Talent & Executive Search
We work with clients to build teams to specific remits from banking operations and engineering talent through to AI leadership, security architecture, and full sales teams for cybersecurity firms. Bespoke more often than transactional. Built for the brief.
The Briefs We Take
C-suite and executive leadership: CTOs, CISOs, heads of data, heads of AI, and the leaders who report into them.
Senior engineering, data, and AI talent: Including the team beneath a newly hired technical leader, identified and brought in as part of the same engagement.
Transformation and programme leadership: Programme directors, PMO heads, and regulatory change leads on multi-year mandates.
Cyber security, risk, and governance: Heads of security, security architects, and the GRC and assurance hires that sit alongside them.
Specialist and hard-to-find hires: The senior contractor on a live programme, the niche role that has been open for nine months.
How We Work
We work to the remit, not to the function.
Our engagements are scoped to the brief, not the function. That might be building the engineering team underneath a new CTO. It might be a single specialist hire on a programme already in flight. It might be a head of sales and the four people who close behind them. The shape varies what stays constant is one named lead from us across the full mandate, end to end.
What this looks like in practice.
The briefs are bespoke, so the examples vary. Recent work includes banking operations, change and regulatory talent inside global financial services. Engineering and AI leadership inside enterprise technology functions. Security architecture for businesses moving onto the cloud. And complete sales-team build-outs for cyber security firms entering new markets, head of sales plus the team beneath them, identified and onboarded as one engagement, not five.
Recent Talent & Search Assignments
Technology · Cyber security
Sales leadership build-out, India & US
Executive search and end-to-end sales team construction for high-growth cybersecurity firms across India and the US identifying heads of sales and building out teams from scratch in new markets.
Executive search
Financial services · Capital markets
Trading platform specialist build
A senior subject-matter expert in the trading platform itself, placed into a global bank's money markets division with a specialist team now being built around the hire to support the wider implementation.
Specialist hire & team build
Technology · AI & data
AI leadership search
Search and placement of senior AI and data leaders inside enterprise technology functions including the design of the role, the comp benchmark, and the team they would inherit.
Executive search
Financial services · Change & transformation
Regulatory programme talent
Specialist hires for a global bank's regulatory reporting and change programmes programme managers, business analysts and regulatory SMEs deployed across London, New York and Dallas.
Specialist hires
From Sourcing to Leadership
The work does not end at the signed offer letter. We bring leadership coaching, executive guidance, and a structured development programme into many of our talent engagements built to identify future leaders early and invest in them deliberately.
The methodology takes a person from the right hire through the right ramp-up, into the right stretch assignments, and onto the next leadership layer. Coaching for the new leader. Guidance for the team beneath them. A defined development framework the sponsoring executive can hold up to a SteerCo or a senior leadership review.
Many of our longest-standing clients come back not to fill another role, but to develop the person we placed last time. Sourcing is the entry point. Development is the return.