Leadership for Private Equity
We help PE funds and their portfolio companies make the right technology and product leadership calls across the deal cycle, from diligence to exit.
Measured like you measure everything else
We are judged on outcomes that survive ownership: leaders who deliver the plan and are still in post at exit.
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Deal speed as standard
Leadership needs we solve for Private Equity
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Pre-deal and diligence
We assess the technology, the product and the team behind the investment case, so you know what you're buying before you sign.
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The first 100 days
The value creation plan needs an owner. We put one in place at deal pace, interim or a permanent leader found through retained search.
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Exit readiness
A leadership team that stands up to buyer scrutiny, with succession, key-person risk and capability gaps dealt with.
Built around how funds actually work
One relationship covering the whole portfolio. We triage each situation and recommend the right route, not the service we would rather sell.
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Executive search
Permanent technology and product leaders who can deliver the plan and stand up at exit. Retained, exclusive, 11 weeks on average.
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Interim & fractional
Two or three named operators within 48 hours, for carve-outs, gaps at completion and everything in between.
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Advisory
Technology due diligence and leadership assessment, run by operators who have owned the plan themselves.
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Team scaling
Product and engineering teams built beneath the leader, so delivery keeps pace with the investment case.
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A partner on every search
We’re a small team with a big network. No handoffs. No account managers. The senior partner you meet is the one who runs your search, from first conversation to whatever comes next.
Frequently asked questions
The questions funds ask us most. For anything else, ask us directly.
How is Albany different from a traditional search firm?
We are specialists in technology and product leadership for investor-backed businesses, and search is one answer among several. We challenge the brief before we act: sometimes the right call is an interim, a fractional leader or a diagnostic, not a permanent hire. And because we work with funds across their portfolios, we are usually in the conversation before the brief exists.
Do you only work with investor-backed companies?
Almost entirely. Our clients are PE and VC funds and their portfolio companies. That focus is deliberate: the pace, governance and compensation structures of private equity are a world of their own, and we know it.
What roles do you cover?
Technology and product leadership only. CTO, CPO, CPTO, CIO, CISO, CDO and the VP layer beneath them, across the UK, Europe and the US.
How does The Bench work?
We build a bench of vetted, independent technology and product leaders around one fund, mapped to its portfolio and investment thesis. When a need lands, you already know who to call, what they are good at and what they cost. No cold start, no briefing from scratch.
What does a typical engagement cost?
It depends on the shape of the engagement. Retained search is a fixed fee agreed up front and staged across the search. Interim and fractional work is a day rate agreed before the engagement starts. Tell us the situation and we will give you a straight answer on cost in the first conversation.

