About
Kessler is a retained executive search firm placing senior leaders across technology, financial services, and life sciences.
Kessler is an executive search firm working on senior leadership, board, and C-suite appointments. We take the brief, the market, and the client equally seriously, from the first conversation to the final placement.
A team of executive search consultants placing senior leadership, board, and C-suite appointments. The partner who takes your brief leads the search personally, from the first conversation to the final placement.
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The team
Our consultants stay close to every stage of every search. Know the people behind.
Award
Category
Recruiter Awards
Search Firm of the Year
TIARA Talent Acquisition Awards
Executive Search Firm of the Year
Global Recruiter Award
Best Executive Search, Winner
Hunt Scanlon Top 50
Top Search Firm
AESC Excellence Awards
Shortlisted
Emerging Search Firm Awards
Highly Commended
Diane Castellano
Managing partner
The rigour throughout the search was exceptional. The shortlist felt considered, benchmarked, and well matched, and they understood the mandate completely.
Eleanor Ashworth
Board chair
From brief to onboarding, the process felt thoughtful and seamless. Search and assessment ran as one process, and the shortlist exceeded our expectations.
Lucas Walker
Founder & CEO
Working with Kessler felt like a true partnership from day one. The depth of assessment, referencing, and market insight changed how we approached the hire.
Achievemenents
We help boards and founders appoint the leaders who define their next stage.
Measured across executive and board placements still in post two years after appointment, tracked through structured post-placement reviews with every client.
Cumulative search industry awards received since 2003 across the Recruiter, TIARA, Global Recruiter, and Hunt Scanlon executive search awards programmes.
Founded in 2003, Kessler has built a specialist executive search firm over 23 years of focused work in technology, financial services, and consumer leadership.
Completed executive and board searches across the firm's London, New York, and San Francisco offices since the practice was founded in 2003.
