Imbiba Private Equity
Supporting one of the UK’s leading leisure and hospitality investors with multiple senior finance and leadership appointments across its growing portfolio.
Fast-growing portfolio businesses need leaders who can operate with pace, ambiguity and limited infrastructure—while still building the foundations for long-term scale.
Leadership talent across the Imbiba portfolio.
Consumer Exec has supported Imbiba and several of its portfolio businesses with senior finance, commercial and special-project appointments.
Backing the next generation of consumer businesses.
Imbiba invests in small, fast-growth, multisite businesses at an earlier stage of their development.
With more than 25 years of investment and operating experience, its portfolio spans leisure, lifestyle, entertainment, hospitality and experience-led consumer businesses.
Finding leaders who can build while they deliver.
Portfolio companies at this stage need experienced leaders, but experience alone is not enough.
Consumer Exec worked closely with Imbiba to identify candidates with relevant sector and functional backgrounds who could also thrive within entrepreneurial environments.
These leaders needed to operate effectively with limited resources and developing infrastructure, while creating the systems, teams and commercial discipline required as each business grew.
It was identifying people with the judgement, resilience and flexibility to move successfully between strategic leadership and hands-on delivery.
A proactive search built around each portfolio company.
Market mapping
Every search combined our established consumer network with active mapping of relevant businesses, ownership structures and candidate backgrounds.
Proactive headhunting
Candidates were sourced proactively rather than relying solely on active applicants, allowing each business to access proven and often passive senior talent.
Process and negotiation
We managed multi-stage interviews, candidate testing, offer discussions and, where required, detailed equity and options negotiations.
Jon Cooper has been a delight to work with. He consistently understands and interprets our needs, which means we see relevant, high-quality candidates for the roles we explore. I would not hesitate to recommend his services.
Building leadership teams for investor-backed growth.
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