Directorbank

Congratulations to August Equity on the sale of SecureData to Orange for an impressive 7 x return on investment.

Directorbank are proud to have supported this success by placing Ian Brown as Executive Chairman of SecureData in 2016.

Ian led the transformation and growth of the business including a successful bolt-on acquisition and an integration.

Based throughout the UK, SecureData employs more than 200 people and provides a complete range of cyber security services and solutions to business customers.

This placement demonstrates our ability to deliver highly successful outcomes for our private equity clients.

For more information on Directorbank’s executive search offering and Private Equity pre-deal recruitment services, please contact:

James Searby
Director
020 7255 7940 / 0113 297 8000
j.searby@directorbank.com

With the New Year well underway, we’d like to share some of our key achievements from 2018 including a selection of recent placements.

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Directorbank-News-Update-Jan 2019

Directorbank appoints Head of Consumer practice to strengthen team – We are delighted to announce a significant appointment within the business. Tim Robb joins our London team as a Consultant with a particular focus on the Consumer sector. He will also support colleagues in the Industrial and Services practices.

Tim started headhunting in 2012, and has completed many senior assignments across Europe in the Consumer, Industrial and Services sectors for high growth firms backed by VC and PE. Before joining Directorbank, he led the Private Equity practice at a global search boutique.

His career foundations are in people leadership. After a decade in the British Army, Tim joined an international management consultancy to lead their regional business in Eastern Europe where headcount doubled and revenue tripled during his tenure.

James Searby, Director and Board Member, comments:

“Tim is a strong addition to our team. His focus is to strengthen Directorbank’s Consumer practice and service the requirements of our clients in this sector through his knowledge, expertise and reach. We are delighted to have him on board.”

Should you wish to get in touch with Tim, please contact him on 020 7255 7940 or at t.robb@directorbank.com

About Directorbank:

Directorbank specialises in providing executive and non-executive search solutions for private equity investors, their portfolio companies and other entrepreneurial businesses across the SME market.

We also offer a pre-deal recruitment service to our private equity clients, giving them access to our leading network of proven board-level directors with the sector expertise and PE understanding to support and accelerate a transaction process.

Directorbank places CFO at Bowmark Capital-backed Lawyers on Demand.

Lawyers on Demand (LOD) is one of the largest and fastest growing flexible legal services businesses with ten offices around the globe, over 600 lawyers and consultants, and more than 500 corporate and law firm clients.

Over the past ten years, the business has transformed the way in which lawyers, consultants and legal teams operate, winning numerous awards along the way for creating different, smarter ways of working.

Shortly after Bowmark Capital completed their investment into LOD, Partner Tom Shelford approached Directorbank’s Simon Thomas to identify a proven CFO with experience in Business Services to support their growth plans.

Read the full case study here

“Simon instinctively knew the profile of the individual required and quickly identified a number of strong and credible candidates. As a result, we were pleased to be able to make the appointment in a short period of time from starting the search.”

Tom Shelford, Partner
Bowmark Capital

“Understanding our business and in particular the culture was going to be vital and Simon quickly grasped that. Once we got into the process, Simon was attentive, without being overly so, and provided an excellent advisory service through the appointment. We would not hesitate to use Simon and Directorbank’s services again.”

Tom Hartley, CEO
Lawyers On Demand