Who we help

Leadership search for complex, high-stakes environments

We partner with the investors, boards and founders for whom a single leadership appointment can define the trajectory of the business.

Who we partner with

Four environments, one common thread

In each, leadership carries real consequence: for growth, for capital, and for the people that leader will go on to shape. Each calls for a different lens; all demand genuine fit.

For investors

Private equity & portfolio companies

We partner with funds and their portfolio leadership teams across the investment lifecycle: buy-and-build, scale-up, transformation and the run to exit. We place chief executives, CFOs and commercial and operational leaders who accelerate the value-creation plan while holding operational discipline. We understand the realities our PE clients work to: a defined hold period, an investment thesis to deliver, and a board that expects evidence.

Value creation Buy-and-build CEO & CFO search Pre-exit leadership Portfolio talent

For enterprise

Large & complex organisations

For multi-market and matrixed organisations, the leadership challenge is a challenge of complexity. We identify senior leaders who operate effectively across business units, geographies and demanding governance. Leaders equal to transformation, restructuring and international expansion, who bring structure and clarity without slowing the organisation down.

Transformation Multi-market leadership Restructuring Governance International expansion

For founders

Founder-led scale-ups

As a founder-led business scales, the leadership structure that built it has to evolve. We work closely with founders to introduce experienced operators who complement the founding team. Preserving the vision and culture that created the company while adding the operational capability the next phase of growth demands.

First senior hires Scaling teams Operational leadership Complementing the founder

For boards

Boards & advisory appointments

Strong governance is decisive as organisations scale or enter new markets. We support Chairs, Non-Executive Directors and investors in identifying board members and strategic advisors who bring operational depth, sector insight and the independent judgement that strengthens oversight and sharpens strategic decision-making.

Chair & NED search Advisory appointments Governance Board succession

Our mandates

The leadership roles we search

From a single C-suite appointment to a full leadership-team build, permanent and interim. Tap a category to view the roles within it.

Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Commercial & Revenue Officer Chief Marketing Officer Chief Technology & Product Officer Chief People Officer

Chair Non-Executive Directors Senior Independent Directors Strategic advisors

Managing Directors Country & regional leads Functional VPs Full team builds Interim leadership

Why clients choose us

An operator's perspective, not an agency's

We have sat in your seat

Our founders spent years as senior talent leaders inside growing businesses, hiring leaders against the same pressures you carry. We assess every candidate the way an accountable hiring executive would, not the way a contingency agency does.

We design the role first

Every search begins by mapping the environment, ecosystem and effect of the role, shaped by years of in-house work on employer brand, fair interview processes and DE&I capability. You hire against the future of the role, not its past.

We are measured on staying power

Our success is a leader still creating impact two years on. It is why fit, not the CV, sits at the centre of every search, and why our placements are built to last well beyond the offer letter.

Tell us about the role.

Book a discovery call and we'll show you what a deeper search would reveal.

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