Damian Navas

Managing Partner at Excelerator Partners

Damian Navas is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in talent consultancy, executive search, and leadership development. Currently serving as Managing Partner at Excelerator Partners since February 2025, Damian leads initiatives to support VC and PE backed businesses in value creation. Prior to this role, Damian was Managing Partner at ecap, which focuses on empowering organizations through exceptional leadership from February 2023 to February 2025. As a co-founder and Director at Haig&Co from December 2014 to February 2023, Damian enhanced talent acquisition in the Finance & Accounting and Digital Transformation sectors. Additional experience includes leading Otravida Search Ltd, and serving in various managerial roles at Page Executive and Robert Half International, alongside earlier work as a Senior Consultant at Computer Futures Solutions.

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Excelerator Partners

Excelerator Partners powers scaling businesses to accelerate their growth and value trajectory by partnering as Trusted Leadership Advisors, Pathfinders, Growth Accelerators & Expert Scaling Practitioners. Our name Excelerator Partners is designed to embody our ethos of excellence, acceleration, and partnership. We are founded by a team that has successfully scaled multiple businesses from start-up through scale-up and hyper-growth. We believe unlocking, synchronising, and leveraging the best leadership talent and capabilities is the bedrock of successful growth. We have designed a different way forward, unlocking and interconnecting leadership capabilities that deliver sustainable, high-impact change and growth, to fuel business success and value. We’ve walked the pathways before, and we walk them together with our clients and network now – we know how to see around corners, assemble and synchronise the building blocks, accelerate through learning and growth pathways, and above all, how to succeed together. Our mission is to accelerate the impact, growth and value creation of scaling businesses. We provide innovative, diverse, agile and sustainable leadership capability solutions that accelerate growth in scaling businesses. We partner with our clients, align with their ambitions and growth plan, and deliver a solution of diverse blended leadership capabilities to enable the business to excel and accelerate growth and value creation. Our Impact Goals: // For businesses: It means increasing competitive advantage and accelerating value creation and growth. // For investors: It means supporting portfolio businesses to realise their full potential and maximise value and impact. // For professionals: It means creating opportunities for diverse, fulfilling portfolio careers that positively impact entrepreneurial business growth.