Technology
Founder-to-operator transitions remain the single highest-failure-rate CEO succession class. We replace anecdote with evidence and recover the median 18% valuation loss.
Technology boards face simultaneous pressure from antitrust scrutiny, cyber-resilience attestation, AI-deployment governance and the founder-to-operator transition class. We have placed CEO, CTO, CISO, Chief Product Officer and General Counsel benches across listed software, cloud, cybersecurity, platform and telecommunications groups.
Listed software, cloud, cybersecurity, platforms, ad-tech and telecommunications.
Including 6 of the top-15 listed software companies by revenue and two hyperscaler cloud operators.
Including 11 immediately preceding or following an SEC 8-K cyber-incident disclosure.
Successful CEO transitions delivered without the median 18% valuation destruction.
542 mandates across four regions.
We deliver this sector out of five global hubs — Sydney (HQ), Singapore, London, New York and Dubai — anchored to discrete supervisory regimes. Regional Managing Partners hold the primary client relationship; the global sector lead governs methodology, calibration and quality.
Sydney · Singapore · Tokyo · Bengaluru
ASX 100 software, ASEAN platforms, Indian SaaS, Japanese telcos.
London · Paris · Berlin · Tel Aviv
FTSE 100 software, German Mittelstand cloud, Israeli cybersecurity.
New York · San Francisco · Seattle · Toronto
S&P 500 software, hyperscalers, cyber pure-plays, North-American telcos.
Dubai · Riyadh
Sovereign-fund tech holdings, GCC telco champions, regional cyber-defence.
What we are calibrated to deliver.
Successor scoring that retires the median 18% valuation destruction across founder-CEO transitions.
CISO scoring against SEC cyber-disclosure rule, NIS2, APRA CPS 234 and ISO 27001 attestation regimes.
Slates scored under NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and Singapore MAS FEAT in parallel.
CPO scoring with US DOJ, FTC, EU DG COMP, CMA and ACCC enforcement reflex.
The exposure pattern we price into every slate.
Sustained operator control by founder-CEO is the highest-correlation predictor of board-vs-founder governance crises.
SEC cyber rule, NIS2 and APRA CPS 234 all now impose board-level oversight obligations on cyber incident response.
EU AI Act high-risk obligations now attach civil liability to inadequate board oversight of AI deployment.
DOJ, FTC, DG COMP and CMA challenges now structurally re-price product-leadership bench requirements.
Anonymised by code; defensible by record.
Every engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion. The mandates below are surfaced with code, region, remit and outcome — the underlying entity, candidate and counterparty detail remains under confidentiality envelope and is only disclosable on engagement under reciprocal NDA.
Founder-to-operator transition delivered without valuation destruction; first 12 months post-transition delivered 14% TSR above sector mean.
Replacement CISO confirmed by national regulator within 9 days; preserved NIS2 essential-entity operating posture.
First Australian-listed paired CTO/CAIO under combined APRA CPS 234 and emerging AU AI risk framework calibration.
CPO appointed mid-investigation; preserved product-roadmap continuity and reduced antitrust-defensibility exposure.
The regulatory regimes encoded into every successor score.
Each successor in this sector is scored against the regimes below. The skills-matrix is refreshed continuously by the firm's Regulatory Architect team as supervisory expectations migrate — the most recent calibration was applied to every live slate in the current quarter.
Cyber-incident disclosure reflex encoded into CISO and Audit Chair benches.
AI deployment governance encoded into CAIO/CTO and board benches.
Antitrust-defensibility reflex encoded into CEO and CPO scoring.
Information-security attestation encoded into operator bench requirements.
Brief the Technology practice lead.
Every sector engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion and is governed by the regional Managing Partner. Initial briefings are conducted in person or under secure-channel video — never over open email.