Praeva's executive search service finds the C-suite leaders who can bring your company’s growth plan to life. Executive search is one part of the journey we take with your company. It often follows on from Praeva Discovery, pre-deal management diligence, or advisor search, all of which identify where a leadership gap actually is, so search comes from a place of evidence, rather than a blank brief.

What makes it different is how Praeva is built. Our teams are organised by sector, not by service, working closely with both management teams and investors before and after investment. That means we know what you're looking for: full context on your business, and a genuine understanding of your industry.

Every search is built around each client's needs, and we design the process to share risk in order to support the best possible outcome for the client.

We monitor satisfaction levels among both our clients and the candidates we source so that we can ensure our service is delivered at the highest quality.

Wherever a search begins, it's built on evidence, not assumption. Many searches follow directly from Praeva Discovery, pre-deal management diligence, or advisor search – each of which gives us a grounded picture of where your business is coming from and where it wants to grow to. The search starts from complete alignment with the growth of your business and having the right leadership team in place to achieve it, and from there on we develop a search process personalised to your needs.

Because search is rarely the first thing Praeva does with a client, it's rarely starting from a blank page either. It's often informed by what Praeva Discovery has already surfaced about your leadership team, what pre-deal management diligence has already flagged ahead of an investment process, or what advisor search has already told us about the investor landscape around you. The result is a shortlist built on real context rather than a cold market scan.

And because it's the same team at Praeva managing the whole process, nothing gets handed off or has to be relearned by a different part of the firm.

Search sits inside the same sector team as Praeva's pre-deal advisor search, management diligence and Discovery work. That means your search draws on what investors in your sector are actually looking for, not just candidate availability – because the same team is often already working that side of the market. Nobody's working in a silo, competing internally for candidates.

A full search typically runs three to four months, with the first six weeks focused on building a quality shortlist.

Full market mapping to understand the competitive landscape, a curated shortlist of the strongest candidates, and an early-stage rangefinder candidate introduced to calibrate fit before the shortlist is finalised. Once your preferred candidate is selected, Praeva handles referencing and negotiation, including compensation and relocation.

From years of experience in the search world, we know search teams lose around 20% of their time to manual admin. We've built Praeva to fix that by embedding AI-enabled tools across every process to free our consultants to spend their time where it actually matters: understanding your business and finding the right people. That means faster, more informed searches without cutting corners on rigour, and it lets our consultants knowledge-share across their sector far more coherently.

Yes. Search is flexible and can be scaled to suit your timeline, stage and requirements. Talk to our team about what level of support your hire needs.

Yes. Every search includes structured onboarding, covering goal-setting for the role and clear expectations, so your new leader hits the ground running from day one. We support your onboarding process throughout, using technology wherever possible.