Retained executive search for the US market
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Chief Executive

New-CEO searches for founder-led, PE-backed and public companies. Operator, scale-up, growth and turnaround CEO profiles across SaaS, industrial and services.

II.

Chief Financial Officer

CFO searches from Series B through public-company scale. PE portfolio CFOs, IPO-ready CFOs, transaction-experienced CFOs and turnaround CFOs.

III.

Chief Revenue Officer

Sales-led growth CROs, founder-to-professional-CRO transitions, mid-market through enterprise run-rates, land-and-expand and category-creating businesses.

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Chief Operating Officer

COO searches for scale-up, hyper-growth and turnaround contexts. Industrial, SaaS, healthcare, professional services and PE portfolio operating models.

V.

Chief Technology Officer

CTOs for SaaS scale-ups, fintech, healthtech and software-enabled services. Build-vs-buy strategists, platform re-architects and AI-native product CTOs.

VI.

Chief People Officer

CPO and CHRO searches for scale-up, PE portfolio and Series-A-to-IPO cohorts. Culture-forward, comp-fluent, integration-experienced.

VII.

Chief Marketing Officer

CMOs and heads of marketing for B2B SaaS, healthtech, fintech and category-defining consumer brands. Demand-gen, brand and product marketing leadership.

VIII.

VP Engineering & Product

Heads and VPs of engineering, product and platform for Series B through public-company scale. Head-count from 20 to 500-plus engineering organisations.

IX.

VP Sales & Customer

VPs of sales, heads of new business, heads of customer success, VPs of revenue operations and heads of enterprise for scale-up SaaS, fintech and services.

X.

Board & Non-Executive

Independent directors, audit-committee chairs, remuneration-committee chairs and PE-backed board appointments. Founder-to-professional-board transitions.

XI.

Private Equity Portfolio

Operating-partner-led searches across PE portfolio companies, aligned to the value-creation plan. Executive appointments timed to the 100-day plan and value-inflection milestones.

XII.

General Counsel

General counsel, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer and heads of legal for regulated industries, high-growth SaaS and public-company transitions.

How an engagement runs

The practice area shapes the sourcing lens and the interview cadence. The workflow stays consistent across every mandate: a written engagement letter, a scoped long list, a calibrated shortlist and end-to-end offer support. Partner-led throughout.

1. Engagement & scope

A 90-minute working session with the hiring stakeholders to capture the role, the business stage, the operating-cadence expectations, the comp band, the equity envelope and the success metrics. Engagement letter and scope document follow.

2. Long list & calibration

Partner-led approach to 40 to 80 long-list candidates over the first four to six weeks. Written progress updates on a fortnightly cadence. Shortlist calibration session with stakeholders at day 30.

3. Shortlist & introductions

Three to five candidates presented by day 90, contractually committed. Each candidate accompanied by our written notes, the sourcing lens applied, and a ranked recommendation. NDA on file before any introduction.

4. Final stages & offer

Reference and back-channel checks, final-stage interview management, offer structuring including base, bonus, equity, vesting, acceleration and change-of-control negotiation, and onboarding support through day 90.

What sits outside our scope

Roles below the director layer, or roles that would be better served by a contingent desk. We will refer you to a peer firm with pleasure. The retained partner-led model is best deployed on senior appointments where discretion, calibration depth and a written commitment materially outperform the transactional alternative.

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