About Luxury Executive
A founder-led firm, built on relationships and discretion.
Luxury Executive is a retained executive search and leadership advisory firm for the luxury economy. The practice is senior by design, founder-led, and built over nineteen years of work with luxury houses, family-owned businesses, family offices and the investors behind them.
Who we are
Luxury Executive is a specialist retained executive search practice focused on the luxury economy in its fullest sense — luxury and lifestyle brands, fashion and jewellery, beauty and hospitality, premium consumer businesses, and the private wealth, family offices and investors behind them.
We exist because the most consequential leadership appointments in this world are not made through job advertisements and databases. They are made through relationships, judgement and absolute discretion — the things a founder-led retained firm is built to provide.
Founder-led, by design
Luxury Executive is led personally by its founder, who brings 19 years of executive search experience across luxury, lifestyle, consumer, private wealth and UHNW businesses, and relationships built over a career across the houses, groups and investors that define the sector.
This matters in practice, not just in principle. On every senior mandate, the person who takes the brief is the person who conducts the research, makes the approaches and presents the shortlist. There is no hand-off to a junior team, no delegation of the relationship. That accountability is the firm’s defining characteristic.
What we do
We conduct retained executive search and leadership advisory across the global luxury economy:
- Board, chair and non-executive director search
- CEO, president and managing director search
- C-suite and functional leadership search
- Retained executive search across luxury sectors
- Leadership advisory, market mapping and talent intelligence
- Succession planning for founder-led and family-owned businesses
- Confidential mandates for family offices, investors and principals
How we work
Every mandate is exclusive and retained. Every senior search is founder-led. Every engagement is conducted with absolute discretion — many of our appointments are confidential, conducted before any change is publicly known.
We begin with the brief, not the candidates. We invest the time to understand the business, the board, the culture and the decision before a single name is considered. And we stay close to the relationship long after the appointment is made.
The clients we serve
Luxury is our heritage and our specialism — the standard against which we measure every search. From that foundation, we serve the wider luxury economy: lifestyle and premium consumer businesses, hospitality and experiences, and the private wealth, family offices, investors and sovereign-backed groups that increasingly own and shape these businesses.
Whatever the client, the standard is constant: discreet, board-level, founder-led retained search, conducted to the calibre the appointment demands.
Frequently asked questions
Is Luxury Executive a recruitment agency?
No. Luxury Executive is a retained executive search and leadership advisory firm. We conduct exclusive, confidential, founder-led searches for board and C-suite appointments — a different discipline from contingency recruitment.
What sectors does Luxury Executive specialise in?
We specialise in the global luxury economy: luxury and lifestyle brands, fashion, jewellery and watches, beauty and wellness, luxury retail, hospitality, premium consumer, and the private wealth, family office and UHNW world around them.
Who leads the firm?
Luxury Executive is founder-led. The founder brings 19 years of executive search experience across the luxury economy and personally conducts senior mandates.
Where is Luxury Executive based?
We are headquartered in London and operate globally — across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and GCC, the United States and Asia-Pacific.
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