Most search firms work in one layer of the organisation.
We work from the leadership through to the delivery capability.
That end-to-end view means our advice on structure, sequencing and hiring is based on commercial reality.
Technology search.
Commercial results.
Executive search, advisory and recruitment for technology-led businesses
The Founders
Jake partners with investors, boards and CEOs on critical technology leadership hires and the organisational decisions that sit around them.
He built and scaled one of Sydney’s leading technology search practices from scratch, delivering C-suite appointments across Private Equity, ASX-listed and high-growth businesses on their most critical technology appointments.
His work spans CIO, CTO, CDO and Chief Product and Technology Officer searches, as well as the leadership teams that sit underneath them. That experience across infrastructure, cloud, data, AI and product means he advises clients on how technology organisations should be structured, sequenced and built for performance.
Jake works most closely with organisations navigating transformation, platform modernisation, AI adoption and product-led growth, where leadership quality directly affects execution and commercial outcomes.
Recent work includes executive hires and leadership builds across national retailers, SaaS platforms, fintech businesses and industrial services groups, with an increasing focus on AI executive search and the organisational design decisions that sit around AI leadership.
▸ CIO, CTO, CDO and CPO appointments
▸ Technology leadership succession and technology recruitment
▸ Org design and hire sequencing
▸ Technology leadership for transformation and value creation
Marie specialises in software, architecture and product hiring, from Head of roles to the teams that deliver beneath them. She operates across high-growth, PE-backed and listed businesses and has spent over eleven years in the Australian market.
She has one of the strongest track records in Australia for building gender-diverse technology teams. That is backed by placement data and repeat engagement from companies that treat diversity as a commercial measure and hold their hiring partners to it.
Marie founded a Women in Tech Meetup in 2023 and hosts a community of over 1,200 members, which gives her direct access to candidate networks most firms never reach. This is a network of engineering and product leaders who trust her because she has placed and supported them across their careers.
She partners with CTOs, CPOs and Heads of Engineering to assess candidates on capability and culture fit, and to build teams that deliver. She understands how technology teams should be structured and built for performance, and works closely with organisations scaling their engineering and product functions.
▸ Engineering, product and architecture leadership appointments
▸ Technical team hiring across all levels
▸ Diversity, equity and inclusive technology search
▸ Active WIT community of 1,200+ members
Lewis has spent eight years in the Australian recruitment market focused on data, AI and platform hiring. He was building data teams and placing data leaders well before the recent AI boom, which means his network and market knowledge run deeper than the current wave of interest.
He is recognised as one of the leading data and AI executive search specialists in Australia, with an established track record built across some of the country’s most recognised recruitment firms before co-founding Innova.
Lewis builds data organisations that create real operating leverage. He works across the full data and AI function, from Chief Data Officer and Head of AI appointments through to the platform engineers, ML engineers and data scientists who deliver the capability. That end-to-end coverage means he understands how data organisations should be structured, sequenced and built for performance.
His executive network in data and AI is one of the strongest in the Australian market. He works closely with PE-backed businesses, ASX-listed companies and scaling technology firms where data is core to the investment thesis or transformation agenda.
▸ Chief Data Officer and Head of AI appointments
▸ Data platform and engineering team hiring
▸ ML, AI and analytics capability across all levels
▸ Data strategy and org design advisory
Our model
Why clients bring us in
We start with the real business problem
Most search failures are scoping failures. We embed early, meet the stakeholders and pressure-test the role against the specific business context before we run a single search. If the brief is wrong, we will tell you.
We’re proven operators in this market
Deep networks, repeat outcomes, and a track record across the full technology organisation, from leadership to delivery capability.
We build for both performance and culture
We have a strong track record building technology teams that perform and stick. That includes consistently improving gender diversity in engineering and product, in talent pools where most firms do not reach.
Trusted by top candidates
How a firm runs its search process is the first signal a candidate reads, executive or not. We help you build the narrative to attract the best people. Every interaction from first conversation to start date reflects on you. We manage it deliberately.
Hiring partnerships that scale
For organisations hiring at pace or navigating change, we partner closely to build teams quickly and properly, delivering impact faster.
Advisory before execution
We define the role scope, success measures and team context upfront so the search reflects what the business actually needs.
Technology executive search
Executive and senior technology hires across engineering, product, data and AI, with leaders who are built to deliver commercially, with the technical depth to back it up. That includes AI executive search and the leadership appointments that sit around it.
What we do
Executive search
Retained search for CIO, CTO, CDO, CPO and senior technology leadership roles across Australia, partnering with boards, investors and executive teams on the appointments that shape commercial performance.
Technology Recruitment
Working with technology leaders to build their teams across software engineering, product, data, AI, enterprise systems, architecture, cloud, platform and cyber.
Interim & Contract
Contract and interim technology professionals across every level, placed into critical technology, product, data and AI work.
Transformation & Value Creation
Supporting investors and leadership teams through M&A, carve-outs, divestments and major technology transformations with the leadership and talent to get it done.
Who we work with
Investors & Private Equity
Technology leadership aligned to the investment thesis, from diligence through to exit readiness. We understand what a portfolio business needs at each stage of the value creation cycle, working across Sydney and Australia.
CEOs & boards
Most boards only engage a search firm when the role is already defined. We work best when the conversation starts before the role is locked in.
Technology leaders
We work directly with CTOs, CIOs and heads of engineering on structure, sequencing and the people decisions that determine whether the function actually delivers.
Insights
Featured
When effort stops being the product
When effort stops being the product
The commercial technologist gap
The commercial technologist gap
Why diverse engineering teams outperform, and why the business case hasn’t changed
Why diverse engineering teams outperform, and why the business case hasn’t changed
Why most technology leadership briefs are wrong before the search starts
Why most technology leadership briefs are wrong before the search starts
The candidate who turns down the equity play
The candidate who turns down the equity play
AI is not a technology decision, it’s a business decision
AI is not a technology decision, it’s a business decision
