I recruit the High Impact CTOs who build High Growth Tech Companies that improve people’s lives. I partner with CEOs, Founders & Investors to hire “best-in-market” industry talent | CTO EXECUTIVE SEARCH | CTO RECRUITMENT

𝗖𝗘𝗢𝗦, 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦, 𝗩𝗖 & 𝗣𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦 — 𝗜 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚

You can’t scale a product, secure funding, or hit milestones without strong tech leadership. 

But hiring the right CTO, CPO, CIO or other senior tech lead and the Tech Team that reports into them is hard—and a mis-hire can set you back months.

I help high-growth startups and scaleups—VC/PE-backed or bootstrapped—solve this exact problem.

Through Edison Hill Search we run retained searches for mission-critical tech leadership roles. Since 1997 we’ve specialised in senior-level technology hires.

For fast-growing teams without internal TA, we offer Edison Hill Scale—a flexible, embedded Recruitment-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution. It gives you the delivery firepower of an in-house team, without the overhead or delay of building one.

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗩𝗘:
•	Your last tech hire didn’t work out—costing you time, money & confidence
•	You’re growing fast and need tech leadership that can keep up
•	You’re pre-raise or pre-exit and investors are asking tough questions
•	You’re trying to scale engineering but lack internal hiring support
•	You don’t have time to waste on CVs/Resumes from recruiters who don’t understand your business or your tech

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗠𝗘, 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧:

➡️ 96% retention rate for new hires
➡️ 100% retained search success rate since 2015
➡️ 12-month replacement guarantee
➡️ Reduced commercial downtime and time-to-hire
➡️ A proven, right-first-time process
➡️ Reduction in overall cost-to-hire
➡️ Better candidate experience and brand reputation

𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗔 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥:
“I have over 20 years’ experience with global tech startups. One of these was UK-based, and Edison Hill Search were engaged to source three senior appointments. Warren delivered a Head of Finance, Head of Sales, and Head of Technology—all of whom were a great fit and successful. I confidently recommend Warren to any business, especially startups.”
— John Goggin, Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of Fleetmatics

𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘?
Let’s see if our hiring blueprint would work for you:

☎️ Book a FREE 10 Minute call to understand if our hiring blueprint would work for you: https://calendly.com/warrenctosearch/10-minute-discovery-chat

Or drop an email to: warren@edisonhillsearch.com

Warren Beazley (FIRP)

Nicholas Foster

Career Break - Personal Projects

Executive & Career Coach

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Manage the strategic setup, loan migration and integration of LoanIQ for MUFG EMEA.

Project Manager at MUFG (EMEA)

Portfolio Delivery Lead (Interim). Accountable for the delivery of all the department’s projects (25m Euro) whilst improving the department’s delivery model.

Programme Director at Solvay (Data, Analytics & AI Platform)

Led the implementation of the target operating model and ways of working change across the department.

Led the emagine KYC-as-service with the accountability of meeting the client's quarterly balanced scorecard targets.

Programme Director at MUFG (Client Services)

Led the design of an agile organisational transformation strategy, target operating model, operating model, and roadmap for a global technology, change and business organisation of over 1500 people.

Programme Director - Agile Transformation at Credit Suisse (Operations Technology)

Led and delivered regulatory projects (budget $5m) for the bank’s risk & finance analytics platform which calculates the exposures for the RWA calculation. Including sign off by PRA & FINMA for the bank’s new internal portfolio risk model, initiation of the multi-year replacement of the credit limits system & Brexit.

Regulatory Programme Manager for Risk Analytics

=> CTO for Develite Ltd. Developed and sold survey design and hosting platform
SwiftSay.com. Now decommissioned.

=> Trained and qualified as a personal performance and corporate and executive coach

=>  Weekly career blog – up to 500 visits a month at peak.

Credit Suisse

Globally accountable for the bank’s Derivatives mission-critical trade management
systems and associated technology strategy.

=> Led the successful delivery of all change programmes and regulatory initiatives
impacting the platform – global teams up to 300, budgets up to $40m.

