Technology M&A · Enterprise Value Creation
We find the leaders and senior specialists who deliver complex work and grow advisory practices.
Partner-led search across the UK, Europe and US. A clear brief. Careful assessment. Direct conversations.
Our practices
We recruit for advisory and consulting firms, including teams serving private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.
Practice leaders, business developers and senior specialists in due diligence, carve-outs, integration and transformation.
Consultants and leaders who improve commercial performance, pricing, profitability and operations and can explain what they personally delivered.
We also support CIO and senior technology appointments directly into PE-backed portfolio companies.
Selected searches
Real briefs, market findings and reported outcomes. Client identities remain confidential.
A search focused on personal ownership of complex separation programmes.
The campaign combined direct search and advertising, screening around 200 applications and building a qualified pipeline of 24 for the client’s carve-out roles. Assessment focused on personal responsibility, programme challenges and decisions.
The published case study records eight weeks from instruction to offer. Delivery experience was central to the assessment.
Consulting expertise combined with hands-on ERP delivery.
Eight suitable profiles were identified across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Five were above budget. That market feedback informed the package discussion before an offer was made.
Offer made six weeks from instruction. The case demonstrates the importance of calibrating the brief against the available market.
Meet the team
Simon Anderson and Chris Short bring together hands-on business leadership, technology recruitment and experience of selling a business to private equity. That experience informs how we assess leaders and senior specialists for advisory and consulting firms.
“I have spent 30 years building, running, buying and selling businesses. I know the difference a senior appointment makes and the consequences when it is wrong.”
Simon founded The TalentHire Group in June 2026. His operating experience shapes the questions behind every search: what did the candidate own, what decisions did they make, and what did they deliver?
Founder, The TalentHire Group
Partner
22 years founder to exit · 100+ people built and employed · 2022 exit to private equity
Chris started Concept Resourcing on his own in 2000, initially finding and placing Oracle talent. He spent the next 22 years building it into one of the UK's leading independent technology resourcing businesses, employing more than 100 people. Along the way it earned ISO 9001 and Investors in People accreditation and became an approved Crown Commercial Service supplier to the NHS and central government.
His roots in Oracle recruitment bring an ERP perspective to our technology M&A and advisory searches.
In July 2022, as founder and majority shareholder, he sold the business to Aliter Capital, which made Concept the platform for a buy-and-build in UK technology resourcing.
That gives Chris something unusual in executive search. He has been the business a private equity firm bought, not an adviser to the deal. He has lived diligence, negotiation and integration from the inside, which is the same process our clients run for a living.
In Their Words
We hit a genuine complication midway through: an immigration structuring issue that put the entire opportunity at risk. Most recruiters would have quietly moved on to the next candidate the moment things got complicated.
Simon didn’t. He stayed engaged, pushed the client to dig deeper rather than accept an easy no, connected the right people together, and kept checking in, not just on the process but on how I was actually doing.
He never oversold a maybe as a yes, and never let me sit in false hope. This wasn’t a transaction to him.
How we work
The role, the organisation and what success needs to look like.
Targeted research and direct approaches to relevant people.
Personal contribution, delivery depth and commercial fit.
Through interviews, offer, acceptance and onboarding.
Common Questions
Get In Touch
Whether you have a live mandate, are planning ahead or simply want to understand what a search would look like, we are straightforward to talk to. No obligation, no sales process.
We typically respond within one business day. All initial conversations are treated as confidential. We operate across UK and US time zones.