Service
Executive Search & Recruitment
Confidential search for the senior appointments that reset a company's trajectory. Structured competency interviews, careful referencing, and a shortlist you can put in front of a board.
What's included
What you actually get
Director, VP and C-suite search
Retained and exclusive search for senior appointments across functions — engineering, product, sales, finance, operations, technology and general management.
Confidential mandate handling
Replacement searches, board-level appointments and reorganisations run under strict NDA — including on the candidate side, so approaches are not traceable back to your business.
Structured competency assessment
Behavioural interviews built around the four or five decisions the role will actually have to make in the first year. Answers are captured verbatim so you evaluate real evidence.
Reference and backchannel work
Structured references from named prior colleagues, plus discreet backchannel checks where the profile calls for it — with full transparency about what we asked and heard.
Board and stakeholder alignment
Where a search involves a board, investor or executive committee, we manage the calibration and debrief cycles so decisions stay aligned across everyone with a vote.
Who it's for
You will recognise yourself in one of these
If none of them describe you, this probably is not the service you need — and we would rather say so on the first call.
CEOs building or replacing an exec team
You are hiring your first VP of Engineering, CRO or CFO, or replacing one — the appointment will define the next 24 months and warrants a real search rather than a network ping.
Boards running a confidential mandate
A search that cannot be advertised, cannot be handled internally, and needs the current incumbent left in place until the successor is in seat.
Investors backing a portfolio company
You need an experienced operator into one of your investments — quickly, confidentially, and with references you can trust because they are already in your circle.
Our process
How we deliver executive search & recruitment
- 01
Mandate scoping
One to two working sessions with the sponsor to define the mandate, the success criteria, the profile shape and any absolute constraints. NDA and engagement letter signed before outreach starts.
- 02
Long-list and initial interviews
Targeted mapping and outreach across the sectors where the profile lives, followed by structured first interviews. Long-list report delivered inside three weeks.
- 03
Shortlist and competency interviews
Three to five candidates through structured competency interviews. You receive a written report per candidate: strengths, risks, evidence, references, package expectations.
- 04
Sponsor interviews, references and offer
We coordinate sponsor interviews, run references, support offer negotiation and manage counter-offer risk. Standard search timeline: eight to twelve weeks from mandate to signed offer.
Why us
What makes this different
Specific to this service, not the usual agency boilerplate.
Retained and exclusive
We work retained on senior appointments because a contingent search on a critical role has the wrong incentive shape. Committed capacity, committed timeline.
Discretion by default
Every mandate is handled as if it were confidential — because most of them are, and the ones that are not lose nothing by being run to the same standard.
Named search lead
One senior consultant runs your search end-to-end. No handoffs to a delivery pool once the engagement letter is signed.
Fixed-fee, no surprises
Retainer structure is written into the engagement letter with milestones and deliverables attached — not a percentage that keeps climbing as base salaries move.
Next step
Ready to get started with Executive Search & Recruitment?
A 30-minute call, no pitch deck. We will tell you what this would cost, how long it would take, and whether it is the right service for the problem you described.