Shaw Talent

Shaw Talent is a founder-led executive search consultancy based in Sydney, Australia. It runs retained searches for senior, executive and Board appointments across critical infrastructure, with a focus on data centres, energy and defence. Its clients include developers, operators, infrastructure funds and investors, engineering consultancies and design practices, tier one contractors and specialist delivery partners, and advanced manufacturers. For built environment clients it also places leaders in areas such as transport and aviation, water and utilities, education and retail.

Founder and Managing Director Martin Smallshaw began his career in his family's manufacturing business, then moved into specialist recruitment in the UK and later into a recruitment business serving the construction industry in Australia. The firm offers retained search with a 12-month placement guarantee, an embedded talent solution that manages a client's hiring strategy, and advice on leadership structures, succession planning, mergers, acquisitions and market entry. It says it works through a network spanning APAC, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, and reports more than 12 years placing executives and over 260 successful mandates.