Adam Saunders
Adam Saunders
Managing Partner UK, Global Practice Leader - Board Services
Services

Executive Search
Leadership Advisory
Board Services

Sectors

Financial Services
Private Equity
Technology & Digital

Functions

Board/NED
Finance
Sales & Business Development

Adam is a Founding Partner of Amrop UK and a former Member of Amrop's Global Board, with over 26 years of executive search experience spanning the full landscape of financial services.

His career has tracked the evolution of the industry itself - beginning on the sell side during the noughties, where he led senior hiring across investment banking and capital markets at tier one institutions, including directing a major EMEA post-acquisition hiring programme during the financial crisis. Through the following decade, he built deep expertise advising hedge funds and private equity firms on leadership and organisational design, before turning his focus in recent years to the intersection of family capital, DeepTech, and next-generation financial services businesses.

Today, Adam's practice is anchored in two areas: advising Single Family Offices on leadership, governance, and organisational design, and partnering with founder-led and family-owned enterprises - including SaaS FinTech businesses - on the strategic hires that define their next chapter.

Prior to establishing Amrop's UK office in 2015 he set up and ran a market leading boutique FS search firm where he was responsible for the FICC division globally.

Adam holds a BA Hons degree from Falmouth College of Arts. He is married with 3 children.

Adam is a keen functional fitness addict and is passionate about shark diving and shark conservation.

I'm fundamentally motivated by the founder dynamic - the parallel growth of a person and the enterprise they've built. Getting that right, with the right leaders around them at the right time, using every tool at my disposal, is what gets me out of bed every day.