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Business Standard
21-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Odgers India elevates Kaushik DasGupta to Managing Partner; Dr. Prasad Medury to serve as Chairman India
VMPL New Delhi [India], July 21: Odgers, a leading global executive search and leadership advisory firm, today announced a significant leadership transition for its India operations. Kaushik DasGupta, who leads the Consumer, Retail & Media practice in Asia-Pacific, has been promoted to Managing Partner - India. Concurrently, Dr. Prasad Medury, who has successfully led the India business for the past eight years, will continue to serve as Chairman India. Kaushik DasGupta has been a pivotal force for Odgers since his arrival. He took the helm of the Consumer, Retail & Media practice in India at the start of 2020 and has more recently expanded his leadership to continue driving the sector's ongoing growth across the APAC region. Under his guidance, the Consumer practice in India has grown to become the firm's second-largest practice in the country, after Industrial, demonstrating remarkable success with both global and local clients, and consistently supporting them in their global expansion plans. A seasoned veteran in executive search, Kaushik has dedicated nearly his entire career to the field. Prior to joining Odgers, he has held long-term Partner roles with two of India's largest and most successful search firms, both affiliated with global networks. "I am delighted to announce Kaushik DasGupta's promotion to Managing Partner - India," said Mark Braithwaite, Managing Director - APAC. "Kaushik possesses an infectious positive energy and an unwavering obsession with delivering quality work for our clients. I am incredibly proud to welcome him into the APAC management team and have every confidence that he has the passion and capability to lead Odgers India to even greater heights as the Indian economy continues to thrive." Prasad's tenure as Managing Director has been transformative for Odgers in India. Since he joined eight years ago, the India business has experienced exponential growth, driven by a strong focus on Indian companies, as well as Multinational corporations. Prasad will continue to be a vital asset to the firm as Chairman India. He will manage an extended handover of his Country Head responsibilities over the coming months, after which he will continue to lead the firm's robust Industrial and Education practices. "Leading Odgers India for the past eight years has been an immense privilege. I am incredibly proud of the growth we've achieved and the strong foundation we've built. I have full confidence in Kaushik's leadership and vision to take the firm to its next phase of accelerated success, ensuring trust & continued excellence for our clients." says Dr. Prasad Medury, Chairman India, Odgers. Kaushik DasGupta, Managing Partner India, Odgers added, "I am honoured and excited to step into the role of Managing Partner for Odgers India. Prasad has set an incredibly high bar, and I am committed to building upon his legacy, driving further growth, and ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional value to our clients across India, while extending our impact across global markets." About Odgers: Odgers is a leading global executive search and leadership advisory firm, headquartered in London UK, with over 59 offices & operations across 33 countries. It has been ranked as the top 6th among leading executive search firms globally. For over 60 years, Odgers has helped organisations all over the world find senior talent to drive their business agendas. This includes reputed international leadership hiring assignments such as the Organizing Committee for the 2032 Olympic & Paralympic Games in Brisbane, Sporting Director for Newcastle United Football Club, CEO of Integrated and Specialist Medicine Clinical Group, part of the UK NHS Foundation Trust, to name a few. In India, our services include board appointments, leadership & board advisory services and executive search at the leadership level. Our focus in India is on the Industrial, Consumer, Technology & Education sectors where we work with both Indian & as well as foreign multinationals. We also assist clients identify & hire exceptional leadership talent to drive their Sustainability & DE & I initiatives. (ADVERTORIAL DISCLAIMER: The above press release has been provided by VMPL. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of the same)
The Wire
21-07-2025
- Business
- The Wire
Odgers India elevates Kaushik DasGupta to Managing Partner; Dr. Prasad Medury to serve as Chairman India
India – July 21, 2025: Odgers, a leading global executive search and leadership advisory firm, today announced a significant leadership transition for its India operations. Kaushik DasGupta, who leads the Consumer, Retail & Media practice in Asia-Pacific, has been promoted to Managing Partner - India. Concurrently, Dr. Prasad Medury, who has successfully led the India business for the past eight years, will continue to serve as Chairman India. Kaushik DasGupta has been a pivotal force for Odgers since his arrival. He took the helm of the Consumer, Retail & Media practice in India at the start of 2020 and has more recently expanded his leadership to continue driving the sector's ongoing growth across the APAC region. Under his guidance, the Consumer practice in India has grown to become the firm's second-largest practice in the country, after Industrial, demonstrating remarkable success with both global and local clients, and consistently supporting them in their global expansion plans. A seasoned veteran in executive search, Kaushik has dedicated nearly his entire career to the field. Prior to joining Odgers, he has held long-term Partner roles with two of India's largest and most successful search firms, both affiliated with global networks. "I am delighted to announce Kaushik DasGupta's promotion to Managing Partner – India,' said Mark Braithwaite, Managing Director - APAC. "Kaushik possesses an infectious positive energy and an unwavering obsession with delivering quality work for our clients. I am incredibly proud to welcome him into the APAC management team and have every confidence that he has the passion and capability to lead Odgers India to even greater heights as the Indian economy continues to thrive." Prasad's tenure as Managing Director has been transformative for Odgers in India. Since he joined eight years ago, the India business has experienced exponential growth, driven by a strong focus on Indian companies, as well as Multinational corporations. Prasad will continue to be a vital asset to the firm as Chairman India. He will manage an extended handover of his Country Head responsibilities over the coming months, after which he will continue to lead the firm's robust Industrial and Education practices. "Leading Odgers India for the past eight years has been an immense privilege. I am incredibly proud of the growth we've achieved and the strong foundation we've built. I have full confidence in Kaushik's leadership and vision to take the firm to its next phase of accelerated success, ensuring trust & continued excellence for our clients.' says Dr. Prasad Medury, Chairman India, Odgers. Kaushik DasGupta, Managing Partner India, Odgers added, "I am honoured and excited to step into the role of Managing Partner for Odgers India. Prasad has set an incredibly high bar, and I am committed to building upon his legacy, driving further growth, and ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional value to our clients across India, while extending our impact across global markets." About Odgers: Odgers is a leading global executive search and leadership advisory firm, headquartered in London UK, with over 59 offices & operations across 33 countries. It has been ranked as the top 6th among leading executive search firms globally. For over 60 years, Odgers has helped organisations all over the world find senior talent to drive their business agendas. This includes reputed international leadership hiring assignments such as the Organizing Committee for the 2032 Olympic & Paralympic Games in Brisbane, Sporting Director for Newcastle United Football Club, CEO of Integrated and Specialist Medicine Clinical Group, part of the UK NHS Foundation Trust, to name a few. In India, our services include board appointments, leadership & board advisory services and executive search at the leadership level. Our focus in India is on the Industrial, Consumer, Technology & Education sectors where we work with both Indian & as well as foreign multinationals. We also assist clients identify & hire exceptional leadership talent to drive their Sustainability & DE&I initiatives. (Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with NRDPL and PTI takes no editorial responsibility for the same.).
