Place the leaders your next stage of growth depends on
We find and secure the senior leaders, C-suite, VP and country GMs, who fit your business and can deliver its next phase, drawn from a global network of people we trust, with a wide variety of experience across multiple markets and industries.
A wrong executive hire can cost up to 213% of their annual salary. We’re here to help you hire the right person, in the right role, first time.
Get the leadership team right, and the next stage takes care of itself.
Companies engage Think & Grow for Executive Search because…
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What is Executive Search?
Executive Search is a retained, senior-hire service: we map the market, reach the leaders (even the ones who aren’t looking), and run a structured evaluation to deliver a shortlist matched to what you need to progress your growth stage. From C-suite to country-GM level, locally or across borders.
The difference is who’s doing the searching and how we do it. Our team has spent the past decade filling leadership roles in companies like Stripe, Canva, SafeSoftware, Reap, and GoCardless.
We’re referred to time and again because our methodology starts with your business’ goals and strategy and ends with onboarding and post-placement check-ins.
What you get with Executive Search
A retained search, run end-to-end by our in-house team (with decades of search experience under their belts). Every search follows the same rigorous process, tailored to the role:
Case studies
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The leadership team behind a raise
Ahead of Constantinople’s next raise, we ran a global search across Singapore, London, New York and San Francisco and placed the mission-critical executive and product leaders in time to power the round and the scale that followed.
A commercial C-suite for a clinical-AI scale-up
Harrison.ai required C-suite roles to accelerate their next phase of growth. We led global searches and placed humans with healthcare and relevant growth-stage experience.
Leadership on the ground in a new market
GoCardless had the ambition for ANZ but no one on the ground to drive it. We placed a Country Manager with 15+ years in payments to own the P&L day-to-day — who went on to win 20+ new customers from the client's own target list.
Our team hasn’t just studied growth, they’ve done it.
Most search firms are recruiters. We’re operators who’ve built and scaled companies ourselves, so we know what high calibre leaders look like and what you need at your stage of growth. We can also tell the difference between a leader who’s actually scaled and one who’s described it well. The best of them rarely answer job ads; we reach them through relationships built over a decade across global tech ecosystems.
And because Executive Search sits inside our full Growth Stack, the hire doesn’t land in isolation. We can align the org design around them, review the team they’ll lead, and connect the role to the growth strategy it exists to deliver.
Prev. Co-Founder and Chief People Officer, now specialises in partnering with founders to build the leadership teams for fast-growth.
Got a critical seat to fill in your org?
Let's find a leader who fits.
Your Growth Centre of Gravity
Executive Search is one of the services inside the People pathway. Founders and CEOs
often pair it with:
Organisational Design to build the structure the new leader steps into.
Capability Review to assess the team they’ll lead before they arrive.
Fractional Hiring to cover the seat now while the permanent search runs.
Programs
A defined entry point
Facilitated workshops for a structured, high-value engagement about your business
Growth Services
Support for expansion and scaling
GTM and market intelligence for ambitious companies scaling into new markets and phases.
People Services
Design your org for its next phase
Executive Search, Capability Review, and Organisational Design for scaling companies.
AI Services
Level up operational infrastructure
AI and digital transformation that’s grounded in commercial context, not just technical delivery.
Frequently asked questions
A retained service for senior hires: we map the market, reach leaders who aren’t actively looking, and run a structured evaluation to deliver a curated shortlist — for C-suite, VP and country-GM roles where the cost of getting it wrong is high.
Leadership across the growth journey: CEO-adjacent, CFO, CRO, COO, CTO/CPTO, CPO, Chief People Officer, plus VP-level (Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success) and country GMs. We focus on scaling technology companies, locally and across borders.
Two ways. First, our searchers are operators who’ve built and scaled companies, so they evaluate leaders on judgement and track record. Second, we’re not search-only: the hire connects to the full Growth Stack, so a leader lands connected to strategy, technology and the wider team — not as one hire in one role.
Most searches run around nine to fourteen weeks from brief to offer. Highly confidential or cross-border mandates can take longer, depending on stakeholder alignment and candidate availability.
It’s a retained model — a retainer to begin the search plus a success fee based on the role’s first-year package, scoped per role. We’ll confirm the structure when we scope the mandate.
Yes. If a placement leaves within 90 days of starting, we re-run the search at no additional fee.
Both. We handle sensitive mandates — backfills, successions, replacements — discreetly, and we place leaders across markets using a global network with real local depth.
Book a call. We’ll talk through the role and scope the right search.
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