Technical Director Recruitment | Collingwood

The Client

The client, a provider of SCADA and command and control systems, was seeking a Technical Director – this was a proactive appointment due to the impending retirement of the current technical authority.

The Challenge

Ideally, this individual would already have board-level capability, yet have the patience to win the trust of other equity holders in this SME, before moving up to board-level. The timing for this step up had not been formalised so it allowed the client to effectively consider leaders from two groups:

1. Those with no board-level experience who could step up in time
2. Those with successful board-level leadership capability

After a difficult few years the business was coming off the back of a successful financial year and were keen to appoint a leader with the drive and tenacity to build on this. With a legacy market impression of the business, we worked tirelessly to alter perception and deliver a clear and consistent message about the business to the talent pool. That was, with its best in class technologies and recent large contract wins, this was a business that was technologically advanced versus its direct competitors and had a very promising future.

Collingwood ran this appointment as an executive search in the technology sector.