Technology M&A · Enterprise Value Creation
We find the leaders and senior specialists who deliver complex work and grow advisory practices.
Partner-led search across the UK, Europe and US. A clear brief. Careful assessment. Direct conversations.
Explore current opportunities or start a confidential conversation with a partner.
Our practices
We recruit for advisory and consulting firms, including teams serving private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.
Practice leaders, business developers and senior specialists in due diligence, carve-outs, integration and transformation.
Consultants and leaders who improve commercial performance, pricing, profitability and operations and can explain what they personally delivered.
We also consider selective CIO and senior technology appointments directly into PE-backed portfolio companies.
Selected searches
Real briefs, market findings and reported outcomes. Client identities remain confidential.
A search focused on personal ownership of complex separation programmes.
The campaign combined direct search and advertising, screening around 200 applications and building a qualified pipeline of 24 across the client’s PMO and Control Tower roles. Assessment focused on personal responsibility, programme challenges and decisions.
Eight weeks from instruction to offer. The candidate started on 1 September 2026.
Consulting expertise combined with hands-on ERP delivery.
Eight suitable profiles were identified across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Five were above budget. That market feedback informed the package discussion before an offer was made.
Offer made six weeks from instruction. The case demonstrates the importance of calibrating the brief against the available market.
Meet the team
Simon Anderson and Chris Short combine hands-on business leadership, technology recruitment and experience of a private equity exit. You work directly with us, from understanding the brief to securing the appointment.
Founder
Simon brings 30 years of experience building, running, buying and selling businesses. He has made senior appointments and lived with the operational consequences, giving him a practical understanding of what businesses need from the people they hire.
He founded The TalentHire Group to bring that perspective to executive search and specialist recruitment. His assessment centres on what a candidate personally owned, the decisions they made and the results they delivered.
Working directly with clients and candidates, Simon stays involved from the initial brief through to appointment. His focus is on finding people who can deliver complex work, build strong teams and contribute to the growth of advisory and consulting practices.
Partner
Chris founded Concept Resourcing in 2000, initially finding and placing Oracle talent. Over 22 years, he built the business to more than 100 people, gaining ISO 9001 and Investors in People accreditation and approved Crown Commercial Service supplier status.
In July 2022, as founder and majority shareholder, he sold Concept to Aliter Capital, which made it the platform for a buy-and-build in UK technology resourcing.
Chris brings technology recruitment experience and first-hand knowledge of a private equity transaction, including diligence, negotiation and integration. His Oracle background adds an ERP perspective to technology M&A and advisory searches, while his experience building a recruitment business informs how he works with clients and candidates.
In Their Words
We hit a genuine complication midway through: an immigration structuring issue that put the entire opportunity at risk. Most recruiters would have quietly moved on to the next candidate the moment things got complicated.
Simon didn’t. He stayed engaged, pushed the client to dig deeper rather than accept an easy no, connected the right people together, and kept checking in, not just on the process but on how I was actually doing.
He never oversold a maybe as a yes, and never let me sit in false hope. This wasn’t a transaction to him.
How we work
The role, the organisation and what success needs to look like.
Targeted research and direct approaches to relevant people.
Personal contribution, delivery depth and commercial fit.
Through interviews, offer, acceptance and onboarding.
Common Questions
Get In Touch
Whether you have a live mandate, are planning ahead or simply want to understand what a search would look like, we are straightforward to talk to. No obligation, no sales process.
US enquiries: +1 (646) 846-5759
We respond personally to relevant enquiries. All initial conversations are treated as confidential. We operate across UK and US time zones.