Case Studies

The work, anonymised.

A selection of engagements from recent years, shared with client permission and, where required, anonymised to protect the confidentiality we extend to all our work.

A note on discretion

Why these case studies look the way they do.

Much of our work cannot be discussed publicly. Senior appointments, succession conversations, and board composition decisions are by their nature confidential, and remain so for years after the engagement is complete. We will never publish anything a client has asked us to protect.

The case studies below are shared with our clients' express permission. Several have been anonymised at the client's request, without altering the substance of what was delivered. Each illustrates a different kind of engagement, a different sector context, or a different phase of the methodology we apply to every mandate.

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Selected Engagements

Recent case studies.

Financial Services • Executive Search

Chief Executive appointment, listed wealth manager.

Context

An Australasian listed wealth management group navigating a significant regulatory and strategic inflection, requiring its first externally-appointed CEO.

Challenge

A narrow candidate universe combining regulatory fluency, listed-company experience, and the restructuring mandate the business required.

Approach

Cross-border mapping across Asia-Pacific wealth and asset management markets, paired with rigorous assessment against a brief jointly designed with the board.

Outcome

A successful appointment from an adjacent geography, now nearly four years in role, with demonstrable operating and regulatory progress.

Technology • Board Composition

Chair succession, growth-stage software group.

Context

A privately-held, investor-backed enterprise software business preparing for a potential public listing within the hold period, requiring an institutionally-experienced independent chair.

Challenge

Chairs with both listed-company experience and the operator's fluency a technology business demands are rare, and the timeline was short.

Approach

Targeted engagement with a curated long list of serving and recently-retired CEOs with relevant profile, combined with structured board chemistry sessions.

Outcome

Appointment of a chair with prior listed CEO experience in enterprise technology; the business subsequently completed a successful public listing.

Healthcare • Succession Planning

CEO succession planning, private hospital group.

Context

A private hospital network with a long-serving chief executive approaching retirement, no previous structured succession process had been conducted.

Challenge

Balancing internal candidate development against the possibility of an external appointment, without compromising the preferred outcome in either direction.

Approach

Structured assessment of three internal candidates, alongside parallel confidential mapping of the external market, producing a comparative view against the brief.

Outcome

Internal succession to a strongly-performing candidate with an eighteen-month development runway, supported by a coaching engagement through transition.

Infrastructure • Executive Search

Chief Operating Officer, regulated utility.

Context

A regulated network utility undertaking a multi-year capital programme required a COO capable of leading the operating transformation the programme demanded.

Challenge

Need to balance deep operating experience in regulated environments with the change-leadership capability the transformation would require.

Approach

International mapping across comparable utility operators, combined with structured assessment focused on the specific behavioural profile the client had defined.

Outcome

Appointment from an international utility group; the capital programme is now tracking ahead of regulatory milestones.

Private Equity • Platform CEO

Platform CEO appointment, PE buy-and-build.

Context

A mid-market private equity firm completing a platform acquisition required a CEO to execute a defined buy-and-build thesis across a four-year hold period.

Challenge

Identifying a leader who combined M&A experience, operational rigour, and the cultural temperament to integrate multiple acquired businesses.

Approach

Mapping across sector operators with buy-and-build exposure, paired with structured assessment against the sponsor's value-creation plan.

Outcome

Appointment successfully completed; three subsequent acquisitions integrated under the incoming CEO.

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