A global boutique firm built on genuine, in-person relationships.

We advise consumer businesses on their most critical human capital requirements and dynamics. Specifically, we partner our clients on CEO, Chair and Board succession planning and executive search, Board effectiveness, as well as solving the executive committee appointments most critical to the CEO and Chair.

We are highly regarded internationally for our consumer expertise, having advised Chairs and Nominations Committees, Private Equity firms, Founder led and Family-owned business leaders for over a decade. We build long-lasting relationships and care deeply about the long-term success of our clients. We firmly believe the strength of a consumer business lies in the strength of its people.

Founding Team

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    Worked for over 25 years in the consumer sectors. Over the last 15 years he has led on many of the most high-profile Chair, CEO and CFO appointments in the industry across the UK and Europe. This has included interviewing candidates across 3,190 consumer companies globally! His depth and expertise has been honed through a career which began at the Boston Consulting Group in the London Consumer Practice, before becoming a CEO of a New York based fashion brand, and following this, a beauty and cosmetics business based in London.

    Elliott’s reputation has been born out of the successes of the companies he has advised over the years. Now a leading voice in the consumer industries across Europe and further afield, Elliott sits on a number of advisory boards including the UK’s fintech retail charity, Pennies, the UK’s Women’s Diversity in Hospitality, Travel & Leisure Board, the UK’s Diversity in Retail Board and the luxury watch retailer Board, Time Products.

  • Co-Founder and Chief Client Officer

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Why Acuitas

Our Founding Principles

Why we decided to distinguish ourselves. Our unique firm-DNA.

  • Whether a client, a candidate or industry colleague, our shared principle is an innate belief in building and maintaining strong, enduring personal relationships based on trust and mutual respect.

  • We choose to work with a select number of the world’s leading consumer businesses. We take on fewer searches and dedicate everything to each assignment, aligning our interests with those of our clients. As a boutique we have unlimited access to the global talent pool, with no internal competition for candidates, nor prohibitive off limits. We carefully manage non-competes and never take on competing searches.

  • We never take for granted that we work alongside the world’s best business leaders. It is our privilege, and we are truly passionate about the success of every client!

  • We understand that no client or challenge is the same. We invest the time with every client to understand the specific context of an assignment. Our clients value our external, analytical perspective. We are forward looking, recognising solutions for today may need to adjust for the future. We bring insight on how trends will affect and shape leadership.

  • In the UK 35% of consumer CEOs in the FTSE 350 were in post for 3 years or fewer in the last 5 years, many with disastrous consequences for the businesses they led. We bring the expertise to know what good looks like within our sectors - and crucially where the right transformational leadership can be brought in from.

  • We only hire the best for ourselves and our clients. Our team is as exciting, dynamic and high quality as our clients and candidates!

Our Values

Listen

In our view, the most important aspect to any relationship we build is our eagerness to listen. Truly hearing, internalising and building an understanding of what is being said by each client and candidate. This is tightly connected to humility. We never presume to know the answer before fresh thinking and thorough investigation has taken place.

Accountability

We are entrusted to advise on core leadership challenges facing our clients globally. This means we are accountable not just for the project we are advising on, but for the ultimate success of the businesses we serve. Our accountability manifests through our tenacity, our obsession with quality, and our promise to never compromise. It is in our DNA to never settle for an answer that isn’t 100% right for our clients’ needs.

Integrity

Acuitas was created with foundations of respect, honesty and transparency. We intrinsically believe that relationships will not thrive without honesty. This means delivering hard truths at times (which we see as a two-way street). We also hold ourselves to the highest integrity through every aspect of our assessment methodology. We are unashamedly meritocratic.

Creativity

We bring creativity to every assignment to identify and assess beyond the obvious, tried and tested, solutions. Curiosity to encourage constant learning alongside an ever-evolving global landscape. Analyse and question to ensure the client’s need is always being answered in the most complete and holistic way.