=> Along with derivatives change leads, created the front to back Derivatives OTC control
model ensuring trades, risk and cash were aligned each day.

=> Transformed global development team (150+) to agile development process increasing
transparency, prioritisation, delivery certainty, technical hygiene, team morale and
client satisfaction.

=> Successfully led the multi-year programme to create a single front to back trade
trade management platform for all of the investment bank’s OTC derivatives products and migrate
all global business units to it:

          • Met the FSA commitment to bring the derivatives business under control.
          • Single trade representation & source.
          • Front office generation of settled cash.
          • Front office generation of ISDAs & CSAs.
          • Full integration with external strategic broker systems - SEFs, Confirmation,
             MarkitServe, ICAP, GFI, DTCC, TZero, RED, Thunderhead.
          • Front office trade and sales blotters with middle office process controls.
          • Full market & regulatory compliance ISDA, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, SEF, MIFID, CDS
            Standardisation, Novation protocol.
          • Eliminated manual processes, errors and volume caps – used to take 45 mins to
             book a CDS front to back into multiple systems with high error rate.
          • Eliminated globally fragmented front and back office systems.

=> Recognised Credit Suisse SME for front to back trade management of OTC derivatives.

=> Derivatives Design Committee. EMEA IT leadership team. Global IB IT senior IT leadership team. EMEA Derivatives IT Lead.

Global Head of Derivative Trade Management Technology

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Took a career break with my wife and new daughter born in 2001.

Career Break

- An elected member of a team of two involved in the Microsoft Early Adopters Programme for .Net.  Work involved interfacing with Microsoft consultants on site and development leads in Redmond in order to develop a global fixed income trading blotter prototype.  This prototype was used to sell the benefits of the technology to all the business facing IT leads and act as a base to bring into line a single global trading blotter.

- Vice President in charge all NT development projects for the Interest Rate Products team.  This involved managing a team of four developers, specifying the direction of current and future NT development, hiring of contract staff, mentoring, interfacing with business users as well as continued development and beta rollout of the NT trading blotter.

- Lead developer accountable for replacing SunOS bond trading blotter with Windows NT bond trading blotter.

Contractor / Vice President

Varied

Worked as a software development contractor for multiple software houses.

Software Developer

I am an executive career coach who specialises in helping aspiring executives get promoted.

“Personally, the year has been a huge success, ending with a promotion that I had been targeting. The feedback from management as part of the promotion process highlighted my leadership skills which were the key areas on which Nick, and I worked" - Tom Wallis

Previously, I was an executive at Credit Suisse and UBS where I’ve led global teams of over 300 people and managed project/programme portfolios of $40m.

I enable my clients to get promoted by using my experience from:

1. Failing to get promoted, changing strategies and then getting my executive promotion.
2. Being a global executive promotion evaluator and promotion committee member at Credit Suisse.
3. Coaching/mentoring my colleagues, direct reports and clients to get promoted.
4. Lessons learnt from being an executive, consultant and coach.
5. Professional coach training.

Here are 3 ways I can help:

1. Follow me for bite-size insights on executive promotion, performance and balance (🔔)
2. I'm always happy to help a connection, so DM me with the leadership challenge you are facing.
3. Schedule a call to discuss how I can help you get promoted - DM me to arrange.

Executive Coach, Career Coach

During our career journey, we face obstacles that block our progress. Most of these we breakthrough over ourselves, but there are some we get stuck behind.

Maybe your career is not progressing fast enough. Your work could be more fulfilling and enjoyable. Your transition to your new position easier. Or maybe you want to pivot to a new career.

From my own painful experience, I can tell you that if you stay stuck, an inner turmoil of stress and frustration will grow. Eventually this turmoil will become visible to others and impact your relationship with your loved ones and ultimately your career success.

Because of this experience, I’ve made it my mission to enable others to break through their career blockers so they can continue their journey of career success while bringing back their best to their loved ones.

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