Fractional Executive Search.

The right leader, for exactly as long as it matters.

Our work is executive search: we look across our curated collective for senior leaders, vet them and match them to Kuala Lumpur businesses, where they work for as many days a week as the job calls for. That covers the GLC-linked groups and listed companies of the Golden Triangle, the Islamic-finance houses, and the family firms that make up most of Malaysian enterprise, each matched with a leader who has run something comparable.

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800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksFrom brief to an embedded leader
30–60%Less than a full-time hire
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Governance as a service

We do not make an introduction and step away

Every executive we match brings the collective with them for a second opinion. In Kuala Lumpur, where so much growth capital comes from government-linked investors and listed parents, the governance bar is high, and we hold the structure around the engagement so one senior operator can meet it. Decisions in their function, and the results, belong to the executive; the support around them is ours.

Hands on the decisions, not the slidesYour leader sits inside the team, runs their function and answers for the results. We match for the investor and board expectations a Kuala Lumpur group already works under, so conversations with shareholders get easier, not harder.
Second opinions within reachOur collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives includes people who have run listed groups, GLC subsidiaries and multinational regional functions. Your leader can call on them for a second view, and we stay involved for the life of the engagement.
The roles we match

A full C-suite, on the terms a growing business needs

We focus on the leadership functions that move a company forward. Start with one, or draw on the whole collective.

Proven leadership

Our executives have led at the companies you know

AccentureAmazonAmerican ExpressAntlerAppleBPBarclaysBoeingEmirates GroupErnst & YoungGEGoogleHSBCIBMJ P Morgan ChaseL'OréalLinkedIn
McKinsey and CompanyMercedes-Benz AGMicrosoftMoneyGram InternationalNestle S.A.NikeOraclePricewaterhouseCoopersProcter & GambleSAPSalesforceShell InternationalSiemensStandard Chartered BankThe Coca-Cola CompanyUnileverY Combinator
Where we are brought in

A leader for the moment in front of you

Most engagements begin with a moment: a departure to cover, a raise to close, a market to enter, a business to turn around. Find the one that fits.

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The Kuala Lumpur commercial case

A senior leader on the team, not on the payroll

An engagement is company to company, so the statutory contributions that come with a permanent Malaysian hire, EPF among them, are not part of it. You gain leadership of GLC or multinational calibre for the share of the week the role needs. Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire, and our standard notice is one month, so the arrangement can grow, shrink or end as the business changes.

Brief a search
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Invoiced, not payrolled

An invoice passes between two companies. Nothing joins your payroll run.

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Room to change course

If the plan changes, the engagement changes with it. Our standard notice is one month, either way.

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Regional experience, no relocation

We match for Southeast Asian experience where the brief needs it, and the leader joins for the time the work needs, with no relocation package to agree.

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No recruitment fee

Nothing is added on top for the search. We run the search, the vetting and the match, and your leader embeds within weeks.

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Business to business

The engagement is agreed between companies, with the scope written down before anyone starts. Clear for the auditors and for the board.

How an engagement works

From the moment to the match, in weeks

Start with the situation: a family group preparing the next generation, a supplier to a GLC tightening its controls, a digital business ahead of a raise. We take the brief, search the collective and come back with a leader who has handled something like it.

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Tell us the moment

Share where you need leadership: a finance lead departing, a raise ahead, operations outgrowing the founder.

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A working conversation

We talk through the brief and sharpen the requirement together, so the match is right.

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The match

We search our collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives for the closest fit, and you choose.

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Deployment

Your leader embeds within weeks, holds the decisions in their domain, and gets to work.

Common questions

The questions founders ask first

We are executive search, done fractionally. We search our collective of 800+ curated and vetted executives, vet for fit and match a senior leader to your brief. That leader is a C-suite or director-level professional who embeds directly in the business without the commitment of a full-time hire, holding the decisions in their function for the share of the week the role needs. For a Kuala Lumpur company answering to a listed parent or an institutional investor, that means board-level capability without adding a permanent seat.

Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire, because you pay for the days the role needs rather than a full ringgit package. Finding the leader carries no recruitment fee. Engagements are agreed company to company, commonly running six months to two years, with one month's notice as our standard.

Companies at a turning point that need a senior leader before a full-time one makes sense: family groups getting ready for a listing or a generational handover, Islamic-finance and fintech firms adding operating depth, digital scale-ups after a raise, suppliers to GLCs and multinationals raising their standards, and regional functions around KL Sentral and Bangsar South. Each faces a call where choosing the wrong leader is the expensive option.

Yes, where the brief needs it. Shariah-compliant finance, a listing timetable or the expectations of a government-linked shareholder are all things we can search for specifically. We ask about them in the brief, test for them when we vet, and put forward people who have worked inside them.

A consultant reports on the business; a fractional executive runs part of it. An interim usually covers a full-time gap for a fixed spell. The leader we match holds real authority in their function, works alongside your managers for an agreed share of the week, and stays for as long as the job needs, whether that is the run-up to a listing, a raise or a handover.

Get started

The home of fractional leadership.

Tell us what is changing: a succession in the family, a listing on the horizon, a raise from a government-linked fund. We will search the collective, vet the shortlist and match a senior leader within weeks, with one month's notice as our standard.

Find your leader