CEO / Chief Executive

A CEO is the highest-ranking individual in a company or organisation.

The CEO is responsible for the overall success of a business entity or other organisation and for making top-level managerial decisions.

Strategic Direction

Moon Executive Search work with clients to ensure a smooth leadership transition and no appointment is more crucial than a Chief Executive Officer.

The CEO may ask for input on major decisions, but they are the ultimate authority in making final decisions. There are other titles for CEOs, such as chief executive, president, and managing director.

Moon Executive Search has been appointed by boards looking to ensure their company's strategic direction continues its values, mission, vision, direction and overall strategy.

It’s the CEO’s responsibility to figure out how all the pieces fit together, implement a plan, execute it and oversee the operation of the organisation, in accordance with its overarching strategy.

Managing Director


Seasoned professional with a demonstrated history of developing and implementing strategies, executing business restructurings, forming commercial partnerships, leading cross-functional teams, and identifying new growth opportunities.

EFFECTIVE LEADER
Extensive experience in both B2B and B2B2C sectors, I am recognised as an effective leader who can persuade, motivate, and guide teams to achieve business transformation and profit growth under challenging conditions.

BOARD LEVEL & SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Portfolio includes collaborations with numerous high-profile brands. For the past 20 years, has operated at Board and Senior Leadership Team levels and is now seeking senior roles with businesses that require additional drive to achieve the next level of success.


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Managing Director


Strength in leading, building and managing people. Created company strategy, vision and values aligned with the culture. Grew the business threefold, via acquisition and greenfield development.

PEOPLE & CULTURE
Excellent communicator with weighting on the importance of people. Change Management for growth and building a values-based culture.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Transferable skills due to multi-function responsibilities and experience. Experienced in all aspects of Policy, Governance and Due Diligence. Engagement and collaboration with all stakeholders to achieve consistent results.


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CEO/COO/MD


Dynamic and authentic leader with a proven track record of scaling businesses and driving organisational change, has consistently demonstrated the ability to inspire teams, deliver improved performance, and achieve sustainable profitability.

SUCCESS AND RESILIENCE
A seasoned leader has successfully led stable, scaling, and under-performing organisations through periods of significant growth and transformation. By initiating and driving organisational change, they have improved business development, customer service, financial controls, and workplace culture, ensuring long-term success and resilience.  

DRIVING GROWTH THROUGH EQUITY & STRATEGY
Expertise extends to managing businesses pre and post equity financing, aligning stakeholder expectations with strategic goals, and delivering measurable results. With a deep understanding of diverse markets and industries, having worked with a wide range of clients, from public sector institutions to private enterprises, showcasing their versatility and ability to adapt to complex challenges.  


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CEO


International P&L leadership, Merger and Acquisitions & Transformation expertise.

Development and implementation of successful growth strategies across the globe.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Commercial experience across North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia and extensive knowledge of M&A both in the UK and USA experience of consumer goods media and events businesses.

CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT
Built structures, processes, and people resources to support rapid growth and extracted business from larger organisations.


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CEO / MD


Proven experience in building successful teams, developing stakeholder partnerships, and driving income generation, to enable business growth and performance.

PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT 
Experience in building high-performing teams and driving a values-based culture. With specific skills in bringing diverse stakeholder groups together and conflict resolution.

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE  
Proven experience in creating funding partnerships across central and local government, delivering sponsorship value and maximising cost efficiencies. 


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CEO


A highly respected CEO with a demonstrated history of working in the cosmetics and wellbeing industries.

INSPIRING & MOTIVATIONAL LEADER
Skilled in Leadership P&L Governance Marketing Management, Retail and Spa Operations and Product Development, drives strong sales performance and delivering double digit growth and EBITDA.

RESPECTED PUBLIC SPEAKER
Built a strong global network within the luxury retail, spa and salon and private equity sectors.


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Managing Director


CEO



Experienced SME leader across B2C/B2B/Retail with an extensive track-record of growth and turnaround in UK and international markets.


LEADERSHIP
Collaborative and compassionate leader, accomplished at aligning teams and enabling positive change.

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
High levels of financial literacy coupled with a curious, inquisitive and analytical mind. Logical, practical and rational approach to problem- solving and over-coming business challenges.


