Upscale Partners

Upscale Partners is an executive search firm combining over 40 years of talent expertise to build exceptional leadership teams for innovative scaleups. The company specialises in appointing key leadership roles, from the Boardroom to Functional Heads, enabling clients to achieve vital scaleup objectives including expanding overseas, commercialising technology, ramping up production, driving revenue growth, accelerating scale-up, closing funding rounds, delivering exits, and maximising shareholder value. Upscale Partners delivers high-impact hires through a precise methodology that ensures clients make the right appointments at the right time whilst avoiding loss of vital momentum or missing key growth objectives.

Upscale Partners offers a comprehensive suite of executive search services tailored to the unique challenges of scaling businesses. The company provides executive search for rare leadership talent with the experience and track record to realise client vision and ambitions, non-executive search for board appointments with the knowledge, network, and profile to unlock growth objectives, salary benchmarking providing data and insights for effective compensation strategies, and high-impact hires of key leadership roles from the Boardroom to Functional Heads. The firm's consultants, including Emma Brown with over 20 years in executive search and Georgina Worden with nearly two decades helping fast-growth technology companies build their leadership teams, bring deep expertise in identifying and attracting world-class talent.

Upscale Partners operates globally, serving ambitious scaleups with strong technology propositions and the funding to drive growth. The company's five-stage methodology, encompassing Consult and Brief, Investigate and Identify, Engage and Evaluate, Select and Shortlist, and Offer and Hire, ensures clients access the widest possible talent pool and receive rigorous assessment of exceptional candidates. Clients choose Upscale Partners for their specialist knowledge, tailored service, global reach, and proven ability to deliver rare, proven business leaders who meet ambitions and take scaleups to the next level.