We bring a combined 80+ years’ search experience across a wide range of industries, and are well known to banking and other professionals in the intersection of those sectors.
Approximately 70% of our focus as a firm is at the executive and non-executive Board level. On behalf of public, PE backed and other privately owned businesses, in the last 10 years we have placed over 250 individuals in Chair, NED, CEO and other senior roles.
Fundamental to our search process is a combination of desk research (drawing on a proprietary database of almost 100,000 names, as well as other online sources) with networking and intelligence gathering via third party market sourcing calls. Integral to our long-established policy of sourcing widely, to create balanced, inclusive candidate lists, we are connected to various diversity networks. Since 2013, 44% of all Longwater appointments have been female and 15% have been from minority ethnic backgrounds.
In the last two years alone, we have spoken to 1,254 third party market sources, each of whom occupy Board or ExCo roles and have collectively provided references on almost 800 Board-level candidates.
Our research process is globally inclusive: we have identified and relocated candidates from mainland Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.