our focus

Summary:

Led by Managing Partner, Danny Vanner, for a decade Equity Executive have helped high growth, investor backed businesses to build effective boards and management teams. Positions we recruit include:

Board | Chair:

We help clients recruit Chairs well placed to lead the board, optimise decision-making, prioritise strategy, manage investor relations, ensure good governance, mentor and challenge the CEO, act as a custodian to the business and ensure accountability and impartiality.

Executive | Chief Executive Officer:

We help clients recruit CEOs well placed to develop winning commercial strategies, manage investor relations, develop senior teams, budget and allocate capital, act as a custodian to the business, develop a winning company culture and monitor and improve company performance over time.

Finance | Chief Financial Officer:

We help clients recruit CFOs well placed to provide insightful financial information for the board, provide incisive financial insight for strategic planning, support the development of robust commercial strategies, manage investor relations, prudently manage capital and develop metrics focusing behaviours towards customer value.

Operations | Chief Operating Officer:

We help clients recruit COOs well placed to provide incisive operational information for the board, provide deep operational insight for strategic planning, closely support and execute winning commercial strategies, prudently allocate capital, manage teams and support the CEO in their duties.

Commercial | Customer, Revenue, Sales & Marketing Officers: 

We help clients recruit Commercial Leaders in different forms, from CCOs to CROs to CMOs to Sales Directors, well placed to provide deep commercial insight for strategic planning, act as a growth partner to the CEO working together to develop and execute winning customer strategies, effectively build high performing commercial teams, create alignment between commercial teams and the rest of the business and develop a culture of commerciality through the organisation.

Helping investor backed growth companies build effective boards & management teams:

We help our clients hire leaders who have the right characteristics to add real value and make our clients boards and management teams considerably more effective and productive.

Strategic

We help clients build board and management teams that dedicate time to strategy, have the nous to develop or help develop winning commercial plans, make decisions based on evidence and data in its absence have good intuition.

Results Driven

We help clients build board and management teams that are ambitious as to what is possible for the business, work at pace to make it happen and are laser focused on performance and results.

Adaptive

We help clients build board and management teams that are confident, fully commit, can quickly adapt when things are not working and be highly creative with limited resources.

Execution Focused

We help clients build board and management teams with the ability to successfully execute against strategic plans by leading from the front and intelligently building and utilising high performing teams.

Investor Aligned 

We help clients build board and management teams that meet expectations by providing investors with the insight they are looking for and achieving good business outcomes.

Helping clients solve key challenges for a successful growth journey:

We help our clients hire the right leaders for different points along the growth journey, from pre-deal through to preparing for exit and all of the stages along the way.

Pre Deal

Chairmen, CEOs and CFOs who can help investors conduct comprehensive due diligence into a prospective investee company and maximise the value and mitigate the risks of the potential investment.

Professionalisation

Chairmen, CEOs, CFOs and COOs who can come into the business post investment and, knowing what good looks like, quickly improve people, processes and systems and put the right infrastructure in place for growth.

Accelerating Growth

CCOs, CROs and CMOs to develop winning commercial strategies, develop sales, marketing and customer success functions, develop innovative product suites, expand internationally and buy & build.

Turnaround

Turnaround CFOs, CEOs and Executive Chairmen, often on an interim basis, to take control of cashflow, reduce costs, refinance, restructure, improve the business proposition, finance the turnaround and execute.

Succession Planning

For example Founder to CEO transition, hiring proven board and executive leaders to take the business to the next level or hiring new leadership fully committed to the business for the next investment cycle.

Exit Preparation

Chairmen, CEOs and CFOs who can quickly assess a company’s sale readiness, take steps to position the business favourably to possible acquirers, manage due diligence and negotiate the sale.