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With Christmas up ahead, we at Princedale thought we’d share some of the best book recommendations made to us by C Suite business leaders across our incredible network.

When I interview a prospective candidate for a role, one of my closing questions is What Three Books Would you Recommend to the World? Here is that collated list from some of our incredible digital & business leadership network of CEO's, CMO's, CTO's, CDO's, CCO's & beyond.

Last year my wife and I moved with our three little kids to the coast near Lisbon Portugal. On considering renewing the rental contract for our cottage in Hampshire that we’d moved to during the pandemic, she floated the idea of throwing life up in the air and moving abroad.

Challenges I’ve faced as a Headhunter and what I’ve learnt

A round up of the top book recommendations by the individuals interviewed by Princedale in 2023

Princedale places Phoebe Hugh in this pivotal new GM Product leadership role with the ambitious digital bank

Hiring executive digital leadership roles to enhance their customer centricity.

As recommended by inspirational digital leaders

I couldn’t be prouder to have hosted such an illustrious group of digital business leaders for Princedale’s 10 year anniversary

Finding the best talent for digital and customer experience leadership

Headhunting for one of the world’s most definitive luxury hotel brands

Headhunting for the leading pet ecommerce business

From fewer restrictions to greater dedication to your search - here’s why working with a highly specialised independent headhunter makes excellent business sense.

Vet Partners is one of the 20 fastest growing private companies in the UK. I was invited by their CEO & Founder to help with the retained search and appointment of the business critical Chief Digital Officer (CDO).

Princedale is delighted to announce we have been selected as the London-based digital leadership headhunter for European appointments for Nike.

In March 2020, before the first lockdown was put in place, Princedale Partners was commissioned on a retained executive search to recruit the new Regional Vice President Digital EMEA for Hyatt Hotels, based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Princedale Partners is delighted to publish our recent case study, where we mapped over 275 leaders from over 100 target companies across the USA.

As I reflect over the last decade since I founded Princedale, I often think of what lessons I can take from past experience to improve as a headhunter.

Princedale Partners is delighted to publish our recent digital leadership recruitment case study, where we recruited two new European digital leaders for baby-carrier innovator Bugaboo.

Last year, seven years since I founded Princedale Partners, we had our best year in terms of digital leadership searches commissioned on, and placements made.

As you might expect, we get a lot of digital leaders contacting us to help them with their job search as they look for the next progressive opportunity and challenge. As well as numerous companies requiring assistance with their Chief of Staff recruitment.

When £8billion fund management company Octopus Group required a General Manager for two of their growth Fintech businesses, they reached out to Princedale Partners to headhunt for them the most impressive leadership talent in Europe.

We were proud to host our annual Digital Leaders Cocktail Party last week on our 7th anniversary since I set up Princedale. The event, at the stunning Coral Room in Bloomsbury was a huge success in my eyes and I’ll share with you why.

Last Thursday, Princedale Partners brought 10 business leaders together from across the health, fitness & wellbeing sectors to discuss the key trends across this rapidly growing market.

Executive Search Case Study: Chief Experience Officer, International Real Estate

As many companies find, product leadership roles can be very challenging to hire. Once they are eventually appointed, many leave prematurely for reasons that are so easily avoided.

After the building of our private equity clients’ inaugural Digital Advisory Board last year, we’ve been asked to support them again this year, by further adding to the expert network for their June 2019 global meeting in Europe.

WeWork is one of the great disrupters of our time: few other businesses have experienced such hyper-growth and it’s only eight years since they were founded in New York by Adam Neumann in 2010 and recently valued at c$42bn.

During London Tech Week this week I got to enjoy two days of riveting conversations at CogX, the Artificial Intelligence conference hosted by Charlie Muirhead and Tabitha Goldstaub and delivered to an exceedingly high standard.

QuantumBlack blends science and art; working at the intersection of human insight and machine intelligence with razor-focus on advanced performance.

We talk to Michael Durbridge, Andrew Martin CEO.

Within a few short years, Zalando has grown to become one of Europe’s most successful online fashion retailers posting revenues in excess of €3 billion largely within the DACH region.

We’re proud to be working with one of the top global Big Data, Analytics & Design consultancies to appoint growth leaders in Europe and the U.S.

Boohoo is a UK based online fashion retailer that targets young men and women. They are the most talked about AIM-listed ecommerce business, with a share price that has quadrupled over the last 3 years and with a highly successful international roll-out and ever growing customer loyalty.

I’ve worked in headhunting for 17 years now and one question I always ask those that I interview is what makes them tick.

We were contacted by Richard and Neal, the co-founders of Lovehoney to advise them on what we felt they needed in a modern CTO, as they looked ahead to their next phase of growth.

In 2015 we were approached by The Body Shop to appoint their Chief Digital Officer reporting into their CEO Jeremy Schwartz.

Secret Escapes is the UK’s biggest members only website specialising in accommodation flash sales, and backed by some of the leading VC’s (including; Index, Octopus and Atlas Ventures).

We were commissioned by the newly appointed new Chief Operating Officer of online retailer PhotoBox to support the recruitment of their Director of Customer Insight.

We were engaged by Holland & Barrett International’s Chief Commercial Officer, to conduct a search for their Ecommerce Director.

We were approached by Daniel Hegarty, Founder & CEO of robo-advisory start up Habito to help with a particularly specialist leadership hire.

Appointed by the VP Sales & Marketing at Coca Cola Enterprises (Europe), Princedale Partners had the challenging task of appointing an effective digital transformation leader

During the search we assessed over 120 digital and Product leaders from the online music publishing and streaming space across London, New York and California. The search lasted approximately 6 weeks over the course of the summer.

Started by the founder of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom, Atomico is one of Europe’s largest venture capital firms.

Founder & CEO Lopo Champalimaud set up Wahanda (now Treatwell) in 2008, after running the lifestyle business at Lastminute.com working closely with Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane-Fox.