Board & Advisory Search
Building stronger boards. Strengthening strategic leadership.
Boards are asked to govern organisations that are more complex, more scrutinised and faster-moving than the ones they were appointed to. Composition is the lever that changes what a board can actually do.
We search for board members the way we search for executives: from a researched understanding of the board, the strategy and the market — never from a list of people who have applied. Where an organisation needs guidance rather than governance, we help it design an advisory board and are explicit with candidates about the difference.
Board Appointments
The board roles we search
Board Chairperson
Independent leadership of the board itself: setting its agenda, holding management to account, and shaping the culture of the room.
Non-Executive Director
Directors appointed to the formal board, carrying the same legal duties and fiduciary responsibilities as their executive colleagues.
Independent Board Director
Directors who bring no commercial or personal relationship that could compromise independent judgement.
Executive Director
Board members drawn from the executive team, and the transition required to move from operational leadership to governance.
Advisory Board Member
Senior specialists who provide guidance and challenge to management. An advisory board is explicitly not a formal board: it carries no statutory duties, no fiduciary responsibility and no legal accountability for company decisions.
Board Committee Appointments
Members appointed to specific board committees where technical judgement is required rather than generalist oversight.
Committees
Board committee appointments
- Audit CommitteeFinancial reporting integrity, internal control, external audit relationships and fraud risk.
- Risk CommitteeRisk appetite, exposure, model oversight, resilience and crisis governance.
- Remuneration CommitteeExecutive pay, incentive design, workforce reward alignment and disclosure.
- Nomination & Governance CommitteeBoard composition, succession, independence standards and governance frameworks.
- Technology & Digital Transformation CommitteeTechnology, data, cybersecurity and AI oversight at board level.
- Sustainability CommitteeClimate, environmental, social and governance commitments and reporting.
Board Expertise
Capabilities boards ask us to strengthen
- Governance and board leadership
- Strategy and corporate development
- Finance, capital markets and investor relations
- Risk, audit and internal control
- Regulatory affairs and public policy
- Technology, data and cybersecurity
- Supply chain and industrial operations
- Human capital, reward and culture
- Sustainability and climate governance
- Mergers, acquisitions and integration
- Transformation and turnaround
- International market expansion
We do not advertise board vacancies we cannot verify, and we do not represent that an appointment is guaranteed. Every board search is confidential to the organisation and the candidates involved.
Board Search Methodology
A method built for governance, not volume.
- 01Understand the boardComposition, culture, gaps and the strategy the board exists to deliver.
- 02Define the appointmentSkills, independence, capacity, commitment and boardroom behaviours.
- 03Agree the search briefApproved by the chair or nomination committee before research begins.
- 04Map the marketA researched view of credible candidates, including those not seeking appointments.
- 05Approach discreetlyConfidential engagement, handled with the same care a board would expect.
- 06Assess suitabilityGovernance judgement, sector fluency, committee capability and independence.
- 07Present a considered panelA small number of candidates, each with evidence and honest context.
- 08Support selection and appointmentReference, conflicts, terms and induction planning.
- 09Review after appointmentEffectiveness of the appointment after its first board cycle.
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