About us

Jack is the director and global head of executive search and interim management at La Fosse.  Jack leads our executive search and interim management teams, with offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles.  This includes our, private equity, CEO, CFO, CIO, CRO, CMO, CPO, NED, and chair practices. Jack advises clients across private equity funds and their portfolio CEOs on their executive needs. Jack graduated in Economics at Manchester University. Prior to joining La Fosse, Jack also completed the leadership graduate scheme at RBS before becoming an equities trader. Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Private Equity.

Chris is the Head of the executive search practice at La Fosse and is based in London. He advises and serves clients on board-level and ExCo hires. Having worked within technology for his entire career, Chris has a deep knowledge of the trends affecting digital and technology-led businesses. His clients range in scale and sector but are increasingly from growth-orientated firms backed by private equity or VC funding. Before partnering tech-led businesses in board and broader C-suite Searches, in his earlier career, Chris delivered COO, CIO, CTO, CDO, and CMO searches for large global corporates across the financial services, consumer goods, and tech/media/telco sectors.   Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Executive Technology, Executive Digital, Data, and Product, Private Equity,

Lise leads the sales and marketing executive Search practice at La Fosse in the UK and Europe. She focuses on placing executive and C-level individuals into a variety of commercial roles, from chief sales officers to chief growth officers, and across sectors including private equity.  Prior to La Fosse, Lise worked as a Business Development Manager at tado° - a tech IoT start-up focusing on smart heating products - and at Montagu private equity, where she focused on C-level portfolio talent management across Europe. She started her career as an executive search consultant, advising private equity clients on the recruitment of their CEOs, CFOs, and non-executive board members.   Lise holds a master’s degree in international management from UCD Michael Smurfit in Dublin, and a bachelor's degree in political sciences and economics from sciences in Po Strasbourg, France.  Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Executive Sales and Marketing, Executive Digital, Data and Product, Digital, Product and Design, Private Equity, Sales & Marketing. 

Tom specialises exclusively in technology leadership appointments (principally CIO, CTO, IT Director as well as at C-1, VP, and Director level) as part of the executive practice at La Fosse Associates and is based in London. Bringing a wealth of experience working with clients from start-ups to FTSE 50s across Europe, Tom works extensively with private equity throughout the deal lifecycle, from providing pre-deal technology advisors through to interim and permanent appointments with portfolio leadership. Tom graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2004 with a degree in business, previously working in management consultancy, as well as 9 years in the city as a shipbroker. Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Executive Technology, Executive Business Change.

Alistair Ross is Head of our US West Coast team, focused on building out operations for the company in Los Angeles. He works primarily with PE Funds and asset managers to source C-level leaders (and their underlying management teams) for their portfolio companies.    Prior to joining La Fosse, he spent over eight years with Business Talent Group (now Heidrick & Struggles), where he worked closely with senior executives within private equity, technology, CPG, financial services, and healthcare companies on key talent placements.     Alistair holds an MSc in marketing from the UCD Smurfit School of Business and a BA in economics and history from University College Cork.    Specialisms: Commercial (Growth/Sales/Marketing/eCommerce), Corporate Strategy, Finance, IT. 

Alice has joined our Executive Search practice as the head of research, focusing on expanding our already established executive and interim divisions. She specialises in placing C-level executives into high-growth, private equity and venture capital backed organisations across a variety of sectors and geographies.  Before moving to La Fosse, Alice spent four years at Egon Zehnder as part of the executive search, private equity & venture capital team in London, where she was focusing on placing senior fund professionals. Previously, Alice worked at Russell Reynolds, where she covered the financial services and consumer sector from their São Paulo (Brazil) and San Francisco (US) offices. Prior to executive search, she accrued experience at managing consulting firms, as well as marketing and business intelligence at a consumer goods company. Alice graduated with a BSc in economics and has a master’s degree in business and marketing. She also speaks fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese.  Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Private Equity. 

Tom leads the CEO & Advisory Executive Search practice at La Fosse, partnering with clients globally for crucial leadership hires. He is a private equity specialist, with a placement track record spanning both fund and portfolio sides. Tom offers search capability pre- and post-deal, accompanied by broader deal origination initiatives. Prior to La Fosse, Tom was a Principal at AlphaSkill, a deal-centric consulting and executive search firm serving an international private equity client base. Tom has a placement track record across Board and C-suite (Chair, CEO, CFO, CCO, COO) for PE portfolio businesses, both in the UK and internationally. Tom was a founding team member of AlphaSkill’s UK office.

