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TETRIS INNOVATION GROUP
Executive Search Brief
Chief Executive Officer
Tetris Intelligence: AI Products - Corporate Innovation - AI Talent - GTM
Reporting to: Group CEO | Location: Bengaluru, with global expansion mandate
About Tetris GroupTetris Group is a Bengaluru-headquartered group building technology-led businesses across government innovation infrastructure, venture creation and institutional capital. The group operates across four core lines:
Tetris Ventures_ A Venture Studio
A defence & aerospace-focused studio that builds and co-builds startups from the ground up, taking founding equity positions across a growing portfolio of ventures.
AIF
An Alternative Investment Fund that channels institutional capital into the group's venture and innovation pipeline.
Innovation Centers (B2G)
Large-scale government and public-infrastructure innovation hubs; building physical and institutional infrastructure for technology and innovation ecosystems in partnership with state governments.
Tetris Intelligence
is an existing, proven line within this portfolio; it has already established its applied-AI model in market. The mandate now is to scale it out of that structure and into a properly constituted, independently branded company: its own leadership bench, its own capital, and its own growth trajectory.
The OpportunityTetris Intelligence designs and deploys AI products, runs corporate innovation engagements for large enterprises, and offers AI Talent as a Service to embed specialized AI operators into transformation programs. Talent deployment is a delivery mechanism for AI outcomes; not the product itself.
This is an equity-based leadership role, structured for someone who wants to build and own a real stake in what they scale not a fixed operating assignment. You will take an established business line and give it the full shape of a company: its own P&L, brand, leadership team and capital structure, while operating within the wider Tetris Group, alongside the Venture Studio, the AIF and the B2G Innovation Centers business. Tetris Intelligence will also remain the AI delivery engine for other companies inside the Tetris portfolio, giving you a built-in first set of enterprise-grade reference clients with a clear mandate to then take the model overseas.
The Mandate1. AI Products
Build and own AI-native products and platforms that move the company from a billable-hours model toward defensible, licensable IP.
2. Corporate Innovation
Run high-value AI transformation and innovation-lab engagements directly with enterprise CXOs — consulting-grade relationships, AI-branded delivery.
3. AI Talent as a Service
Deploy specialized AI operators into client organizations as the fastest path to enterprise AI adoption; talent deployment reframed as a go-to-market accelerant.
4. Group Utility
Serve as the shared AI delivery capability for the Venture Studio, Innovation Centers and other portfolio companies; giving your team cross-company mandate and a captive early client base.
5. Global Expansion
Take the AI Products, Corporate Innovation and AI Talent as a Service model overseas, building the company's first international revenue base, in step with the group's broader overseas expansion plans.
6. Capital & Fundraising
Lead the fundraise for the entity; building the narrative, financial model and investor relationships needed to bring in growth or institutional capital as the company is spun out.
What Success Looks Like- Take Tetris Intelligence from an internal business line to a fully-formed, independently branded company; its own leadership team, systems and market identity.
- Build out the sales engine, the CXO-level leadership team and the core operational capability (delivery, recruiting, finance) largely from the ground up.
- Close a fundraise for the entity, positioning it for independent growth capital or institutional investment.
- Deliver a 5-year enterprise mandate of $50 million in cumulative revenue.
- Land and scale marquee Corporate Innovation engagements with enterprise logos, both in India and overseas.
- Convert the AI Talent as a Service model into a repeatable, margin-healthy engine, solving structural inefficiencies (duplicate recruiting overhead, contractor margin compression) from day one rather than inheriting them.
- Stand up the company's first overseas market presence and revenue base.
Who We're Looking ForThis role requires 25+ years of overall experience with a proven, personal track record of managing a sales function and owning a client or revenue portfolio of $30 million or more; this is non-negotiable.
- The last 8–10 years should be in AI, data, or enterprise software, ideally in a P&L-owning CEO, President, or Managing Director capacity at a mid-size tech/AI services firm, GCC or as a business unit head within a larger technology organization.
- Has led a services-to-product transition, taken a business from billing hours to selling platforms or owned IP.
- Enterprise sales pedigree: has personally sold multi-crore / multi-million dollar AI or transformation engagements to CXOs, not just managed delivery teams.
- Has built or scaled a specialized technical talent engine, understands recruiting economics deeply enough to fix them structurally.
- India-based operating experience with a track record of selling into global (US/EU) enterprise clients; prior experience opening or scaling an overseas market is a strong plus.
- Has raised growth or institutional capital before, or worked closely enough with investors to lead a fundraise process end-to-end.
- Genuinely energized by building from the ground up; someone who has personally built a sales engine, a leadership bench, and operating systems before, and wants to do it again with real ownership, rather than someone looking to run an already-established machine.
- An equity-first mindset: this is a bet on building and owning a category-defining AI company, structured and compensated accordingly.
What Tetris Offers- A equity stake in the entity; this is structured as an equity-first leadership role, not a conventional fixed-comp CEO assignment.
- Full operating authority over Tetris Intelligence, brand, hiring, GTM and delivery strategy.
- A built-in, group-wide client base across the Venture Studio, Innovation Centers and portfolio companies.
- Direct reporting line to the Group CEO, with visibility into the group's full portfolio, Venture Studio, AIF and Innovation Centers.
- A clear mandate and backing to lead the entity's fundraise and to build the overseas market presence.
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