According to the trend in the past, while the challenges are immense, the opportunities are even bigger in terms of Expat CEOs leading the Indian businesses. For instance, GM India's Chief Executive Officer Karl Slym terms his experience in India as incredible without a doubt. Even the top executives at its counterparts are enjoying work at their stations.

Be it Ford India President and Managing Director, Michael Boneham who labels his experience in India as a pool of opportunities or Hiroshi Nakagawa, managing director of Toyota's Indian subsidiary, who terms his experience in India as one of the unique experiences that he has had over the past few years.

In fact, it is believed that the appointment of expats in the Indian region bring a lot of opportunities for the career growth of these executives. Taking the case of Peter Kronschabl, President, BMW India who is set to head for Moscow to take charge of BMW's Russia operations in a couple of weeks.

When Kronschabl joined India as the President of the India operations of the luxury car maker, he was just a general manager - market development, at BMW's headquarters in Munich when the company first seriously thought of entering India.