Executive search & talent advisory
We advise boards, investors and executive teams on the leadership they need next. Search, fractional cover, specialist hiring and talent advisory, built around the commercial outcome rather than the job title.
Our firm
Opulent Mind partners with CEOs, boards and investors across UK listed businesses, the mid market and private equity backed companies, with depth in software, SaaS, fintech and data led organisations.
Hiring is rarely the real brief. The real brief is growth that holds, an integration that lands, a product function that ships, a sales engine that forecasts honestly. We start there, define the capability required, then run a search that can be evidenced rather than argued.
Services
Each engagement is scoped to the outcome you need, whether that is a single board appointment or a full hiring capability.
Retained search for board and C-suite appointments in the moments that carry risk: scaling, integrating acquisitions, turnaround, or preparing for exit.
Senior capability without a permanent hire. Experienced leaders steer strategy, hold governance through change, and de-risk integration or transformation.
Specialist hiring below board level across technology, digital, data, product, sales and operations. Search led rather than job board led.
Work on the system rather than the vacancy. Talent strategy, organisation design, market intelligence and embedded hiring capability.
Expertise
Depth beats breadth. We stay close to the leadership roles and markets where we can add genuine judgement.
Group and divisional P&L leadership, succession and step-up appointments.
Enterprise sales, revenue operations and go to market reinvention.
Investor facing finance, reporting discipline and exit preparation.
Engineering leadership, platform modernisation and technology strategy.
Product management maturity, data monetisation and AI capability.
Operating model change, integration delivery and programme leadership.
Product led and enterprise software businesses, from scale up to plc division.
Wealth, lending, payments, insurance distribution and advice platforms.
Data products, benchmarking businesses and AI enabled decision tools.
Consultancies, product studios and engineering services businesses.
Diligence, value creation appointments and exit readiness.
Compliance, regulated services and B2B information businesses.
Method
A defined process, run the same way on every mandate, so quality does not depend on luck.
Commercial context, capability gap and the measures of success, agreed in writing.
Mapping of the addressable talent market, benchmarks and comparable appointments.
Targeted outreach carrying your story, handled with discretion where confidentiality matters.
Competency interviews plus practitioner validation on technical and commercial depth.
Insight profiles, strengths, risks and evidence. Interview support for your panel.
Reward design, close management, then onboarding review through the first 90 days.
Track record
Examples of recent search and advisory work, anonymised. Further detail is shared in conversation.
A listed fintech group needed a CEO who could integrate acquisitions and still deliver organic growth, with enterprise sales credibility and genuine data and software fluency.
The CEO needed technology leadership and the business had never hired a CTO. We consulted first, separated the strategic from the tactical, built the brief with the business and placed from the first shortlist.
Clients
Client names stay confidential as standard. This is the shape of the businesses we work with, and what they asked us to do.
Divisional CEO for a software and data business unit.
Commercial leadership intelligence and market mapping.
Digital and technology hiring across delivery teams.
First Chief Technology Officer appointment.
Senior product leadership for a scaling platform.
Technology and data leadership appointments.
Group data leadership with revenue accountability.
Commercial leadership and senior management team build.
Chief executive succession and senior hiring.
Chief Operating Officer appointment.
Product and data leadership for a new proposition.
Confidential technology and product appointments.
Client identities are held in confidence. We share names, detail and references in conversation where permission allows.
“The value is not the shortlist. It is the clarity you get before the shortlist exists.”
Opulent Mind
Book a short conversation. We will tell you honestly whether search, fractional cover or advisory work is the right answer, and what it will take.
