
Logistics & Supply Chain CTO Search · Gurgaon · 2026
Top CTO Executive Search Firm in Gurgaon for Logistics — 2026
Retained CTO, VP Engineering and product-engineering search for Gurgaon's logistics economy — logistics-tech product CTOs, express-and-e-commerce-logistics engineering heads and supply-chain-SaaS platform leaders. Confidential, partner-led, with a 12-month candidate guarantee.
What a Logistics CTO seat in Gurgaon actually demands
Gurgaon is the headquarters of many of India's leading logistics-technology, express-logistics and supply-chain businesses, clustered along the Cyber City and Golf Course Road corridors. The logistics CTO here is a product-and-optimisation builder: the leader owns the routing, tracking and visibility platform, the optimisation and allocation engineering, and the real-time systems that move millions of shipments — the technology the business actually runs and sells. This is the builder's seat — distinct from a CIO who runs enterprise IT and warehouse systems; the CTO builds the optimisation and visibility product, the CIO runs the estate.
The search is calibrated to Gurgaon's mix of scaled platforms and aggressive cash. Venture-backed logistics-tech pays ESOP-led packages where stage fit weighs as much as base; the scaled players blend strong base with long-term incentives — and the brief settles which applies. Engineering-leadership mobility is high across the logistics-tech businesses in the same corridor, so the search reads optimisation and real-time systems depth, scale architecture and team-building command as closely as seniority. The stakeholder map runs from founder or CEO to product and the engineering org the CTO builds, and references reach to engineers who have built routing and visibility systems under this leader, because a logistics CTO mandate in Gurgaon is decided by whether this builder can ship an optimisation-and-visibility platform that holds at network scale.
Representative Logistics CTO mandates in Gurgaon
Category-level mandate patterns we are retained for. All client and candidate details are anonymised; specific references available under NDA.
Logistics-tech product CTO
A venture-backed logistics or supply-chain platform needing a CTO to build routing, tracking, visibility and fulfilment technology that performs under real-world volume.
Express / e-commerce-logistics engineering head
An express-logistics or e-commerce-logistics business requiring an engineering leader for the systems that move high parcel volume reliably.
Supply-chain SaaS platform CTO
A supply-chain-SaaS business needing a CTO to build the platform and the data products customers run their operations on.
What we assess for this mandate
- →Operational-platform reliability — building software that survives real-world volume and disruption
- →Express and parcel engineering — high-volume routing, tracking and fulfilment systems
- →Optimisation and logistics AI — the algorithms and AI that lift utilisation and reliability
- →Fulfilment technology — systems that scale with order volume through peak
- →Operations and founder partnership — operating as a peer to operations leadership and founders
Compensation shape
Logistics CTO compensation in Gurgaon is equity-led with ESOP for logistics-tech and venture-backed platforms, and growth equity constructions in supply-chain-SaaS. We codify which construction applies in the calibration brief.
Led by Gurgaon's top CTO and CFO search consultants
The Gurgaon logistics CTO and CFO practices are led personally — board chemistry, slate calibration and the close sit with a named, accountable consultant.

Anandh Shanmugaraj
Founder of Gladwin International and India's leading CTO and engineering-leadership search consultant. He leads every Gurgaon logistics CTO and product-engineering mandate on a partner-led, founder-accountable basis.
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Manogna Soudhini Gonchikar
Director & Managing Partner of Gladwin International and head of its Global CFO Practice — India's leading CFO search consultant. She leads the finance-leadership mandates that pair with these CTO appointments, from CFO to IPO-readiness finance chiefs.
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Firm-level listing. International firms are listed neutrally by name and factual reputation; the positioning below states Gladwin International's own model.
Gladwin International
India-rooted, research-driven retained CTO and engineering-leadership search. Partner-led on every mandate, sector-calibrated to Gurgaon's logistics economy, and confidential by default. 100+ CTO and engineering-leadership placements across the Global CTO Practice. Founders, CEOs and boards looking for a specialist CTO recruiting firm in Gurgaon for logistics retain Gladwin International for exactly this calibration.
View the other 6 firms operating in Gurgaon for Logistics
Heidrick & Struggles
Global firm with India operations; logistics-tech, express-logistics and PE-backed logistics-product CTO mandates.
Kingsley Gate Partners
Technology-forward global search firm with India coverage; logistics-platform and optimisation-engineering CTO mandates.
Korn Ferry
The largest global search and organisational-consulting firm, with India offices in Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai; logistics and supply-chain product-engineering coverage.
Egon Zehnder
Assessment-led global firm with India presence; logistics and supply-chain engineering-leadership evaluation.
Spencer Stuart
Global board and succession specialist operating in India; logistics technology and product-officer appointments.
Russell Reynolds Associates
Global firm with an India practice; logistics product-engineering and technology-leadership appointments.
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