Publication
18 April 2025
Helping your business grow
Private Equity and Venture Capital Recruitment
Mind Partners is a member of France Invest, the preferred partner of investment funds and their portfolio companies.
From venture capital to private equity, Mind Partners offers invaluable support during the delicate phases of companies’ growth or turnaround.
Mind Partners supports leaders and founders in organising their strategy by recruiting the right talents for their organisation. Mind Partners recruits members of Executive Committees, Senior Managers and Leaders and all key company members.
Why use a specialist for your private equity recruitment?
Our knowledge of the specific relationships between Funds and Portfolio companies and their issues means we can act as effective facilitators in structuring organisations. Our team bring its expertise to bear, whether in an LBO, MBI, LBI or MBO context, to identify and establish the Executives essential to your success.
Our understanding of the different environments in which start-ups, SMEs and intermediate-sized enterprises operate and how our consultants specialise by occupation and business sector allow us to explore your business’ strategic, organisational and human vision in depth while under construction or transformation.
Identifying
leaders
Our constant interaction with the market helps us to develop trust-based relationships with high-level executives looking for opportunities and leaders who want to become involved in investments.
Structuring
Management Committees
We assist senior managers in structuring their companies by recruiting the various members of their Management Committees (senior management teams) or Executive Committees and other critical roles in the company.
Organisational
change
Our understanding of SME and intermediate-sized enterprise managers’ challenges and our close relationship with our clients and candidates are the best guarantees of successful organisational change.
What are the challenges involved in private equity recruitment?
Companies in the portfolio of capital development funds often experience phases of significant transformation.
During sensitive phases in those companies’ lives, it is crucial to handle changes in ownership, C-suite relaunches, or structural reorganisations with care to ensure that all the teams involved feel supported, heard, and reassured.
Identifying personal and collective levers (values, motivations, skills enhancement, personal development, multi-skilling, training/coaching…) ensures portfolio companies’ sustainability.
Whatever the change in management you are planning for your portfolio company, we can help.
Whether it involves : creating, structuring or reorganising the top management team.
In a phase of :
rapid growth, opening new markets, turnaround phase, a change in the equity structure or a digital transformation…
The importance of Non Executive Directors
The role and value of boards are often underestimated.
Our mission is to build or strengthen these bodies by integrating competent and impartial people, in order to guarantee solid governance adapted to the challenges of each company.
The recruitment of a Non Executive Director ensures
+ Neutrality and external perspective
The Non Executive Director brings an external perspective, free from emotional influences and generational tensions, favouring objective decisions,
+ Cutting-edge expertise
he enriches the company by offering a new perspective, in particular thanks to his skills in governance, risk management and strategy,
+ Strengthening governance
by asking relevant questions and ensuring full transparency, it improves governance and accountability,
+ Anticipation of future challenges
by asking relevant questions and ensuring full transparency, it improves governance and accountability.
Combining expertise to serve our customers
The partnership between Mind Partners, experts in executive recruitment,
and Roch Conseil, specialists in the governance of family businesses,
aims to strengthen corporate governance structures (Board, Supervisory Board, Board of Directors) by providing them with recognised experts.
These client funds are our best ambassadors
Mind Partners is delighted to introduce these private equity and venture capital funds that have trusted us. You are welcome to see our references, and our clients are ready to discuss our methodology and achievements.
