It’s increasingly common for leaders in this industry to wear lab coats instead of business attire.
This article examines the question: Is there an ideal profile for Head of Corporate Development searches in private equity backed businesses?
The Charles Aris team has closed 90 corporate development searches in the last 18 months, with only 24 offering a sign-on bonus. This number is low compared to other functional areas we recruit for. Here’s why:
“Are corporate development professionals coming back to the office?” That’s the question many of our clients are beginning to ask us
As we continue to work with top finance and accounting talent across a variety of industries, we’ve noticed these individuals consistently embody a strategic force in their organizations.
Is your organization’s senior leadership team headed toward retirement? What stress will this place on your organization? Are you prepared?
Along with the ongoing war for talent, we’ve seen a continued increase of wage and salary expectations, and the HR function is not immune.
With the growing importance that role is taking in private equity portfolio companies comes an increased focus on, and demand for, strong mid-level leaders within the HR function, especially as organizations grow into the upper middle market threshold.
As of October 2021, the Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development Practice reached 1,000 completed searches.
Traditionally, the Charles Aris Corporate Development Practice has introduced the search work we do as “recruiting and placing current and former investment bankers.”
In our last Corporate Development Quarterly Newsletter, we examined the shifting paradigm of reporting structure for corporate development leaders in private equity portfolio companies.
As inflation rates remain high, and the talent market across industries remains competitive, many of our clients at Charles Aris Executive Search believe the current market is unsustainable and that a recession is imminent.