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Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Looking for your next CEO role?

Whether you’re looking to secure your first, or next Chief Executive role, the team are on hand to guide you every step of the way. 

An outstanding Chief Executive can have a far-reaching impact to any business.

While elements of the role can vary from one organisation to another, persistent characteristics include the innate ability to deliver exceptional leadership, drive innovation to produce solutions to complex challenges, and the emotional intelligence to unite a workforce to deliver a clear goal.  

CCO have appointed more CEO hires in our niche than any other search firm in our specialism. Through delivering these placements, the team has identified some of the most engaging and successful leaders across the breadth of the healthcare and life sciences markets. We understand what best-in-class looks like. From a market context perspective, this enables the team to produce a complete picture to clients of a prospective CEO’s relevant business and functional expertise, market place and industry knowledge, leadership abilities, and adaptability to grow and change with the role for long-term success.  

Working closely with investors, the team deliver profiles of experienced Chief Executive’s which closely align with the investment strategy to realise investor objectives, outlined below.  

M&A
Turnaround
International growth
Pre / post transaction

Some of our recent CEO appointments

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Delivering value across the group

Uniquely differentiated by operating in a group of companies dedicated to investor backed healthcare and life sciences sectors, trusting CCO with a search means you get more than just the advisory services offering. 

The knowledge-sharing, grass-roots insights, and talent identification through our contingent sister brands provides a broad picture of the sector landscape where insights of this level are rarely matched by other providers. Access to the group’s premium contingent brands presents the opportunity for a single point of contact responsible for all aspects of an organisation’s hiring and retention needs.  

Learn more about how the group can add value through our sister brands.  

Find out more about the group

As the dedicated executive search and advisory services offering in the Compass house of brands, learn all about how our additional brands makes us your natural choice for all recruitment needs.  

Insight
Transitioning from executive to non-executive

Our latest round table, addressing the transition from Executive to Non-Executive has been extremely well received by our networks and we would like to extend our gratitude to all attendees for what was a very engaging and informative discussion. You don’t want to miss it.

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CCO win the Executive Search Firm of the Year

Judges feedback included,  “No question that Compass Carter Osborne is now a leading name in the sector, recognised for providing outstanding C-suite and SMT appointments who add value to the businesses they lead, and can demonstrate exceptional EBITDA returns on exit.”

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