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sir Graeme Odgers, businessman who brought industry nous to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission
Sir Graeme Odgers, who has died aged 91, was a South African-born public servant and business leader who chaired the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Odgers brought unusually broad industrial and Whitehall experience to the leadership of the MMC – the body which had oversight between 1948 and 1999 of all major corporate mergers and competition issues – in which he succeeded the barrister Sir Godfrey Lequesne. Appointed in 1993 by Michael Heseltine as president of the Board of Trade, Odgers was initially seen, as one profile put it, 'as very much someone in the Heseltine mould – pro-competition, pro-intervention, pro-industry' – and indeed, he acknowledged that he felt 'comfortable with Mr Heseltine's expressed viewpoint about competition'. But like his predecessor, he firmly asserted the Commission's independence, while working to achieve a collegiate approach among its 35 part-time commissioners which minimised the incidence of dissenting 'minority reports'. Areas of controversy ranged from upmarket perfume manufacturers' refusal to supply supermarkets to the allegedly predatory takeover activities of the Stagecoach bus company – but none of the MMC's reports during his tenure were successfully challenged in the courts. When he declined the offer of a second five-year term in 1997, one editorial noted that Odgers had blotted his copybook with ministers on only a handful of occasions and was 'generally reckoned to have made a decent fist of the MMC… It certainly made a pleasant change to have the place run for once by an industrialist rather than a clever lawyer.' Graeme David William Odgers was born on March 10 1934 in a mining town outside Johannesburg to William Odgers, an engineer and mine manager for the Anglo-American mining group, and his wife Elizabeth, née Rennie. During the Second World War the family moved to Northern Rhodesia, where William managed copper production; Graeme returned to complete his schooling at St John's College in Johannesburg before taking ship to England aged 17 to study mechanical sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He returned to South Africa to start work with Anglo-American but left in 1957, shortly after getting married, to take an MBA as a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School and to become an investment officer for the International Finance Corporation (an arm of the World Bank) in Washington. Moving to the UK in 1962, he worked successively in management consultancy, merchant banking and insurance broking, then in 1970 established his own headhunting firm. But his path was diverted in early 1974 by a call from Peter Walker, the Heath government's secretary of state for trade and industry, to become an industrial adviser in the civil service. Graeme Odgers left the recruitment business (which thrived in the hands of his younger brother Ian and is now Odgers Berndtson) and accepted the Whitehall challenge – only to find himself working after the March 1974 election for the Left-wing Labour firebrand Tony Benn, whom he found charming but 'startlingly naive' in his understanding of companies and markets. Odgers's role, as head of the department's Industrial Development Unit, was to temper with financial realism Benn's political urge to achieve state control and greater trade union power within a succession of failing industrial sectors, including shipbuilding and carmaking. He returned to the private sector in 1978 to work briefly for GEC, and then for eight years with the construction group Tarmac, where he rose to be group managing director. Meanwhile, he had joined the board of British Telecom as a part-time member in preparation for its 1984 privatisation, switching to an executive role as group managing director during a challenging period of technological and cultural change from 1987 to 1990. His final industrial job before joining the MMC was as chief executive of another construction business, Alfred MacAlpine, and he was later a director of Scottish & Southern Energy. But the last phase of his working life was largely devoted to the economic development of his home county of Kent, particularly its less prosperous eastern parts. As chairman of the county council's inward investment agency, Locate in Kent, and later of its economic board, he took a leading role in initiatives which included the redevelopment of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and the establishment of the Turner Contemporary gallery at Margate. Recalled by colleagues for a calm and gentlemanly style, combined with steely determination to reach his objectives, he also supported these and other chosen causes by extensive personal philanthropy. He was knighted in 1997 for his MMC work and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kent in 2002. He held the freedom of the City of Canterbury and received the Kent Invicta Award in 2009. Graeme Odgers married first, in 1957, Diana Berge, who died in 2012, and secondly, in 2014, Susan Tait, who survives him with two daughters and a son of the first marriage; a third daughter predeceased him. Graeme Odgers, born March 10 1934, died May 8 2025 Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
