Albany Partners is an exec search and interim management firm specialising in tech & product leadership.Sometimes I lead searches, usually involving PE-backed companies.However, my main focus is working with investors to build (fully referenced) talent networks to use across their portfolios.For funds – Tech DD, advisory / value creation planning. For portcos – Exec Interim / Fractional – project-based deployments of tech & product leaders.-… Show more Albany Partners is an exec search and interim management firm specialising in tech & product leadership.Sometimes I lead searches, usually involving PE-backed companies.However, my main focus is working with investors to build (fully referenced) talent networks to use across their portfolios.For funds – Tech DD, advisory / value creation planning. For portcos – Exec Interim / Fractional – project-based deployments of tech & product leaders.- Technology- Product- Transformation- Turnaround- Data- AI / ML- ERP/CRM- Information Securitydavid@albanypartners.co.uk | +44 7968 038699 Show less

Returned to the UK, started my own business to provide freelance exec search / recruitment services. Working remotely with the team at Safemind, I led exec search projects focusing on C-level, senior technology, sales and product specialist roles in the UK, Sweden and across the world. Notable clients included Nothing, Sinch, OpenFin, Warner Bros. Discovery.For Citihub, sourced project associates in New York for cloud migration projects based at large investment banks… Show more Returned to the UK, started my own business to provide freelance exec search / recruitment services. Working remotely with the team at Safemind, I led exec search projects focusing on C-level, senior technology, sales and product specialist roles in the UK, Sweden and across the world. Notable clients included Nothing, Sinch, OpenFin, Warner Bros. Discovery.For Citihub, sourced project associates in New York for cloud migration projects based at large investment banks. For 12 months, led an embedded recruitment team at Polestar (EV manufacturer) reporting to the Chief Digital Officer. Led a team of 5, hired 140 new employees into Polestar’s Digital team over 12 months (mainly software engineers - react typescript node AWS serverless, solution / domain / enterprise architects, product owners, business analysts, UI/UX, etc). Show less

Relocated to work in Stockholm's ecosystem of VC-backed startups and growth companies. Led retained search assignments for top tech firms in Sweden including Sinch, Lifesum, Funnel, Instabox, H2GreenSteel, etc.Safemind is an executive search agency focusing on VC-backed start-ups and scale-up companies in gaming, fintech, healthtech and e-commerce, throughout Sweden and internationally.

Citihub Digital was a global IT consulting and advisory firm specialising in digital transformation for financial services (acquired by Synechron in 2020).I led all Talent Acquisition in EMEA, introducing new recruiting strategies to align with the firm's commercial goals. The firm experienced strong revenue growth between 2014-2020.I designed and led Citihub’s “Associate Programme” - building a virtual bench of contract and interim talent to add to the firm's population of… Show more Citihub Digital was a global IT consulting and advisory firm specialising in digital transformation for financial services (acquired by Synechron in 2020).I led all Talent Acquisition in EMEA, introducing new recruiting strategies to align with the firm's commercial goals. The firm experienced strong revenue growth between 2014-2020.I designed and led Citihub’s “Associate Programme” - building a virtual bench of contract and interim talent to add to the firm's population of employed consultants. As a result, consultants on client sites in EMEA scaled from 25 in 2014 to over 100 in 2018. Show less

Finding tech talent for Tier 1 banks.