Leadership at the speed of the hold period.
A fund does not have five years to let a search drift. Every quarter without the right CEO, CFO, or commercial leader is a quarter of the investment thesis unrealized. We run retained searches built for investor timelines: senior led, tightly scoped, and typically closed in 60 to 90 days.
Private Equity Firms
Platform and portfolio company leadership from the C-suite down: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, and commercial leaders for businesses in transition. We also support pre-close work, including confidential talent diligence and market mapping on management teams before the deal is signed.
Venture Backed Companies
Executive builds from pre-seed through Series C and on to exit, for companies scaling past the founder-led stage: the first Chief Commercial Officer, the first Head of People, the finance leader who can carry the company to the next raise. We know what a Series B company needs, and what it does not need yet.
Built for how funds actually operate
Fee structures follow the deal, not the other way around. We offer capped, fixed, and coupled engagement options that align our economics with your timeline, including structures designed for funds staffing multiple roles across a platform.
Where We Go Deep
Life sciences and diagnostics
Two decades in cell therapy and a specialization in ophthalmology dating to 2008. We work with venture backed diagnostics, biotech, and medtech companies building commercial and people leadership ahead of scale.
Industrial services and technical trades
Our search career began recruiting leadership for construction and industrial companies. For funds building platforms in industrial services, specialty contracting, and the trades, we speak the language of the field workforce and the boardroom.
Healthcare services
Executive leadership for provider organizations, healthcare platforms, and the companies that serve them.
Across the Deal Lifecycle
Leadership work at every stage, from first check to exit
We work with venture firms from pre-seed through Series C and with private equity firms from platform acquisition through sale, so the leadership work matches the stage.
Pre-seed and seed
Series A through C
Pre-close
Value creation
Exit readiness
founding team advisory and the first senior hires that make a company fundable.
first executive builds, the commercial, finance, and people leaders who carry the company to the next raise.
confidential talent diligence and market mapping on the management team before the papers are signed.
platform C-suite, operating leaders, and the executives who scale the business as add-ons close.
the executives and board members that make the company sellable, recruited before the process begins.
PORTFOLIO COMPANY LEADERSHIP
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Revenue Officer
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Chief Information and Technology Officer
- VP of Operations
- VP of Sales
- VP of Finance
VENTURE BACKED BUILDS, PRE-SEED THROUGH SERIES C
- First Chief Commercial Officer
- First Head of People
- First Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Medical Officer
- Chief Scientific Officer
- VP of Marketing
- VP of Business Development
- Head of Regulatory and Quality
BOARD AND FUND
- Independent Directors
- Board Chairs
- Operating Partners and Executives in Residence
- Portfolio Talent Leaders
- Add-on and Integration Leadership
Roles We Place
From the platform C-suite to the first commercial hire
Why It Matters Here
01
Speed without shortcuts
retained searches built for investor timelines, typically closed in 60 to 90 days with a calibrated first slate in the opening weeks.
02
One firm across the portfolio
the profile that worked at one company informs the next search, and the network compounds with every engagement.
03
Live visibility and evidence
every deal team member sees the search in real time, with a validated assessment layer available on any engagement.