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Confidential
Most exec searches are sensitive. Incumbents in seat, board awareness, market signal. Every engagement runs on a confidential channel until you say otherwise.
Services / Executive Search
The leadership hirethat levels up.
CXO and CXO-1 searches for VC- and PE-backed companies. Confidential, scored, and backed by a fifteen-month placement guarantee. Five times the industry standard.
Why us, for an exec search
Retained search,with the rigor your board wants to see.
The retained search world hands you a relationship and asks you to trust their gut. We hand you a twenty-two-point playbook, scored finalists, and a fifteen-month guarantee. Same network depth, different floor.
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Scored, not sold
The finalist ranking is grounded in evidence. Dual rubrics, blind submission, references checked against the playbook before names move forward.
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15-month guarantee
The longest placement guarantee in the category. Backed by structured onboarding through month twelve. The hire holds.
The process
How an executivesearch runs.
Most engagements close inside ninety days from kickoff. The guarantee window opens at start date.
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Calibrate
Working session with the CEO, board, or sponsor. 22-point playbook drafted. Confidentiality protocol locked.
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Source
Targeted outbound to a named list, plus warm-network outreach. Anonymized inbound where appropriate. Three engines, confidential.
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Score
Dual rubrics — one for capability, one for behavior. Blind submission, ranked finalists, references checked against the playbook.
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Place and hold
Offer strategy, onboarding plan, 15-month guarantee window. Onboarding support through month twelve so the hire actually lands.
Roles we own
The seats that decidethe next chapter.
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CEO & CXO
CEOs for sponsor-backed platforms, COOs for scaling operators, CFOs for the next round, CTOs and Chief Product Officers for product-led growth.
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CXO-1
VPs of Engineering, Heads of Product, Chief Clinical Officers, CROs, VPs of Finance. The operators one rung below the CEO who run the company day-to-day.
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Functional heads
Heads of People, General Counsel, Heads of Strategy, COO-track and Chief of Staff hires. The seats that quietly move the org forward.
Outcomes
The numbers behindthe placements.
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Average retention at twelve months across executive placements.
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Placement guarantee. Five times the industry standard.
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Industry average retention rate at the executive level.
The conversation beginsupstream of the role.
The first calls that matter are strategic. They surface what the business needs to accomplish over the next four quarters and where the talent question actually sits. Fifteen minutes is enough to start. We come prepared.