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Top 25 Board talent acquisition companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 1,305 board talent acquisition companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 16,717 professional contacts across them, including 5,849 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers board talent acquisition companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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16,717Contacts tracked
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The 25 largest board talent acquisition companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,305 board talent acquisition companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 27, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to board talent acquisition companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 20265,001-10,000450 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Page Executive is a global leader in executive search & recruitment.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026501-1,000450 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“TRANSEARCH International is a global executive search and leadership consulting organisation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200425 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The GRS Group is an international executive search consultancy whose services include retained search, contingency search, advertised selection and interim solutions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
4Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200335 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PSD is a leading international executive recruitment consultancy, specialising in executive, management and board level recruitment with over 35 years of experience.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
5Indirect evidenceUk, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026n/a320 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In 2018 PGC rebranded as Friisberg & Partners International +44 207 062 3603”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
6Strong evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500278 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Project People provides complete talent acquisition and management solutions at a global level whilst maintaining a flexible and localised approach.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500244 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Sheffield Haworth is a global consultancy founded in 1993.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200225 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in 2005 by Rethink Group, we deliver recruitment strategies for the curious: those who want to surpass their competition by attracting, engaging and hiring the best…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
9Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500205 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EMA Partners is a global executive search firm, with more than 40 offices, located on five continents.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200202 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“GatenbySanderson is the UK's leading people intelligence advisory business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
11Strong evidenceBrechin, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 2026201-500200 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Join Talent is a ‘talent acquisition as a service’ (TAaaS) business - dedicated to driving business scale up growth performance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200187 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Green Park is a specialist executive search and advisory firm trusted by organisations seeking stronger, more future-ready leadership.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200167 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We’re a leading people advisory consultancy that partners with you to source great executives, assess and develop leadership capabilities and expedite change and transformation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200138 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are an award-winning Executive Search, Interim Management and Business Consulting firm with a strong reputation for building relationships and delivering excellence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200138 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Global Leaders for Global Challenges Perrett Laver is a leading global executive search firm advising on leadership for educational, research, healthcare, non-profit and cultural…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
16Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200136 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Barton Partnership is a specialist strategic talent solutions provider, seamlessly bridging the gap between strategy and execution.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
17Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200120 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Leathwaite, we specialize in placing enterprise leaders who think business first, function second -leaders who don’t just manage their domain but actively push forward…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
18Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200118 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Saxton Bampfylde is an independent, employee-owned executive search and leadership advisory firm, with 40 years of heritag, founded on a mission to change the world by changing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
19Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200117 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in 2011, Hunter Healthcare was built on a vision to raise the profile of the recruitment industry and become a global resourcing partner of choice for health and life…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
20Partial evidenceWimbledon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Pacific International has over 25 years of experience partnering with the world’s leading organisations, successfully delivering diverse talent to Fortune 500 and FTSE 100…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
21Indirect evidenceOff The Strand, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-200102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“DRAX helps investors and high growth companies unlock peak performance through our deep expertise in Leadership Advisory, Deal Advisor Sourcing and Executive Search.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
22Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-50102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BIE is an award-winning executive recruitment firm and a transformational leadership partner, delivering outstanding results through exceptional relationships across business…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
23Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5091 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are an executive recruitment firm based in the City of London and are specialists in the search and selection of professionals in Technology, Digital & RPA, BPO, Shared…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
24Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20089 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We are global executive search and leadership development specialists working to build a better future.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
25Indirect evidenceAltrincham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20089 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We work with the world’s most influential and respected businesses undergoing transformational change.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026

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Board talent acquisition companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 27, 2026
35.0%Verified-email coverage
12.8Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
61.8%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 27, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
867
11-50
345
51-200
76
201-500
8
501-1,000
2
1,001-5,000
5
5,001-10,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,305 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among board talent acquisition companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “board talent acquisition companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names board talent acquisition companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among board talent acquisition companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,849 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names board talent acquisition companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many board talent acquisition companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 1,305 board talent acquisition companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Page Executive, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most board talent acquisition companies?

London leads with 807 headquartered companies, followed by Leeds (34) and Birmingham (24).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,849 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,305 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.