Our track record

We have built some of the leading digital and tech teams in Europe.

Who we work with

We work with the most ambitious digital and tech-led companies in the world.

What our clients say

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
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
We have now used Founders Keepers for multiple searches for senior executives with backgrounds in high growth, international technology businesses. 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
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
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 Officer, Dronamics

Track record

A selection of our recent successes

The Founders Keepers way

Delivering excellence on every job is the heart of our business.

Advisory

We provide a third party, objective perspective on digital talent and strategic insight.

Well connected

We’ll introduce you to new kinds of talent that we can access exclusively through the Founders Forum family.

Diligent

Our search methodology is exhaustive and we take diversity seriously.

Collaborative

We collaborate seamlessly with clients, with each other, and with our network to make sure you’re spoilt for choice. We use our insights to challenge our collective thinking and evolve.

Quality

We’re proud of our process. With regular reporting throughout your search, you’ll have access to data at every stage.

Agile

We believe in agile, iterative and creative working and that means working flexibly, to suit your schedule and needs.

Our track record

We have built some of the leading digital and tech teams in Europe.

We work with the most ambitious digital and tech-led companies in the world.

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.

They quickly and meaningfully grasped our mission, helped us to understand the full talent spectrum, and delivered outstanding results.

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.

I asked for the most forward thinking, out-of-the-box thinking executive – and they executed on it.

Founders Keepers sourced us some of our first key hires with digital expertise (across commercial, marketing, and product). They understood our vision very early in our development and delivered outstanding results.

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.

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.

They instinctively understood our needs, challenged us, then produced the handful of exceptional candidates we wanted. We’re still working together today.

Brent Hoberman introduced us to Lord Stuart Rose, and he subsequently became our Chairman. I cannot recommend Founders Keepers highly enough.

In all cases, the candidates were smart, relevant and thoroughly personable. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend.

I’d have no hesitation in saying that FK did a great job deeply understanding our needs, drawing on what was clearly a very deep knowledge of the talent in the market to present us with a diverse set of very credible candidates, and helping us land our first choice.

No one understands the People Leader role and market better than Sim and next to that she knows very well how to deal with founders. Absolute pleasure working with her.