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CASE STUDIES

a track record of successful outcomes—delivered in partnership with our clients.

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The results achieved through completed assignments include:

  • Collaborated with PE-backed firms to place GM and CEO hires who led scale-ups, turnarounds, and guided their companies successfully to exits, including IPOs and trade sales.

  • Supported one of the world’s top three tech companies in hiring 97 senior specialists (mainly in sales), with outstanding retention—just two departures in the first 12 months.

  • Helped an employee wellbeing provider bring in a Sales Director, contributing to fivefold revenue growth and a successful exit.

  • Secured three pivotal hires for an ERP vendor, including leadership that went on to originate and close a $400M SaaS contract.

  • Headhunted the first US hire for a wellbeing technology vendor, supporting US market entry and helping to triple company revenue.

  • Enabled a SaaS vendor’s transformation from "land and expand" deals to winning significant enterprise contracts, recruiting 16 leaders and specialists across sales.

  • Supported a mental health solutions company with a US-based Chief Marketing Officer hire—driving B2C engagement, awareness, and a $50M revenue impact.

  • Partnered with an EMEA sales leader to double revenue in two years across seven regional teams.

  • Helped build a stronger product function via a Chief Product Officer hire, leading a 50+ strong team and advancing UX, CX, KPIs, and AI integration.

  • Sourced a VP Sales, Americas for a European SaaS planning vendor, resulting in a doubling of North American sales.

  • Delivered multiple CXO hires (CEO, CGO, CRO) for investor-backed companies navigating scale-up and turnaround challenges.

  • Ran multi-hire projects that filled critical posts across the USA, Europe, and APAC to drive global expansion for several clients.

Bringing you an additional perspective:

To us, bringing an additional perspective means more than just filling roles—it’s about sharing insights we’ve gained from diverse industries and complex hiring assignments to guide each search. Our extensive experience gives us a nuanced understanding of what drives high-performing teams and sustainable growth, even in challenging environments. With every senior-level hire, we leverage lessons learned from global mandates, turnarounds, and rapid-scaling scenarios to help build resilient, effective leadership. This ensures that every placement supports not just immediate needs, but long-term business transformation.

Example Case Studies

Our level of perspective is broad and deep!

You’ll know your business particularly well. Many of our clients turn to us not just to secure the best talent for their hiring challenges, but also to gain broader perspectives and insights aimed at maximising hiring outcomes. Some business leaders are confident in their own expertise and choose to rely solely on internal perspectives, and we fully respect that as their prerogative.

However, our experience shows that open and transparent dialogue - sharing insights and expertise - leads to the best results. Better together, leveraging your insights and ours.

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Successful searches by hiring challenge include:

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Successful searches by job type include:

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Successful searches by industry sector/niche include:

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Example clients

For over 25 years experience, we've helped hundreds of companies of all shape and sizes, make over 1,000 hires.

These have been mainly US and European owned, and span the biggest names in SaaS, Tech and BPO through to 20+ person businesses who may not have the biggest names but have been just as interesting. For these smaller businesses the stakes are higher, they're not just equally important to work with but truly satisfying.

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In recent years our clients have been primarily with small to mid-sized early-stage SaaS companies and those in scale-up mode including Cybercube, Decibel, Informatica, Jedox, Kooth, MentionMe, ScaleUp Capital, Snaplogic, Sifted, Sprinklr, Sponge, TAMR, Trimble, Transporeon, Tungsten Automation, vizibl, zivver… Prior to 2020 clients included… CA, Concur, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Netsuite, SAP, SoftwareAG, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba and the list goes on.​​

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For us, recruitment and headhunting are personal. We work tirelessly to find the right people for your team, and as stated previously we bring an additional perspective to help you make the best possible hires.​​

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