Hiring
Agency
Executive search for leaders who scale
We help boards, founders, and investors appoint the leaders who define their next stage.
Sectors
Specialist recruitment across the industries shaping tomorrow.
Current opportunities
Kessler
Audience
Search
Executive
Trusting
Retained executive search firm placing senior leadership across technology, financial services, and life sciences. Engaged from brief to placement, every search led by the partner you meet.
Founded in 2003, Kessler is an independent executive search firm placing senior leadership across three sectors from offices in London, New York, and San Francisco.
We help boards, founders, and investors appoint the leaders who define their next stage. Research-ledsearch, rigorous assessment, shortlists that hold up.
Every search begins with the market and ends with a leader assessed for how they perform, scale, and endure.One partner, one process, one shortlist you can trust.
Retention
96% retained
Of placements still in role at two years.
Awards
48+ awards
Across search industry programmes since 2003.
History
Since 2003
Independent, partner-led, deliberately small.
Searches
180+ searches
Executive and board appointments delivered.
Consultants
Edward Kessler
Founder & Managing Partner
Naomi Bennett
Partner, Financial Services
Daniel Okafor
Principal Consultant
Grace Whitfield
Partner, Consumer & Retail
Clara Hoffman
Head of Research
Marcus Reed
Consultant
