Find what
moves you forward.
Executive search for critical, complex and hard-to-fill roles. Backed by broader business experience.
Executive Search & Recruitment
Find exceptional people.
Critical appointments demand more than advertising a vacancy. Cleverain combines targeted headhunting, market mapping and direct engagement to reach high-calibre leaders beyond the active candidate market.
We search across industries, regions, backgrounds and career pathways to uncover people others may overlook.
Because the right person is not always the most obvious person.
Established in 2018, Cleverain began by helping businesses solve challenges across technology, capital, operations and commercial growth. Our directors bring over three decades of experience founding, scaling and leading recruitment and workforce businesses. We understand the realities of growing an organisation because we have done it ourselves.
Through that work, one challenge kept emerging: finding the right people. Not simply filling vacancies, but identifying exceptional executives and specialist talent for roles that were critical, complex or difficult to fill. Executive Search became a natural extension of what Cleverain had always done: understanding the business challenge first, then connecting organisations with the people, expertise and opportunities to solve it.
Today, Executive Search and Recruitment is our core focus, supported by broader capability across Money, Technology, Business Backbone and Marketplace. Every search is partner-led, commercially informed and designed to look beyond the obvious.
Executive search is our core.
Business experience is our edge.
More than recruitment
Business experience is our edge.
Four connected areas of business capability
The wider Cleverain capability
Beyond Executive Search, Cleverain works across Technology, Money, Business Backbone and Marketplace.
This broader perspective helps us understand the organisations we support, the pressures they face and the environments their leaders are appointed to navigate. It also enables us to connect clients with technology solutions, capital, operational expertise, strategic networks and commercial opportunities when a challenge extends beyond recruitment.
Insights
Ideas that move business forward.
Perspectives and practical insights from Cleverain and our network across executive talent, business, capital, technology and commercial growth.
- Executive Talent
- Business and Growth
- Money and Investment
- Technology and AI
- Marketplace
A critical appointment.
A defining career move.
Both deserve a direct conversation.
Speak directly with Cleverain about the challenge behind the role, the leader your organisation needs, or whether an opportunity is the right next move for you.