Core Services

Straight to the point; we think we deliver the best shortlists and here's why. Firstly senior guys make first contact - seems obvious but leads to a higher hit ratio in converting difficult targets. 

Secondly we have unparalled technical expertise, if you know your market then targeting and engagement yield better results, and even when our core team are light on expertise we call on our partners in consulting, corporate finance, technology or mentoring to lend some grey matter.

These are just a few, and we offer all the same research, technology and legacy network as everyone else. Ask us for direct recommendations from our clients to hear more.

Hiring is frequently cyclical, and internal talent acqusitions teams can often find themselves with little or too much to do. In complex organisations talent teams don't always have the experience of particular skills or markets, and sometimes making approaches directly from B2B without a search intermediary can lead to bad blood between businesses.

We offer ongoing support to internal talent teams that offers data, guidance and overflow search support in a partnership model with years of experience of working as an extention to internal talent acquistion in both the UAE and Saudi Arabia in private equity, real estate, hospitality, healthcare, fintech and defence services.

Frankly it is just exciting to work alongside former Chairman and CEOs of some of the world's largest businesses. These highly experienced professionals offer their services through our partners, CMi Merryck ( CMi Merryck Middle East | Executive Career Coach | Board Mentoring ) to work with us on situations where there is a change of ownership, new board members need support or companies are preparing for major chanllenges, such as IPO readiness.

We partner with Ankura ( Ankura: Protect, Create, and Recover Value) a US based global consulting business with some of the best talent in the Middle East. When business needs change, we provide the people and they provide the strategy. If you need a turnaround CEO to manage through choppy waters whilst the hiring commences for the future of the business then we are a port in the storm.

Governments in the UAE and Saudi are working hard to deepen their capital markets to underepin the development of their economies, develop a market for institutional investment for pensions and create attractive capitalisation opportunities for businesses outside of private equity or credit.

The journey to IPO, however, is frequently stressful. We can work with you to develop the governance, structure and accountabilities for your executive and non-executive teams before hiring the best individuals to give confidence to both regulators and the market alike. 

We work with private equity businesses across the Middle East to support them with the hiring for executive and non-executive teams within their portfolio businesses. This has been as diverse as agriculture to zoology over the years and enables us to firstly, keep the shareholders best interests at heart and to provide a meaningful ongoing relationship with portfolio managers to ensure we have a pipeline of talent for their key sectors and develop a strong technical insight alongside them of the key events and trends in their markets.

There is nothing more exciting or stressful as making plans for ambitious growth businesses happen as they should with a skeleton staff and buckets of willpower. We can help. We don't just share CVs, but act as an extension of your team, taking tasks off your desk not just adding new ones. We can help you build your staffing plan, develop the job specs, comp & bens policies, hiring, interview support, onboarding and even relocaiton services. We are there when you need us as another member of your management team. 

Investment Banks and Asset Managers in the region find that the nascent scale of the market in the region leads to a paucity of strong IB/AM talent in region. It's the same in search. Without the market to support a burgeoning number of specialist investment recruiters we are short squeezed in terms of specialist long only search professionals who know why debt capacity matters and can leverage years of experience of transacting with confidence with leading professionals who can deliver alpha for ambitious clients. We draw down on years of technical experience to make the difference.  

Geopolitics at the time of writing are .... interesting. Governments and defence agencies are transforming across the globe from static defensive structures to mission ready, highly mobile and technologically capable forces and the defence industry, whether OEMs or services, need to react fast.

We know that the defence and government services sector is unique in terms of it's processes, priorities and people. There is great opportunity, but to get there you need to rely on a search firm who intrinsically knows that the people you need speak a different language to most of civy street.

With feedstock inflation eating away at your margin and ecommerce making ever greater demands of your supply chain capabilities decision making in industrial and logistics firms need to be two steps ahead of current demand. 

We bring strategic expertise to understand the challenges in any business and to apply this knowledge to finding the right people who won't just do the job, but have the personal qualities to adapt and drive your business interests above and beyond. We have worked with shipping majors to last mile digital services, with sheet metal to medical devices.

With so much change from Saudi mega initatives to new taxation laws in the UAE the opportunity for the consulting and advisory firms who stand out from the crowd is significant.  We love working with consulting and advisory firms as what makes them stand out is people.

As the market becomes less generalist and demand for specific sector, situation or skills drives ever deeper specialisation it is important to work with a firm who understands the broader strategic compatibility of an individuals experience, and how that might be applied to anything from insolvency to valuations.