Alex operates within the La Fosse Executive Search research group. Charged with identifying world class and industry leading talent from the C-suit upwards throughout the technology, private equity and finance sectors. For the last 13 years Alex has forged a career as a two sport professional athlete. Starting off as a Rugby player in the English premiership before being chosen to represent England. From there a pioneering move to the US to become the first ever British rugby player to play in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons. Dedicated to personal development, he has studied at Harvard University and is currently completing a part time masters degree.

Anthony specialises in recruiting technology leaders (CIO, CTO, CDO) as part of the executive practice at La Fosse Associates, based in London. He has a keen interest in the trends affecting the executive market and sound knowledge of the challenges of how to future-proof technology and transition ageing IT systems.  Anthony has extensive experience in partnering with both small and mid-cap funds across UK & Europe for the past 5 years for boutique search firms, deploying executives into portfolio companies in both a permanent and interim capacity.  Anthony graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in sport and exercise science after spending 3 years in the Royal Marines.    Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Executive Technology, Executive Business Change, Executive Digital, Data, and Product.  

Within La Fosse, I have taken ownership of a new vertical specialism and have moved to cover full end to end delivery of Marketing & Digital Marketing areas. I focus mainly on the Leadership spectrum including Executive, Director and Head of Marketing / Digital Levels including a wide range of marketing specialisms. We can also cover other areas of management and technical delivery within our team. Each of our consultants specialise in niche verticals which enables us to provide expert level service to our clients and candidates alike.  Abi attended Leeds Metropolitan University, where she completed an English Literature and Creative Writing degree and graduated in 2012 with a 2:1. After university, she worked in sales for a top tech industry firm, before deciding to make the career move into technology and digital recruitment.   Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Marketing, Digital Marketing. 

Drew specialises in recruiting key leaders for Venture and Private Equity-backed companies experiencing rapid growth or significant change as part of the Executive practice at La Fosse Associates.  He focuses primarily on North American companies and is based in Austin, TX. Drew has significant experience delivering human capital solutions across a range of functions and industries, with a particular focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and life science. He has advised clients ranging from start-ups and non-profits to major PE firms and the Fortune 10. Drew graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Government and is also certified as a Project Management Professional.  He brings over 10 years of experience spanning management consulting, trade promotion marketing, B2B wireless telecom, and legal services. Specialisms: Executive and Leadership. 

John leads global searches for a broad range of growth-stage businesses, focusing on technical leadership roles (CIO/CTO) as part of the Executive Search practice. He has 7 years experience in executive search, supporting and advising some of the UK’s most innovative, technology-led start-ups and scale-ups. Prior to La Fosse, he worked with a boutique search firm, leading C-Suite and VP-level mandates for deep-tech businesses. He has a deep understanding of the technology sector and candidate market globally, and has worked across a diverse range of technologies, markets and investment stages. John graduated from the University of Westminster with a 1^st in History.

Will is a Senior Consultant in our North American business, focusing primarily on the East Coast. Will has worked with La Fosse in the UK for a number of years, and took the exciting opportunity of relocating to our New York office in 2022. Will is industry agnostic, with a broad network of Board to VP-level candidates in the tech, commercial (sales/marketing) and product domains. He specialises in working in the private equity sector and can bring forward candidates with relevant – often transformational – experience in these areas.

Kirsten specialises in recruiting interim CTOs/ CIOs/ CDOs for private equity funds  as part of the Technology Interim Management team at La Fosse Associates and is based in London. Having a Postgraduate Diploma in Data & Analytics she has a particular interest in the changing role of senior tech professionals in a more data driven market. Kirsten has previous experience within executive search for Private Equity Funds and their portfolio businesses specialising within Data and Interim Management hires.

Olivia works in our executive practice as a senior researcher and is based in London. She specialises in delivering business-critical leadership searches, placing C-level executives into fast-growth PE or VC-backed businesses across a wide variety of sectors and geographies.  Before joining La Fosse, she was part of the research team at Martin Tripp Associates where she focused on placing senior commercial leaders across the media, technology, information, and entertainment industries globally.   Prior to executive search, Olivia worked in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, and Edinburgh leading guest relations teams in the luxury hospitality sector.  Olivia holds a Master’s degree in professional language and intercultural studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Leeds.  Specialisms: Executive and Leadership, Private Equity. 

