Platform 1 is the market leader in Business Owner Transition. We provide business owners with a successful full or partial exit over time through finding highly talented leaders with capital, to work in the business and grow it. This allows the current owner to start stepping back over time.

Effective Executive Search in our experience comes down to listening, getting a clear picture of what is really required and what will fit with the current team or more importantly what the team needs to look like to achieve the business objectives.As much of the success is reliant on a thorough brief, we will challenge our clients about what is needed and work to find where those people might be, what might be important in their world at their stage of career and how to attract them… Show more Effective Executive Search in our experience comes down to listening, getting a clear picture of what is really required and what will fit with the current team or more importantly what the team needs to look like to achieve the business objectives.As much of the success is reliant on a thorough brief, we will challenge our clients about what is needed and work to find where those people might be, what might be important in their world at their stage of career and how to attract them, whether by well-targeted advertising, our 25 years’ worth of network contacts or utilising our talented and practical research team to look at who isn’t quite looking ..yet.Our clients trust us to take them through the process, with great timing, professionalism and make them look attractive to the increasingly challenging candidate marketplaceWe pride ourselves on our ability to identify talent and find leaders for senior management roles and also for succession roles. Show less