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CEO/MD


Over 20 years of experience in the voluntary sector and charities, including in senior leadership positions.


STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Building relationships with multiple stakeholders through excellent communication skills. Developing theories of change and implementing new ways of working.

PERFORMANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Financial forecasting and management in times of growth and shrinkage. Track record in winning and delivering against grants and tenders. Quality assurance and outcomes measurement frameworks.


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Senior Executive and Business leader with multi-national operating experience and a strong entrepreneurial background.

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Proven track record of restructuring and delivering revenue and profit growth. Experienced in M&A have bought and sold business in UK and Europe.

LEADERSHIP
Responsible for $100m P&L and over 150 employees, with extensive experience in building high-performance and leadership teams and developing talent.


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Interim Manager/Director


Extensive experience delivering business change in complex organisations. Combines strategic focus with practical skills to help solve problems and achieve results.

STRATEGIC PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT
Successful delivery of projects and programmes from start to finish. including business cases. planning, governance, risk management. reporting and evaluation.

DELIVERY THROUGH PEOPLE
Able to quickly build positive working relationships and skilled in bringing people together to develop and deliver solutions to business challenges.


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Managing Director


Board level commercial leader with 25yrs expertise in marketing, commercial strategy and new business development within a variety of SME's and global multinationals.

LEADERSHIP
An authentic and motivating leader focused on driving growth, innovation and cultural transformation. Excellent communicator and building strong teams. Adept at aligning all stakeholders. A fully qualified executive coach.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Strategic approach to identifying and implementing growth opportunities, able to translate strategic plans into tactical activity. Strong, analytical thinker who utilises customer insight and team development


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CEO


Highly experienced Entrepreneur, and CEO with multiple exits and significant global operating experience. Started, scaled, and sold six notable technology firms spanning SaaS, Payments, Consumer and Enterprise software, and Manufacturing.

M&A
Worked on both the buy-side and sell-side of numerous transactions including as founder in sales to NASDAQs and PE.

STRATEGY
LinkedIn Top Business Strategy Voice, Forbes Publisher, and regular strategic advisor to various technology-related firms. 

FUN FACT
100-Ton US Coast Guard Master-licensed Captain, 9-Year Member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary.


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CEO


Highly experienced CEO with a track record of building and transforming businesses in the UK and overseas

CAPABILITY AND CULTURE
Strong focus on improving leadership capability and engaging all colleagues in embedding a culture that supports high performance. inclusivity and fun.

GROWTH
Delivered profitable growth in new business start-ups that have disrupted established markets & by refocussing and restructuring stressed Market Leaders.

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CEO/MD/COO


Proven enterprise leader in growth, transformation, turnaround operational management. Across multi sectors both international, national including PE, Corporate, start up and SME (B2B, B2B2C, B2C)

TRANSFORMATION/TURNAROUNDS
Across multi-site organisations and multi-industries identifying opportunities for growth, cost savings, efficiencies, ESG and organisational change/development.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Builds and develops teams both large and small from start up to multi national engaging stakeholders across geographies and regions. Able to break problems to simple solutions proven ability to work across cultures.

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CEO


Experienced business leader specialising in driving significant revenue growth and securing venture funding.

DRIVING GROWHT THROUGH FUNDING, PARTNERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
Value proposition includes fundraising in Seed and Series-A; Deep food, agri and biotech sector knowledge; steering initiatives that secure revenue from customers and corporates - licensing/ partnerships/ co-development; agile business, customer and financial planning; reducing financial risk; rapidly analysing and mining complex data; deliver high-impact £MM commercial projects; building collaborative internal/ external relationships at C-suite level; develop high performing teams and culture to achieve planned growth.

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CEO/


Experienced in delivering strong, sustained growth in international engineering and manufacturing businesses.

DRIVEN APPROACH
Developing strong global teams with a collaborative, empowering and results-driven approach. A calm and logical approach to leading change, navigating major events and restructuring effectively.

STRATEGIC THINKER
Implementing strategic partnerships. Effectively developing and introducing new product lines and markets.


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Finance Director

CEO

Sales Director

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Operations Director

Marketing Director