Testimonials
What our clients say.....
We’ve worked with FK for multiple searches in high growth technology businesses; they are differentiated in the breadth and calibre of talent they introduce us; their ability to hit bullseye candidates early in the search and their hunger to deliver.
Nick Rose, Managing Director | Advent International
They quickly and meaningfully grasped our mission, helped us to understand the full talent spectrum, and delivered outstanding results.
Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder | Allbirds
The team at Founders Keepers were excellent partners on two strategic hires here at Attest. They approached the search with a refreshing blend of thoughtfulness, authenticity, and energy and were excited to commit to supporting our diversity efforts. Insightful, realistic, and considerate, the team are an absolute pleasure to work with.
Patrick Hussain, VP Talent | Attest
Founders Keepers played a crucial role in helping us recruit a world-class VP of Sales to AutoUncle. Their persistence in being willing to hold a high bar for expertise and continuously calibrate on culture fit was vital to get a great outcome.
Jonas Bylov, Co-Founder & COO | AutoUncle
Raj has been an incredible hire for Birdie. He brought industry knowledge, an incredible craft to build products and an unparallelled entrepreneur mindset. We would not have scaled without him in the company. Founders Keepers were a great partner to scope the profile we needed and find Raj – we highly recommend them, in particular Hannah who helped us on this search.
Max Parmentier, CEO & Co-Founder | Birdie
Founders Keepers led one of our most important exec hires. They were absolutely exceptional across the board. Beyond the great outcome, they brought in the best talent I've seen, it was very quick and efficient for me, and their team is stellar and great to work with.
Jason Rubottom, CEO | Cloverly
Founders Keepers placed our MD International. It was an integral search to the success of our business with a remit to run everything outside of the UK. I can’t think of a better candidate.
William Shu, Co-Founder & CEO | Deliveroo
We partnered with Founders Keepers to hire our first CFO. It goes without saying that this is a pivotal hire for our sustained success, and it owes much to the FK team’s obsession with understanding our business and working with us to draw up the right profile. Overall, their process was mindful to us and our candidates, rather than optimizing for pace. Their shortlist was spot on and their support in closing the top candidate was insightful and decisive. Highly recommended.
Neil Wilks, Chief People Office | Dronamics
Founders Keepers was the ideal firm to help us fill a critical role for our international expansion: they quickly and intimately understood our culture, were partners in helping us scope and craft the role, and their knowledge of the market and network of candidates landed us a perfect hire in record time.
Jeff Kolovson, Co-Founder & COO | Faire
We worked with Founders Keepers for a critical role for our business. Stephen and the team in a very short space of time managed to get both a very comprehensive understanding of our technical requirements and also the sorts of characteristics that would make a candidate successful within the organisation. Founders Keepers combined operating at pace with running a very thorough and thoughtful process. Would absolutely recommended Stephen and his team to anyone looking to hire great talent for their team.
Hannah Brown, Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer | Formula E
In all cases, the candidates were smart, relevant and thoroughly personable. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend.
Johannes Reck, Co-Founder & CEO | GetYourGuide
We came to Founders Keepers when we needed to find our first hire to lead a region outside the US. They worked exceptionally quickly, were outstanding with their communication, and understood our cultural needs perfectly. The results were fantastic.
Erik Kimel, Senior Director | Harry's Grooming
We have been extremely pleased with the calibre and breadth of candidates they have sourced for us and I would have no hesitation in using Founders for future searches and would recommend them to others who are seeking high-quality, imaginative, and highly engaged search expertise.
Mark Robertshaw, Chairman | InPost
At ITV, we wanted a new board member with highly commercial digital experience and the sympathy to apply it to a heritage business undergoing transformation. Founders Keepers' extensive network delivered a good shortlist and an ideal preferred candidate.
Peter Bazalgette, Chairman | ITV
As a FinTech startup it is not easy to identify the right talent that has the right fit and skillset. Founders Keepers did an amazing job and in a very effective manner. They used their experience in the industry to advise us on the best profile. I would highly recommend Founders Keepers to anybody looking to build a top team!
Francesca Carlesi, Co-Founder & CEO | MoloFinance
The reason we like to work with Founders Keepers is that they successfully iterate on the search process – as sometimes you need to when you look for the right profile for your organisation – by incorporating insights gained from their experience in the market. This has always been matched with a high calibre of candidates presented globally.
Giovanni Dapra, Co-Founder & CEO | Moneyfarm
Brent Hoberman introduced us to Lord Stuart Rose, and he subsequently became our Chairman. I cannot recommend Founders Keepers highly enough.
Jason Gissing, Co-Founder | Ocado
Founders Keepers deeply understand the mindset and culture of digitally-led, high growth, entrepreneurial businesses and this successfully feeds through into their candidate success rate.
I've always enjoyed all of our interactions - they are personable, have shown a curiosity to understand our business, a deep knowledge of the talent market, and provide an honest perspective on any search. They also demonstrate some of the best candidate management I've seen.
Charlotte Eaton, Chief People Officer | OVO Energy
Founders Keepers are fantastic. They worked very hard for us on a number of challenging searches. They were able to assimilate our requirements and then add their experiences to give us an array of candidates, helping us really hone in on what we were looking for. Their extensive network and understanding of the market was invaluable and their tenacity and commitment is first class. We couldn’t be more pleased with the people they have helped us hire.
Adrian Letts, CEO | OVO Retail
Once more, thank you for your support on this tough search. You have shown a great amount of persistence and empathy in helping us find and convince the right candidate for this very important position. We’re really excited with the outcome.
Hanno Renner, Founder & CEO | Personio
I love working with the FK team, they are a group of smart, passionate and thoughtful people who are an absolute pleasure to partner with
Nick Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO | Unmind
I asked for the most forward thinking, out-of-the-box thinking executive – and they executed on it.
Martin Reiter, MD Europe | Wayfair
Founders Keepers' deep expertise across high growth businesses, responsive partnership, and ability to identify an exceptional Head of International candidate made them an invaluable hiring partner.
May Habib, Co-Founder | CEO, Writer
FK delivered on a tough Chief Product Officer search for us – they listened to what we wanted, the pipeline was consistently refreshed, and the team provided a thoughtful point of view without “over selling” a candidate. The team that sold the search was the same one that delivered in the end. Maybe this should be ‘table stakes’, but I imagine firms that regularly do senior searches realize this is the exception and not the rule.
Philip Sternheimer, Partner | Hellman & Friedman