Case Studies

A pioneering luxury travel brand strengthens its leadership team with a visionary Chief Marketing Officer

END. Clothing had scaled fast, building a cult following and a £200m+ business with minimal marketing infrastructure. But following Apollo Private Equity’s investment, the next chapter demanded something more structured.

With serious stadium pedigree and a sharp commercial edge, Bonnie’s not just setting the pace — she’s raising the bar.

L Catterton appointed Tracy Barwin, an exceptional digital leader with 15+ years of experience across brands like Nike, Uniqlo, Hunter Boots and Monsoon Accessorize.

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.

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

Headhunting for the leading pet ecommerce business

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.