Built by people who understand the plant floor and the boardroom.
A specialist management consulting and executive search firm, working exclusively across automotive and manufacturing.
Our story
Why we exist
Ole Solutions was founded on a simple observation: automotive and manufacturing organisations were being served by recruitment firms that treated every industry the same, and management consultancies that rarely engaged with hiring at all.
We built a firm to close that gap — one that combines executive search discipline with a management strategist’s view of how organisations are structured to perform.
Our mission
What we're here to do
To help automotive and manufacturing organisations build the leadership and talent capability they need to compete — through search grounded in sector expertise, and consulting that treats people strategy as business strategy.
We measure success not by placements made, but by whether the organisations we work with are structurally stronger a year later.
What makes us different
Two disciplines. One sector. No dilution.
Sector exclusivity
We don’t split our attention across unrelated industries. Automotive and manufacturing are the whole of our practice.
Consulting-grade thinking
Search briefs are stress-tested against organisational strategy before we source a single candidate.
Senior-level relationships
Two decades of combined relationships with operations leaders, functional heads and plant management.
Candid, not transactional
We tell clients when a brief isn’t ready, or when the org structure — not the market — is the real problem.
Leadership
Core team
Vivek Hallur
B.Tech (NIT-K), MBA (IIM Bangalore). 25+ years across marketing, business development, operations and HR — industry experience in automobile, steel, IT and IT-enabled services.
Pradeep Hiremath
B.Tech (NIT-K), M.S. (Computer Engineering & Applied Math), MBA (USC, Los Angeles). 24+ years as an entrepreneur across IT, healthcare, telecom and media, including Walt Disney Animation.
Advisory board
Guided by industry leadership
Former CEOs, MDs and presidents across manufacturing-linked industries, brought in to evaluate senior and leadership-level searches.
V M Kumar
25+ years in business model design, product/services strategy, cloud & digital transformation. Mentor to IIT-affiliated startups.
S K Patil
30+ years in marketing, business development, HR, automotive and e-governance.
Gopal Rao
35+ years in chemicals, financial management and IT-enabled services.
Muralidhar S
30+ years in automobile, strategic and wealth management, and IT-enabled services.
Want to know how we'd approach your search?
We’re happy to talk through a brief before it’s fully formed.