Kate specialises in recruiting as part of the executive search. She delivers C-Level mandates across Europe with focus on private equity and venture capital backed, high growth businesses.   Kate graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Psychology and previously worked as a researcher for a legal directory.   In her spare time you can find Kate exploring bars and restaurants in London, running, in the gym or painting.   Specialisms: Executive and Leadership.   

Jemima specialises in recruiting search and resourcing as part of the executive search practice at La Fosse Associates and is based in London. She has a keen interest in the trends affecting the digital and technology sector, with particular knowledge of the challenges affecting hiring in this market. She has experience advising a range of businesses, from small start-ups to major organisations, with a particular focus on PE and VC-backed tech companies. Jemima graduated from Birmingham University with a first-class law degree.  Specialisms: Executive and Leadership. 

Emmanuella specialises in sourcing senior-level executives, conducting market research and managing candidates through the search process. She works across the Executive Search practice on C-level and -1 positions. Emmanuella holds a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from King’s College London and a Bachelor’s degree in History and Sociology from the University of Manchester.

Ruby is a part of the Executive team at La Fosse Associates, working as PA to Jack Denison. Ruby has over 5 years of experience in support roles, including HR coordinator, PA, and office support.  She studied at the University of Southampton and has recently completed her PRINCE2 project management course to help support Jack and the wider team with their various team projects.   Specialisms: Operations 

Sam leads the change and transformation practice, which specialises in cross-functional, business-wide transformation and the team has been built with our clients in mind; to develop and maintain relationships with a selected community of professionals who are qualified industry experts at designing and delivering business transformation. Over the past 10 years Sam and the team have resourced over 60 transformation programmes, across a variety of businesses including Burberry, The AA, LEGO, John Lewis, WPP, British Red Cross, Marie Curie, Close Brothers, and Aon to name a few. Specialisms: business transformation, digital transformation, technology transformation, finance transformation, HR transformation. 

Ryan heads up the Digital team at La Fosse, specialising within the digital space and focusing on the permanent market. Team delivery capability covers product, UX/UI design and marketing.  Specialisms: Executive Digital, Data and Product, Digital, Product and Design. 

Ross began his time at La Fosse on our Sales team, operating initially at the CIO level before moving into the information security and risk space to build out our capabilities there. As a result, Ross now heads up one of the largest specialist information security practices in the UK, focusing primarily on CISO & CISO Advisor level positions across all markets.  In addition to his role, Ross also pioneered our pro bono CISO offering – an industry first providing charities and not-for-profits with free access to world-leading cyber security executives.  Specialisms: Executive Technology, Information Security.   

Tim manages the Data, Robotics and Change practices at La Fosse, and is based in London. He focuses on data leadership hires and has a track record of working with a broad range of clients from high-growth tech start-ups/scale-ups to major multinational FTSE-listed businesses, spanning a range of sectors.   He has a keen interest in emerging technology trends, particularly within the areas of data science and AI, and understands the challenges companies face when looking to build out a capability in these areas.   Tim graduated from the University of the West of England in 2009 with a LLB in Law. Prior to joining La Fosse, Tim worked in the recruitment industry for over nine years in two large recruitment businesses.   Specialisms: Executive Digital, Data and Product, Data and Analytics. 

Alejandro leads the European HR transformation practice. This division specialises in cross-functional, business-wide and HR transformation, and the team has been built with our clients in mind; to develop and maintain relationships with a selected community of professionals who are qualified industry experts at designing and delivering HR transformation agendas across Europe & The US. He has excellent knowledge of the strengths and challenges affecting hiring in these markets and has experience advising a range of businesses, from early-stage start-ups to international corporations and consolidated businesses. Alejandro has solid international experience and is also a qualified lawyer, with an educational background in Law and Political Science. He speaks 5 languages and is passionate about art, sports, space, and travel. Specialisms: Change and Transformation, HR, IT, Business Project, Business Programmes, Business Analysts.

Maire specialises in research and delivery as part of the executive search practice, focussing on C-level mandates for private equity and venture capital portfolio companies. Maire graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA in Sociology and International Relations. Prior to La Fosse, she spent five years as a Research Consultant within Directorbank, working with private equity clients across a variety of industries to appoint both executive and non-executive Directors.