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The future of executive search. Today.

Community-driven executive search, delivering tomorrow's leaders, today.

Atara Partners was born out of the desire to move away from the deficiencies surrounding the outdated way executive search is carried out. Away from the limited database, away from the concept that you can’t be a good headhunter until you’ve been around for 45 years. Away from promising clients one thing and giving them something else entirely.

How about networking on a global scale with high-level industry executives? What about building actively engaged C-Level communities and then actually engaging with them? What about enriching our clients and their leadership teams by helping them gain knowledge, contacts and interacting with other leaders, as well as providing them World-leading talent?

Atara Partners is on a mission to transform the executive search industry for the future with our community approach. We’re partnering with our clients to build lasting relationships, aid in the development of their leadership teams and deliver truly game-changing executive search. We are the future of executive search, today.

Our support

We invite our clients' leadership team into a peer-2-peer global community, through our exclusive partnership with the C-Level thought leadership platform HotTopics.ht.

Our network

We have built the most engaged community for the technology industry, consisting of the World’s most talented executives, not just a database.

Your results

Our community-driven executive search approach, wider network and
constant engagement with the technology industry, means we deliver the most talented and culture-fit ready executives for our clients, time and time again.

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Case Studies

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Klarna CFO

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Hunt for Lightspeed CTO

We can design your most wild ideas but not only that we can also make the development of them no matter if that is an app or a web service.

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Deeptech Labs CFO landed.

We can design your most wild ideas but not only that we can also make the development of them no matter if that is an app or a web service.

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The Team

The team behind Atara Partners has 60 years of experience partnering with many of the Worlds fastest-growing technology, privately and publicly owned, listed companies.

Jody Saunders

CEO & Co-founder

As the CEO & co-founder of Atara Partners, Jody is on a mission to disrupt the sector and improve the reputation of the executive search industry.

As a former COO of a leading technology executive search company with 15 years of experience, he has a clear understanding of exactly what needs to be done.

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Robert Taylor

Partner & Co-founder

A co-founder of Atara Partners, Robert has built a reputation for delivering executive search for some of the fastest-growing privately and publicly owned companies.

Robert's passion is partnering with clients throughout their journey to deliver competitive advantage and fulfil clients’ business goals.

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Ellie Glover

Senior Principal

With nearly 10 years' experience in the Tech Executive Search field, Ellie has developed specialist experience across the entire C-Suite and with trusted Venture Capital Partners.

Ellie has built lasting professional relationships across her entire career by injecting her unique passion and personality into every conversation.

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Josh Ockenden

Partner

Josh has lead both in-house, scaling a fast growth Ed-tech business within a billion pound venture fund, as well as delivering exec and senior leadership executive search mandates for some of Europe's fastest growing Venture backed businesses.

Helping to forge long term partnerships through understanding the journey clients, venture backed businesses, and people are on as they expand, acquire, and innovate the world in which we live.

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Anya Breen

Senior Principal

Anya has extensive experience delivering executive, C-suite and board-level positions for fast-growing tech companies across a range of sectors.

She is passionate about the global impact of technological innovation, and believes the fundamental driving force behind any company’s success is its talent. In addition to driving quality-driven executive search processes across Europe and North America, Anya is leading Atara Partners' presence in Latam from her base in Chile.
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Outside of work, Anya is an avid climber, painter and ceramicist.

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Orion van Ravesteyn

Associate

Orion has completed her studies in recruitment law, HR recruitment and selection processes. Orion is a highly motivated and dedicated member of the team who is driven to innovate ways to serve our stakeholders. With a passion for recruitment, she aims to assist Atara in developing robust strategies and build long-term relationships. In her spare time, Orion is an art enthusiast and has a great love for reading.

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Karla Cloete

Marketing Manager

Karla Cloete is a South African writer, creative fiction fellow and social media manager. She graduated with a bachelor’s in psychology and English, an honours degree in psychology and an honours degree in creative writing.

She has written for platforms worldwide, like ArtsHelp a platform dedicated to furthering the United Nations Sustainable Developmental Goals through art and To EmpowHER which aims to uplift South African women. She is an avid reader, painter and debate coach.

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Sheetal Mehta Walsh

Advisory Partner

Sheetal has 25 years of experience as a global founder, investor and board member. She is especially passionate about technology that positively delivers and affects global communities.

Currently Sheetal serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the Government of Alberta focussed on Innovation and previously she served as Deal Maker by appointment to the British Government’s Global Entrepreneur Programme.

She created the World’s first corporate innovation arm for Microsoft in Silicon Valley and scaled the operations in EMEA with a base in London.

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Philip Randerson

Chairman

Philip is a serial entrepreneur and former CEO & Founder of a number of leading technology executive search firms.

Today he is the Founder & CEO of HotTopics.ht the thought leadership platform that connects a global community of 15K C-Level executives through content and events.

He also sits on the board of a number of companies including tech start-ups.

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Why Atara Partners?

Community approach

Our relationship with HotTopic.ht gives us access to unrivalled global C-Level communities

Transparent fees

Working on fixed fees ensures you know how much your hire will cost and removes any bias from the process

Sprint based research

We work with start-ups, like start-ups, aligning our pace with yours, because momentum is key

Industry leading guarantee

We offer a six-month free replacement on all of our placements for your peace of mind

Team

We promise you a full recruitment team at all stages from start to finish of your hire

Communication clarity

How do you communicate? Slack? Teams? We align with what’s best for you every time

Our Partners

The Leading C-suite Community. Through their global community, world leading organisations, inspirational industry experts and aspiring business leaders, Hot Topics create meaningful connections and share industry insight to set the agenda for business on a global scale and believe in the power of community, to create better leaders for a better tomorrow.

HotTopics.ht

Atara is proud to be one off 700+ signatories of government-supported and industry-led group, Tech Talent Charter. TTC aims to grow talent and increase DEI in the tech industry at all levels.

TechTalentCharter.co.uk

The Norwegian-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) is an independent non-profit organisation connecting companies across Norway and the UK. Their mission is to promote trade relations and investment between these business communities, while also offering networking opportunities to its members.

nbccuk.com

The DKUK is a well-established community focused on connecting people, knowledge sharing, and increasing their member’s visibility. This is done with a variety of social, cultural and business focussed events and keeping everyone connected through the sharing of news, offers and announcements.

dkuk.org

Ezekia provides business development tracking tools, manages assignments and potential candidates. Their tailored executive search platform, provides one touch, seamless client and candidate interaction.

Ezekia

What people Say

See what other people have to say about our company

“The Atara team have supported our search for a US Global Head of sales across our business units. We were able to quickly get a compelling set of candidates and work through the shortlist resulting in a very successful hire”

Giles Whiting

COO, Forsta

“They are extraordinary partners in helping you find great people to add to your team”

Adrian Valeriano

Senior Vice President & MD EMEA, Lightspeed

“The early litmus test was to understand Robs nous on both retrospective and forward looking growth outside of what the business was looking for in a new candidate. This was evident early and bred confidence into the overall process"

Roy Jugessur

EVP EMEA & APAC, Thunderhead

Features and news

Our thought provoking and informative series of interviews and features with some of the most innovative, influential, and outright interesting leaders and organisations out there today set us apart. Our friendly journalist, Casper Barnes, delves deeply into the backgrounds and experiences of our guests and finds out what has driven and influenced them on their extraordinary journeys to becoming some of the best Business Leaders in the World today.