Dale Perrett
Founding Director
Dale is one of the Founding Directors of Novo Executive Search and Selection. He is part of the Novo leadership team that drives the business. He remains passionate about working...
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Dale Perrett
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George Woodward
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Susannah Mallaghan
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Jon Hollier
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Jo Watkins
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Ryan Mills
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Jonathan Shepherd
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Matthew Searle
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George Woodward
Director
George is an experienced director and key member of Novo Executive Search’s leadership team and is integral in driving forward its growth into the future. With a breadth of UK...
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Jon Hollier
Founding Director
Jon is a Founding Director of Novo Executive Search & Selection. Beyond establishing and developing Novo, his extensive experience covers a wide range of disciplines across commercial and the third...
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Jo Watkins
Director
Now a Director at Novo, Jo has spent over 12 very successful years with the business. Jo has extensive experience recruiting senior management and board-level professionals across a range of...
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Jonathan Shepherd
Research Director
Jonathan is Research Director for Novo Executive Search and Selection. Overseeing all retained Executive Search assignments, Jonathan ensures that each assignment is effectively managed and delivered to client timescales. He...
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Matthew Searle
Director
Matthew is a Director at Novo Executive Search specialising in helping clients identify and attract the best possible senior management and executive appointments. Matthew’s early career began with 10 years...
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Ryan Mills
Director
Ryan is a Director of Novo Executive Search and Selection, with extensive experience recruiting senior management and board level professionals across a multitude of sectors. His client base ranges from...
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Susannah Mallaghan
Division Manager novoElan
Susannah leads the novoelan division. She has worked with Novo for over 15 years. Prior to Novo, Susannah enjoyed a successful career with the Royal Mail, MM Teleperformance and RAC.
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Why Organisations Engage Novo
Organisations engage Novo at important points in their development. Often this is driven by opportunity and ambition rather than a problem that needs fixing.
- Most executive search assignments begin when something changes or when a business wants to accelerate its progress:
- The organisation is entering its next phase of growth
- A new leadership role is being created to strengthen the executive team
- The business needs additional capability to scale successfully
- Succession planning identifies the need for the next generation of leadership
- An existing executive is promoted, creating an important leadership vacancy
- The business is entering new markets, sectors, or geographies
- Investment provides the opportunity to accelerate growth
- An acquisition or merger creates a need for new or broader leadership capability
- Owners are preparing for investment, succession, sale, or a management buyout
- The Board wants to strengthen a particular function such as commercial, operations, finance, or technology
- A successful business wants to professionalise its leadership structure as it grows
- New technology, digitalisation, or AI requires different executive expertise
- The organisation wants to bring in fresh thinking and experience from outside its traditional sector
- A transformation programme requires additional leadership capability
- Growth has slowed and the organisation needs renewed commercial or operational momentum
- Leadership capability no longer fully fits the next phase of the business
- An executive replacement needs to be handled discreetly and confidentially
- The organisation wants to understand and access the best leadership talent in the market, rather than simply those actively looking for a new role
Novo helps organisations identify, attract, and appoint senior leaders who can make a measurable difference to the next stage of their development.
Our role is not simply to fill vacancies. We help clients understand the leadership market, challenge and refine their requirements, access executives who would rarely respond to conventional recruitment, and make important leadership appointments with greater confidence.
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Whether you’re planning for growth, succession, transformation or leadership change, our team can help you explore your options in confidence
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