Dean James Search

Dean James Search is an executive search firm that places senior people with recruitment and executive search businesses. Its work covers C-level roles such as chairperson, CEO, COO, CFO, non-executive directors, CMO and CTO. It also covers regional heads, country managers, directors, senior managers, billing managers and high-performing individual contributors in recruitment firms. For executive search firms it fills roles from associates and research professionals up to partners and managing partners.

The firm was founded by Dean Stallard, who is its founding partner. The company says he has a career of two decades in recruitment, reaching Managing Director at a recruitment firm where he oversaw a team of more than 200. It says it focuses on the top 20 percent of high-performing talent in any one market.

Dean James Search works across Australia, including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, and in key Asia Pacific markets. It has offices in Fortitude Valley, Queensland and in Wanchai, Hong Kong. It offers retained, exclusive, contingent and project-based payment structures, with an initial free consultation.