Amrop expands UK team

Amrop, the trusted leadership advisory and executive search partner for many of the world’s leading businesses, has strengthened its UK presence. To accommodate on-going success and increasing demand for its executive search and consulting services, the business has more than doubled the headcount at its London office - taking it from five to eleven partners and employees.

Sandy McKenzie, Managing Partner and Global Practice Leader at Amrop UK, explains: “Amrop UK has a distinct and highly effective approach when it comes to supporting our clients – who range from small, PE and VC backed organisations to large, multinational corporates – to maximise their leadership performance.

“Our success in helping them to attract, retain and develop inspirational leaders who can deliver sustainable success and who are perfectly skilled for ‘what’s next’ has directly led to our continued UK growth.”

As well as Sandy, who specialises in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors, the Amrop UK team also includes fellow Managing Partner and Member of the Amrop Global Board, Adam Saunders. Adam is a founding Partner of Amrop UK and focuses on strategic hires at C-Suite and board level for financial services and private equity clients.

Avril Kellett is the third Managing Partner at Amrop UK. She works across a broad range of sectors and has particular expertise in handling mandates involving the identification and hire of the best talent for growth, transformation and change agendas. Avril has particular expertise in supporting life science, private equity and financial services firms.

The Amrop UK teams also includes internationally experienced talent advisor and executive search specialist, David Bell. David, who is a Partner, has a track record of full assignment delivery for clients across many sectors. This includes the digital technology sector where he has experience covering investor backed SaaS technology businesses involved in Fintech, HealthTech and MarTech.

The fifth partner at Amrop UK is Lucie Shaw who focuses on consumer-facing industries such as FMCG, retail, consumer services and travel, leisure and hospitality. Lucie, who has led numerous national and international executive search, assessment, succession and consulting projects throughout her career, is Co-Lead for Amrop’s Global Consumer & Retail Practice. She especially enjoys supporting clients through periods of business expansion or transformation.

In addition to the partners, the Amrop UK team now includes Principal, Ross Fraser who heads up the consultancy’s activities covering the renewable energy sector and sustainability. Since joining Amrop, Ross has also worked on mandates for clients in the infrastructure, packaging, transportation, automotive, engineering, consumer, and aerospace and defence sectors.

To ensure the various sector leads can offer clients the full benefit of their objective insight and extensive experience, the Amrop UK team is complemented by an increased number of researchers as well as additional support and operations staff.

“The expanded Amrop UK team now offers clients more resource and more expertise in handling complex talent acquisition and leadership needs than ever before” concludes Sandy.

“As a business, we are perfectly placed to build on our achievements to date and our reputation for offering the high-touch, partner-led experience of a specialist boutique – but backed by the global scope and scale of an integrated firm.”

About Amrop

The Amrop Partnership is one of the world’s largest executive search and leadership consultancies, with offices in over 50 countries. Over the past 45 years, it has built a reputation for quality, talent and agility.

At the heart of the business is a deep connection with its clients. Its goal is simple – to help clients shape sustainable business and be prepared for ‘what’s next’. It helps clients find and develop leaders and is adept at working across borders and in markets around the world.

Amrop UK is headquartered in London and operates across retail, hospitality & FMCG, financial & professional services, industrial and technology markets. With 5 partners, Amrop UK today offers a range of services to support long term client relationships including:

Leadership Advisory

• Leadership Intelligence – In Depth Mapping, Talent Benchmarking, Succession Planning and New Leadership Roles, inc. team diagnostics
• Leadership data – Compensation Studies, Organisation Design, Role Competency Planning and Diversity Planning

Executive Search & Development

• Leadership Search – Executive Search, Talent Project Work
• Leadership Assessment & Development – Individual & Team Assessments, Individual & Team Coaching

Board Services

• Board evaluation, search and succession planning