Talent for Innovation·Est. 2001·3,000+ placements · six offices · four regions

Services · AI leadership

Executive search for the leaders of AI

AI leadership is our fastest-growing client request. Every industry — people analytics, fintech, enterprise SaaS, IoT — is being remade by machine intelligence, and success depends on leaders who have built with it. We identify and hire the executives driving AI, machine learning and data-driven transformation, for companies from venture stage to enterprise.

76%

of 2,000 large-enterprise CEOs surveyed by IBM report a Chief AI Officer — up from 26% a year earlier

695

directors across 56 countries told Deloitte's Global Boardroom Program AI is now a board-level agenda item

3,000+

C-suite, specialist and board placements since 2001 — increasingly at the intersection of AI and scale

Where we have done it

We partnered with Culture Amp as it scaled AI-driven people analytics, placed AI product leadership at MYOB, and supported Xero through its AI-enabled platform evolution — alongside AI strategy, product and engineering mandates across four regions. Real intelligence about artificial intelligence: our reads come from live market signals, not conference decks.

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