Jay (GC Jayaprakash)Jay has three decades of consulting, executive search & selection experience and is undoubtedly one of the earliest to offer Executive Search & Selection Consulting in the city of Bengaluru, beginning as early as 1992. Jay, during his journey has built 3 successful Search & Selection firms and specializes in leadership advisory & appointing key leaders for MNCs and Indian Corporates across functions and industry practices.Jay was one of the first to proliferate the concept of “brain-gain”; identifying and attracting globally located Indian talent for leadership roles back in India. He also specializes in Gender Diversity hiring and has been one of the most successful search consultants in appointing women leaders. Jay is viewed as an affable, highly reliable and a confidential sounding board by many senior executives. He is a thoroughbred professional who is always prepared with relevant information to offer meaningful inputs for clients & candidates and candidly presents both sides of the case.Jay was part of the growth story of ABC Consultants, Bangalore, Singapore & Middle East Operations in his earlier career and a start-up leader for Stanton Chase India franchisee operations. He was a pioneer of the technology practice at Stanton Chase and was the APAC Technology Practice Leader. Stanton Chase was subsequently acquired by RGF (part of $22 B Japanese HR & Information Services Company, Recruit Holding Co. Ltd.) Before his baptism into executive search, he had significant stints with Wipro and BEL in the Human Resource function.Jay has a bachelor’s degree in commerce and is a renowned Bengaluru protagonist, which makes him an almost permanent fixture in all important forums and is often found airing his views in the media on corporate and social subjects with élan.