Businesses across our mandates
Principal-led search for investors and the companies they back. Delivered at pace, with uncompromised rigour.
Value doesn't get created in a financial model. It takes high calibre leadership to turn a value creation plan into a business that is worth more at the end of the hold than it was at the start.
Behind every company that performed is a management team that got the calls right. Behind every clean exit are the people who made the decisions when it mattered.
We know where to find them, and how to attract them.
Most search firms assess a candidate against the job spec. We assess them against the investment case, whichever side of it you sit on.
Retained executive search for C and C-1 leadership at private capital-backed companies, where value creation is at the root of every mandate.
The fund-side value creation engine. The people who steward the companies in the portfolio and turn thesis into realised returns across the hold.
We don't put a leader in front of you without underwriting them: a defined process, weekly steering, and written evidence at every stage. Every search runs through a client data room, so you work from the research as it is produced rather than from a summary of it at the end. Four to six weeks, briefing to presented longlist. An accepted offer around day sixty.
We start with the plan, not the CV pile. The investment thesis, the value creation plan, and what this role has to deliver against it. Part of the job is working out whether the brief is true and saying so when it isn't, because a capable leader hired into the wrong brief still fails. Your story gets the same attention, because the best candidates are diligencing you too.
We start with the plan, not the CV pile. The thesis, and what this role has to deliver against it. Part of the job is working out whether the brief is true and saying so when it isn't. Your story gets the same attention, because the best candidates are diligencing you too.
A full map of the market, not a database search. Who runs the relevant businesses, who has scaled one before, and who is reachable. Adjacent markets included deliberately, because that is where the under-the-radar candidates sit.
A structured multi-channel approach to leaders who are not looking. Weekly steering calls keep you inside the search, not waiting on it.
A scored competency interview against five or six competencies agreed with you at briefing, written up for every candidate we present. Evidence, not gut feel.
A longlist of assessed candidates with comparative evidence behind every name. You confirm the shortlist from it and interview with the full picture, then we run the offer to acceptance.
Onboarding and a first 100 days plan, built with you. The mandate isn't done at the offer. It's done when the plan is moving. Six month guarantee.
Solar, onshore and offshore wind, battery storage and flexible generation, energy from waste, bioenergy and hydrogen. Merchant exposure, route to market and the pace of build. The businesses that win are led by teams who can price risk and still move first.
Transmission and distribution, heat networks, water, waste and environmental services. Regulated returns and long-dated contracts reward operational discipline. The best teams sweat the asset base, hold the compliance line, and still find the growth.
Airports and aviation services, ports, rail, road and logistics infrastructure. Long concession lives, heavy capital programmes, and a service that has to run every day regardless. Leadership here is judged on delivery under public scrutiny as much as on margin.
Data centres, fibre and towers. Demand is compounding faster than capacity can be built. Leadership decides who delivers at pace without dropping availability, and who is still integrating the last acquisition when the next one lands.
Manufacturing and engineering groups, operations and maintenance providers, EPC and specialist contractors, technical advisory and facilities management. No balance sheet full of assets, and exactly the same problem: margin, utilisation, contract renewal, and someone capable of running it well.