Rare Executives

Rare Executives is a specialist executive search firm dedicated to helping founders, CEOs, investors and boards hire exceptional commercial and leadership talent. With 25+ years in search and over 360 senior appointments, the company works exclusively with VC-backed AI companies of around 50 to 500 employees that are scaling after funding. Maurice Thompson, the founder, has spent more than 25 years helping technology founders hire leaders from the world's leading AI, cloud, data and enterprise software companies. Rare Executives distinguishes itself not because it recruits, but because it knows the market intimately, tracking who is leaving competitors, who is available, who is hiring, and which executives consistently outperform.

Rare Executives specialises in building revenue growth teams and leadership capability. On the revenue side, the company places talent in roles including President, GTM, CRO, VP Sales, Enterprise Sales, Strategic Accounts, Customer Success, Partnerships, Revenue Operations, and Marketing Leadership. For leadership positions, Rare Executives recruits for Chair, CEO, COO, VP AI, VP Product, Programme Leadership, and Operations roles. The company helps businesses strengthen their boards, replace critical executives, build new commercial teams, and prepare for acquisition or exit.

Rare Executives operates by tracking executive moves to provide clients with first access to leaders as they become available, conducting detailed leadership mapping before approaching candidates, and using confidential outreach to ensure searches do not tip off competitors or unsettle current teams. The company provides real compensation benchmarks and talent availability insights to ensure every offer is competitive from the start. With an average time to hire of 29 days and 24-hour candidate introductions, Rare Executives serves ambitious technology companies across the globe, supported by a network of 20,000+ executive relationships.