HMN Capital is the executive search firm built exclusively for private capital. We place C-suite and senior leadership into PE, venture, and growth capital-backed businesses across Europe: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CROs, CMOs, CTOs, CAIOs, VPs, and Directors, and their interim equivalents, where leadership quality is a direct driver of value creation and exit performance.

We do not operate like a generalist search firm. We deliver a shortlist of assessed candidates evaluated against your brief, your portfolio company's stage, your investor timeline, and the culture you need to build. Every mandate is worked personally and confidentially, from brief to close.

Our founder brings over 15 years of experience placing senior leaders across the European private capital ecosystem, giving us access to leaders most firms cannot reach and the fluency to advise sponsors on what a strong appointment looks like at each stage of the investment cycle.

Through our AI Leadership Practice, we specialise in placing AI-native executives into private capital-backed businesses. As AI transforms how portfolio companies operate and create value, sponsors who get the leadership right early will have a measurable advantage at exit.

We operate across the UK, DACH, France, Benelux, the Nordics, and Southern Europe, from venture and growth-stage businesses through to large-cap PE-backed groups.

If you are building a leadership team, filling a critical gap, or planning ahead for a hire that will matter at exit, we should speak.

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