Board and senior executive work, across functions and borders.

The person you brief. Every search is executed by the person mandated to take it on, not handed to a research team once the meeting is over. Every approach call, every email and every source call to our network is made by that same person. Candidates notice, and they engage differently as a result.

We aim to present three to five candidates within three weeks. We send CVs as soon as we have three strong contenders rather than holding them back for a set-piece shortlist meeting, and we then refine with you, only introducing people at least as strong as those you are already seeing.

Before that, at concept stage, we present real people who have already expressed interest at a high level. More often than not, some of them are still in the process at the end.

Most retained search bills you in stages regardless of what the search produces, and adds each instalment to the final bill. We do neither.

You pay a deposit to begin. Beyond that we ask you for nothing until your chosen candidate has verbally accepted an offer, so every hour of research, every approach call and every interview happens first. The deposit and the second instalment are both offset against the total fee, never added to it, and the balance falls due once the successful candidate starts.

Fees vary with the seniority of the role. Any expenses are approved by you in advance, and the full terms are agreed in writing before a search begins.

We refund the deposit in full if you are not satisfied with the shortlist after first interviews, or if we withdraw from the search. Provided the brief has not materially changed, you can walk away having paid nothing.

If your appointment leaves within thirteen weeks, we find a replacement free of charge. Where we cannot, a proportion of the fee is refunded.

Yes, and we have a substantial record of doing it. Completing searches that have failed under competitor firms is one of the clearer tests of whether a methodology actually works, and it is a large part of how we win new clients. If a mandate has stalled elsewhere, the useful first conversation is about why, not about starting again from scratch.

Board and senior executive appointments across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, CRO and CDMO businesses, consumer health, diagnostics and genomics, and digital health. We extend into the industrialised sectors that share the same engineering and regulatory character, including chemicals, energy, infrastructure and professional advisory.

Completed appointments include Chief Executive, Chief Medical, Chief Scientific and Chief Financial Officers, Divisional Managing Directors, General Managers and Non-Executive Directors, alongside commercial, financial, HR, marketing and procurement leadership.

Predominantly the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and North America. Clients work with us internationally, and we have appointed candidates overseas where local and less innovative firms had not succeeded.

Both. Our clients range from pre-revenue, private equity-backed university spin-outs through to listed, multi-billion dollar companies, alongside the advisory firms that serve them.

Email David directly. There is no switchboard and no enquiries team. A short conversation is usually enough to establish whether we are the right firm for the brief, and if we are not, we will say so and point you somewhere better.