Acme Capital
Search proposal · Acme Capital

A Chief Financial Officer for Acme Capital's next chapter.

Prepared for Jane. A focused search built around the priorities you shared — culture, transferability, and a leader who can rally the team around the next three years.

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Why Key Search
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Why Key Search

We are a focused boutique. We work on a small number of mandates at a time, and we treat each one as our own. Three things set us apart on a search like Acme Capital's.

  • Operator-led search, not transactional sourcing.

    Every mandate is led personally by a partner with operating background. You get one point of contact, accountable end-to-end, with the judgement calls handled at partner level rather than passed down to a research desk.

  • Mapped, not posted.

    We approach this as a market mapping exercise. The candidate slate comes from named, intentional outreach — not from advertising or a database export. Most names you'll meet would never have responded to a job ad.

  • Calibration in week one.

    By the end of week one we present a calibration shortlist of three to five operators we'd interview ourselves. You give signal back, we recalibrate, and the longlist sharpens before the formal slate lands.

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Let's start the search.

If this is the right fit, our standard next step is a 60-minute scoping call to align on the role specification, the market context, and the search timeline. I'll send three time options after we hear back.