malaysian market — a deliberately narrow brief that demanded CTP's proprietary regional financial services networks rather than a conventional database-driven approach.
Cognitive Talent Partners has been recognised by leading global and Indian business publications for thought leadership in executive search, private equity talent, and cross-border recruitment.
Strategically located to serve our clients across North America, India, and beyond.