CEO / Co-Founder

CEO / Co-Founder - Offering Page

Category: Scale-ups & Venture Backed ;; Permanent

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CEO & Co-Founder Recruitment for Scale-ups | Movemeon

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Hire a permanent CEO or Co-Founder for your venture-backed business. Movemeon connects scale-ups with ex-consultant and operating leaders from a vetted network of 100,000+.

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1. Hire a CEO or Co-Founder for Your Scale-up
2. CEO Recruitment for Venture-Backed Businesses
3. Find a Permanent CEO for Your Scale-up
4. CEO and Co-Founder Talent for High-Growth Companies
5. Hire CEO Talent for Your Venture-Backed Business

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Option 1:
Movemeon places ex-consultant and operating talent into permanent CEO and Co-Founder roles across venture-backed scale-ups, drawn from a vetted network of 100,000+ professionals.

Option 2:
A scale-up CEO has to build the company and convince investors it's working, often at the same time. Movemeon's network of ex-consultants and operators makes that hire fast, precise, and built for the stage you're at.

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The Hiring Challenge in Venture-Backed Businesses

CEO and Co-Founder hiring at scale-up stage is unlike enterprise CEO hiring. The candidate needs to operate with limited resources, make fast decisions on incomplete information, and report credibly to a board of investors who expect growth on a timeline the company hasn't always proven it can hit. Few candidates have genuinely done this before.

The Corporate Executive Gap

Many strong CEO candidates come from larger, well-resourced organisations with established processes and longer decision cycles, and the adjustment to scale-up pace, doing more with less, deciding faster, building structure as you go, doesn't always translate.

The Founder-Only Gap

Other candidates have founded something before but have never operated at real scale, leading a team beyond the founding group, managing institutional investors rather than friends-and-family capital, or running a board process with genuine governance behind it.

Why Scale-ups Mis-Hire

Some boards hire a credentialed enterprise executive expecting their experience to translate directly, and the company loses speed and founder-level intensity in the transition. Others promote a strong early operator into the CEO seat without testing whether they can manage investor relations and board reporting at the level the next funding round will demand.

The Movemeon Approach

Our network includes ex-consultants from McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and other top-tier firms who have moved into operating roles at scale-ups, alongside experienced founders and CEOs who have led venture-backed businesses through multiple growth stages.

Consulting Background, Applied to Scale-up Reality

These candidates bring the structured, hypothesis-driven thinking built in consulting, paired with direct accountability for growing a business with constrained resources and investor expectations, the combination scale-ups need from a CEO who has to build and report at the same time.

What Strong Candidates Solve For

• A founding CEO stepping back or stepping aside: providing continuity of vision while bringing the operating discipline to scale beyond the founding stage
• A board losing confidence in current leadership's ability to hit growth targets: resetting the path to plan with credibility across the investor base
• A company that has outgrown its founding team's operating capability: bringing structure, process, and senior hiring capability the next stage demands
• Investor relations and board reporting that aren't yet institutional-grade: building the rigour the next funding round will require
• A co-founder gap following departure or a need for complementary skills: adding leadership that covers what the existing founding team doesn't

Built for the Permanent Mandate

Continuity Through Growth Stages

A permanent CEO or Co-Founder builds the company's culture, investor relationships, and operating model over successive growth stages, rather than handing off at exactly the point institutional knowledge becomes most valuable.

Investor and Board Fluency

Candidates are assessed on their ability to engage credibly with venture and growth investors, reporting candidly on progress and risk, a distinct discipline from leadership roles outside a venture-backed context.

Why Scale-ups Choose Movemeon

Speed

A vetted network of 100,000+ ex-consultants and senior operators delivers shortlists in days, against the 8-12 weeks typical of retained search; critical when a leadership gap puts growth momentum at risk.

Discretion

CEO succession at scale-up stage often requires confidentiality, particularly around investor and board dynamics. Our process is built around that constraint from the outset.

Start Your Search

Tell us about the leadership gap, the growth target your board is asking about, or the succession you're managing, and we'll put forward candidates who've operated under the same pressure before.