A data-driven leadership advisory partner

Inspiring Leadership

We support Boards, CEOs, and Investors secure exceptional talent. Using Saigan, our proprietary technology, we integrate partner-led global executive search expertise with talent analytics and data science. We provide our clients with real-time intelligence and the objective insights required to find, attract and assess critical talent.

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What We Do

Start broader,
cut harder and move faster.

We work globally with private equity portfolio, listed and private challenger businesses focused on transformative growth. Whether Series C towards IPO, restructuring or expanding region, each capability draws upon our market-leading technology, data, and assessment tools.

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High-Stakes Appointments

When a single appointment shapes the future and the Board needs to see the entire mapped market, not just the shortlisted names.

Strategy pivots / transformation— when organisations think differently, make pivots and embark on bold moves. They need to understand the market, available talent, unique talent pools.

New geographies— operating at pace in markets where the firm has no incumbent network. The methodology travels.

Low-coverage sectors— when the talent you need sits outside your traditional hiring pool, and identifying them requires deep research across sectors that don’t overlap with your usual network.

Capability-shift appointments— when the next role is meaningfully different from the last one; the platform mitigates pattern-matching to the prior incumbent.

Time-pressured exec hires— when the research phase normally takes months and the business needs a defensible shortlist in weeks.

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Market Intelligence

“How does our ELT compare?” · “What skillsets are required to fulfil our future strategy?” · “Where will the next CFO come from?” · “Who’s vulnerable across the sector?”

Sector leadership mapping— who’s who, who’s where, who came from where, who’s overdue a move. Used in pre-deal activity or strategic thinking on future hires.

Management-team diligence— calibrate the leadership you’re acquiring before you commit. How the target’s ELT compares to sector peers, structurally and stylistically, and how it aligns to the investment thesis.

ELT benchmarking— how the leadership team compares to peers, structurally and stylistically. The evidence behind board-level talent reviews and how that aligns to strategy.

Talent-flow analysis— the pipelines and pathways into a sector or function. Whose pool you can fish in; whose pool you’re being fished from. Shapes how, and where you might go for future hires.

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Live Succession Mapping

Active and live succession mapping across critical positions. We make the whole market visible to our clients, benchmarked and readily refreshable.

CEO-1 readiness— internal candidates benchmarked against the external universe. Quantified, not asserted.

ELT pipeline— mapping across critical functional hires or peers and typical talent feeder organisations.

Key-person & emergency-transition contingency— the named alternates the deal team would turn to in the first 48 hours of a sudden departure.

Capability-shift succession— when the value-creation plan requires skills the current bench wasn’t built for (digital, M&A integration, geographic expansion, exit readiness).

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Dynamic Team Assessment

Beyond isolated reports, Saigan delivers a holistic evaluation of your leadership team. By synthesising frameworks (Hogan, K4D, YSC) with cultural drivers and role requirements, it models performance likelihood, visualises alignment, and de-risks decisions.

Existing Team Evaluation: A fresh capability and cultural audit of incumbent leadership teams, leveraging prior psychometric testing and overlaying our platform to offer a dynamic, unified view matched directly against company strategy and core values.

M&A & JV Integration: Objectively calibrate combined executive leadership teams prior to structural appointments—providing investment committees with rigorous, defensible data while ensuring absolute fairness across legacy teams.

Organisational Transformation: Execute deep capability and cultural reviews for leadership teams navigating complex strategic pivots, operational restructuring, or accelerated scale.

Targeted Talent Deployment: Precisely map who to invest in for high-performance trajectories, where capability gaps exist, and exactly when to augment the team with external executive hires.

The Intelligence Engine

Behind every placement
is a lattice of intelligence.

Powered by Saigan, our proprietary intelligence platform, we combine advanced data science with partner-led advisory to deliver unmatched speed, deep market visibility, and defendable processes for boards, CEOs, and leadership teams.

Built on a single data lake, synchronous data feeds, and a 60+ multi-agent workforce, Saigan moves beyond static name generation—turning 2D information into 3D digital twins of the executive market. This enables us to map entire market ecosystems, identify trends, and analyse competitor landscapes with a speed and accuracy traditional firms cannot match.

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Speed & Reach

48hResearch Turnaround

Accelerated Market Mapping

Compressing the traditional research phase from weeks to 48 hours, delivering an exhaustive view of the talent ecosystem

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Technology & Depth

60+Multi-Agent Metrics

Multi-Dimensional Profiles

Transforming static 2D lists into dynamic 3D digital twins extracting fuunctional scale, industry context, and behavioural metrics on every candidate

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Precision & Evaluation

1 : 412Funnel Precision

Surgical Shortlisting

Backing every shortlist with complete data lineage and rigorous evaluation layers—distilling hundreds of profiles into a single hire.

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Corporate & Team Performance

360°Team Intelligence

Predictive Team Analytics

Overlaying psychometric frameworks (like Hogan and K4D) with cultural drivers to map performance likelihood, forecast team chemistry, and direct talent investment.

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Private Equity & Deal Alignment

Lifecycle AlignmentHold-Period

Deal-Cycle Integration

Pinpointing executive talent whose scaling experience precisely matches private equity investment horizons, value-creation inflection points, and exit paths.

Our People

Curiosity runs
through us.

04Why 1805

Human System Intelligence
in Executive Search.

Inspiring leadership is at the core of 1805. While the executive talent world is abundant in data, it lacks rich insights. We built Saigan to bridge this gap, turning raw information into highly valuable intelligence that drives our client work, directly complemented by partner-led advice.

Evidence, Advice, Partnership and Control

Our counsel is anchored in evidence, not opinion. At 1805, we champion our clients' executive talent agendas, engage in true partnership, and challenge comfortable assumptions to secure the transformative leadership your business requires.

15+

Years in Partnership

60+

Agents in Operation

Continent Coverage

05Engage

Inspiring Leadership