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Kaan Dikmen set up KDC in 2018 in the conviction that “less is more” if executive search is to be a true source of trusted, impartial advice.

This conviction says that clients and executives alike should have a single point of accountability for the service they experience, not diffused across a matrixed delivery team. KDC performs all of its research, outreach, communication and negotiation in-house.

KDC was also founded in the belief that executive search consultants spend too much time on low-value activity. Proprietary software, built in-house and sporting more than 50,000 lines of code, aims to automate repetitive tasks and achieve zero-friction fluidity between service delivery and client communication.

Not bound by arbitrary business development targets or corporate bureaucracy, KDC provides an unshackled service that is focused, dedicated and free to pursue creative approaches to acquire answers.

Biography

Kaan has advised Europe’s top technology Growth & Private Equity investors since 2010.

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Before establishing KDC, Kaan worked for 8 years at a leading private equity-specialist executive search and deal advisory boutique, working closely with investors pre- and post-transaction.

Kaan previously worked at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance as a research analyst, and served as team supervisor on the World Management Survey, a project led by Stanford’s Nick Bloom, MIT’s John Van Reenen and HBS’s Raffaella Sadun, and sponsored by the LSE and McKinsey & Co.

Kaan is a Dutch and Turkish national, growing up in Amsterdam and Istanbul before reading International Relations and Political Economy at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics. Kaan was also feature cartoonist for the LSE student newspaper and represented Turkey in its national field hockey team.

He spends weekends keeping track of 3 wayward boys. His wife keeps track of 4.