Director, vice-president, and the C-suite. Retained search, leadership advisory, on-demand interim talent, board services, and assessment. Milestone-paid. Confidential. We carry the mandate from intake through reference-check.
— Mandate types we engage on. Specific mandates remain confidential by default.
Retained executive search is a deliberate exercise. We work exclusively, on milestones, and we carry the mandate end-to-end — from intake through candidate development, references, and reference-check. The desk is led by a search partner with operating depth in the function, not a generalist with a Rolodex.
Nine functional surfaces. Each is led by a partner with operating depth — never by a generalist who learned the function from a job description. Industry verticals layer on top: financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial, consumer, technology, private equity, and public sector.
Chief Executive · Independent Director · Audit Chair · Comp Chair · Lead Director searches.
CFO · VP Finance · Treasurer · Controller · Head of FP&A. PE-backed and public.
CHRO · VP Talent · Total Rewards · Head of L&D · DEI leadership.
CMO · CRO · VP Sales · Head of Brand · Head of Growth · Head of Partnerships.
CTO · CDO · CIO · VP Engineering · Chief Data Officer · Chief AI Officer.
COO · VP Ops · Chief of Staff · GM · Chief Supply Chain Officer.
General Counsel · Deputy GC · Chief Compliance · Privacy · Risk leadership.
Chief Government Affairs · Head of Public Policy · External Communications.
Chief Strategy Officer · Chief Transformation · Carve-out and integration leadership.
Beyond the appointment. Search opens the chair; advisory holds the chair. We carry executives and boards through the work that comes after the offer letter — assessment, succession, coaching, M&A integration, and team acceleration.
For when the work cannot wait for a permanent appointment. Interim executives. Project leaders. Senior consultants and subject-matter experts deployed on a fixed engagement, with a defined exit.
Interim CFO, COO, CHRO, GC, and CMO. For leadership transitions, post-deal stabilisation, transformation programmes, and crisis response. Day-rate or fixed-fee.
Programme directors and transformation leads. Embedded for the life of the engagement — ERP, M&A integration, finance modernisation, regulatory remediation.
Functional experts deployed against a defined statement of work. Strategy, finance, HR, legal, and operations specialisms.
On-call advisory for boards and CEOs — niche regulatory, valuation, governance, and turnaround expertise.
Retained search is, more often than not, a confidential exercise. An incumbent who does not yet know they are being replaced. A board that will not announce a search until a candidate is identified. A founder transitioning to chair. We do not publish mandates we should not publish. We do not list logos that have asked us not to.
A C-suite hire is a five-year decision dressed as a six-month engagement. We do not rush it. We deliver a shortlist of three, with reference depth that survives the third board meeting.