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Lumesse case study
When the CFO of this high-growth, private equity-backed technology business needed to quickly build a world-class finance team, he turned to Archer Mathieson for help.
Talking to Lumesse chief financial officer Duncan Love you get a clear sense of a business that’s been through a lot of fast-paced, positive change and has plenty more to come. Formerly known as StepStone Solutions, the company rebranded to Lumesse in May, the next in a series of steps resulting from a €110m private equity-backed management buy-out in April 2010. Until that time, it had been owned by German publishing giant Axel Springer as the software solutions division of StepStone, Europe’s leading internet job site.
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Centrica Case Study
Three clients, 20 same-day interviews, one high-quality CFO hired
Managing expectations is all part of the job in executive search but once in a while a brief arrives that tests a search firm’s ability in this respect. Such was the case in November 2010 when Archer Mathieson was contacted by Centrica executive Tom Hinton.
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Airwave Case Study
Fast or good? This human resources director needed both, and got them!
If you’re an HR director needing to quickly fill a high profile, senior-level executive role, only one thing ultimately matters about the search firm you use: can it deliver the right quality of candidates in the timeframe you need? Fortunately for Airwave HR director Geoff Smith, the answer was an unqualified ‘yes’ after he recently asked Jennifer Price of Archer Mathieson to find him a new head of finance.
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