09Search, Delivered
Search, Delivered.
A selection of organisations we've partnered with on leadership and specialist appointments across public finance and regulated financial markets.
Critical appointments for regulated organisations where governance, scrutiny and the calibre of leadership all matter equally.
Structured. Defensible. Diverse by default.
— Our Promise
“The best senior appointments aren’t found in a database. They’re found in conversation, in trust, and in time.”
Search is for organisations where governance, compliance and public accountability matter. Our structured approach helps clients make confident hiring decisions in complex and highly regulated environments.
Our delivery model is built around strong governance, transparency and fairness giving clients confidence that every search is managed professionally, consistently and in line with best practice. The result is an appointment that stands up to scrutiny on day one and still does, twelve months in.
Our search practice is built around four core sectors where understanding the market, the stakeholders and the talent landscape is critical to success.
Supporting financial institutions, investment bodies and publicly funded organisations to appoint leaders and specialists in regulated and high scrutiny environments.
Senior Civil Service appointments at Grade 6, SCS1 and SCS2 director-level leadership across central government departments and arm’s-length bodies, run to public sector recruitment principles.
Director General and Permanent Secretary-level search the most accountable, scrutinised appointments in the Civil Service, run as structured, defensible processes.
Hard-to-fill senior appointments where the role is mission-critical, time-sensitive, or sits at the intersection of policy, delivery and commercial leadership.
A focused client base of organisations operating where governance, scrutiny and the calibre of leadership all matter equally.
Appointing senior leaders into government departments and major public programmes.
Supporting regulators, agencies and public bodies with critical leadership hires.
Finding leaders for organisations driving investment, growth and economic development.
Appointing executives who can operate across public and commercial environments.
A snapshot of senior search performance built from twelve years of work in regulated environments.
Every search follows the same disciplined approach built around the brief, the market and the candidate. Clear visibility throughout. You stay in control of every decision.
Deep-dive on the role, the team it joins, and the outcome it has to deliver. Diversity ambition agreed up-front not retro-fitted at shortlist stage.
Proactive, mapped search across the public, private and third sector including talent rarely active on the open market.
A deliberately built shortlist, supported through interview, offer and onboarding with candidate care from first call to day one.
How a candidate is treated through a search says more about an organisation than any job description. We treat every conversation as a relationship, every shortlist as a privilege, and every “no” as a reason to do better next time.
“The most considered process I’ve been through. Felt heard from the first conversation, and the prep before each stage was genuinely useful — not just a formality.”
“I’d been on the receiving end of a lot of ‘diverse’ shortlists that weren’t really. This was different. It felt like I was being considered for the role, not for the box I tick.”
“Even after I withdrew, the team stayed in touch with feedback and useful introductions. That’s rare. It’s the reason I’d come back if the right role came up.”
A snapshot from our most recent search projects based on roles closed in the twenty four months.
Of our shortlists in the last year included two or more candidates from under-represented backgrounds at director level and above.
Of hiring managers rated the quality of our shortlist as above expectation or exceptional at first review.
Of offers extended through our process were accepted by the preferred candidate first time.
This is the work we get up for. We believe representation at senior level is a public-interest issue, not a tickbox and the way we run a search reflects that. Diverse longlists by default. Candidate care that doesn’t switch off when the offer goes out.’t switch off when the offer goes out.
A selection of organisations we've partnered with on leadership and specialist appointments across public finance and regulated financial markets.
Whether it’s a board seat, a director appointment or a hard-to-fill C‑suite role start the conversation. We’ll come back within 48 hours with a market view, a search approach, and an honest read on what’s possible.
All conversations confidential. 48‑hour response on every brief.