global executive search
exclusively for
private equity SaaS companies

About

Who we are

Welcome to capital futures, we are a search firm exclusively focussed on providing executive talent within private equity backed software and technology companies undergoing major transformation and growth.

In a business sector that has built its reputation upon bringing superior skills to accelerate value creation, it is critical to identify a leadership team with a strong execution mindset and fundamental understanding of the pace and timing of private equity. With a typical investment period of 3 to 5 years, we understand that life at a private equity portfolio can be highly demanding and is often uncompromising in its requirement for detail.

We work closely with our clients to develop deep and meaningful knowledge of their organisational structure, business strategy, challenges, culture and values. We are passionate about client excellence, always striving to provide the best advice and solutions to our clients and representing them with the highest level of professionalism in the marketplace. We align ourselves with our clients’ philosophy and work relentlessly to ensure that our clients make the best appointment whilst also minimising their time and cost spent hiring.

Our Services

Executive Search

Interim

Campaign Search

Our Approach

We put our customers at the heart of everything that we do, it is our style to be consultative. We listen and take the time to really understand what our clients want. As a firm, we adopt the following principals

Focused On Results

We work fast and pride ourselves on being results focussed with a high quality experience and outcome for all of our clients.

Global Process

Global Network, Global Process
In our experience many executives will consider relocating for the right position, running a global process dramatically increases the probability of finding the right candidate with little or no compromise on key criteria.

Research Led

In our quest to leave no stone unturned to find the best talent for our clients, our process is research-led. We also utilise our extensive global professional network, rather than rely solely on it to yield the result, ensuring strength and depth in our candidate shortlists.

Communication

We operate a strong culture of transparency which is evidenced in the way we perform our searches as well as how we deal with our clients and candidates. We communicate regularly and responsively.

Instinctive

These are by no means entirely mechanical processes, our experience has taught us to trust in our judgement as well as our reason, we have a genuine emotional connection with our clients and are instinctive.

Minimised Restrictions

It is our policy to represent a small number of client businesses in each sector in order to avoid “off-limits” search restrictions and avoid conflict of interest.

Discretion

We maintain a policy of absolute discretion and respect the confidential nature of sensitive information provided by all parties.

Core Values

Everything we do is guided by a set of core values. These characterise our business, from the core of our working culture and are integral to us providing a world class service to our clients.

Integrity

We believe that as a company we have moral obligations as well as commercial ones and fairness is paramount to determining what is best for any situation.

Accountability

At the core of accountability is personal responsibility and reliability; therefore we value the ability to honour our commitments.

Passion

We take pride in our business, enjoy delighting our clients and promote a positive, energizing and fun environment to work. We value our reputation highly and will always fiercely protect it.

Humility

We value openness and curiosity to learn from anyone, anywhere, we learn from mistakes and successes in equal measure and always seek and provide honest feedback, we never underestimate our competition.

Simplicity

We always seek to continually simplify and improve processes, procedures and activities, we deal with people and issues directly & openly and favor results over form.

Enablement

As a business, cultivate an environment where we enable people, clients and ourselves to reach full potential.

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I have worked with Capital Futures on CEO and operating partner appointments with Francisco Partners. They have deep sector expertise around private equity and software companies. They understand what it takes for leadership teams to drive global innovation, growth, transformation and deliver the value creation plan

Tom Kilroy – Chief Executive Officer – Keyloop – Francisco Partners

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