James Curtis

Principal | Executive Search

About:

James is an accomplished Principal at Allura Partners, with 15 years’ experience and a successful history of appointing transformative leaders to drive business growth.

James draws on a deep understanding of the global talent landscape to provide solutions for our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer mandates across various industries for private equity-backed investments.

With a people focused approach, he crafts hiring strategies and offers guidance on team development, succession planning, talent strategies, and consulting on new investments.

James’ track record extends from supporting rapidly growing founder led technology disruptors scale into new market s and channels, through to large scale, multi-site distributed workforces in the healthcare or retail/consumer sector.

Interests:

Most sports, anything with a ball or bat. Family, friends and travel. Not necessarily in that order…

Specialities:

Executive Search

  • From the first contact, from my perspective as a CEO candidate, James impressed through direct and clear communication delivered in an engaging style. Through the entire engagement, his interactions were professional delivered in a warm and personable manner. Communication, updates and feedback were timely, instilling confidence in the opportunity. Many thanks James for the support and encouragement throughout the process.

    Alex Foster, CEO at Barbeques Galore

  • "James was super responsive and professional, with clear communication, consistent support and coaching. James is a credit to the profession."

    Lloyd Prescott, Southern Star - CEO

  • "James was patient, supportive and professional through the whole process. James was able to balance views of both parties for a good outcome."

    Nicholas Pouki, Head of Soteria

  • "I highly recommend James and the recruitment team at Allura. James listened attentively, grasped our needs, and their team swiftly identified strong COO candidates. The entire process was efficiently managed, resulting in the successful placement of an outstanding candidate. A testament to their expertise and dedication."

    Will Creedon, CEO & Founder

  • "James has provided clarity and support through the whole recruitment process. He has been excellent to work with."

    Daniel Black, Chief Commercial & Customer Officer

  • "James did a great job of keeping me abreast of the process in a timely fashion. He also was able to identify the skills that matched the role from my LinkedIn profile and approached me directly so I owe my new role to this ground work."

    Samantha Breust, General Manager

  • "I found James to be very easy to communicate with as he was able to explain role and business background succinctly to gain my immediate interest."

    Stuart Mccullough, Commercial Director to CEO

  • "From beginning to end of the recruitment process James was proactive, responsive, and most importantly delivered at every stage in line with the proposed timetable. We have ended up with a great hire for the role and am very satisfied with the engagement from Allura to achieve this."

    Tomás Chubb, CEO

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