Providing talent advisory and data services to meet the needs of leadership teams and shareholders of privately-held businesses.
Executive Search
KDC has a track record of partnering with leading mid-market organisations experiencing a point of inflexion in their evolutions. We support companies that have raised significant sums of new capital, that are expanding into new geographic or product markets, or that are undergoing transformational strategic changes such as mergers or corporate carve-outs
Methodology
KDC provides an end-to-end executive search service: from the initial immersion in the company - its team, its values, its products and its customers; to a thorough and exhaustive mapping of the relevant candidate pool; to the pitching, interviewing and screening of the most eligible talent.
Throughout an engagement, KDC utilises modern web-based tools to facilitate fluid and transparent communication with clients. All work can be scrutinised and all progress is auditable. At all times, clients enjoy a single point of accountability.
Roles
- Chair and Board Directors
- CEO
- CFO / COO
- CRO
Industries
- Software / SaaS
- Fintech
- Information Services
- Tech-enabled Services
Geographies
- UK & Ireland
- Benelux
- Scandinavia
- DACH
Referencing
KDC is trusted by numerous clients as an effective, expeditious and impartial agent for conducting formal referencing exercises on appointments to an executive leadership team.
Conducting references are typically the final hurdle in a conversation between an appointing Board and a prospective hire that may have lasted weeks if not months. It is in all parties’ interests that such exercises are to be completed thoroughly, speedily and respectfully. KDC maintains open lines of communication between all parties involved to arrive at a report that is independent in its findings, put into context for the appointment’s eligibility, and is thoroughly evidenced.
Data services
KDC’s proprietary tooling allows it to acquire insights into the workforces of organisations via an at-scale analysis of all available public data.
Investors and leadership teams have worked with KDC to receive highly-tailored reports for the purposes of:
- Evaluating acquisition or bolt-on opportunities
- Benchmarking a workforce against that of a competitor’s
- Performing analysis on C-level appointment trends in the market
